{"id":3956,"date":"2011-03-21T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2011-03-21T21:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T01:36:47","slug":"breaking-tug-hill-commission-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/21\/breaking-tug-hill-commission-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Tug Hill Commission restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A joint budget conference committee has restored money for the Tug Hill Commission in the state budget.\u00a0 According to State Senator Patty Ritchie\u2019s office, the Assembly agreed to the Senate\u2019s funding level of $1.1 million.\u00a0 That\u2019s a 10% cut from last year, on par with other state agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Ritchie spokesman Jim Reagan says it was unfair that the Tug Hill Commission was singled out for elimination in Governor Cuomo\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Governor had said he was proposing a 10 percent cut to most state agencies, but for these communities, they got the entire agency cut.\u00a0 Senator Ritchie wanted to make sure they were treated fairly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Tug Hill Commission assists the isolated towns and villages of the Tug Hill Plateau with grant writing, development, and planning.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/17331\/20110318\/final-push-on-to-save-tug-hill-commission\">Learn more about the Commission in this story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Commission will now join the other 200 state bodies that will have to justify their existence before a consolidation panel.\u00a0 Cuomo created the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission, or SAGE, to cut the number of agencies, commissions and authorities by 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint budget conference committee has restored money for the Tug Hill Commission in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5629,876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}