{"id":5359,"date":"2012-01-17T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:27:27","slug":"state-budget-brings-more-deep-cuts-to-ny-conservation-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/17\/state-budget-brings-more-deep-cuts-to-ny-conservation-department\/","title":{"rendered":"State budget brings more deep cuts to NY Conservation Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s budget plan, which will be formally unveiled at 2pm, tags New York&#8217;s Department of Environmental Conservation for cuts approaching 17% of the agency&#8217;s total budget.<\/p>\n<p>In all, roughly $167 million dollars will be slashed.\u00a0 According to the Cuomo administration, the cuts are triggered by the end of Federal stimulus programs paid for by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;DEC reduction is due to the completion of spending in 2011-12 related to the Federal\u00a0American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) program,&#8221; state officials say.<\/p>\n<p>This follows several years of deep cutbacks in DEC staff and spending.<\/p>\n<p>State officials say they also plan to use the Conservation Fund to pay for the salaries of roughly 65 environmental conservation officers in the DEC&#8217;s ranks, with a cost of $2.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The governor has allocated more than $70 million from the Environmental Protection Fund to pay for open space protection programs.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unclear whether that will include land acquisitions in the Adirondack or Catskill parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s budget plan, which will be formally unveiled at 2pm, tags New York&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,884,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}