{"id":5372,"date":"2012-01-18T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:29:57","slug":"cuomo-team-says-no-deep-cuts-to-dec-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/18\/cuomo-team-says-no-deep-cuts-to-dec-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo team says no deep cuts to DEC budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just took a call from Morris Peters in New York&#8217;s Division of the Budget, who says it is inaccurate to describe the spending plan unveiled yesterday as containing &#8220;deep cuts&#8221; for the Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Peters acknowledged that the spending plan includes a reduction of $167 million in Federal funds, as NCPR reported in the In Box.\u00a0 But he says most of that money was devoted to wastewater treatment projects.<\/p>\n<p>And he points out that New York and the Army Corps of Engineers plan to spend a total of $204 million in the year ahead on similar wastewater projects.\u00a0 (Those spending items are in other parts of the budget.)<\/p>\n<p>According to Peters, there will be no significant lay-offs or program reductions at DEC, following a couple of years of big hits to staff levels.<\/p>\n<p>NCPR tried repeatedly yesterday to reach Department of Environmental Conservation officials, to talk about the budget and the impact of this spending plan, and to clarify these questions.\u00a0 DEC officials declined to be interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Peters says it&#8217;s long-standing policy for Budget officials to handle those queries when the spending plan is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just took a call from Morris Peters in New York&#8217;s Division of the Budget, [&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":[10,884,6562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372"}],"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=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}