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This year marks the 20th anniversary of New York state’s Authorities Budget Office.
The budget office was an important reform enacted after years of allegations by lawmakers, including the late Richard Brodsky, chair of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, that the state’s 600-plus authorities were “Soviet-Style bureaucracies” accountable to only themselves.
In 2005 and again in 2009, the state passed public authority reform bills that enacted a variety of measures from ensuring proper oversight to giving the state comptroller approval process of public authority contracts.
The office’s director, Josh Norkin, discussed the work of the Authorities Budget Office with Capital Tonight’s Susan Arbetter.
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