About this episode

Albany Mayor Dr. Dorcey Applyrs discusses the city's budget and financial stability measures.

Albany Mayor Dr. Dorcey Applyrs joins Power & Politics to provide an update regarding the city's finances. She discusses the recent historic State Aid for the City, totaling $44.4 million, which is intended to help mitigate the city's budget deficit now, and in the future. She also discusses the measures they're taking to help provide long term stability for the City's finances, and how they're approaching potential hurdles like Tier 6, the Rapp Road landfill closure, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Tom Eschen

Guest: Dr. Dorcey Applyrs

Topics covered

• city finances
• budget update
• state aid
• long term stability
• government measures

Keywords

• Albany
• budget deficit
• historic State Aid
• Tier 6
• Rapp Road landfill

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Power & Politics, State Aid

Places: City of Albany

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