It's the Brian Mayer Show on WNYC.

Happy Friday, everybody.

So does that sound familiar?

The New York State Fiscal Year begins on April 1st,

but the budget to fund state services

will be late because lawmakers can't agree on housing, education, and

criminal justice reforms.

Yes, we might have said those exact words last year on this date or something very close and here we are again. Now

Governor Hokkale and legislative leaders have announced that they are

resigned to at least a three day delay

as they continue to wrestle with this year's

version of those topics.

Because we all have short memories,

here's what the news website New York Focus reported when they finally completed the process last year.

They wrote, the budget will change bail laws and could signal to judges that they should

jail more defendants pre-trial, but the changes are less sweeping than

what Hockel had proposed.

Fourteen new charter schools will be allowed to open in New York City, a sixth as many as the governor originally

sought.

Meanwhile, the governor's signature agenda item for this year, last year, an ambitious plan to boost housing construction across New York completely

disintegrated. That was last year's outcome as described by New York focus. This year, the contentious criminal justice reform item

is how to fight retail theft, shoplifting,

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