Mayors from across upstate New York told state lawmakers this week that additional aid is needed to shore up city budgets and head off potentially “detrimental” cuts.
The leaders of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Yonkers and Niagara Falls spoke to legislators Wednesday during the annual budget hearing known as “Tin Cup Day.”
The mayors said the state’s Aid and Incentives to Municipalities or AIM funding has remained largely flat for more than a decade, while state tax revenues have doubled…