Upstate mayors highlight flat payments to cities on ‘Tin Cup Day’

Local leaders from across New York came to Albany for “Tin Cup Day” on Tuesday to tell state lawmakers what their cities need. Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Rochester Mayor Malik Evans, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh and Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano said they needed more money via Aid and Incentives for Municipalities, reworked county tax shares and revisited payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements. The collection of city leaders, testifying jointly, were left hoping lawmakers listened to them at a budget hearing on local government and would aid their efforts to revitalize their cities.

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