There’s less than two days before the New York legislative session comes to an end on Thursday. For local state lawmakers, including Rockland’s state senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick, Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski and Assemblyman Mike Lawler, getting a monitor with more oversight and veto powers in the East Ramapo school district is important…
Lawler adds that, how mandated costs get paid for, between the needs of public and private school students in the district, has to change. The current bill needs to move out of various committees in both houses before it comes up for a vote.
Meanwhile, advocates for traffic safety want the state to enact reforms that they say would lower the one-thousand traffic deaths New York sees every year. Amy Cohen is the co-founder of “Families for Safe Streets” and backs the Crash Victim Rights and Safety Act. It’s a package of bills that calls for lower speed limits and 24/7 speed cameras in the city. It also lowers the blood alcohol content level for determining intoxication from point-zero-eight to point-zero-five…
The legislative session ends Thursday, though Lawler thinks there could be some voting going into the early morning hours on Friday.