“When the governor announced his plan to restore AIM funding using new county tax revenues, I cautioned that there would be cash-flow issues. When Majority politicians insisted on passing hundreds of pages of legislation that comprise our $175 billion state budget in the middle of the night without needed oversight, I warned that mistakes were inevitable. Majority politicians should never have put legislation on the floor that failed to provide a mechanism for delivering critical funding to Nassau County.

“Whether my legislation or the county executive’s ultimately solves this problem isn’t important. We need to work together to protect taxpayers. We need to make sure our towns and villages actually receive the aid they’ve been promised,” said Ra.