Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo rips 'ridiculous' waste of tax dollars spent on abandoned youth facility

 I am positive those 30 state workers had nothing to do with the closing of this facility or the timing of it's closing and would only be too happy to transfer to another facility where they would serve a more useful purpose....state government has to be managed better than this............andy

BY Kenneth Lovett
DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU

Tuesday, November 23rd 2010, 4:00 AM

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Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo tours Tryon Center for Boys in upstate Johnstown on Monday.

ALBANY - Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo held aloft Exhibit A on Monday for government waste: An abandoned youth facility that still employs 30 state workers.
Cuomo toured the Tryon Center for Boys in upstate Johnstown and ripped using tax dollars to have workers "babysit" a building, deeming it "ridiculous." The facility stopped serving kids in July.
"If you look at a situation like this, then it's not surprising that people across the state have lost faith and confidence in state government," he said.
The employees remain because a 2006 state law requires one-year closure notices. Cuomo argued that "if the [closure notice] law is hard and fast, then the law needs to be changed."
Cuomo warned that the coming fiscal year is going to be "very, very difficult," particularly with billions in federal bailout money set to dry up. "All the choices will be hard choices," he said.
Gov. Paterson is calling the Legislature back to Albany next week to close a $315 million deficit in the current year budget.