ALBANY, N.Y.--Gov. David Paterson is calling for some layoffs and a cut in school aid in the state budget proposal he's releasing today.
The governor's office has released some details ahead of his official presentation of the spending plan later this morning in Albany.
Paterson's $121 billion budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year would mostly hold overall spending flat from the current fiscal year.
In order to accomplish that, Paterson wants to cut school aid by nearly $700 million and eliminate more than 3,000 state jobs, mostly through attrition even though his budget calls for 521 layoffs.
New York governor's usually don't release their budget proposals until January. But Paterson is presenting the budget a month early to try to deal with what he calls a historic fiscal crisis facing the Empire State.
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