Check out this article.......

[Willard_DTC]

http://www.pressrepublican.com/0100_news/local_story_157044631.html

Scroll down and read the part titled Upstate/Downstate. This isn't good boys and girls and just shows what Albany's true agenda really is......the old 3 men in a room from the budget negotiations rears it's ugly head again...........:rolleyes:

[DOCS OCT]

Published June 06, 2009 04:46 am - Reuse at Camp Gabriels, fixing a bad budget key topics at legislative breakfast.

Lawmakers deliver dour report from Albany


By KIM SMITH DEDAM
Staff Writer

SARANAC LAKE -- State lawmakers delivered a dour report Friday to Tri-Lakes area business leaders.

"Helter skelter is the best way to describe what is happening in Albany," said Assemblywoman Teresa Sayward (R-Willsboro), who spoke alongside Assemblywoman Janet Duprey (R-Peru) and Sen. Betty Little (R-Queensbury).

Every day, leadership changes and people leave, Sayward said.

"It's hard to find the go-to person. Everybody seems to be trying to find their niche."

The 9-percent increase in government spending approved this year is using federal dollars to fill in gaps, Sayward said.

"If our economy doesn't turn around, in two years we're going to be in a worse place."

Reuse of Camp Gabriels, a new Medical Home model for improved primary health care and correcting budget mistakes were among top issues covered at the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce's annual Legislative Breakfast, held at North Country Community College.

CAMP GABRIELS
Duprey said she discussed reuse plans for the closed prison at Camp Gabriels this week with Department of Correctional Services Commissioner Brian Fischer and Assemblyman Jeffrion L. Aubrey, a Democrat who chairs the Assembly Committee on Corrections.

DOCS closed the prison, along with two other upstate minimum-security camps, and is clearing out the facility now.

A reuse plan for the site is due by Oct. 1.

"They're interested in what Camp Gabriels has to offer," Duprey said.

A proposal from St. Joseph's Rehabilitation Center to reinstate corrections use as an addiction treatment facility for inmates released under Rockefeller Drug law reform is still under review.

Little said federal stimulus funding for drug treatment must target new addicts, not repeat offenders.

Duprey said a new bill is also looking at putting added federal dollars into education in prisons, improving college programs for inmates.

"The better educated somebody is, the less chance they will walk back through the (prison) doors."

MEDICAL HOME
Sayward mentioned briefly a new Medical Home model for improving primary health-care access in the rural North Country region.

"Primary care done right will keep people out of emergency rooms."

The program involves family physicians, insurance providers, Adirondack Medical Center, CVPH Medical Center and other area facilities all working together to ensure patients receive proper care.

A test model Medical Home was begun last summer by Medicaid. The concept looks to reform health care with emphasis on holistic primary care, giving all area residents a medical "home" base.

UPSTATE, DOWNSTATE
Little said political machinations in Albany don't bode well for rural regions of the state.

"I don't think they've ever been worse. (Legislators are saying) if it's not good for New York City, then it's probably not good."

She said committees are now working to address strategic problems in the state budget.

"We're spending a lot of time now correcting what was done in secret."

One achievement, she said, is a newly approved bill that "gives people a method to use to review government consolidation."

Little also was critical of how stimulus funds are being spent.

"The key is to make sure stimulus money stimulates the economy. But it's filling the budget gaps."
Here it is for those who don't care for links.
The three turds that are running this show need to go.
And the sooner, the better.

[25YearsToGo]

Here it is for those who don't care for links.
The three turds that are running this show need to go.
And the sooner, the better.

I don't think you are allowed to post the entire article.

Agreed the 3 got to go.

Looks like drug treatment centers will be taking the prisons place.

[Willard_DTC]

Looks like drug treatment centers will be taking the prisons place.


I'll say this much......if they ever open a place like Willard up here and it's within a 50 mile drive of my house my shoes will be smoking as I go down the hall to put my name on the transfer list.......:)

[25YearsToGo]

I'll say this much......if they ever open a place like Willard up here and it's within a 50 mile drive of my house my shoes will be smoking as I go down the hall to put my name on the transfer list.......:)


Would it be run by corrections though?

Im thinking not.

[DOCS OCT]

Would it be run by corrections though?

Im thinking not.

Actually, it would be run by Corrections.
Along with Parole and OASAS.

[Willard_DTC]

A proposal from St. Joseph's Rehabilitation Center to reinstate corrections use as an addiction treatment facility for inmates released under Rockefeller Drug law reform is still under review.


This was the part that caught my attention. Probably won't happen but one can always dream.................:)

[naze69]

I'll say this much......if they ever open a place like Willard up here and it's within a 50 mile drive of my house my shoes will be smoking as I go down the hall to put my name on the transfer list.......:)

I bet you'd do it if it were a touch more than 50 miles .

[Willard_DTC]

I bet you'd do it if it were a touch more than 50 miles .

If I didn't have some obligations that I need to take care of up here I would be right down there doing the old Left Right Left alongside you and the rest of my old friends.......but I think I might have mentioned that a time or 2 already on here...............:)

[naze69]

Yep , and it would be fun .