The Buffalo Chronicle
Barbara Miller-Williams
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Buffalo voters should approve Proposal 8 and make City Hall prove its budget math before it spends
Buffalo’s $103 million structural deficit grew out of budgets built on one-time money and lowball cost estimates. Proposal 8 would give the comptroller an early review and the Council a way to…
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Change Buffalo PAC urges governor to help put control board back in charge of city finances
Change Buffalo PAC wants the governor to press the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority to reimpose a control period. Under state law, only the board can make that call, and Mayor Sean Ryan,…
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Buffalo wants its control board to borrow $20 million for emergency repairs. Its comptroller wants the math first
Buffalo is asking its state control board to borrow up to $20.06 million for emergency repairs, the first such request since 2007. Comptroller Barbara Miller Williams wants the costs, savings and repayment…
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Mayor Brown announces adoption of 2021 budget that outlines ‘a roadmap to recovery’
Mayor Byron W. Brown today applauded the Buffalo Common Council for adopting his Fiscal Year 2020- 2021 Budget. The $519 million spending plan will keep the City workforce intact, make critical investments…
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County Legislature candidate was involved in shooting at an East Side bar, but circumstances remain unclear
Howard Johnson is a candidate for County Legislature in District 1 — the seat that former City Comptroller Barbara Miller-Williams vacated upon her appointment by Mayor Byron Brown to become City Comptroller.…
