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Some disabled people who use New York State’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP, will now be able to stick with the previous company who handled their workers' pay, for a brief time.

It has been more than a week since New York state lawmakers missed an April 1st deadline to reach an agreement on this year’s budget. Capital Region lawmakers say negotiations continue behind closed doors.

Buffalo Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon’s proposed budget outlines plans to fill a projected $70 million budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year, including a proposed 3% hotel occupancy tax and the sale of four city-owned parking ramps. But it’s the proposed property tax increase that has people talking.

If the preliminary injunction is approved by the judge, some consumers and their personal assistants will be able to stick with their original fiscal intermediary – but not indefinitely.

The federal action also has extended to RIT, but officials are not saying how many are affected or how.

Four current students and nine recent graduates of the University at Buffalo have had their visas revoked by the federal government, the school said in an email to faculty and staff obtained by BTPM.

Big news is expected today in a federal lawsuit challenging New York's transition to a single company running its Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP.

Buffalo's Acting Mayor, Chris Scanlon, said the proposed tax increase is necessary to help fill a projected budget deficit of $70 million for the 2025 to 2026 fiscal year.

The statewide teachers union is applauding New York’s decision to reject a federal directive to end diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in public schools.

Loosening sanctions for prosecutors who fail to turn over evidence in a fair and timely manner has emerged as a priority in protracted discussions about changes to discovery laws that has delayed the state budget.