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1 1 BEFORE THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE FINANCE AND ASSEMBLY WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEES 2 ----------------------------------------------------- 3 JOINT LEGISLATIVE HEARING 4 In the Matter of the 2016-2017 EXECUTIVE BUDGET ON 5 PUBLIC PROTECTION 6 ----------------------------------------------------- 7 Hearing Room B Legislative Office Building 8 Albany, New York 9 February 4, 2016 9:40 a.m. 10 11 PRESIDING: 12 Senator Catharine M. Young Chair, Senate Finance Committee 13 Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell, Jr. 14 Chair, Assembly Ways & Means Committee 15 PRESENT: 16 Senator Liz Krueger Senate Finance Committee (RM) 17 Assemblyman Robert Oaks 18 Assembly Ways & Means Committee (RM) 19 Senator John J. Bonacic Chair, Senate Committee on Judiciary 20 Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein 21 Chair, Assembly Committee on Judiciary 22 Senator Patrick M. Gallivan Chair, Senate Committee on Crime Victims, 23 Crime and Correction 24 2 1 2016-2017 Executive Budget Public Protection 2 2-4-16 3 PRESENT: (Continued) 4 5 Senator Michael F. Nozzolio Chair, Senate Committee on Codes 6 Assemblyman Joseph Lentol 7 Chair, Assembly Committee on Codes 8 Senator Thomas D. Croci Chair, Senate Committee on Veterans, 9 Homeland Security and Military Affairs 10 Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell Chair, Assembly Committee on Correction 11 Senator Frederick J. Akshar II 12 Assemblyman Michael Montesano 13 Senator Diane Savino 14 Assemblyman Al Graf 15 Assemblywoman Janet L. Duprey 16 Senator Rich Funke 17 Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow 18 Senator Velmanette Montgomery 19 Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson 20 Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio 21 Senator Martin Golden 22 Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. 23 Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes 24 3 1 2016-2017 Executive Budget Public Protection 2 2-4-16 3 PRESENT: (Continued) 4 5 Senator Daniel Squadron 6 Assemblyman John T. McDonald III 7 Assemblyman Joseph S. Saladino 8 Senator Gustavo Rivera 9 Assemblywoman Diana C. Richardson 10 Senator Leroy Comrie 11 Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis 12 Senator Phil M. Boyle 13 Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy 14 Assemblyman John T. McDonald III 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 4 1 2016-2017 Executive Budget Public Protection 2 2-4-16 3 LIST OF SPEAKERS 4 STATEMENT QUESTIONS 5 Honorable Lawrence K. Marks Chief Administrative Judge 6 NYS Office of Court Administration 9 20 7 John P. Melville 8 Commissioner NYS Division of Homeland Security 9 and Emergency Services 106 113 10 Michael C. Green Executive Deputy Commissioner 11 NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services 180 186 12 Anthony J. Annucci 13 Acting Commissioner NYS Department of Corrections 14 and Community Supervision 257 264 15 Joseph D'Amico Superintendent 16 NYS Division of State Police 361 370 17 Margaret Miller NYS Chief Information Officer 18 Director, NYS Office of Information Technology Services 422 430 19 William J. Leahy 20 Director NYS Office of Indigent 21 Legal Services 465 474 22 Robert H. Tembeckjian Administrator and Counsel 23 New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct 483 488 24 5 1 2016-2017 Executive Budget Public Protection 2 2-4-16 3 LIST OF SPEAKERS, Cont. 4 STATEMENT QUESTIONS 5 Thomas H. Mungeer President 6 New York State Troopers PBA 492 495 7 Christopher M. Quick President 8 New York State Police Investigators Association 497 502 9 Michael B. Powers 10 President NYS Correctional Officers & 11 Police Benevolent Assn. 504 511 12 Patrick J. Lynch New York City Patrolmen's 13 Benevolent Association 524 530 14 Steve Drake NYSDOCCS 15 Paul Rigby NYSDOCCS 16 Nikki Brate Vice President 17 NYS Public Employees Federation (PEF) 561 579 18 19 Jonathan E. Gradess Executive Director 20 Art Cody Legal Director, Veterans 21 Defense Programs NYS Defenders Association 611 22 Mark Williams 23 President-Elect Chief Defenders Association 24 of New York State 620 625 6 1 2016-2017 Executive Budget Public Protection 2 2-4-16 3 LIST OF SPEAKERS, Cont. 4 STATEMENT QUESTIONS 5 Patrick Cullen President 6 New York State Supreme Court Officers Association 634 7 Pamela Browne 8 President New York State County 9 Clerks Association 643 10 Billy Imandt President 11 Court Officers Benevolent Assn. of Nassau County 651 12 William Dobbins 13 President Suffolk County Court 14 Employees Association 664 15 Colonel Jack Ozer New York Wing of the 16 Civil Air Patrol 672 17 Charlotte Carter Executive Director 18 NYS Dispute Resolution Assn. -and- 19 Julie Loesch Director 20 Center for Resolution and Justice 21 Child & Family Services 676 22 Connie Neal Executive Director 23 NYS Coalition Against Domestic Violence 681 688 24 7 1 2016-2017 Executive Budget Public Protection 2 2-4-16 3 LIST OF SPEAKERS, Cont. 4 STATEMENT QUESTIONS 5 Soffiyah Elijah Executive Director 6 Correctional Association of New York 690 696 7 Karen L. Murtagh 8 Executive Director Thomas Curran 9 Board Member Prisoners' Legal Services 10 of New York 700 11 Page Pierce Executive Director 12 Families Together in NYS 707 13 Terry O'Neill Director 14 The Constantine Institute 714 15 Anne Erickson President and CEO 16 Empire Justice Center 720 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 8 1 CHAIRWOMAN YOUNG: Good morning. 2 CHAIRMAN FARRELL: Good morning. 3 CHAIRWOMAN YOUNG: Could we have some 4 order, please. 5 Welcome to the Joint Legislative 6 Budget Hearing on Public Protection. I'm 7 Senator Catharine Young, chair of the Senate 8 Finance Committee. 9 Pursuant to the State Constitution and 10 Legislative Law, the fiscal committees of the 11 State Legislature are authorized to hold 12 hearings on the Executive Budget proposal. 13 Today's hearing will be limited to a 14 discussion on the Governor's proposed budget 15 for public protection. 16 Following each presentation, there 17 will be some time allowed for questions from 18 the chairs of the fiscal committees and other 19 legislators. 20 I would like to welcome Judge Lawrence 21 K. Marks, chief administrative judge of the 22 Office of Court Administration; John P. 23 Melville, executive deputy commissioner of 24 the Division of Homeland Security and 9 1 Emergency Services; Michael C. Green, 2 executive deputy commissioner of the Division 3 of Criminal Justice Services; Anthony J. 4 Annucci, acting commissioner of the 5 Department of Corrections and Community 6 Supervision; Joseph A. D'Amico, 7 Superintendent of the Division of State 8 Police; and Margaret Miller, director and 9 chief information officer of the Office of 10 Information Technology Services. 11 At this time I would like to begin 12 with testimony of Judge Lawrence K. Marks, 13 chief administrative judge of the Office of 14 Court Administration. 15 Welcome, and good morning. 16 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE MARKS: 17 Good morning. Good morning. Thank you. 18 CHAIRWOMAN YOUNG: Before we begin, 19 though, Assemblyman Farrell, who keeps me in 20 line, reminded me that we need to introduce 21 our members. So if you'd hold on one second. 22 I'd like to introduce Senator Liz 23 Krueger, who is ranking member of the Senate 24 Finance Committee; Senator Michael Nozzolio, 10 1 who is chair of the Senate Codes Committee; 2 Senator Patrick Gallivan, who is chair of the 3 Crime and Corrections Committee; Senator Fred 4 Akshar; Senator Rich Funke; Senator Joe 5 Addabbo; Senator John Bonacic; Senator Diane 6 Savino; and Senator Marty Golden. 7 Assemblyman? 8 CHAIRMAN FARRELL: We've been joined 9 by Assemblywoman -- and chair -- Weinstein, 10 Assemblyman Lentol, Assemblyman O'Donnell, 11 and Assemblywoman Peoples-Stokes. 12 We also have Mr. Oaks, who will give 13 us his names. 14 ASSEMBLYMAN OAKS: Thank you, 15 Chairman. 16 We've been joined also by Assemblyman 17 Giglio, Assemblyman Montesano, Assemblyman 18 Graf, and Assemblywoman Malliotakis. 19 CHAIRMAN FARRELL: Good morning. 20 CHAIRWOMAN YOUNG: Good morning. 21 So, Judge, we do welcome you once 22 again, and we're ready for your testimony. 23 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE MARKS: 24 Okay, thank you very much. I'm Lawrence 11 1 Marks. I'm the chief administrative judge of 2 the courts. And thank you so much for the 3 opportunity to speak to you today about the 4 Unified Court System's budget request. And 5 I'd just like to take 10 minutes, if I may, 6 to lay out the key issues in our budget 7 request. And then of course I'd be happy to 8 answer any questions that you may have. 9 But just before I do that, I'd like to 10 make note of our new chief judge, Janet 11 DiFiore, just confirmed by the Senate two 12 weeks ago. Everyone in the court system is 13 excited about Judge DiFiore assuming the 14 leadership of the Judiciary. The Governor 15 certainly made a terrific decision in 16 nominating her. And on behalf of her and the 17 entire court system, I want to say that we 18 very much look forward to continuing to work 19 closely and cooperatively with the 20 Legislature in the coming years. 21 So turning to our budget request, I 22 would start by providing some brief context. 23 In fiscal year 2009-2010, the General Fund 24 state operations portion of the court 12 1 system's budget was approximately 2 $1.78 billion. Today, six years later, that 3 amount is approximately $1.85 billion, an 4 increase of only $64 million, or 3.5 percent, 5 which averages out to about six-tenths of 6 1 percent of an increase each year over that 7 six-year period. 8 Yet during that same period of time, 9 the Judiciary has absorbed nearly 10 $400 million in higher costs. These higher 11 costs include mandated employee salary 12 increases, increased contractual expenses, 13 funding for indigent criminal defense to meet 14 statutory caseload standards, and funding for 15 civil legal services.
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