Albany has adjourned. "Clean slate" bill passed.

0:00 Speaker 1 With us this morning is Zach Williams do you post the Orbany division? And one s more, Guy and Zach. They’re finishing up the budget up in Albany. Give us your thoughts, where the heck are we and are people going to be happy and happy?

0:22 Speaker 2 Well, the twenty twenty three legislative session is drawn to amend and the big hot tip topic is the clean Slate legislation that we’ve talked about before to automatically CEO records for all crimes except for all Class A felonies, except for sex offenses and certain drug offenses as well.

0:43 You know, the Republicans are piping up about this one pretty fervently, but it looks on track to pass. But other than that, it’s been kind of an anti climatic ends to the twenty twenty three session. You know, no housing package. There’s a bit of backbiting between the Democrats and Governor’s office and the legislature over on Thursday. But

1:02 other than you know, passing a whole lot of bills of fucking local communities. You know, the big items that sometimes we see in other years are a little bit we’re underwhelming this time around, you know, and it’s kind of no surprise how much political oxygen was sucked up by the late budget process this year.

1:22 Speaker 1 I understand that the increase in rents for rent stabilized apartments was ended up being about four percent for one year, six and a half percent for two years.

1:38 Speaker 2 Yes, So, you know, one of the big items here was a good cause eviction bill, which you know appears to be dead right now, right alongside the four twenty one a extension for existing projects. You know, there was just a lot of push and pull from the left in the center, and in the end everything just kind

1:58 of fell apart right there. And you know, we’ll see what the governor, who is vowing to do things with their executive powers of her summer might do on this front.

2:08 Speaker 1 Understood, h crime Are people going to be able to live in this our city and our state.

2:17 Speaker 2 Well, there were some important changes done to the bail laws in the budget process, and we’re going to see if that really makes a dent or not any recidivism rates that have really been a big part of the discussion about, you know, the relationship between progressive criminal justice reforms approved in recent years, and of course the rights

2:36 and crime rate that we’ve seen at the same time, you know, but there was one piece of legislation that did come up to make it easier to seal, sorry not to seal, to overturn wrongful convictions. You know, not everybody is all about that one. And of course we got that Queen slate Ville as well, which at least

2:56 Republicans are saying, you know, might contribute to crime down the road for those that are able to automatically get their record seals understood.

3:07 Speaker 1 Well, what do you think do you think that the governor is going to get good monks? So you think the people in the state are going to be upset?

3:16 Speaker 2 Well, I’d say the narrative this entire past six month has been the relationship between the governor, who of course won a full term last November, and this emboldened progressive legislature, and of course that you know, we remember the big fight over her nomination to leave the state’s highest court, you know, all the different fights in the budget process

3:35 and the collapse of the housing deal. And then now today Political New York had this scoop that the state Senate, after the heat the Democratic Socialist was not going to take up her the nomination of Driscoll to lead the New York Power Authority. Now, this could be really big an energy space because in the budget there was to

3:56 build Public Renewables Act, which really pushes NIC to get more involved in green energy project. You know, they already run hydro electric dams upstate, but they want to get him into wounds and solar and so let’s go. It’s been kind of a roadblock in that. You know last year when they had it hearing on it, he kind

4:12 of you know, pooh pooed the idea, if you will, that NIPA ought to compete with private energy companies. And he’s going to stay on his acting head of NIPA right now. But you know, for the governor, after this bruising six months, this is just one more slack from the legislature in what could be the final day of

4:33 the steps in this year.

4:36 Speaker 1 Well, Zach Williams, thank you for the update, thank you for keeping all the Yorkers informed, and we’ll catch up with you again will soon anytime