WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL CHRONICLE-EXAMINER. September 25, 2008: In light of the situation that the Common Council tonight may be considering whether the city should pay cost overruns and deficits run up on the Horton's Mill "workforce housing" project opened last spring to the developer, and statements by the Westchester County Association that governments, county and local hold budgets at 2008 levels and cut costs by 5%, WPCNR asked the two senior members of the Common Council, Benjamin Boykin and Rita Malmud if they were going to discuss the current budget trends in the city with Mayor Joseph Delfino tonight.

asked both if they would call for cuts in spending the next three quarters. Mr. Boykin was asked if he would be convening the budget management committee which he chairs to take an early look at the city budget, in light of previous WPCNR-reported downtrends in mortgage taxes and sales taxes. City Sales tax figures will be available within the next 15 days.

Neither Ms. Malmud nor Mr. Boykin has responded that they would or would not ask the Mayor  for a "budget report" tonight.

Westchester County has also not responded with a statement commenting on the Westchester County Association call for keeping the county and local budgets at 2008 levels and cutting spending 5% among other suggestions.