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ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ON TOURISM, ARTS AND SPORTS DEVELOPMENT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
ORAL TESTIMONY BY INVITATION ONLY


SUBJECT:

Oversight and Analysis

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this hearing is to comply with Assembly rules requiring an annual review of State agencies and subsidiaries under the jurisdiction of the Committee.

Albany, NY
Roosevelt Hearing Room C
Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor

Tuesday
December 12, 2006
10:00 AM


The hearing will serve to analyze and review the programs and spending of agencies and their subsidiaries under jurisdiction of the Committee for the 2006-07 fiscal year.

Please see below for a list of subjects to which witnesses may direct their testimony, and for a description of the bills which will be discussed at the hearing.

Persons wishing to present pertinent testimony to the Committee at the above hearing should complete and return the enclosed reply form as soon as possible. It is important that the reply form be fully completed and returned so that persons may be notified in the event of emergency postponement or cancellation.

Oral testimony will be limited to 20 minutes duration. In preparing the order of witnesses, the Committee will attempt to accommodate individual requests to speak at particular times in view of special circumstances. These requests should be made on the attached reply form or communicated to Committee staff as early as possible. In the absence of a request, witnesses will be scheduled in the order in which reply forms are postmarked.

Ten copies of any prepared testimony should be submitted at the hearing registration desk. The Committee would appreciate advance receipt of prepared statements.

In order to further publicize these hearings, please inform interested parties and organizations of the Committee's interest in hearing testimony from all sources.

In order to meet the needs of those who may have a disability, the Assembly, in accordance with its policy of non-discrimination on the basis of disability, as well as the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made its facilities and services available to all individuals with disabilities. For individuals with disabilities, accommodations will be provided, upon reasonable request, to afford such individuals access and admission to Assembly facilities and activities.

Assemblyman Joseph D. Morelle
Chairman
Committee on Tourism, Arts And Sports Development

SELECTED ISSUES TO WHICH WITNESSES MAY DIRECT THEIR TESTIMONY:

  1. A description and explanation of programs administered by the agency or subsidiary during the 2006-07 fiscal year.

  2. A fiscal accounting for appropriations made to the agency or subsidiary in the 2006-07 State Budget.

  3. Any other information which the witnesses may feel pertinent to the Committee's work in discharging its legislative and budgetary responsibilities.



PUBLIC HEARING REPLY FORM

Persons wishing to present testimony at the public hearing on Oversight and Analysis are requested to complete this reply form as soon as possible and mail it to:

Brendan W. Fitzgerald
Legislative Associate
Assembly Committee on Tourism, Arts And Sports Development
Room 520 - Capitol
Albany, New York 12248
Email: fitzgeb@assembly.state.ny.us
Phone: (518) 455-4928
Fax: (518) 455-5182


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