Welcome and Introduction

Andrew Rein
Citizens Budget Commission, President (moderator)

Robert Megna
Rockefeller Institute, President; former NYS Budget Director (moderator)

Presentation of Report Findings

Patrick Orecki
Citizens Budget Commission, Director of State Studies

Panelists and Moderators*

• Greg David, CUNY Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program, Director (moderator)
• Rachael Fauss, Reinvent Albany, Senior Policy Advisory
• David Friedfel, NYS Senate, Majority Finance Secretary
• Dean Fuleihan, CUNY; former NYC First Deputy Mayor & NYS Assembly Secretary
• Jasmine Gripper, Alliance for Quality Education, Executive Director
• Anna Gronewold, POLITICO, Reporter
• Blair Horner, NYPIRG, Executive Director
• Mary Beth Labate, Brown | Weinraub, Partner; former NYS Budget Director
• Rebecca Lewis, City & State, Senior State Politics Reporter
• E.J. McMahon, Empire Center, Founding Senior Fellow