Joshua Vlasto, Cuomos chief of staff, said the program is meant to be flexible and that funding could be accelerated if needed. Its whatever it needs to be to attract the kind of big industry and economic development that were looking to turn Buffalo around, he said.
Albany officials offered little sympathy. Joshua Vlasto, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said the city could have done more prudent budgeting if it suspected it wasnt going to get state aid again.