{"id":131991,"date":"2026-02-13T01:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131991\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:08:10","slug":"syracuse-auditor-wants-more-state-aid-to-local-governments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131991\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse auditor wants more state aid to local governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani requested an increase in the amount of money that the state sends to New York City since the city is the state\u2019s economic engine.<\/p>\n<p>But the pot of money is finite, and upstate cities need increases as well.<\/p>\n<p>Syracuse City Auditor Alexander Marion argues that cities all around the state need a 30% increase in Aid and Incentives to Municipalities, also known as AIM aid, as well as a 2.5% annual increase.<\/p>\n<p>Marion spoke with Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter about the history of AIM, and why cities shouldn\u2019t be considered an afterthought.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani requested an increase in the amount of money that the state sends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,112,87,4281,201,27,200],"class_list":["post-131991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-app-capital-tonight","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-state-budget","tag-susan-arbetter","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}