Keith Goldberg of the recordonline.com writes - “A state bill regulating how industrial development agencies do business — including a requirement that workers on IDA projects be paid prevailing wages — died last week in the Legislature for the second straight year. And a local co-sponsor of the bill isn’t counting on another resurrection anytime soon.

“I don’t see it happening,” said Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt, R-C-Greenwood Lake. “There’s just too much turmoil and groups of people trying to kill it.”

The bill — which also mandated groups such as local governments, school districts, unions and environmental groups to serve on IDA boards — was anathema to business groups and local IDAs themselves.

“The more regulations, the more standards put on incentive programs, the more difficult it makes to compete,” said Maureen Halahan, president of the Orange County Partnership. “We’re (New York) already in trouble.”

The Ulster County IDA, which had a prevailing-wage policy before scrapping it last year, was one of several groups pushing hard to kill the bill.”

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