A Journal News editorial is echoing the Business Council’s wish to eliminate some of the more than 700 public and quasi-public agencies that exist in New York State.

File this under the heading, “You have to start somewhere.”

Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh, who successfully pushed for the Public Authority Reform law that went into effect in March, now proposes eliminating 129 of the more than 700 quasi-public agencies. But these are just the 129 easy ones, as Brodsky himself acknowledges. Many on the list for paring, which includes more than 15 in the Lower Hudson Valley, have long been inactive and don’t even have boards that meet regularly…

There is no reason to keep inactive authorities alive, particularly since they have the ability to issue bonds that add to the state’s debt — that is, should they ever be reconvened . As of yet, the legislation has no sponsor in the Senate. It deserves one.”

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