The late Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who once called New York state’s hundreds of authorities “quasi-public, Soviet-style bureaucracies” that constitute a “shadow government,” helped create the five-member Public Authorities Control Board (PACB) which helps oversee the state’s hundreds of authorities, and which must receive a resolution of approval prior to entering into any project-related financings.
You have to wonder what Brodsky would have made of a story broken by the Albany Times Union’s Brendan Lyons that almost has Shakespearean overtones.
For the last two years, Albany County Executive Dan McCoy has reportedly had his eye on another job that pays more than the one he currently has: That of CEO of the Albany County Airport Authority, a $227,000 per year gig. …