From the Morning Memo:
The top Democratic leaders in the state Assembly and Senate have appointed new members to the state’s Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation.
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins has tapped former state Sen. Seymour Lachman, a history professor who wrote what has become a seminal account on Albany’s budget-making process, “Three Men In A Room.”
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie appointed Peter Madonia, the chief operating officer at the Rockefeller Foundation and a former advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The appointments were made in letters to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The commission Madonia and Lachman were appointed to is separate from the panel that backed recommended pay increases for statewide elected officials and state lawmakers last year, tying the salary increases to a cap on outside income for the Legislature and a scaling back in leadership post stipends.