budget director

I've got to sit down with my budget director and go into exactly where we stand on all these numbers.

His budget director has warned that the work force might have to be cut by 15,000.

Indeed, he is leaving after serving as budget director for only 11 months.

The budget director has given three main reasons why the Administration got into this box.

He came to Albany in 1986 as first deputy budget director.

He became city budget director from 1952 to 1961.

The main job description of the budget director is to master the details.

The budget director said he believed that if anything, the next mayor would be under pressure to make even more cuts.

The mayor's budget director said on Tuesday that the move would encourage large financial companies to leave the city.

Now, the President's budget director puts forth the biggest deficit in history.

"Bernie would always keep that kind of information away from budget directors," he added.

But the state budget director is not buying it.

Detailed instructions for each agency from the city budget director will follow in the next few days, officials said.

"I can think of few budget directors in recent history who would have made such astounding statements."

In recent weeks he has lost yet another budget director, his county attorney and his press secretary.

Besides, who wants to risk having the president's budget director call us money-grubbers again?

"It's even better than successfully jousting with a budget director."

The President and his budget director have some discretion in apportioning the money over the course of the year.

He recruited two aides - his budget director and health commissioner - from out of state.

"If I were able to identify the person," he said, finding a budget director is "way up at the top" of his priorities.

"I would love someday to be city budget director."

Fenwick was a quiet, efficient man who had been the president's budget director in his first administration.

Although they hardly knew each other when they took office 16 months ago, the budget director and the chief of staff have become fast friends.

He said discussions were also continuing with the White House budget director.

Yet he does not have budgetary authority and can only make spending recommendations to the president's budget director.