Marc Ryan, the governor's budget chief, said restoring health care spending is irresponsible and will be out of the state's reach in the long run.

He was re-elected in 1980, 1982 and 1985, and served as York's budget chief for this entire period.

But one senior aide said yesterday that the budget chief would not be in this first group of appointees.

In 1966 she became only the second woman to win a seat on the four member Board of Control and became the city's budget chief.

What can match learning that the nitwit driver you just tongue-lashed on the road is your new budget chief?

While on council he served as deputy mayor and budget chief.

After the election, Shelley Carroll was appointed as the city's new budget chief.

The Board candidate with the most votes became council president and budget chief.

Only weeks ago, we heard from his budget chief that for every dollar in new taxes, two dollars would be cut out of the spending stream.

Yet at a time of increasingly bleak fiscal news, the budget chief is emerging as one of the most important officials in city government.