Assemblyman Dinowitz Speaks Out Against Potential Cuts to Senior Centers

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz spoke out against potential cuts to Title XX funding for senior centers at a rally at City Hall today sponsored by the Council of Senior Centers & Services of NYC.  For each of the last two years, the Governor's budget proposed cutting tens of millions of dollars from Title XX funding, which resulted in New York City threatening to close over a hundred senior centers.  Assemblyman Dinowitz, former Chair of the Assembly Committee on Aging, led the successful fight this year to prevent this cutback and the closing of senior centers.

"This time around, we want to convince the Governor to not propose this cut in the first place.  I will fight together with Speaker Sheldon Silver, Aging Committee Chair Joan Millman, and my other colleagues to make sure that seniors will not have to live in fear that the senior centers that so many of them depond upon would be closed," said Assemblyman Dinowitz.