{"id":20769,"date":"2017-08-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20769"},"modified":"2017-08-25T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:53:48","slug":"niagara-falls-facing-major-financial-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/niagara-falls-facing-major-financial-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls facing major financial trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/news\/local\/niagara-falls-facing-major-financial-trouble\/467112313\">WGRZ Channel 2<\/a> in Buffalo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A draft of an audit being prepared by the Office of the New York State Comptroller calls into question the budget and spending policies of the City of Niagara Falls and warns of potentially dire financial circumstances for the Cataract City unless officials there \u201ctake immediate steps\u201d to get their financial house in order.<\/p>\n<p>The draft report notes the administration of Mayor Paul Dyster&#8217;s pattern of using casino revenues \u2014 which have steadily decreased in recent years \u2014 to balance the city\u2019s budget, despite warnings against using so much of the casino revenues to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: A draft of an audit being prepared by the Office of the New York State Comptroller calls into question the budget and spending policies of the City of Niagara Falls and warns of potentially dire financial circumstances for the Cataract City unless officials there \u201ctake immediate steps\u201d to get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,2],"tags":[4876,547,450,2235,449,9124,12986,3317,653,41,12985,660,448],"class_list":["post-20769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-audit","tag-budget","tag-buffalo","tag-casino-revenue","tag-channel-2","tag-city-of-niagara-falls","tag-financial-house","tag-mayor","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-office-of-the-new-york-state-comptroller","tag-paul-dyster","tag-wgrz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20770,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions\/20770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}