Developing and maintaining jobs in Central New York is of utmost importance. New York is on the verge of becoming a leader in environmentally friendly job development thanks in part to incentives created at the state level.

• Power for Jobs offers employers relief from the high energy costs that plague the state

• Excelsior Jobs program offers tax credits to companies offering new jobs in high tech, bio-tech, green tech, finance and manufacturing areas

• The Science and Tech Law Center bill, which I sponsored, establishes a clinic to assist universities, entrepreneurs and companies in commercializing new products by conducting research and analysis of the commercial development of early stage technologies