Fingerlakes1.com Menu Have a tip for the newsroom, press release, local event listing or digital content to share? Send it here. Support our mission by visiting patreon.com/fl1 and becoming a monthly subscriber. New York State Senator Tom O’Mara used his recent appointment as ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee to express the need for more funding of local roads and bridges. In particular, Upstate-Downstate spending parity on bridges and roads. He says infrastructure in the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier need help. O’Mara made his comments at the opening of a series of legislative hearings on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2021-2022 New York State budget. Over the next several weeks, the Legislature’s fiscal committees — the Senate Finance Committee, and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee — will hold 13 virtual hearings examining Cuomo’s proposals in key issue areas.