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Some Yonkers City Council members are concerned that New York's solution to fixing the school budget's deficit is taking control away from the city and voters.

The state is lending $45 million to Yonkers schools to solve an accounting error in the district's budget. Along with the loan, New York is also demanding Yonkers' entire budget follow its directives, which has some city council members outraged.

"It's taking, effectively, the voice of the people away in Yonkers," says Councilman John Larkin (R). Larkin says he isn't confident the same office that never noticed the original mistake should be monitoring the city.

Yonkers City Council has hired an attorney to take a closer look at the agreement's wording. Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano (D) defended the agreement, saying it's about transparency and not taking away control.

Some Yonkers City Council members are concerned that New York's solution to fixing the school budget's deficit is taking control away from the city and voters.    The state is lending $45 million to Yonkers

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Rain drops today. Meteorologist Matt Hammer filling us in on that forecast. Yeah, just a couple of light showers really around after one o'clock this afternoon through about six or seven this evening. So that's where we start off with on the futurecast. Really nice morning this morning, chilly temperatures will get up into the upper forties to near 50 though into the afternoon under mostly cloudy skies by late morning and early afternoon today. So the spotty light areas of green arrive after one o'clock this afternoon, steadier rain will be missing us to the north and west. But you will have the need the at times during the afternoon and early evening with just these occasional light spotty showers. The best chance for Westchester and Rockland to see these showers is actually after four o'clock and through about six o'clock or so this evening, then after seven this evening, completely dry, mostly cloudy. There just can be a little bit of some fog development overnight into early tomorrow. I do expect to see some breaks of sunshine tomorrow, but clouds certainly should win out throughout the day. Highs will jump well into the fifties briefly into the early afternoon. And I just want to extend this out into Sunday because there are some changes for Sunday, not necessarily looking at flooding or anything like that just yet. But after a dry, early morning on Sunday, we will likely have a round of steadier rain moving in for the afternoon and for the evening hours on Sunday, drying out in time for the morning commute on Monday. So we just want to keep an eye on that for you as we go throughout the weekend today. Kind of an eye roll day. It starts off great, but it ends up being a little bit unsettled with a few of those spotty afternoon and early evening rain showers before just drier, mostly cloudy conditions kind of remain for the overnight with some patchy fog. So just pay attention to visibility overnight, you might have to slow down a little bit into very early tomorrow morning for some areas of scattered fog highs tomorrow. Well into the fifties, a stray Sprinkle possible in the afternoon and evening. But most of the day, dry clouds and little hints of sunshine. Tomorrow is easily the better half of the weekend before that chance at steadier afternoon, evening rain on Sunday, most of next week looks dry at this point, but turning colder by Tuesday with highs in the lower forties, it looks like we'll stay in the forties from Tuesday and through next weekend just could be some more wet weather by next Friday.

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Council members concerned by budget agreement between Yonkers and the state of New York