Mr. Silver agrees, saying the solution the Legislature will reach next year will affect the entire state.

After some intense legislative discussion, the Kean administration and the Legislature reached agreement to fund the adjustments for the teachers' pension system.

Faced with an embarrassing unanticipated $400 million state budget deficit, the Governor and the Legislature reached for quick fixes.

The Legislature did not reach agreements on renewing a law to regulate where power plants are built.

Last year the Legislature reached this point in its budget negotiations in mid-July.

The lines were drawn by a commission with a Democratic majority after the divided Legislature could not reach an agreement.

Until the Legislature and the Bloomberg administration reached agreement over the weekend, the city was facing a $3.8 billion budget gap in the coming fiscal year.

But it is not clear that the Legislature and governor can reach agreement by then on fundamental changes.

Last week, though, the Legislature finally reached agreement on a very different plan.

In 1982, a court-appointed master drew new Congressional lines, at a cost of about $1 million, only to have the Legislature reach a last-minute compromise.