Mr. Mahoney is fiscal adviser to the Rhode Island House of Representatives.

She was a fiscal adviser to Mr. Dinkins in his mayoral campaign last year.

Things seemed promising when the financial wizard Warren Buffett, a fiscal adviser to Mr. Schwarzenegger, said some higher taxes were necessary.

Mr. Koch and his top fiscal advisers are trying to keep NBC in the city.

But Mr. Dinkins said at a news conference yesterday that he would convene a council of fiscal advisers to recommend ways to deal with the deficit.

Mr. Trump said the Mayor and his top fiscal advisers were too slow to respond to his proposal, made at a May 21 meeting.

This year, not only is Mr. Cuomo not included in the talks, neither are his top fiscal advisers.

But Mr. Lackman, a senior fiscal adviser to the Senate for the past decade, has an Albany background and contacts that can help.

By the early 1970's, Mr. Kramer was a fiscal adviser to Marvin Cristenfield, the county Democratic Chairman at the time.

On his return to Quebec, he was employed at the federal Department of National Revenue as a fiscal adviser.