Byline: JAY GALLAGHER Gannett News Service
ALBANY -- A panel on lobbying has disbanded without making substantive suggestions on how a new law affecting local governments should work.
The Advisory Council on Municipal Lobbying was supposed to suggest by Oct. 1 ways to implement a new law that will monitor the activities of those who try to influence large city, town, village and county governments.
The lack of action is a setback to attempts to monitor the lobbyists and has led to suggestions that the effective date of the law, already delayed by 15 months, be pushed back even further.
Advisory council members weren't appointed by Gov. …
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