New York Council for Exceptional People v. Pataki

—Order, Supreme *237Court, New York County (Helen Freedman, J.), entered on or about June 13, 1995, which, inter alia, declared that plaintiffs are not entitled to transitional care funding by defendants, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The lack of merit to plaintiffs’ claim that they are entitled to continued transitional care funding is demonstrated by the plain words of Social Services Law article 8-B, which provides that localities such as the defendant City "may” provide the funding that plaintiffs seek herein (Social Services Law § 466 [2]) and that defendant State’s responsibility…