Malatras to stay on as SUNY Chancellor despite link to nursing home scandal
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul will continue to work with her disgraced predecessor's appointees at the State University of New York Board of Trustees, as well as SUNY Chancellor James Malatras, a longtime confidant of former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo who was installed by the board a year ago.
Hochul in recent weeks has purged her administration of many Cuomo-era officials, pledging a more open and transparent state government, but has no direct power over the chancellor position, which is filled by the board.
The governor selects 15 of 16 voting members of the Board of Trustees for fixed seven-year terms. When their terms expire, trustees remain in their positions at will until they are reappointed or replaced.
Cuomo reappointed seven holdovers on the board in June 2021, precluding Hochul from naming any new trustees for at least a year.
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(Albany Times Union)