From Newsday.com:

Spokesmen for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick) and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) said last night that negotiations were continuing. Among the unresolved issues:

Property tax cap: Talks continued over Gov. David A. Paterson’s proposal to cap at 4 percent yearly increases in school levies. Senate Republicans, initially skeptical of the cap, say they now would support it if a sunset provision were added so the matter could be revisited in a couple of years, their spokesman said. The Assembly’s Democratic majority is opposed, fearing schoolchildren could be harmed if funding is diminished.

Bottle deposits: The Assembly has again approved expanding the 1982 deposit law to include water, juice and other noncarbonated beverages as a way of reducing litter. Bottlers and beverage distributors, who want to keep unclaimed deposits, are opposed.

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