There’s been an awful lot of talk of late about New York’s new state budget.

Most of the chatter coming from Gov. Andrew Cuomo has focused on the good.

Cuomo, leaders from both the state Assembly and Senate and other lawmakers who supported the $162 million spending plan spent the days following budget approval talking up higher-profile components, including the so-called “free” state college tuition program and expansion of ride-hailing services upstate.

Not everyone, it turns out, was as pleased with the results as Cuomo and other Albany insiders.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, for example, questioned what he described as a lack of needed reforms for things like state procurement practices.

As DiNapoli noted, a string of high-profile state economic development efforts, including the massive SolarCity project in Buffalo, have been mired in allegations of bid-rigging and bribery, causing many taxpayers to again question what their elected leaders are doing with the state’s money and resources.

DiNapoli had called for greater oversight of contract awards by his office as part of a comprehensive package of reform proposals.

None of them happened, which is a shame.

“The budget does not include needed reforms to the state’s procurement practices to better ensure spending accountability and transparency,” DiNapoli said.

DiNapoli suggested Cuomo and state lawmakers “rushed through” this year’s budget, providing “no opportunity for public review of the details.”

Those details include extension of a state credit program aimed at enticing the film industry to do business in New York. While Hollywood productions raise the state’s profile in one sense, critics have questioned the real value of giving movie makers and television show producers financial assistance, the cost of which is, at least in part, borne by home and business owners statewide.

The film incentives, which were set to expire in 2019, were extended as part of this year’s state budget, offering three more years of assistance at a cost of more than $1.2 billion.

E.J. McMahon, president of the Albany think tank, the Empire Center for Public Integrity, characterized the program as a “huge giveaway to a highly profitable industry that is hardly likely to abandon New York if no longer paid by taxpayers.”

In offering his thoughts on the passage of the budget, DiNapoli released a series of six recommendations for procurement reform. The list includes allowing for independent oversight by the comptroller’s office of general services contracts for state-affiliated institutions of higher education, which would include State University of New York schools like the University at Buffalo. DiNapoli has also called for a prohibition on the use of non-profits to avoid procurement transparency laws, a situation brought to light as part of investigatory reporting on the awarding of contracts for SolarCity, as just one example.

DiNapoli’s office has also advocated for tightening up state ethics requirements, ramping up penalties for offenders determined to have participated in illegal procurement practices and taking steps to make sure available business opportunities involving the state are properly publicized so any and all potential vendors are able to submit bids and have them reviewed fairly.

New Yorkers have heard similar talk about reform from elected officials in the past and yet clearly not enough has been done in Albany to allay concerns about the “insider” nature of state government from the governor’s office on down.

Cuomo and company have done a great job of spreading the word about all the wonderful things the new state budget includes.

Unfortunately, from the public’s point of view, the lack of movement on much-needed reforms, especially where procurement policies are concerned, tempers a lot of the enthusiasm where this year’s budget is concerned.