The first of a series of public hearings has been scheduled for tomorrow in an effort to hold a “people’s constitutional convention” designed to change how the state government operates.

Assembly Republican leader Brian Kolb plans meetings in upstate Queensbury and Plattsburgh.

Kolb hopes to hold a convention run by delegates who aren’t politicians or in special-interest groups.

“All across New York, there’s a growing feeling among fed-up and frustrated taxpayers that state government has stopped working for them,” he said.

The law requires that New York voters be asked every 20 years if they want to hold a convention to change the Constitution. The next time the question is expected to be posed is 2017. Reformers are advocating an earlier call for such a convention.