Senate Resolution No. 2700

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

ESTABLISHING a plan setting forth an itemized list
of grantees for a certain appropriation for the
2024-25 state fiscal year for services and expenses
of economic development and community services
organizations. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law to the contrary, the amounts appropriated
herein may be suballocated or transferred between
other agencies, including but not limited to, the
department of economic development with the approval
of the temporary president of the senate and the
director of the budget. Notwithstanding section 24
of the state finance law or any provision of law to
the contrary, funds from this appropriation shall be
allocated only pursuant to a plan (i) approved by
the temporary president of the senate and the
director of the budget which sets forth either an
itemized list of grantees with the amount to be
received by each, or the methodology for allocating
such appropriation, and (ii) which is thereafter
included in a senate resolution calling for the
expenditure of such funds, which resolution must be
approved by majority vote of all members elected to
the senate upon a roll call vote

Resolved, that pursuant to and as required by money appropriated in
section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2024 which enacts the aid to
localities, local assistance account for services and expenses of
economic development and community services organizations.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
amounts appropriated herein may be suballocated or transferred between
other agencies, including but not limited to, the department of
economic development with the approval of the temporary president of
the senate and the director of the budget. Notwithstanding section 24
of the state finance law or any provision of law to the contrary,
funds from this appropriation shall be allocated only pursuant to a
plan approved by the temporary president of the senate and the
director of the budget which sets forth either an itemized list of
grantees with the amount to be received by each, or the methodology
for allocating such appropriation, and thereafter included in a senate
resolution calling for the expenditure of such funds, which resolution
must be approved by majority vote of all members elected to the senate
upon a roll call vote, in accordance with the following schedule:

Alliance for Coney Island, Inc
10,000
Brooklyn Alliance, Inc.
25,000
B.L.O.O.M Roc Inc. (Fiscal conduit
Rochester Economic Development Corporation)
10,000
Delaware Engine Company NO 2 of Port Jervis NY
Inc
10,000

Douglaston Local Development Corporation
10,000
Governor's Island Corporation (d.b.a.
Trust for Governors Island)
250,000
Greece Regional Chamber of Commerce, Inc
10,000
Greenwood Lake Theater, Inc
10,000
GymRat CHALLENGE, Inc
125,000
HABNET-Haitian American Business
Network, Inc. A Chamber of Commerce
25,000
HOPE Program, Inc.
25,000
HOPE Program, Inc.
30,000
India Assoc of Catskill Region Inc
10,000
Leadership Orange, Inc.
10,000
Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, Inc
25,000
Mount Hope Chinese Association, Inc.
10,000
Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn District
Management Association, Inc
44,000
Neighborhood Initiatives Development Corporation

20,000
NYSC Connect Corp (Fiscal conduit
Rochester Economic Development
Corporation)
10,000
Orange County Chinese Association Inc
10,000
Orange County Tavern & Restaurant Association
Inc.
10,000
Park Slope Fifth Avenue District Management
Association Inc
10,000
Queens Economic Development Corporation
20,000
REMA 4 US, Inc
10,000
Rockaway Development & Revitalization
Corporation
35,000
Rockaway Development & Revitalization
Corporation
20,000
Sanctuary for Arts-Music-Spirituality, Inc.
10,000
Sunnyside District Management Association
100,000

Urban Resource Institute
10,000
WMCC Foundation, Inc - Westchester
Multicultural Chamber
25,000
Women's Enterprise Development Center, Inc.
20,000
Woodhaven District Management Association, Inc
15,000

Suballocate to the New York State
Council on the Arts:
Picture House Regional Film Center, Inc
25,000
Youth Music & Success Group Incorporated
11,000