Sentences with phrase «authorities budget office»

Environmental groups are calling for an investigation of the board by the state Authorities Budget Office.

But the report by the State Authorities Budget Office, a watchdog over public authorities and public benefit corporations created in 2009, found that the board of the Environmental Facilities Corporation did not exercise sufficient scrutiny of the loan.

SURA is under criticism from the state Authorities Budget Office, which issued a report last week questioning why the agency has 103 employees who work for city departments.

The Authorities Budget Office (ABO) says the 13 authorities have failed to turn over public records, like financial statements, for months.

On Thursday the state's Authorities Budget Office (ABO) said Syracuse should stop using its Urban Renewal Agency (SURA) as a backdoor way of hiring city employees.

Increasing the amount of city money in the account would lessen SURA's reliance on other sources of funding to meet payroll, a concern raised by the Authorities Budget Office, DelVecchio said.

IDAs were established under a 1969 state law and are regulated by the state comptroller and Authorities Budget Office.

IDA staff arrived at that figure by counting employees at company buildings nearby that use the parking ramp, an approach criticized by officials at the Authorities Budget Office.

The loan would come from the state's Environmental Facilities Corporation — an entity monitored by the Authorities Budget Office (ABO).

The grant would have been in addition to at least $ 150 million the state has already provided ORDA over the last decade, according to ORDA's independent audits that are filed with the state Authorities Budget Office.

The report issued by the New York State Authorities Budget Office found that the Administration had violated the state's open meeting law and that the agency charged with overseeing the arrangement has failed to sufficiently scrutinize the deal.

A scathing report from the state's watchdog Authorities Budget Office details how the EFC skirted its responsibilities in considering a $ 511 million loan to the Thruway Authority to help finance the $ 3.9 billion New NY Bridge, as the new span is called.

The state Authorities Budget Office, a relatively young watchdog charged with overseeing such entities, applauded the bill signing as «a significant step forward in reforming the vast and archaic web of public authorities in New York.»

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

I also filed a letter with the New York State Authorities Budget Office asking for a performance audit of the ECWA.

«As a concerned citizen of Erie County, I ask that the New York State Authorities Budget Office conduct a performance audit of the Erie County Water Authority (ECWA) under Title 2 of New York's Public Authorities law,» said Schoeneman in her letter to the ABO.

Source: Office of the New York State Comptroller, New York State Authorities Budget Office, Times Union research

According to information from the New York State Authorities Budget Office, only about a dozen authority board members would be covered by the order under the Cuomo administration's new interpretation — and at least one of them is among those who have donated to the governor.

The environmental groups are calling for an investigation of the board, by the state Authorities Budget Office.

Also at 10 a.m., Assemblyman Sean Ryan will discuss a new report from the state Authorities Budget Office which shows that 44 percent of Industrial Development Agencies across the state did not live up to their job creation promises during the last four years, 936 Delaware Avenue, Suite 5, Buffalo.

Common Cause New York sent a letter to New York State Authorities Budget Office, asking it to probe Lhota, who is registered to lobby on behalf of NYU Hospitals Center.

David Kidera, director of the Authorities Budget Office, said his office conducted the review «in part» to follow up on an article last May in The Post-Standard, which documented the urban renewal agency's continued hiring of workers who have nothing to do with urban renewal.

Common Cause / NY, a good - government group, filed a complaint earlier Wednesday to the state Authorities Budget Office, which oversees the state's public authorities.

The Authorities Budget Office warned Syracuse in a 2009 report that such hiring was declared illegal decades ago in an opinion issued by the state comptroller.

The report by the state Authorities Budget Office also says the city «appears to misuse various grant funds» to pay personnel costs for some employees of the urban renewal agency.

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Around this time every year, the Authorities Budget Office puts out a list of all New York Authorities that have failed to submit some combination of their Annual Report, their Budget Report and their Audit Report.

The State Authorities Budget Office subpoenaed the Partnership this month, seeking copies of the Goshen nonprofit's records dating to November 2011.

The report by the independent Authorities Budget Office says the Cuomo administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction.

«The Authorities Budget Office ought to take it seriously.»

David Kidera of the Independent Authorities Budget Office talks about his job during an interview in July 2010.

These cases of «excessive compensation,» as one Greene County legislator puts it, are testing one of the state's newest agencies — the Independent Authorities Budget Office, which recently got broader enforcement powers.

David Kidera, head of the New York Independent Authorities Budget Office.

The Authorities Budget Office, created about a decade ago, now monitors nearly 600 state and local public authorities, according to its most recent annual report, and posts machine - readable datasets online culled from authority reports.

The Independent Authorities Budget Office that's also investigating what reeks of impropriety in Fulton County didn't exist before that law took effect.

This is the sign that upset some residents and led to a formal complaint being lodged against the center to the Authorities Budget Office.

Executive compensation at some 500 public authorities is the subject of scrutiny by the newly - formed Independent Authorities Budget Office.

With a slew of mandated annual reports due this month, the Authorities Budget Office is out with a list of 139 Public Authorities that have failed to file on time.

Debt accrued by the state's 500 - plus authorities and public corporations has grown by $ 1.2 billion over the last year to nearly $ 42 billion, according to the Authorities Budget Office's annual report.

The state's Authorities Budget Office oversees 568 authorities: 27 percent of them are delinquent in filing their annual reports.

The state Authorities Budget Office recommended that the Saratoga Springs City Center consider adopting a formal policy regarding its marquis after the state received a complaint about the lighted sign advertising an event with former mayoral candidate Mark Baker.

Jeffrey Pearlman, a former chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and before that a top aide to the Senate Democrats, will become the acting director of the Authorities Budget Office.

The loan is coming under sharp criticism from environmental groups, who are urging the Authorities Budget Office to investigate whether the legality of the Environmental Facilities Corp.'s approval process.

Calls are being made for the approval process of loan to be investigated by the Authorities Budget Office.

Horner said reformers» collective wish list includes changes to government contracting, including pay - to - play activities, and greater appropriations for enforcement agencies such as the state Board of Elections, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and the Authorities Budget Office.

Can the MTA, the Comptroller's Office, or the Authorities Budget Office say with a straight face that anyone is going to peruse 13,000 pages of MTA procurement reports one by one, screen by screen, to find a handful that are of interest?

A9941 Chapter 75 Brennan — Relates to the definition of certain covered projects; relates to making certain provisions of the authorities budget office permanent Same as S 6944 GOLDEN

In the meantime, Miner is trying to assure the Authorities Budget Office that federal funds will never be used to meet SURA payroll.

The Authorities Budget Office has the authority to «publically warn and censure authorities for non-compliance» with this

Lerner wrote a letter, dated Nov. 15, to the state's Authorities Budget Office, requesting an investigation into the matter.

Those questions are now part of a formal complaint filed by Reinvent Albany, a good - government group, with the New York State Authorities Budget Office, the subpoena - empowered body charged with watching over the state's dizzying array of quasi-independent authorities.