Sentences with phrase «public authorities control»

The subsidies appeared on the Public Authorities Control Board's agenda on Wednesday, but was taken off after roughly three hours of discussion between Gov. Andrew Cuomo's aides and Senate staffers, Politico reported.

ALBANY — The state Public Authorities Control Board on Wednesday approved a controversial loan for the Tappan Zee replacement bridge, but not before the amount was cut in half without explanation and officials admitted for the first time there would be a toll hike to pay for the project.

As with all disbursements from public authorities, ESD's actions have to be ratified by the Public Authorities Control Board, where representatives of the governor and leaders of the Senate and Assembly each have veto power.

Also Monday, a state worker testified that the Public Authorities Control Board — of which Silver was a member — gave more than $ 1 billion worth of state funding to Glenwood between 2000 and 2014.

An obscure panel called the Public Authorities Control Board gives majority legislators the ability to veto their selections, otherwise the money is then spent or reimbursed.

A $ 38.5 million state grant to help SUNY Polytechnic Institute stabilize its finances was approved Monday by the Public Authorities Control Board after two previous attempts had failed.

The three - member Public Authorities Control Board, which included Cuomo's budget director and a proxy for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, voted unanimously to approve the loan.

The state had attributed the previous layoffs to a cash - flow issue and appeared to address it in May when the Public Authorities Control Board approved $ 485.5 million in spending for the governor's Buffalo Billion initiative, but a spokesperson for the comptroller said when they received a request for $ 154 million in payments for the RiverBend project last Wednesday, there were a lot of unanswered questions.

The meeting of the Public Authorities Control Board, which usually meets in out - of - the - way rooms in the Capitol and draws only a handful of mild - mannered observers in pinstripe suits, met in a large convention room yesterday, and drew hundreds of angry union members, some in hard hats, who noisily called for the stadium and jeered its opponents.

The memo was written on Nov. 27 to state budget director Robert Mujica Jr., who is chair of the state Public Authorities Control Board.

The three voting members of the Public Authorities Control Board must unanimously approve the loan, which has been criticized as a violation of state and federal law by state and local legislators as well as the Environmental Protection Agency.

«I think the Public Authorities Control Board would be completely within reason to hit «pause» and demand further disclosure and oversight,» said Ken Girardin, communications and marketing manager at the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank.

• The fate of Atlantic Yards now rests with State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, who controls one of three votes on the Public Authorities Control Board, which requires unanimity to pass a project — and he boasts an impressive megaproject kill ratio, having already done in the West Side stadium and put the brakes on Moynihan Station.

The three member board, known as the Public Authorities Control Board, includes a representative from the Cuomo Administration, and the majority parties in each house of the legislature.

The Public Authorities Control Board voted unanimously to authorize sending $ 78 million to the Rochester photonics institute, freeing up the money for equipment and licensing agreements.

On May 25th, the Public Authorities Control Board will vote to release $ 485m in state funds to the Solar City Riverbend factory.

Today, the Public Authorities Control Board failed to do its job, which is to hold state agencies accountable before approving huge sums of taxpayer funds.

DASNY says that the report must be provided to the Public Authorities Control Board before any construction happens.

A $ 38.5 million state grant to help SUNY Polytechnic Institute stabilize its finances was approved by the Public Authorities Control Board after two previous attempts had failed.

On Wednesday, the state Public Authorities Control Board approved an additional $ 485.5 million in spending for a cornerstone Buffalo Billion project at the RiverBend site, home to a SolarCity plant.

«Every dollar for these projects is approved through the budget process and has to go through the Public Authorities Control Board — a member of which Kolb appoints,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

But before the loan can be executed, it must be approved by the three - member state Public Authorities Control Board.

Dubbed the Hurricane Emergency Loan Program, the fund would draw from the Drinking Water and Clean Water Revolving Funds, the proposal must still be approved by the Public Authorities Control Board on Sept. 21.

But the loan request was halved at the Public Authorities Control Board meeting last month by the panel's three members: Senate Finance Chairman John DeFrancisco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget director Bob Megna and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Sen. Pat Gallivan, a Western New York Republican, said he'd like to see state funding for SolarCity's factory released next week by the Public Authorities Control Board, which postponed a vote on the appropriation amid legislative concerns.

The Public Authorities Control Board has approved a $ 256 million loan from a sewer revolving fund to help finance the replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

The suit, filed in state Supreme Court in Albany, comes after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied the broad majority of the loan — $ 482 million — which state officials at the Public Authorities Control Board and later the Thruway Authority had approved over the summer.

Senate Republicans granted at least one of the de Blasio administration's wishes: it joined with Assembly Democrats in rejecting a Cuomo proposal to subject bonds for housing to approval by the state's Public Authorities Control Board, a maneuver that would have given Albany veto power over a significant slice of the city's housing program.

Levy also testified that Silver was on the Public Authorities Control Board when Levy was chairman of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., which was asking the PACB for money for projects.

Earlier today, the Public Authorities Control Board approved a $ 15 million state grant that will help NexGen retrofit the DeWitt factory and purchase equipment.

He controls one of the three votes on the Public Authorities Control Board, which needs to approve the project unanimously.

While there was much opposition to the proposal, the mayor failed to persuade the one who arguably mattered most — Silver, who sat on the state's Public Authorities Control Board, along with Gov. George Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.

The Public Authorities Control Board, made up of one appointee each from the Governor and legislative leaders, would have the ability to veto individual affordable housing projects.

The Public Authorities Control Board, a three - person panel representing the governor and state Senate and Assembly leaders, approved the $ 15 million loan earlier this year.

Seeding Atlantic Yards (2005): As Brooklyn residents get their knickers in a twist, the Public Authorities Control Board approves $ 200 million in public seed money for Atlantic Yards — without officially counting how many Brooklyn lawmakers support seventeen - tower cluster around a Frank Gehry arena.

«We could be two years into working through a project... and at the last minute the Public Authorities Control Board, one member, could say, «I don't approve that project,»» Been said, referring to the proposed new approval process for using the housing bonds.

If Cuomo's plan were to go through, every project funded through these bonds would need to be cleared by the Public Authorities Control Board, a three - member body that needs unanimous approval for all votes.

Extinguishing the Olympic torch (2005): The murky Public Authorities Control Board, on which Silver casts a critical vote, preempts debate over the Olympics» citywide benefits by refusing to approve a stadium on the Hudson Yards site.

«We are certain that you are aware of the public approvals of the first tranche of the overall loan commitment, including the unanimous votes of the Empire State Development Board and the Public Authorities Control Board, in favor of funding the first $ 15 million of the state commitment loan,» he wrote.

State Senator Bill Perkins, one of five members of the Public Authorities Control Board that is scheduled to take up the Tappan Zee loan at its meeting on Wednesday, sent a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday afternoon asking him to withdraw his proposal for the loan, arguing that it violates state and federal law.

And the state's Public Authorities Control Board (PACB) approved only a $ 15 million loan at its Jan. 28 meeting.

That would have allowed development of the land to skip zoning requirements, environmental reviews and approvals from the state Public Authorities Control Board.

And its leaders are represented on the Public Authorities Control Board, which approves individual projects like the SolarCity plant months after a state budget is approved.

The about face was confirmed Thursday in the mumbles of a lawyer for the Empire State Development corporation and in a memo from that agency's president, Howard Zemsky, to the members of the Public Authorities Control Board.

To give the Legislature a say in the spending, all authority appropriations must be unanimously approved by the Public Authorities Control Board.

Mr. Cuomo's budget proposes forcing all projects receiving such funding to get the approval of the Public Authorities Control Board — the three voting members of which are himself, Mr. Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — before going forward.

Klopott said state legislation requires that the report be given to the Public Authorities Control Board before the new facility is built.

S7697: DEFRANCISCO — Relates to project applications and advisory opinions of the public authorities control board

Yet perhaps the administration will not be so contemptuous or evasive when it goes Wednesday before the state's Public Authorities Control Board, which will consider whether the Environmental Facilities Corp. should loan more than a half - billion dollars to the Thruway Authority.

Although the ESD board has previously approved the $ 15 million grant to SUNY Poly for the NexGen project, the state's Public Authorities Control Board pulled the item from the agenda of its Feb. 16 meeting due to concerns raised by DeFrancisco.