Sentences with phrase «by member item grants»
Those accounts were partially funded by member item grants administered through the Empire State Development Corporation and the Office of Children and Family Services, which were intended to provide educational and recreational opportunities to children and senior citizens in the Bronx.
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There was a short - lived law passed in 1996 that granted President Clinton the power to «line - item veto», or only reject certain parts of bill he didn't want to pass (interestingly it was introduced by members of the rival party).
With the City Council's 2010 fiscal budget, Councilman Eric Gioia (D - Sunnyside) trailed the pack in member item funding, though his office said the councilman made up for some of that by seeking private grants for constituent groups.
Furthermore, our legislators play favorites to some groups by using «member items,» which are nothing more than legalized bribes, to grant money to for specific voter groups in their home districts.
Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.
The grants, known as «member items,» are seen by many as pork - barrel spending, tools elected officials use to repay political supporters.
But the bulk of the veto stack was taken up by $ 193 million in member items, the grants beloved of legislators and derided by good government groups as grade - A pork.
Much of the testimony by Victor E. Franco, a New York State Assembly staff member, focused on the budgetary process and Mr. Silver's power to approve discretionary funding, known as member items, like Health Department grants.
The 17 - member group, financed by a $ 572,000 grant to the council from the Education Department and the National Science Foundation, will recommend to those agencies by next spring what items should be included in the assessment and ways the results should be reported.