Not exact matches
Still, a handful of budget bills have
gone to print, including amended
spending proposals for the public - protection and general government
spending, as well as transportation and
economic development spending.
The Assembly would
go beyond that, requiring Cuomo to create a public, searchable database of all aspects of
economic development spending, including by nonprofit entities created by the state, such as the controversial Fort Schuyler Management Corp..
With just three weeks to
go until the April 1 budget deadline, Cuomo revealed granular details of his $ 10 billion
spending plan for upstate, which includes two
economic development competitions that would award approximately $ 90 million apiece to the 10 regions of the state.
«This is a very short trip, I'm literally there for just about a day, and we're
going to do
economic development meetings, and I won't have an opportunity to do anything much more than that,» he said, saying he would
spend the trip conferring with Israeli government ministers.
So far, the governor has detailed plans to
spend $ 3.3 billion: $ 1.5 billion will be doled out in a competition to spur
economic development in three upstate regions; $ 1.3 billion will
go to the Thruway Authority to help prevent toll hikes and offset the cost of building the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge; and $ 500 million will be used to build out broadband internet infrastructure in remote areas.