Sentences with phrase «in member item grants»

Schneiderman's office says the vast majority of funding for Christian Community In Action received tens of millions of dollars from the Medicaid program, while the Christian Community Benevolent Association received about $ 495,000 in member item grants.

Not exact matches

Franco also said Silver could unilaterally steer state money to Taub, the cancer doctor, using the controversial member - item process in which many lawmakers legally dole out grants to favorite causes.

«Member items,» in Albany language, are pay - as - you - go cash grants that legislators pass out as they please.

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.

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.

The focus on Tuesday, at least for some Council members, is what they were able to bring home for their districts in the form of member items — the body's discretionary funding grants it sends to local nonprofit organizations.

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.

* In the third case, the Empire Center argues the City Council violated state law when it failed to comply with a March 1, 2010 FOIL request for information about the Council's «discretionary» funding, also known as initiative - based or member - item grants.

In the past the pots of money were shared between the governor and legislature, many ended up as member item grants.

In April, Malcolm Smith and Democratic Senate leadership angered recently defected Bronx senator Pedro Espada when they refused to grant him member items for a couple of sketchy nonprofits that had ties to him.

For Paterson, a tumultuous week in Albany ended as he and several staffers wrapped up the final 2,000 or so line - item vetoes of $ 500 million in legislative spending contained in budget bills passed earlier this week, plus $ 193 million in member - item grants.

Marinello vowed a fairer process in distributing discretionary grants, called member items, if he is elected to the 145th Assembly District seat.

Other grants were given out in the form of member items, to projects in favored lawmakers» districts.

Paterson rejected nearly $ 200 million in member items, including $ 5,000 grants promised to Central New York non-profit groups like the Onondaga Oswego Chapter of the Red Cross and the North Syracuse Babe Ruth League, and bigger amounts for Syracuse University, the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club, the Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Jubilee Homes and several libraries and schools.

Mr. Paterson announced that he would veto the grants after lawmakers set aside parts of his budget and passed their own version this week, restoring hundreds of millions of dollars in school and health spending along with the member item money.

In the complaint, Silver is accused of awarding two discretionary grants, better known as «member items,» totaling $ 500,000 to a center that did research on an illness related to asbestos exposure.

Huntley, who created the sham nonprofit and earmarked a member item grant to the entity, was charged with falsifying evidence in an attempt to obstruct the investigation into this theft.

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.

Most conspicuously, while there is a list of grants on the Dormitory Authority's web site, it doesn't list who in the Legislature asked for each grant, one of the key mysteries of the old member items program that kept New Yorkers from readily connecting the dots of conflicts of interest, or worse.

The first tier contains items that many young scientists would expect from their supervisors: mentoring; communication; setting a direction and vision for the research group; providing opportunities to network with other scientists; providing funding for postdocs» research or giving them significant help in obtaining their own grants; training; creating a work culture and environment that encourages individuals to treat everybody with respect and encourages collaboration; creating an ambience that keeps group members satisfied and attracts talented scientists to the group; and offering postdocs opportunities to explore options for their careers once their fellowships have ended.

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.