Sentences with phrase «local development corporations»

Brodsky says once the loophole allowing local development corporations to negotiate contracts was eliminated, new ways were created, like using the private not for profits Fort Schuyler and Fuller Road to award contracts.

The Economic Development Council is a non-governmental entity that represents officials and local industrial development agencies, local development corporations and investment banks.

DiNapoli has been critical of the use of local development corporations.

CSEA, which represents public nursing home workers throughout the state, has publicly argued that local development corporations should not be used to allow municipalities to skirt regulations designed to protect taxpayers or to avoid public scrutiny or opposition to the sale of publicly owned nursing homes.

New York's extensive system of Industrial Development Agencies and Local Development Corporations is rife with overlapping boundaries and a lack of transparency that is crying for an overhaul, according to a study to be released today by the Citizens Budget Commission spending watchdog group.

The ABO, which oversees the entities like authorities, public corporations and local development corporations, found that of the organizations that are yet to file, 90 are not - for - profit corporations while 28 are local public authorities.

Cuomo signed legislation on Friday allowing Monroe County to dissolve three local development corporations.

«This agreement will bring greater transparency, and ensure accountability for these and other local development corporations operating in New York State.»

Influencing legislation is barred by statute for local development corporations.

(To complicate matters, or perhaps to reinforce the comparison: some nonprofits — like local development corporations, or LDCs — are also public authorities.)

«Through our joint task force with the Attorney General's office, our auditors and investigators were able to reveal these hidden abuses through not one, but two, local development corporations.

Four people formerly connected to area local development corporations were arraigned on multiple charges in State Supreme Court.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — In a rare agreement Friday between Monroe County Legislature Republicans and Democrats, they voted unanimously to take a step toward dissolving local development corporations, but not everyone's happy with how the issue came up in the first place.

· The controversy over Local Development Corporations..

She says the Dinolfo administration has embraced ideas that Democrats pushed for including the dissolution of Local Development Corporations and adding to the Human Services Department.

They were all charged with a scheme to rig the bidding process for public works contracts for two LDCs, or Local Development Corporations.

Paterson quickly signed five pieces of legislation on his first day in office: to add the New York State Department of Labor to the New York City Transit Track Safety Task Force; to eliminate a law that discouraged employers from holding blood drives; to change the way in which members are appointed to a state health and research board; to restore eligibility caps to certain senior employment programs; and to grant tax exemptions to several local development corporations in New York State.

On Connections with Evan Dawson, Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks defended the practice of county government using Local Development Corporations, or LDCs, to handle projects.

Dinolfo has said one complicating factor has been the move away from the county using Local Development Corporations.

Brodsky says once the loophole allowing local development corporations to negotiate contracts was eliminated, new ways were created, like using the private not - for - profits Fort Schuyler and Fuller Road to award contracts.

He sat on the Board of Directors for the South Carolina Aquarium from 2010 - 2015, and acts as past chair of the Local Development Corporation — a privately funded micro-lending agency that provides gap loans to small local businesses.

The East New York Restoration Local Development Corporation (ENYRLDC) was formed to administer the funds from the CBA.

The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has ruled that the Orange County Legislature was wrong when it voted by a simple majority to create a local development corporation to sell the county's Valley View nursing home.

Several projects are to receive low - cost and tax - exempt financing through Westchester County's Local Development Corporation to help for a continuing care facility, expansion of a surgical suite, reno

Praised is the recent decision to create a Local Development Corporation (LDC) which will eventually sell the hospital and nursing home at Summit Park.

To be fair, city officials and reps from the quasi-public Albany Local Development Corporation (ALDC) repeatedly reassured everyone that eminent domain would be used only sparingly — if at all.

In the East New York south and east cluster, a team led by MHANY Management and Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation will construct nine buildings with 36 units on 10 lots.

DiNAPOLI: ACTIONS OF RAMAPO TOWN OFFICIALS HIGHLIGHT NEED FOR LDC REFORM Press Release from NYS Comptroller's Office Ramapo town officials took a risky approach to financing a minor league stadium through the Ramapo Local Development Corporation (RLDC), according to an audit released Wednesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

PLATTSBURGH The Lake City Local Development Corporation (LCLDC) has been resurrected after years of dormancy.

The agreement would also dissolve a local development corporation, the Greater Rochester Outdoor Sports Facilities Corporation.

Donaldson opposed a resolution the transferred the property from the county to the Kingston Local Development Corporation, a move that allowed county officials to skirt requirements for an open competitive bidding process for the site.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Daniel Lynch, the fourth man charged in the Local Development Corporation bid - rigging scandal, accepted a deal Tuesday morning and pleaded guilty.

Rather, he went with the legislature «dragging its feet» on the establishment of a board of directors for a local development corporation (LDC) to sell Golden Hill.

Annual meetings of the Cortland County Agriculture Local Development Corporation, Business Development

The nearly $ 2 million in earnings will come from the sale of hydropower that in 2012 was made available to the town of Massena to allocate to businesses in consultation with local economic development organizations, including the St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency and the St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency Local Development Corporation.

Beckman will focus his considerable talents on getting the Golden Hill Local Development Corporation up and running.

He and Aaron Troodler, former executive director of the Ramapo Local Development Corporation, are facing charges of federal securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy in connection to the Pomona ball park.

In the wake of the verdict against St. Lawrence, State Senator David Carlucci is calling for local development corporation reform.

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Saranac Lake Local Development Corporation, $ 300,000: Funds to be used to renovate downtown mixed - use buildings.

«The New York City Economic Development Corporation intends to undertake a restructuring, the primary effect of which will be to allow the company to remain a not - for - profit corporation, but to cease to be a local development corporation,» Patrick Muncie, an EDC spokesman, said in a statement.

The agreement includes mandatory compliance training for local development corporation employees, more public disclosure of interaction between these corporations and reminders that it is illegal to lobby the Council regarding development projects, even indirectly.

In today's letter, Mahoney accused Miner of reneging on an agreement not to form a local development corporation to compete with the Onondaga Civic Development Corp., which pays the rent for the joint economic development office out of fees it charges.

Miller was also previously the Project Director for the Downtown Jamaica Cultural District and a Community Organizer for the Laurelton Local Development Corporation.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today announced a settlement with the city's Economic Development Corporation, Flushing - Willets Point - Corona Local Development Corporation and the Coney Island Development Corporation.

The EDC will be restructuring to remove the organization's local development corporation status to avoid further violations.

Several arrests have been made in concert with the FBI, including Town of Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and Aaron Troodler, who headed the LDC (local development corporation) that spent millions to build a minor league ballpark the taxpayers rejected in a public referendum.

The Department of Youth and Community Development said it received $ 300,000 from the West Harlem Local Development Corporation to hire 220 Harlem kids for a summer jobs program.

US Rep Charles Rangel said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would be «derelict» if he didn't look into accusations against the West Harlem Local Development Corporation.