Sentences with phrase «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 2008, the speaker directed a further $ 25,000 discretionary member item grant to a not - for - profit where the doctor was a board member, according to the complaint.

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.

He's drawn support from some, and recently doled out a number of member item grants to fund community groups and projects.

He proposed combining that with a ban on member item grants to groups that have made any political contributions, and dubbed those provisions «Ceretto's Law,» although Ceretto made his grants only to municipalities and school districts, not to donors.

Part of the money was taxpayer - funded member item grants directed to the charities by Diaz Sr., who has not been implicated in this case.

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.

Council Member Maria Baez allocated discretionary funds to a nonprofit that the city had already disqualified from receiving larger member item grants from Baez, according to the New York Post.

The commission had also checked into at least one other health care non-profit that received legislative member item grants in Brooklyn, the person said.

Ceretto's member item grants last year included $ 500,000 to the City of Niagara Falls for a new fire training tower and another $ 125,000 to repair frozen water pipes on 72nd Street.

Libraries are counting on member item grants to fill in holes left by a $ 2.4 million cut in general aid to libraries in New York, she said.

But he says there are around 130 member item grants that have been repurposed for a new organization, using an old line of funding.

Lynam says at best, the origins and actual circumstances of many of the member item grants are murky.

The member items grants have gained a bad reputation over the years, for allocations considered frivolous, like a member item to install a cheese museum, and for links to fraud.

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.