Sentences with phrase «of member item funds»

If the Assembly and Senate don't address the FMAP problem, Paterson threatened, he will not only veto their $ 519 million (about $ 419 million of which is education spending), but also the $ 193 million worth of member item funding that as reappropriated from last year.

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-LRB-... The DN calls on de Blasio to use his mayoral powers to abolish the Council practice of dividing up some $ 400 million annually in so - called member items...) ************* Don't see de Blasio using up political chips to try to end the member - item slush fund.

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.

So firm was Lopez's hold on his Democrat - dominated borough that elected officials and would - be elected officials alike would routinely make the pilgrimage to the taxpayer - funded Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Center picnic he threw every year, and those with the power to do so approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of NYC and state member items that the assemblyman used to build his senior services empire.

The State and Municipal Facilities Aid slush fund apparently isn't subject to the added disclosure and accountability guidelines applied to standard pork barrel «member items» at the recommendation of then - Attorney General Cuomo in 2008.

(While member item funding dried up in 2009, lawmakers have once again inserted hundreds of line items worth millions of dollars into the aid to localities bill, which has now cleared both houses of the Legislature.

The 3rd one is aimed at the city council for failing to release a list of their member items, known as «discretionary funding».

In recent days, Heastie's use of his campaign funds, his donations and steering of member items to contributors have come under the magnifying glass as Assembly Democrats coalesce around his election as speaker.

Tedisco's bill requires all member items, discretionary funds, and so - called «lump sum payments», which are controlled by the Speaker of the Assembly, Senate Majority Leader and Governor and negotiated in many instances behind closed doors, be made public and fully transparent within the state budget.

The slush fund scandal indicates to Mr. Lander that «we don't have a vital local democracy,» and sees the scandal as a function of a system whereby the City Council focuses a great deal of energy and attention to the 1 % of the City budget that is allocated to Member items.

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.

Gov. David Paterson began the policy of removing new member items from the state budget, and Cuomo has continued that push by now allowing new earmarked spending (Though old member items remain in the spending plan for as long as they are funded).

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.

David Paterson vetoed hundreds of member items in 2010, essentially stopping the funding streams.

Around a fifth of the discretionary fund is set aside for so - called «member items,» projects sponsored by individual Council members.

Included in the massive list of «member items» — funds individual council members dole out to non-profits — is a $ 5,000 allocation to Angeldocs, whose city funds are under examination by the city Health Department.

A nonprofit funded with hundreds of thousands of dollars secured by state Sen. Adriano Espaillat through legislative «member items» quietly wound down last year and threw its four paid staffers out of work.

Two months before they take office — and a week before they are even officially elected — gay Democratic nominees like Corey Johnson of Chelsea, Brooklyn's Carlos Menchaca, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx joined their future colleagues, led by Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander, to present a proposal that would «take the politics out of member Items» by allocating discretionary funding for Council districts on a «fair and objective basis.»

Then, several days later, the 51 members are given their allocations for discretionary funding known as «member items,» a roughly $ 50 million pot of cash for local nonprofits, including churches, little leagues and senior programs.

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.

Eric Stevenson, a first - term state senator representing East Tremont and other neighborhoods in the south Bronx, said he'd planned to give his expected $ 100,000 in member item money to local tutoring and after - school programs and a cash - strapped little league, some of the same organizations that his predecessor, Michael Benjamin, had funded over the years.

Cabrera has slammed Rivera for what he claims is a failure to bring capital funds for schools and playgrounds back to the district, even though state legislators don't receive the individualized disbursements of public cash (often called member items) that Council members do.

«When the Senator says legislators «should play a critical and pivotal role» in the distribution of funds, that's code for going back to the days of member items and pork barrel spending that were the vestiges of the old Albany,» he said.

That's almost exactly two years after McLaughlin pleaded guilty to stealing $ 2.2 million in cash, carks and perks — both as a state lawmaker (he even bilked a little league team out of taxpayer - funded member item money) and as president of the New York City Central Labor Council.

«When the Senator says legislators «should play a critical and pivotal role» in the distribution of funds, that's code for going back to the days of member items and pork barrel spending that were the vestiges of the old Albany.

Despite rules supposedly banishing «member items,» discretionary funds are still flowing into home districts of rank - and - file members who play their...

The hospital received a $ 2,000 member item as recently as 2013 administered by the state Department of Health, part of more than $ 13.6 million in state funding flowing to the medical center since 2009, according to public records.

The funds Gardner is accused of stealing came at least partially from state legislative earmarks, so - called member item funds, administered by the Empire State Development Corporation and the state Office of Children and Family Services.

Senate leader John Sampson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver have agreed on the plan, but Sampson may not have the votes; Governor Paterson may use his line - item veto to strip it of member items (earmarks), millions in restored school aid, and any spending he doesn't think we can afford; and it may be anywhere from $ 200 million to $ 1.5 billion short of closing the budget gap, depending on whether Congress comes through with $ 1 billion in Medicaid funds.

The report even lauds the current administration for its changes to the system of «member item» pork distribution, for which the governor has basically choked off funds.

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

Governor Cuomo has vetoed over half a million dollars of legislative member items, saying he's following through on a promise to ban the funds, which have been used in the past to finance lawmakers» pet projects.

For the first time, each council member generally received the same amount of money to distribute, a change from the past when some accused former Speaker Christine Quinn of using discretionary funds — known as «member items» — as a tool to punish members deemed disloyal...

Quinn's critics have regularly accused her of using the process of doling out member items to reward friends and supporters, while cutting back funds to her enemies, regardless of overall needs in individual members» districts.

«If they do not find a contingency way to address Medicaid... I will veto every single appropriation — all 518 of them — and 6,800 programs that they fund for $ 193 million, more commonly known as member items.

Liz Benjamin writes that «it's a bit ironic that Huntley, who is reportedly being investigated by the AG's office for her ties to non-profits to which she has directed thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer - funded member items, has introduced a bill intended to tighten up practices at non-profits.»

«The speaker is going to be interested in gaining the support of the Council and may take that into consideration of her funding of member items,» said Rachael Fauss, a policy expert at Citizens Union, which authored the group's report.

In 2012, the complaint alleges that Doctor - 1 asked Silver for help in finding a family member a job with a nonprofit organization that «received millions of dollars in member items and capital funding from Silver.»

«The Council is taking the politics out of member items once and for all by implementing a new system to distribute funding equally while providing additional resources to support lower income communities,» Mark - Viverito told reporters.

Conflicts of interest: The commission is looking into potential conflicts of interest between legislators» official duties and outside jobs and their designation of member items and other discretionary funding.

Thirty members of the caucus signed onto the reforms last year, citing the need to amend the council's non-existing formula to distribute discretionary funding, known as member items.

Several members said privately that once their top priorities were funded, they did not fear risking leverage over additional cash for some of their key items by rushing to the agreement Wednesday.

The Borough President's report notes that the adoption of a uniform, across - the - board distribution of member items would have given added funding to 32 districts across the city.

Laurie Cumbo Cumbo, the incumbent, was moved to run for office in 2013 after criticizing the state ending allocation of member items, or funds that state Senate senators and Assembly members got to dole out to nonprofit organizations, like the one she founded.

Expenses of the Community Projects Fund may be lower than projected in 2010 - 11 as a result of Governor Paterson's vetoes of member - item reappropriations.

As part of their Joint Task Force on Public Integrity, the Offices of the Attorney General and State Comptroller previously indicted then - Senator Huntley and three individuals associated with the Parent Workshop, Inc., a nonprofit set up by former Senator Huntley that funneled member item funds intended to benefit the public to the senator's aide and to the senator's niece.

The indictment charges Patricia Savage, president of Parent Workshop and former Senator Huntley's aide, and Lynn Smith, the treasurer of Parent Workshop and Huntley's niece, of engaging in a fraudulent scheme to steal member item funds.

While it was first funded as part of the 2013 - 14 state budget, lawmakers are just now offering details about the earmarking process — which in its previous iteration, called member items, went away in 2010.

The defendants falsely claimed that Parent Workshop would use member item funds secured by Huntley to hold workshops for and conduct outreach to parents on the workings of the New York City public school system.

Katz also said she will advocate for transparency in how the City Council doles out member items, but stopped short of saying competitive bidding among community groups for the controversial funding is the answer — as some of her opponents have suggested.