Sentences with phrase «of member item grants»

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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.

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.

The rules regarding the allocation of member - item grants were well - known.

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.

Hikind's relationship with Maimonides Medical Center had drawn the interest of the Moreland panel's investigators last year, triggering an investigation of Hikind's community project grants, also known as member items.

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

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

But much of the attention was on member items, also called pork - barrel 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.

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.

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.

His «nice» list reads much like a bunch of member - item grants — cash doled out for reasons of political connections, not policy principles.

Much of the testimony by Victor E. Franco, a New York State Assembly staff member, focused on the budgetary process and Mr. Silver's power to approve discretionary funding, known as member items, like Health Department grants.

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.