Sentences with phrase «on member item grants»

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«I have made clear that we should reform the member item system so grants are awarded based on need, not politics.

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.

Skelos says while it's «totally appropriate» that legislature should have input on where and how the funds are distributed, he would not characterize any such grants as member items.

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

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.

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.