Operating aid refers to financial support provided to organizations or individuals to help cover their expenses and costs associated with their day-to-day operations. It is like a financial boost that helps them continue their work and function smoothly.
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He said during the budget address that the bond money would be allocated using state formulas that determine distribution of
general operating aid.
Instead of $ 250 million for those grants, they agreed to $ 50 million, freeing up $ 200 million to put back into the
basic operating aid to school districts.
Flanagan defended the overall budget deal, arguing that Republicans were able to secure an extra $ 155 million in state
operating aid for Long Island schools and a tax cut for households earning up to $ 300,000.
Total
state operating aid for the Nassau - Suffolk region would rise to more than $ 2.7 billion next year, according to the state's figures.
The district is also anticipating an additional $ 19.3 million in
operating aid from the state legislature
«A reduction in
operating aid of 2 percent when we're capped on the revenue side is not going to be helpful,» Dragone said.
Established a new aid category called Supplemental Extraordinary Needs Aid (ENA) of $ 136.1 million to provide
additional operating aid for low wealth districts and districts with high need students.
«Despite increases in funding for education over the last two years, upwards of 70 percent of schools have
less operating aid now than in FY 2008 - 09, so class sizes have grown as school districts continue to cut a wide range of educational programming,» said Fahy.
According to data released by the Alliance for Quality Education, the New York State Education Department owes schools across the state $ 5.9 billion in
classroom operating aid.
«But if you take that down, pare it down, take away the categorical and the set - asides and the things that are pre-determined as to how that spending's going to be, you get down to $ 288 million in
flexible operating aid statewide,» Kremer says.
Incentive Operating Aid is available for fourteen years to reorganized school districts, beginning with the first year of operation as a reorganized district.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan for the 2018 - 19 school year, rolled out in his annual budget message on Tuesday, would
raise operating aid in Nassau and Suffolk counties to a total $ 2.86 billion.
Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn school system, noted that his district would lose more than 2 percent in
operating aid next year based on the governor's plan.
Of the funds committed by the state, $ 254 million will go
towards operating aid to fund half of the subway action plan's effort to address system failures, breakdowns, and delays.
That included a hike in day - to -
day operating aid of $ 105.6 million, or 4.2 percent.
An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in
operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.
In last - minute negotiations, lawmakers and Cuomo agreed on how to divide $ 230 million in restorations of
base operating aid for school districts.
NYPTA advocated at the Capitol for a sustainable funding plan for upstate and suburban downstate transit and a multi-year state commitment to transit capital needs and
operating aid growth.
The proposal includes more than $ 819 million in capital assistance and increased
operating aid at community colleges and grant awards under the tuition assistance program (TAP).
Component districts are eligible to receive
BOCES operating aid from New York State on most administrative, capital and program expenditures, subject to certain restrictions.
The proposed to increase tuition at SUNY by $ 500 and CUNY by $ 300 was rejected and additional
operating aid support was provided - $ 93.985 million.
«We have to see how much is going
into operating aid, which is in our foundation aid, and how schools are getting it,» Little said.
In an unusual and controversial move, the New York State Board of Regents has approved a budget proposal that would require school districts to use 1986 - 87 increases in
operating aid solely for the purposes of raising teacher salaries and hiring additional teachers.
States traditionally shy away from
earmarking operating aid for specific purposes, leaving allocation decisions up to local boards of education, according to education - policy analysts.
Kunsthal NORD is a municipal art institution, which functions
with operating aid from Aalborg municipality.
«The Governor is right to prioritize helping high need districts, but we would like see more of the increase for all districts targeted to
general operating aid.»
Of that, $ 155 million came in additional
state operating aid, which was nearly $ 50 million more than Cuomo had proposed in his budget in January 2016.
The groups noted that Syracuse schools received
less operating aid this year than they did in the 2008 - 09 school year, despite increased enrollment.
The group wants the governor and Legislature to allocate $ 1.9 billion in new school aid, including $ 1 billion for
classroom operating aid and $ 225 million for statewide full - day pre-kindergarten.
«We had asked for at least $ 1.5 billion in
flexible operating aid, so hence the statement that what the governor proposes is about one - fifth of what are needs actually are.»
More recently, in March 2006, an appellate court in New York State ordered its elected officials to increase
operating aid for New York City schools by between $ 4.7 and $ 5.63 billion a year and by $ 9.2 billion over five years for capital improvements.
The budget, when it gets passed, is set to include about $ 600 million
in operating aid increases for districts — nearly double what Cuomo proposed in January — and an overall school funding boost of just above $ 1 billion.
«State
operating aid to the MTA last year was $ 4.456 billion, and this year it's $ 4.486 billion — an indisputable fact that shows a $ 30 million increase,» Jon Weinstein a spokesperson for Cuomo told the Voice.
Also, there's an important distinction between building and
operating aid.
Average increases in
operating aid were 2.61 percent in Nassau County, 2.12 percent in Suffolk and 2.15 percent statewide.
Some 20 districts lost at least small amounts of
operating aid, while other systems enjoyed gains of more than 6 or 7 percent.
In 2004, County contributions comprised more than 85 % of the Library's operating and materials budgets with the balance made up of State
operating aid, which has remained relatively stagnant, as well as library fines, fees and related income.
«This would include state monies allocated toward transportation, special education, BOCES services, and general
operating aid.»
Assemblymember Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat and chair of the Committee on Higher Education, said that funds would have been better allocated to
operating aid for CUNY, but did not think there was anything inappropriate about the governor requesting support from members of the system.
Major upstate and Long Island transportation system heads implored state lawmakers and Cuomo to boost by roughly $ 10 million
their operating aid for the coming fiscal year.
Operating aid, which does not include reimbursement for construction and renovation, would increase $ 75.3 million, or 2.8 percent.
County funding of $ 23,943,617, combined with funding from New York State of $ 2,227,239 in
operating aid, use of $ 485,186 in Library fund balance, and $ 894,302 in other library revenue, brings the Library's 2017 proposed operating budget to $ 27,550,344; a modest 1.1 % increase over the 2016 Adopted Budget.
Heastie also reiterated his call to raise taxes on the wealthy and setting a firm schedule to meet a 2006 court order that the state owes New York City schools at least $ 2 billion in
operating aid.
The governor said the state will provide $ 254 million in
operating aid to fully fund its half of the cost using $ 194 million in previously unallocated monetary settlements and the accelerated transfer of Payroll Mobility Tax revenue to the MTA by eliminating the need for the $ 60 million annual appropriation.
Operating aid to individual school districts, including those in Nassau and Suffolk counties, would rise an average 2.3 percent.
Cuomo's office has defended the move, arguing the nearly $ 5 million the MTA paid to ORDA pales in comparison to the $ 6.6 billion the state earmarked in capital and
operating aid to the authority this year.