Sentences with phrase «regional economic development council»

ALBANY — New York City's regional economic development council is entering a fourth competition for state funding with no designated chairs, people on the council said, leaving state officials to steer the ship as a key deadline for applications approaches.

Despite the challenges, the comptroller said the North Country has much to be optimistic about, including regional economic development council efforts, the $ 10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative for the City of Plattsburgh and $ 125 million state investment into Norsk Titanium, which the governor touted in a visit just days before.

Cuomo's office announced that the annual regional economic development council awards ceremony will be held in Albany Wednesday.

After a year without any formal co-chairs, Fisher Brothers» partner Winston Fisher took the reins of New York City's regional economic development council.

In the 2011 round of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's regional economic development council awards, the Albany Industrial Development Authority was granted $ 5.4 million in low - cost financing, and the Department of Homes and Community Renewal authorized $ 2.4 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits.

Under his leadership, said the governor, the region has seen the most direct investment in the state's history, some $ 25 billion, including nearly a third of a billion to the North Country through the regional economic development council program.

A November report issued by the governor's New York City regional economic development council had called for a «modern convention center in Queens,» but the Bloomberg administration only found out about the proposed location, Aqueduct racetrack in Ozone Park, from the newspapers, according to an administration source, further underscoring the distance between the two chief executives.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy was sanguine today in his assessment of the competitive regional economic development council process, saying the job - creation plans are just the start of an ongoing process.

«The others are part of a ground - up, regionally driven process with clear standards and unprecedented transparency,» he added, referring to a regional economic development council process.

In addition, the region will receive funding under the governor's regional economic development council program.

Albany, N.Y. — Central New York is the top winner in the latest round of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's regional economic development council awards, garnering $ 86.4 million in state grants and tax credits for development projects.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner praised the Central New York regional economic development council's victory on Thursday, which secured $ 500 million over the next several years.

Cuomo's regional economic development council process has directed $ 628.74 for each North Country resident, but just $ 20.99 for each New York City resident, in the last three years.

Now, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is demanding answers as she tries to figure out how the local regional economic development council is spending that taxpayer cash.

At 7 p.m., Assemblywoman Pat Fahy holds a «community conversation» about 2016 legislative priorities, the Capital Region's recent regional economic development council grant and more, Bethlehem Public Library, 451 Delaware Ave., Delmar.

«Once again, extreme weather came to New York and once again New Yorkers came together to help our neighbors in their time of need,» Cuomo said in a press release, (issued smack in the middle of the regional economic development council awards ceremony).

Mujica also blasted the effort to have the regional economic development council members disclose their business interests, calling it «absurd and a not so subtle effort to end the REDCs.»

He knows the Wegman family, and installed company CEO Danny Wegman as the co-chair of a regional economic development council in the Finger Lakes.

The seven regions that were not winners in the Upstate Revitalization Initiative or were not eligible to compete in it will still receive funding ranging from $ 83.9 million to $ 100.3 million in 2016 under Cuomo's regional economic development council program.

Syracuse, N.Y. — An Internet marketing firm that wants to consolidate its expanding workforce into a single downtown Syracuse building is among 45 applicants seeking state financial assistance in the latest round of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's regional economic development council initiative.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's regional economic development council initiative started in 2011, and in the first year, the central New York area, includ...

No local officials hesitated when the governor offered Buffalo $ 1 billion, said Howard Zemsky, a developer who chairs the governor's regional economic development council for Western New York.

-- The $ 130 million for the governor's regional economic development council's is IN, but it won't be taken from the Legislature's unspent member items.

Meanwhile, an existing state venture fund, known as Innovate NY, is the subject of a federal audit focused on a firm whose managing director served on Cuomo's 2010 gubernatorial transition team and on a regional economic development council.

«It took me doubly by surprise since I'm a member of the regional economic development council,» DeFrancisco said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo then handed out the awards himself, as each regional economic development council took their turn on stage and were congratulated.

«Thanks to the efforts of our regional economic development council, central New York is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation and revitalization,» Cuomo said in a statement.

This funding, awarded through the regional economic development council process, allows tourism assets across the state to make necessary brick - and - mortar improvements and deploy innovative marketing campaigns to increase visitors.

At issue, though, is Duffy leading Gov. Andrew Cuomo's regional economic development councils which provide packaged state grants and credits to businesses.

The multiple standing ovations Duffy received at the Egg Theater underscored his popularity with both Cuomo staffers as well as the state's business community, who he has worked closely with as the chairman of the regional economic development councils.

What are you going to do about things like where you have people on regional economic development councils who have to disclose nothing, but may also have a pecuniary answer to what goes on.»

New York's 10 regional economic development councils will compete for more than $ 800 million in state economic development aid in the latest round of an initiative launched by Cuomo six years ago.

But this year, lawmakers are also trying to push Cuomo to accept some ethics laws regulating his office, including a measure that is designed to require those who serve on the governor's regional economic development councils to disclose * their * outside income.

Through his annual awards to regional economic development councils, Cuomo has also approved state grants of about $ 4 million to COR to demolish the former Kennedy Square housing project in Syracuse and about $ 4 million to COR to redevelop the former Mercy Hospital site in Watertown.

At stake is more than $ 800 million in funding that will be divvied up among regional economic development councils around the state, with some getting much large pieces of the pie than others.

Western New York is getting $ 62 million for approved projects in the latest round of state spending from the regional economic development councils.

But the governor called out the region's legislators for wanting to shift control of state economic development funding away from the regional economic development councils that Cuomo created and put the money back in the hands of the Senate and Assembly for them to dole out individually.

Communities impacted by prison closures would be eligible to receive assistance from the regional economic development councils via a $ 100 million fund to, as the budget briefing book puts it, help them «end their reliance on incarceration as a major source of employment and economic sustainability.»

But lawmakers who support increasing oversight for the governor's pet projects like the START - UP NY program and the regional economic development councils in recent days have been more assertive, saying they can act on their own on the oversight issues, even with a potential veto by Cuomo.

Last summer, when Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the creation of ten new regional economic development councils, his emphasis was on competition.

Cuomo's regional economic development councils, which have helped him spend $ 4.6 billion since 2011, are also ripe for change, lawmakers say.

«We're not well represented on the regional economic development councils,» White observed.

But Cuomo has almost militantly rejected the idea that this money should go to localities instead of being funneled through regional economic development councils that the governor controls.

We support an additional $ 150 million in capital funding and $ 70 million in Excelsior Job tax credits to be disbursed through the ten regional economic development councils (extending current state support levels.)

Awards of $ 10 million will likely be announced this summer to one municipality represented by each of the state's 10 regional economic development councils.

She says, for example, Democrats would like to work with Governer Cuomo to continue his regional economic development councils that receive grants for local job creation projects.

The Adirondacks fall within three different regional economic development councils: Most of the region is covered by the North Country council, a portion falls within the Mohawk Valley council and nearly a quarter of the park is represented by the Capital Region council, which is where Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties reside.

The three regional economic development councils that touch the park were named «top performers» in 2013, funneling millions of dollars for economic development and infrastructure projects within the Blue Line.

The governor is funneling the money through the 10 regional economic development councils he appointed around the state, which he says have forged greater regional cooperation and ensured state investments are in sync with the priorities of local machers.

The Senate Republicans» budget plan also requires greater disclosure from Cuomo's regional economic development councils.