Sentences with phrase «start economic development programs»

«I support what I call jump start economic development programs around the state.

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Across the country, economic and workforce development programs are starting to offer courses in coding and basic programming to retrain displaced workers.

Hillsborough County Economic Development EDI2 - Economic Development Innovation Initiative The Economic Development Innovation Initiative (EDI2) is a comprehensive program to drive the growth of technology and innovation start - ups and small businesses.

Ken Girardin: «START - UP NY lost almost as many new job commitments as it added during 2016, signaling the end may be near for the economic development program that Governor Andrew Cuomo once touted as «the greatest economic savior» for upstate New York.»

And Majority Leader John Flanagan indicated the conference is champing at the bit to take a more arched approach to Cuomo, starting with Cuomo's pet economic development program: The Regional Economic Development economic development program: The Regional Economic Developmedevelopment program: The Regional Economic Development Economic DevelopmentDevelopment Council.

According to Hochul, central New York has won $ 529 million for 505 projects since the Regional Economic Development Council program started in 2011.

The rooftop solar installer, which has started to sell a new solar roofing product in addition to conventional rooftop solar arrays, started early production this month at a sprawling 1.2 million - square - foot factory in South Buffalo that received $ 750 million in taxpayer subsidies through the state's Buffalo Billion economic development program.

Start Up NY is an economic development program with no taxes tied to the state's network of higher education institutions, like UB or Canisius.

START - UP NY, New York's signature economic development program, made headlines for creating just 408 jobs in its first two years of operations.

Democratic and Republican Assembly members asked Howard Zemsky why the economic development program known as Start - Up NY — which offers a 10 - year tax break for new high - tech businesses that locate on college campuses — is seeming to take so long to begin.

Cuomo, speaking at an event in Plattsburgh, downplayed the importance of Start Up, saying its «only one program» of many of New York's economic development initiatives.

State spending for Start - Up NY, which Cuomo launched in January 2014, has been widely criticized — even by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — after an internal report found the economic development program designed to «supercharge» the state's economy, had generated only 400 jobs.

She criticized Brindisi for supporting Cuomo's economic development measures through the Start - Up New York program.

This year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo drew on that expertise to have Malatras write the bill for his new economic development program, called Start - Up NY.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, the chair of the Economic Development committee, asked Zemsky about the leadership of the Start - Up program, which offers tax breaks to entrepreneurial companies that agree to begin operations in New York.

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.

James Malatras authored the Start - Up New York economic development program as a deputy secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

For state lawmakers and some budget hawks, START - UP New York is a controversial economic development program in need of scrutiny.

But in other parts of the state, we are focusing on finding large scale economic development programs that jump start a regional economy.

Overall, the contract is being spent to promote five different economic development programs, including Start - Up NY, which creates tax - free areas around college campuses, in an attempt to draw businesses to relocate or set up shop in the state.

The state plans to announce some of the colleges that will be part of the START UP program within the coming days, State economic development head Ken Adams told lawmakers at a budget hearings several weeks ago.

ALBANY — State comptroller Tom DiNapoli criticized the state's decision to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising to promote Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature economic development programs, including the fledgling Start - Up NY, in an audit released on Monday.

In recent months, START - UP NY, a central part of Cuomo's massive economic development arsenal, has been vilified by some state legislators and conservative think tanks after it was reported the program created just 408 jobs across the state since 2014, leading the critics to question whether the $ 53 million spent on advertising and marketing was worth it.

Last year, he delayed reporting data on his pet START - UP NY program, which we still know little about, and details about the «Buffalo Billion» economic development project have been anything but forthcoming.

The state Legislature won't let Gov. Cuomo change the name of his much - maligned Start - Up NY economic - development program, which critics have lambasted as an embarrassing failure.

The governor, too, defended the cost of the marketing and advertising campaign for the START - UP NY program, which has been part of a broader campaign highlighting economic development in the state.

State Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan (R - East Northport) said the state should dissolve Start - Up NY and put the $ 44.5 million that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposes to spend on advertising the program and other economic development initiatives to better use.

The report in question is an annual progress report on the governor's much - touted — or much - criticized, depending on who's talking — START - UP NY economic development program, established in 2013, that allows new or expanding companies with ties to participating institutions of higher education to operate without paying most state or local taxes for 10 years.

Over the last month, Cuomo has claimed his START - UP NY economic development program didn't cost any money, when it clearly did.

In particular, Cuomo seemed to equate criticism of economic development spending and his tax - free START - UP NY program with «bashing Buffalo» — a city that's benefitted from the state's largesse in recent years.

Cuomo's signature economic development program, Start - Up NY, has been slow to start up in the Syracuse Start - Up NY, has been slow to start up in the Syracuse start up in the Syracuse area.

New York projects it will double the amount of tax breaks offered under the Start - Up NY program, budget documents show, even as state lawmakers grilled a top economic development official over making the program more transparent.

The Post-Journal in Jamestown is praising the proposed decision to make changes to the struggling START - UP NY economic development program, calling the changes a «welcomed sight.»

State lawmakers in both chambers are proposing mechanisms to rein in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development efforts, reject a rebranding of the START - UP NY program and provide more oversight of the Regional Economic Development Ceconomic development efforts, reject a rebranding of the START - UP NY program and provide more oversight of the Regional Economic Developmendevelopment efforts, reject a rebranding of the START - UP NY program and provide more oversight of the Regional Economic Development CEconomic DevelopmentDevelopment Councils.

«In Albany his Senate Conference is trying to kill the Start UP, the film credit and Regional Economic Development Council programs that he supposedly supports when he's in New York City.»

SUNY has also served as an anchor for other economic development programs, including Start - Up New York, which offers a decade of tax - free status to businesses that start, expand or move to locations near collStart - Up New York, which offers a decade of tax - free status to businesses that start, expand or move to locations near collstart, expand or move to locations near colleges.

Cuomo, speaking at an event in Plattsburgh, downplayed the importance of Start - Up, saying it's «only one program» of many of New York's economic development initiatives.

An Assembly Committee on Wednesday grilled Howard Zemsky, Cuomo's top economic development official, asking him to explain why programs like Start - Up NY haven't created more jobs.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature economic development program, Start - Up NY, created just 408 new jobs in its first two years - including nine in Central New York - despite millions of dollars spent advertising the program.

Syracuse, N.Y. — He's heard the criticism, but the new head of New York's economic development agency says the Start - Up NY tax - free zone program is helping to end New York's reputation as a business - unfriendly state.

The 2017 - 18 budget repealed section 438 of the state Economic Development Law, which states, «Any business located in a tax - free NY area must submit an annual report... such information shall be sufficient for the commissioner [of economic development] and the commissioner of taxation and finance to monitor the continued eligibility of the business and its employees to participate in the Start - Up NY program and receive the tax benefitsEconomic Development Law, which states, «Any business located in a tax - free NY area must submit an annual report... such information shall be sufficient for the commissioner [of economic development] and the commissioner of taxation and finance to monitor the continued eligibility of the business and its employees to participate in the Start - Up NY program and receive the tax benefDevelopment Law, which states, «Any business located in a tax - free NY area must submit an annual report... such information shall be sufficient for the commissioner [of economic development] and the commissioner of taxation and finance to monitor the continued eligibility of the business and its employees to participate in the Start - Up NY program and receive the tax benefitseconomic development] and the commissioner of taxation and finance to monitor the continued eligibility of the business and its employees to participate in the Start - Up NY program and receive the tax benefdevelopment] and the commissioner of taxation and finance to monitor the continued eligibility of the business and its employees to participate in the Start - Up NY program and receive the tax benefits.»

Requires that SUNY issue an annual report on its economic development activities, including capital grants, SUNY 2020 program and Start - Up NY (S. 6356 - D / A.8556 - D, Part Z)

Start - Up NY is among a number of economic development programs that have faced setbacks recently as the architect of many of the ventures faces federal corruption charges.

The governor in his first term has cast himself as a pro-business chief executive and pursued measures friendly toward the state's business community, including a self - imposed spending cap in the state budget, a limit on annual property tax increases and a revamped economic development program called START - UP NY.

There have been recent calls for the suspension of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Start - Up NY economic development program.

Albany, N.Y. — The state's lead economic development agency hit back at an audit from Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli that was critical of marketing around programs including Start - Up NY.

The former Morgan Stanley president was named an unpaid adviser to the state's economic development division in 2013, with a formal brief that included promoting the START - UP program and deepening exports.

The state's economic development agency, Empire State Development, said the tweaks will simplify the program and entice more small, start - up busindevelopment agency, Empire State Development, said the tweaks will simplify the program and entice more small, start - up businDevelopment, said the tweaks will simplify the program and entice more small, start - up businesses here.

Legislators grilled Zemsky on the troubled tax free Start - Up New York program, which Cuomo subsumed into another economic development program in his new budget, after a report showed the program created just 408 jobs so far.

The Republican - led state Senate wants to kill Gov. Andrew Cuomo's controversial «Start - Up New York» economic development program by shifting its $ 44.5 million in funding to promote tourism.