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The North Country Regional Economic Development Council received $ 61.4 million in state economic development funding on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016 at the Egg Center for Performing Arts in Albany.

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IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Slaughter mentioned that she and Congressman Brian Higgins, D - Buffalo, were looking for money to fund high - speed rail between Buffalo and Rochester to double down on the state's economic development investments.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said the state needs more accountability when giving out economic development funds, noting this year's budget again relies heavily on lump sum appropriations that have little oversight regarding their allocaState Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said the state needs more accountability when giving out economic development funds, noting this year's budget again relies heavily on lump sum appropriations that have little oversight regarding their allocastate needs more accountability when giving out economic development funds, noting this year's budget again relies heavily on lump sum appropriations that have little oversight regarding their allocation.

Although the budget also provides $ 100 million to the MTA's capital program from redirected economic development funds, it also proposes using $ 165 million of Metropolitan Mass Transportation Operating Assistance Account funds to pay debt services on State bonds previously issued for the MTA capital program that otherwise would be paid from the General Fund and transferring $ 35 million in MMTOA funds to the General Fund.

The gist of our testimony was that the legislature should not appropriate any new funds for discretionary economic development programs until there are major transparency and accountability reforms, including a Database of Deals, Clean Contracting reforms and restrictions on campaign contributions from state -LSB-...]

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.

Though a coveted $ 500 million prize in the Upstate Revitalization Initiative eluded them, Capital Region economic development boosters on Thursday celebrated the $ 98.1 million commitment from the state to fund 114 diverse projects aimed at moving the area's economy forward.

The $ 330 million Ferris wheel project in Staten Island lost out on state funding from Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development program yesterday.

Lawmakers are also skeptical of Cuomo's promise to balance the budget — without big spending increases — while still funding many of the pricey proposals he laid out in his state of the state, which include upgrades to airports, big investments in economic development and increases in spending on education and workforce development.

On July 20, 2011, as part of a historic initiative to transform New York State's model for economic development and job creation, Governor Cuomo announced that up to $ 1 billion in economic development funding would be made available through a Consolidated Application Process (CFA).

While top honors instead went to Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Southern Tier, the region did lock in $ 85.1 million in regional economic development funds on Thursday, bringing the total over a five - year period to nearly a half - billion in state investment.

The new AMPrint Center on Rochester Institute of Technology's Henrietta campus is supported by state funds, including money from the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council.

DeFrancisco repeatedly hammered Cuomo on the state's economic - development programs, citing the still - empty $ 90 million, state - funded factory put up in DeWitt for a California light maker that the company never occupied.

A University of Rochester project on the use of computers for health research has won $ 5 million in state economic development funds — one of 11 state investments totaling $ 22 million announced by Cuomo yesterday.

Krueger recalled that the ill - fated Empire Zones program, which was created by former Gov. George Pataki in 1999 (it actually morphed out of the New York State Economic Development Zones) ended up being an ill - conceived boondoggle that gave away millions of dollars worth of publicly - funded incentives and tax breaks to businesses that pledged to create jobs and then often didn't make good on those promises.

«SUNY Poly's narrowly focused on some very high - profile tech projects, but for someone to say economic development, broadly speaking, has been turned over to to someone at SUNY Poly is just incorrect,» Mr. Zemsky said, citing the governor's efforts to involve regional officials in economic planning and to spread state funds across thousands of smaller economic development projects.

Earlier this month, when state economic development officials announced recipients of some $ 82 million in state funding for projects in the Hudson Valley, Niagara's request for $ 10.8 million for construction of the proposed plant on an industrial site in the Town of Ulster was not on the list.

Projects range from economic development aid for troubled regions, to funding the $ 4 billion dollar new Tappan Zee Bridge on the New York State Thruway over the Hudson River.

New York state's 10 economic regions received more than $ 700 million in new economic development funding on Thursday.

The gist of our testimony was that the legislature should not appropriate any new funds for discretionary economic development programs until there are major transparency and accountability reforms, including a Database of Deals, Clean Contracting reforms and restrictions on campaign contributions from state vendors.

The Albany - area Regional Economic Development Council announced projects it wants funded in the $ 800 million race this year for state grants and tax credits, including redevelopment of the old Starlite Theater property in Colonie and the Palace Theatre's proposed renovation and expansion, which was on the wish list last year.

That's just a sample of the hundreds of projects funded by one of Cuomo's signature economic development initiatives, a system of 10 regional councils that develop plans based on regional strengths and compete for state funding — more than $ 4 billion so far.

The Post reported on Sunday that the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Economic Development, a nonprofit largely funded by state grants secured by Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat, was mostly staffed by members of his campaign and inner circle.

Or the past year's pushing of broadband funding proposals into the state's massive Regional Economic Development and Consolidated Funding process, with large amounts promised but little explanation, at least publicly, on how the large amounts being discussed actually getfunding proposals into the state's massive Regional Economic Development and Consolidated Funding process, with large amounts promised but little explanation, at least publicly, on how the large amounts being discussed actually getFunding process, with large amounts promised but little explanation, at least publicly, on how the large amounts being discussed actually get spent.

JAMESTOWN - New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli was in Jamestown last Friday to get an update on state - funded economic development efforts in the city, along with meeting with and endorsing two candidates for Chautauqua County... [Read morState Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli was in Jamestown last Friday to get an update on state - funded economic development efforts in the city, along with meeting with and endorsing two candidates for Chautauqua County... [Read morstate - funded economic development efforts in the city, along with meeting with and endorsing two candidates for Chautauqua County... [Read more...]

While Parker is not a registered lobbyist, she sits on the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council, weighing in on which projects in Rochester and the Finger Lakes receive state funding.

In the Assembly, that means members of a regional council that advises Cuomo's economic development agency on Buffalo Billion funding must, like other state boards, disclose information annually about their personal finances to help avoid potential conflicts of interest.

But despite being billed as the final opportunity to for the public to offer input on the projects that could receive $ 10 million in state economic development funding, the meeting actually focused on rolling out the tentative list, as selected by the local planning committee.

The Community Development Block Grant is funding distributed by the federal government to local governments and states to use on housing and economic and social dDevelopment Block Grant is funding distributed by the federal government to local governments and states to use on housing and economic and social developmentdevelopment.

JAMESTOWN - The Jamestown Downtown Revitalization Initiative local planning committee met Tuesday to continue the process on how to doll out $ 10 million in state economic development funding.

The state proposed to give developers a $ 1.5 million grant — awarded through a system of regional economic development councils that Gov. Andrew Cuomo created in 2011 — as well as a $ 15 million forgivable loan that was drawn from a state fund which Republican senators created to support projects on Long Island.

The city's council is one of 10 created by Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2011, and its Cuomo - appointed members are tasked with developing a strategic economic development plan and weighing in on which projects should get state funds.

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.

As mayor and therefore an ex-officio member of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council, I would advocate that some of the $ 25 million budgeted for a Commission on Government Modernization out of the recent $ 500 million state grant be devoted to developing and negotiating a detailed proposal for property tax sharing for a Municipal Development Fund.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Entertainment Vice President Michael Walbrecht pushed members of the Texas House Select Committee on Economic Development Incentives to put up more funds to attract filmmakers to the Lone Star State.

ACER conducts PISA in Australia on behalf of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with funding from the Australian, and state and territory governments.

The Watermill Center's programs are made possible by awards from American Chai Trust, the Cowles Charitable Trust, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, the Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, JAF Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, The LLWW Foundation, mediaThe Foundation Inc., The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, The Nightingale Code Foundation, The Robert Lehman Foundation, May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Royal Danish Consulate General, The Suffolk County Office of Economic Development, The Suffolk County Office of Film and Cultural Affairs, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Leila & Mickey Straus Family Charitable Fund, the Town of Southampton, Trust for Mutual Understanding, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust.

The benefits of energy efficiency and renewable energy policies are even greater for states that now rely on imported coal, because such policies channel funds into local economic development — funds that would otherwise leave the state.