Sentences with phrase «state economic development monies»

Governor Cuomo last week announced more than $ 750 million up for grabs in the latest competition for state economic development monies.

The group also won significant state economic development monies on Dec. 8 with a $ 498,825 grant award from the North Country Regional Economic Development Council to rehabilitate camp infrastructure.

«IBM, despite getting $ 800 million in state economic development money since 2000, is now laying off hundreds of workers in the Hudson Valley and creating a big hole in the Dutchess County economy.

The $ 12 million in state economic development money accounted for 75 percent of the project's total cost.

Not exact matches

The Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP), which brought the suit against Chase on plaintiffs» behalf, says banks shouldn't be willing to let online payday lenders take money out of customer accounts in states where such loans are illegal.

The difference is that the state needs to have the money in an economic development fund to provide the rebate to firms.

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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.

The state budget includes no significant new controls or oversight on how the Cuomo administration spends money on economic development projects, and that troubles many lawmakers after federal prosecutors accused eight men of bid - rigging schemes in earlier development projects.

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.

In 2014, the program was expanded to cover «economic development projects» that would «create or retain jobs in New York state,» opening the door for the program to dish out borrowed money to private businesses (such as the Ed Sullivan theater renovation).

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli chided policies that award economic development money without specifying how it gets spent.

Over the last 14 years, state leaders have created at least a dozen different programs that allow them to borrow money off of the state's normal books for projects loosely defined as economic development or community enhancement.

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office recently began an investigation into whether Shulman's group, the Flushing Willets Point Corona LDC, illegally lobbied city officials after it came to light the city Economic Development Corp. funneled money to the organization.

As the trial gets underway, good - government reformers are urging Albany in a letter to take pre-emptive action on overhauling how the state's economic development money is spent.

McMahon said the money coming from Turning Stone through the state has to be used for economic development.

A senior official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ishaq Salihu, has told a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt that a former Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Robert Obuoha, offered him a bribe of N150, 000 and told him to use the money in buying recharge cards.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs continue to bring companies and jobs to New York, the state's top economic development official testified Monday as lawmakers questioned whether enough is being done to hold firms to their promises and to claw back taxpayer money when they don't.

Officials at Empire State Development, the state's economic development arm, say Donnelly has not submitted required documentation on how the money will be spent and that he has failed to come up with sufficient private financing for the $ 40 million proState Development, the state's economic development arm, say Donnelly has not submitted required documentation on how the money will be spent and that he has failed to come up with sufficient private financing for the $ 40 milliDevelopment, the state's economic development arm, say Donnelly has not submitted required documentation on how the money will be spent and that he has failed to come up with sufficient private financing for the $ 40 million prostate's economic development arm, say Donnelly has not submitted required documentation on how the money will be spent and that he has failed to come up with sufficient private financing for the $ 40 millidevelopment arm, say Donnelly has not submitted required documentation on how the money will be spent and that he has failed to come up with sufficient private financing for the $ 40 million project.

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino has been traveling the state criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's attempts to invest money in parts of New York to spur economic development.

Political and private sector leaders from around the state are spending three days at the Capitol, making their best case to win a share of $ 1.5 billion in economic development monies for their region.

Unlike most other SUNY Poly projects across upstate, the Film Hub did not get its grant money from Empire State Development, the state's economic developmentState Development, the state's economic develDevelopment, the state's economic developmentstate's economic developmentdevelopment arm.

The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council is competing for that state money, a taxpayer - infused boost for the winning regions.

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.

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 state budget did include more spending on economic development in the budget, including more money for Regional Economic Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects in economic development in the budget, including more money for Regional Economic Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects development in the budget, including more money for Regional Economic Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects in Economic Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects in Buffalo.

In addition, money coming in from the state's new casinos should partially be going toward economic development, he said.

At the same time, Cuomo said the state could potentially adjust how it spends economic development money based on the findings of Bart Schwartz, the former prosecutor hired to review contracting in the program, which is under scrutiny by the U.S. attorney's office.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a HUD secretary in the Clinton cabinet, created the 10 regional economic development councils as a way of stimulating job growth by having various regions of the state compete for grant money and tax incentives.

The state's economic development authority is tripling the amount of money it's spending to deal with a federal probe of the Cuomo administration's Buffalo Billion, documents show.

Howard Zemsky, head of Empire State Development, told legislators at a budget hearing that the governor's $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage proposal would be an economic booster because it would raise people out of poverty who will spend and circulate that money.

Last year, the state's multi-billion windfall was divided up, with money sent to the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project, an infusion of cash for the competitive economic development project proposals and money to avoid toll hikes on the state Thruway Authority.

State legislators in downstate New York are looking to divert money planned for upstate economic development for their own projects, according to Cuomo.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A thousand Syracuse students will go to college each year through an unprecedented move by New York state to spur economic development through free tuition using money from settlements with financial institutions.

Mahoney proposed a $ 49.5 million bond to pay for construction of a concert amphitheater on the shore of Onondaga Lake, part of a $ 99.5 million economic development project to be financed with county and state money.

Mr. Adams said his office had received marching orders from Governor Andrew Cuomo to provide $ 785 million in grants by asking regional Economic Development Corporations for advice on the most crucial projects in their areas, instead of having the state dictate where the money would go.

[140] Money from New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo through a program known locally as «Buffalo Billion» has brought new construction, increased economic development, and hundreds of new jobs to the area.

The governor's held an annual contest to make regions of the state compete to win millions of dollars in economic development monies.

The state will award $ 500 million economic development grants to each of the three regions that propose the best ways to invest the money.

The New York State Legislature has passed Industrial Development Agency (IDA) reforms that will increase transparency and accountability for use of public money in private economic developmenDevelopment Agency (IDA) reforms that will increase transparency and accountability for use of public money in private economic developmentdevelopment projects.

We appreciate Mr. Cuomo's urgency to get what he believes would be more money into the state treasury, and perhaps spur what he imagines would be some economic development upstate.

She noted that one of the governor's key economic development proposals - a $ 1.5 billion fund that would be split among three regions of the state - forces struggling communities to compete for limited state money.

Pataki has called for the money to be given to a state entity he created to spur economic development in Niagara Falls, thus leaving the money under his control, a decision that is opposed by local leaders.

The state's Dormitory Authority, which has provided funding to many of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development projects, had withheld the money from SUNY Poly over issues with invoices and other paperwork for work dating back to February.

Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney interviewed Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster on the impact of the Wallenda Walk, the numerous challenges faced by Niagara Falls, and how the standoff between state and Seneca Nation officials is costing the city money that would otherwise be helping to promote economic development.

The initial project proposed for Lake Flower won $ 2 million in Empire State Development grant monies as part of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council awards in December of 2013.

Percoco was among a slew of defendants named in an 80 - page complaint unsealed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today, outlining schemes to take favorable state actions for an energy company that in exchange employed Percoco's wife (when discussing her salary, Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe colorfully used the codeword «ziti,» a kind of macaroni, for money — something he lifted from The Sopranos) and to rig bids considered by SUNY Polytechnic University for funding through Cuomo's economic development program, the Buffalo Billion.

Nixon is also touching on a form of «economic development» that has grown like topsy in recent years, drawing states into what would be considered, if it were cut - and - sew factories rather than glamorous entertainment productions involved, a competitive race - to - the - bottom to throw money at less - than - needy studios.

In his budget released last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed spending $ 30 million of state money on an economic development project in Onondaga County.

Political and private sector leaders from around the state are spending three days at the Capitol, making their best case to win a share of $ 1.5 billion dollars in economic development monies for their region.