NY State Senate Bill 2019-S6005

Senate Bill S6005

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to making certain community centers eligible for nonprofit infrastructure capital investment program awards

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee

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2019-S6005 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7483
Current Committee:: Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:: Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:: Add §402-e, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: S3520, A2482, A7831

2019-S6005 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes a community center physically located within a New York city housing authority facility eligible to apply for and receive funding from the nonprofit infrastructure capital investment program.

2019-S6005 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S6005

SPONSOR: BAILEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the public housing law, in relation to
making certain community centers eligible for nonprofit infrastructure
capital investment program awards

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This bill amends the public housing law by adding a new section 402-e
allowing a community center physically located within a New York City
Housing Authority facility to be eligible to apply for and receive fund-
ing from the nonprofit infrastructure capital investment program.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill would allow nonprofits which provide vital social services for
children, youth, and seniors in NYCHA-owned facilities to access infras-
tructure funding through the nonprofit infrastructure capital investment
program for the purpose of building or property maintenance or improve-
ments, structural maintenance or improvements, or building systems main-

tenance or improvements.

Across New York City, NYCHA owns 36 standalone community centers and 202
community facilities located within residential buildings.  Nonprofits
occupy many of these spaces, running EarlyLearn programs, providing
afterschool services, offering meals and activities for seniors, provid-
ing arts education, and training for employment.  However, the physical
infrastructure of the centers and community facilities have become so
dilapidated that it is frequently unsafe for them to open to the public.
Service provision is regularly halted for extended periods of time, to
the detriment of the families and individuals these centers are intended
to serve.

According to NYCHA's 2017 physical needs assessment, the total 5-year
capital need for the 36 standalone community centers and the 202 commu-
nity facilities located within residential buildings is $489 million.
NYCHA is unable to address the needs of these centers and community
facilities because their resources have gone towards the remediation of
toxic lead and mold in the residential units as well as other safety and
quality-of-life concerns. Given the backlog in the work to perform these
repairs and abatements, these community centers are unlikely to see
investment from NYCHA for years, or even decades.

Out of recognition of the urgency of the situation, NYCHA has agreed to
establish an expedited process to approve project plans-including build-
ing or property maintenance or improvements, structural maintenance or
improvements, or building systems maintenance or imp rovements-initiated
and executed by the nonprofits that occupy these centers and community
facilities. This expedited approval process will be moot without addi-
tional financial resources for these projects.

The nonprofit infrastructure capital investment program was established
in YEAR to address the unmet capital needs facing nonprofit-ogerated
community spaces throughout the State. However, this funding has histor-
ically been unavailable to nonprofits operating in NYCHA-owned facili-
ties, despite these facilities facing some of the most severe building
repair needs.

For these reasons, the nonprofit infrastructure capital investment
program should be amended to allow its funds to go to this purpose.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None. This bill expands eligibility for an existing fund.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law.

2019-S6005 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6005
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public housing law, in relation to making certain
   community  centers  eligible  for  nonprofit  infrastructure   capital
   investment program awards

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
 402-e to read as follows:
   §  402-E.  COMMUNITY CENTER FUNDING.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW TO
 THE CONTRARY, A COMMUNITY CENTER PHYSICALLY LOCATED WITHIN  A  NEW  YORK
 CITY  HOUSING  AUTHORITY  FACILITY  SHALL  BE  ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR AND
 RECEIVE FUNDING FROM THE  NONPROFIT  INFRASTRUCTURE  CAPITAL  INVESTMENT
 PROGRAM.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11244-01-9

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