2023-R1406

Establishes a plan setting forth an itemized list of grantees for a certain appropriation for the 2023-2024 fiscal year for services and expenses of community safety and restorative justice programs

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2023-R1406


Senate Resolution No. 1406

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

establishing a plan setting forth an itemized
list of grantees for a certain appropriation for the
2023-24 state fiscal year for services and expenses
of community safety and restorative justice
programs, which include but are not limited to,
support for survivors of sexual assault, domestic
violence, gun violence prevention, legal services,
alternatives to incarceration, community
supervision, and re-entry initiatives, gang and
crime reduction strategies managed by local
governments and/or community-based not-for-profits
service providers. Notwithstanding any provision of
law to the contrary, the amounts appropriated herein
may be sub-allocated or transferred between other
state agencies, including but not limited to the
department of corrections and community
supervision, the office of indigent legal
services, the office of victim services, and the
office for the prevention of domestic violence,
as required by a plan setting forth an itemized list
of grantees with the amount to be received by each,
or the methodology for allocating such
appropriation. Such plan shall be subject to the
approval of the temporary president of the senate
and the director of the budget and thereafter shall
be included in a resolution calling for the
expenditure of such funds, which resolution must be
approved by a majority vote of all members elected
to the senate upon a roll call vote

RESOLVED, That pursuant to and as required by money appropriated
in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2023 which enacts the aid to
localities, local assistance account, for services and expenses of
community safety and restorative justice programs, which include but
are not limited to, support for survivors of sexual assault, domestic
violence, gun violence prevention, legal services, alternatives to
incarceration, community supervision and re-entry initiatives, gang,
and crime reduction strategies managed by local governments and/or
community-based not-for-profits service providers. Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, the amounts appropriated herein may
be sub-allocated or transferred between other state agencies,
including but not limited to the department of corrections and
community supervision, the office of indigent legal services, the
office of victim services, and the office for the prevention of
domestic violence. Such funds shall be apportioned pursuant to a plan
setting forth an itemized list of grantees with the amount to be
received by each, or the methodology for allocating such
appropriation. Such plan shall be subject to the approval of the
temporary president of the senate and the director of the budget and
thereafter shall be included in a resolution calling for the
expenditure of such monies, which resolution must be approved by a
majority vote of all members elected to the senate upon a roll call
vote, in accordance with the following schedule:

69th Precinct Community Council I, Inc.
10,000
Able Body of Believers Alliance Leadership
Center (ABBA)
10,000
Access Justice Brooklyn, Inc.
10,000
Advocacy Center of Tompkins County
20,000
American Civic Association Inc.
25,000
Arab American Association of NY Inc.
15,000
Arab American Association of NY Inc. (AAANY)
25,000
Asian American Bar Association of New York
(AABANY)
15,000
Bronx Defenders
25,000
Bronx Defenders
50,000
Bronx Immigration Partnership
38,000
Brooklyn Defender Services
10,000
Brooklyn Defender Services
17,000
Brooklyn Legal Corp. A
20,000
Brooklyn Legal Corp. A
25,000
Bukharian Jewish Community Center, Inc.
20,000
CAMBA, Inc.
10,000
Capital District Women's Bar Association Legal
Project, Inc.
25,000
Center for Community Alternatives,
Inc. (Freedom Commons Technical
Assistance)
70,000
Center for Community Justice, Inc.
(Operator of the Legal Hand Call-In
Center)
25,000
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc.
25,000
Center for Law and Human Values (Action Lab)
200,000
Center for the Women of New York
50,000
Church Communities Foundation
5,000
City Line Ozone Park Civilian Patrol Inc.
10,000

City Of Middletown (Police Department)
6,500
City Of Middletown (Police Department)
75,000
City of Oswego (Police Department)
100,000
City of Port Jervis (Police Department)
6,500
City of Rochester (International Jazz
Festival Police and Fire Services)
100,000
City of Syracuse (Office to Reduce
Gun Violence - Neighborhood Peace
Ambassadors)
70,000
Communities Resist Inc.
24,000
Community Action of Greene County Inc.
30,000
Community Development Incorporated
(Community Capacity Development)
315,000
Congregation of the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Brentwood, New York
(Sisters of Saint Joseph Academy of
Saint Joseph)
20,000
Cops and Kids New York Inc.
10,000
County of Onondaga (Onondaga County Sheriff)
100,000
Covenant House
25,000
Covenant House New York (incorporated as Under
21)
50,000
Crime Victims Assistance Center Inc.
50,000
EAC Network
25,000
EAC Network
30,000
East Flatbush Village Inc.
10,000
Elite Learners Inc.
150,000
Empire Justice Center - Yonkers Office
100,000
Empire Justice Center, Inc.
60,000
Family of Woodstock Inc.
25,000
Family Services of Westchester Inc. (SNUG Mount
Vernon)
50,000
Family Services, Inc. (Victim Services)
30,000

First Steps to Heal Inc.
25,000
Fortune Society Inc.
10,000
Garden of Hope, Inc.
75,000
Getting Out and Staying Out Inc. (GOSO)
10,000
Getting Out and Staying Out Inc. (GOSO)
10,000
Getting Out and Staying Out Inc. (GOSO)
75,000
Glen Oaks Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Inc.
10,000
Goddard Riverside Community Center (Law Project)

20,000
Good Old Lower East Side Inc. (GOLES)
10,000
Good Shepherd Services
10,000
Good Shepherd Services (B.R.A.G program)
36,000
Greenburgh Police Department
50,000
Haitian Americans United for Progress (HAUP)
20,000
HANAC Inc. (Victim Assistance Program
- Domestic Violence)
10,000
Helping End Violence Now, Inc. (H.E.V.N)
10,000
Her Justice Inc.
10,000
Her Justice Inc.
50,000
Hispanic Counseling Center Inc. (HCC)
35,000
Hispanic Resource Center of Larchmont
& Mamaroneck, Inc. (Community
Resource Center)
25,000
Hope of Buffalo Inc. (Peace Prints)
50,000
Hope's Door, Inc. (Domestic Violence
Services and Outreach)
75,000
Hour Children, Inc.
50,000
Hudson Valley Justice Center Inc.
50,000
Inter faith Works of Central New York
Inc. (Brightening the Northside's
Future: Through Building Connections)
70,000
International Institute of Buffalo
50,000

Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services
Inc.
25,000
Journey's End Refugee Services
90,000
JustFix, Inc.
25,000
Justice Innovation, Inc.
20,000
Kings Against Violence Initiative, Inc.
50,000
Kings Bay Ym-Ywha Inc. (Heal the
Violence Sheepshead Bay
Antiviolence)
40,000
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center Inc.
25,000
Korean-American Family Service Center Inc.
75,000
Larchmont Fire Department
15,000
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc.

10,000
Legal Aid Society
25,000
Legal Aid Society
15,000
Legal Aid Society (Survivors of Domestic
Violence)
15,000
Legal Aid Society of Mid New York Inc.
30,000
Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York Inc.
25,000
Legal Services NYC
50,000
Legal Services of Central New York Inc.
15,000
Mahalla USA Inc.
10,000
Make the Road New York
51,000
Make the Road New York (Immigrant Legal
Services)
50,000
Manhattan Legal Services
25,000
Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ)
20,000
Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ)
25,000
Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ)
25,000
Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ)
38,000
Mount Pleasant Police Department
40,000

Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee Inc.
10,000
Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee Inc.
35,000
Neighborhood Association for Inter
Cultural Affairs Inc. (NAICA)
50,000
New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation (Jacobi's Stand Up to
Violence)
50,000
New York Immigration Coalition Inc.
25,000
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc.
25,000
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc.
25,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
25,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
25,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
25,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
25,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
30,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
50,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
50,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Incorporated
(NYLAG)
10,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Incorporated
(NYLAG)
15,000
New York Police Department Pct 102
(Youth Explorer Program)
10,000
New York Police Department Pct 104
(Youth Explorer Program)
10,000
New York Police Department Pct 106
(Youth Explorer Program)
10,000
New York Police Department Pct 112
(Youth Explorer Program)
10,000
New York Police Department Pct 67 (Community
Council)
10,000
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
(NMIC)
25,000
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
(NMIC)
38,000

NYLEAP Inc. (New York Law Enforcement
Assistance Program)
50,000
Queens Law Associates Not-For-Profit
Corporation (Queens Defenders)
10,000
Queens Law Associates Not-For-Profit
Corporation (Queens Defenders)
30,000
Queens Legal Services
25,000
Queens Legal Services
25,000
Red Hook Initiative Inc.
50,000
Reentry & Community Development Center, Inc.
10,000
Richmond County District Attorney
100,000
Rochester Area Community Foundation
40,000
S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth Inc.
50,000
Safe Horizon
50,000
Safe Passage Project
25,000
Sapna NYC, Inc.
25,000
Shmira Volunteer Patrol Corp. (Shomrim of
Williamsburg)
50,000
Southside United Housing Development
Fund Corp- Los Sures Comida/Food
Pantry
10,000
Street Corner Resource
15,000
Suffolk County (Police Department)
20,000
Suffolk County (Sheriffs Office)
15,000
Suffolk County District Attorney's Office
15,000
Suffolk County Police Asian Jade Society
10,000
The Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc.
30,000
The Glendale Civilian Observation Patrol, Inc.
20,000
Touro College (Touro Law Immigration Clinic)
50,000
Town of Crawford (Police Department)
6,500
Town of Mount Hope (Police Department)
6,500
Town of New Windsor (Police Department)
6,500

Town of New Windsor Police Department
6,500
Town of Wallkill (Police Department)
6,500
Town of Warwick (Police Department)
6,500
Town of Woodbury
6,500
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund,
Inc.
10,000
Trinity Alliance of the Capital Region
Foundation Inc.
50,000
Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk Inc. (dba
ECLI-VIBES)
10,000
Village of Highland Falls Police Department
6,500
We All Really Matter Inc. (WARM Inc.)
25,000
Western New York Law Center
50,000
Womankind (New York Asian Women's Center Inc.)
20,000
Women's Empowerment Coalition of NYC Inc.
(WECNYC)
20,000
Women's Empowerment Coalition of NYC Inc.
(WECNYC)
20,000
Yonkers Police Department
100,000
Youth Represent, Inc.
17,000
Youth Justice Network (Write Your Way Out)
25,000

RESOLVED, That pursuant to and as required by monies appropriated
in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2023 which enacts the aid to
localities, local assistance account, for services and expenses of gun
violence prevention, street outreach, anti-violence shooting/violence
reduction programs managed by local governments and/or community-based
not-for-profits service providers. Notwithstanding any provision of
law to the contrary, the amount appropriated herein may be
suballocated or transferred between other state agencies, including
but not limited to the department of corrections and community
supervision, the office of indigent legal services, the office of
victim services, and the office for the prevention of domestic
violence, with the approval of the temporary president of the senate
and director of the budget. Notwithstanding section twenty-four of
the state finance law or any provision of law to the contrary, funds
from this appropriation shall be allocated only pursuant to a plan
approved by the temporary president of the senate and the director of
the budget which sets forth either an itemized list of grantees with
the amount to be received by each, or the methodology for allocating
such appropriation, and which is thereafter included in a senate
resolution calling for the expenditure of such funds, which resolution

must be approved by a majority vote of all members elected to the
senate upon a roll call vote, in accordance with the following
schedule:

100 Suits for 100 Men Inc.
15,667
100 Suits for 100 Men Inc.
20,000
67th Precinct Clergy Council Inc.
50,000
Black Spectrum Theatre
10,000
Brothers of Peace for Social Change
10,000
Center for Court Innovation (Save Our Streets)
25,000
Center for Dispute Settlement
50,000
City of Middletown (Police Department)
150,000
City of Port Jervis (Police Department)
100,000
Elmcor Youth and Adult Activities, Inc.
156,666
Far Rock Strong
8,000
Father's Alive in the Hood Inc. (FAITH)
20,000
Father's Alive in the Hood Inc. (FAITH)
10,000
Greater Direction. Inc
50,000
Jewish Community Council of Canarsie, Inc.
20,000
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
Inc.
250,000
Justice Innovation Inc (The Heights Project)
50,000
King of Kings Foundation, Inc.
50,000
King of Kings Foundation, Inc.
10,000
Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) Inc.
25,000
Kings Bay Y
100,000
LIFE Camp Inc.
25,000
LIFE Camp Inc.
50,000
New York Center for Interpersonal Development
150,000
Rema 4 Us Inc.
8,000
Rockaway Development Revitalization Corporation
(RDRC)
40,000

Rockaway Youth Community Power
(Formerly Rockaway Youth Task
Force)
20,000
Samadhi Center Inc.
50,000
United Black Men of Queens Foundation Inc.
16,667

RESOLVED, That pursuant to and as required by moneys appropriated
in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2023 which enacts the aid to
localities, local assistance account, for services and expenses of
drug, violence, crime control and prevention programs, including but
are not limited to, youth violence and/or crime reduction programs,
enhanced defense, crime laboratories, re-entry services, judicial
diversion, alternative to incarceration programs, support for
survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, gun violence
prevention, community supervision, re-entry initiatives, gang and
crime reduction strategies, and local law enforcement programs,
managed by local governments and/or community-based not-for-profits
service providers. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
contrary, the amount appropriated herein may be suballocated or
transferred between other state agencies, including but not limited to
the department of corrections and community supervision, the office of
indigent legal services, the office of victim services, and the office
for the prevention of domestic violence, with the approval of the
temporary president of the senate and the director of the budget.
Notwithstanding section twenty-four of the state finance law or any
provision of law to the contrary, funds from this appropriation shall
be allocated only pursuant to a plan approved by the temporary
president of the senate and director of the budget which sets forth
either an itemized list of grantees with the amount to be received by
each, or the methodology for allocating such appropriation, and which
is thereafter included in a senate resolution calling for the
expenditure of such funds, which resolution must be approved by a
majority vote of all members elected to the senate upon a roll call
vote in accordance with the following schedule:

100 Suits for 100 Men Inc.
3,500
Avenues For Justice, Inc.
7,000
CAMBA, Inc.
7,000
County of Ulster (Sheriff's Office)
7,000
Division of State Police (NY State Troopers -
Troop L)
7,000
Elite Learners Inc.
7,000
Elmcor Youth and Adult Activities, Inc.
7,000
Family Services of Westchester, Inc.
7,000
Fortune Society, Inc.
7,000

Fortune Society, Inc.
7,000
Good Shepherd Services
7,000
Greater Buffalo Metropolitan Crime Stoppers Inc.

7,000
Greenburgh (Police Department)
13,000
House of Psalms 23
7,000
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
Inc.
7,000
Journey's End Refugee Services
7,000
Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier, Inc.
7,000
King of Kings Foundation Inc.
3,500
Manhattan Legal Services
7,000
New Rochelle City Court (Opportunity Youth Part)

7,000
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
(Guns Down, Life Up)
7,000
New York Immigration Coalition, Inc. (NYIC)
7,000
New York Police Department Pct 104 (Community
Council)
3,500
New York Police Department Pct 109 (Youth
Explorer Program)
7,000
New York Police Department Pct 112 (Community
Council)
3,500
New York Police Department Pct 45 (Youth
Explorer Program)à
3,500
New York Police Department Pct 49 (Youth
Explorer Program)
3,500
New York Police Department Pct 62 (Community
Council)
4,000
New York Police Department Pct 69
7,000
New York Police Department Pct 72 (Community
Council)
3,000
Office of Court Administration (Brooklyn
Treatment Court)
7,000
Oswego County Opportunities Inc.
7,000

Prevention Council of Putnam, Inc.
7,000
Queens Law Associates Not-For-Profit Corporation
(Queens Defenders)
7,000
Queens Legal Services
7,000
Recovery All Ways Inc.
7,000
Restorative Justice Initiative (Fund for the
City
of New York, Inc.)
7,000
Southside United Housing Development Fund Corp
(The Wick Against Violence)
7,000
Street Corner Resource
7,000
The Arab-American Family Support Center, Inc.
7,000
The Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc.
7,000
Together We Are
7,000
Tri-County Community Partnership Inc. (Hope Not
Handcuffs)
7,000
Trinity Institution Inc.
7,000
Washington Heights CORNER Project, Inc.
7,000
Youth Environmental Sciences Inc. (YES Community
Counseling Center)
7,000

RESOLVED, That pursuant to and as required by monies appropriated
in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2023 which enacts the aid to
localities, local assistance account, for services and expenses or
reimbursement of expenses incurred by local government agencies and/or
not-for-profit service providers or their employees providing civil or
criminal legal services, which include but are not limited to, legal
services for survivors of domestic violence and legal assistance and
representation to indigent individuals on parole. Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, the amount appropriated herein may
be suballocated or transferred between other state agencies, including
but not limited to the department of corrections and community
supervision, the office of indigent legal services, the office of
victim services, and the office for the prevention of domestic
violence, with the approval of the temporary president of the senate
and the director of the budget. Notwithstanding section twenty-four
of the state finance law or any provision of law to the contrary, the
funds from this appropriation shall be allocated only pursuant to a
plan approved by the temporary president of the senate and the
director of the budget which sets forth either an itemized list of
grantees with the amount to be received by each, or the methodology
for allocating such appropriation, and which is thereafter included in
a senate resolution calling for the expenditure of such funds, which
resolution must be approved by a majority vote of all members elected

to the senate upon a roll call vote, in accordance with the following
schedule:

Affordable Housing Partnership of the Capital
Region Inc.
8,750
Ansob Center for Refugees Inc.
8,750
Bronx Defenders
8,750
Bronx Legal Services
17,500
Brooklyn Legal Services Corp A
17,500
Cabrini Immigrant Services of New York City Inc.

17,500
Cabrini of Westchester
10,000
Caribbean Women's Health Association Inc.
17,500
Catholic Charities of Long Island
(Diocese of Rockville Centre)
10,500
Catholic Migration Services Inc.
8,750
Center for the Integration &
Advancement of New Americans, Inc.
(CIANA)
8,750
Center for the Women of New York
7,500
Central American Refugee Center Carecen NY
3,500
Children's Rights Society Inc.
8,750
Chinese American Planning Council Inc.
8,750
Communities Resist Inc.
17,500
Congregations Linked In Urban
Strategy To Effect Renewal, Inc.
(CLUSTER Inc.)
12,500
CUNY School of Law Justice &
Auxiliary Services Corporation
(Community Legal Resource Network)
17,500
Dispute Resolution Center, Inc.
8,750
Economic Opportunity Council of Suffolk Inc.
3,500
Emerald Isle Immigration Center Inc.
8,750
Haitian Americans United for Progress Inc.
(HAUP)
10,000

Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
Inc.
10,000
Journey's End Refugee Services
17,500
Journey's End Refugee Services
17,500
JustCause (Volunteer Legal Services
Project of Monroe County Inc.)
17,500
Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.
17,500
Legal Services NYC (Bronx Corporation)
17,500
Legal Services NYC (Staten Island)
17,500
Legal Services of Central New York Inc.
17,500
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley
8,750
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley
17,500
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley
17,500
Make the Road New York
17,500
MinKwon Center for Community Action, Inc.
17,500
Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ)
17,500
Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ)
17,500
Mobilization for Justice, Inc. (MFJ)
17,500
Neighborhood Defender Service, Inc.
17,500
Neighborhood Housing Services of Jamaica, Inc.
8,750
Neighbors Link Corp
17,500
New York Immigration Coalition, Inc. (NYIC)
17,500
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
17,500
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
17,500
New York State Defenders Association Inc.
17,500
Pace University (Pace Women's Justice Center)
12,500
Queens Law Associates Not-For-Profit Corporation

7,500
Queens Legal Services
8,750
Safe Horizon Inc.
8,750
South Brooklyn Legal Services

Incorporated (Brooklyn Legal
Services)
17,500
South Brooklyn Legal Services
Incorporated (Brooklyn Legal
Services)
7,500
South Brooklyn Legal Services
Incorporated (Brooklyn Legal
Services)
10,000
The Legal Aid Society of Rochester, New York
17,500
United Tenants of Albany Inc.
8,750
Volunteer Lawyers Project of CNY Inc. (VLPCNY)
17,500
Volunteers of Legal Service, Inc.
17,500

For payment to counties other than
the city of New York for costs
associated with the provision of
legal assistance and representation
to indigent parolees, thirty-one
percent of this amount may be used
for costs associated with the
provision of legal assistance and
representation to indigent parolees
in Wyoming county, not less than
six percent of the remaining amount
may be used for legal assistance
and representation to indigent
parolees related to the willard
drug and alcohol treatment program
600,000

RESOLVED, That pursuant to and as required by monies appropriated
in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2023 which enacts the aid to
localities, local assistance account, for services and expenses of
criminal and/or civil legal services in counties upstate New York.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the amount
appropriated herein may be suballocated or transferred between other
state agencies, including but not limited to the department of
corrections and community supervision, the office of indigent legal
services, the office of victim services, and the office for the
prevention of domestic violence, with the approval of the temporary
president of the senate and the director of the budget.
Notwithstanding section twenty-four of the state finance law or any
provision of law to the contrary, the funds from this appropriation
shall be allocated only pursuant to a plan approved by the temporary
president of the senate and the director of the budget which sets
forth either an itemized list of grantees with the amount to be
received by each, or the methodology for allocating such
appropriation, and which is thereafter included in a senate resolution
calling for the expenditure of such funds, which resolution must be
approved by a majority vote of all members elected to the senate upon
a roll call vote, in accordance with the following schedule:

Albany Law School
87,500
CDWBA The Legal Project Inc.
204,167
Center for Elder Law and Justice
175,000
ECBA Volunteer Lawyers Project
175,000
Empire Justice Center
218,750
Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society
218,750
JustCause (Volunteer Legal Services
Project of Monroe County, Inc.)
218,750
Legal Aid Society of Mid New York, Inc.
218,750
Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Inc.

466,666
Legal Aid Society of Rochester Inc.
218,750
Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.
218,750
Legal Services of Central New York, Inc.
218,750
Neighborhood Legal Services Inc.
175,000
Rural Law Center of New York, Inc.
116,667
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo Inc.
175,000
Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County
Inc.
218,750
Western New York Law Center
175,000

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  • 09 / Jun / 2023
    • ADOPTED

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