Senate Resolution No. 1245

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

establishing a plan setting forth an itemized
list of grantees for a certain appropriation for the
2025-26 state fiscal year for services and expenses,
grants or reimbursement of expenses incurred by
local government agencies and/or community-based
service providers, not-for-profit service providers
or their employees providing 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. 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 office of victim services,
the office for the prevention of domestic violence,
the division of homeland security and emergency
services, and the office of indigent legal services,
with the approval of the temporary president of
senate and the director of the budget. Provided
further, notwithstanding any provision of law to the
contrary, funds from this appropriation shall be
allocated only pursuant to a plan (i) 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 (ii) 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

RESOLVED, that pursuant to and as required by money appropriated
in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2025 which enacts the aid to
localities, local assistance account, for services and expenses,
grants or reimbursement of expenses incurred by local government
agencies and/or community-based service providers, not-for-profit
service providers or their employees providing 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. 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 office of victim services, the office for the prevention of
domestic violence, the division of homeland security and emergency
services, and the office of indigent legal services, with the approval
of the temporary president of senate and the director of the budget.
Such plan shall set forth either an itemized list of grantees with the

amount to be received by each, or the methodology for allocating such
appropriation, and thereafter shall be included in a senate 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:

County of Oswego (Sheriff's Office)
30,000
Town of Goshen (Police Department)
10,000
Town of Mount Hope (Police Department)
10,000
Town of New Windsor (Police Department)
10,000
Town of Tuxedo (Police Department)
10,000
Town of Wallkill (Police Department)
10,000
Town of Warwick (Police Department)
10,000
Covenant House (Under 21)
50,000
Urban Resource Institute
40,000
Village of Highland Falls (Police Department)
10,000
Village of North Syracuse (Police Department)
15,000
Village of Phoenix (Police Department)
15,000
Volunteer Lawyers Project of Central New York
Inc. (VLPCNY)
55,000
Volunteers of America - Greater New York, Inc
10,000
We All Really Matter Inc (WARM Inc)
20,000
Western New York Law Center, Inc.
24,000
Women's Initiative for Self-Empowerment Inc
(MALIKAH)
100,000
Youth Represent, Inc
30,000
YWCA Cortland
20,000
Baldwin Fire Department
10,000
Uniondale Fire Department (Board of
Fire Commissioners, Uniondale Fire
District)
10,000
Hempstead Volunteer Fire Department
15,000
Lakeview Fire District (Fire Department)
10,000
Roosevelt Fire District
10,000

The Carle Place Hook, Ladder & Hose Co. #1 (Fire
Department)
10,000
Westbury Fire District
10,000
City of Lackawanna (Fire Department)
20,000
4Ward Inclusion Consulting Incorporated
10,000
Back to Basics Outreach Ministries, Inc.
60,000
Brooklyn Legal Services Corp. A
30,000
Good Old Lower East Side Inc (GOLES)
20,000
Haitian Americans United for Progress Inc (HAUP)

20,000
Center for Justice Innovation, Inc.
20,000
Mobilization for Justice Inc. (MFJ)
20,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
10,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
20,000
Police Athletic League, Inc
20,000
Queens Legal Services
25,000
Urban Justice Center
20,000
Empire Justice Center (Yonkers Office)
200,000
Hudson Valley Justice Center, Inc.
50,000
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG)
50,000
Youth Justice Network
90,000
City of Yonkers (Police Department)
100,000