Senate Resolution No. 1246

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
of senate priorities for housing initiatives.
Notwithstanding section 24 of the state finance law
or any provision of the 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 of
senate priorities for housing initiatives. Notwithstanding section 24
of the state finance law or any provision of the 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 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:

Housing Court Answers, Inc.
30,000
Make the Road New York
50,000
The Murray Hill Committee Inc (d/b/a
Murray Hill Neighborhood
Association)
15,000
Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn CDC,
Inc.
15,000
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc
25,000
NORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORP (NMIC)
50,000
PALANTE Harlem, Inc.
35,000
West Bronx Housing and Neighborhood Resource
Center Inc
100,000

Neighborhood Housing Services of Jamaica Inc
25,000