Senate Resolution No. 1247

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 economic development and community services
organizations. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law to the contrary, the amounts appropriated
herein may be suballocated or transferred between
other agencies, including but not limited to, the
department of economic development with the approval
of the temporary president of the senate and the
director of the budget. Notwithstanding section 24
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 (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 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
economic development and community services organizations.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
amounts appropriated herein may be suballocated or transferred between
other agencies, including but not limited to, the department of
economic development with the approval of the temporary president of
the senate and the director of the budget. Notwithstanding section 24
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 thereafter included in a senate
resolution calling for the expenditure of such funds, which resolution
must be approved by majority vote of all members elected to the senate
upon a roll call vote, in accordance with the following schedule:

Bayside Village Business Improvement District
Inc.
30,000
Brooklyn Alliance Inc.
25,000
Destination Ditmars Merchants Association
20,000
Dougalston Local Development Corporation
10,000
Downtown Flushing Transit HUB

District Management Association,
Inc.
50,000
Merchants of Third Avenue Civic Improvement
Association Inc
10,000
Michigan Street African American Heritage
Corridor Commission Inc
10,000
Park Slope Fifth Avenue District Management
Association Inc
10,000
Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens
Inc.
10,000
Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens
Inc.
10,000
Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens
Inc.
10,000
Queens Economic Development Corporation
10,000
Rockaway Development & Revitalization
Corporation (RDRC)
35,000
Sunnyside District Management
Association, Inc. (Sunnyside
Shines)
100,000
The Ossining Micro Fund Inc
20,000
Woodhaven District Management Association, Inc.
10,000
Westchester Multicultural Chamber
25,000
Women's Enterprise Development Center, Inc.
20,000