Senate Resolution No. 2347

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

AMENDING SENATE RESOLUTION R1241 of 2025
establishing a plan setting forth an itemized list
of grantees for a certain appropriation for the
2024-25 state fiscal year for services and expenses
of human services and veterans community services
organizations. Notwithstanding any provision of law
to the contrary, the amounts appropriated herein may
be suballocated or transferred between other
agencies, including the office of temporary and
disability assistance and the department of
veterans' services, with the approval of the
temporary president of the senate and the director
of the budget. 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 any money
appropriated in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2024,
reappropriated pursuant to section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of
2025, and reappropriated pursuant to a chapter of the laws of 2026
which enacts the aid to localities, local assistance account, for
services and expenses of human services and veterans community
services organizations. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
contrary, the amounts appropriated herein may be suballocated or
transferred between other agencies, including the office of temporary
and disability assistance and the department of veterans' services.
Such funds shall be apportioned pursuant to a plan approved by the
temporary president of the 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, which
shall amend, remove from, or add to the schedule originally approved
in Senate Resolution 1241 of 2025:

Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene Counties
Board of Cooperative Educational
Services D/B/A Questar III BOCES
50,000
[Children's Aid Children's Aid
Programs for Africa, Inc.] Children's Aid

Society
25,000
[Friends of Liberty] Friends of the
New York State Liberty Partnerships, Inc.
30,000
[Health and Wellness Council of Long
Island] Health and Welfare Council of Long
Island
25,000
[Hellenic and Pancyprian Youth Leadership
Institute
50,000]
[SI Black Heritage
10,000]
Empowerment Zone Inc.
10,000
Ukrainian New Wave [School] Corporation
10,000

Suballocate to Office of Temporary and Disability
Assistance:
African Communities Together, Inc.
10,000
Afrikana
10,000
Arab American Family Support Center
15,000
Cyber Collective Inc.
10,000
Brigada de Esperanza Inc.
10,000
Camp Friendship
10,000
Catskill Food Pantry, Inc.
20,000
Central New York Diaper Bank, Inc.
15,000
City Harvest, Inc.
20,000
Columbia County Recovery Kitchen Inc. D/B/A
Columbia Kitchen
20,000
The Committee for Hispanic Children and
Families, Inc.
30,000
Community Center Services Organization Corp.
25,000
Council of Peoples Organization, Inc.
30,000
Deaf Refugee Advocacy, Inc
10,000
Diaper Bank of Orange, Ulster, and Sullivan Inc.

10,000
Dutchess Outreach, Inc.
25,000
Empire Justice Center, Inc.
100,000

Every Bottom Covered, Inc.
10,000
Human Development Services of Westchester, Inc.
10,000
Neighborhood Care Services Inc.
15,000
Together We Are
35,000
Warwick Reformed Church
10,000
Youth Shelter Program of Westchester, Inc.
50,000
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation
10,000

Suballocate to Department of Veterans' Services:
My Brother Vinny, Inc.
50,000
The Hudson Valley National Center For
Veteran Reintegration, Inc.
15,000
Veterans Employment Training Services D/B/A
V.E.T.S.
25,000
Veterans Outreach Center Inc.
25,000

Suballocate to Department of Agriculture and Markets:
Central New York Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
40,000
Dare to Be Different Westchester, Incorporated
25,000
Giving Alternative Learners Uplifting
Opportunities, Inc.
10,000
Grow Amsterdam NY Inc.
25,000
The Lincoln Park Conservancy, Inc.
25,000
Neighbors Foundation of Grand Island, Inc.
10,000
New York Restoration Project
20,000
Spring Creek Recreational Fund
15,000
Teens for Food Justice, Inc.
10,000
West Side Center for Community Life, Inc.
10,000
West Side Center for Community Life, Inc.
15,000

Suballocate to Division of Criminal Justice Services:
Goddard Riverside Community Center
(Goddard Riverside Law Project)
12,500

Suballocate to the Department of Health:
Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

10,000

Suballocate to Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic
Preservation:
BRRAlliance, Inc.
15,000
Figure Skating In Harlem
10,000
FRIENDS OF PHIL RIZZUTO 'SMOKEY' PARK, NY INC
20,000
Marine Park Alliance Corp.
10,000
Orange County Chinese Association
10,000
Orange County Historical Society Inc
15,000
Oswego Harbor Festivals Inc
30,000
Postage Stamp Ping Pong Inc
10,000
The Murray Hill Committee Group Inc
10,000
POINT Community Development Corp
20,000
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation
10,000
A BETTER JAMAICA, INC.
10,000
STATEN ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.
10,000

Suballocate to the Department of Environmental Conservation:
COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC
10,000
COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC
20,000
COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC
10,000