Senate Resolution No. 2351

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

AMENDING Senate Resolution 1247 of 2025 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 and reappropriated
pursuant to to a chapter of the laws of 2026 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 which
shall amend, remove from, or add to the schedule originally approved in
Senate Resolution 1247 of 2025:

Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
20,000
Brooklyn Heights Association, Inc
15,000
Business Outreach Center Network, Inc.
15,000

Castleton Merchants
10,000
Merchants of Third Avenue Civic Improvement
Association, Inc.
10,000
Salvadoran American Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
25,000
Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally Expo, Inc.
22,000
Castle Hill District Management Association Inc.

10,000
Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens
Inc.
20,000
Destination Ditmars Merchants Association
30,000
Douglaston Local Development Corporation
10,000
Downtown Committee of Syracuse, Inc.
35,000
Downtown Flushing Transit HUB
District Management Association,
Inc.
30,000
Downtown Middletown District Management
Association, Inc.
10,000
Metro Village of Forest Hills, Inc.
10,000
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP - Middletown)
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 (Carnival)
30,000
Sunnyside District Management
Association, Inc. (Sunnyside
Shines)
100,000
The Ossining Micro Fund, Inc.
15,000
Throggs Neck District Management Association,
Inc.
10,000
Westchester Multicultural Chamber
25,000

Westchester Square District Management
Association, Inc.
10,000
Women's Enterprise Development Center, Inc.
25,000
Woodbury Chamber of Commerce
30,000
Woodhaven Business Improvement District
10,000