Senate Resolution No. 2352

BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS

AMENDING SENATE RESOLUTION 1248 OF 2025 establishing
a plan setting forth an itemized list of grantees
for a certain appropriation for the 2025-26 state
fiscal year for additional grants in aid to certain
school districts, public libraries, public colleges
and universities, and education and arts
not-for-profit institutions. Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, the amounts
appropriated herein may be suballocated or
transferred between other agencies, including the
state education department, city university of New
York, state university of New York, and New York
state council on the arts 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 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 and reappropriated
pursuant to a chapter of the laws of 2026 which enacts the aid to
localities, local assistance account for additional grants in aid to
certain school districts, public libraries, public colleges and
universities, and education and arts not-for-profit institutions.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the amounts
appropriated herein may be suballocated or transferred between other
agencies, including the state education department, city university
of New York, state university of New York, and New York state council
on the arts 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 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 1248 OF 2025:

Suballocate to New York State Council on the Arts:

BAFA Inc. Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts
20,000
Black Spectrum Theatre Company Inc. Roy Wilkins
Park
20,000
The Bronx River Art Center Inc.
25,000
Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc.
10,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
15,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
15,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
25,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation
25,000
Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music (The)
15,000
Buffalo String Works, Inc.
10,000
Building for the Arts NY, Inc.
10,000
Burchfield-Penney Art Center
25,000
Center for Transformative Action
24,000
Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc.
25,000
Chashama Inc.
10,000
Community Music School of Buffalo
20,000
Conrad Poppenhusen Association
10,000
Culture Lab LIC Inc.
10,000
Dances for a Variable Population, Inc.
15,000
International Communications Association Inc.
D/B/A/ Dwyer Cultural Center
10,000
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center - Lucy Moses
School for Music and Dance
10,000
Empire State Aerosciences Museum
25,000
Endicott Performing Arts Center Inc.
36,000
Fine Arts Orchestral Society Of Yonkers, Inc.
15,000
Harlem Media Group Inc.
10,000
Harlem Swings, Inc.
15,000
I Have A Dream Foundation (National)
10,000

Institute of the Black World 21st Century, Inc.
25,000
Inwood Art Works, Inc.
15,000
Jazzmobile Inc.
25,000
Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New
York Inc.
45,000
Laundromat Project, Inc.
45,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
15,000
Mamaroneck Community Chorus, Inc.
10,000
Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
10,000
Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
20,000
Mental Health Awareness & Creative Arts Gallery,
Inc.
10,000
Metroland Inc.
25,000
The National Black Theatre Workshop Inc.
20,000
New 42nd Street, Inc.
10,000
New 42nd Street, Inc.
20,000
New York Shakespeare Festival
20,000
Northeast Corridor Freedom Network Inc.
10,000
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance
10,000
Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.
(The)
15,000
Picture House Regional Film Center, Inc.
15,000
Puerto Rican Festival Inc.
20,000
Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
10,000
Red Hook Art Project, Inc.
20,000
Salvatore Larussa Dance Company, Inc.
10,000
Starring Buffalo Inc.
25,000
Statewide Country Music Association Inc.
15,000
American Museum of Natural History
10,000
Athens Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
10,000

Bronx Museum of the Arts (The)
10,000
Bronx Opera Company Inc.
10,000
Visual Arts Research and Resource Center
Relating to the Caribbean
60,000
The Jazz Drama Program
15,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc.
10,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc.
20,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc.
10,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc.
30,000
The Midtown Management Group Inc.
10,000
The National Arts Club, Inc.
10,000
New York Shakespeare Festival
20,000
Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
25,000
Thespis Theater Inc.
15,000
Tri-Cities Opera Company Inc.
20,000
Tropicalfete, Inc.
15,000
Uptown Stories, Inc.
15,000
Westbury Arts, Inc.
10,000
Westchester Children's Museum
20,000
Westchester Youth Alliance, Inc.
10,000
Yonkers Arts, Inc.
30,000
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug
Dependence/Westchester Inc.
50,000
Suballocate to State University of New York:
SUNY Broome Community College
18,000
State University of New York at Binghamton
10,000
Suballocate to State Education Department:
Association of Community Employment Programs for
the Homeless, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Fly the COOP, Inc. - Educational Programming
10,000
Friends for a Better Buffalo - Educational
Programming
10,000

Generation Citizen, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Generation Citizen, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000
Girls for Gender Equity, Inc. (GGE) -
Educational Programming
20,000
Girls with Knowledge, Inc. - Educational
Programming
50,000