Senate Resolution No. 1237
BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS
Amending Senate Resolution R2698 of 2024,
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,
grants or reimbursement of expenses incurred by
local government agencies and/or community-based
service providers, not-for-profit service providers
or their employees providing community safety and
restorative justice programs, which include but are
not limited to, support for survivors of sexual
assault, domestic violence, gun violence prevention,
legal services, alternatives to incarceration,
community supervision and re-entry initiatives, gang
and crime reduction strategies. Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, the amount
appropriated herein may be suballocated or
transferred between other state agencies, including
but not limited to the office of victim services,
the office for the prevention of domestic violence,
the division of homeland security and emergency
services, and the office of indigent legal services,
with the approval of the temporary president of the
senate and the director of the budget. Provided
further, 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 money appropriated
in section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2024 and reappropriated
pursuant to section 1 of chapter 53 of the laws of 2025, which enacts
the aid to localities, local assistance account, for services and
expenses, grants or reimbursement of expenses incurred by local
government agencies and/or community-based service providers,
not-for-profit service providers or their employees providing
community safety and restorative justice programs, which include but
are not limited to, support for survivors of sexual assault, domestic
violence, gun violence prevention, legal services, alternatives to
incarceration, community supervision and re-entry initiatives, gang
and crime reduction strategies. Notwithstanding any provision of law
to the contrary, the amount appropriated herein may be suballocated or
transferred between other state agencies, including but not limited to
the office of victim services, the office for the prevention of
domestic violence, the division of homeland security and emergency
services, and the office of indigent legal services, with the approval
of 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 as
originally approved in Senate Resolution R2698 of 2024:
New York Police Department Pct 102 (YouthExplorer Program) 12,500New York Police Department Pct 104 (YouthExplorer Program) 12,500New York Police Department Pct 106 (YouthExplorer Program) 12,500New York Police Department Pct 112 (YouthExplorer Program) 12,500Access Justice Brooklyn, Inc. 10,000American Civic Association Inc. 32,000Bard College (Prison Initiative) 50,000Bronx Legal Services 50,000Brooklyn Defenders Services 25,000Capital District Womens' Bar Association LegalProject Inc. (CDWBA Legal Project) 10,000Carnegie Hall Corporation 50,000Center for Community Alternatives,Inc. (Freedom Commons Academy) 70,000Center for Community Alternatives,Inc. (Westchester ATI & ReentryPlanning Collaborative) 35,000Center for Law and Human Values, Inc.(ActionLab) 200,000Center for the Women of New York 50,000Children of Promise, NYC 50,000City of Amsterdam 50,000City of Middletown (Police Department) 10,000City of Mount Vernon (Police Department) 25,000City of Port Jervis (Police Department) 75,000Community Action of Greene County Inc. 30,000Cops and Kids New York, Inc. 20,000Town of Crawford (Police Department) 10,000Dutchess County District Attorney 20,000Family of Woodstock Inc 25,000Family Services of Westchester, Inc. (SNUG MountVernon) 50,000Family Services, Inc. (Victim Services) 30,000Flying 3Sixty NAX, Inc. 10,000Garden of Hope, Inc. 50,000Getting Out and Staying Out Inc. (GOSO) 50,000Getting Out and Staying Out Inc. (GOSO) 20,000Glen Oaks Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Inc. 20,000Glendale Civilian Observation Patrol Inc 15,000Goddard Riverside Community Center(Goddard Riverside Law Project) 30,000Good Shepherd Services (B.R.A.G program) 30,000Greater Rochester Visitors Association Inc. 100,000Her Justice Inc. 50,000Hispanic Counseling Center, Inc. (HCC) 20,000Hope's Door, Inc. 50,000Hudson Valley Justice Center Inc 50,000Incorporated Village of Freeport (FireDepartment) 10,000Incorporated Village of Garden City (PoliceDepartment) 20,000Incorporated Village of Mineola (PoliceDepartment) 10,000Jamaica Estates Holliswood SouthBayside Volunteer Ambulance Corps 10,000Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney IslandInc 65,000Center for Justice Innovation, Inc. (LeadersEmpowerment And Development Program - LEAD) 50,000Center for Justice Innovation, Inc.(New Rochelle Community JusticeCenter) 15,000Center for Justice Innovation, Inc. (MidtownCommunity Court) 10,000Center for Justice Innovation, Inc.(New Rochelle Community Justice Center) 30,000L.I. Against Domestic Violence, Inc. 25,000Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York Inc. 10,000Legal Services NYC 50,000Little Neck-Douglaston Community AmbulanceCorps, Inc. 10,000Lyell Avenue Business Association, Inc 12,500Make the Road New York 300,000Women's Initiative for Self-Empowerment Inc(MALIKAH) 10,000Manhattan Legal Services 30,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 20,000New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation(Jacobi's Stand Up to Violence) 50,000New York County Defender Services Inc. (NYCDS) 25,000New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc.(NYLPI) 40,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 35,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 10,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 30,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 20,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 25,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 40,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 25,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 30,000New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. (NYLAG) 25,000New York Shakespeare Festival 25,000New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV)Education Fund, Inc 25,000New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV)Education Fund, Inc 50,000North Brooklyn Coalition Against FamilyViolence, Inc. 30,000North of Main Binghamton, Inc. 33,000Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation(NMIC) 50,000New York Police Department Pct: 103,105, 109, 111 & 114 (Youth ExplorerProgram) 50,000Onondaga County (Sheriff's Office) 35,000Orange County (Sheriff's Office) 25,000Pace University (Pace Women's Justice Center-PWJC) 20,000Police Athletic League, Inc. 10,000Police Athletic League of Buffalo, Inc. 20,000City of Port Jervis (Police Department) 10,000Rehabilitation Through the Arts(Prison Communities InternationalInc) 50,000Putnam Northern Westchester Women's ResourceCenter, Inc. 35,000Queens Borough Safety Patrol, Inc. (QBSP) 10,000Queens Legal Services 10,000Queens Legal Services 10,000Queens Royal Priest Hood, Inc. 15,000Stop The Violence Coalition, Inc. 10,000Street Corner Resource 20,000Suffolk County (Operation Safe and LastingReturn - OSLR) 50,000Doe Fund Inc. 25,000Incorporated Village of Rockville Centre 10,000Korean American Family Service Center, Inc.(KAFSC) 50,000John Jay College (Research Foundationof the City University of New York- CUNY RF for Prison to College Pipeline) 10,000Town of Camillus (Police Department) 15,000Town of Cheektowaga (Police Department) 15,000Town of Cicero (Police Department) 15,000