Senate Resolution No. 2345
BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS
AMENDING SENATE RESOLUTION R2697 of 2024
establishing a plan setting forth an itemized list
of grantees for a certain appropriation for the
2024-25 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 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 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 2697 of 2024 and as amended by R1236 of 2025:
Broome County Public Library - Four CountyLibrary System 2,000Cortland Free Library - Finger Lakes LibrarySystem 2,000Fenton Free Library - Four County Library System2,000
[Xposure Foundation, Inc. - Educational
Programming
10,000]
