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 20,000Black Spectrum Theatre Company Inc. Roy WilkinsPark 20,000The Bronx River Art Center Inc. 25,000Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. 10,000Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation 15,000Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation 15,000Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation 25,000Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation 25,000Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music (The) 15,000Buffalo String Works, Inc. 10,000Building for the Arts NY, Inc. 10,000Burchfield-Penney Art Center 25,000Center for Transformative Action 24,000Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc. 25,000Chashama Inc. 10,000Community Music School of Buffalo 20,000Conrad Poppenhusen Association 10,000Culture Lab LIC Inc. 10,000Dances for a Variable Population, Inc. 15,000International Communications Association Inc.D/B/A/ Dwyer Cultural Center 10,000Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center - Lucy MosesSchool for Music and Dance 10,000Empire State Aerosciences Museum 25,000Endicott Performing Arts Center Inc. 36,000Fine Arts Orchestral Society Of Yonkers, Inc. 15,000Harlem Media Group Inc. 10,000Harlem Swings, Inc. 15,000I Have A Dream Foundation (National) 10,000Institute of the Black World 21st Century, Inc. 25,000Inwood Art Works, Inc. 15,000Jazzmobile Inc. 25,000Korean Community Services of Metropolitan NewYork Inc. 45,000Laundromat Project, Inc. 45,000Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. 15,000Mamaroneck Community Chorus, Inc. 10,000Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc. 10,000Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc. 20,000Mental Health Awareness & Creative Arts Gallery,Inc. 10,000Metroland Inc. 25,000The National Black Theatre Workshop Inc. 20,000New 42nd Street, Inc. 10,000New 42nd Street, Inc. 20,000New York Shakespeare Festival 20,000Northeast Corridor Freedom Network Inc. 10,000Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance 10,000Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.(The) 15,000Picture House Regional Film Center, Inc. 15,000Puerto Rican Festival Inc. 20,000Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc. 10,000Red Hook Art Project, Inc. 20,000Salvatore Larussa Dance Company, Inc. 10,000Starring Buffalo Inc. 25,000Statewide Country Music Association Inc. 15,000American Museum of Natural History 10,000Athens Cultural Arts Center, Inc. 10,000Bronx Museum of the Arts (The) 10,000Bronx Opera Company Inc. 10,000Visual Arts Research and Resource CenterRelating to the Caribbean 60,000The Jazz Drama Program 15,000The Midtown Management Group Inc. 10,000The Midtown Management Group Inc. 20,000The Midtown Management Group Inc. 10,000The Midtown Management Group Inc. 30,000The Midtown Management Group Inc. 10,000The National Arts Club, Inc. 10,000New York Shakespeare Festival 20,000Theatre Development Fund, Inc. 25,000Thespis Theater Inc. 15,000Tri-Cities Opera Company Inc. 20,000Tropicalfete, Inc. 15,000Uptown Stories, Inc. 15,000Westbury Arts, Inc. 10,000Westchester Children's Museum 20,000Westchester Youth Alliance, Inc. 10,000Yonkers Arts, Inc. 30,000National Council on Alcoholism and DrugDependence/Westchester Inc. 50,000Suballocate to State University of New York:SUNY Broome Community College 18,000State University of New York at Binghamton 10,000Suballocate to State Education Department:Association of Community Employment Programs forthe Homeless, Inc. - Educational Programming 10,000Fly the COOP, Inc. - Educational Programming 10,000Friends for a Better Buffalo - EducationalProgramming 10,000Generation Citizen, Inc. - EducationalProgramming 10,000Generation Citizen, Inc. - EducationalProgramming 10,000Girls for Gender Equity, Inc. (GGE) -Educational Programming 20,000Girls with Knowledge, Inc. - EducationalProgramming 50,000
