Assemblyman Magnarelli has a strong record of bringing jobs to Central New York, and is committed to building on his successes. His efforts so far have helped create or keep more than 40,000 jobs in our area, including:

• $2.5 million for the Workforce Development Initiative
• $2.3 million in funding support for the New York Indoor Environmental Quality Center, Inc.
• $37 million for the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental Systems

• Expanded the Power for Jobs program to create or retain 10,491 jobs – including 3,088 jobs for St. Joseph’s Hospital and 3,696 jobs for Syracuse University

• Expanded and revised the Empire Zone program to keep 2,210 jobs and create 1,555 new jobs in our area

Assemblyman Magnarelli authored a law to accommodate expanding businesses and protect 1,500 jobs at Excellus and Hartford Insurance (Ch. 477 of 2003) by creating an authority to build two parking garages in downtown Syracuse. This will help ensure workers are able to maintain access to their workplaces, and help Syracuse remain a competitive business location.

As chair of the Assembly’s Task Force on University and Industry Cooperation, Assemblyman Magnarelli has worked to capitalize on the opportunities our region offers, investing in job-creating partnerships between local colleges and businesses, including:

• $100,000 for the Syracuse University Renaissance Internship & Recruitment Program, which retains talented, educated students for the local economy
• $240,000 for the daVinci program, which attracts high-tech workers to the area
• $95,000 for the Metropolitan Development Association Vision 2010 to review our information, bio- and electronic technology sectors

Assemblyman Magnarelli also sponsored a bill establishing a patent fair that will help develop and market patents produced by local academic researchers. The fair will help area businesses reap the benefits of specialized knowledge developed locally, and attract more research dollars to universities.

Brownfields have been holding back local economies across New York. Assemblyman Magnarelli helped pass a law that cleans up toxic sites so they can go back on the tax rolls and start creating jobs in our communities (Ch. 1 of 2003). The law provides:

• $120 million to the Superfund program, plus nearly $170 million available for companies willing to develop once-polluted industrial sites
• $135 million in tax incentives to stimulate cleanup and reuse of brownfield sites

Small businesses are the lifeblood of the state’s economy, creating eight out of ten jobs in New York. To help small businesses and entrepreneurs compete, prosper and create good jobs for Central New York families, Assemblyman Magnarelli:

• Fought to restore $2.3 million that the governor attempted to cut from Empire Zones (Ch. 55 of 2003), and called for a reevaluation of the program to ensure it is effectively improving the upstate economy (A.9021-A)
• Supported Centers of Excellence, which are collaborations between businesses and universities to help smaller firms prosper (Ch. 84 of 2002)
• Helped create Healthy NY, which allows small employers to offer affordable health insurance coverage to employees and their dependents through state-sponsored benefit packages (Ch. 1 of 1999)
• Supported the law that made the Excelsior Linked Deposit Program permanent, enabling small businesses to secure low-cost loans (Ch. 553 of 1999)
• Helped expand the Power for Jobs program to reduce energy costs for job-creating businesses, and to protect local jobs (Ch. 226 of 2002)