Posted on 09/18/2020 2:27:23 PM PDT by lowbridge
With the pandemic devastating state tax revenues, Gov. Andrew Cuomo quite rightly had his Division of the Budget hold back $4 billion in funds for local governments, nonprofits and school districts. But he’s declined to stint on the pork.
As the Empire Center reports, that same Division of the Budget has ordered the Dormitory Authority (which, despite the name, dumps cash on all manner of projects) to release grants totaling a whopping $46 million from April through July.
The 226 grants are funding by bonds issued without voter approval. Most of them were authorized via the State and Municipal Facilities Program, a $2 billion slush fund that the governor uses for political pork.
Nearly all that cash is for non-essential spending far less important than what the DOB has (again, wisely) withheld. But it wins points with other politicians and local special interests.
The biggest outlay, $5.6 million, goes to build a playground in Brooklyn. So school aid gets slashed, but the kids get a place to play.
Cuomo has always spent big on ridiculous projects (anyone want to buy an upstate “film hub”?), but this is a new low. And from a guy who just chastised Mayor de Blasio for all the “waste” in the city budget.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Doesn’t he have some elderly folks to murder?
There are some left?
The ASPCA is for NYC only, although they are not shy about siphoning funds away from SPCA chapters across the entire nation, but I digress, the ASPCA can't find enough strays in NYC to stock their shelters with adoptable pets, so they import them from elsewhere...
Im still hoping the families of the slain are working together with a gaggle of lawyers to pounce on him when he steps down from the governorship and is not protected by the office anymore
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