1. Assembly Member
Robert J. Rodriguez
68th Assembly District
2016-2017
“Build for the Future”
New York State Budget
And the Impacts on El Barrio/East Harlem
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2. Agenda
Opening Remarks
Budget Process
Executive Budget Overview
Budget Policy Areas
• Housing (Walter Roberts – Hope Community)
• Seniors (Beth Finkel – AARP)
• Education
• Higher Education
• Health (Barbara King – Mt. Sinai)
• Human Services
• Criminal Justice (Debbie Boar – Court Innovation)
• Transportation (John Raskin – Riders Alliance)
• Infrastructure/ Economic Development
• Youth Programs and Services
Questions and Closing
6. Executive Budget Proposals
$15 an hour minimum wage
Invest in community schools
CUNY cuts
Investment in infrastructure
Paid Family Leave
7. Housing - Walter Roberts
▪ $100 million for NYCHA improvements (2015)
▪ Assembly requesting 5 year $500 million investment in
NYCHA
▪ Assembly rejects the Governor’s affordable housing
state board
▪ Governor proposes $25 million for Mitchell-Lama
▪ Assembly proposes $250 million, $50 million per year,
for the repair and revitalization of Mitchell-Lama
properties
▪ Invest $20 billion over five years in affordable housing
and homelessness plans
8. Aging Issues- Beth Finkel
• Secure Choice Savings Program Act helps New Yorkers
prepare for retirement
• Institute a 12 week paid family leave program
• Establish an Advanced Home Health Aide program
• Invest in the State Office for the Aging to provide
crucial health and caregiving services
• The Assembly disputes the governor’s proposal to
reduce funding for Naturally Occurring Retirement
Communities (1199 Plaza Services)
9. Education
• Governor proposes $24.2 billion
school budget. Assembly
proposes $25.4 billion
• Governor supports $100 million
for community schools.
Assembly proposes an additional
$100 million
• Cuts from the Gap Elimination
Adjustment will be fully restored
by 2017 (Governor’s proposal).
Assembly proposes elimination
in 2016
• Governor proposes extending
mayoral control of NYC schools
by 3 years. Assembly proposes 7
years
10. Education Continued
•The State owes NYC $2 billion from the Campaign for
Fiscal Equity (CFE) lawsuit
•$27 million in charter school grants and unfreeze charter
funding formula.
•$40 million request for teacher centers
•$2 billion Smart Schools bonds for technology in schools
11. Higher Education
• SUNY and CUNY tuition increases by $300 a year for
next five years
• CUNY costs shifted to NYC
• The Assembly rejects the tuition increases and cuts to
CUNY
• DREAM Act – Providing tuition assistance for
undocumented immigrants
• TAP/ HEOP increases
12. Medical Global Cap – Barbara King
3.4%
Global
Cap
increase
• 10-year rolling
average of
medical CPI
• Adjusted for
proposed
increase in NYC
local share
• Extends one year,
through 2017-18,
with
Commissioner
“superpowers”
13. Governor’s Budget Doesn’t
Address Hospital Losses Due
to Health Republic Collapse
Close to $200 million owed to
hospitals alone
Full scope of
Health Republic
liabilities not yet
known
Does not
include
physicians,
pharmacies,
other providers
Hospitals with
largest
receivables are
in NYC, LI,
Westchester,
Erie
Very likely there
will be
insufficient
funds to pay a
significant
portion of claims
14. Breast and Prostate Cancer
Screening
•Five-year, $91M statewide plan designed to:
–Increase rates of breast cancer screening by 10%
over five years
–Help women access treatment
–Educate men about prostate cancer risks
•Partnership with GNYHA/1199SEIU Healthcare
Education Project on a breast cancer awareness media
campaign targeting low-income, underserved
populations
–Referrals to NYSDOH Cancer Services Hotline for
information on screening locations
15. Homelessness
▪ $10.4 billion commitment to create housing for the
homeless
▪ Ending the AIDS epidemic – Where’s the money?
▪ New authority for comptrollers to audit homeless shelters
▪ Anti-poverty Initiative:
•An increase of $9.5 million for homeless housing programs
•$50 million for the emergency shelter capital
•$30 million over two years to support scatter site
supportive housing units
•$44 million to authorize rental subsidies through the
Family Eviction Prevention Supplement
16. Addiction/Quality of Life Issues
▪ Enact legislation to combat K2
▪ Combat the heroin epidemic by expanding prevention and
treatment services
▪ Carry out the 125th St. Action Plan
17. Criminal Justice –Debbie Boar
The Good News
• Statewide crime continues
to decline. From 2005 to
2014 the crime rate in
New York State declined
18%
• Major crimes committed in
NYS reached the lowest
levels ever reported in
2014
• The state’s prison
population declined from a
high of 72,600 in 1999, to
approximately 53,000
The Challenge
• Crime rates in communities of color
are higher than non-minority
communities
• Racial disparities in the criminal
justice process persist resulting in low
levels of trust between law
enforcement and communities of
color
• Higher rates of incarceration and
persons leaving prison and jail to
communities of color harms
neighborhood cohesion
• Over use of incarceration is expensive
and less effective at reducing crime
18. Criminal Justice NYS Proposals
• Raising the age: cases involving 16 and 17 year olds would be
handled in Family Court where the best interests of the child is
considered along with public safety
• Reduce solitary confinement: minimize use of solitary
confinement and end the practice of releasing persons from
solitary confinement in prison to the community
• Access to college education: invest $7.5 million dollars to expand
college education programs in prisons. This seed effort would be
funded by asset forfeiture dollars
• Alternatives to incarceration: $1 million for ATI programs
upstate, $1 million to support county re-entry task forces, and
$5.8 million for re-employment services for the formerly
incarcerated
19. Transportation - John Raskin
• Ridership increases to six million riders
• MTA Capital Plan 2015-2019, $26 billion
• $8.3 State commitment, $2.5 billion City
• Second Avenue Subway cuts
• Increase revenue generation through MoveNY, Uber
surcharges, and value capture
• Assembly proposes to partially restore cuts to Second
Avenue Subway and $7.5 billion for the MTA capital plan
20. Infrastructure and Economic
Development
▪ Second Avenue Subway/ Penn Station Access/ Bronx
Metro North Stations
▪ $22 billion for bridges and roads
▪ Assembly rejects $1 billion for Thruway Authority
▪ Municipal quota of 30% MWBE for state contracts
▪ $300 million for the Environmental Protection Fund,
including resiliency fund
21. Youth Programs and Services
▪ Urban Youth Jobs Program – increase of $55 million
▪ Create the first state Pre-Apprenticeship Program –
expose students to a variety of occupations
▪ $121 million from casinos will supplement afterschool
programs
▪ The Assembly proposes an $82 million increase in child
care funding
22. East River Esplanade
• Released report titled “A Tale of Two Rivers”
• Partnered with Randall's’ Island Park Alliance, CIVITAS,
and Friends of the East River Esplanade
• Secured $1.15 million for development of Pier 107
• Request for $9 million in funding for the 107th St Pier
23. Last Session Progress
• Obtained $100 million for NYCHA
• Secured $1.15 million dollars for the East River Esplanade
• Partnered with Randall’s Island Park Alliance
• Passed NYCHA/Public Property Scaffolding legislation
• Created affordable housing for seniors
24. This Years Initiatives
• Restore $1 billion for the Second Avenue Subway
• Secure Choice Savings Program Act
• Obtain $18 million for technology in East Harlem schools
• Move NY
• Gas Pipeline Repair Acceleration and adding home
methane gas detectors
• Institute MTA surcharges to raise money for
transportation
