{"id":566,"date":"2014-04-09T05:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T05:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2014-04-10T05:31:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T05:31:59","slug":"senator-malcolm-smiths-budget-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Senator Malcolm Smith’s Budget Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUEENS! GETTING WHAT IT DESERVE<\/span><\/p>\n

By: C. Harrison\/April 8, 2014<\/p>\n

Queens, NY\u00a0 According to letters that were sent out in October 2013, It outlined priorities for the 2014 budget that Senator Malcolm Smith pursued. The items included: housing, foreclosures mitigation and assistance, anti-gun and gang violence programs, technology upgrades, schools and capital investments in healthcare. Smith said, \u00a0“In the coming months\u00a0I will be reporting\u00a0 on how\u00a0my seniority, years of experience and relationships in the legislature\u00a0 has and will benefit constituents through these budget accomplishment.”<\/p>\n

The budget\u00a0was caped at 2% or less for the fourth year in a row. Schools got a 5% increase in school aid, it established Universal pre-K, it protects charter schools and makes important investment in healthcare, the environment and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Key accomplishments included: 613 million from the JPMorgan settlement to help mitigate areas impacted by foreclosure, thanks to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Queens was ground zero for the foreclosure crisis. “It will go a long way toward mitigating the negative impact foreclosures have had on our community,” said Smith.<\/p>\n

$3million is going to Operation SNUG Anti-Gun Gang Violence Program, a program started in 2009, that made a direct impact on gangs and gun violence in Southeast Queens<\/p>\n

$30million will be going to York College–for construction of the Academic Village and Conference Center.\u00a0 ” I have been fighting to make York a focal point of Southeast Queens and this $30 million in funding will go a long way towards its progress in becoming a central economic and academic institution, serving the entire community,” Smith said.<\/p>\n

Other priorities for this budget in the 14 district are as follows:<\/p>\n

$ 1 million for Affordable Housing<\/p>\n

$ 2 billion for Smart School Technology Program<\/p>\n

$ 55 million for Health Information Network<\/p>\n

$ 1.2 billion for healthcare capital projects<\/p>\n

$ 1.5 billion for Universal Pre-K ($300 million each year for five years)<\/p>\n

$ 150, 000 for Local Development Corporations-Laurelton, Rosedale, Springfield Gardens<\/p>\n

$ 7.6 million for four nursing homes (including\u00a0St Albans VA)<\/p>\n

$ 32 million for charter school stimulus<\/p>\n

$ 8 million for after school programs<\/p>\n

$1.1 billion for New York City public schools (foundation aid)<\/p>\n

$ 1.6 million Neighborhood Preservation Program (NPP)<\/p>\n

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QUEENS! GETTING WHAT IT DESERVE By: C. Harrison\/April 8, 2014 Queens, NY\u00a0 According to letters that were sent out in October 2013, It outlined priorities for the 2014 budget that Senator Malcolm Smith pursued. The items included: housing, foreclosures mitigation and assistance, anti-gun and gang violence programs, technology upgrades, schools and capital investments in healthcare. … Continue reading Senator Malcolm Smith’s Budget Has Arrived<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bundiblog.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}