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November 10, 2023
What’s Inside
- Legislature Issues “Quick Start” Mid-Year Reports
- Governor Launches Enhanced Database of Economic Incentives Surrounding Economic Development Projects
- Governor Details Comprehensive Overview of Crime Trends Across NYS
- Higgins to Resign
- Mayor Adams’ Electronic Devices Seized by FBI
- In the News
- Coming Up
Legislature Issues “Quick Start” Mid-Year Reports
As part of the formal budget process, New York State Division of Budget (DOB) will hold its FY 2025 “Quick Start” meeting on Tuesday, November 14 at 11:00 a.m., in the State Capitol in room 124. In attendance of this meeting will be DOB, the Senate Finance Committee, the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, and the Office of the State Comptroller. All attending parties will discuss their respective revenue and disbursement estimates for FY 2025. The meeting can be watched here.
Additionally, both the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees have issued their respective “Quick Start” Mid-Year Reports which can be found linked below.
Governor Launches Enhanced Database of Economic Incentives Surrounding Economic Development Projects
Governor Hochul has launched the enhanced Database of Economic Incentives. First launched in 2021, the Database of Economic Incentives provides detailed, up-to-date data on economic development projects throughout New York State. The data is updated quarterly, published online and complements the information available on ESD’s reports page. New York State’s Database of Economic Incentives is nation-leading in terms of number of programs and projects included, frequency of updates, and the number of data fields provided for each project. The updated database is available here.
The Database has expanded from 26 to 55 data fields and contains thousands of projects from 45 programs spanning multiple state agencies.
Governor Hochul said:
ESD CEO and Commissioner Hope Knight said:
Governor Details Comprehensive Overview of Crime Trends Across NYS
Governor Hochul has detailed the first comprehensive overview of crime trends across New York State for 2023, highlighting a six percent decrease in violent crime outside of New York City during first six months of this year as compared to the first half of 2022.
Data collectively reported by police departments and sheriffs’ offices in 57 counties showed decreases in each of the four violent crime categories: murder (-27 percent), rape (-16 percent), robbery (-5 percent) and aggravated assault (-4 percent). During the same timeframe, there also was significant progress in New York City, with five of the seven serious crime categories tracked by the New York City Police Department in its weekly CompStat report declining. The most significant decreases in the five boroughs were reported in the number of reported murders (-10 percent), and rapes and burglaries (-10 percent each).
Governor Hochul said:
U.S. Representative Higgins to Resign
According to multiple reports, Congressman Brian Higgins will be stepping down from Congress to take over as the president of Shea’s Performing Arts Center. Higgins has represented much of the city of Buffalo and Western New York in Congress since 2005. State Senator Tim Kennedy is considered likely to run for the soon to be vacant seat, though others such as Mayor Byron Brown could pursue the seat as well.
Mayor Adams’ Electronic Devices Seized by FBI
According to a report from the New York Times, the FBI seized electronic devices belonging to Mayor Adams including the mayor’s phones and an iPad. This follows just one week after the home of the mayor’s chief fund-raiser was raided; the FBI seizing two laptop computers, three iPhones and a manila folder labeled “Eric Adams.”
The warrant obtained by the F.B.I. to search the staffer’s home sought evidence of a conspiracy to violate campaign finance law between members of Mr. Adams’s campaign, the Turkish government or Turkish nationals, and a Brooklyn-based developer, KSK Construction, whose owners are originally from Turkey. The warrant also sought records about donations from Bay Atlantic University, a Washington, D.C., college whose founder is Turkish and is affiliated with a school Mr. Adams visited when he went to Turkey as Brooklyn borough president in 2015.
In The News
City & State NY’s Weekly Winners and Losers here.
Lee Zeldin: New York Court of Appeals ‘getting used’ on redistricting.
Could new hydrogen discovery provide cheaper form of ‘green’ hydrogen?
Republicans are hammering Democrats on the migrant crisis. Will it work?
New York judges poised to get a raise.
Bill awaiting Hochul’s signature would remove medical debt from credit reports.
New York gun violence survivors hope Supreme Court upholds gun law that protects domestic violence victims.
Disgraced ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo getting paid for legal consulting work in exile.
New York voters approve both constitutional amendments on debt.
Upstate voters stick with incumbents; GOP gets win in Suffolk.
Former lieutenant governor candidate Alison Esposito looks to take on Rep. Pat Ryan in Hudson Valley congressional contest.
Organizations as Hochul for more supportive housing funds.
Hochul stumps in the background on Election Day.
How unelected local officials dole out wind and solar tax breaks.
Examining if the migrant debate impacted local elections.
GOP sees gains in heavily blue NY. Here’s what it says for 2024.
Coming Up
The Board of Regents will hold their next meeting on November 13 and 14.
The Public Service Commission will hold its next meeting on November 16.
The Commission on Ethics in Lobbying and Government will hold its next meeting on November 29.