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BILL NUMBER:S1461

TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to authorizing cooperative library systems to apply for funds under the local government efficiency grant program municipal merger incentives

PURPOSE: Authorizes cooperative library systems to apply for funds under the local government efficiency grant program municipal merger incentives.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Paragraph p of subdivision 10 of Section 54 of the state finance law, as amended by Section 6 of part GG of Chapter 56 of the Laws of 2009, is amended to include cooperative library systems in the definition of municipalities making them eligible to apply for funds under the local government efficiency grant program municipal merger incentives.

JUSTIFICATION: The Local Government Efficiency Grant Program was established in New York State to help promote and fund service sharing and consolidations to ultimately save taxpayer dollars. Funding from this program is currently available to counties, cities, town, villages, special improvement districts, fire districts, school districts, BOCES, water and sewer authorities, and regional planning and developments boards. Public library systems are also eligible under this program; however, cooperative library systems are not. Cooperative library systems' sole mission is to support public library projects that consolidate services, eliminate waste, make operations more efficient and most importantly save taxpayers money. This legislation is necessary to include the eligibility of cooperative library systems in this program thereby allowing this agency to enhance their efforts on behalf of hard pressed taxpayers.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2010 - S.6463

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.

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STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 1461                                                  A. 1414

2011-2012 Regular Sessions

S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

January 7, 2011
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IN  SENATE  -- Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, LARKIN, MAZIARZ, RANZENHOFER
  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
  the Committee on Finance

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Spon-
  sored by -- M. of A. RAIA -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
  on Libraries and Education Technology

AN  ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to authorizing coop-
  erative library systems to apply for funds under the local  government
  efficiency grant program municipal merger incentives

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph p of subdivision 10 of section 54  of  the  state
finance  law,  as  amended  by section 6 of part GG of chapter 56 of the
laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  p. Local government efficiency grant program municipal  merger  incen-
tives.  For  the purposes of this paragraph, "municipalities" shall mean
cities with a population less than one million,  towns  [and],  villages
AND  COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEMS. Within the annual amounts appropriated
therefor, surviving municipalities following a merger, consolidation  or
dissolution occurring on or after the state fiscal year commencing April
first,  two  thousand  seven  may be awarded additional aid in the state
fiscal year following such merger, consolidation or dissolution equal to
fifteen percent of the combined amount of real property taxes levied  by
all  of the municipalities participating in the merger, consolidation or
dissolution in the local fiscal year prior to the local fiscal  year  in
which   such  merger,  consolidation  or  dissolution  took  effect.  In
instances of the dissolution of a village located in more than one town,
such additional aid shall equal the sum of fifteen percent of  the  real
property  taxes  levied by such village in the village fiscal year prior
to the village fiscal year in which such dissolution  took  effect  plus

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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fifteen  percent  of the average amount of real property taxes levied by
the towns in which the village was located in the town fiscal year prior
to the town fiscal year in which such dissolution took effect, and shall
be  divided  among  such towns based on the percentage of such village's
population that resided in each such town as of the most recent  federal
decennial  census.  Such additional aid shall be apportioned and paid to
the chief fiscal officer of each consolidated or merged municipality  on
audit and warrant of the state comptroller out of moneys appropriated by
the  legislature  for such purpose to the credit of the local assistance
fund in the general fund of the state treasury in the same "on or before
month and day" manner as the municipality's base  level  grant  is  paid
pursuant  to  subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph i of this subdivision. Any
municipality receiving a merger incentive award pursuant to  this  para-
graph shall use such aid only for general municipal purposes. In no case
shall  the  additional aid pursuant to this paragraph exceed one million
dollars. Such additional aid shall in subsequent state fiscal  years  be
considered  prior  year aid for the purposes of determining such merged,
consolidated or surviving municipality's base level  grant  pursuant  to
paragraph b of this subdivision.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.