american rescue plan

The land bank will use the money to save roughly a dozen properties on Broome County’s tax foreclosure list.

The Binghamton City Council voted Tuesday to earmark $3 million for renovations at the Town and Country Apartments, which serves low-income residents on the city's North Side. But the decision has faced pushback.

"We actually intended to be working currently, like this fall. But because of supply chain issues, fiber is one of the things that was hit particularly hard."

“It’s not because the volunteers aren’t trying, they’re doing the very best they can. But the number of volunteers are dwindling.”

Many school district leaders have a dilemma — they have all this federal money, but they can't use it to hire the teachers and staff they need.

Democrats on the council said they wanted a clearer plan of where the plans would be allocated.

New York’s small towns are currently receiving $104 per resident from the Rescue Plan, compared to over $1300 in states with a large unincorporated population.

The money is supposed to make up for what states missed out on during the pandemic in taxes and fees — and help pay for the recovery effort over the next five years.

The press conference Monday was held at the Hill Top Inn overlooking City of Elmira and the Chemung River and primarily centered around relief for restaurants in the most recent COVID bill.

We're waiting for the dust to settle on the federal level,” Gregoire said. “I think the Congressional Budget Office, CBO is going to come out with some more updated numbers for everyone.