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S3133Senate2011-2012 Session

Relates to modifying the composition of membership of the Buffalo municipal housing authority

Sponsor Mark GrisantiSD-60Affects Housing
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In Assembly Committee
Housing
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Mark Grisanti

Senator · Senate District 60

Chair, Environmental Conservation

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History

  1. Referred to housing
  2. Delivered to assembly
  3. Passed senateVote 44–15
  4. Advanced to third reading
  5. 2nd report cal.
  6. 1st report cal.43
  7. Print number 3133b
  8. Amend and recommit to housing, construction and community development
  9. Referred to housing, construction and community development
  10. Returned to senate
  11. Died in assembly
  12. Referred to housing
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  1. Delivered to assembly
  2. Passed senateVote 43–17
  3. Amended on third reading 3133a
  4. Advanced to third reading
  5. 2nd report cal.
  6. 1st report cal.196
  7. Referred to housing, construction and community development

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Sponsor's memo

BILL NUMBER:S3133B

Title of bill

An act to amend the public housing law, in relation to modifying the composition of the membership of the Buffalo municipal housing authority

Purpose or general idea of bill

To change NYS Public Housing Law to Grant the Buffalo Common Council the power to appoint one commissioner to the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority governing board.

Summary of specific provisions

Section 404 of the NYS public housing law is amended to allow the governing board of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority to be comprised of seven members, two elected by tenants, one member appointed by the common council and four members appointed by the mayor of Buffalo, one of whom shall be designated by the mayor as chairman removable at his or her pleasure.

The chairman and the members of the authority other than the tenant members shall receive a salary fixed by local law. The two tenant members shall receive a monthly stipend in the amount of $250.

The act shall take effect immediately

Justification

Over the past several years residents of the city of Buffalo's Marine Drive Apartments have reported numerous quality of life problems at the complex. These range from matters such as inadequate snow removal, which poses a problem for the many elderly residents of Marine Drive, to more serious safety concerns like the failure of building management to coordinate with the Buffalo Police Department with regard to illegal activity. Tenant complaints to the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA), the agency that owns the property and will assume management of the property in 2011, have risen with many of these same tenants feeling their complaints have been ignored. It is imperative that the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority Tenant Council has a board of commissioners that represent the diverse needs of the greater Buffalo area as well as those of the housing agency. This bill allows the Buffalo Common Council to appoint one housing commissioner to ensure a more transparent, accountable and representative board of commissioners on behalf of the residents of Marine Drive and to the taxpayers of Buffalo.

Prior legislative history

This is a new bill

Fiscal implications

None to the state

Effective date

This act shall take effect immediately

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