Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week signed two bills that will eliminate more than 120 local public authorities and urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are inactive or are considered extraneous.
The two bills repeal the statutory authorization for 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies and 28 local public authorities that are either defunct, were never established by local law, or are not longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were created, the governor”™s office said in a statement.
The affected agencies and authorities have no outstanding debt or other obligations. The two bills transfer the eliminated entities”™ remaining books, records and rights to the municipality where each is located.
Both laws take effect in 60 days.
Included among those entities being eliminated are the Nyack Urban Renewal Agency, the Peekskill Community Development Agency, the Mount Kisco Urban Renewal Agency, the Mamaroneck Urban Renewal Agency, the New Rochelle Urban Renewal Agency, the Yorktown Urban Renewal Agency, the City of Beacon Industrial Development Agency, the Town of Carmel Industrial Development Agency, the Peekskill Parking Authority, the City of New Rochelle Parking Authority, the City of Poughkeepsie Parking Authority, and the City of Peekskill Civic Center Authority, among others.
“Given that these authorities and agencies no longer serve the public interest, it only makes sense to do away with them for good,” Cuomo said in an Aug. 16 statement.
