Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) Buffalo, NY

Subsidies

Empire Zones

–Fact Sheets

• NYS Empire Zones
• Empire Zones

–Reports

• It’s Time to End New York State’s Empire Zone Program. Citizen’s Budget Commission (December 2008).
• Comptroller’s Empire Zone Report
• Comptroller’s Follow-Up Report (2007)
• Fiscal Policy Institute on Empire Zones

–Articles

• Confessore, Nicholas. “State warns companies in tax deals.” NY Times, 7/31/07.
• Esmonde, Donn. “City’s gift to condos hurts us all.” Buffalo News, 5/16/07.
• Fairbanks, Phil. “City gives ten-year tax break to build condos: luxury units to sell for up to $695,000.” Buffalo News, 5/13/07.
• Heaney, James. “Empire Zone bill goes too far, critics say.” Buffalo News, 7/23/08.
• Lindstedt, Sharon. “Upscale townhouses get huge tax breaks.” Buffalo News, 4/25/07.
• New York Times Editorial. “The Other Scandal in Albany.” 8/5/07.
• Precious, Tom. “Empire Zone businesses being held accountable for job creation.” Buffalo News, 7/18/07.
• Precious, Tom. “State studies benefits of Empire Zone incentives.” Buffalo News, 3/1/07.
• Sax, George. “Friends With Benefits.” Artvoice, 3/13/08.

Hotel Subsidies

–Articles

• Heaney, James. “Why handouts for hotels?” Buffalo News, 12/8/08.
  Lindstedt, Sharon. “Hyatt needn’t repay $8 million in old city construction loans.” Buffalo News, 12/5/07.
• Robinson, David. “County IDA cuts Buffalo Hyatt a Break.” Buffalo News, 12/11/07.

Power Authority Subsidies

–Fact Sheets

• The New York Power Authority

–Articles

• Heaney, Jim. Power Failure. Buffalo News, Special Series (2008).
• Heaney, Jim. Alcoa bid for low-cost power called boggling. Buffalo News, 7/2/07.

–Reports

• Temporary Commission Report on Power Subsidies (2006)

Sports Subsidies

• WNY Professional Sports Subsidies–Fact Sheet

IDA Reform

–NYS Comptroller Reports on IDAs

• Annual Performance Report for Fiscal Year Ending 2007 (February 2009)
• Performance of Industrial Development Agencies (February 2008).
• Industrial Development Agencies in New York State: Background, Issues, and Recommendations. (2006).
• Industrial Development Agencies’ Project Approval, Evaluation, and Monitoring Efforts (2006).

–NYS IDA Reform

• Partnership for the Public Good Statement on IDA Reform
• Hoyt IDA Reform Bill

• Getting Our Money’s Worth: the Case for IDA Reform Legislation

• Not Just Any Job May 2008

• Job Creation and New York State IDAs

• Prevailing Wage in New York State

• Critique of “Prevailing Wage in New York State”

• Testimony on Affordable Housing Construction Costs and Prevailing Wage

–IDA Consolidation

• IDA Consolidation–Fact Sheet

–WNY IDA Projects

• 2006 IDA Data–Western NY

Litigation

–Bordeleau v. State of New York

–DaimlerChrysler Wikipedia Article

–DaimlerChrysler: Supreme Court Opinion

Reform Laws

–Progressive States Network Summary of Reform Efforts

–Summary of State Reform Laws

–Disclosure Laws

• Good Jobs First on Dislcosure Laws
• New Jersey
• Minnesota

Organizations

–Center on Wisconsin Strategies (COWS)

–Fiscal Policy Institute

–Good Jobs First

–Partnership for the Public Good

Reports, Articles

–Enrich, Peter

–Lynch, Robert

–McFarlane, Audrey

–Missing the Target

–Rolnick, Arthur

–Sautet, Frederick

–Thomas, Kenneth P.