WTC Records Folder 0123 Clippings label, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document attacks, the Bush administration's billion in emergency funds and is due budget director said yesterday, but he another $6.3 billion under Bush's ]at- could not promise when the entire $20 est proposed allocations. The House is billion committed by the president ~cil] expected to revise and vote on that be delivered. plan next week. State officials and several lawmuk- - In addition. $3.2 billion has been conceded that they could not use trickling down to the state in other all the money right away. But other bills, such as Bush's national economic ,_J lawmakers want all the money imme- stimulus plan. diately, saying businesses and resi- The hour-long, private meeting with t, _ dents need a financial leg up as they Daniels ended with unanswered ques- .1 y~r decide whether to walk away from twos, which will greatly affect how lower Manhattan. much the state gets. One is whether "11' it was College Station, Texas, the White House will count New they'd be shipping the money by rail York's portion of bioterrorism and car, by trucks, instead of giving us eye- homeland defense as part of the $20 drops like they are now," Rep. Carolyn billion. Maloney (D-Manhnt Another is confu- 1. tan) said after the _ . ,., sion over whether 4Th meeting, referring Lo - the $20 billion is sup- President George W. posed to be on top of Bush's home state. Mayor Rudolph If it was College aid from the Federal Emergency Manage- Giuliani did not join Station, Texas, ment Agency. the chorus criticiz- be shi ppi ng "There's going to ing the federal re- they d '~' sponse. money by rail the 1 J be funny math here," said Rep. Jose "New York has got- Ai"" r,"~.~ ten everything we've car, by trucks, Serrano (D-Bronx). asked for from the instead of •giving us Arguments for di- recd aid spread yesapi- federal government 1,e told report- eyedrops like they terday across loads temper- „ Lol Hill as busloads era at City Hall. "I oday, don't think weare now. of government, labor and business offi- should start that po- - D,p. Carolyn Maloney cials came down to litical thing yet — we should have the (D-Manhattan.) lobby. "It's kind of like a good grace to wait a coming together of the economic and G little before we start all that political bad-mouthing and tin-cup stuff." political base of the city," Bill Cunning- American_ Federa- Mitch Daniels Jr., head of the 1'eder- tion ham,oflobbyist for the Teachers, said outside the dele- al Office of Management and Budget, gation meeting room. V Vi1 told a meeting of legislators that the nation has other urgent funding In the meeting, Daniels early on noted that the federal government is 'r Avenue needs. But he also acknowledged that still paying costs from the 1994 court the New York's costs will exceed $20 bil- Northridge earthquake in California. ad he was hen, implying additional money will be made available later. It was a warning that New York will most likely not get all the emergency lention to "We're trying to be responsive," money immediately. atment of Daniels said later. Beestimated the state will get about $10 billion by The focus of the session quickly de- ~ks of pro- generated. Lawmakers began grilling year's end. Daniels about another matter: giving d, McMel- The latest influx of dollars will be the state more economic stimulus he higher counted toward the $20 billion emer- money and supporting the $5 billion fi refi ghter gency commitment to New York. In package crafted by New York's Demo- e Fire nt the three-part plan, $700 million will cratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clin- Fire De- go toward community development ton and Charles Schumer. amity and block grants, a quicker and more flexi- ble way to funnel money to victims and Then the lawmakers hustled out to nary fire- businesses. Second, $2 billion will be make a vote. By the time most re- !rupted in reserved for tax-exempt financing to re- turned, Daniels was out the door for o another meeting. n lame was build commercial office space, more ;hter was than doubling the tax-exempt bond au- "It was sadly a missed opportunity," thority allowed the state. Third is said upstate Republican Rep. John o lent of a $110 million for the growing demand Sweeney about the wandering focus of < meeting. "We barely got a chance Z /ulcan So- for family, unemployment and food the firefi ght- stamp assistance due to the terrorism, to have an exchange." o < McMellon But difficulties could lie ahead in re- A few members put a positive tenor < leasing the $2.8 billion. Daniels said on Daniels' funding reassurances. "It's w ashington some or all of the money may have to a flow, depending on how quickly the lem we're be approved by Congress again, city spends the money," Schumer said. N th for the Under the emergency funding legis- Staff writer Dan Janison in New o lotion passed by Congress in Septem- York contributed to this story.

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