ALBANY â The group redrawing the stateâs Senate, Assembly and congressional districts will receive $1 million lawmakers allocated for the work in previous state budgets, officials said, after potentially unconstitutional funding delays set the commission back several months in completing the mandated elective maps.
Reapportionment of the state Legislatureâs 63 Senate and 150 Assembly districts occurs every decade following the U.S. Census.
The state is expected to pay the 10-member Independent Redistricting Commission after months of delays in funding caused by New Yorkâs mounting $15 billion revenue shortfall due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The shortfall is expected to mount to more than $30 billion over two years and more than $62 billion over four years.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds his Monday press conference.
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Admitting underserved communities in the New York were under-represented in initial stages of testing for the virus, Cuomo vowed not to make the same mistake again.
“They were left behind during COVID, highest infection rate, lowest testing rate,” he said. “Black communities, Latino communities, poor communities. Left to the markets forces, you will see, once again, Black, Latino and poor communities left behind.”
Cuomo said he is developing a task force to penetrate areas largely left to their own devices to handle the virus the first time around. He hopes for it to become a model to the country for equitable outreach for the vaccine.