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Senator Montgomery Names Local Artist Danny Simmons to the NYS Council on the Arts
Nomination is Approved by the Governor and NYS Senate
Albany, NY (January 21, 2009)
State Senator Velmanette Montgomery (D-Brooklyn) announced the Senate's confirmation of Brooklyn artist Danny Simmons as a member of the NYS Council on the Arts. Senator Montgomery recommended Mr. Simmons for this post.
Senator Montgomery Gets Campaign Grant from Eleanor Roosevelt Committee
The Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee Announces Campaign Grant Winners of 2008
September 9, 2008
The Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee (ERLC) announced the winners of its 2008 Campaign Grant. Founded in 2001 by former New York State Democratic Committee Chair Judith Hope, the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee was designed to build a new generation of pro-choice Democratic women candidates, informed voters and activists in New York State.
Among the recipients chosen, the ERLC awarded Velmanette Montgomery a 2008 Campaign Grant to help fund her race for Senate.
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Senator Montgomery Backs Responsible Development Legislation
Albany, NY June 28, 2008In the wake of the U.S. Supreme court's recent refusal to hear an appeal on the Atlantic Yards case, it's more important than ever for New York to step up to the plate and enact laws that will help safeguard our homes and communities from irresponsible development - and developers.
Owing to your interest in this issue, I thought you would want to know about two bills that passed during the final days of the regular 2008 Legislative Session that create standards for new development projects in the state.
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Senate and Assembly Approve Montgomery Bill Requiring Distribution of HIV/AIDS Prevention Information to People in Prison and Upon Release Albany, NY June 19, 2008
The State Senate gave final approval this week to legislation (S8508/A8849) that
requires New York correctional facilities to provide people in prison with information about the prevention of HIV, and how to obtain HIV testing and counseling services upon release.
The legislation, sponsored by Senator Velmanette Montgomery (D-Brooklyn) and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples (D-Buffalo), now goes to Governor Paterson for approval before becoming law.
State Sen. Montgomery Urges Passage of Teen Health Agenda
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 06-17-2008
FORT GREENE — State Senator Velmanette Montgomery (D-Brooklyn) recently called for the adoption of her three-pronged Teen Health Agenda aimed at safeguarding New York’s young people from sexually-transmitted disease and unintended pregnancy.
Montgomery’s Teen Health Agenda was discussed and supported by members of the Senate Democratic Conference during a news briefing calling for the Senate’s passage of the Healthy Teens Act (S.1342/A.2856). This legislation sets up a local-option grant program through the State Department of Health to fund community-based sex education programs...
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Senate Democratic Conference Backs Statewide Sex Education Initiative
by NewsLI.com June 12, 2008
(Albany, NY)- With six out of ten high school students having sex before they graduate, Senate Democrats, parents, educators and child health care advocates pushed for bipartisan passage of the Healthy Teens Act to provide a comprehensive sex education curriculum in public schools.
The Healthy Teens Act would set up a local-option grant program through the state Department of Health to fund comprehensive, age-appropriate and medically accurate sexuality education. Individual school districts, boards of cooperative education services (BOCES), school-based health centers and local community-based organizations would be eligible to apply for money to be determined by the legislature.
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Senator Montgomery on her Support for Flanagan Transparency Bill
Albany, NY June 5, 2008
Today, the State Senate passed (S7954/ A10697) a bill which would require the Chair of the
Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) to provide the legislature and the Governor with
a detailed financial report of large public projects in New York City... If signed into
law, the bill attempts to bring more accountability to public authorities such as the ESDC...
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Award for leadership
by Gail Dewees, New York Daily News, March 18, 2008
State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D-Bedford-Stuyvesant) was presented with the 2008 Margaret Sanger Award last Tuesday, in recognition of her leadership on women's health issues.
Joan Malin, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of New York City, presented the award at the 31st annual Conference of Family Planning Advocates.
Velmanette Montgomery Urges Civil Rights Hearing
by Duffield Street Underground, October 17, 2007
NY State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, the representative of Duffield Street in Albany, has written a letter urging the NYC City Council to hold a Civil Rights hearing. In a letter to Council Member Larry Seabrook, Montgomery writes to support of a hearing originally proposed by the Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance.
In an effort to develop the area, the City had selected AKRF Consultants to conduct a study of the importance of these buildings to determine if they merited preservation. AKRF concluded that it could not verify that the buildings were part of the "Underground Railroad" and therefore did not merit preservation. The buildings are now slated for demolition.