State Senator George Borrello joined Queens Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz to urge Governor Cuomo to sign the Nourish New York bill. The legislation has been passed as part of the State Budget in April, but sitting on the Governor’s desk since.
Borrello said the Nourish New York helped thousands of farms and hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers with food insecurity during the pandemic, “And now, we wanted to make this program permanent and recurring so that farmers that benefited from it and the food banks and others can count on this every year and can budget for it. The Governor basically controlled this program and even ended it at one point. And then we made a lot of noise about this and it was funded again, so now we passed this legislation but it sits on the Governor’s desk.”
Borrello said, locally, Rural Ministries of Dunkirk and St. Susan Center benefited from the program this past year along with other food banks and farmers.
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