2. Albany Agenda: Yesterday, Nonprofit Westchester met with key Senate and Assembly elected officials and team leaders to advocate for:
Nonprofit Contracting: NPW advocated for legislation to help ensure that nonprofits are paid by the state in a timely manner, helping to ensure the fiscal sustainability of the nonprofit sector.
- Pass S.4877 (Mayer)/A.2740 (Paulin)
COLA: NPW advocated for pay equity for human services workers.
The Governor’s budget includes a 1.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for human services workers. While the governor has committed to a COLA for the third year, it isn’t the full 3.2% that many in the nonprofit sector have advocated for. Additionally, a COLA alone will not get us to full pay equity for human services workers.
- Fund a 3.2% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for human services workers at a cost of approximately $200 million.
- Pass S.7793 (Persaud)/A.8437 (Hevesi) which adds certain human services programs to the designated human services programs eligible for a cost of living adjustment.
- Pass S.1291 (Brouk)/ A.4046 (Gunther) which will include all nonprofit human services contracts under the COLA statute.
- Pass S.4675 (Ramos and Hoylman-Sigal)/A.8937(Bronson) which relates to the convening of a human services employee wage board.
