Be prepared to kiss that parking authority or urban renewal agency goodbye.

The Senate will consider two bills Wednesday that eliminate dozens of public authorities identified as inactive by the Authorities Budget Office.

The bills can be found here and here.

Many of the authorities slated to be abolished are defunct parking authorities for upstate cities like Poughkeepsie and Elmira.

An authority is a quasi-public entity that can operate outside of the normal process for bonding and are created for a special project like economic development. Critics have charged authorities operate as shadow governments will little oversight or accountability.

When campaigning last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo also called for a reform of the authorities system, writing in a campaign book that:

Run by hundreds of unelected board members, authorities are responsible neither to the governor nor legislature. Many currently operate outside of their original purpose and engage in imprudent practices, such as excessive “backdoor borrowing.”

Authorities reform was a passion project of former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a Westchester Democrat who launched an unsuccessful bid for attorney general last year. Brodsky championed the authorities reform law, which created the Authorities Budget Office.

The list of authorities due to be abolished is far smaller than the 125 or so recommended late last year in a proposed Assembly bill.

A full list of the authorities slated to be abolished after the jump.

The Long island Market Authority, the Alfred, Almond, Hornellsville Sewer Authority, the Amsterdam Parking Authority, the Monroe Regional Parking Authority, the Hudson Parking Authority, the Elmira Parking
Authority, the Fulton Parking Authority, the Peekskill Parking Authority, the Port Jervis Parking Authority, the Utica Parking Authority, the Oswego Parking Authority, the City of New Rochelle
Parking Authority, the City of Poughkeepsie Parking Authority, the Village of Spring Valley Parking Authority, the City of Long Beach Parking Authority, the City of North Tonawanda Parking Authority, the
Johnson City Parking Authority, the Salamanca Hospital District Authority, the Salamanca Indian Lease Authority, the Long Island Job Development Authority, the Historic Rome Development Authority, the
Multitown Solid Waste Management Authority, the Broome County Resource Recovery Agency, the County of Essex Solid Waste Management Authority, the Town of Brookhaven Resource Recovery Agency, the Greater Troy Area Solid Waste Management Authority, the City of Peekskill Civic Center Authority, the County of Chautauqua Sports, Recreation and Cultural Authority.

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