Fulton County Economic Development Corp. v. New York State Authorities Budget Office

Mercure, J.E

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Aulisi, J.), entered August 5, 2011 in Albany County, which granted defendants’ motion to, among other things, convert the action to a CPLR article 78 proceeding.

Plaintiff, a not-for-profit local development corporation, commenced this declaratory judgment action challenging a determination of defendant New York State Authorities Budget Office (hereinafter ABO) that plaintiff is a “local authority” as defined by Public Authorities Law § 2 (b) and therefore subject to the requirements of the Public Authorities Accountability Act of 2005 (L…