New Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature in Albany officially passed a state budget at the end of March, a day before the start of the new fiscal year. It marked the first time in five years that a budget has been approved in New York before its April 1 deadline and will eliminate a $10 billion deficit, Cuomo boasted in a press release.

For the Bronx, the $132.5 million budget contains a mix of ups and downs. Certain funding that was on the chopping block was restored, while other cuts will mean major setbacks for a number of agencies, social service programs and local organizations.

Funding for the operation of senior centers, known as Title XX, was maintained, to the relief of seniors and employees at the 22 locations in the Bronx that would have ultimately closed if the cuts had gone through. Cuomo’s original budget would have shuttered 105 centers across the city.

“This huge victory means that thousands of New York City seniors will not be closed out of their senior centers,” said local Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who heads the Assembly’s Aging Committee.

The Legislature also negotiated the restoration of funding for SUNY and CUNY colleges, for summer schools and the Summer Youth Employment Program, which sets teens up with summer jobs. Money for a number of schools across the state that serve blind, deaf and severely physically disabled students, three of which are in the Bronx, was also maintained.

But education spending in general will take a huge cut under this year’s plan, which provides $1.3 billion less for schools than last year, cutting aid for New York City schools alone by $840 million. Bloomberg blasted the budget.

The finalized budget also includes cuts to spending on human services programs, and failed to include the renewal of the Emergency Tenant Protection Act, which maintains rent stabilization for controlled apartment units across the city, something Bronx elected officials had been fighting for.

Member items, or state money that’s given to local legislators to fund organizations and groups in their home districts, were also chopped from the budget, a move that will mean less money for a number of local non-profits that rely on the funds.

“It’s a crying shame,” said new Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, who said he’d planned on using the money to fund a number of local afterschool programs and a little league in his central and south Bronx district.

“It’s money that’s going back into the districts, to legitimate and qualified organizations,” he said. “[Cutting] member items is just pulling the rug from under their feet.”

The cuts come as Republicans and  Cuomo refused to renew the “millionaire’s tax,”—a tax on New Yorkers who earn more than $200,000, or the top-earning 3 percent bracket of the state’s population.

“There are certain families that may make $350,000 in taxable income and are paying a tax right now — not a new tax, but one they’re paying right now,” said Sen. Gustavo Rivera at a housing rally last month, when the topic of the controversial tax came up.

“We’re not asking them to sacrifice?” Rivera asked, adding that the cuts made in the budget will hit poorer communities harder.