CAPITOL — Last year’s member-item funding dispute between Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, R-Schenectady, has been resolved, resulting in the release of $482,883 in state money, most of it going to Capital Region governments and nonprofits.

“I’m very appreciative of the governor [restoring the funding],” Tedisco said Monday.

Jeffrey Gordon, spokesman for Spitzer’s Budget Division, confirmed that the money would be released.

The restorations do not include funding for the Schenectady Free Health Clinic, because Spitzer restored that money last year. They do include $279,548 in Tedisco member items, with the other $203,335 going to the districts of other Republican Assembly members. Tedisco’s district in Schenectady and Saratoga counties is the only one in the Capital Region affected.

Tedisco’s office and Gordon said the restored funding includes $90,000 for the village of Ballston Spa; $71,300 for Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School in Schenectady (for areas used by public guests and groups); $50,000 for the Italian American Heritage Association in Colonie; $40,000 for Niskayuna Fire District No. 1; $25,000 for playground equipment at the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake School District.

Other local groups getting promised funding are: Schenectady Access Cable Council, $15,000; Galway Volunteer Fire Company, $15,000; Saratoga Rowing Association, $8,000; Scotia-Glenville Junior Tartans Pop Warner, $6,500; Scotia-Glenville Rowing Association, $10,000; Scotia-Glenville School District (for video surveillance) $10,000; Cornell Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County, $11,748; and Belmont Pop Warner Football, $5,000.

The money had originally been allocated to the Assembly minority conference by former Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, but was pulled by Spitzer, a Democrat, last year.

Tedisco said there had been a “miscommunication” last year that has now been resolved.

One $25,000 Tedisco member item that was pulled by Spitzer last year, for the Beyond the Classroom Foundation in Saratoga Springs, is not funded under the new agreement.

Tedisco, like other legislative leaders, allocates to his own district a disproportionately high share of member–item money. Other Republican Assembly members generally get less than their Democratic colleagues, reflecting their minority status in that house. Pataki tried to make up for that disparity by directing more grants to Assembly Republicans. In the Republican-controlled Senate, GOP senators get more member-item money to distribute than their Democratic colleagues.

Last year, Spitzer and Tedisco were embroiled in a heated political dispute over the governor’s proposal to let illegal immigrants get driver’s licenses. Then, Tedisco said the governor pulled the money because of the dispute. The Spitzer administration denied that, saying it was only prepared to fund projects for which money had been specifically committed while Pataki was governor. Spitzer and Tedisco had different versions of whether and when this policy was communicated.

Gordon said Monday that the governor decided he does not want to penalize the groups that had been expecting the member-item funding. He said the money remains unallocated and unspent from last year.

Tedisco said the governor told him last week of his decision. Tedisco has since then notified the recipients that they will, after all, be getting the money.

Tedisco said he does not yet know how much member-item money his conference may be allocated in this year’s budget.