Sentences with phrase «state infrastructure funds»

The bigger problem, Gelinas offered, is that project debacles provide a pretext for Washington conservatives to oppose Empire State infrastructure funding.

«Our Central New York state delegation has told me they will fight to get state infrastructure funding for us,» Miner said.

Not exact matches

«I think many states would have a serious challenge in providing 80 % of funding for viable infrastructure projects,» said one lobbyist closely involved in tracking the issue, referring to the component of the White House plan that caps federal investment at 20 %.

The lobbyist said that rural states would be most adversely impacted, noting that even though Trump's plan includes $ 50 billion in federal funding for rural infrastructure projects, that may be a high enough compensatory figure.

China, where the state owns the big mobile operators, reserves up to 70 % of its mobile infrastructure market for its top equipment vendors, Huawei and ZTE, effectively funding them through protectionism.

WESTERN Australia's relationship with China, infrastructure and a state sovereign wealth fund were among the big - picture topics addressed by Premier Colin Barnett at last week's WA Business News Success & Leadership Series Breakfast.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 11 - PensionDanmark became the latest manager of retirement funds to branch out in the hunt for higher returns, saying it would invest 1.6 billion euros in energy infrastructure in Europe and the United States.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

In fact, the P3 approach does nothing to solve the fundamental infrastructure funding challenge faced by governments at the local, state, and federal levels.

He criticized states for kicking the can down the road, living beyond their means year after year in a «never - ending sense of crisis» that results in «stop - and - go funding of vital programs,» such as those for infrastructure, education, pensions and city and county services.

At the local and state level, demanding funding for repairs and improvement to outdated transit infrastructure will greatly reduce the noise caused by trains, cars, and trucks.

«Market participants will look back on this municipal green bond issuance for Massachusetts, and see it as the gateway to further green bond issuances across the many states and many cities that are hoping to access less expensive funding to improve infrastructure, protect natural resources and offer renewable energy,» says Bill Daley, Managing Director in Public Finance.

In the past 100 days, Mr. Modi has made some dramatic international maneuvers, including securing sizeable infrastructure funding commitments from Japan and China and building new security arrangements with the United States.

That said, a new leaf seems to have been turned this year with hedge funds returning to positive flows in the first quarter of 2017.1 Renewed interest has been spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which some industry experts are predicting should bring meaningful tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending that we think could prove a boon to hedge strategies.

But if the state issued a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit for charitable contributions made to, say, the state's general infrastructure fund, the first $ 6,000 donated, though reducing state tax liability by $ 6,000, does nothing to lower federal taxes owed because the taxpayer would still take the standard deduction.

The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund today announced an investment of $ 12.0 million in FLS Energy, Inc., the nation's largest installer of commercial solar hot water systems and one of the largest integrators of photovoltaic solar systems in the southeastern United States.

Recommendation 2: Federal, state, and local governments should prioritize making funds available to help schools upgrade their kitchen equipment and infrastructure to efficiently serve healthy and appealing meals.

Meanwhile, lawmakers and Cuomo are nearing an agreement on funding water infrastructure projects in the state, trying to add more than the $ 2 billion backed by Cuomo through a bond act.

Where an SWF is primarily a fund manager investing liquid financial assets of the state (e.g. Singapore's GIC), an NWF is akin to an investment company in charge of active corporate governance for the commercial, operational assets of the state such as state - owned enterprises, real estate, forests, infrastructure as a portfolio (e.g. Singapore's Temasek).

Given the state of the UK's creaking transport infrastructure, especially outside London, it is staggering that Johnson and the government are pouring so much funding into a project which has such little transport benefit.

The National Infrastructure Plan 2011 stated that almost two thirds of expected investment between 2011 & 2015 will be privately funded and the remainder will be either partially or fully publicly funded.»

Providing further details of the deal, Governor Ahmed's Chief Economic Assistant and DG of the state PPP Office, Mr. Abayomi Ogunsola said the deal involves the state government providing up to N1b in counterpart funding and 400 hectares of land as well as infrastructure support.

At 12:30 p.m., former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck speaks to the state Bar Association about Trump's environmental record thus far and the state's new water infrastructure fund, 1 Elk St., Albany.

In Britain, infrastructure investment programmes are now prominent features of both the main political parties» programmes, while proposals for a universal citizen's income, a monthly payment to every citizen by right and the creation of a sovereign wealth fund to help cover the state's liabilities for vital public goods continue to gain traction.

Even if lawmakers do not include a complete congestion pricing plan in the state budget, due March 31, they could approve funding so work can start on the infrastructure that will be needed once all sides agree.

So, if Cuomo's bill language had been in effect at the start of the year, it would have authorized a transfer from the infrastructure fund into the general fund of «such amounts as the director of the budget deem (ed) necessary to meet the requirements of the state financial plan.»

This proposal runs contrary to the state's efforts to expand access to broadband, and singles out a single industry, and its customers, for increased funding for transportation infrastructure.

The discussion around the TZ replacement has been for the state to borrow from union pension funds to create a state run «infrastructure fund» which then finances road and bridge construction.

«With this significant funding, we can invest in the future of our bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure in communities across the state.

(WBEN / AP) President Donald Trump will herald a robust economy, push for infrastructure funding and press for bipartisan congressional action on immigration in Tuesday's State of the Union address.

Given the State's limited resources, shrinking statutory debt capacity and unmet capital needs, it is critical that the State prioritize its use of debt and capital resources — including the (windfall) resources deposited in the (infrastructure fund)-- to ensure that they are used as effectively as possible, and with appropriate levels of transparency and accountability.

Their ire was directed toward Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who advocates said has failed to fund the state - run agency to meet the demand for infrastructure upgrades while he also sidesteps the issue of degrading service.

With the support of the state's three top leaders, however, it seems like the structure of the infrastructure fund and MTA tax cut are both relatively done deals.

«What I believe here is that this gives the backing to the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road to stop payments, and as I've been reading in the news and hearing on the news is Amtrak, after the governor and our national representatives... have gotten together calling on Trump for federal funding, which I fully support, Amtrak came out and said that they have the money to do this fix,» said state Sen. Elaine Phillips, the bill's sponsor who also chairs the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee.

The Public Protection and General Government Article 7 bill submitted with Cuomo's 2016 Executive Budget (as amended) identifies three exceptional situations in which the windfall money could be diverted from a newly created Infrastructure Investment Fund into the state's all - purpose general fund, most of which supports operating expenFund into the state's all - purpose general fund, most of which supports operating expenfund, most of which supports operating expenses.

In fact, the state's existing composite business cycle index — also known as the Index of Coincident Economic Indicators, based on language identical to what's laid out in Cuomo's proposed infrastructure fund — actually did decline for three consecutive months at the end of 2014, as illustrated in the chart below.

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A New York environmental group is calling for increased water infrastructure and staff funding at the state's Department of Environmental Conservation.

Introduced by State Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez, and co-sponsored by 14 other State Assembly persons, the legislation, if passed would create a $ 4.5 billion Transit Gap Investment Fund to improve infrastructure, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

The funding is in addition to over $ 104 million in capital funding for tourism infrastructure provided last year for local tourism projects as well as investments in state parks, like Jones Beach and Niagara Falls and facilities of the Olympic Regional Development Authority.

«Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers should see clearly that the feds aren't coming to the rescue, and we'll have to implement a new progressive funding source like congestion pricing if we are ever going to repair our transit infrastructure.»

A Siena College poll released this morning found there was broad support for most of Cuomo's major agenda in the new year, including an extension of the state's surcharge on millions, reduced tuition costs for SUNY students whose families earn $ 125,000 a year and less and a $ 2 billion clean water infrastructure fund.

Perhaps most importantly, the counties are pushing for using bank settlement funds for upstate road and water infrastructure projects and have the state invest in clean water infrastructure.

The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika who made this known while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting said that all the airports in the country will be concessioned as the Federal government will not be able to fund infrastructure from the national budget.

The state will pay for the new projects and improvements on infrastructure by using existing state, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Port Authority and financial settlement funds from banks, Cuomo said.

«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

The chancellor, George Osborne has already indicated that he is ready to use about # 20bn of state funds to underwrite private investment in infrastructure projects.

S.W.A.P. would provide annual funding to all municipalities in the state to allow them to identify and swap out old, deteriorating pipes, water mains and gas lines to better maintain the state's infrastructure.

«I am very supportive of additional state funding to local municipalities within the capital district for improving and upgrading our aging infrastructure.

Lawmakers have pushed for the previous windfall funds to be spent solely on infrastructure projects around the state.