The retroactive raises for 2017 will include a $ 60,064 increase in the city
Water Department budget and $ 90,750 in the city's general budget.
Not exact matches
Those steps should include grants for
water infrastructure upgrades and a boost in funding for the
Department of Environmental Conservation after years of virtually flat
budget increases.
With little or no investment, the
water department can secure, at premium prices, upwards of $ 300,000 a year in fresh revenues, a hefty infusion for its $ 2.5 million annual
budget.
The prospect of rate relief on a deal that could pump some $ 1.8 million a year into
water department coffers — its current
budget is $ 4.1 million — is appealing, for sure, but not if it puts the
water supply at risk.
The
budget for the Office of Science at the
Department of Energy (DOE), for example, would hold steady at its 2017 level of $ 5.39 billion rather than plunge by 17 %, according to a bill covering energy and
water projects.
«If even a part of merrillite had been whitlockite before, it changes the
water budget of Mars dramatically,» Oliver Tschauner, co-leader of the study and a research professor in the
Department of Geoscience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said in a statement.
Areas receiving modest cuts or level funding in the Energy
Department's FY17
budget included solar and wind energy programs aimed at expanding renewable power and lowering costs for these clean energy technologies; work to advance hydrogen and fuel cellElectrochemical device in which electricity is generated by chemically reacting hydrogen with oxygen; electricity,
water vapor, and heat are the only products.
The
budget included the president's latest call for permanent reauthorization of the Land and
Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which is administered by the Interior and Agriculture
departments, and full funding at $ 900 million.