Not exact matches
The
budget will boost statewide education
funding for $ 1.4 billion, of which Mr. de Blasio said he anticipates New
York City will receive a «substantial share» that will go toward
general education
funding.
«My proposed 2013
budget is balanced, holds property taxes under the New
York State tax cap, includes no
general fund tax increase and will not lay off any additional employees... I look forward to working with the Suffolk County Legislature to enact this fiscally responsible
budget.»
What started out as a small, off -
budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New
York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue
fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's
general budget.
The City Council's
general welfare committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution this morning calling on the state Assembly and Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to change state
budget language to allow New
York City to use state
funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.
As a quid pro quo to the Power Authority taking care of George's friends and family club members, George, his oversight committee, looked the other way and abrogated his responsibility to not only the taxpayers of his district but to all Western New Yorkers by letting the Cuomo / Silver progressive establishment cartel, in two successive
budget bills in 2011 and 2012, sweep $ 600,000,000 from the bank account of the Power Authority to the
General Fund of the State of New
York — monies that should have been used for the economic benefit of Western New Yorkers.
«New
York State has literally taken billions of dollars over the decades out of that plant to subsidize the other power plants that lose money and worse yet, billions have been dumped into New
York State's
general fund budget,» Jacobs said.