Sentences with phrase «agency budget officials»

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The idea that real interest rates — that is, adjusted for inflation — will be lower than they have been historically is reflected in the pronouncements of policymakers such as Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, the medium - term forecasts of official agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office and the International Monetary Fund and the pricing of government bonds whose payments are tied to inflation.

The U.S. funding accounts for about 7 percent of UNFPA's worldwide budget, according to agency officials.

Since then, despite all the efforts that have been made to tackle the issue of budget fraud within the EU, a report by the EU internal audit service in 2003 revealed serious impropriety at Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, where large sums of money had been diverted by officials for more than a decade.

While there is currently no consensus on how large a state rainy day fund should aim to be, bonding agencies and state budget officials generally target 5 percent as the appropriate amount.

Nassau's financial control board could impose millions of dollars in spending cuts to the county's 2018 budget when it meets next week, affecting everything from agency budgets to contracts and equipment purchases, officials said Tuesday.

The job included overseeing the agency's annual budget, officials said.

The practice of putting executive chamber staffers on different agency lines to keep costs down and enable the governor to hire more people than his official budget technically allows is a long standing one.

Ms. Ferreras said that limits the council's budget oversight role, which includes holding hearings on the proposed budget with agency heads and top city officials.

The New York Times, for instance, reported in 2003 that 40 Executive Chamber officials working for Gov. George Pataki were on agency or authority budgets.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — MTA officials promised that looming budget cuts won't affect their plans to make long - term fixes to the problem - plagued elevators at the 168th Street 1 train station — but Uptown elected officials say they're concerned the agency isn't doing enough to address the crisis.

«Officials with the state Budget Division say they're planning for layoffs even though there have been no memorandums or other written guidance sent to state agencies about how the cuts would proceed, or precisely when they would begin.

Officials at local agencies receiving the grant money said that the funds paid for crime - fighting activities that would otherwise come from local taxpayers or, in this era of tightening budgets, not be funded at all.

Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to piggyback on last year's success in closing a $ 10 billion budget deficit while holding the line on taxes by reducing estimated spending increases to state agencies and local municipalities, state officials said on Thursday.

Cuomo's $ 141.6 billion budget proposal creates a panel to examine the pay of state legislators and agency officials.

To the relief of New York City officials, the budget did not include Mr. Cuomo's proposal to give a state agency veto power over individual affordable housing projects paid for with federal tax - exempt bonds the state gives to municipalities.

Budget officials present a quick overview of proposed mid-year changes in spending and revenue estimates, and the Council briefly reviews and approves them, allowing the administration to divert additional resources to agencies that need them and to cut back in other areas.

Some city officials have rejected Mr. Cuomo's call to pay for half the repairs, arguing that 70 percent of the operating budget of the controlling agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, already comes from New York City payroll and other taxes.

«I want to focus on what will be a recurring theme of these hearings — ensuring that the City budget is fair, transparent, and accountable to New Yorkers,» said Council Speaker Corey Johnson, in his opening statement, kicking off the series of hearings at which agency heads and top city officials will present to the Council their funding priorities for the next fiscal year while defending their programs and practices.

ALBANY — Though Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made expanding oversight of public officials a centerpiece of his agenda this year, none of New York State's commissions or agencies specifically charged with policing ethical lapses received an increase in funding in his proposed budget.

Kroll says the groups have met with state agency officials and Cuomo's budget office.

Agency officials also said they have over $ 50 million in their expense budget for maintenance and repairs, a $ 20 million increase from the previous administration.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

While the new funding, if approved, will keep the wolf from the door for another year, Sheehan had been hoping to see an annual funding stream that would allow the city to craft «a realistic budget and a more permanent solution» to create stability for everyone involved — local officials, taxpayers, developers and even bond rating agencies.

IDA officials say District 30's budgeting practices are part of the problem and the agency's current board is considering revoking the tax breaks.

The signs also raised eyebrows as talks between the state and federal officials were underway when in February of last year the DOT revealed during a joint legislative budget hearing in Albany that the signs cost $ 8.1 million when the agency had previously said they cost $ 1.76 million.

ESA officials say they were quietly informed more than a month ago that budget problems would prevent the US space agency from providing an Atlas V rocket for the 2016 launch.

Administration budget officials then vet the proposal to reflect their boss's priorities, agencies react, and the final product emerges in February as the president's official budget request to Congress.

Agency officials were hard - pressed to explain the mandatory wrinkle in their budgets.

That's the first official answer from lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to President Donald Trump's request to make deep budget cuts at several key science funding agencies.

But in a senate report accompanying a bill covering NSF's 2010 budget that was approved last Thursday, legislators have harsh words both for the administrative skills of those senior scientists and, more broadly, how the agency has responded to a 2008 report by its independent inspector general that found that senior officials were downloading and viewing pornography.

Senator Ted Cruz thinks NASA is favoring the earth sciences at the expense of exploration, but agency officials and Democrats take issue with his budget analysis.

NSF director Rita Colwell declined to comment on the proposed transfer, and an OMB official said the agency doesn't comment on ongoing budget negotiations.

When the 2010 survey was conducted, the fiscal future was looking a lot brighter: NSF officials believed that the agency was on track for a 10 - year doubling of its total budget.

In June, the chair of the House appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee, Representative Denny Rehberg (R - MT), said that his subcommittee could not act on the changes until it received an official budget request directly from the White House.

Legislators routinely urge agency officials to avoid «peanut buttering» their budgets — spreading cuts or increases relatively evenly across many programs instead of making the harder choice of boosting spending for the most deserving programs and shrinking or shuttering ineffective programs.

While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.

Our approach to valuing pensions, which considers both the generosity and the risk of pension benefits, is entirely consistent with economic theory, the way in which liabilities of all types are valued in the private sector, public - sector accounting standards in Canada and Western Europe, academic writings, and the judgments of officials at nonpartisan government agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

State Rep. Tom McMillin, R - Rochester Hills — who sponsored the House budget amendment to defund implementation — also has introduced standalone legislation that would prohibit the Michigan Board of Education, state officials and agencies from participating in the Common Core State Standards initiative.

The article goes on to report, «And officials at the State Department of Education are just as perplexed...» We are trying to figure out what it means,» Brian Mahoney, the agency's budget chief, said during an interview Thursday.»

This memorandum of November 5, 2009, requires each agency to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a detailed plan to implement the policies and directives of EO 13175, after consultation with Indian tribes and tribal officials.

GAO analyzed published and unpublished budget data covering Direct Loans made from fiscal years 1995 through 2015 and estimated to be made in 2016 and 2017; analyzed and tested Education's computer code used to estimate IDR plan costs; reviewed documentation related to Education's estimation approach; and interviewed officials at Education and other federal agencies.

This fact - sheet presents the main results of a mapping of global climate change financial flows involving a diversity of public and private sources (e.g. government budgets and capital markets), agents (e.g. bilateral finance institutions, multilateral finance institutions, development cooperation agencies, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), private sector), and channels (e.g. official development assistance, non-concessional loans, carbon markets, financing specifically for climate change, foreign direct investment).

But the officials running the agencies have their own agendas — like increasing their budgets and power and prestige, which can be done by supporting research demonstrating that there's a terrible problem for the agency to solve.

Served as Agency Program Coordinator for the Government Credit Card program, guided and trained four cardholders, two budget analysts and one approving official.

• Successfully presented presentation on road station operations, managing established staffing levels and overtime budgets to the New Jersey State Police Superintendant and Chief of Staff • Ability to interact and establish relationship with Federal, state, county and local governmental officials as well as to civilian and law enforcement agencies.

Acting as an intermediary between executives and clients, handling official correspondence, managing logistics, external agency liaison, providing communications support and events coordination, and reviewing and monitoring budgets are all areas that I am perfectly competent in.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA) 1989 — 1991 Legislative Budget & Finance Committee — Analyst - I, Government Auditor (Compliance & Performance Audit) • Conducted government agency audit and research projects utilizing GAGAS • Participated in all aspects of project mission and audit plan development, working closely with agency department heads, senior management, and staff to facilitate audit plan completion • Held responsibility for consolidating and summarizing audit findings as well as official state legislative Committee recommendations and reports • Completed numerous high - profile legislative studies and audit projects including Commonwealth IT purchasing practices, PA Liquor Control Board, and the effectiveness of drug law enforcement • Worked as part of audit and analysis team responsible for preparing the Legislative Statistical Budget Digest annual summary and historical analysis of the Governor's $ 30 billion budget for the Commonwealth of PennsyBudget & Finance Committee — Analyst - I, Government Auditor (Compliance & Performance Audit) • Conducted government agency audit and research projects utilizing GAGAS • Participated in all aspects of project mission and audit plan development, working closely with agency department heads, senior management, and staff to facilitate audit plan completion • Held responsibility for consolidating and summarizing audit findings as well as official state legislative Committee recommendations and reports • Completed numerous high - profile legislative studies and audit projects including Commonwealth IT purchasing practices, PA Liquor Control Board, and the effectiveness of drug law enforcement • Worked as part of audit and analysis team responsible for preparing the Legislative Statistical Budget Digest annual summary and historical analysis of the Governor's $ 30 billion budget for the Commonwealth of PennsyBudget Digest annual summary and historical analysis of the Governor's $ 30 billion budget for the Commonwealth of Pennsybudget for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Deputy Sheriff — Duties & Responsibilities Deputy Sheriff with extensive background in child and family protective services Develop expertise in child abuse case management through extensive police and FBI training Create and lead training institute for social workers dealing with youth and young adult abuse survivors Instruct case managers in abuse investigations, witness interviews, and evidence collection Identify at risk children, follow appropriate procedures, and extricate youth from abusive situations Strictly adhere to federal / state guidelines, program policies, timelines, and budgets Represent the training institute with poise, integrity, and positivity in the public forum Interact with federal, state, and city officials, agencies, and community organizations Recruit, train, and direct large police staffs ensuring safe, effective, and professional operations Serve on multiple task forces focused on child abuse, international crime, and other specialized areas Consistently recognized and promoted for exceptional service record and dedication to the community