Sentences with phrase «agency budgets flat»

ALBANY — Many of the major parameters that Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce in his executive budget proposal on Tuesday afternoon are already known: continued growth in Medicaid and education spending, a suite of tax cuts worth $ 2 billion over the next several years and a to - the - bone spending posture that holds state agency budgets flat for at least the third year in a row.

With agency budgets flat, the state workforce will remain understaffed with no lessening of responsibilities or workload, putting the services our members provide and our communities at risk.»

Not exact matches

«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding priority,» Peters said.

Spending for the top state agencies involved in state energy policy is largely flat in the budget.

While total state spending has been held to two percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have been held essentially flat, School Aid is increasing by 6.5 percent for the 2016 - 17 School Year and will have increased by nearly 27 percent since 2011 - 12.

... It is disingenuous to suggest that salary and benefit increases can't be covered within such an increase when state agencies have been absorbing such expenses within flat budgets since 2012.»

All state agencies are within their current budgets, which has remained flat for the past three years.

While state agencies have been receiving a 13 percent increase in spending, Mr. Perales said their budget will remain flat this year in order to create a savings of $ 1.3 billion.

ALBANY — Once again, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is asking state agencies to hold their spending flat as he prepares a budget for the 2016 - 17 fiscal year, according to a letter obtained by POLITICO New York.

Some agencies with even broader investigative mandates are also dealing with flat budgets.

Cuomo, facing his third lean fiscal year as governor, closes a $ 1.3 billion budget gap by holding spending flat for state agencies, which he estimates will save $ 434 million, and putting off a cost of living increase for health care providers, worth $ 412 million.

... [L] egislators added $ 53 million to the agency's large new facilities account to begin building three regional - class research vessels rather than the two NSF had requested,» but the «research and education accounts were held flat, at $ 6.033 billion and $ 880 million, respectively, as was the agency's internal operating budget.

Science agencies are facing flat or declining budgets, and in that environment new astronomy initiatives will often be possible only at the expense of existing ones.

Many U.S. science agencies would have to make do with less under the president's 2006 budget request, which aims to cut the deficit, boost military and antiterrorism spending, and make tax cuts permanent President George W. Bush has proposed a flat budget for U.S. science next year.

Like many agencies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have a relatively flat budget if President Barack Obama has his way, with one notable exception.

• On Tuesday, Jeffrey Mervis reported that buried inside the White House's essentially flat budget proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a $ 2000 a year increase in stipends for the agency's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Major U.S. science agencies would see essentially flat or declining spending under the 2015 budget request that President Barack Obama sent to Congress on 4 March.

«It's the second year in a row that the Senate has slated the agency for a large increase after 12 years of flat budgets.»

The agency's overall budget remains flat as do projects with EPA's Office of Science & Technology.