Sentences with phrase «agency spending since»

Government watchdogs expressed concern that the budget added more than $ 700 million in new agency spending since January despite reduced tax - revenue projections from real - estate transactions and personal income taxes.

Not exact matches

But since our boutique agency has begun growing and doing well, I've been spending more time thinking about scaling up.

This was a concern initially with Bitcoin, the most popular digital currency or «cryptocurrency,» since it is a decentralized currency with no central agency to verify that it is spent only once.

The PBO suggested that since the Government lapsed $ 10.1 billion in 2012 - 13, Parliamentarians should seek clarification as to why departments and agencies under spent by this amount and whether, given this, all of the $ 5.4 billion in Supplementary Estimates (B) is actually required.

Since the President of the Treasury Board tables the Estimates on behalf of the departments and agencies and is responsible for the overall management of government spending, he should be in a position to provide a detailed and credible explanation as to the difference between what was approved by Parliament and what was actually spent by the individual departments and agencies.

It's been a spell since the Orioles spent like this in free agency, and they're probably a couple years too late — a $ 100 million mercenary sure would have helped them out in 2014 — but if Davis leaves, they'll need to get their power from someone.

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.

Since much of the allowed increase is eaten up by spending for education and Medicaid, agencies have been squeezed, losing workers to attrition and consolidating operations and processes to save money.

Mahoney put together a spreadsheet on the amount of money spent by counties, other local governments, and state agencies (such as SUNY schools and IDAs) spent since 2009, coming up with a total of at least $ 5.6 million.

Both state and local economic development agencies have ramped up spending on subsidy programs since Cuomo took office.

While state law requires Probation to spend up to a year to locate the victim, an agency accountant said the department had not mailed out follow - up letters to beneficiaries since December 2011.

Empire State Development, the state's leading economic development agency, has spent more than $ 75,000 promoting its tweets since October, records obtained under a state Freedom of Information Law request show.

The board also shrugged off concerns raised by the regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency, which has since disallowed $ 482 million of the spending.

The statement reads further, «Since the National Assembly has oversight functions on the CBN and other federal agencies; it follows, therefore, that it can monitor how the bailout is spent by asking questions.

The report said the claims of agency savings would be difficult to achieve, given that government departments have held overall spending growth to 1.3 percent since the cap was begun seven years ago — including rising contractual costs for unionized workers» salaries and health insurance.

Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

Since the discovery of carp DNA in the waterways near Chicago in 2009, the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, which consists of federal, state, and local agencies, has spent $ 100 million on carp research and control.

The Senate's failure to pass a new stopgap spending measure late Friday triggered a partial government shutdown — the first since October 2013, beginning the shuttering of «non-essential» agencies throughout the government, furloughing federal workers and closing federal facilities.

Instead, NIH and other agencies have been operating since 1 October under a continuing resolution, a temporary spending measure that runs out 27 March.

Since then, funding has not kept up with inflation, and the agency's spending capacity is now roughly 23 percent lower than it was 10 years ago.

The U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative's member agencies have cumulatively spent more than $ 23 billion since the inception of the NNI in 2001.

This week I'm in Charleston spending some time with our digital marketing agency and since I'm in an agency office for the week, I get to really embrace my more casual office side.

The courts service spent # 50m last year on agency and contract staff, a more than tenfold rise since 2010 when it spent # 3m, while courts have been closing at an unprecedented rate.

Since joining the Office of the Chief Financial Officer in 2005, she has led the launch of many high - priority, complex programs and initiatives including Federal Spending Transparency, the Department - wide Internal Control Program, and most recently, completing a three - year phased approach to implementing the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act being one of the first cabinet level agencies to submit data files prior to the reporting deadline.

Since I've spent time as a reviewer and on a number of panels for various agencies that provide some of the input into those decisions, I thought it might be interesting to discuss some of the real issues that arise and the real tensions that exist in this process.

Since insurance companies think they'll spend less in the long run if you know all about safe driving, they give discounts whenever you complete defensive driving Ensure that you always consult with your insurance agency before signing up to ensure they are willing to offer a policy price reduction.

Since a small online business like mine does not have much overhead, and we don't advertise, we have very little in terms of expenses so we are able pass the savings on the client in the form of extremely affordable prices (in comparison to the aforementioned «big» agencies who spend a fortune on marketing for their sub-par services).

As you know I had completed my AAT level 4 in November and had been spending most of my [time] since building up my profile and presence on LinkedIn, registering with agencies, etc..

But advertising expenditures have fallen 6 percent since last year, and while real estate pros favor digital ads the most, agencies reduced spending in the digital realm by 8.5 percent this year, the report shows.