Sentences with phrase «annual budget increases»

Q: Why are you seeking a 5 - year reauthorization, with annual budget increases of 5 % for the relevant agencies?

It also called for annual budget increases topping 10 % for DOE's Office of Science, NSF, and NIST.

Although Congress and the White House agreed in 2002 to double the budget of the National Science Foundation over five years, annual budget increases so far are too small to meet that goal.

Each enterprise has its own time frame and budget, although the total amount exceeds $ 20.7 billion (US$ 28.4 billion), and «guarantees annual budget increases of at least 5 percent for the largest science funding and science performance organizations», explains Max Vögler, director of the North America Office of the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

Not exact matches

Just as alarming is that interest on this debt is increasing at an annual rate of 5 %, outpacing spending increases on every other budget item.

The Congressional Budget Office projects the return of $ 1 trillion annual deficits following the December tax cuts and recent spending increases.

And even if the combative candidate assumes an annual bodyguard budget similar to the increased level of protection he employed last quarter, when his security expenses doubled to $ 99,634 for the three - month period (during which he was also granted Secret Service protection), he still wouldn't be paying as much for safety as Johnson.

In addition, Mr. Speaker, Budget 2014 will result in the largest annual increase in funding for research through the granting councils in over a decade.

There's a lot to think about when developing an annual sales plan to support your organization's strategy and objectives: new customer acquisition, customer retention, increasing share of wallet, resource budgeting... just to name a few.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

Budget 2010 froze departmental operating budgets for two years, forced departments to absorb the 1.5 % increase in annual wages and salaries for 2010 - 11, and reduced the rate of growth in defence spending.

In Budget 2010, departmental / agency operating budgets were required to fund the 1.5 % increase in annual salaries within existing budgets for 2010 - 11.

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

And even with the modest increase contained in the proposed B.C. Budget on incomes over $ 150,000, a person with an annual income of $ 300,000 would still pay the fourth lowest taxes in Canada (only Alberta, New Brunswick and Newfoundland's effective tax rates are mildly lower).

On - budget: Government programs that are generally subject to annual appropriations, and therefore susceptible to spending cuts or increases.

Nobody could possibly predict whether further price increases are coming, but the effects of a $ 124 mln annual budget should not be underestimated.

While Amazon has steadily increased its global ad budget to 3.7 % of total sales in the last nine years, the majority of its brick - and - mortar competitors now devote a smaller percentage of their declining annual sales to advertising.

Such a move would be impossible for most established churches, but they could begin to move in that direction by portioning off an ever - increasing percentage of their annual budget for serving the community in this way.

The Park District of La Grange Board approved an annual budget this week that includes a 1.7 percent tax increase and designates funds to expand a before - and - after - school program to St. Francis Xavier School.

At a time when Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago's 50 aldermen are collecting annual pay increases, Daley has no business asking rank - and - file city workers to take unpaid furlough days to help balance the city's budget, a labor leader said Tuesday.

The Arlington Heights Park District board has unanimously approved an annual budget of $ 26,684,077, which reflects a 1.4 percent increase over last year, said Donna Wilson, the district's director of finance and personnel.

The pay increases, as the state struggles with budget cuts and falling revenues, average 6 percent and are worth nearly $ 1 million on an annual basis, payroll records reviewed by The Post show.

Specifically, the manifesto argues for an end to austerity: the SNP proposal is for a 0.5 % annual increase in public spending over the course of the next parliament, rather than the reductions in spending which George Osborne laid out in his March 2015 budget.

He has pledged to eliminate state budget rules that lock in annual increases to educational programs and Medicaid — a 13 percent hike this year.

The Mayor's 2015 budget will propose to more than double the Department of Housing Preservation and Development's annual capital budget in the 5 - year plan, increasing investment to more than $ 2.5 billion.

«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.

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.

«Although school aid is statutorily capped at the annual growth rate of personal income, the projected increase for next fiscal year is a much larger 7.5 percent,» the budget watchdog wrote.

The Legislature approved the funding at today's annual Budget Meeting to support WNY United's efforts to increase awareness, educate and mobilize a broad cross-section of individuals and groups to participate actively in proven strategies to prevent substance abuse.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander's attack on the «ill - judged and unwise» proposal from the European Commission's proposal to increase its annual budget by 4.9 %, which Oborne points out was exactly the «kind of profligacy» cheerfully sanctioned by Labour during its 13 years in power.

The budget was set to rise from # 615 billion in 2008 to # 674 billion in 2010 — a two per cent annual increase in real terms.

The Legislature approved the funding at today's annual Budget Meeting to support the local firefighters and increase their safety during training exercises.

While Mr. Obama has signaled a willingness to make health spending a top source of budget savings in the current debate, he has not sent a similar message on Social Security, even though in budget talks with Republicans this year he entertained the idea of changing the way annual increases in payments are calculated.

At the same time, the budget also includes a $ 200 annual tuition increase for five years for in - state students whose family income levels are above the amount of the new grant program.

The former governor, who had pushed a 4 percent limit on annual property tax increases in his last year as governor, had inserted the provision in an emergency budget extender.

A significant increase in Teacher's Choice, which the Council has funded for more than 25 years, topped his list of requests at the annual preliminary budget hearing.

Prince Andrew will govern just like his father... who saw an annual 12 % increase in our state budget per year over his 12 years of RULE in New York... What NYS needs is less NYC liberals and more small govt minded people.

The governor in his first term has cast himself as a pro-business chief executive and pursued measures friendly toward the state's business community, including a self - imposed spending cap in the state budget, a limit on annual property tax increases and a revamped economic development program called START - UP NY.

Cuomo has long pushed back against calls from public education advocates to increase annual school foundation aid in the budget by more than $ 1 billion.

Ulster's budget - making, like all towns and school districts, is an annual exercise in frustration, juggling rising healthcare and pension costs against a state - mandated tax cap which next year will restrict property - tax increases to less than 1 percent.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has drafted a long - term budget that eliminates 4 percent annual property tax increases that his predecessor, Thomas Suozzi, had planned for each of the next three years.

Meanwhile, on Planet European Parliament, MEPs are insisting that they want more than a 2.9 % increase in their annual budget.

As Landi notes, the RRA is spending half its $ 15 million annual budget shipping county garbage to a place called Seneca Meadows near Rochester, an expense that can only increase with time and distance.

Florida lawmakers are poised to end their annual Session on Sunday by passing an $ 88.7 billion state budget that increases funding for school safety, mental health, environmental land - buying and college scholarships.

They also say Mejias has to answer for his past legislative record of backing the home energy tax, annual reassessments, and increasing property taxes and budgets that have left Nassau in a $ 300 - million hole.

NSF: A $ 113 million increase proposed for the agency's $ 4.2 billion research budget hides a $ 48 million transfer from the U.S. Coast Guard to take on the annual cost of breaking ice to keep the shipping lanes open in the Antarctic.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes Science's Next Wave, Vice President Al Gore unveiled details of an initiative to add $ 366 million to the $ 1.5 billion already in the federal budget this year for information sciences, a 28 % increase.

Abdalati has urged a $ 500 - million annual increase in funding for the Earth science budget.

Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania (D) appeared at the briefing to give I - SPY 2 his blessing and remind people that he's pushing to increase the annual budget of the National Institutes of Health from $ 30 billion to $ 40 billion.