Sentences with phrase «at a budget hearing»

Laura Haight is one who testified Monday at a budget hearing in Albany about the proposed changes to the Bottle Bill.

Watertown city council members were at work at a budget hearing Tuesday night trying to balance sewer and water costs.

At a budget hearing Monday, lawmakers were focused on a more immediate concern — clean drinking water.

Lawmakers grilled Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development chair Wednesday at a budget hearing, as some of the programs are embroiled in a corruption scandal that's led to charges against several former associates of the governor.

Howard Zemsky, who leads ESD for Cuomo, defended the state's dealings with Soraa and NexGen at budget hearings held by the Legislature last month.

Speaking at a budget hearing in early February, ESD president Howard Zemsky said only that the agency was «answering questions» and «participating fully» in Bharara's probe.

Members of Syracuse's Common Council expressed doubt about the future sustainability of the Greater Syracuse Land Bank at a budget hearing Wednesday afternoon.

«Our infrastructure is aging, and in desperate need of repairs and improvements,» said de Blasio at the Budget Hearing on Local Governments on February 25.

The state plans to announce some of the colleges that will be part of the START UP program within the coming days, State economic development head Ken Adams told lawmakers at a budget hearings several weeks ago.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, who also testified at the budget hearing, says she also would like to offer all - day pre-kindergarten to four - year - olds in her city.

As if Thomas Galante's bloated salary isn't enough to make your head spin, Galante displayed his royal arrogance Thursday at a budget hearing inside Borough Hall where he repeatedly requesting more funds for Queens library while defending his outrageous $ 2 million dollar severance package and other perks.

INDIAN LAKE A last - minute decision to increase fund balance usage for the highway department at a budget hearing last week saw the Town of Indian Lake's 2018 preliminary budget come in under the cap.

«This is big news,» said City Councilman Mark Treyger, who asked the commission about the designation at a budget hearing.

About 1 million, or half of the state's property tax rebate checks have gone out and the other half should be sent out by the end of February, state Tax Commissioner Jerry Boone told lawmakers at a budget hearing.

Howard Zemsky, head of Empire State Development, told legislators at a budget hearing that the governor's $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage proposal would be an economic booster because it would raise people out of poverty who will spend and circulate that money.

The State University of New York, «the largest comprehensive system of postsecondary education in the country,» now serves 600,000 students each year, Chancellor Nancy Zimpher told the state legislature at a budget hearing in January.

Lawmakers at a budget hearing last month also worried that the $ 163 million estimated cost of the New York proposal is too low.

Other speakers at the budget hearing asked the council not to burden the city's taxpayers with a large tax increase.

City Council members, proposing a bill that would have the Parks Department extend the public recreation season from its current closure date on Labor Day until the start of school on weekdays and the end of September on weekends, hashed out the issue at a budget hearing Monday.

Governor Cuomo's Health Commissioner was questioned by lawmakers at a budget hearing about his on - going review of the health effects of hydrofracking.

Though one lawmaker called for his resignation in the wake of the travel report, others were cordial to Dr. Shulkin at a budget hearing Thursday morning and did not bring up the report.

New York Governor Cuomo's economic development chair was grilled by state lawmakers at a budget hearing Wednesday, as some of the programs are embroiled in a corruption scandal that's led to charges against several former associates of the governor.

«It seems to me there's a lot of cronyism that goes on,» Assemblyman Fred Thiele, a Long Island Republican, said at a budget hearing in February.

Lawmakers grilled Bob Megna, the authority's interim executive director, at a budget hearing.

As Walcott tried to justify the layoffs to frustrated Council members at a budget hearing that lasted through the early afternoon, Quinn released a list of $ 75 million in alternate cuts the Council said could ease the layoff burden.

At the budget hearing this week, City Council Members and Dean Fuleihan, director of the Mayor's Office of Management and Budget, agreed that in the coming months, the Council and the administration must work together to evaluate the impact of possible federal actions and prepare a response.

At a budget hearing in June, Zinke defended a $ 1.6 billion proposed budget cut at Interior, saying he planned to shave 4,000 positions from the workforce.

The program has helped boost graduation rates in the city's school district, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a budget hearing in Albany.

Governor Cuomo's economic development chair was grilled by lawmakers at a budget hearing, as some of the programs are embroiled in a corruption scandal that's led to corruption charges against several former associates of the governor.

«I don't think that this population, given the explosion in the number of millionaires since the tax has been in place and the level of income that these folks have, that this would be a good time to provide a $ 3.7 billion tax cut to the wealthiest,» Deutsch testified at a budget hearing on Tuesday.

Williamsville's Martzloff told the audience at a budget hearing Thursday night that the district's administrators will be monitoring class sizes at the elementary level very closely this summer up to the beginning of the 2017 - 18 school year, and will add teaching staff if necessary.

Governor Cuomo's Health Commissioner was questioned by lawmakers at a budget hearing about his on - going review of the health effects of hydro - fracking.

At a budget hearing Martens told legislators that there's no timetable for his agency's environmental review of fracking, known as the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS).

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio asked the legislators at the budget hearing to reconsider.

There was one voice in the wilderness: Dare Thompson, a charter drafter, expressed dismay at the executive's proposal at a budget hearing held by the legislature's Ways and Means Committee in Marlboro last month, but her voice apparently didn't reach beyond the apple orchards therein.

ALBANY — Maggie Miller, the state's chief information officer, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers at a budget hearing Thursday afternoon about the Cuomo administration policy of automatically deleting emails of state workers that are more than 90 days old.

«Our goal is to capture the investment and have those jobs stay here,» Adams told legislators at a budget hearing, calling Start Up - NY one of several economic development strategies Cuomo is pursuing.

Eight - year - old Brooke Trevett asks the Oswego Common Council to avoid eliminating 16 firefighter jobs at the budget hearing.

Addressing the City Council at a budget hearing on Monday, Fariña said principals have been seeking guidance on the matter, although the Department of Education has yet to come up firm rules.

Those arguments continue to gain nuance and force at every budget hearing, adapting to the makeup of the body and the changing economic landscape of the region.

The Board of Elections, a quasi-state agency funded by the city, is set to roll out a new website in the coming months which will provide New Yorkers with an «electronically assisted way» to fill out a voter registration form and an absentee ballot application, according to BOE Executive Director Michael Ryan, who testified at a budget hearing of the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations on Monday.

Legislators will debate Mahoney's proposal department by department at budget hearings through the end of September.

About 100 people who have been diagnosed with mental illness sat silently at a budget hearing on the state's mental health budget to protest provisions in the law that they say unfairly «stigmatize» them.

Police Commissioner William Bratton will testify at the budget hearing Thursday morning.

Among the other topics discussed at the budget hearing were the 57 community centers that are slated to close at the end of the month if the City Council does not provide $ 10 million in funding.

Why don't we answer questions at budget hearings?

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the House Appropriations Committee during a hearing on the 2019 fiscal year EPA budget at the Capitol on April 26.

The biggest part of the governor's plan — a bill offering about $ 3 billion in tax credits and exemptions — got its first formal hearings in Annapolis at meetings of the House Ways and Means and Senate Budget and Taxation committees.

At least two claims in Wednesday's Senate Budget Committee hearing with Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Keith Hall merit fact checking...

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