Sentences with phrase «budget address last»

During his budget address last month, Gov. Zell Miller, a Democrat, proposed spending $ 105,000 to produce and distribute free classical - music cassettes or compact discs to the parents of newborns in the state.

After including the proposed cuts in his budget address last week, Cuomo said they were about the city and state working together to find spending efficiencies which «won't cost New York City a penny.»

Helgerson told Capital the state's plan would fund hospitals to stay operational while the state finds ways to «transform» the health care delivery system with $ 1.2 billion in capital funding Cuomo proposed as part of his budget address last week.

As in his budget address last month, Mr. de Blasio made no attempt to offer new grand themes for the coming year.

During his budget address last month, he highlighted superintendents» pay as a reason why state spending hasn't kept up with revenue, generating a $ 10 - billion deficit.

But Cuomo in his budget address last month had called for a new panel to make a package of legislative fixes to the standards that could be voted on by June.

Sen. John Flanagan told me during a CapTon interview last night that he's open to the idea of a salary cap for public school superintendents, whose compensation was targeted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his budget address last week.

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The budget is also expected to include a major financial boost to basic scientific research across Canada, which would address some of the concerns outlined last year in a national review of the state of fundamental science.

The Government's business rate changes in last November's budget were appreciated, but in the current environment, SMEs would welcome more incentives to address skills shortages or further tax reductions.»

The governor questioned whether the legislative budget deal will be balanced (we have yet to see the revenue bill, although there's supposed to be one out today), saying he doesn't want to see a repeat of last year, when the Legislature was forced to enact mid-year cuts to address a post-deal deficit.

As part of measures to address the on - going power supply challenges, Finance Minister Seth Terkper told Parliament last week when he presented the 2016 budget that government was working on the 220MW Kpone Thermal Power Project which he said is on course and expected to be commissioned for operations before the end of the year.

Brown, the governor of California, pushed for including $ 7.5 million in the state budget last year to address food insecurity on college campuses.

Cuomo will kick off the legislative session with the same model he used last year: a hybrid State of the State / executive budget address.

Matt Fernando, a spokesman for the legislative GOP majority released a statement that didn't address fee hikes, but highlighted the caucus» role in previously holding property taxes largely flat and shrinking the workforce: «We intend to advance these taxpayer protective principles as we analyze Mangano's last budget.»

Stringer recommended that city agencies do a serious scrub of their budgets and operations to identify more savings and efficiencies to help address potential risks — something City agencies have not been asked to do in the last four budget cycles.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo got to the workforce reduction part of this budget address, he rather pointedly noted that he has had a «good relationship» with labor all his life and only considered layoffs (9,800 of them, to be exact) to be a «last resort.»

Bloomberg specifically mentioned his support for a new pension tier for future employees that Cuomo offered up last week in his budget address, both in his own city and across the state, calling the current growth «unsustainable.»

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't mention the epicenter of New York's water - quality crisis during his State of the State tour, waiting until last week's budget briefing, 39,000 words later, to address the crisis in Hooksick Falls.

Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.

Cuomo jumped into the fight last month during his budget address when he criticized the Board of Regents for implementation failures and announced that he would form a panel to look at how to improve the rollout.

Cuomo led and closed his 2018 - 19 budget address Tuesday by underscoring the need to adapt a dramatic change in the state tax code to counter a federal tax law passed last month by the Republican - controlled Congress and President Donald Trump.

Division of Budget spokesman Morris Peters released the following statement last week addressing the lack of school aid runs: «There's no need to have school aid runs until we have agreement on getting the reforms that the governor has asked for.»

The former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, who was addressing the press in response to government's 2016 budget statement and its record in the last seven years,...

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

One day before of his combined State of the State and budget address, a new Siena pol finds Gov. Andrew Cuomo's standing with voters has improved slightly since last month and is now at its highest level since last July.

A brand new year, and a brand new legislative session, though — like last year — we'll be getting a delayed start, thanks to the Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to again merge his State of the State and budget addresses into one gigantic mega-speech, to be delivered on Jan. 13.

Senate must save itself by confirming Mike Pompeo Poll: Menendez has 17 - point lead over GOP challenger MORE (D - N.J.), a lead sponsor of the measure, said late last week that Democrats will «insist» on addressing the oil tax issue in broader budget talks.

«We have increased education more than any area in state government, period,» Cuomo said at last week's budget address.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his $ 82.2 billion executive budget for New York City on Tuesday with a presentation focused on savings extracted from city agencies, and a few new programs intended to address problems that arose over the past year, from snarled snowplows in Queens to voting woes in the presidential primary last week.

Christie singled out Horizon during his annual budget address, saying the insurer should tap into «excess surplus» from its $ 2.4 billion in capital reserves to fund the anti-addiction campaign the governor hopes to make his lasting legacy.

«The millionaires tax is the majority of closing the deficit,» he said following his budget address in Albany last week.

Professor Tooke recommends that the proposed NHS Medical Education England (NHS: MEE), financed by ring - fenced budgets, would address many of the «functional deficiencies» identified in last autumn's report.

As Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Minor laid out budget issues in her State of the City address last night, one group showed up to protest a potential budget, the shutting down of Fire Station No. 7 on Sryacuse's east side.

Shortly after the County Executive released his 2014 Road Project List last spring, many Legislators immediately recognized that there wasn't enough work scheduled or funding budgeted to address the County's many infrastructure issues.

Last year, Cuomo surprised the mayor in Albany on the day of his combined State of the State and budget address with proposed cost - shifts to the city.

«Unfortunately the Legislature's last best offer does not take sufficient action to restore New York state's long - term fiscal stability and does nowhere near enough to address next year's budget deficit,» Paterson said in a statement.

Gov. David Paterson addresses New Yorkers about the state budget crisis last week.

Borelli is among the members who were particularly disappointed by the mayor's refusal to address property taxes in his $ 89 billion executive budget proposal, released late last month.

In addition to addressing the budget situation, the state Legislature enacted the pension modifications that the city and the UFT negotiated last June in the agreement that restored the post-Labor Day school start.

In the op - ed, Adams said that Governor Paterson's recently announced spending reductions would still result in a budget that increases overall spending by 3.7 % as compared to last year, and did not address a proposed $ 1.3 billion in new taxes and fees that would increase costs for New York businesses at a time when they can least afford it.

They'll talk about the state's financial troubles and the special legislative session held last week to address the budget shortfall.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo used part of his budget address to the press last night to reveal a plan to prevent ethical improprieties involving companies seeking business with the state — months after a pair of his top lieutenants and several executives from companies that donated to his campaign got indicted on charges of bid - rigging and bribery.

«How does this budget address unemployment, the youth unemployment and you look at the resources this government has had over the last seven years, phenomenal amount.

The 2018 budget would have to address it because they pledged in their manifesto that every year constituencies would get one million dollars so that means they'll have to raise 2 million in 2018 because last year is in arrears.»

Normally, new research initiatives announced in the State of the Union address, such as the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Technologies) neuroscience effort or the Precision Medicine Initiative launched last year, are part of the president's budget request to Congress released a couple weeks later.

Last June, SCAPE was part of a coalition that successfully advocated for, and won, a budget amendment that addressed growing class sizes in the district.

Gov. Jerry Brown approved the change to California's accountability system last month when he signed the catch - all «trailer bill» that enacts the state budget details into law, but also includes issues not addressed in other bills.

Gov. John Bel Edwards took to the airwaves last night, laying out his plan to address the state's budget crisis: «I don't say this to scare you.»

(Calif.) A multi-million dollar grant to help schools address student behavior; parameters for the revamped Adult Education program, and a deadline extension for adopting new school performance metrics were among the flurry of budget moves approved in Sacramento late last week.

-- that the fundamental mitigation issue of advising UNFCCC to establish a global carbon budget could be ignored for the last 20 years, and that when it was finally addressed in the recent AR5 report it should be in so vague and convoluted a manner that delegates at the UN in turn dismissed it, while of the media that gave it any coverage at all many reported a budget far larger than that which the scientists actually proposed;