Sentences with phrase «budget agreement for»

In December, the Ryan - Murray budget agreement for FY2014 and FY2015 eased those limits, which has enabled significantly greater cooperation between the two parties on many issues this year, including authorization and appropriations legislation.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate also agreed to try to negotiate the outlines of a broader budget agreement for the 2014 fiscal year by 13 December.

MANHATTAN — Governor Andrew Cuomo and State Legislators Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos reached a budget agreement for the 2011 - 2012 fiscal year Sunday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced a $ 82.1 billion budget agreement for Fiscal Year 2017 at City Hall Wednesday afternoon, putting millions of additional dollars towards summer youth jobs, libraries and seniors while securing more money for the city's reserve fund and the citywide savings program.

Last April, after Cuomo and state legislators reached a budget agreement for 2016 - 17, Long Island's public schools got total state financial assistance of $ 2.97 billion, which was a record.

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NDP MP Thomas Mulcair, who represents the Montreal riding of Outremont, further suggested that the federal government was stalling on finalizing the agreement, rather than including it in the budget, for political reasons.

The agreement was that they wouldn't completely change our budgeted expenses, but they would move them up gradually and I would pay for them from reserve funds.»

Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

A Franco - German deal to maintain the nominal level of farm spending served as the basis for agreement on the last long - term EU budget for 2007 - 2013.

It signed an agreement with budget carrier flydubai for 225 737 MAX planes, holding a list price of $ 27 billion.

No wonder that it took three special sessions for the governor and legislature to reach an agreement on a new budget, narrowly averting a government shutdown on July 1.

[1] Admittedly, the Trudeau government did announce $ 30 million in temporary funding for some social housing agreements in its first budget; but that was just two years of funding.

summary of Canadian health care system: Canada has a single payer health care system, where the provinces are responsible for health care budgets, administration and delivery, yet have inter-provincial agreements that ensure you are covered anywhere in Canada (for those in the US not familiar with Canada, our provinces are much like your states; with a bit more autonomy from our federal government).

I congratulate the Prime Minister on what has been achieved thus far, which we must hope will translate into mutually beneficial withdrawal and trade agreements, but given that that can not be guaranteed, will she give instructions for the sum set aside by the Chancellor in his Budget last month to be expended on upgrading our customs infrastructure, in order to secure smooth international trade after Brexit and reassure business in this country?

Aides and lawmakers say budget talks in the Senate are moving toward an agreement for whopping increases in Pentagon spending as well as domestic programs.

The budget conference agreement will have to reconcile these numbers and ideally set in motion a process for offsetting an increase in the caps if agreed upon.

The budget agreement negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., calls for a $ 63 billion increase in domestic...

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

For Immediate Release Congress passed a massive budget agreement early Friday that adds almost $ 420 billion with interest to the national debt over...

Agreements were made with Johnson, Waiters, and Olynyk, and the figures initially reported for those deals exceeded the budget necessary to keep Ellington.

Ferrari got its way, and the # 40m budget cap that was the premise for Virgin Racing, Team Lotus and HRT entering the sport was dropped in favour of a «Resource Restriction Agreement».

Under the agreement, the city would provide the Park District about $ 324,000 over five years to help pay for the rising maintenance cost to the 21 - year - old park, which in 2001 was $ 581,000 or nearly 25 percent of the district's maintenance budget.

(Reuters)- New York's mayor and city council came to a handshake agreement late Thursday night for an on - time and balanced budget, of $ 75 billion, for the next fiscal year.

In his first public comments since actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon announced her campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it is «the political silly season» and that he is focused on a downstate snowstorm and the state budget agreement.

Still, event with a raise the agreement in place — believed to be one of the last and most contentious of the policy matters in the budget — there are remaining matters that must be dealt with, including a push to bolster charter schools and funding for education.

Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

A key sticking point continues to be raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and an agreement that issue could pave the way for an official statement on a deal for a broader budget.

Without the offset of the 18 percent wage hike included in the deal realized through health care savings negotiated by the administration with the UFT and Municipal Labor Council, which represents all city employees, this agreement «could increase future budget gaps to levels that would be more difficult for the city to deal with, especially during another downturn,» Moody's warned.

Lawmakers indicated on Thursday after meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo they are inching toward a final agreement on the state budget, but key issues on funding education and raising revenue for taxes remain unresolved.

The state budget is expected to include $ 54 million for per pupil grants in aid for charter schools, according to a source familiar with the agreement.

Rep. Dan Donovan, the lone Republican House member from New York City, took credit on Monday for the proposed federal budget agreement that reimburses New York City for strengthening security around President Donald Trump's 5th Avenue tower.

Then the governor started making nosies about no need to rush into a final budget deal, and lawmakers — whose paychecks are being withheld while a final deal eludes them — insisted they were, in fact, close to an agreement, and clamored for him to send them bills to vote on.

In the call, Obama cites the recent budget agreement in Albany that Kaminsky voted for as a sitting member of the Assembly, which included a 12 - week paid family leave program and an increase in the minimum wage targeted for $ 15 in downstate counties.

The agreement in the budget, which had been a negotiating point for state Senate Republicans, was the first workers compensation law change in 10 years.

The agreement is not yet soup, though the conversation in Albany over the details of locking down a budget over a Medicaid cost shift for New York City.

A likely agreement on the budget for the minimum wage is expected to include a $ 15 wage for New York City by 2018 and longer phase - in periods for the suburban counties.

This is not good news for Stachowski, who has made quite a name for himself of late by refusing to vote in favor of the budget revenue bill until there's some sort of agreement on the SUNY empowerment plan that helps further UB's 2020 proposal.

In a victory for sexual assault survivors, the $ 168.3 billion state budget agreement extends the length of time rape kits are stored in New York.

«I think even when you have a budget agreement — and I've been here 25 years — it takes a few days to put it together; in other words to structurally go through and pass all the bills and allow for the legislators to read the billls fully and debate the bills.

As for the deal for loosening state Education Department regulations for yeshivas (Jewish religious schools) that he got by holding up the state budget agreement last week, Felder said he is semi-satisfied.

The final agreement not only burnishes Cuomo's liberal credentials by extending (though not expanding) the millionaire's tax, raising the age of criminal responsibility of New York and addressing the high cost of college tuition for members of the middle class, it also dramatically increases his (already considerable) budget powers, enabling him to single - handedly make spending cuts in the event of widely expected future federal funding reductions.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has also called the issue a key one for him in the budget, saying in a WCNY interview on Tuesday he wanted an agreement that would ensure 16 and 17 - year - old defendants were adjudicated in Family Court, not through a diversion court that would create a «separate class» of juvenile defendants.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Monday took a victory lap on an agreement in the budget for the first change in the state's workers» compensation laws in a decade.

The U.S. Senate's top leaders reached an agreement on a two - year budget pact that would shower both the Pentagon and domestic programs with almost $ 300 billion above existing limits, giving wins to both GOP defense hawks and Democrats seeking billions for infrastructure projects and combatting opioid abuse.

Let us move beyond this budget cycle and make the SDGs flow through the DNA of Ghanaians in our efforts to meet the 2030 targets for the Sustainable Development Goals and the embedded Paris Agreement for climate action.

The agreement for workers» compensation in the budget was key for business organizations that had reeled over last year's spending plan that included a minimum wage agreement setting the floor at $ 15 over the next several years and a paid family leave program.

In a victory for sexual assault survivors, the $ 168.3 billion state budget agreement will extend the length of time rape kits are stored in New York.

Marcus Solis has the lastest on the budget agreement that includes a new fee for anyone who rides cabs, Ubers, Lyfts — or any car service.

Monday night is the deadline for agreement on the $ 168.2 billion budget and some major policy issues proposed by the governor.

Largely adopting provisions in a bill drafted in 2015 by the State Bar Association in collaboration with the Innocence Project and the District Attorneys» Association of New York, the budget agreement calls for both video recording of custodial interrogations of suspects in serious crimes and reforming procedures for eyewitness identification.