Sentences with phrase «budget control issues»

Original producer of the films, Joel Silver, will also not be involved due to his reputation for «budget control issues», which we've seen can destroy good movies because there is one too many cooks in the film kitchen.

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Toward that end, it is important that for every one new regulation issued, at least two prior regulations be identified for elimination, and that the cost of planned regulations be prudently managed and controlled through a budgeting process.

Payplan and SANE recently came together to bring the issue of debt to surface, and aid anyone who is under any financial stress to come forward and take full control of their budgeting.

But the Senate's one - house budget plan excluded a mayoral control re-authorization and instead decided to hold hearings on the issue.

To ensure irreversibility, we are implementing the following measures to tackle some of the long - term structural issues: a. capping of the statutory funds at 25 percent of government tax revenues b. operationalization of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to consolidate all government funds at the Bank of Ghana c. tightening of expenditure controls in GIFMIS to minimize inefficiencies and budget overruns d. strict enforcement of the PFM Act, as well as the Public Procurement Act, to ensure efficiency in public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their money.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie reportedly promised the mayor back in April — after the budget deal was done — that he would draw a line in the sand on a two year extension for mayoral control, seeking to end its use as a bargaining chip for unrelated issues.

Flanagan said the issue of mayoral control should be dealt with separately from the budget.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio urged Cuomo and the Legislature to reauthorize mayoral control of New York City's public schools, ratcheting up public pressure as his aides scrambled behind closed doors on several budget - related education issues.

Local control is a hot issue with budgets and common core so leave it up to the districts to decide the issue.

Hours after a joint letter calling for the extension of mayoral control in NYC was issued by the unlikely alliance of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, state Republican leaders and Cuomo's office signaled that the issue would be put off until after the state budget was finalized, opening the door to months of protracted negotiations.

Truss talks about issuing league tables, giving accountability to the governors and allowing them to control their own budgets.

Gun control, transparency over school funding and housing matters were among issues still being negotiated Wednesday in Albany as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers tried once again to close down a new state budget in advance of a self - imposed Friday deadline as religious holidays loom.

Escalating the tension on Tuesday, DiNapoli issued a report that was critical of the pension proposal that was baked into the budget and questioned Cuomo's desire for more control over how money is moved between agencies, warning it could lead to an erosion of oversight.

Senate: While addressing the chamber before the vote on its one - house budget on Monday, Majority Leader John Flanagan said that he didn't feel mayoral control was a budget issue.

When the new state budget for fiscal year 2019 passed early Saturday morning in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo had successfully implemented several of his top policy priorities on issues like workplace sexual harassment, taxes, gun control, and public housing in New York City.

Conservatives have criticized Cuomo's use of messages of necessity on issues ranging from gun control, same - sex marriage and the passage of the state budget.

Whyland also said Heastie would not allow the tax credit to be linked to passage of any other legislation — like, say, mayoral control of the New York City school system, which some are suggesting could be linked to raising the charter school cap, another issue pushed without success by Cuomo during the budget battle.

At the same time, DiNapoli's report takes issue with the spending proposal including language that would allow the executive branch to have control over the budget post-legislative approval such as the ability to hike or lower planned expenditures and re-allocate previously approved spending.

As budget negotiations — which are conducted behind closed doors among the governor and three top legislative leaders, out of sight of even other lawmakers — unfolded over the past week, it became increasingly clear that the Legislature would punt policy issues such as gun control or bail reform to after the budget's April 1 deadline, in favor of financial considerations.

Mayoral control was the central issue in end - of - session negotiations that had largely been devoid of drama after the state's budget season — which usually ends in March — dragged on into April.

Assembly Democrats, who opposed easing state control, had cast the issue as the only one holding up a budget deal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled today that the contentious issue of mayoral control over New York City public schools — along with several other major policy debates — will «more likely» be decided during the regular legislative session, after the state budget deadline of April 1.

The extension of mayoral control of schools in New York City also isn't in the budget; lawmakers expect to take up that issue later this year.

Indeed, yesterday's Budget cuts to Housing Benefit are a sideshow to the big issue in housing, which is that spending has shifted dramatically towards supporting individuals with housing costs - rather than investing in bricks and mortar over the last twenty or so years since rent controls were abolished and local authorities were made to stop building council houses.

Under narrow Republican control, the chamber has forced Democrats to compromise on key issues like the minimum wage and taxes, while also stymying efforts to make it easier to vote and bar a woman from having a seat at the budget negotiating table.

The state budget is expected to pass within the next month, but lawmakers at the state Capitol are diving into a range of complicated and emotional issues ranging from gun control to making it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits.

The budget itself includes a number of political trip wires, from criminal justice reform, to transit issues for New York City, education spending and gun control.

Although Cuomo has dropped rent control law from budget negotiations, the issue is still a hot one in Albany; the current laws near their expiry date this June.

A whole bunch of issues were not resolved during the budget process, from voting and ethics reforms to gun control, child sexual abuse victims, cash bail, plastic bags, food waste and more.

Asked if dealing with gun control in a special session was preferable to waiting for the start of the new Legislature, Silver said, «It probably doesn't (matter), but it gives the opportunity to highlight it before we get into the state budget and other issues that may cloud the focus.»

The decision on an issue that has garnered national attention rests in the hands of the three voting members of the control board, one of whom is Cuomo's budget director.

In the Senate, a string of Democrats introduced hostile amendments, trying to force a vote on issues — like gun control and early voting — that had fallen out of budget negotiations in recent days, and their remarks mixed anger over the lack of action with wisecracks about the late hour.

The Democratic - controlled state assembly passed a measure to close the LLC loophole, Governor Cuomo put the measure in his budget but later pulled it, saying he wanted to pursue the issue in the second half of the session.

One potential issue could be a state financial control board's decision to impose cuts in Nassau's 2018 budget even before Curran takes office.

Spano, a Democrat who campaigned for mayoral control last year and even convinced the Senate majority conference to include the change in its state budget proposal, said the issue isn't as urgent for him now because the city recently merged some of its administrative offices with the school board.

The issue came up again during a five - hour state budget hearing in Albany on Monday, with legislators questioning the need for the new process, which also includes an approval role for the governor - controlled Empire State Development corporation.

There is, though, the issue of mayoral control of New York City schools, which will expire at the end of June unless it is renewed, and whether Cuomo and legislative leaders can reach a memorandum of understanding around how $ 2 billion in budget money targeted for affordable housing will be spent.

While he has been lauded by liberals in the state and nationally for bold action on topics like same - sex marriage and gun control, his posture on nuts - and - bolts issues like budgets and taxes has leaned more toward the right.

In his statement, Flanagan did not mention the minimum wage, but instead chose to focus on Republican bread - and - butter issues like delivering a sixth timely budget that he said controls spending and offers tax relief and higher levels of school funding.

Carlucci is a member of the controversial Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a small group of Democratic state senators who have agreed to support Republican control of the State Senate in exchange for better committee assignments, expanded budgets for hiring staff, and promises of attention to issues important to IDC members.

Major issues in the 2014 legislative session included raising the minimum wage, gun control, the 2015 budget, campaign finance, and the economy.

WHO today issued a «donor alert,» urgently requesting a 6 - month budget of $ 10.5 million to support the vaccine study (which may require 5000 doses), as well as surveillance, treatment, and conventional prevention and control efforts.

A statement issued by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), the Governing Bodies Association, the Catholic Heads Association, the Association of Controlled Grammar Schools and the Voluntary Bursars Association warned that many schools were facing critical budget challenges.

conducting further research into what works to help young people with behavioural issues, and as such, continue to develop our long - term ambition to give control of alternative provision budgets to mainstream schools, allowing these to commission their own such provision and take responsibility for educational outcomes of their pupils

Participants met with their legislators and discussed pressing issues facing charter schools across California including facilities funding, blended learning instruction, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and the Governor's Budget.

Immediately following the release of the Governor's budget, on January 15, several CCSA Board members traveled to Sacramento to meet with legislators and other policymakers, to discuss the budget proposal as well as to advocate for issues that will have lasting effects for charter schools such as the Parcel Tax, Local Control Funding Formula proposal (formerly named Weighted Student Formula) and closing the funding gap for charter schools.

Utah Legislature will tackle high - profile issues Politics» While the state budget and public education will dominate discussions as usual, lawmakers are expected to debate tougher ethics laws, weaker gun - control laws.

In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control over the education budget and school issues.

This ties in total flexibility, but when you're travelling solo, I find budgets are less of an issue since you're controlling how much you'll be spending.