Sentences with phrase «budget decisions as»

These priorities will guide budget decisions as the district faces a budget shortfall for 2017 - 18.

The group's open letter frames budget decisions as a moral question for lawmakers and asks them to stop the political brinksmanship.

It's the seniors on your team that will likely be making budget decisions as well.

Not exact matches

Marketing and sales must agree on the target markets, decision - makers and influencers, and have a shared appreciation of the buyer needs, buying process and budget, as well as the competitive advantages, enabling marketing to generate high - quality leads.

As an owner or manager, that can include shifts in business strategy, personnel decisions, or shakeups in the budget.

When I was looking for the best suppliers for my brand, my decision was based heavily on price, as I had a strict budget for starting my business.

There are, however, a unique set of SMB - specific challenges, such as limited budgets, a fragmented market, a wide range of service preferences, and decision - making processes that vary from one company to the other.

Typical financial processes used in business decisions such as formulary and benefit design, new product launching, budgeting and forecasting, and predictive modeling are not provided by PBMs» rebate tools.

our budget not only tracks financial inflows and outflows, but can also be used as a starting point to create policies that you can fall back on when making financial decisions.

The decision to terminate CIDA as an independent agency of the federal government was not mentioned in Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's budget speech on March 21.

With a more acute awareness of our economic climate and the anticipated effects of a prolonged experience, all governments will have budgets under tight scrutiny, and all will have to make hard decisions as we ride this out.

With $ 1 billion in support promised for the flood ravaged communities, it will be difficult for the opposition Wildrose to criticize the Premier's decision to abandon her promise to balance the provincial budget by 2014, especially as Ms. Smith's constituency includes one of the hardest hit areas.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Then finally — as I say, I'm probably leaving something out — there was the decision, which wound up a presidential decision because the people under him were disagreeing, to use the CBO macroeconomic forecast, even after we had done all this work to do our own economic forecast, for one reason: it was more pessimistic than ours, and would therefore make the budget deficit reduction job harder rather than easier.

Australia's last fruit manufacturer, SPC Ardmona, has warned it will be forced to close if the Abbott government delays a decision on a $ 25m grant as it searches for budget savings and weighs up the long - term future of food processing.

Keeping us competitive with usually a negative wage budget, he was really arsenal's sacrificial lamb but that being said he as definitely lost it, since 2013 its been poor decision, after poor decision.

Next, we jump into the importance of allowing children to grieve a disappointment (such as, saying no to an expensive birthday party, choosing to budget funds elsewhere) and how that decision creates resilience in children.

We have all made snap decisions based on a whim or even, as with cloth diapering, based on our baby's health, the family budget, or the ever - present environmental concerns, only later to wonder what in the world we were thinking.

There are pros and cons to all the available options so individual factors such as budget, baby's body size / proportions, who will be changing baby on a regular basis, how many subsequent babies you plan to have, etc will influence your decision.

This week, Paterson used the fact that the Legislature had refused to include an FMAP contingency plan in its two - way budget deal as a rationale for his decision to veto some $ 519 million worth of spending the Assembly and Senate restored to his plan.

Backsliding, such as the new electoral law would influence decisions on the pending budget support payments.

In advance of the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus decision, a provision tucked into the state budget gives public - employee unions the right to deny many services, such as free legal help, to covered employees who opt not to join or pay dues.

In a win for online shoppers, the budget does not include Cuomo's push to require online marketplaces such as Etsy and Amazon to collect sales taxes, a decision hailed by tech groups

Cuomo has often tried to use the three men in a room budget meetings as a symbol of good natured decision making.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

The chancellor's move, which will cut # 3bn a year from the welfare budget, is designed to cement the Conservatives» reputation as the party willing to take tough long - term economic decisions, even at the cost of hitting more than 5 million families characterised as working poor.

As with most budget decisions, an agreement to restore all of the $ 433.5 million still pending statewide would help some districts more than others.

A looming fiscal challenge awaits Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers as budget gaps are opening up in the coming years, forcing decisions on issues ranging from school aid to Medicaid spending.

«As we said in the Better Budgets report, 2 there needs to be improved consultation, in particular ensuring that consultations happen before key decisions have been made by the Government, if we are to have better tax policy.

Equally, a basic income attached to individuals as a right of citizenship is more likely to be realised and entrenched if it is bundled up with a permanent funding source, and so is quarantined from the vicissitudes of annual budget rounds and spending decisions.

«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»

Many tabloids criticised the chancellor's decision to tax «hot grub» during last week's Budget as a further sign that lower income families were being hurt while those earning over # 150,000 won a substantial tax cut.

Cuomo and state lawmakers next year will have to close a budget deficit estimated to be as high as $ 4.6 billion and growing — forcing difficult decisions in a re-election year.

Federal decision makers should consider this imbalance as they debate proposed budget and policy changes that could significantly impact New York and other states.»

These are the people who make those decisions, from lobbyists whose names stay out of the press to the famous «three men in a room» that hash out the state budget to the prosecutor who has emerged as the fourth man in that room, listening in on every deal and upending the status quo of a place that seemed like it would never change.

In briefings to the Tompkins County Legislature's Public Safety and Budget, Capital, and Personnel Committees, Undersheriff Brian Robison, Jail Captain Ray Bunce, and County Administrator Joe Mareane characterized the State's decision as abrupt and costly.

Spending decisions ignore evidence in favour of politics, as the horsetrading over plans to slash budgets for scientific research shows

David Jones announced that Wales would get an extra # 161 million to spend on infrastructure — but we all remember that this is just putting back some of the # 500 million cut in capital spending that was made in 2010 budget and even in the terms of this Budget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we allbudget and even in the terms of this Budget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we allBudget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we all rely.

While the groups, as well as reporters and lobbyists wait to hear news of a final deal on the budget, government reform groups condemned the decision making process as being more secretive than ever.

The New York Public Interest Research Group, Citizens Union, the League of Women Voters, and Common Cause, are calling for an end to the long Albany tradition of closed door meetings between the governor and legislative leaders where they make key decisions on the budget and other issues, known as three men in a room.

Such neighborhood governments would increase residents» engagement in budgeting and decision - making as well as voter turnout Hawkins said Tuesday.

Chancellor George Osborne has warned of more «difficult decisions» in this week's Budget as he sets out his plans to build a «resilient economy» for the future.

During more than 20 years as Assembly speaker, Silver played a major part in creating state budgets and policies as one of Albany's «three men in a room» when big decisions are made: the governor, the Senate majority leader and the speaker.

Pointing to the police revenue sharing defeat, the decision not to fund VEEB, and the loss of additional hotel / motel revenue — as well as use of the sewer stabilization funds — Mr. Schneiderman voted against the budget for the first time in 10 years.

The governor's decision to hold a rally is also notable for another reason: He'll be far from Tallahassee as state lawmakers finish work on the 2017 - 18 budget, which doesn't fund several of his priorities.

Aled Roberts claimed the news as a vindication of his party's decision to prioritise the Pupil Deprivation Grant (PDG) in budget negotiations with the Welsh Government, a policy that targets resources at pupils from deprived backgrounds to improve their attainment.

The governor and legislative leaders make key budget decisions behind closed doors — a system that's become known as «three men in a room» — which allows neither the public nor most lawmakers to provide meaningful input.

For example, the UK could propose limiting the EU's structural funds to its poorest member states — a decision that would not only reduce the budget but also make economic sense for Germany, the UK and Europe as a whole.

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.

Difficult decisions such as the scrapping of Nimrod MRA4s were taken as part of the strategic defence and security review, in part due to pressures placed on the budget due to Trident costs.