Sentences with phrase «budget division»

The bill's charitable contribution provision is «rooted firmly in precedent,» a state budget division spokesman added.

If the state budget division determines the economy would be hurt, the state can put scheduled minimum wage increases on hold.

«Their obvious ideology aside, the facts are that this administration has been rigorous and effective in constraining state spending growth to the lowest level in modern history — resulting in lower taxes for all New Yorkers,» said state Budget Division spokesman Morris Peters.

«Officials with the state Budget Division say they're planning for layoffs even though there have been no memorandums or other written guidance sent to state agencies about how the cuts would proceed, or precisely when they would begin.

Late on the Friday before the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget division released its financial analysis of the new state budget approved in early April.

Also, I received the following statement from Budget Division spokesman Morris Peters: «These numbers are not correct and are based on faulty assumptions and a misunderstanding of the proposal.»

The document was quickly met with a retort from Budget Division Director Bob Megna, who said the governor was taking steps to save money in dire economic times, using the «status quo» line that Cuomo deployed today.

On Monday, as Mr. Cuomo was barnstorming on the campaign trail, his aides held a meeting that lasted several hours with Robert L. Megna, who now heads the state budget division under Gov. David A. Paterson, to discuss the coming budget.

The Governor's Budget Division estimates inflation for calendar 2004 at 1.8 percent.

DiNapoli also points out that the proposed executive budget has new language that would give the governor's budget division extraordinary powers to, on its own, adjust expenditures up or down and redirect funds to state agencies and authorities, if there's a state financial crisis.

Income tax collections are down nearly three - quarters of a billion dollars from what Cuomo's budget division projected in April, at the start of the state's fiscal year.

But rate increases for Upstate New York would be subject to an analysis by the Cuomo - controlled Budget Division after three years.

Morris Peters, a Cuomo budget division spokesman, said Cuomo's budget again caps the state - funded portion of the budget below 2 percent, and includes continuation of a tax cut for families earning under $ 300,000 that he said will benefit six million taxpayers.

(Sources: NYS Budget Division, NYS Education Department, US Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A report from Cuomo's budget division last week found tax revenue has been lagging so far this year — making gaps in the near future larger and all the more likely.

He said the decline is actually part of a larger trend, and that Cuomo's budget division already has projected tax collections for the new budget year will be lower than previously expected, by about $ 1.5 billion.

If the Senecas are pumping more money into incentives to bring in new customers, it could not legally come from the tax money being withheld from the state, the state Budget Division confirmed.

The governor signed the wrong bill,» acknowledged Erik Kriss, a Paterson budget division spokesman.

The memo states, starting Monday, specific jobs slated for layoff will be declared agency - by - agency by the state Budget Division so that individuals in those positions who have greater seniority have the option of transferring to jobs that are not planned for elimination.

Several Assembly GOP lawmakers said they knew only about the gun - law funding after a state Budget Division briefing.

New York State Budget Division Announces Public Hearings for 2011 - 12 Executive Budget Wednesday October 27, 2010 at 04:51 pm

Officials in the state Budget Division responded that school aid growth in recent years has far outstripped expansion of other state programs, and that the same will be true in 2017 - 18.

Senate Republicans emerged from a close - door meeting on Thursday discussing the budget, confirming that the tax option as devised by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and budget division remains in the negotiations.

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His work on budget issues, though, dates back to the Pataki Administration, where he worked as a top Budget Division deputy.

Casey Dreier, director of advocacy for the Planetary Society in Pasadena, California, says it's the best budget the division has seen in a decade.

Sony low - budget division Screen Gems released his first feature in 2000, «The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy,» which followed the lives of a group of gay friends living in West Hollywood.

God Particle is another contained thriller, which like 10 Cloverfield Lane (originally came in as a spec script titled The Cellar) was set up through Bad Robot and Paramount's low budget division Insurge ($ 5 - 10 million films).

Late on a Friday before the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget division released its financial analysis of the new state budget approved in early April.

Cuomo's budget division says it will cover most of the $ 3.5 billion deficit with unspecified cuts (and some accounting gimmicks, no doubt, like re-classifying certain spending programs) that hold operating spending growth to 2 percent.

The credit will be phase in over the next four years, the official said, and would be paid for using future surpluses, which the state's budget division projects will be $ 2 billion by 2016.

A state Budget Division spokesman on Monday said the outside analysis «has not yet been finalized, the budget process is ongoing, and our dialogue with the City of Albany continues.»

A multigovernment efficiency plan has been approved by the state Budget Division for Chautauqua County.

He didn't offer many details, but his initial executive budget proposal did include unilateral control for his Budget Division to make post-budget cuts without legislative approval — a proposal both the Assembly and Senate had deemed a non-starter pretty much right off the bat.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for Cuomo's budget division, disputed DiNapoli's charges.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for New York's budget division, disputed DiNapoli's report, saying the «vast majority» of settlement funds were destined for just such purposes.

Other defense witnesses include people who are or have been employed by Cuomo's office, the state's economic development agency, Cuomo's budget division and the Public Service Commission, which regulates power plants such as the one built by Competitive Power Ventures, which employed Kelly, one of the defendants, and hired Percoco's wife.

Budget Division spokesman Erik Kriss said failure to pass a revenue bill worsens a cash crunch expected Sept. 1 when the state must pony up a $ 2 billion school - aid payment, with an additional $ 800,000 due not long after that.

The state budget division's mid-year financial plan update projects a $ 1.1 billion increase for schools in 2018 - 19.

For now, though, budget division spokesman Morris Peters said the state budget remains in balance.

According to the state Budget Division, CSR payments constitute about 25 percent of the Essential Plan's funding, or $ 925 million this year.

The plan would need to be approved by the budget division and the state Education Department in order for the districts to receive funding increases.

Paterson's budget division is expected, as soon as tomorrow, to send a detailed memo to state agencies outlining steps to be taken to implement a one - day - a-week furlough for nonessential workers, which could save the cash - strapped state as much as $ 30 million a week, according to the source.

The plan would need to be approved by the state's budget division and the Education Department for the districts to receive funding increases.

According to Budget Division spokesman Erik Kriss, the veto will have several collateral effects on a number of programs:

And, according to Cuomo's budget division spokesman, Morris Peters, under the new law, the governor's labor has the power to revisit the decisions of past wage boards, and can make «adjustments.»

Ward says Cuomo and his budget division have said they would use the money for one time expenses, but he says the actual budget legislation «does not explicitly say so.»

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the state Budget Division, said in a statement: «Under Governor Cuomo, funding for higher education has increased $ 1.4 billion over the past six years.

East Meadow's hike exceeded the tax cap, and New Suffolk, Quogue and East Meadow don't have approved plans, said Morris Peters, a budget division spokesman.