Sentences with phrase «budget freeze last»

After the unexpected budget freeze last year, and mid year cuts this school year, the reality of not having necessities such as pens, pencils, paper, and books is fresh and still negatively impacting classrooms across the district.

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Chagger's relationship with the small business community didn't start off well, however: Last year's budget froze the small business tax rate at 10.5 %, breaking a campaign pledge to gradually reduce it to 9 %.

The economy would have been thrown into a much deeper and longer recession than actually occurred; a temporary stimulus program would not have been permitted; departmental operating budgets would have been frozen beginning in 2009 - 10 and continuing to long past 2015 - 16; the salaries of all Cabinet Ministers and Deputy Ministers would have been frozen beginning in 2009 and lasting long past 2015.

When our giving was significantly lower (10 %) than our budget last year, I gave the management team some direction on spending freezes.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

The county executive, after freezing the salaries of his management staff for the last four budgets, will not be receptive.

The 2014 - 15 college budget presented to the county legislature last week called for a $ 100 yearly increase in tuition while continuing its freeze on the county's contribution for the sixth straight year.

Robert Lipp, budget review director, said raises under the law have averaged 1.09 percent annually over the last four years and a five - year freeze would save $ 154,737.

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.

NYSUT amended the suit to include both the cap and a rebate program Cuomo proposed last year that he referred to as a «freeze» for tax increases in the budget agreement.

The government gets «frozen» at the last budget.

The suit number FHC / L / CS / 1821/2017 filed last year followed «credible information received by SERAP from multiple sources that the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have completed investigations into the allegations of padding of the 2016 budget, completed their reports, and indicted some principal officers of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and that the accounts of some of the principal officers containing allegedly illicit funds have been frozen, and that the case files for the prosecution of those indicted were ready.»

The length of the governor's emergency plan also troubled school advocates, who said that the extender, which effectively freezes funding at last year's levels, added a troubling wrinkle to the budgeting process of districts.

A stalemate would leave DHS's budget frozen at last year's levels for months to come.

Washington — Heading off numerous Republican amendments to freeze or cut federal spending for child - nutrition programs, the House Education and Labor Committee last week approved a bill that would increase the programs» $ 5.3 - billion budget by $ 119 million in fiscal 1986.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.

In fact, just last year AFT president Randi Weingarten excoriated Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan for submitting a budget that would freeze the grants at their current level.

For school communities that have experienced budget freezes or mid-year fund re-allocations over the last two years, the information from the April 11th school board meeting indicates that the district is still struggling with financial stability and that there are signs that school budgets could be impacted again for a third straight year.

Over the last six months, school funding has been an almost constant feature in policy debate, from the proposed introduction of a National Funding Formula to the longer running cuts and freezes schools are facing to their budgets.