Sentences with phrase «budget initiatives for»

He also served as an administrator working on policy and budget initiatives for the Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts.

Not exact matches

Doubling of the Treasury Board's budget for open data and open government initiatives, providing an additional $ 11.5 million over five years for these activities.

But for a new version of Trumpcare or any other initiative to succeed, the measure must at least arrest the relentlessly rising costs for hospital stays, MRIs, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that threaten to swamp the federal budget, shrink take - home pay for families, or pummel both.

The federal government's 2013 budget unveiled Thursday contains a select few initiatives aimed at reducing costs at the household level including efforts to close the U.S. - Canada price gap for young families.

He said, «Patrick, I didn't believe when you started bringing this discipline that if the economy got better, or if there was a big initiative we really wanted to fund, that you would actually give us money for something that's not «in budget,» and just let us do it.»

She previously served as director of operations for the Verizon Foundation, where she was responsible for a $ 75 million budget, overseeing a workforce development portfolio of scholarships, diversity initiatives, and economic development projects.

This will serve as a foundation for developing strategic information assurance initiatives against a fixed budget.

The Liberal government has signalled that next Tuesday's budget will include initiatives to promote gender equality, improve the economic success of women, ensure more gender equality in boardrooms and ease access to capital for female entrepreneurs.

You might do a few small initiatives, but for the most part, you will continue to rely on favorable economic assumptions and «unexplained adjustments» to balance the budget.

To deliver on the new national climate plan, the next federal budget will need to include funding for initiatives to reduce carbon pollution.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

Budget Omnibus Bills should be restricted to proposed tax changes only and all proposed spending initiatives should be presented either through the Main Estimates or through separate legislation, submitted to the applicable Parliamentary Committee for review.

One would have to go through the individual budgets to derive estimates for the impact of the new policy initiatives — tax and spending changes.

Finally, the PBO expresses concerns over the lack of detailed costing information for new policy initiatives and a plan to secure the spending restraint savings announced in the 2010 Budget.

New initiatives that would require on - going funding would mean either a higher deficit track and no balanced budget in 2015 - 16 or new expenditure cuts to pay for the new initiatives.

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

These improvements were partially offset by provisions for anticipated Cabinet decisions ($ 0.9 billion) and the impact of new policy initiatives proposed in the March 2017 Budget ($ 0.3 billion).

Williams is responsible for facilitating the establishment of numerous statewide and community change initiatives the areas of budget and tax policy, after school programs, older youth transitioning from foster care, poverty alleviation, mental and behavioral health, and neighborhood revitalization.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

for the year as a whole Other transfers to business, students, aboriginals, farmers, etc. declined by $ 463 million -LRB--2.0 %), primarily due to the inclusion of disaster assistance liabilities during the first half of 2016 - 17 and the timing of recent budget initiatives.

for the year as a whole Other transfers to business, students, aboriginals, farmers, etc. increased by $ 620 million (3.8 %), primarily due to the timing of recent budget initiatives affecting most components.

This improvement of $ 2.1 billion was primarily due to somewhat better - than - expected economic conditions and an increase in the lapse ($ 3.2 billion) partially offset by provisions for anticipated Cabinet decisions ($ 0.9 billion) and the impact of new policy initiatives proposed in the March 2017 Budget ($ 0.3 billion).

Expenses for all other departments and agencies advanced $ 1.6 billion (6.1 %), also reflecting, in part, the impact of new initiatives proposed in Budget 2016 and increased liabilities for employee pension and other future benefits.

For those who do not know, the European Commission is the executive body of the EU, in charge with legislative initiative, budget management and control over other EU institutions.

None of these outreach initiatives and very few of these programs exist in the Chicago Park District, despite its $ 128 million annual budget for parks and recreation programs, compared with Detroit «s $ 59.8 million, Evanston «s $ 3.2 million, and Atlanta «s $ 25 million.

Mr. Speaker, in our maiden Budget Statement and Economic Policy, we outlined a number of short to medium term policy initiatives, to set the stage for our agenda for inclusive growth and job creation.

Mr. Speaker, the 2018 - 2021 Budget is informed by the President's Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies which aims at creating a conducive environment for the private sector to thrive, propel growth and create employment opportunies, especially for the youth.In this regard, Government's policy objectives for the medium term will aim at: • Stabilizing the economy and setting it on a path of sustained, diversified and resilient growth; • Optimizing the key sources of growth in the economy on sustainable basis; • Enhancing a competitive and enabling business environment for private sector - led growth; • Formalizing the informal sector; • Building a strong and resilient economy able to withstand internal and external shocks; • Promoting agro-industrial enterprises as the basis for the «One District, One Factory» initiative; and • Creating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for the youth.

• Then provide you with the key policy initiatives for 2018; and • Finally conclude with highlights of the key messages in the Budget.

Gimmicks are no substitute for a comprehensive online outreach plan, though, and this initiative also has the secondary effect of opening Republicans up to criticism of their OWN record on the budget — something onto which Democrats were quick to hop.

Republicans opted to stay united as a conference and all vote for the budget including those progressive policy initiatives.

The Executive Budget reprograms more than $ 340 million in existing economic development capital resources for major regional initiatives.

This executive budget includes critical funding initiatives that will not only preserve New York's world class parks and beaches, but ensure clean water and air for communities statewide.

At 1 p.m., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams unveils more than $ 7 million in his capital budget investment for fiscal year 2018 to add seven new schools to his Growing Brooklyn's Future initiative, P.S. 56 Lewis H. Latimer School and Urban Assembly Unison School, 170 Gates Ave., Brooklyn.

The budget includes money for a property tax rebate for homeowners and a number of education initiatives.

MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS — Johnson proposes cutting Council initiatives in search for Fair Fares cash — POLITICO's Gloria Pazmino and Brendan Cheney: Speaker Corey Johnson is floating a proposal to defund some Council spending initiatives as a way to pay for the Fair Fares plan, the Council's biggest budget request — and one that Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he has no intention of funding.

Another set of big - ticket Cuomo priorities was already baked into this week's budget «extender» bill: nearly $ 15 billion in capital appropriations for purposes ranging from basic infrastructure (highways, transit) to a $ 400 million second phase of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative, a $ 700 million «community healthcare capital investment» in Brooklyn, and more 8 - figure allocations to the kind of «economic development» programs that have failed to rejuvenate Upstate.

Critically, this budget provides funding support for affordable housing, preserves access to quality health services for millions of low - income New Yorkers, and makes important investments in anti-poverty initiatives throughout the state.

Reinvent Albany applauds Governor Cuomo for launching Open Budget NY, which is an important step for open government in New York, and a smart first step in his newly announced Open NY initiative.

While we are not opposing some major proposals, such as the elimination of some $ 375 million in prior year commitments for economic development initiatives, we do have major concerns with some aspects of the Executive Budget.

«Look, for me one of the major incentives, one of the major initiatives in the budget is moving toward performance....

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz is applauding the state budget, which includes funding for the Buffalo Billion initiative.

While new officers were not included in the mayor's preliminary budget for fiscal year 2016, a number of public safety initiatives were funded.

«Some issues that we were hoping to see addressed were not, among them the baselining of funding in the budget for initiatives such as legal aid for anti-eviction services and Teacher's Choice, a program that reimburses educators for the purchase of classroom supplies of their choice,» she said.

Budgets are by definition a statement of values,» Mr. de Blasio said of the document that includes funding for his initiatives.

These new initiatives in the proposed budget, in conjunction with no significant cost shifts and the important reforms enacted in last year's budget, will help reduce budget pressures for counties.

After a difficult budget year for the board, Guion said that growing class sizes and STEM initiatives need to be priorities.

Opioid Epidemic Prevention: While there remains a lack of detail and specifics, based on DMH's review of the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint, resources for opioid initiatives, including prevention and treatment, are projected to see a $ 500 million increase nationwide.

By keeping state operations spending growth at 2 percent, the budget hole is closer to $ 1.8 billion.As expected, the governor tucked into the budget non-monetary initiatives, such as new sexual harassment policies, the codification of abortion rights in state law and methods for New York to participate in «early voting,» all of which he touted in his Jan. 3 State of the State address.

Sheehan walked the gathering through what she said are some of the many highlights of her first term, including Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion as part of the community police initiative; restructuring the city budget; lobbying for additional state aid; developing an equity agenda; engaging marginalized communities; transforming neighborhoods like Sheridan Hollow and Park South.