Sentences with phrase «budget makers»

The biggest challenge for state budget makers is the swirling uncertainty over federal policy.

Consistent with cost drivers in current year school budgets, pension increases have continued to plague school budget makers in all districts, while rising special education and charter school costs are also contributing to the 2014 - 15 budget challenges.

Still, there is a silver lining for Albany budget makers.

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Pokalsky said there's another option that Cuomo and his budget makers could take: reduce state spending, which would lead to lower taxes.

But nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to, the budget makers say, and secondary issues can blow up a framework just as easily as anything else.

And with state aid flat in the foreseeable future, Miner says budget makers have no choice but continue to cut a budget that's already been pared to the bone.

Pokalsky, with the Business Council, says there's another option Cuomo and his budget makers could take, and that is to work to reduce state spending, which would lead to lower taxes.

A spokesman for Cuomo's budget division, Morris Peters, said budget makers have taken a number of steps to ensure that New York is prepared for any potential drop in revenue.

While still a teenager, Caroline became the budget maker in the family, but times were tough.