Sentences with phrase «budget modifications»

Mayor Bill de Blasio will release the mandated November budget modification on Tuesday, showing minor adjustments to the city's nearly $ 86 billion budget for the current fiscal year, which runs through the end of June.

Relying on the Legislature to return to Albany and agree on budget modifications in the face of federal cuts «was too risky a proposition for me, frankly,» Cuomo said.

Hearings on budget modifications will no longer be cursory, the spokesperson said, and the administration will have to work harder to justify requests.

«You know, from our point of view, we would do that through a budget process... we have a normal process for budget modifications.

Going forward, a spokesperson for Johnson explained, the Council will take a stronger stance on proposed budget modifications, pressing the administration ahead of time on anticipated and proposed changes to see if the Council should even move forward with receiving a modification request.

The most significant budget modification takes place in November, four months into the fiscal year.

More often than not, in the past few years, the Council has easily approved the periodic budget modifications so the city can adjust spending as needed.

De Blasio's first budget in February of 2014 left the DHS capital budget unchanged from the November 2013 budget modification under former mayor Michael Bloomberg.

«However, I will continue to advocate with the elected officials on the peninsula for permanent ferry service and will seek a mid-year budget modification that would provide funding that would guarantee that the Rockaway ferry remains in operation after its current funding runs out in October.»

Doulis said she is eager to see the November budget modification from the City, but that previous forecasts appear apt and it is not time to panic.

The midyear adjustment will force budget modifications in many districts.

Considering also that Northern Hemispheric cooling in 1940 — 70 is attributable to the «global dimming» effect of increasing sulfate aerosols, the sulfate cooling effect is, again, felt more strongly in Greenland, and indirectly via altered atmospheric dynamics not via local radiation budget modification.

Reading the tea leaves and heeding calls to be more prepared for an inevitable recession, the de Blasio administration has formed a new unit in its budget office tasked with coordinating additional agency savings, a move expected to be more formally announced in conjunction with the coming November budget modification.

Freddi Goldstein, a mayoral spokesperson on budget matters, noted that the administration gives the Council enough time to review the budget modifications, which usually accompany the preliminary budget for the next fiscal year.

In past years, budget modifications have been subject to the same perfunctory hearing.

«OMB is focused on transparency, which is why we already provide the City Council with any budget modifications with ample time for review and have always welcomed any and all questions the Council may have,» Goldstein said in an email.

«They want a modification, they have to come to the City Council,» Johnson flatly explained, when Gotham Gazette asked whether the Council was using the budget modification as leverage over the administration.

As de Blasio intimated when discussing Cuomo's new budget powers, the city has a regularly scheduled «budget modification» each November, at which time the mayoral administration and City Council adjust the current year's spending plan and reestimate for the following year.

Although she acknowledged the mayor's ongoing efforts to find agency efficiencies through the November budget modification, Doulis pointed out that these did not constitute a bulk of savings.

The mayor also said he would push city agencies to find hundreds of millions more in savings in time for the budget modification in November.

The de Blasio administration is eyeing additional savings to be able to show the City Council and others at the November budget modification, the new Citywide Savings Unit, with a headcount of four, began its work in September.

The agency also issues a budget modification document in November.

The Council recently raised its eyebrows in public fashion, a seeming warning shot ahead of the upcoming release and reaction to the November budget modification.