Sentences with phrase «budget officials»

The problem stems in part from delayed tax payments, which budget officials say is due to uncertainty over tax reform on the federal level.

While there is currently no consensus on how large a state rainy day fund should aim to be, bonding agencies and state budget officials generally target 5 percent as the appropriate amount.

While job increases have exceeded the initial estimates by city budget officials, overall growth is slowing in the last two years.

«It's being used for exactly the purpose for which it was intended,» explains one budget official who requested anonymity.

The report noted that state budget officials lowered tax revenue estimates four times over the past fiscal year.

Revenue from taxes is shrinking, coming in lower than budget officials expected.

Others note that state budget officials issued a directive to trim $ 20 million in overtime costs this year from the entire prison system.

The new tax would bring in $ 75 million this year and $ 150 million a year for the next three years, according to state budget officials.

Eliminating funding for 13 Education Department programs this fiscal year was a political success that freed up $ 77 million — and is part of a trend that is likely to continue, one of the department's top budget officials says.

But NSF never received a «landing team» from the incoming Trump administration and had no interactions with White House budget officials as the so - called skinny budget was assembled over the past few weeks.

Gov. Cuomo wants to separate the state's tax rates from the federal rates to keep New Yorkers from a $ 1.5 billion income tax increase, the Democrat's top budget official testified Thursday during a budget hearing.

A Cuomo administration budget official said the proposed payroll tax also could be used to raise more revenue by seizing some of the tax cuts promised to corporations and the wealthy under the federal tax law, as a way to shore up state finances.

He and the top budget officials in his administration have insisted tolls on the Thruway systemwide won't be increased after 2020 when a toll freeze ends in order to pay for the bridge.

Cuomo budget officials said they based the estimate in part on free community college programs in other states.

The budget itself is subject to weeks of hearings where the Council hears testimony from budget officials and agency heads, affording them the opportunity to examine modifications as well.

Suffolk County budget officials say there's a slowly improving fiscal picture for the county and that Suffolk actually had its first budget surplus since 2006.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The latest estimate from Syracuse budget officials shows the city heading off a financial cliff in two years unless something dramatic changes, according to data Mayor Stephanie Miner presented today at a statewide conference.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson lashed out at de Blasio administration budget officials on Monday for refusing to provide a price tag for housing the homeless in commercial hotels and...

Newsday quoted a Cuomo budget official as saying it was eliminated by mistake.

Health Care in an Aging Society Mr. James C. Capretta, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), was an Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2004, where he was the top budget official for health care, Social Security, education, and welfare programs.

City Council members pressed budget officials from Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration for more transparency and a better accounting of spending and revenue plans at a Monday hearing on the mayor's $ 88.67 billion proposed preliminary budget for the 2019 fiscal year, which begins July 1.

It is not a leadership vision,» says Gordon Adams, former White House defense budget official and current distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan security policy research organization in Washington.

Tax officials in a few states said they do not track individual tax payments, though state budget officials typically follow total quarterly tax payments by the rich to make sure revenue projections hold up.

The state has nearly run out of cash three times since December, requiring budget officials to withhold tax refunds and payments from local governments.

Budget officials insist the tax is revenue neutral.

Both efforts benefited from a recent rebound in county revenues, which budget officials say left an extra $ 11.3 million in excess fees, revenues and unspent money from last year's budget.

State budget officials told the Times Union on Wednesday the city has provided all necessary data and figures.

If not for such laws, the current budget gap might only be $ 1 billion or $ 2 billion — not the $ 10 billion often cited by his own budget officials, Cuomo said.

The governor's budget officials counter that Cuomo has increased spending by over $ 6 billion since taking office.

New York City budget officials did not have much faith in Wall Street companies continuing to dole out big bonuses as city leaders planned on having less tax revenue in their 2014 - 15 budget.

Suffolk legislative budget officials estimated a $ 135 million deficit this year.

Budget officials present a quick overview of proposed mid-year changes in spending and revenue estimates, and the Council briefly reviews and approves them, allowing the administration to divert additional resources to agencies that need them and to cut back in other areas.

The New York City Council appears to be gearing up for a tense budget fight with Mayor Bill de Blasio, releasing a telling early counter on Tuesday in its official response to the mayor's $ 88.7 billion proposed budget for next fiscal year, put forth just after a tense hearing with budget officials about modifications to the current budget.

While budget officials have said it's less expensive to pay overtime than to hire more personnel, given the cost of benefits, DOCCS officials have also said they are trying to keep overtime in check.

We supplement the OMB data with information we extract from agencies» congressional budget justification books and often contact OMB and agency budget officials directly to clarify issues that arise.

Administration budget officials then vet the proposal to reflect their boss's priorities, agencies react, and the final product emerges in February as the president's official budget request to Congress.

Second, before calculating the 9 % increase, budget officials subtracted $ 76 million from a dead - on - arrival proposed transfer of funds to NSF from three other agencies.

Those details will emerge from negotiations between Trump budget officials and the civilian agencies, which have been asked to propose ways to tighten spending.

The White House has not taken a position on the legislation, but Science has learned that budget officials asked NSF earlier this year to write a stern letter opposing the program.

An example of how the panel's recommendations are reflected in the new budget is the reduction of central office administrators, which has resulted in a $ 79 million savings to the district, according to budget officials speaking at a media briefing last week.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to separate the state's tax rates from the federal rates to keep New Yorkers from a $ 1.5 billion income tax increase, the Democrat's top budget official testified Thursday during a budget hearing.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's former confidante Joseph Percoco pressed state budget officials in 2015 to free up funds for a project of two Syracuse developers accused of bribing him, according to emails introduced Thursday at Percoco's corruption trial in Manhattan federal court.

A senior New York City budget official said Tuesday that officials hadn't discussed with their state counterparts how to avoid about $ 1.5 billion in potential cuts to the city initially proposed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The U.S. withdrawal from the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor still hurts (Science, 9 October 1998, p. 209), and a White House budget official who addressed the conference gave little indication that money would be forthcoming.

The municipalities all have different payment practices, county budget officials said, many of which are outlined in the those communities» charters.

During that presentation to the school board, budget officials showed board members a sobering graphic — that by 2031 - 32, half of the district's general fund budget would be spent on healthcare benefits and pension costs.

But, at Dromm's urging, Council members avoided going deeper into agency - specific questions, a break from previous years when members grilled top budget officials on various aspects of city government.

Last month, before the New York City Council issued its budget demands for next fiscal year to Mayor Bill de Blasio and before the mayor eventually ignored nearly all of them in his Executive Budget plan, the Council called in administration budget officials to testify on a modification to the current year's budget.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to separate the state's tax rates from the federal rates to keep New Yorkers from a $ 1.5 billion income tax increase, the Democrat's top budget official testified Thursday during a budget hearing.

Cuomo budget officials have said they are also waiting to count some tax collections delayed by the hurricanes.