The purpose of this note is to provide you with an overview of key
budget planning issues and the decisions you will have to make in the upcoming days and weeks.
Not exact matches
Christie vowed to make his broader tax cut proposal a campaign
issue after failing to pass a tax credit
plan in the latest
budget.
In conjunction with the Legislative
Budget Board (LBB), the budget office coordinates the state agency strategic planning process, issues budget instructions to state agencies, and conducts hearings on agency budget req
Budget Board (LBB), the
budget office coordinates the state agency strategic planning process, issues budget instructions to state agencies, and conducts hearings on agency budget req
budget office coordinates the state agency strategic
planning process,
issues budget instructions to state agencies, and conducts hearings on agency budget req
budget instructions to state agencies, and conducts hearings on agency
budget req
budget requests.
Toward that end, it is important that for every one new regulation
issued, at least two prior regulations be identified for elimination, and that the cost of
planned regulations be prudently managed and controlled through a
budgeting process.
[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural
budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the
budget and a controversial
plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.
The
issue of housing has become the final coat of gloss on recent
budget announcements, mentioned in passing to tick the boxes of a «well rounded» economic
plan, but equating to little more than aesthetic fluff.
PwC's report suggests that high net worth investors are increasingly relying on financial professionals to offer advice on
issues like estate
planning, taxation, insurance, healthcare and even basics like spending and
budgeting.
The USA recently went through yet another political circus trying to come to a deal for the federal
budget, and the
plan that made it through will flood the markets with newly
issued debt.
The Update should have addressed this
issue by providing analysis and projections of the structural deficit given its importance to
budget planning.
With both adults working full time and two small children, I find our
budget gets hurt the worst based on poor
planning and timing
issues.
The
budget cap was always going to be one of the most contentious
issues of Liberty's
plan for F1.
This course presents administrative concerns of the certified athletic trainer including: development of policies and procedures, legal
issues,
budget management, facility
planning, staffing, hiring process, medical insurance
issues and drug testing.
The Office for
Budget Responsibility will
issue independent assessments of the public finances: this is an institution specifically intended to improve long - term financial
planning, and which will help not only this Government but future governments to remain on the fiscal straight and narrow.
Senator Sampson is still working to resolve the outstanding
budget issues, specifically an FMAP extension and higher education reform and
plans to reconvene session once these final
issues have been fairly addressed,» said Shafran.
Now that AG Andrew Cuomo is dipping his toe into the roiling waters (via Fred Dicker) on select
issues such as the still - late state
budget, the Ravitch
plan and lifting the charter school cap, his opponents are taking the opportunity to call on the yet - unannounced gubernatorial hopeful to make clear his positions on a host of other topics as well.
Nevertheless, Flanagan said Cuomo deserved credit for raising the
issue in the
budget, which is considered one of the more complicated and fraught spending
plans since the governor first took office in 2011.
But the Senate's one - house
budget plan excluded a mayoral control re-authorization and instead decided to hold hearings on the
issue.
In the interview, Stewart - Cousins said she he had hoped the Senate's one - house
budget resolution went further on
issues such as criminal justice reform, ethics and climate change, saying those subjects should be dealt with in the finalized spending
plan.
The
issue is being raised in the resolution as Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein is pushing to have the provision included in the final
budget agreement, insisting that he and his eight - member conference will not support a spending
plan that fails to include raise the age.
Cuomo in his
budget plan included
issues such his slate of ethics reforms and criminal justice law changes that have little fiscal impact.
State lawmakers hoped to begin to pass
budget bills Thursday night, even though some major
issues related to the spending
plan are still not resolved.
Groups pressing for additional
issues that are in the Governor's
budget plan have still not given up hope.
Speaking at a press conference in Whitehall, Nick Clegg referred to Tory
plans to make a further # 25bn of cuts to the welfare
budget as a «monumental mistake» and went on to outline ideological differences between the two coalition parties on
issues like fairer taxation.
That was $ 91 million below the target set in the revised financial
plan issued by Governor Cuomo's Division of the
Budget (DOB) in mid-summer — which, based on weak first quarter performance, already had made a $ 600 million a year downward adjustment in projected annual tax revenues through 2020.
Major
issues in the 2013 legislative session included physician - assisted death, marijuana decriminalization, and
plans to address a projected
budget shortfall of $ 50 - $ 70 million.
As if there was any doubt that the Paul Ryan
budget proposal won't be an
issue on the local level now that he is the vice presidential candidate, Democratic Congressional candidate Julian Schreibman keeps hitting Rep. Chris Gibson for backing the
plan in April 2011.
The 2019 executive
budget allots $ 429 million towards the MTA's $ 836 action
plan that's aimed at addressing both immediate and long - term
issues with the subway, such as signal malfunctions and track maintenance.
State
Budget Director Bob Megna
issued a statement yesterday rejecting the mayor's claim that the city stands to lose $ 2 billion if Cuomo's spending
plan is enacted as - is by the Legislature and also insisting the mayor has more than enough stashed away to make up the difference of whatever the final aid reduction might be.
The Fiscal Policy Institute released its annual
budget analysis Tuesday, touching on everything from the non-fiscal policy
issues included in the governor's 2014 - 15
plan to its impact on local governments.
Where are his
plans for the future, where are his ideas for making NYS a better place, where are his ideas for making NYS's
budget issues be solve??? And the voters want to hear specifics - not this nonesense ««I'll cut this and I'll cut that, and I'll use a baseball bat to negotiate with Albany.»
The state Council of School Superintendents raised a package of
issues on Wednesday with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education
budget, arguing the funding
plan doesn't go far enough and that the tax cap makes it difficult for schools to raise revenue.
The
issue of public financing is more acute, given that the Working Families Party is pushing Cuomo to get state lawmakers to agree on a broader public financing
plan than what was approved in the state
budget.
But putting the
plans in the
budget means the
issue will be front and center for the next two months.
But Cuomo says he still wants the Senate to agree to the
plan and for it to be approved along with the state
budget, and he said previously that he will make the
budget late if there's no three way deal on ethics, as well as other
issues like education reform.
Mr. Lander said that on
issues including police staffing, housing and
planning, he expected more detail to come in the executive
budget released in April.
Cuomo
issued a statement 11 minutes after midnight, saying legislators «successfully passed the 2015 - 16
Budget spending
plan to allow for the continued operation of government.»
Such
issues will not be put into law until a complete
budget plan is adopted.
Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for Governor,
issued the following statement today in response to the announcement that Governor Cuomo would require state lawmakers to adopt a 5 point ethics reform
plan as part of the state
budget process.
Instead, the governor
plans to push for some form of an off -
budget revenue for the matching system in order to bring Senate Republicans along on the
issue.
And while he finds it to be fiscally sound and applauds the
plan for closing the out year
budget gaps, he takes
issue with the Governor's Tier VI pension proposal, saying it «does not provide for cost of implementation» while also suggesting Cuomo's
budget would «would reduce long - established checks and balances.»
As previously reported, the state
plans to
issue a request for proposals this year and next for some 800 megawatts of offshore wind energy, although a specific
budget outlay for the effort wasn't provided.
Gov. Andrew says he wants ethics reform as part of the
budget or he will hold up the state's spending
plan, while legislators say they want to negotiate the
issue separately.
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans introduced their one - house
budget resolution last week and also put the spotlight on the
issue that Governor Andrew Cuomo is quickly having to figure out a
plan on - though the Senate's version is different from the Assembly's in terms of funding mechanisms.
The Legislature uses one - house
budgets to set chamber priorities after analyzing the governor's spending
plan, which is typically
issued at the start of the year.
Meeting the looming on - time
budget deadline of March 31 was encouraged by observant Christian and Jewish lawmakers wanting to get home and, more importantly, by agreements to punt on a number of partisan - dividing policy
issues not directly connected to the state's financial
plan.
ALBANY — With chances of a congestion pricing
plan being part of the state
budget fading, a coalition of 83 groups is making a last - ditch effort to revive the
issue.
BY VINCENT ABBATECOLA The Rockland County Legislature met on Tuesday, July 10 at the Allison - Parrish building in New City, where they discussed
issues regarding Rockland Community College's
budget, final
plans for Summit Park Nursing Home, and special education for East Ramapo students.
«His
budget proposal to the Legislature this week will focus additional long - term
plans to address health, education and infrastructure
issues.»
What has been at
issue for lawmakers and Cuomo is the governor's push to have unilateral changes over the spending
plan after it is approved — a non-starter for the Senate and Assembly, but the only nod the $ 152 billion
budget proposal gave to the upheaval in Washington.
While the
budget agreement sewed up measure
issues for Albany, good - government groups in post-
budget session may turn their attention to an
issue not accomplishment in the spending
plan: Procurement reform.