Sentences with phrase «burden on all county governments»

Picente had been a leading advocate of reform to reduce the burden on county governments.

Medicaid is an unsustainable burden on all county governments and reform is a necessary priority.

For many years, unfunded mandates coupled with legislation including Act 388 have placed increased financial burdens on county governments and school districts throughout our state, putting county governments at odds with local school districts as to which entity is most entitled to state and locally generated revenues.

Not exact matches

Legally, the county's moratorium may violate a federal law — the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act — which makes it illegal for local governments to place a «substantial burden» on houses of worship and their function.

«But here in Oxford we're not prepared to just let the situation worsen, which is why the city council has chosen to pick up an additional, non-statutory burden in tackling rough sleeping to try to plug the gap after the county council was unable to carry on funding some support due to this tightening of the purse strings by the Government.

The rapid growth of Du Page County the last two decades has put a burden on governments to acquire open space and develop it as recreational facilities.

While there are no new state resources set aside to ease the financial burden of state mandates imposed on county tax payers in the proposed State budget, Governor Andrew Cuomo continues to recognize the fiscal pressures on counties, and has provided some tools to help stabilize the costs imposed on local governments.

«As a way to reduce the property tax burden on homeowners across the state, Governor Cuomo proposed making the county - wide shared services panels that were mandated by the state last year a permanent fixture of local governments... in 2017, 34 counties submitted nearly 400 projects with more than $ 200 million in savings... Cuomo proposed making state funding for local government conditional on the continuation of shared services panels.

«Congresswoman Stefanik has also worked with her colleagues in the New York delegation to amend the legislation to ease the Medicaid burden that the State of New York currently puts on counties across our district, which in turn could help local governments better use the property taxes they collect.

Cuomo and House Democrats from New York — including Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - Cold Spring — have argued the federal government should reimburse the state for the counties» Medicaid cost share if it wants to ease the property - tax burden on county taxpayers in New York.

Cuomo has been especially vocal on the bill's provision that would shift the Medicaid burden from county governments to state — a measure largely championed by Faso and Collins.

WHEREAS, the legislation fails to offer any meaningful solution to gun violence and places increased burdens where they do not belong, on the back of law - abiding citizens and as unfunded mandates for county governments; and

Although Erie County has no control over any of these little governments, we can play a part in helping to reduce the tax burden they place on residents by developing cooperative agreements with them to cut the cost of duplicative services.

The greatest cost and administrative burden on the state and local government will fall to agencies and programs that act as covered entities, by virtue of being either a health plan or provider, such as Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Programs, and county hospitals.

Sarasota County stopped hiring smokers a few years ago, citing the burden they place on taxpayers who pay for government workers» health insurance.