Sentences with phrase «by municipalities as»

As Balko and others reported within the last year, the use of courts and cops by municipalities as revenue generators (in the form of arbitrarily handed out traffic ticket and rulings that often double those initial penalties) essentially impoverish already poor families.

The distribution of plastic bags has been identified as a key environmental concern and has been called out by municipalities as a large contributor to land - fill waste.

Not exact matches

By 2000, annual sales at the company — which specializes in what is called asset - management software, which helps municipalities and corporations manage items such as dump trucks and sewer lines — reached $ 90 million.

Lakeland Networks, owned by the municipalities of Bracebridge, Burk's Falls, Huntsville, Magnetawan and Sundridge, offers 1 Gbps service (gigabits per second), which they market as «over 50 times faster than the average data transfer speed in Canada.»

Separate rates are determined by municipalities, counties and school districts, and additional rates may be applied for specific purposes such as parks or libraries.

Also called «munis» for short, municipal bonds are debt obligations issued by a state, municipality, or a county to finance its capital expenditures, such as construction of highways, schools, hospitals, and...

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

Internal control at Municipality Finance comprises financial administration that handles financial reporting, a risk management function which reports on the company's risk position and any changes to it and is independent of the business of the company, and internal audit performed by business units which produce reports that are processed by supervisors, the President and CEO assisted by the Executive Management Team, as well as the company's Board of Directors.

The plan designated it as a significant growth area, but the municipality is at least six years behind with construction of a new sewage plant needed for the town's population to grow from 30,000 to 86,000 by 2031.

As John Maynard Keynes explained, unless debtor countries can export more, they must pay either by borrowing (German states and municipalities borrowed dollars in New York and cashed them in for domestic currency with the Reichsbank, which paid the dollars to the Allies) or by selling off domestic assets.

The initial costs to communities affected by natural disasters can be great; however, after a natural disaster there is usually a surge of economic activity that continues for an extended period as people and communities rebuild and money and workers flow into the area — increasing income tax and sales tax revenues to municipalities.

The volume of real estate debt, auto debt, student loans, bank debt, pension debts by municipalities and states as well as private companies exceed their ability to pay.

The Ohio legislature responded by passing a statute known as the «Art Modell law,» named after the Browns / Ravens owner, forces an owner of a sports team that uses public resources to give six months notice of their intention to relocate and give local people and municipalities a chance to purchase the team.

Although only 3 percent of the U.S. health clubs are operated by municipalities, private industry sees this as a growing conflict, with the Chicago suburbs as a key battleground.

The simplest approach to funding - direct funding by your municipality, a government agency, or by the state (e.g., state department of public health, school department budget), or through a government grant - may be all that is needed, particularly if you are seeking to start a Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire community, or a significant segment, such as the public schools.

As a result, even if a private sports program that uses town fields, rinks, diamonds, or courts is required to comply with state mandates regarding concussion safety, I believe that there is a huge sports safety gap which, absent voluntary implementation by a private sports program of youth sports health and safety best practices, such as those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permiAs a result, even if a private sports program that uses town fields, rinks, diamonds, or courts is required to comply with state mandates regarding concussion safety, I believe that there is a huge sports safety gap which, absent voluntary implementation by a private sports program of youth sports health and safety best practices, such as those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permias those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permias part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permit.

Our decision is often influenced by local municipalities» decisions, such as a parking ban or school closing.

The State and Municipalities Facilities Program is not to be confused with larger, catch - all category of bonded capital for «economic development» purposes, such as the Buffalo Billion and other largesse doled out by the Cuomo administration on a region - by - region basis.

The City of Buffalo will never confront its basic problems when the state increases its aid by $ 52 million, he said, and burdensome labor contracts will continue to hold back municipalities as long as their unions are protected by the Taylor Law.

The Executive Budget reduces Aid and Incentives for Municipalities (AIM) by two percent for cities, towns and villages outside New York City, which does not receive AIM in recognition of the city's numerous alternative funding sources such as a local income tax.

Paladino had some harsh words for Mayor Bloomberg and NJ Gov. Chris Christie for their handling of post-blizzard snow removal (admittedly, he was egged on by Sliwa), saying the two executives should have been better prepared and called in reinforcements from municipalities that weren't as hard hit by the storm.

The exemption provides a basic property tax exemption, of either 10 or 15 percent of assessed value (as adopted by the municipality) to veterans who served during the Cold War period.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

«We have lost a tremendous source of funding that used to go to municipalities with the state as a pass - through by not having sufficient money out of the federal government,» Hochul said.

A few local municipalities recognize the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day, though a push to change the name was rejected earlier this year by the Williamsville Central School District.

Democratic committee leaders sought to restore cuts proposed by Malloy that included asking municipalities to collectively pay more than $ 400 million annually as a one - third share of teachers» pensions.

In addition to adding a new payroll tax on every business, non-profit group, and municipality in Westchester County, the Oppenheimer plan raises fares for commuters by as much as 9.4 percent in January depending on their route.

On his arrival in the Kpando Municipality, as tradition demands, he and his team made up of Pius Enam Hadzide, and Otiko Djaba, had to visit the custodians of the Akpini land, which he and his team did, and were warmly received by the chiefs and elders of the land to their palace.

«Prevailing wages are currently required only for public works projects such as those undertaken by the state or municipalities.

«My auditors will be visiting the municipalities that exceeded their tax cap improperly to make sure they have taken corrective action and educed their tax bills or put any excess property tax revenue into a reserve as required by the law,» DiNapoli said.

By the second year, the homeowners in municipalities living within the tax cap would receive a receive of their tax increase if the local government is taking «meaningful concrete steps» toward a permanent structural savings such as sharing services or consolidating local governments.

Teachers in the East Akyem Municipality in the Eastern Region, an area ravaged by the activities of illegal miners, have pledged to join Citi FM's efforts in ending illegal mining also known as galamsey.

He made the statement during a farmers» durbar organised by the ISD in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) at Ayomso in the Asunafo North Municipality of the Brong Ahafo region as part of its nationwide awareness campaign about the 2018 Census of Agriculture.

As part of ongoing enforcement efforts, local municipalities may issue tickets carrying fines of up to $ 250 per infraction to recreational boaters violating the 5 mph speed limit within 600 feet of shore, which was announced by the Governor in May.

Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz said, «Since 2015 Erie County municipalities have participated in shared services panels, identifying millions of dollars in recurring annual savings to taxpayers, including as part of the 2017 comprehensive panel mandated by New York State.

«Any city that chooses to violate federal law by identifying itself as a «sanctuary city» risks the consequence of losing millions of dollars in federal funding, and I do not believe the State Legislature has the duty to help those municipalities cover their losses if they do not honor the laws of our land,» Griffo said.

The bonds, part of a program known in housing parlance as «volume cap,» are included in an annual allocation authorized by the federal government and divvied up by the governor to municipalities throughout the state.

«By presenting Consensus» independent recommendations to the voters of the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County, residents will be empowered to chart a bold new vision for Syracuse and Onondaga County as the second largest municipality in New York State,» the grant proposal says.

The exclusion of New York City from the tax cap was also cited, at least initially, by Cuomo administration officials as a justification for the governor's move to have the city pick up a greater share of Medicaid costs — something he did not ask other municipalities in the state to do.

According to its website, the group defines mandates as laws passed by the state that force local municipalities to pay for something.

Attempts by municipalities to do it themselves were running into legal problems... and the only good news the author was seeing was coming from Google Fiber, which had pushed ahead as a means of pushing its other products and «disrupting» what Surowiecki described as a stagnant market otherwise.

The plan, as described by Roberts would allow municipalities to pay this year's Safety Net expenses by giving up a portion of the revenue they receive each year from county sales taxes in a dollar - for - dollar exchange.

The commission recommended spending $ 1 billion over three years on a property tax «circuit breaker» — where citizens get a rebate when property taxes hit a certain portion of their income — as well as an effective freeze for ratepayers who live in municipalities that abide by a Cuomo - passed two - percent cap on growth.

On his development initiative to boost development of the Municipality, Dr. Kwakye Afriyie said his vision is to reposition Wenchi as a Service Town by tapping and developing the areas tourism, agricultural, health and cultural potentials for socio - economic development.

The phrase used by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, significant fiscal stress, is the highest designation in his review that describes 40 municipalities across the state as being fiscally stressed.

The city of Syracuse is among more than 30 cities, municipalities and organizations across the United States that are on a legal brief known as amicus brief in a lawsuit filed by Chicago against Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

«It is an incredibly dangerous thing, because it ties a municipality's hands by taking away a threat of layoffs as a negotiating tactic,» said Levy, a Republican.»

Mr. Cuomo's budget proposal would let municipalities and school districts address rising pension costs by borrowing more now — which will mean paying more later on, as interest rates, now at historic lows, are sure to rise.

Never mind that he balanced the state's budget his first year in office by giving wealthier New Yorkers a free ride while forcing massive givebacks from state public - employee unions, and came back for more the following March by inflicting Tier 6 on future employees, in municipalities as well as those joining state agencies.

Stringer has now intervened on the side of the bans, and he defends himself by saying he's only doing here what he's always done, whether as an assemblyman or borough president: empowering municipalities.