Sentences with phrase «city agency spending»

The preliminary budget, which would take effect July 1 and must first be approved by the City Council, also includes more than $ 740 million worth of new city agency spending, mostly on programs de Blasio has already announced in recent months, like new initiatives to help the homeless and an overhaul of the city's mental health system.

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This meant that a single promotional campaign for the mRelief app (which was supported by all the concerned agencies and city services) could get the word out at a fraction of the cost that each organization or department would have to spend — assuming they had the money to do so.

Gilmartin has spent nearly her entire private - sector professional life at Forest City, joining the firm in 1994 after a post-college stint working for New York City's economic development agency.

Earlier this year I was in charge of «debriefing» a small group of evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless in inner - city Washington.

If approved by the City of Crystal Lake, Lakewood and the Crystal Lake Park District, the measure could be a bellwether for an increase in spending on ecological studies needed to keep the lake healthy, according to members of Watershed Management and Lake Ecology Agency.

The city Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.&racity Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.&raCity taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.»

Lhota and Cuomo have pressured de Blasio to split the $ 836 million price tag — a mix of new capital and operating funds — but the mayor has insisted that he would not give the MTA more city dollars until the agency spent its money more wisely.

The state was prepared to allocate $ 100 million, but Cuomo insisted that the state have oversight over how it gets spent, rather than a direct infusion of money into the city - run agency.

Meanwhile, her agency spent $ 341 million from 2014 through 2017 on overtime costs dictated by labor contracts between the city and the unions.

She also argued the Department of Education should become a full - fledged city agency to give the City Council new powers to scrutinize DOE spendcity agency to give the City Council new powers to scrutinize DOE spendCity Council new powers to scrutinize DOE spending.

Bloomberg laid out in detail what he has done, and will continue to do — including freezing city - funded spending, seeking agency - specific budget cuts, and spreading the current four - year capital plan to five years.

According to the figures, city agencies have spent nearly half - a-billion dollars more than had been budgeted so far this year, thanks in part to the twin punches of the post-Christmas blizzard and Hurricane Irene.

The city's reliance on commercial hotels is «truly out of control,» Stringer said, noting that almost half of the increased spending on homelessness across all city agencies has come from an boost in spending on these types of shelters.

Congress's continuing resolution, a short - term spending bill passed to avoid a government shutdown, will only cover overtime expenses for the NYPD and other city agencies guarding Trump Tower and other vulnerable locations linked to the incoming commander - in - chief.

Quinn said that the council's overarching strategy was to cut discretionary spending in order to restore funding to city agencies to keep core services intact.

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

While the city's bond rating was downgraded to A +, the third - highest grade issued by S&P Global Ratings, last year, the agency improved the city's outlook to «stable» due to the city increasing non-property tax revenues, decreasing discretionary spending and securing $ 12.5 million from the state that wasn't an advance on payments the state owes the city for the Empire State Plaza.

For three solid years, this city agency (and inspector general's office that is governed by New York State), continue to conceal evidence that could have restored my job, career, pension and retirement benefits, but chose to look the other way, while I had to spend tens of thousands of dollars defending myself in court for charges that never existed, and that were exposed to the MTA Inspector General after an oral argument hearing on May 9, 1991 revealed the deception and cover up.

At 10 a.m., members of the NYC Council's Committee on Governmental Operations hold a preliminary budget hearing to discuss the mayor's budget proposals for the next fiscal year, and examine spending during the current fiscal year by eight city agencies, boards, commissions, departments and offices, as well as community boards; Committee Room, City Hall, Manhatcity agencies, boards, commissions, departments and offices, as well as community boards; Committee Room, City Hall, ManhatCity Hall, Manhattan.

The agency that runs New York City's troubled subway said it plans to spend close to $ 4 billion to buy over a thousand new train cars to modernize an aging fleet, a major investment meant to help remedy the delays and breakdowns that plague the system.

As with last year's budget cycle, de Blasio has tried to ensure that city agencies are creating larger savings and reserve funds are being set aside for rainy day spending.

Sharon Addison is a Schenectady native who spent 27 years working for the National Security Agency before putting her name in the hat for the city manager position in Watertown.

If at least 15 percent of the contractors hired for the construction are not minority - and women - owned, Destiny will pay a $ 75,000 penalty to the agency to be spent on workforce and economic development initiatives in the city, he said.

«When we need savings, we go case by case, agency by agency, program by program,» Mr. de Blasio said, saying he was more focused on changing the city's spending on ballooning healthcare costs.

While Mr. de Blasio has often touted his savings and the fiscal responsibility of his budgets, they have vastly increased city spending — and earlier this year Council members pushed him to require more savings from city agencies to protect against an economic downturn.

Malloy offered his own deficit reduction proposal Monday, and it included major cuts in state aid to cities and towns as well as a range of sometimes dramatic state agency spending reductions.

Johnson pointed out that it was the City Council's research that discovered that about 323,000 NYCHA residents had spent time without heat or hot water during the winter, noting that the agency failed to disclose it.

«While touting transparency and spending millions to promote its website — which attracts many unscrupulous commercial operators — Airbnb steadfastly refuses to cooperate with city agencies to stop illegal activity on its site allowing thousands of transient tourists to gain access to residential buildings, creating a danger to our communities.»

Drawing on data from the Budget Function Analysis and Mayor's Management Report, the CBC's new NYC Money Meter allows you to track spending by service line for 15 New York City agencies

Malloy has proposed deep cuts in state spending for many cities and towns as well as state agencies, saying those reductions would have to take effect if the budget impasse continues through October.

Over the course of the final few weeks of the referendum, the Electoral Commission Website tells us, Arron Banks» Leave.EU, the official Vote Leave campaign, Grassroots Out, Ukip and the Democratic Unionist Party collectively spent over # 800,000 with Soopa Doopa, a branding agency based, you guessed it, in the tiny Cambridgeshire city of Ely.

The Q&A session was held one day after Stringer released his second annual report card that grades city agencies on how much spending they do with minority and women - owned businesses.

The report, which gives letter grades to 32 agencies as well as the city itself, detailed that out of New York's $ 13.8 billion annual procurement budget for 2015, only 5.3 percent of the money was spent with minority and women - owned businesses.

HARLEM — A West Harlem community group, under fire over its use of $ 3.5 million in Columbia University's expansion funds, did spend at least some of the money on a summer youth jobs program, a city agency confirmed Tuesday.

Budget watchdogs and rating agencies do agree that this administration has been fiscally responsible in its spending but many have called on the city to boost these reserves to insulate against a widely forecasted economic downturn.

The administration had requested the Council's approval on $ 970 million in spending reallocations across city agencies.

She said that she would like to see consideration of changes that give the City Council more control over the way money is budgeted and spent by city agencies, among other refoCity Council more control over the way money is budgeted and spent by city agencies, among other refocity agencies, among other reforms.

This is the city's largest spending reduction program in five years, garnered through debt savings, spending re-estimates, and agency efficiencies.

And budget analysts on Thursday continued to criticize de Blasio for his spending plan's lack of a «program to eliminate the gap» or «PEG,» a budgeting practice common under all de Blasio's predecessors dating back to former Mayor Ed Koch, which requires city agencies to identify a specific amount of money they could cut in the coming fiscal year.

Rather than spend money to house families in shelters, city and state agencies should instead spend money on resources to keep them in their homes, like social workers and housing attorneys, he said.

Concerned about the city's increased spending and possible future budget deficits, a majority of City Council members have appealed to Mayor Bill de Blasio to have his agencies evaluate their priorities and find ways to reduce spending before he releases his next preliminary budcity's increased spending and possible future budget deficits, a majority of City Council members have appealed to Mayor Bill de Blasio to have his agencies evaluate their priorities and find ways to reduce spending before he releases his next preliminary budCity Council members have appealed to Mayor Bill de Blasio to have his agencies evaluate their priorities and find ways to reduce spending before he releases his next preliminary budget.

A new website site allows city tax payers to see how much agencies spend on things like liquor and car services.

She has also embraced some typical Republican priorities, like reducing wasteful spending, freezing property taxes rates, and eliminating redundant city agencies.

These include the preliminary budget proposal, the executive budget proposal and the final adopted budget, each of which contain hundreds of pages with detailed breakdowns of agency spending and city revenues.

A PEG, or program to eliminate the gap, calls on city agency heads to identify a certain percentage or amount of agency spending for potential cuts, then leaves up to the Mayor and his budget office which recommendations to accept.

The release of that updated spending plan, which the mayor has indicated will likely include a more robust agency savings plan, will trigger another round of hearings at the City Council.

The government agency spent years exploring the stone's potential as an unlimited power source — making the Captain pretty angry — until it was stolen by Loki who used it to open a portal unleashing alien hell on New York City.

In fact, my CRPE colleagues and I spend a lot of time studying and talking about what it takes to design and implement policies like these, especially in cities where the schools are made up of a mix of district and charter schools and multiple oversight agencies existing side by side.

Prior to joining InkWell in 2015, Stephen Barbara Literary Agent spent six years as an agent with Foundry Literary + Media, and before that was Contracts Director of the Donald Maass Agency for three years, both in New York City.

Developed by the San Francisco Arts Commission, a city agency, the Treasure Island plan entails spending nearly $ 50 million on artwork over a 20 - year period, with funding during that time coming from a «1 percent for art» program that collects a fraction of the new project's costs from the island's developers.