Sentences with phrase «city budget priorities»

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FUNDING of community services, facilities and projects, roads, dual use paths and drainage have received high priority in the City of Bunbury's $ 28 million budget for 1999/2000.

EDMONTON — NDP Leader Rachel Notley and members of her caucus will be touring cities across the province talking to Albertans about their priorities for the coming budget.

Every assembly comes up with a list of priorities, which are put forward to the city's budget council.

The DMI's Amy Traub wonders why Mayor Bloomberg's annual City Card didn't list preventing budget cuts as a priority.

«These two priorities are important to the overall operations, budget efficiency, new initiatives, community policing and many of the programs currently in progress to keep crime low in our City and focus on building partnerships in our communities,» Public Safety Chair Vanessa Gibson (D - Bronx) said in a statement.

Ms. Rose said she was happy with the inclusion of several priorities in the mayor's budget - like increased funds for senior case management, anti-gun initaitives, summer youth employment and science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at city colleges.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz announced today that the Borough Board has unanimously approved a package of expense and capital budget priorities that it wants to see included in the City's budget for Fiscal Year 2015.

The City Charter requires the Borough Board to submit a package of budget priorities each year to the Mayor, the City Council and the City's Director of Management and Bbudget priorities each year to the Mayor, the City Council and the City's Director of Management and BudgetBudget.

Recommendations Seek to Address the Borough's Longstanding Issues QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz submitted to the Mayor and City Council recommendations for the expense and capital budget priorities that the Borough President and her fellow members of the Queens Borough Board want to see included in the City's adopted budget for Fiscal Year -LSB-...]

Two hours later, inside City Hall's Blue Room, there was Mayor Bill de Blasio, unveiling his $ 78.3 billion city budget proposal, and listing as its first priority «addressing the inequality crisis.&raCity Hall's Blue Room, there was Mayor Bill de Blasio, unveiling his $ 78.3 billion city budget proposal, and listing as its first priority «addressing the inequality crisis.&racity budget proposal, and listing as its first priority «addressing the inequality crisis.»

«Keeping New York City the safest big city in the country is a core priority for Mayor de Blasio, and this Administration already began in last year's budget the work of increasing NYPD force levels through civilianizatCity the safest big city in the country is a core priority for Mayor de Blasio, and this Administration already began in last year's budget the work of increasing NYPD force levels through civilianizatcity in the country is a core priority for Mayor de Blasio, and this Administration already began in last year's budget the work of increasing NYPD force levels through civilianization.

The Borough President's budget office prepared these priorities after reviewing information supplied by the borough's 14 Community Boards and by local organizations seeking City funding.

But the budget does include several other priorities sought by the city: It grants design - build authority for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and the potential reconstruction of the Rikers Island jail.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver held an event in New York City on Monday identifying the DREAM Act as a top priority for his conference, asking for $ 25 million in next fiscal year's budget, «a relatively small amount of money,» he said.

«If the project is funded by skimming property tax revenue that would have been collected anyway, that's a plain old subsidy that comes at the cost of other public priorities in the city budget.»

When the new state budget for fiscal year 2019 passed early Saturday morning in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo had successfully implemented several of his top policy priorities on issues like workplace sexual harassment, taxes, gun control, and public housing in New York City.

As he continues to roll out top priorities of his State of the State / budget address, Gov. Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed raising New York's minimum wage to $ 10.50 an hour and boosting the baseline for hourly pay in New York City to $ 11.50.

At noon, children, parents, educators and elected officials rally at City Hall to stop cuts in the executive budget and make children a priority, Manhattan.

Speaking outside of One World Trade Center following Cuomo's New York City speech, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox said the governor chose to reveal his budget priorities via a statewide tour because he wants to run president — and to get away from an increasingly hostile Legislature.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner released her 2016 - 17 budget, along with a video explaining the details of the spending plan and discussing the city's spending priorities.

The unfinished progressive priorities Cuomo set for himself after negotiating the state budget and in the State of the State were mere afterthoughts in the last week, when lawmakers instead focused on some lower - hanging fruit: a package to combat the heroin epidemic, a pause on Common Core - based teacher evaluations and a bill to let New York City reduce its speed limit to 25 m.p.h.

Flanagan said that two of his priorities — the statutory imposition of a two percent cap on state spending growth and the extension of the property tax cap to New York City — were not included in the budget.

The governor identified other issues as priorities for being included within the budget, including increasing the minimum wage to $ 10.50 statewide and to $ 11.50 in New York City, a series of tax cuts, and a set of economic and infrastructural revitalization proposals aimed at upstate New York.

The budget included gubernatorial priorities including an expanded system of college tuition subsidies, funding for several infrastructure projects and the legalization of ride - hailing outside New York City — among other things.

«While our city faces a daunting fiscal landscape, we can create a budget that is deeply committed to our priorities.

Corey Johnson, the City Council speaker, and Daniel Dromm, the Council's finance chairman, said in a statement that they were «disappointed» that no money for Fair Fares and the other City Council priorities was in the executive budget, though they believed there was enough money from additional revenue and potential savings to fund the proposals.

Mayor Bill de Blasio this afternoon offered a luke - warm assessment of one of the City Council's major budget priorities and flatly dismissed another.

«I am thrilled to be providing $ 1.2 million from my capital funding budget towards the construction of 56 - unit - co-op project in Williamsbridge,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «Creating affordable housing units for our residents is a top priority for my administration, and it is with a great pleasure that I welcome Habitat for Humanity New York City back to The Bronx and support their efforts to build affordable homes for our families.»

Testifying in Albany Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to Governor Andrew Cuomo's $ 168 billion executive budget and outlined the city's funding priorities for the next fiscal yCity Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to Governor Andrew Cuomo's $ 168 billion executive budget and outlined the city's funding priorities for the next fiscal ycity's funding priorities for the next fiscal year.

The UFT hosted a legislative breakfast for City Council members on April 20 to discuss the union's funding priorities — with Teacher's Choice topping the list — as the Council considers its budget for the fiscal year starting on July 1.

Yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio presented New York City's Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2015, a «fiscally responsible plan» that reflects the administration's priorities and moves the city «in a new, progressive direction&raqCity's Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2015, a «fiscally responsible plan» that reflects the administration's priorities and moves the city «in a new, progressive direction&raqcity «in a new, progressive direction».

«I want to focus on what will be a recurring theme of these hearings — ensuring that the City budget is fair, transparent, and accountable to New Yorkers,» said Council Speaker Corey Johnson, in his opening statement, kicking off the series of hearings at which agency heads and top city officials will present to the Council their funding priorities for the next fiscal year while defending their programs and practiCity budget is fair, transparent, and accountable to New Yorkers,» said Council Speaker Corey Johnson, in his opening statement, kicking off the series of hearings at which agency heads and top city officials will present to the Council their funding priorities for the next fiscal year while defending their programs and practicity officials will present to the Council their funding priorities for the next fiscal year while defending their programs and practices.

Following months of hearings and negotiations, after funding for a number of Council priorities was added to the mayor's final proposal, and amid concerns of a widely expected economic slowdown and potentially insufficient savings, the Council approved a plan that increases city spending by about $ 3.6 billion over last year's adopted budget.

As part of the building pressure on de Blasio to eliminate funding conditions, Make the Road New York, one of the city's leading immigrant advocacy organizations, released its budget priorities for the upcoming fiscal year, with funding for NYIFUP «without any limitation to legal representation based on criminal history» at the top of its list.

Cutting the budget deficit should be top priority for every city in the US as they are virtually all in trouble.

The City Council is in the midst of weeks of hearings on de Blasio's executive budget, while Johnson and others continue to push their top priorities — the property tax rebate, reduced price MetroCards for people living in poverty, and an added $ 500 million into reserves — for inclusion in the adopted budget, which the two sides must agree on by the July 1 start to the new fiscal year.

«There are new needs in the budget that need to be addressed but the city needs to better self - fund those priorities with savings,» said Doulis.

He said he couldn't make any fiscal promises because balancing the city's budget would take first priority.

Mayor Bloomberg in his Feb. 17 budget address threatened nearly 5,000 teacher layoffs come September — the first since the 1970s fiscal crisis — even as he called education his «number one priority» and spoke of the city's strengthening economy.

In coordinated actions in districts across the city, members asked their Council representatives to make averting teacher layoffs their top priority in budget talks.

In coordinated actions in districts across the city, members asked their Council representatives to make averting teacher layoffs their top priority in budget talks and urged them also to restore the child care funding that the mayor wants to cut.

The City Charter requires the Borough Board to submit its budget priorities each year to the Mayor, the City Council and the City's Director of Management and Bbudget priorities each year to the Mayor, the City Council and the City's Director of Management and BudgetBudget.

On Monday morning, the city sent a letter to to the state budget director urging the governor to release the $ 250 million for priority projects that would improve heat and hot water systems at 14 NYCHA developments and the $ 200 million it says the state has allocated to NYCHA but not yet spent.

The budget also addressed a number of priorities for the city, including $ 250 million in - state funding to make repairs in public housing.

By Adam Wise Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said Monday officials will prioritize about $ 40 million worth of building projects for 2011 - 12, moving only on those deemed high priority as a way to quell the city's budget deficit.

The City Charter requires the Borough Board to submit a package of its budget priorities each year to the Mayor, the City Council and the City's Director of Management and Bbudget priorities each year to the Mayor, the City Council and the City's Director of Management and BudgetBudget.

Council caucuses typically draft budget priorities as the council finalizes preliminary budget hearings on the mayor's financial plan for the city.

With comments this week, the council speaker signaled that the «Fair Fares» plan is one of his top priorities for the new city budget, which the council must negotiate with the mayor.

«There's a 70 - plus billion dollar budget with a lot of priorities throughout the whole city.

He laid out the major new investments from the preliminary budget — including $ 115 million for the $ 15 minimum wage for city employees and contracted workers, investments in public safety, funding education initiatives under the mayor's Equity and Excellence agenda, investments in transportation and social services, along with a few Council priorities.