The surplus funds used to cover this deficit are not available this year, and the Town Board either had to impose a 15 percent tax increase or drastically
cut town employees to balance the 2012 budget.
Not exact matches
Malloy's proposed budget this year would bring more deep state
cuts, either in staffing or pay and benefits to public
employees, along with a shift of hundreds of millions of dollars in costs to cities and
towns.
When asked what
cuts would be needed in order to keep the budget under the tax cap for 2017,
Town Board members agreed that
employees would be first on the chopping block.
When students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum
employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape
Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to
cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaign.