Sentences with phrase «cutting police and fire»

Those included cutting police and fire departments, raising taxes, consolidating departments and improving internal efficiencies as well as exploring shared services.

Not exact matches

Local resident Marian Kamlish, 92, said: «In times of austerity, this vanity project is an insult to those in the NHS, in education, in the fire services and the police force, all suffering cuts while this rich man's railway sucks up our money.»

In September, Bloomberg ordered a partial hiring freeze and told city agency directors to shrink their budgets by 5.4 percent this year and 8 percent next year, with smaller cuts for the Department of Education and police and fire departments.

State rules, including a law requiring binding arbitration to resolve contract disputes with police and fire unions, inhibit cities from cutting some of their biggest costs, she said.

Instead, governments are resorting to spending cuts and are reducing police and fire protection, garbage collection, recreational programs and road repair.

The council has cut overtime from Syracuse's fire and police departments by $ 1 million each.

Walsh, in the budget proposal, said the city could cut spending in areas such as social security, medical insurance, parks conservancy, the department of public works and city employee, police and fire retirement systems.

In London alone, Labour politicians have consistently opposed cuts to accident and emergency services, fire and police stations and London Underground stations.

The council well knows they are only symbolically cutting funding from the overtime lines of police and fire.

To close the budget gap, the city is proposing a 1.64 percent property tax increase, cutting nearly 200 fire, police, public works, and parks jobs, as well as joining the state restructuring board to get a $ 5 million grant.

The plan includes significant budget cuts to the public services and facilities, such as police, fire, libraries and parks.

In addition to cutting more than a dozen jobs from Oswego's fire and police services at its Monday meeting, the city's common council also eliminated the entire planning and zoning department.

New York traditionally provides a cut of profits only to the county where a casino is located to offset the cost of additional police and fire protection and other services.

On the city side of the budget (police, fire, DPW, parks and other services), a budget hole ranging from $ 25 million to $ 30 million is proposed to be closed by Spano, with job cuts and a 2 percent property tax increase.

Madden described his spending proposal as a «tight budget» which would require cuts in city services outside of the police and fire departments in order to eliminate $ 2.9 million in expenses.

Think about what's happening here in Manchester, projects to rebuild 10,000 homes in run - down areas axed, # 560m of transport schemes scrapped, sweeping cuts at Bolton, Salford, Trafford and Rochdale councils, 150 firefighter jobs at risk in Greater Manchester Fire Service, # 7m of cuts in the police force, up to 1,000 NHS admin jobs in danger and a local breast cancer helpline, that has taken 80,000 calls since it was set up, about to be closed, because health trusts will no longer foot the # 63,000 annual running cost,» he said.

The fight is also yet another chapter in the ongoing fight between Mr. de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who has come out in support of the police and fire unions and is backing the legislation in Albany to reverse the 2009 cut.

Fire and police unions have been hammering the mayor for his refusal to back a reversal to a 2009 state law that cut the disability retirement benefits for firefighters or police officers who are wounded in the line of duty if they were hired after July 2009.

Estimates from the mayor's office say they would have to eliminate up to 45,000 positions — including more than 10,000 teachers and 5,700 police officers — and cut daily Fire Department emergency medical services by seven percent.

Some companies offer to cut your premium by as much as 15 or 20 percent if you install a sophisticated sprinkler system and a fire and burglar alarm that rings at the police, fire or other monitoring stations.