With policy moving to offer increased control for states and
districts over spending, advocacy for desired prevention programs and comprehensive school reforms must be well coordinated, communicated, and executed.
Not exact matches
For about two years, the Wilmette Park
District studied the possibility of taking
over operation of the harbor, even
spending $ 45,000 on a consultant to analyze repair needs.
When Daley asked him to take
over the park in 1998, Uhlir was just out the door of the Chicago Park
District, retired from 25 years of service, including time
spent in such positions as chief architect, director of architecture, engineering and planning, and, finally, director of research and planning.
«The Park Board has placed the Park
District in a perilous situation with its
spending over the last few years.»
Over the weekend, the group offered to
spend $ 2.9 million to buy a nearby 2.5 - acre tract and swap it with the Jewel Tea building, which is owned by the Barrington Park
District.
Here is North Avenue Beach, where Pecoraro started as a lifeguard rookie in 1949 and where he
spent countless hours
over his next 51 years with the park
district.
With its $ 272 million annual budget, the park
district spends well
over $ 30,000 an acre of park, she says, far more than any other big city.
District officials
spent thousands of dollars researching concerns
over lighting, parking and loss of green space.
Orlando Coryell, a La Grange resident who has
spent $ 15,000 in a separate suit against the Park
District over the sale of Gordon Park, said he was opposed to «private development on public land when the public is denied use of it and the public is denied control and... ownership.»
The
district's budget calls for
spending up to about $ 666,000
over two years to give the facility a facelift and the feel of a sports bar.
We are told
over and
over that there's not enough money to fix school lunch, yet we live in a country where we consistently
spend 2, 3, 4 or even 5 times more for our daily coffee than we do on food for our children's school lunch, which in most school
districts amounts to less than a dollar.
Cuomo's plan would
spend $ 1.5 billion
over five years, with $ 100 million in the first year targeting needy school
districts.
While almost all of them are keeping their
spending requests within the mandatory tax cap, some
districts wonder whether the cap is sustainable
over the long term.
The 145th
District contest cost slightly
over $ 2 million, counting the money
spent by the candidates themselves, by the Democratic and Republican parties and by political action committees.
At the same time, the move appears to be a speeding up of a school
district spending disclosure law that's being phased in
over several years.
The latest display of greed is especially galling: The council's just - passed budget boosts member - item
spending — the cash pols get to pass around their
districts like Christmas turkeys — a full 9 percent
over last year, to $ 396 million.
It seems as though anyone who will show support for a man who has lived in the 33rd
district for
over 10 years,
spent his years since moving to NYC from Puerto Rico involved in progressive organizations, and helping people like President Obama get elected will be deemed a Rivera campaign worker.
The problems with Lee became public in a 2014 Times Union report that detailed how Kent and Garcia allegedly sought to have the
spending questions investigated internally rather than turning it
over to the Rockland County
District Attorney.
Last year,
over 16,000 New Yorkers in 18 Council
Districts decided how to
spend almost $ 15 million, including the Speaker's South Bronx / East Harlem
district..
After the months
spent in the last school year in a fight
over teacher evaluations, the
district stands to lose nearly $ 59 million in this year's fight
over evaluations.
Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly have
spent over $ 2 million for their March 11th special election, but national outside groups have
spent three times as much trying to impact on the Florida 13th Congressional
District election.
Bronx
District 13 (Pelham Bay and the Northeast Bronx): The race to succeed term - limited James Vacca saw Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj win a surprisingly narrow victory
over progressive activist Marjorie Velazquez even though Gjonaj
spent over $ 700,000, more than any other Council candidate.
But the DCCC has a resource problem (it was mired in debt when Israel took
over), and
spending money to win a
district that many people believe will cease to exist after the next round of redistricting doesn't seem to make sense.
In a little
over a month, voters in most school
districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that
district's
spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...
Staten Island
District Attorney Michael McMahon went on a six - figure
spending spree after taking
over in January, forking
over $ 50,000 for new carpeting and furniture and another $ 67,000 for an SUV.
State auditors contend the Schoharie Central School
District has been overestimating how much it expected to spend over the past five years, suggesting the district collected more taxes than ne
District has been overestimating how much it expected to
spend over the past five years, suggesting the
district collected more taxes than ne
district collected more taxes than necessary.
Newly disclosed records show Suffolk
district attorney employees have received $ 3.25 million in bonuses since 2012 — $ 550,000 more than reported previously — as county lawmakers prepare for a hearing today on a bill to tighten legislative control
over how proceeds from seized criminal assets are
spent.
The Democratic attorney general
spent last week going back and forth with the state's
district attorneys
over an executive order that Schneiderman investigate instances in which an unarmed civilian dies at the hands of police, essentially supplanting the local prosecutor.
A spokesman for Governor Cuomo says New York «
spends three times as much per pupil in high needs
districts than it does on low needs
districts, and that funding has only increased
over the past four years».
Rather than hand
over the money, a
district will first have to
spend it and then seek reimbursement from the state.
Staten Island
District Attorney Michael McMahon went on a six - figure
spending spree after taking
over in January, forking
over $ 50,000 for new carpeting and furniture and another $ 67,000 for an SUV, The Post has learned.
Maine's 2nd
District was among the most expensive House races in the country last cycle, attracting
over $ 10 million in outside
spending.
As of late August,
over 70 percent of the $ 38,613
spent by Carmel Town Board member and former Ball chief of staff Suzi McDonough in the
district's Republican primary has gone to Ball's firm.
Political analysts say candidates may need to
spend well
over $ 2.5 million to run a competitive race in the 4th
District for both the primary and the general election.
Republicans have been eager to flip the
district over the last several election cycles,
spending heavily to flip the seat and redrawing it to more favorable conditions in 2012.
Through Participatory Budgeting, residents of twenty - seven Council
Districts across the City are deciding how to
spend over $ 30 million of taxpayer money.
The parties and outside groups
spent nearly $ 21.8 million
over the last four cycles in Illinois - 10 (which is covered by the Chicago media market), $ 20.6 million in New Hampshire - 1, $ 16.6 million in Texas - 23, and $ 12.2 million in New York - 24 (which was the 25th
District until the 2012 elections).
In the third annual cycle of PBNYC, residents across 10 NYC Council
Districts came together to discuss ideas for improving their communities, and nearly 17,000 people voted on how to
spend over $ 14 million.
Dixon
spent most of the 2011 - 2012 school year as the
district's interim school superintendent, but was passed
over for the permanent position when the school board appointed Dr. Pamela Brown in July.
Sugarman said critics tend to focus exclusively on her work with Cuomo that began in the attorney general's office and carried
over to the governor's office, but not the 20 years she
spent as the chief of the homicide and trial division in the Bronx
district attorney's office or the 10 years in private practice after that.
A spokesman for Cuomo says New York «
spends three times as much per pupil in high needs
districts than it does on low needs
districts, and that funding has only increased
over the past four years.»
The
spending influx comes three weeks before voters head to the polls on Nov. 8, and is part of a $ 10 million package allocated last week to 15 congressional
districts across the country, bringing CLF's total announced general election
spending to date to
over $ 33 million in 29
districts.
The
district is proposing a $ 391 million budget, a 4 percent increase in
spending over this year's budget.
Jesse Hamilton has
spent his entire career helping people, including
over 15 years as an elected official in Crown Heights, eight years as President of the School Board and the last eight representing our community as
District Leader of the 43rd Assembly
District.
Lifted by more than $ 1 million in outside
spending from Republican groups determined to avoid another electoral embarrassment, Ms. Lesko defeated Hiral Tipirneni, a physician and first - time candidate, in a
district President Trump carried by
over 20 points.
Buffalo public schools are proposing to
spend $ 56 million
over the next three years for major upgrades of the
district's computer system and providing a computer for every student.
The New York People's Convention, a group funded heavily by Bill Samuels, a New York City businessman and promoter
over the years of everything from improving how congressional and legislative
district lines are drawn to term limits, has raised — and
spent — $ 251,000 on a Proposal 1 yes effort.
SYRACUSE, NY —
District Attorney William Fitzpatrick's campaign has violated state election law by failing to disclose details of how he personally
spent more than $ 20,000 in contributions
over the last two years.
Onondaga County
District Attorney William Fitzpatrick's campaign has violated state election law by not itemizing more than $ 20,000 in
spending on his personal credit card that he's charged back to the campaign
over the past two years.
The
district's budget would be about a 2 percent increase
over this year's
spending plan.