Sentences with phrase «divisions over the state budget»

The bill provided a brief moment of cooperation on a night when the General Assembly was riven by divisions over the state budget.

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The state Division of Budget in a financial update released this morning raised the possibility of suing the federal government over the claim, arguing that CMS had already approved the state's claiming methodology.

The Division of Budget, however, estimates the bill would cost over $ 20 million to the state and the city, according to Paterson's office.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the state Budget Division, said in a statement: «Under Governor Cuomo, funding for higher education has increased $ 1.4 billion over the past six years.

County executives all over New York have been complaining about delayed payments, which the Budget Division says it necessary to manage the state's cash flow.

New York's state government pension costs could be nearly $ 1.6 billion above previously projected levels over the next four years, according to the Mid-Year Financial Plan Update that was finally issued today — 11 days behind schedule, and nearly a week after Election Day — by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Division of the Budget (DOB).

The credit will be phase in over the next four years, the official said, and would be paid for using future surpluses, which the state's budget division projects will be $ 2 billion by 2016.

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo has also directed the New York State Division of Budget to implement a memorandum of understanding that would release $ 2 billion in funding to support the creation of more than 100,000 affordable and supportive housing units in the sate over the next five years.

• When Tier 6 was adopted two years ago, the governor's Division of Budget projected it would reduce pension costs for state and local government by more than $ 35 billion over 30 years; and

But after a near mutiny by upstate Republican senators, Cuomo and the Legislature agreed to raise the wage upstate to just $ 12.50 an hour over five years with future increases designed to get to $ 15 an hour tied to a formula that will be set by the governor's Division of Budget, in consultation with the state Department of Labor.

This budget language has the effect of allowing school divisions to carry - over, for appropriation in fiscal year 2003, state fund balances for any Direct Aid to Public Education account with the exception of the SOL Algebra Readiness program and those required to meet the Standards of Quality (i.e., Basic Aid, Textbooks, Vocational EducationSOQ, Gifted Education, Special EducationSOQ, Remedial EducationSOQ, VRS Retirement, Social Security, and VRS Group Life).