Sentences with phrase «dollar budget gap»

He will likely try to close a remaining $ 2 billion dollar budget gap without raising any new taxes.

She noted multi-million dollar budget gaps and dwindling state and federal resources.

He said he would close the 10 billion dollar budget gap without raising taxes.

Several proposals in Washington right now including the changes to the Affordable Health Care Act, could mean multibillion dollar budget gaps for New York State.

NEW YORK — In a November budget update released Thursday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg shrunk a multibillion dollar budget gap by cutting thousands of jobs and trimming services to the bone, including eliminating 6,000 teaching positions, overnight staffing at 20 fire companies, filling fewer potholes and shrinking library hours.

Many proposals in Washington right now including the changes to the Affordable Health Care Act, could mean multi-billion dollar budget gaps for New York State.

The second, and more pressing problem, is closing what is estimated to be a multi-billion dollar budget gap in fiscal 2012.

«At the state level we have worked with the governor to close a $ 13.5 billion dollar budget gap while cutting taxes... To support a sales tax increase at this time, with the economy still in recovery, would be a step backwards on progress we have made.»

Bill Samuels, the founder of the New Roosevelt Initiative, credits Cuomo with accomplishments like enacting same sex marriage and closing a multibillion dollar budget gap after years of profound dysfunction in Albany.

He says Cuomo is acting responsibly to close a multi - billion dollar budget gap with a minimum of one shots or gimmicks.

Brynien spoke at a pre State of the State rally at the site of the former Occupy Albany encampment, where he suggested that instead of closing the state's $ 2 billion dollar budget gap through state agency consolidations, and other cuts, corporate tax loopholes should be closed instead, and «high priced» private consultants curtailed.

Governor Cuomo said earlier this week that «there is a need» for a special legislative session to address a $ 350 million dollar budget gap in the current fiscal year, and a growing $ 3.5 billion dollar gap for next year.

Many proposals in Washington right now including the changes to the Affordable Health Care Act, could mean multi billion dollar budget gaps for New York State.

The Syracuse City School District Chief Financial Officer Suzanne Slack faces a multi-million dollar budget gap this year.

New York faces a $ 2 billion dollar budget gap.

Governor Cuomo will have the challenge of closing a $ 2 billion dollar budget gap.

The City of Niagara Falls is facing a multimillion - dollar budget gap, one that Dyster said is «substantially larger than what, frankly, we were expecting and prepared to address.»

restoration of some college scholarship programs that Cuomo proposed to cut, rejection of tax hikes the governor wanted to help close this year's multibillion - dollar budget gap and an extension of tax breaks for developers of qualified historic preservation and brownfield projects.

The MTA also has a multi billion dollar budget gap.

If spending goes on at its current rate, then there would actually be a $ 2 billion dollar budget gap.

Horrigan used the annual address to call for an increase in the local share of the Sales Tax in an effort to close a multimillion dollar budget gap and provide Property Tax relief to county property owners.

With the MTA expected today to approved huge fare hikes and massive service cuts to close their billion dollar budget gap, the Times says leaders in the State Senate have failed the region's 8 million transit riders.

The governor also has a $ 2 billion dollar budget gap to close, but he did not mention that in his speech.

Rochester Mayor Tom Richards says his city has a $ 40 million dollar budget gap and is «approaching the point of financial failure».

Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to release his state budget plan on Tuesday, as New York faces a $ 2 billion dollar budget gap.

Cuomo froze the environmental fund at $ 134 million dollars a year when he first took office, citing a $ 10 billion dollar budget gap.

A week after vowing to press ahead with plans to eliminate more than 6,000 teachers to close a multibillion - dollar budget gap, Bloomberg's approval ratings are still struggling, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows.

Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled a $ 142 billion state budget, that includes federal aid for post Superstorm Sandy recovery, and closes a $ 1.3 billion dollar budget gap.

A state taskforce charged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo with finding Medicaid savings for the 2011 - 2012 budget just overwhelmingly approved a set of proposals to reign in costs and help the state close its $ 10 billion dollar budget gap.

Cuomo's plan includes one billion more dollars for schools, and the extension of an additional tax on New York's highest income earners, known as the millionaire's tax, in order to pay for education spending and close a $ 3.5 billion dollar budget gap.

The financially struggling system, which had been racked by union strikes, cut waste and erased a billion - dollar budget gap.