Sentences with phrase «dollar project funded»

The 25 - million - dollar project funded by the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL), is being executed by Amandi Holding Limited, to boost economic activities and tourism in the Volta Region.

Not exact matches

The private sector has matched public funds dollar for dollar in 2017 to support the Historic Heart of Perth project, which aims to revitalise the east end precinct through public art and streetscape improvements.

Southwestern Ontario manufacturers who may be underwhelmed by the budget are reminded of past triumphs, including the elimination of tariffs on manufacturing inputs, an $ 80 million dollar loan for a Ford expansion in Windsor, the Factory of the Future project in London and funds for Fibracast in Hamilton through the Advanced Manufacturing Fund.

Many Republicans in Congress were already balking at the $ 2 billion cost of the project, and just two months ago, Congress shortchanged its funding by hundreds of millions of dollars, as the GSA noted.

Over the past few years, green bonds have raised billions of dollars to help fund environmental and other sustainable development projects: rapidly growing from $ 1 billion issued in 2012 to more than $ 30 billion in 2014 globally.1

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

That we and other insti «tutions fund billions of dollars in labs and scientist for competing projects I feel is a issue.

The quarter - million - dollar project was funded principally by the Danforth Foundation, with some support from Cooperating churches and universities.

To access AMPC funding (up to 25 % of total project cost), members must agree to match this figure dollar for dollar.

US platforms such as IndieGoGo, GiveForward and KickStarter have helped artists, musicians and others raise tens of millions of dollars, mostly in small donations from large numbers of individuals, to enable them to make music videos, write books, fund travel and a host of other projects.

All known factors & risks when the city approved the project and funding plan, and all much less painful than asking taxpayers to fund a billion dollar arena on top of all of these costs.

Its down with the old and set up my developer so I can fund pet projects usually on tax payer dollars.

No there needs to be a total clear out from top to bottom, kronke is currently placing a huge investment in the LA rams which will cost him between 1 and 2 billion dollars, where do you think that money is going to come from, we are only an asset to him, one of many that he has and he is bleeding his assets to finance the LA project, we will end this transfer window with a very small net loss or profit even though we know that the funds are there, but guess where the money going.

The village could offer more than $ 5 million in TIF dollars for the project, according to officials, with the remainder from grants and park district funds.

With limited tax funds available for park improvements, the Park District increasingly has become dependent on private donations to raise the millions of dollars necessary for new park projects.

An engineering firm has been hired with the few dollars left in the district's Capital Improvement Fund to pinpoint a cost for parking lot repairs and other high priority projects.

Ron Deutsch, with the Fiscal Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by unions, says putting off a decision on the half a billion dollars in projects is the right thing to do, given all the questions swirling around the Buffalo Billion right now.

In total, $ 788 million dollars were given out for 720 projects, leaving just over $ 200 million dollars left in the fund.

The projected rate hike, which reflects expectations of slightly lower pension - fund investment earnings in the future, would translate into tens of millions of dollars in extra expenses for districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties alone.

Mr. Cuomo also proposed budgeting an extra $ 1 billion in education funding this year, a $ 2 billion investment in clean - water infrastructure and various other expensive projects, including hundreds of millions of dollars in economic - development for Buffalo ($ 500 million), a life sciences research and development cluster ($ 550 million) and new airports in Syracuse and Plattsburgh.

Such post-budget passage announcements are commonplace in Albany, where lawmakers trumpet how they use taxpayer dollars to fund projects in their home districts.

Public Investments Toward Capital Upgrades to Keep CUNY Colleges in Queens Competitive QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz today announced an allocation of $ 3.64 million of her Fiscal Year 2017 discretionary capital dollars to fund projects at four of the City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in Queens.

A development now being built in the rural village of Schoharie, for example, was promised millions of dollars in funds and tax credits from the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal after its then - commissioner, Darryl Towns, bypassed competing projects that had higher recommendations from his staff.

The governor said there is funding for the big - dollar projects from a state settlement with major banks.

The $ 10.5 million energy and agricultural waste management project was funded by local, state and federal taxpayer dollars, including about $ 1.5 million that came directly from Cayuga County government's savings accounts.

The local advisory panel will recommend projects for investment using the $ 50 million in Empire State Development funding and leveraging private dollars.

But if there's anything taken away from the mega «extender» bill aside from funding the government for the next eight weeks or so, it's also billions of dollars in infrastructure and capital project money Cuomo had included.

The governor has proposed a $ 1.5 billion dollar fund that the various regions of the state would seek money from on a competitive basis for various projects.

Abinanti said he would take a billion dollars from Cuomo's proposed economic development fund and put it toward construction projects like closing or improving railroad crossings.

Projects range from economic development aid for troubled regions, to funding the $ 4 billion dollar new Tappan Zee Bridge on the New York State Thruway over the Hudson River.

The county's general fund spending has grown by more than $ 78 million dollars over the last five years — and is projected to grow by $ 31 million next year.

Eliminating discretionary lump sum appropriations, through which the state spends billions of dollars with little, if any, justification for how projects were selected to receive funding or explanation of how the funding will be used, is another proposal the comptroller is supporting.

[29] Reed focused on bringing attention to wasteful government spending and supported budget amendments that saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating government funding for projects, including a sewer system in Tijuana, Mexico.

Governor Cuomo has vetoed over half a million dollars of legislative member items, saying he's following through on a promise to ban the funds, which have been used in the past to finance lawmakers» pet projects.

Historically, it appears that Multi-Modal Program Funds were used for routine, small dollar, road maintenance projects like the ones featured in this February 2008 press release on Assemblywoman Sandy Galef's website.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday proposed using his first substantial budget surplus to fund a $ 154 billion spending plan that includes a $ 2.1 billion increase in school funding over two years and billions of dollars in legacy - building construction projects.

Sabrina Ty, CEO and president of the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation, followed Benjamin by speaking about the importance of investing in both infrastructure and protection; she detailed the billion - dollar - plus pot of funding for such projects available at the state level.

The $ 6 million funding request for the customs inspection facility at MacArthur Airport would provide the remaining dollars necessary to move that project off the drawing board.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — In the summer of 2013, Cor Development Co. started building an unusually close partnership with the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo that gave the company an inside track on taxpayer - funded projects in Syracuse worth millions of dollars.

Pete Seeger must have rolled over in his grave Monday when Governor Cuomo announced a half - billion dollars from a state clean water fund will be diverted to the $ 3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge project.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

On Tuesday, Cuomo announced that the NY Broadband Program has $ 550 million dollars to fund projects that will extend high - speed internet access to unserved and underserved areas across the state.

Tompkins County Lawmakers have approved additional funding for the nearly $ 2 million dollar Pine Tree Road pedestrian and multi-modal project.

Others, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, suggest spending more surplus dollars on economic development, so extra tax dollars would allow local governments to better fund infrastructure projects on their own.

Million dollar projects in Homer and Cortland were funded by new Restore New York Awards announced Monday.

The vote to approve nearly a half - billion dollars in new funding for the Solar City factory in Buffalo was delayed for a week after the Assembly speaker and Senate leader said they lacked information about the projects.

They further point out that there is a separate billion - dollar fund set aside to address services growing neighborhoods will need when the new housing projects are built and that there are additional city subsidies that will be used to build additional affordable housing.

In exchange for the bribes, the complaint alleges, Senator Smith was to use his influence to steer half a billion dollars in state taxpayer funds to build a road in Rockland County to benefit a real estate developer's project.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

Projected funding for nondefense R&D in FY 2002, for example, has improved by $ 10 billion (in today's dollars) between the FY 1996 budget resolution and the FY 1999 budget request.