Sentences with phrase «existing budget holes»

In discussions with district leaders, GAO found that «most did not indicate that they would use [SFSF] funds to pursue educational reforms»; instead, they wanted to fill their existing budget holes.

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Joining Bloomberg in Albany today will be NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn and NYC Comptroller John Liu, who according to the WSJ, will testify that Cuomo's budget will increase the city's deficit 58 percent, creating an «immediate» $ 1.4 billion hole on top of an existing shortfall of $ 2.4 billion.

While the executive proposal includes $ 200 million in funding to address the opioid crisis, it does not prevent the state from using the existing funds designated for these programs to plug other holes in the budget, according to Bill Hammond, health policy analyst at the Empire Center for Fiscal Policy, a conservative - leaning think tank.

And as it turned out, that $ 600,000 hole in the budget never existed.