Sentences with phrase «final budget plan»

It is also the mayor's final budget plan before he leaves office and includes the elimination of 2,000 teaching positions, CBS 2's Tony Aiello reported.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said yesterday that people were «too tied» to calling it Tier Six and said his Republican conference plans to suggest cost - saving measures that may go into the final budget plan, due April 1.

There's also a dispute between Sampson and Silver on how to fund what is now expected to be as much as a $ 1 billion shortfall in anticipated federal Medicaid aid, an enormous loss at a time when politically nervous lawmakers are looking to add education funding to the final budget plan.

Much like Senator Sampson, Speaker Silver was not deterred by Governor Paterson's announcement he would not accept borrowing in the final budget plan.

Because the House and Senate are far apart on this matter, cuts in low - income mandatory programs will be a key issue when House and Senate negotiators try to agree on a final budget plan in April.

After the IDC voted en masse against the GOP budget plan, one Republican warned that the items sought by the breakaway Dems could wind up stripped from the final budget plan.

School funding is one of the goads for Cuomo and lawmakers to take action on a final budget plan soon: The majority of districts are required to put their annual budgets before voters in mid-May.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says it's unlikely that either will end up in the final budget plan.

One of the main sticking points for the final budget plan remains education funding, although the governor and Democratic lawmakers say they have made progress.

Paterson said last week that if a final budget plan isn't settled this week, he'll put the remainder of his budget proposal into the extender to be passed on Monday, June 28.

Most years, the final budget plan arrives in a mad rush of legislative action that rarely lasts more than two or three days — a sign that the total plan is a carefully calibrated set of deals between legislative leaders and the governor that could, if too much time went by, fall apart due to political pressure.

Good Morning The Advocate reports the Louisiana Legislature is potentially one step away from having a final budget plan.

The Advocate reports the Louisiana Legislature is potentially one step away from having a final budget plan.

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire released her final budget plan this week and gave early learning one last boost, proposing a big increase for the state's preschool program and more support for the Department of Early Learning.