This past Tuesday, Ferreras - Copeland reiterated concerns she had expressed at
the first executive budget hearing that de Blasio's latest spending plan, his executive budget, largely ignored the Council's priorities while adding massive appropriations for the administration's proposals.
Specifically citing the administration's ambitious plan to overhaul the municipal hospitals system, New York City Health + Hospitals, as problematic, Ferreras - Copeland (pictured) said that the plan was provided to the Council less than a day before
the first executive budget hearing.
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled
the first executive budget of his tenure on Thursday, a $ 73.9 billion spending plan that manages to fund his political priorities without widespread agency cuts or tax increases, thanks to higher - than - expected revenues and spending from two reserve funds.
The Public Employees Federation, New York's second - largest state workers union, is weighing in on this morning's reports that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is thinking of following in his father's footsteps and seeking a massive reduction in the state workforce in
his first executive budget.
Today Mayor de Blasio will give us his hopes and priorities when he presents
his first executive budget.
(A summary of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's
first executive budget has been released to the media and as expected, it includes deep cuts.
Speaking to The Post's Fred Dicker on AM TALK 1300, Cuomo said he understands he'll be targeted by organized labor when he proposes deep cuts in
his first executive budget, adding: «They will attack me.
As he prepares to unveil
his first executive budget tomorrow, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has penned an OpEd slamming the entire budget process, calling it «the real Albany sham.»
«While Cuomo may or may not have an issue mandate, for the moment, as we await
his first executive budget, voters certainly support the governor on these issues that he talked about in the State of the State address.»
Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo today voiced support — albeit not happily — for the 898 layoffs Gov. David Paterson is pursuing prior to the end of the year, but avoided directly addressing whether he would seek to increase that number in
his first executive budget.
A summary of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's
first executive budget has been released to the media and as expected, it includes deep cuts.
Governor Eliot Spitzer's
first executive budget is the focus of FPI's seventeenth annual budget briefing: a discussion of economic and fiscal context for the budget, and an analysis of the extent to which the budget helps the state's regions grow together and strengthens and expands the middle class.
With Governor Cuomo's
first executive budget set to be released, tomorrow is an important day for transit riders.
Not exact matches
As the
first person from a non-radio background appointed to a senior
executive position in the company, Ms Wayman oversees all aspects of the MIX 94.5 and 92.9 radio stations, leads a team of 84 staff and is responsible for a $ 27 million
budget.
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First, we're pleased that the Assembly included a seven - year extension of mayoral control, as well as an increase in school aid and funds for universal pre-K over the
Executive Budget,» de Blasio said.
The footnote (calling to mind the «magic asterisk» in Ronald Reagan's
first federal
budget, which promised «future savings to be identified») first appeared under the financial plan tables in Cuomo's Executive Budget in Ja
budget, which promised «future savings to be identified»)
first appeared under the financial plan tables in Cuomo's
Executive Budget in Ja
Budget in January.
He
first announced the plan a month earlier during his
budget address, calling on county
executives to lead the charge to find ways to share services provided between cities, towns and villages.
Though he certainly wouldn't be the
first executive to feel that way, Cuomo is now taking more definitive steps to sideline the Legislature than his predecessors did, especially when it comes to
budgeting.
This is the
first time we did a
budget that was collectively produced in such a way that the Senate, the House of Representatives and the
executive played different parts.
Cuomo's been inching away from the tradition in recent years,
first holding the speech in a convention center controlled by the
executive branch, then delaying the event until later in January, combining it with his
budget presentation.
In combining the addresses, Cuomo again breaks with the tradition of the State of the State being delivered on the
first day of the legislative session (Jan. 6 this year) and the
executive budget address coming later in the month.
«The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) and the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) applaud the Mayor for including in his
Executive Budget a
first - ever $ 11.50 per hour wage floor for the City's contracted social service workforce.
The
executive budget does propose spending $ 1 million on the
First 1,000 Days program, a new initiative targeted toward children under 3 years old.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders triumphantly announced a deal on a 2011 - 2012
budget that «in theory» could deliver the state's
first early
budget since the last time a Cuomo was in the
executive mansion.
When pressed by Gov. David Paterson today on why they won't simply vote the
executive budget up or down and call it a day, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos replied he considered the question moot, since the Democrats who control the Legislature won't bring the plan to the floor in the
first place.
When the county
executive attempted to raise taxes his
first year with a Democratic majority, the two sides of the Legislature joined together to cut $ 8 million from the
budget and stop an increase.
Molinaro, in his
first budget, plans to eliminate at least one
executive position.
Having to wait until the
executive budget, which is
first released by the mayor in April, was a recurring theme.
But now that there is a little more in the
budget than expected, the
first priority should be restoring and expanding service for millions of people who rely on MTA buses and trains,» said John Raskin,
executive director of the Riders Alliance.
He
first outlined the plan in his State of the State and included it in his
executive budget that was released last month.
It's the
first time in eight years that Cuomo has put a line - item in his
executive budget for CUNY's labor studies, and Albany and CUNY insiders see the move as an election - year gift to Big Labor as the two - term Democratic incumbent seeks union backing as he seeks re-election.
The County
Executive will
first submit his proposed
budget to the Erie County Legislature, which historically has been received the beginning of October.
A somewhat broader version of the commission proposal
first surfaced in Governor Cuomo's
Executive Budget.
The
Executive Budget contains the
first phases of a multi-year $ 1 billion economic development package for Buffalo.
This year, Cuomo included the DREAM Act in his
executive budget for the
first time, which advocates saw as a very positive development, but many were disappointed that he linked it to the Education Investment Tax Credit in hopes of forcing the Senate GOP's hand.
Cuomo's inclusion of the Child Victims Act in his
executive budget this year has put the controversial legislation on course for its
first potential vote by the state Legislature.
The
budget, Astorino's
first as County
Executive, is a thoughtful plan to accomplish the downsizing and control of spending by county government while also protecting the most vulnerable in our community.
In 2014, we took the County
Executive's proposed 2015
budget, which only held the line on taxes, and identified cuts and lowered the tax rate for the
first time in a decade.
The back - and - forth with de Blasio could signal that Senate Republicans intend to try, over the coming months of
budget negotiations, to trade the Medicaid cuts for a cap in growth in city property tax assessments, a deal that would echo the Cuomo administration's own logic when it
first proposed the cuts in the governor's
executive budget.
Using state money, Cuomo
first proposed what became the Capital Restructuring Finance Program as part of his
executive budget in January 2014.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's
Executive Budget proposal takes some positive steps forward in clearly acknowledging, for the
first time in his tenure, the incredible child poverty and income inequality that exist in our generally affluent state and recognizing the need to give greater property tax relief to those who need it most rather than spreading it too thinly.
This includes a 2011 joint appearance at Manhattanville College in which the county
executive offered effusive praise of the governor's
first budget and a 2012 event by the Tappan Zee bridge at which Astorino stood next to Cuomo as they requested federal money for transportation.
Curran, Nassau's
first female county
executive, must solve its
budget and assessment woes and exorcise the stench of contract corruption.
The governor in his
first term has cast himself as a pro-business chief
executive and pursued measures friendly toward the state's business community, including a self - imposed spending cap in the state
budget, a limit on annual property tax increases and a revamped economic development program called START - UP NY.
Poughkeepsie... As part of the continuing efforts to get public input and increase community dialogue, Dutchess County
Executive Marcus J. Molinaro will host the County's
first live Telephone Town Hall meeting tomorrow evening at 6 pm, following the release of the 2014 Tentative County
Budget at 11 am on Wednesday, October 30th.
The grant funds come on the heels of an
executive budget proposal by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to offer counties statewide $ 50.7 million to subsidize indigent defense costs, the
first appropriation of a proposed five - year initiative that will cost an estimated $ 250 million.
Dutchess County
Executive Marcus J. Molinaro submitted his
first Tentative
Budget and
Executive Summary to the Dutchess County Legislature today.
In a few weeks, the Legislature will get our
first look at the County
Executive's 2016
budget.
The City Council held its
first hearing on Mayor Bill de Blasio's $ 84.86 billion
executive budget for fiscal year 2018 on Thursday, and Council members gave the mayor a mixed review for his updated spending plan.
As a result, the Mayor's Fiscal Year 2015
Executive Budget, for the
first time, paints an accurate picture of the cost of a labor settlement, following years during the previous administration in which contracts remained open and unresolved.