Sentences with phrase «from governors and legislatures»

«We need a budget proposal from the governor and legislature that finally pays the money owed to our children and prioritizes schools that need funding the most,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, at a Jan. 10 press conference outside City Hall to kick off a new push for public school funding in Albany.

Not exact matches

ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $ 168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes.

In this guest blog from Minnesota businessman Dirk Bak, he contends the state's governor and legislature want to destroy the business climate.

During this year's legislative session, the legislature and governor were forced to repeal three new business sales taxes just one year after adopting them, following widespread condemnation from business leaders, economists and the general public.

The Illinois legislature overrode the governor's veto to adopt a budget which increased the state's single - rate individual income tax from 3.75 to 4.95 percent, and the corporate income tax rate from 7.75 to 9.5 percent.

Yes Mass elected three straight Republican Governors from 1990 - 2002 Weld, Cellucci, and Romney, but each was handicapped with no party representation in the legislature.

State legislatures, governors» offices and state and federal agencies are less used to being hit with communications from thousands of people at once and seem more responsive.

«To that end, as the Attorney General and the legislature appear open to revising their policies, the Governor's office will convene a meeting with representatives from the legislature, the Attorney General and the Comptroller to come up with one uniform email retention and FOIL policy that applies to all State officials and agencies.»

StateWatch Guru Mike Poulopoulos, who has more than a decade of experience at the Capitol, explains how the governor calls these sessions, outlines possible responses from the legislature, and forecasts the potential agenda for the extraordinary session in 2017.

A coalition of labor unions, religious groups, and others are urging Governor Cuomo and the legislature to close what they say are loopholes in the law that protect large corporations from paying their fair share of taxes.

Having lost a seat, the Republican dominated legislature can defeat a veto from Governor Nixon (D) and has its eye on one of the Democratic seats around St. Louis as the Congressional delegation shrinks.

The plan also argues the legislature should support controversial elements in the governor's budget proposal, including his plan to let the MTA unilaterally carve out special districts within New York City (without city approval) and claim the property taxes from those districts.

The governor is likely to get push back from many in the legislature, who are close to education interests like the teachers unions and local school leaders.

It would prevent the governor from directly raiding the MTA — something that's only cost the agency $ 1.3 million — and make the legislature less likely to raid transit in its budgets by including a set of disclosure requirements to make it clear what the impact of each theft will be on riders.

A Paterson administration source tells NBCNew York the Governor distanced himself from the Ravitch planl, and has since distanced Ravitch from the budget process because he saw the legislature seizing on the borrowing idea and did not want to enable them to make irresponsible decisions.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

It reflects a common theme from Republican leaders who say the Governor and state have developed a habit of bypassing the legislature.

It's from a fund known as the State and Municipal Facilities Program, set up in 2013 by Governor Cuomo and the legislature to fund capital projects.

But that hasn't stopped the governor and state legislature from continuing the Albany tradition of using M.T.A. money as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations.

On an even more basic level, there's the question of whether the state will actually reimburse the M.T.A. when it comes time to do so, when the governor and legislature inevitably come under pressure to find money from somewhere, as they do every time they have to make a new budget.

The governor is placing more emphasis on his plan to freeze property taxes, which is facing widespread resistance from the legislature, local government and school officials, and unions.

And the governor says he's pleased by what he received from the legislature in exchange for ending the corruption probe.

«He has managed to alienate the Clintons, the governor, the Albany legislature and even those who supported him from the grass roots.»

The legislature and governor even took a step backward from the agreement, when they failed to follow through on a deal to take steps to deny pensions to elected officials convicted of felonies.

«If the governor's staff is directing subpoenas away from people who contributed to the governor and towards members of the legislature, then we have a serious problem,» former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky told Karen DeWitt.

At the meeting, Vice Chancellor Anthony Bottar said the proposal has «raised a great deal of discussion regarding its implications and consequences from teachers, the legislature and the governor's office.»

That's a problem for a governor whose core political narrative is steady competence — that he makes the trains run on time and can wring accomplishments from a legislature split along party lines.

Last night, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle posted 14 minutes of audio from Governor Andrew Cuomo's interview with their editorial board, the same discussion where he outlined a clear alternative to vetoing the legislature's redistricting proposal.

Typically a colony was ruled by a governor appointed from London who controlled the executive administration and relied upon a locally elected legislature to vote taxes and make laws.

«As a state legislature, and in coordination with the Governor, we must fight for real, lasting tax reform because it is painfully obvious that middle America is paying the bills while the super wealthy benefit from loopholes and the 40 % on the lower spectrum pay nothing at all.»

The Board of Elections commissioners have said they changed the original language sent to them by the state attorney general, which was more neutral, after discussions with staff from the governor's office and the legislature.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and leaders from each house of the state legislature decided Thursday evening that

The legislature has finished it's hearings on Governor Cuomo's budget proposal, and will be ready to start crafting a spending plan once they return from the President's Day break.

The legislature's marathon budget hearings continued Wednesday and on the docket was public protection, which included testimony from several people including the new state police superintendent, corrections officials, and also the judiciary, which has been at odds with Governor Cuomo since his budget was introduced.

Cell phones, smart phones, and other personal electronic devices are free from arbitrary police snooping in California — at least for the time being, thanks to actions taken by the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and leaders from each house of the state legislature decided Thursday evening that they agree on enough to say they made the April first deadline for the state budget.

Governor Cuomo and the legislature agreed to a new law preventing New Yorkers 16 and younger from using the tanning booths.

Aside from the suit, Assemblyman Joe Borelli recently announced he would push two bills that would require the governor to set special elections for vacant congressional and state legislature seats.

During May, Governor Andrew Cuomo and state legislature leaders solicited suggestions from businesses

In fact, the governor has been steadily distancing himself from the controversy, saying the matter is now «between the legislature and the courts», and he has «no idea» what the ultimate outcome will be.

Governor Cuomo who has threatened a veto if the lines are gerrymandered, and not drawn by an independent panel, has lately been backing away from that stance, and from the legislature's redistricting process altogether.

«The legislature and governor must enact ethics reform that will not just punish those who are corrupt, but will prevent the corruption from taking place in the first place,» said Talia Werber, the policy and research manager of Citizens Union.

Cuomo's spokeswoman says the governor will «convene a meeting with representatives from the legislature, the Attorney General and the Comptroller to come up with one uniform email retention and FOIL policy that applies to all State officials and agencies.»

Three quarters of school districts in New York State have applied for waivers from the new teacher evaluation rules set out by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature in March.

The process cuts out the legislature, governor and general public from making chances to the maps.

First of all, while a shut down could happen, nothing stops the legislature from amending the governor's proposals within the law, passing the bills, and then overruling a Gubernatorial veto.

The move was estimated to cut about $ 300 million a year from the M.T.A.'s operating budget, which the governor and legislature promised to reimburse from the state's general fund.

Published reports in the New York Post and New York Daily News say US Attorney Preet Bharara has subpoenaed records from a state ethics panel created by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature.

The reports from Start - Up NY businesses have been used by Empire State Development to publish an annual report on the program for the legislature and governor.

The State Board of Regents, facing pressure from Governor Cuomo and the legislature, is recommending that the effects of the new high stakes testing on students, designed in response to the Common Core, be delayed for five more years.