Sentences with phrase «fund emergency repairs»

In Syracuse, CDBG grants are used to fund emergency repairs and other costs of homeownership.

Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) also said negotiations were «on track» to include his plan to capture a portion of the city's sales tax revenue and use it to fund emergency repairs to the subway system — something the city has so far balked at doing.

He also said he wants to compel New York City to contribute around $ 400 million to fund an emergency repair package, something city officials say they are loath to do.

Not exact matches

We have the basic emergency fund, one specifically for car repairs, savings for a house, and vacation.

An emergency fund is crucial for paying for the repair, but many large auto repair chains offer payment plans if an emergency fund isn't available.

Everyone needs an emergency fund, because it's really not a matter of if you'll need to fork over cash for a car or home repair, child expense, or medical emergency, but a matter of when.

You won't want to tap into your investments to cover an unexpected medical bill or home repair, so it's important to have an established emergency fund.

It might seem counter-intuitive to focus on saving money instead of paying off debt, but having a $ 1,000 emergency fund in place first provides a financial cushion so that unplanned expenses, such as medical bills and home repairs, don't completely derail your debt - repayment plan.

Second, the cushion between the monthly rental rate and carrying cost will allow me to build up a reserve for repairs and / or vacancies (read emergency fund for the property).

But Capitol Hill is also widely expected to take up an emergency «supplemental» funding bill that would send tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars to help begin to repair the Texas coast using the Federal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disasters.

God forbid your car breaks down, you lose your job or you have an expensive home repair... and without an emergency fund, you'll feel forced to take it out of your retirement account.

Shoot to set aside at least $ 1,000 for your starter emergency fund — that's likely enough to cover a common unexpected expense like a car repair or cavity.

Or, you may want to have two emergency funds: one to cover smaller expenses like minor car repairs, and a larger one that you could use to put a new roof on your house if needed or pay your bills for a few months if you become unemployed.

We have delivered nearly $ 19 million in medicine and supplies to 40 partners along with $ 200,000 in emergency funding to help health care facilities replace damaged medicine and supplies and execute rapid repairs not covered by insurance.

On Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo celebrated achieving the full funding goal for the emergency action plan to fix the subway, but also used that moment to criticize the city, saying repairs would have gone a lot faster if the city had contributed sooner, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Cuomo said that the MTA needs immediate short - term funding for emergency repairs and to install equipment necessary for long - term fixes.

After months spent bickering over whether the city would contribute to this emergency fund to fix the subway, the city finally committed to spending $ 418 million toward the plan — this came with a «lock box» provision that ensures that these funds will only be used for subway repairs and nothing else.

Though Governor Andrew Cuomo recently unveiled an $ 836 million action plan — which includes both long - and short - term solutions for bringing the system to a state of good repair — it doesn't take into account funding beyond the current state of emergency.

In essence, the taxpayers were being hit twice by having to pay his salary, while also making up for the taxes that he wasn't paying to fund schools, police and emergency services, garbage collection, road repairs and more.

Cuomo also that the MTA needs immediate funding for emergency repairs and to install key equipment.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

The governor's office says these and other instances of LED upgrades and architectural embellishments in the MTA's two tunnels are post-Hurricane Sandy repair projects that have nothing to do with the New York Crossings project, and federal emergency relief funds and the MTA's prior capital plan are paying for them.

David's missive asserted that Johnson had agreed that the city should kick in $ 400 million toward the MTA's emergency construction plan — against de Blasio's wishes — and that the state would withhold $ 200 million in funding from the Housing Authority until the mayor, council and tenant leaders picked a private contractor to undertake repairs.

Press Release from Eliot Engel's Office Congressman Eliot Engel announced last week, that $ 20 million in federal funds were awarded to New York State for emergency repairs of roads damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

-- Compels New York City officials to direct $ 418 million to the MTA to fund a package of emergency repairs.

«Last month I wrote to all our state and federal representatives requesting emergency funds to help repair the road collapse on Tonawanda Creek Road east of Transit.

Despite Governor Cuomo declaring a state of emergency for the ailing system and acknowledging control over the transit agency, he continues to turn toward the city for funding to carry out repairs.

The fund is designed to help member states meet the uninsurable costs of natural disasters, including the cost of emergency services, cleaning up and repairing infrastructure.

Those emergency funds — largely to be used to make stopgap repairs to aging equipment — are only a part of what is needed to get the system back into full repair.

Neither congestion pricing nor a new tax would deal with the immediate needs or fund the emergency plan that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, has undertaken to make urgent repairs to trains, signals and other equipment.

Congressman Eliot Engel announced last week, that $ 20 million in federal funds were awarded to New York State for emergency repairs of roads damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

The funding announced today is in addition to approximately $ 1 million in expedited funding — up to $ 500,000 for the Town of Greece and up to $ 500,000 for the Village of Sodus Point — to conduct emergency repairs and upgrades to flood - impacted wastewater treatment systems.

According to the USA Today Network, the money for the signs came from emergency transportation funds, usually meant for emergency repairs to highways and bridges, and that contractors who worked on the signs were paid overtime in order to get them in place before the July 4 holiday in the summer of 2016.

Language tucked into Cuomo's budget plan would give the city 60 days after a declared transit emergency to appropriate an identical sum committed by the state to fund «the capital costs of repairs and construction deemed essential to ensure the continued safe and effective operation of such transit facilities.»

After hearing about the project from Mahoney in December, Miner sent a letter to Cuomo asking for $ 16.4 million in emergency funds to buy police cars, fix water mains and repair some of the city's pools.

And St. Nicks Alliance, brought in by the Conselyea Street Block Association to help manage the center, put together the rest of funding through loans and private funding for a total of $ 10.05 million, which includes $ 2 million for emergency repair work to fix the roof, upgrade the elevator and some other essential repairs, Rochford said.

The declaration means federal funding is available to the State and to tribal and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost - sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the flooding in the counties of Jefferson, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, St. Lawrence, and Wayne.

Roughly half the Federal Emergency Management Agency funds — $ 705 million — will go toward repairing damage to the grid, Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.

The president's upcoming fiscal 2001 budget proposal will also call for a new, $ 1.3 billion «emergency renovation fund» that would issue grants and loans to cover urgent school repairs, the White House announced last week.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced today the final agreement for the obligation of $ 1.84 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD) and Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) for the repair and replacement of public schools in Orleans Parish, including the City of New Orleans, damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

The Governor's amendment allows the Education Trust Fund Budget Stabilization Fund to be used to provide temporary emergency assistance funding to the public schools and institutions of higher education to repair damages resulting from a natural disaster declared by the Governor.

The $ 1 million in «quick release» funding will be used to restore emergency access and to initiate the most critical repairs to these damaged roadways and bridges in the next few weeks.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $ 750,000 in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help the Michigan Department of Transportation cover the costs of repairing roads and bridges damaged by rainfall in the Detroit metro area.

FHWA's emergency relief program provides funds for the repair or reconstruction of federal - aid roads and bridges damaged by natural disasters or catastrophic events.

Among the many locations throughout the state, the Emergency Relief funds will be used to make repairs at two locations on SD - 19 near Vermillion in Clay County, two locations on SD - 34 in Ziebach and Mead Counties and three sites on SD - 46 near Beresford in Union County.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $ 750,000 in emergency relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to help Iowa cover the costs of repairing roads damaged by flooding earlier this week.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $ 1 million in Emergency Relief (ER) funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to help begin repairs on flood - damaged roads and bridges in north and central Pennsylvania.

about U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Announces $ 1 Million in «Quick Release» Emergency Relief Funds to Repair Damage to I - 65 Near Nashville

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate release of $ 2 million in emergency relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration to help the Delaware Department of Transportation repair the I - 495 Bridge over the Christina River northeast of Wilmington after inspections revealed support columns on the bridge had shifted.

«Emergency relief funding like this makes it possible to fast - track repairs to the bridge,» said Deputy Federal Highway Administrator Gregory Nadeau.