Sentences with phrase «funded by referenda»

In other words, a negative tertiary school district would not lose equalization aid for capital expenditures that exceed the tertiary guarantee and are funded by referenda.

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Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

In a polarising referendum called by the radical leftist government of Alexis Tsipras at only eight days notice, Greeks voted by more than 60 % to 40 % in support of the prime minister, spurning the extra austerity demanded mainly by Germany and the International Monetary Fund in return for an extension of bailout funds.

Although voters approved an advisory referendum in March to fund the two - level center, residents are divided over the proposed site, which is bounded almost entirely by homes.

Alarmed that the site might become a gravel pit proposed by the Chicago - based mining firm Material Services, the Cary Park District also filed an eminent domain lawsuit seeking ownership, and district voters approved a bond issue in an April referendum to fund the purchase.

It was meant to get such a process rolling by making the interests of the populace clear, though Congress was well aware of this movement and had previously allocated funds for the referendum to be held.

Clegg believes the referendum demand can be defeated by pointing out that all parties backed an elected second chamber in their manifesto, and few would like to set aside # 100m to fund such a referendum.

With the PAC supporting Faso having been funded by Mercer and Singer, two major donors who have been outspoken in supporting GOP presidential candidates other than Trump, Heaney's full embrace of the brash developer might make this primary a referendum on whether the party's grassroots have fully coalesced around The Donald.

The session follows the announcement of a referendum on the treaty in Ireland and a separate ruling by Germany's supreme court preventing EU fund dispersals going through a secretive fast - track mechanism.

BY DYLAN SKRILOFF STONY POINT - Rose Memorial Library Board President Jennifer Lima has been promoting a ballot referendum seeking $ 717K in funding for a new library.

The referendum to establish a reserve fund to pay for capital improvements failed by a 129 to 136 vote.

«It's not surprising that New York state refuses to sit idly by while New Jersey's casino referendum... threatens thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for the state's education fund — a majority of which is currently generated by Resorts World in New York City,» the company added.

A group funded by casino companies, business groups and labor unions called New York Jobs Now spent $ 1.9 million supporting the ballot referendum.

The Electoral Commission announced this morning that is launching an investigation into whether Ukip broke election funding laws by using money from a European parliament group to fund Farage's failed attempt to win a seat and during the Brexit referendum.

Vote Leave is under investigation by the Electoral Commission over whether it breached the # 7m EU referendum spending limit, with allegations being made that it channelled funds for a social Brexit media campaign via # 625,000 in donations to a student.

It's still unknown whether Cuomo's proposal for $ 2 billion to upgrade water infrastructure will be a bond issue — requiring a public referendum in November before any debt is issued — or funded by public authorities.

Driven by a shared goal of creating jobs, increasing funding for schools and lowering property taxes, a broad coalition of business leaders, labor unions, economic development professionals and educators announced the formation of NY Jobs Now in support of Referendum # 1 on ballots in November, which would authorize up to four new casinos in upstate New York.

Finally, the referenda in the East End towns to extend the Community Preservation Fund (CPF) another 20 years and allow up to 20 percent of the money raised to go to improving water quality passed — by 69.5 percent on Shelter Island.

This referendum will bring the proposed $ 500,000 taxpayer - funded bond to a vote by the registered voters of Ossining Village.

The measure will end the use of local tax referendums as a means of increasing funds for schools by 1997, according to the state education department.

Referendum 55 gives voters a chance to either endorse or overturn a decision by the Legislature last spring to approve charter schools, which receive public funding but operate with a looser regulatory leash...

The implication is that women can be motivated by communicating that funds from a successful referendum will be allocated to address reading achievement.

An increase in referendums is the direct result of choices made by legislators to not address the unfairness of state school funding.

Voters became part of the collaborative effort by approving a referendum to fund a study to assess potential educational improvements and administrative efficiencies.

HISTORY In 2002, voters in Washoe County passed a referendum to fund the construction of a new Regional Animal Service facility through a 30 year bond, levied by a 3 % property tax increase.

How wonderful, then, for there to pop up a story combining: Trump, Putin, Bannon, hedge fund billionaire and AI researcher Robert Mercer, an ominous sounding digital company, Cambridge Analytica, led by a gobby Etonian, then smash it together with Vote Leave, Farage, and the battle to control the referendum (best described by Shipman in All Out War).

Finally, in another extreme irony alert... Fair Vote, the vehicle for Blair and Osborne to attack Vote Leave and campaign for a second referendum (funded by??)

How wonderful, then, for there to pop up a story combining: Trump, Putin, Bannon, hedge fund billionaire and AI researcher Robert Mercer, an ominous sounding digital company, Cambridge Analytica, led by a gobby Etonian, then smash it together with Vote Leave, Farage, and the battle to control the referendum (best described by Shipman in All Out War).

And separately the UK Electoral Commission is also looking into digital campaigning activity funded by Russia during the referendum.

Following the 1967 referendum there was an assumption by the states that the Commonwealth would fund and largely administer Indigenous development.