Sentences with phrase «funding in the state budget»

Klein on Monday also announced a push to bolster immigrants» legal rights and wants to push for funding in the state budget.

He has visited New York City public housing repeatedly over the last month, and even declared a state of emergency last week, promising $ 250 million in additional funding in the state budget ($ 550 million has been allocated to the New York City Housing Authority since 2015).

Governor Cuomo should put his money where his mouth is and make sure there is funding in the state budget to implement it,» said Jonah Minkoff - Zern, Director of the Public Citizen's Democracy Is For People campaign.

These TV ads will educate New Yorkers and the State legislators who serve them that it has never been more important for Albany to provide significant additional health care funding in the State budget.»

The Greater New York Hospital Association and the influential labor union 1199 SEIU on Tuesday launched a six - week ad campaign to push for more health care funding in the state budget.

At 1:30 p.m., senators, Assembly members and grassroots members of the Riders Alliance rally to protect MTA funding in State budget, Assembly staircase, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

She says it's time for Cuomo to show he's still serious by providing some funding in the state budget.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is proposing a fund in his state budget plan to prevent low - income families from becoming homeless.

He further used his clout to insert funding in the state budget for water and sewer projects that could help the environmental firm drum up more business.

The campaign pushing for funding in the state budget workers who provide direct care services to those with developmental disabilities is upset Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments do not include the funding they have sought.

A group of mainline conference Democrats and members of the Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate signed on to an effort led by Sen. Brad Hoylman to include more funding in the state budget for homeless runaway youth shelters.

On a more long - term concern, Senate Democrats want funding in the state budget to help police departments purchase body cameras for officers as well as the formation of a special investigator's office to review police - related deaths.

Also at 10 a.m., Citizens Union holds a conference call with reporters to release a «spending in the shadows» report on the «opaque» funds in the state budget.

Also at 1 p.m., Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Coalition for Homeless Youth will be joined by elected officials and advocates to call for increased funding in the state budget for homeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Mr. de Blasio secured his coveted universal prekindergarten funding in the state budget.

The money was awarded by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx, and comes from a $ 1.1 billion fund in the state budget earmarked for municipal projects, according to Magnarelli.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and leaders of the state Senate are pushing for facility funds in the state budget to rescue charters that find themselves homeless under the policies of the de Blasio administration.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association is calling on lawmakers to include funding in the state budget to provide at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school in the state.

Cyrus sent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos a letter pushing them to include funding in the state budget for homeless youth, a campaign led by State Sen. Brad Hoylman.

Past efforts have included fighting for more education funding in the state budget and better governance rules over city schools.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Speakers will also address the need for increased funding for jobs programs and human service programs, as well as the proposal by Governor Cuomo to eliminate direct funding in the state budget for anti-hunger programs such as HPNAP (for emergency food programs).

Both Mark - Viverito and de Blasio, in the separate appearances, focused their critical remarks on Skelos, though the tax is also opposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has pledged to expand pre-K programs statewide through existing funds in the state budget.

The Moreland Commission was never funded in the state budget, but other state agencies picked up expenses for staffers and investigative software.

Mr. Raskin criticized the governor's proposal, arguing that Mr. Cuomo already had power over the agency's spending priorities and its funding in the state budget.

The activists are calling for more funding in the State budget for AIDS.

Although Speaker Silver was a key part of including pre-K funding in the state budget, his personal history was a bit off - message today.

ALBANY — Standing with good - government advocates and fiscal watchdogs, a Capital Region assemblyman is unveiling legislation Wednesday that he says will increase transparency for discretionary funds in the state budget.

Those that testified also addressed the need for increased funding for jobs programs and human service programs, as well as the proposal by Governor Cuomo to eliminate direct funding in the state budget for anti-hunger programs such as HPNAP (for emergency food programs).

ALBANY - There's funding in the state budget that will provide further help for residents struggling with drug addiction.

Human service agencies from across central New York have joined the fight to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase funding in the state budget for the non-profits that help disabled New Yorkers.

NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes also told the publication an as - yet unnamed replacement program will receive funding in the state budget after 30 June 2017.

Governor Cuomo rejected de Blasio's tax proposal, instead locating funds in the state budget to fund the pre-K expansion.

This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

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The state, which has the highest incarceration rate in the country, is feeling the pressure of a massive criminal justice budget, and is already slashing funds for public defenders.

He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part of the austerity measures put in place by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion budget deficit.

But the state is in a budget crisis, with school funding a central issue as Gov. Dannel Malloy seeks to overhaul the state formula to redistribute money to districts in need.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

Nursing homes would get a nearly 4 percent increase in what they are paid to treat frail, elderly Floridians, while $ 318 million in Medicaid funding would be redistributed among the state's hospitals, under a proposed spending plan released Wednesday by a Senate budget panel.

The budget would be funded by taxes currently raised by member states and would «be able to raise money in common, invest and absorb economic shocks», Le Point quoted Macron as saying.

The statistics office also said that the public sector, which includes the federal government, regional states, municipalities and social funds, posted a record budget surplus of 38.4 billion euros, or 1.2 percent of GDP, in 2017.

Besides, as stated, cutting the funding would not have actually made any kind of a dent in the budget and when faced with a government closure that would have resulted in our Troops not receiving paychecks, the issues should have been tabled for a more appropriate venue.

One might also expect that the last thing such places would require is state - funded taxing of the poor in the form of gambling and lotteries to subsidize the state budget.

Mass Audubon will continue to work with the Legislature, DCR, and the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs leadership in an attempt to restore this year's funding, and it will make every effort to ensure that Trailside funding is included in the final state budget for FY18.

The reductions come in the wake of losing $ 500,000 in state funding — more than 60 percent of Trailside's annual operating budget.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

«Our original budget assumed we would get this money,» said Megna, who said the state actually budgeted for about $ 1.6 billion to $ 1.8 billion in federal Medicaid and education funding in early January.

De Blasio and his team have been pointing to the $ 300 million in funding for universal pre-K in this year's state budget as a major win for the rookie mayor.

In the interview, DeFreancisco indicated Cuomo himself had already started hedging on an on - time budget at the beginning of last week when he suggested the state may have to pass a temporary extender measure to fund the governor.

Funding included in the recently passed state budget will allow New York City subway cars to be repaired more quickly, Cuomo said while unveiling an effort aimed at improving service for a transit system notorious for frequent breakdowns.