Sentences with phrase «funding public infrastructure»

Tony Blair's New Labour Government significantly expanded PFI as a convenient way of funding public infrastructure «off balance sheet.»

The Private Finance Initiative is a way of funding public infrastructure projects with private capital.

Not exact matches

For instance, the government says it will invest $ 950 million over five years to support «superclusters,» but the vast bulk of that money is repurposed from last year's budget, with the remainder scraped from «public transit and green infrastructure» funding allocated in the 2016 fall economic statement.

With a significant cutback in government capacities over the past twenty years, is it even realistic to expect that the public sector can design, fund, operate and maintain needed infrastructure?

• Blackstone has agreed to acquire Harvest Fund Advisors LLC, a Wayne, Penn. - based provider of public market energy infrastructure and MLP investment solutions for institutional investors.

A central part of the federal government's infrastructure plan involves expanding and improving public transit, through their newly established Public Transit Infrasinfrastructure plan involves expanding and improving public transit, through their newly established Public Transit Infrastructurepublic transit, through their newly established Public Transit InfrastructurePublic Transit InfrastructureInfrastructure Fund.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

If you want a highly - educated local talent pool you must pay all of your property taxes to fund our schools, public safety, infrastructure and other public goods and services;

We love that you're looking for cities that have robust public transit infrastructure — but we know that an influx of 50,000 new people will strain our existing service, and building new transit to serve Amazon could divert funds from the rest of us.

It continues to be important that provincial and regional commitments are made to fully participate in cost - sharing of the Federal Government's Public Transit Infrastructure Fund.

«Market participants will look back on this municipal green bond issuance for Massachusetts, and see it as the gateway to further green bond issuances across the many states and many cities that are hoping to access less expensive funding to improve infrastructure, protect natural resources and offer renewable energy,» says Bill Daley, Managing Director in Public Finance.

The same minister who helped use the «border infrastructure fund» to build gazebos and public toilets in his riding and left no official paper trail in doing so is also

In his current role as Infrastructure Minister, he has a big influence over which public projects get funding.

Rather than follow a disastrous road taken by some of her predecessors, and slash funding to government services while the price of oil is low, the NDP government is taking an opportunity to invest in much needed public infrastructure when the economy is slow and the price is right.

«Permanent Work funding from FEMA is the main source of federal assistance to help a community repair and rebuild its public infrastructure after a natural disaster, and there should be absolutely no ambiguity that the federal government intends to provide this crucial assistance to help Puerto Rico build back after Hurricane Maria,» they wrote.

In other words, the government currently has access to unlimited and cheaper funding for public sector infrastructure investments.

This year, for example, Saudi's Public Investment Fund committed $ 20 billion to an infrastructure fund being raised by private equity giant Blackstone GrFund committed $ 20 billion to an infrastructure fund being raised by private equity giant Blackstone Grfund being raised by private equity giant Blackstone Group.

While in that job he shaved billions off the government's bottom line, but he's also been accused of using the public purse for his own political ambition getting millions in infrastructure funding for his Muskoka riding around the G8 summit there in 2010.

Recent estimates by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) indicate sizeable and long - lasting impacts of public infrastructure spending on private investment and output.

Health care for the poor, education in the inner city, job training for welfare mothers, discipline for criminally offending youths, improvement of community infrastructure and housing, nutrition for infants, drug treatment for recovering addicts» all of these things and more require the provision of public funds and are essential to the progress we seek.

«This issue of public sector pay has demonstrated that there is little sign of a coherent plan about how to fund the health service, education, social care, defence, housing, or transport infrastructure.»

The $ 400 million budgeted for the 15 - mile project is slated to cover basic infrastructure needs; the San Antonio River Foundation's role is to augment public funds with donations from corporations, foundations and individuals to fund the enhancements and additional amenities that will make this linear park world - class.

«Unfortunately, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure,» said Sen. Tom Croci, a Long Island Republican.

At the Annual TAG / CIHT Conference, delegates heard how the current constraints on public funding must not be allowed to prevent the delivery of existing services and the maintenance of infrastructure for the good of society.

We all know that taxes serve a vital purpose — funding essential public services and infrastructure.

In Britain, infrastructure investment programmes are now prominent features of both the main political parties» programmes, while proposals for a universal citizen's income, a monthly payment to every citizen by right and the creation of a sovereign wealth fund to help cover the state's liabilities for vital public goods continue to gain traction.

This funding will allow these systems to modernize aging infrastructure and continue providing high quality service to the public.

The Public Protection and General Government Article 7 bill submitted with Cuomo's 2016 Executive Budget (as amended) identifies three exceptional situations in which the windfall money could be diverted from a newly created Infrastructure Investment Fund into the state's all - purpose general fund, most of which supports operating expenFund into the state's all - purpose general fund, most of which supports operating expenfund, most of which supports operating expenses.

In doing so, they are heeding Boris Johnson's calls for a «citizen's wealth fund»: last October, London's mayor proposed pooling some of the UK's 39,000 public pension funds into a single investment fund large enough to reduce the country's dependence on foreign investment and close its infrastructure financing deficit.

«We've got to go on reducing that and go on funding the things we do care most about including our vital public services like the NHS and investment in the infrastructure, the capital backbone of the country, that are going to create the jobs of the future.»

The growing British interest in a citizen's income scheme coincides with an announcement last month that two major UK public pension funds — the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) and London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA)-- will form a joint infrastructure investment venture worth $ 500 million.

«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

It was stepped up significantly under Tony Blair's Labour government when it was used to fund the construction and operation of public sector infrastructure.

Topping his list of winnable reforms are single - payer health care, fully - funded public schools, a ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure, and 100 % clean renewable energy within 15 years.

Heastie said the higher taxes on millionaires would generate sufficient revenue for the state to increase funding for schools, the aging, infrastructure and other public priorities.

With $ 30 billion more in state revenue, we could restore full funding for public schools and colleges, pay for the state mandates on local governments through increased revenue sharing, cut regressive local property and sales taxes, and build the infrastructure and services of the Green New Deal.

NYS Homes and Community Renewal has announced available funding from several Office of Community Renewal programs including: New York Main Street (NYMS), and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Microenterprise, Public Facilities, Public Infrastructure, and Community Planning.

Other Westchester Municipalities having School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Stpublic school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)

That includes more public - private partnerships, a funding model encouraged in President Donald Trump's recently proposed infrastructure bill.

She is poised to pursue New York State grant funding for two major local infrastructure concerns, upgrades to the town's public water supply system and replacement of the town pool, during her second two - year term.

After his re-election in 2014, Cuomo reinvented himself as a full - throated economic populist, pushing through a minimum wage hike and a paid family leave program, and unveiling massive infrastructure spending plans and a proposal for free public college tuition — though he has been light on details about funding.

A source close to the project said the state funds would be used only to build the infrastructure of the project — like the public parking garage and storm protections — not any of the buildings or the hotel.

On jobs and economic opportunity, Delgado said the country must repeal the «tax scam» adopted by Congress last year, pass a bill that requires the super-wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share in taxes, then use those funds to pay for a public infrastructure bill.

Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.

«When you see our unwavering commitment in changing the face of public transportation, committing more funds to providing jetties and expanding access to waterways, please know that we are driven only by the need to build and sustain the needed infrastructure upon which an enduring tourism landscape can stand and outlive our administration and those coming after us,» the Governor said.

Two thirds of all planned transport infrastructure spending involving public funds is in London and just 6 % in the northern regions.

Adeosun explained that the policy was expected to «Increase exposure of financial or financial related crimes; support the fight against financial crimes and corruption; improved level of public confidence in public entities; enhance transparency and accountability in the management of public funds; improve Nigeria's Open Government Ranking and Ease of Doing Business Indicators; and recover public funds that can be deployed to finance Nigeria's infrastructure deficit.»

Reeves suggested that Osborne's support for public - private partnerships, a type of project eligible for funding under the infrastructure scheme, represents another U-turn from the chancellor, as he did not support a similar Labour programme previously.

At 2 p.m., Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer and advocates gather to call for additional funding for public transit, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure in the final New York state budget, Fountain Plaza at Ridge Hill, 1 Ridge Hill Blvd., Yonkers.

At 10 a.m., Assembly Standing Committees on Environmental Conservation and Health, and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the DEC, hold a joint public hearing to examine water quality issues and to review implementation of the $ 2.5 billion in water infrastructure funding contained in the 2017 - 18 budget, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.