Sentences with phrase «governor and legislative leaders»

But subsequent governors and legislative leaders failed to follow through with appointments to the panel, so it has never met.

Economic development funding was often distributed by former governors and legislative leaders when each received a pot of money, sometimes totaling half a billion dollars, as part of the state budget deal.

While it's likely that many of the earlier bills dealing with salaries were signed as a result of backroom - deals between governors and legislative leaders, this sort of trading had become fully public.

Gov. David Paterson just sent out a statement congratulating «New Jersey's long suffering taxpayers» and praising the collaboration of the Garden State's governor and legislative leaders on landing a property tax cap deal — something that has so far stalled in the Empire State.

The religious leaders say they have written to the Democratic governor and legislative leaders in support of legislation backed by Cuomo that would send most 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders to juvenile facilities.

After the Newtown massacre of Dec. 14, 2012, the state's Democratic governor and legislative leaders began work on a major gun safety bill.

As the newly re-elected governor and legislative leaders embark on negotiations over the next budget, we urge them to stop nibbling at the edges of the state's tax structure.

In the past governors and legislative leaders have divided up similar pots of money and exercised complete control over how the funds are spent, often using them to reward favored lawmakers by financing projects in their districts, in a process derided in the past as pork barrel spending.

The governor and legislative leaders have spoken against pension cuts and other cost - cutting measures in the proposal.

The comptroller said he believes that and other details — like whether there should be an increase in Medicaid reimbursement rates so nonprofits don't take a big hit when (and if) the minimum wage goes up to $ 15 — will be subject to negotiations between the governor and legislative leaders.

Skurnik emailed earlier today to remind me that in 2007, the governor and legislative leaders — at the time that meant Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno and Gov. Eliot Spitzer — delayed the Sept. 11 primaries by one week, pushing them back to Sept. 18 to avoid having them fall on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

The governor and legislative leaders still have no deal on pre-K funding.

JCOPE has been criticized at times for an opaque process and good - government organizations have questioned its effectiveness, given the panel is composed of appointees of the governor and legislative leaders.

The New York Racing Association's board of directors, which came under state control in 2012 after years of controversy, recommended that the organization go back into private hands — but with a minority of members once again appointed by the governor and legislative leaders.

The governor and legislative leaders were hoping to reach the parameters of a budget deal sometime last night.

Numerous key fiscal and policy items were stripped from the $ 168 billion budget deal, leaving the governor and legislative leaders a lot to do when they return to Albany for the post-budget session.

«Look, I have not been a participant in the discussions recently between the governor and the legislative leaders, not at, not at my choice and but it doesn't bother me,» Ravitch continued.

The governor and the legislative leaders have sometimes been known for their (way too) cozy relationship.

A full report on the project must be submitted to the governor and legislative leaders, including the two houses» transportation committee chairs, every June 1.

In contrast to the capital pork appropriations first initiated in the Pataki era, there's not even a requirement for a «memorandum of understanding» between the governor and legislative leaders to divide the pie.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) tonight sounded the government transparency alarm bells as the Governor and legislative leaders are reportedly preparing messages of necessity to push through several high profile bills that will affect the lives of millions of New Yorkers.

«The last time they had a pay commission, it was basically controlled by the governor and the legislative leaders,» said NYPIRG Legislative Director Blair Horner, «and because of some other deal, it blew up.

But the governor and legislative leaders agreed to postpone the State of the State to Jan. 21 because of the extenuating circumstances of former Gov. Mario Cuomo's death.

And he said the ethics commission needs to be truly independent «not controlled by the governor and the legislative leaders.»

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Flanagan's relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo has cooled in recent months, after Cuomo backed Democrats for some Senate seats in the 2016 elections and the governor and legislative leaders had a falling - out over a failed special session in December.

A proposal under consideration by the governor and legislative leaders negotiating the budget include a cut in funding to the state's Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Aquariums program.

«The Governor and legislative leaders are to be commended for promoting the growth of this sector, which represents 5 % of total State employment.»

But in this case, Schneiderman, in a letter to the governor and legislative leaders obtained by public radio, said a plan to create a «criminal special prosecutor for state procurement» is «likely unconstitutional.»

Later in the day, a statement from Cuomo's office said that the governor and legislative leaders are discussing issues that could be considered in a special session.

The old Commission on Public Integrity remained in a state of limbo until December 12th, when the governor and legislative leaders announced their appointees to the new commission.

There's no budget deal yet, but the governor and legislative leaders are closing down sensitive topics and inching toward an agreement.

He then urges WFP supporters to sign an on - line petition urging the governor and legislative leaders to pass a public financing bill this year.

This was followed by a similar call from Dave Palmer, executive director of the Center for Working Families, a WFP ally, who said the governor and legislative leaders should «heed the alarm» sounded by US Attorney Preet Bharara and pass a system of «voter - owned elections.»

Since the governor and legislative leaders have been evasive as to what, exactly, a shutdown might look like, DiNapoli helpfully provided some Doomsday details, which appear after the jump.

If the governor and legislative leaders are at all serious about real reforms, they need to stand up and be accountable in public.

The governor and the legislative leaders had the opportunity to restore the public's trust and put real accountability measures in place and instead they did nothing.

In fact, for the rest of the legislative session, the governor and the legislative leaders ignored the growing chorus calling for new ethics measures.

A week after the price caps on some 1 million apartments and the tax exemption for developers expired — only to be re-upped for five days — and six days after the State Legislature was scheduled to adjourn for the year, the governor and legislative leaders announced in Albany they had finally reached a tentative agreement on an array of contentious issues.

For these reasons, we are calling on the governor and legislative leaders to include funding for the S.W.A.P program in this year's budget.

But under the terms of a 1990 law that converted the old spring borrowing into long - term bonds, the state can re-enter short - term credit markets only if the governor and legislative leaders first jointly certify the «emergency or extraordinary factors» that make it necessary.

«It's up to the Governor and Legislative leaders to clear the air by making a plan in the light of day.

With a recent poll showing that nearly 90 % of New Yorkers believe that unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government a month before former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are sentenced for public corruption, the governor and legislative leaders have an obligation to New Yorkers to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform.

The governor and legislative leaders were pleased by this progress.

The bill would create an eight - member task force appointed by the governor and legislative leaders.

At 11 a.m., actress Cythia Nixon will respond to the education portion of the budget being finalized by the governor and legislative leaders, LCA Room (130), LOB, Albany.

The love fest following the meetings with Cuomo on Tuesday masked some of the more contentious issues the governor and legislative leaders are trying to work through, including a plan that would freeze local property tax increases.

The Journal News cautions the governor and legislative leaders to consider the «human cost» when cutting Medicaid.