Sentences with phrase «governor proposed raising»

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[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

Governor Phil Scott, is proposing using one - time funding to close a $ 58 million gap in the state's Education Fund in 2019 and avoid raising property taxes.

Both Governor Cuomo and the Assembly have proposed measures to raise New York State's minimum wage, including a higher minimum wage level for New York City in the... (read more)

It stands to reason that NO ethics reform really has any teeth unless lawmakers and the governor are willing to have the big conversation, which is banning ALL outside income and making the Legislature full time — with a significant pay raise, as good government groups have proposed.

The proposed compromise by the governor's office would have addressed issues raise by police departments and added protections for workers who carrying knives as part of their jobs.

Governor Cuomo suggests that perhaps the state could make up the Thruway's operating deficit, as occurred in 2013, when the Thruway authority proposed, then rescinded a plan to steeply raise truck tolls.

Governor Cuomo has proposed raising the minimum wage as part of his budget plan, even though the increase would not cost New York State any money.

They discuss Governor Paterson's State of the State address, another round of proposed ethics reforms, and whether the state should raise taxes.

ALBANY, NY (02/01/2011)(readMedia)-- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today unveiled a proposed 2011 - 2012 Executive Budget that transforms the state budget process to conform to fiscal realities and eliminates a $ 10 billion dollar deficit without raising taxes or borrowing.

Squirreled away in the new state budget is a provision — first proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo — that will guarantee future periodic pay raises for the governor, New York State legislators and other state government ofGovernor Andrew Cuomo — that will guarantee future periodic pay raises for the governor, New York State legislators and other state government ofgovernor, New York State legislators and other state government officials.

Squirreled away in the new state budget is a provision — firstr proposed by Cuomo — that will guarantee future periodic pay raises for the governor, New York State legislators and other state government officials.

The plan proposed by Mr. Christie, the first Republican elected New Jersey governor in 12 years, relies almost exclusively on spending cuts, and stands as a stark example of how a Republican committed to not raising taxes grapples with a state budget in these still - challenging economic times.»

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, from budget talks.

Governor Cuomo is proposing raising the state's minimum wage to $ 11.50 an hour, $ 10.50 upstate, and he's received backing from dozens of religious leaders.

«In the governor's budget proposal, raise the age is a policy matter and he has not proposed one single dollar,» Sen. Pat Gallivan, a Republican from Erie County, said.

The governor also proposed criminal justice reforms such as overhauling the bail system, speeding up trials, raising the age of criminal liability to 18 from 16 and recording police interrogations.

He began with a statement concerning the stabbing of two young children in Brooklyn and then answers questions concerning that incident, the proposed state law to allow municipalities to further raise the minimum wage and whether he would pursue a $ 13 minimum wage for New York City, how that proposed law fits into the political deal that gave Governor Cuomo the Work Families Party ballot line, a young boy hit and killed today by a car and how Vision Zero addresses that location and the large number of shootings in the City this past weekend.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders from budget talks, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

On the proposal to give raises to teachers who oversee high - performing students, he said: «I couldn't believe that the governor of New York proposed merit pay.

Governor Andrew Cuomo had proposed raising it to as much as 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation.

CSEA has repeatedly told the Governor that it will not reopen contracts and yet he has now publicly proposed a range of giveback demands which raise legal and ethical questions.

Last year, the governor proposed a cap on state legislators» incomes and offered a raise for those who chose to forgo outside pay.

Supporters and opponents of raising taxes — or, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed, renewing the state's existing surcharge on people reporting more than $ 1 million in income — faced off at a Tuesday budget hearing while the Democratic governor lashed out at Republicans in the Legislature.

The state Assembly has decided to see the governor and raise him with their proposed «gazillionaire's tax», while Mayor de Blasio has proposed a «mansion tax».

Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy is proposing tolls and a 7 cent increase in the gasoline tax as ways to raise money for the state's Special Transportation Fund, which is running out of money.

The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., said the Legislature should raise the age of criminal responsibility for nonviolent offenses to 18, as the governor proposed earlier and as Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the State Court of Appeals has also advocated.

The governor is proposing raising the current statewide rate of $ 8.75 an hour to $ 11.50 an hour in the city and $ 10.50 elsewhere.

The new tax brackets proposed by Assembly Democrats would raise rates on those making more than a million dollars a year, as Governor Cuomo has outlined in his budget.

A couple of weeks after the report was released, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who has resisted expanding charter schools in favor of proposed «readiness schools,» reversed course and proposed raising the cap on how much a school district could spend on charter schools, from 9 to 12 percent.

Governor has proposed phasing in prekindergarten and dropout - prevention programs; also has called for giving 2 percent, or an average of $ 600, raises to teachers.

Governor McCrory proposed a substantial education budget for 2015 that contains raises for teachers who have gone without for several years.

During this year's legislative session lawmakers used teacher assistants as political footballs, lobbing them back and forth as either a group deserving of losing their jobs — Senate budget writers proposed ridding the state of half of its TAs to pay for teacher raises — or, as the House and Governor Pat McCrory preferred, saving them from the chopping block.

They mortgaged their own headquarters in 2005 to raise the $ 56 Million that was needed to defeat the school reforms proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger.

When, as governor, he proposed school vouchers that would enable students to attend parochial schools under certain circumstances, anti-Catholic sentiments were raised again, often couched in terms of «separation of church and state.»

And while Governor Jon Corzine has proposed raising both tolls and gas taxes, New Jersey residents have made it eminently clear they would support no such thing.

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today denounced New York State state legislators for rejecting provisions in Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget that would have prohibited criminal defendants from raising so called «trans panic» or «gay panic» defenses.