Sentences with phrase «identify discretionary items»

By analyzing your current expenses, you may identify discretionary items that can be eliminated or reduced.

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But the Procurement Policy Board, an obscure agency if ever there was one, has decreed that the competitive bidding rules «shall not apply to contract awards made from line item appropriations and / or discretionary funds to community - based not - for - profit organizations or other public service organizations identified by elected city officials other than the mayor and the controller.»

Asked at a 9 February budget briefing to explain how agencies decided which programs would be funded with discretionary spending and which with mandatory spending, presidential science adviser John Holdren said that «the mandatory items were those that were both high priority and for which pay - fors could be readily identified.»