Sentences with phrase «increase local costs»

I assume the $ 16.4 k you are referring to is average for urban districts, but an important factor in urban districts is that no charters take their share of ELL or bi-lingual students, which of course increase that increase local costs.

This has increased local costs by $ 2.2 million per year, while the overall program's costs, locally, have climbed by 167 % since 2006.

Not exact matches

Shares in local gold miner Millennium Minerals closed 13.7 per cent higher today on news it had increased its projected gold production by 11 per cent while lowering costs.

Manjoo notes the inconvenient fact that, in some of the most visible cases, the soaring costs of delivering these small - scale, bespoke services on a hyper - local basis with quickly growing volume has in fact already brought about price increases, not savings, for the end users.

As more local governments find themselves unable to meet the increasing costs, particularly related to pensions and retiree health benefits, municipalities have begun to more seriously consider debt restructuring under the bankruptcy code as an option for right - sizing their budgets.

Pricing increased 2.1 percentage points, primarily driven by pricing to offset higher input costs in local currency in Latin America.

Pricing increased 3.7 percentage points, despite deflation in key commodities, due to significant pricing to offset higher input costs in local currency.

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Pricing increased 5.7 percentage points, primarily driven by actions to offset higher input costs in local currency.

Excluding the impact of currency, Segment Adjusted EBITDA increased 3.6 percentage points, primarily reflecting favorable pricing and lower overhead costs that were partially offset by higher input costs in local currency.

Foreclosures lead to decreased home values in neighborhoods, lost property tax revenues, and increased costs to local government.

Regulation, royalties, environmentalists, corrupt government officials, politics, disillusioned locals, etc. are some of the huge headwinds, and increase the cost and the time of developing a mine incredibly.

Edmonton, AB — Matt Jeneroux, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend and co-chair of the Alberta Jobs Taskforce, today joined Nathan Cooper, interim leader of the United Conservative Party, and representatives from Restaurants Canada in Edmonton to highlight how Alberta's restaurant industry is being negatively impacted by federal and provincial policies that are increasing costs for local businesses.

Their excessive euphoria was further augmented by the banks which have kept local credit costs unchanged despite six interest - rate increases in the United States since the beginning of last year.

Governments are pushed to this by the operation of the economy with increasing costs of production, losses of peasant farmers and local companies, with dumping of subsidized foreign goods into their liberalized market.

«Now, with the 175 - plus mph of these two monsters, our constructions will require additional design, thus increasing the costs of a living that is already too expensive to manage by the average local.»

Endress + Hauser specialises in innovative hygiene products to increase productivity and reduce costs for global and local food producers in the food industry.

The idea is that though these measures will all cost the local authority money, the benefits from the increased food waste collection that will result from these interventions will outweigh the costs, as long as increase in uptake is enough.

A village memo attributes about 5 cents of the increase to Orland Park for the cost of maintenance and operations of its local system, about 17 cents to Oak Lawn and about 38 cents to the City of Chicago.

For most local governments it will be hard enough next year meeting payroll and other operating costs, never mind undertaking capital improvements that would increase bonded indebtedness.

The tax program is designed to encourage local governments to find ways to cut costs which, in the long run, could lead to reduced tax increases.

Local governments had raised concerns with the program as proposed by Cuomo's initial budget presentation, pointing to the costs they've managed to contain over the years as well as the lack of increased state aid over the years.

«However, we do know these proposals will dramatically increase costs for local county boards of election, putting even more pressure on taxpayers.

Glance at any local authority budget proposal and I am sure you would find, under the heading «budget pressures», a nod the cost of an aging population, and the anticipated increase in social care clients on the next five years.

Local officials are grappling with the likely increased costs associated with the raise the age legislation that recently became law as part of the new state budget.

At an annual cost of $ 410 million, the Family Tax Relief Rebate provides $ 350 to households with children under age 17 and annual income between $ 40,000 and $ 300,000; the Property Tax Freeze Rebate provides an amount equal to the annual increase in property taxes to homeowners earning less than $ 500,000 in tax cap - compliant local governments and school districts and costs $ 783 million annually.

Provide for the full expensing of new equipment and technology purchases up front rather than deducting the cost over several years, which would lead to increased economic growth and incentivize local investment.

Referencing a tax Cuomo threatened if Faso and Collins are successful having the state take over the local costs of Medicaid, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Chris Martin said that «when Andrew Cuomo isn't pushing his $ 2.3 billion tax increase on counties, he's teaming up with Nancy Pelosi to collect checks from far - left special interest groups.

Despite capping cost increases in recent years, local governments in New York spend more on Medicaid than localities in the other 49 states combined.

Superintendents are lobbying state lawmakers for permission to establish local reserve funds that would cover future increases in pension costs.

Cuomo may also be interested in making some modifications to the freeze proposal, which is designed to push local governments into capping property tax increases and then find cost savings through shared services.

The credit rating agency Moody's in a report released Thursday enumerated the challenges facing the state's budget, including faltering tax revenue, increasing costs for Medicaid and education, and the capping of state and local tax deductions by Congress.

Open.ny.gov has been offered as a resource to localities across the state, which will give citizens unified access to government data and help local governments cut down costs and improve efficiency in addition to increasing transparency.

In a state with already high state and local taxes, fees and assessments on energy — with roughly 25 cents of every dollar paid for electric power in New York State going to pay government assessments — we believe it is simply counterproductive to continue to add new and increased energy costs on state ratepayers.

Little said the Senate's plan also contains tax relief for North Country families and businesses, and rejects a number of «tax - and - fee increases» proposed by the governor, including new Department of Motor Vehicles fees, a surcharge on pre-paid cell phones and a proposal calling for online marketplaces to collect sales tax on behalf of their vendors, a loophole that governor says is costing state and local authorities $ 275 million in uncollected tax every year.

Two years ago, Cahill demanded the county take over ever - increasing Safety Net (welfare) charges to the towns and the city and the cost of administering local election expenses in exchange for his allowing the bill authorizing the 1 percent add - on to reach the Assembly floor for a vote.

But, state aid to municipalities outside New York City would not increase at a time when many counties and smaller local governments are dealing with rising costs and falling tax bases and worry about insolvency.

«Subsidised transport arrangements have been altered by the local council, increasing the cost to us by a very substantial amount.»

As shown in Figure 3, for more than two decades Medicaid spending in New York and nationwide rose at a pace well above the general cost indicator for state and local governments; the near doubling of the price index between 1991 and 2011 was more than matched by the greater than quadrupling of national Medicaid costs and an approximately 350 percent increase in New York's Medicaid expenses.7 (The more rapid growth in other states likely reflected their expansion of eligibility, which New York had already implemented.)

The SALT cap also will increase the effective cost of State and local government services at the margin; each new dollar of State and local government spending will cost New York taxpayers more than under previous federal law.

«While potentially well - intentioned, localized policy agendas increase costs for local governments, local taxpayers, and local businesses.»

Opponents of gambling note that casinos can actually make a local economy worse, with issues ranging from increased costs to law enforcement to the impact a gambling addiction has on families.

«While we recognise that the Conservatives have promised to review local funding rates, the fact that they chose to estimate the cost of extending funded childcare before finding out how much funding rates will need to increase raises serious questions as to how meaningful such a review would be,» Leitch said.

«The «remorseless increase» in council tax has caused soaring living costs, the Tories claimed today in a fresh attack on the Government before next month's local government elections.

To create a financial disincentive for future pension sweeteners, Cuomo's Tier 6 «pension reform» of 2012 had included language requiring that the full cost of any retirement benefit increase for state and local employees to be paid out of the state budget.

«I'm also pleased to announce that we are increasing the proportion of costs local authorities can claim to 100 per cent.

«In his State of the State message, the Governor argued that increasing the cost of state and local taxes makes New York less competitive — and helps other states at our expense.

«By reining in excessive property tax costs and building on accomplishments achieved over the past six years, our efforts to reduce wasteful spending and increase public involvement in local government with these shared services plans will lessen the tax burden for residents and ensure New York remains the greatest state in the nation.»

The cost to local governments has increased by 59 percent from 2010 to 2012, putting pressure on property and sales taxpayers.

The Municipal Consolidation & Shared Services Grant Program (MCSSGP) incentivizes municipal projects that reduce the total cost of local government through the consolidation of services, creation of shared services, elimination of an entire government entity, establishment of the regional delivery of services, and / or increased efficiencies....