Sentences with phrase «independent authorities budget»

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

The report by the independent Authorities Budget Office says the Cuomo administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction.

David Kidera of the Independent Authorities Budget Office talks about his job during an interview in July 2010.

These cases of «excessive compensation,» as one Greene County legislator puts it, are testing one of the state's newest agencies — the Independent Authorities Budget Office, which recently got broader enforcement powers.

David Kidera, head of the New York Independent Authorities Budget Office.

The Independent Authorities Budget Office that's also investigating what reeks of impropriety in Fulton County didn't exist before that law took effect.

Executive compensation at some 500 public authorities is the subject of scrutiny by the newly - formed Independent Authorities Budget Office.

Not exact matches

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

If elected Prime Minister, Mr. Harper promised that would be no more inaccurate forecasts, because he would create an independent agency, «Ensuring truth in budgeting with a Parliamentary Budget Authority» to hold the government to account in its budget forecasting and its spending estiBudget Authority» to hold the government to account in its budget forecasting and its spending estibudget forecasting and its spending estimates.

«Mr. Speaker, one of the commitments the Conservative Party made in 2006 was to create an independent parliamentary budget authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament,» Bob Rae offered with his third intervention, stepping forward and jabbing his index finger at the government side.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»

The budget appropriates $ 250 million for the NYCHA and grants it design - build authority, but creates an independent monitor chosen by the New York City Council and NYCHA tenants who will work with the New York City comptroller.

The non-binding budget resolution included such IDC asks as a provision to create an independent monitor to oversee the troubled New York City Housing Authority, diverting more than $ 400 million in city sales tax money to the MTA, and creating a secure choice savings account that would allow workers with no retirement savings plan to set aside money in a fund run by the state.

Klein also said the budget would likely provide $ 250 million in new funding to the New York City Housing Authority and also create an independent monitor for the beleaguered agency.

True, several authorities — the city and state comptrollers, the Independent Budget Office, the state Financial Control Board — can vet de Blasio's numbers, including his revenue estimates and financing schemes.

In the end, the Legislature did not include the $ 100,000 in the budget, but Chairman Ryan McMahon asked an independent public authority to finance it with money it generates from bond sales.

The grant would have been in addition to at least $ 150 million the state has already provided ORDA over the last decade, according to ORDA's independent audits that are filed with the state Authorities Budget Office.

David Friedfel of the independent Citizens Budget Commission disputes the Cuomo administration's view that borrowing through the Dormitory Authority doesn't put taxpayers on the hook because in the event of any default, the state would «at the very least» feel political pressure to cover the costs.

But New Orleans has a unique education system comprised mostly of independent charter schools that set their own budgets, under two authorities — the Louisiana Recovery School District and the Orleans Parish School Board.

Legislation to turn every school in England into an academy independent of local authority control will be unveiled in the budget.

The president has a certain amount of independent budget authority.