Sentences with phrase «into local government funding»

The idea was raised in Michael Lyons» interim report into local government funding last December.

«A local tourism tax, or so - called «bed tax», is one of many areas being looked into by the independent Lyons inquiry into local government funding, which will report... ahead of next year's comprehensive spending review.

Not exact matches

It is believed the most popular channels for such funds to flow into are local - government infrastructure projects and real - estate development.

Alternative plans to improve recycling rates being proposed by industry are 28 times less expensive and include significant funding to community groups and local governments to clean up litter hot spots, and more importantly, keep them clean into the future.

May sits on the House pension committee and called for hearings to delve into the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, which manages taxpayer - backed pensions for thousands of local government employees.

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

«Forcing parents and other supporters of schools to only offer federally approved food and snacks at fund - raisers is a perfect example of the overreach of government and intrusion into local control.

We will provide new money to support the Local Enterprise Partnerships — and from April 2015 the Government will place more of the funding that currently goes to local transport, housing, skills and getting people back to work into a single pot that LEPs can bidLocal Enterprise Partnerships — and from April 2015 the Government will place more of the funding that currently goes to local transport, housing, skills and getting people back to work into a single pot that LEPs can bidlocal transport, housing, skills and getting people back to work into a single pot that LEPs can bid for.

Also at 10 a.m., environmental, business, local government, farmers and urban groups hold a rally for state Environmental Protection Fund funding, hallway leading into the Legislative Office Building, Albany.

• Converting a portion of current formula - based funding for agriculture and markets research, economic development, local government and juvenile detention programs into competitive, performance - based funding program.

Similarly, the amount state and local governments will have to pay into the state's main pension fund for other public employees would double to nearly $ 4 billion — even if most localities opt into a borrowing scheme approved this year by lawmakers to soften the blow.

The governor challenged the President to tell Nigerians how much was returned and the looters who returned the stolen funds, adding that «Since the purported looted funds belong to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it ought to have been paid into the Federation Account and shared by the Federal, State and Local Government.»

He finally stated: «Why can't the prime minister listen to those in local government, to the King's Fund, the NHS Confederation, her own council leaders and recognise this social care crisis forces people to give up work to care for loved ones because there isn't a system to do it; makes people stay in hospital longer than they should; and leads people into a horrible, isolated life when they should be cared for by all of us through a properly funded social care system.

A government scheme designed to help rough sleepers into work or training will be expanded after the Department for Communities and Local Government agreed to morgovernment scheme designed to help rough sleepers into work or training will be expanded after the Department for Communities and Local Government agreed to morGovernment agreed to more funding.

The local government pension scheme is split into over 80 different funds, with 1.7 million workers paying for four million total members.

The Sheffield city region review into the case for establishing their combined authority explicitly stated, for instance, that the major rationale was to give legal effect to existing informal collaboration, enabling local authority leaders «to obtain more devolved powers from government and additional funding streams».

In a press release on April 11, Schneiderman announced that $ 20 million of funds from settlements with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would be used «to provide local governments with innovative technology to address and transform problem properties — including homes and buildings that are blighted, poorly maintained, vacant, abandoned, and in financial distress — that fell into disrepair following the foreclosure crisis,» as part of a program called Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement, or Cities RISE.

Instead, he suggested local governments, which levy property taxes, could look into setting up new charitable funds for public services such as healthcare or schools and in turn issue tax credits to New Yorkers who make donations to them.

«The notion the state government could reach into your property tax money, the foundation of local government funding, I think a lot of people are going to be deeply concerned in Albany that that's a slippery slope.»

«While we still have much work to do to address the high costs of pensions and healthcare, the main drivers of expense to local governments, this year's executive budget keeps our funding for cities stable and begins smart investments into infrastructure and education which will pay long term dividends to all New Yorkers,» Miner said.

The academy conversion model (initially common in schools in special measures, known as «sponsor» academies) is now chosen by many good / outstanding schools (known as «convertor» academies) as it turns a school into an independent business (not for profit) that receives funding directly from central government instead of a local authority.

This could include taking schools away from local authority control, converting them into academies - directly funded by central government - and putting them under the leadership of high - achieving head teachers.

I would most compare it to a business like private prisons and utilities, in that it is very capital intensive like a utility, but it also relies on the inability of local governments to fund their own investment into infrastructure (such as what you see in private prisons.)

Well you basically would invest 50 % of your money into an index fund that traces your country's local index, e.g. the DAX, and then 50 % into an index fund tracing government bonds.

Local authorities have been looking into cruelty and neglect at some puppy farms as part of Assembly Government - funded projects.

By incorporating more calculated, thoughtful, comprehensive and proactive efforts to take climate - related issues into account before projects are permitted or funded using taxpayer money, state and local governments can play a critically important role in protecting communities.

Since then some 50 have indeed been established, funded partly by local authorities and partly by legal aid and small government grants, but there has never been sufficient political will to expand them into a national legal service with a career structure capable of matching private practice.

Some states are trying to better coordinate governance by: a) combining agencies / divisions into a new state early childhood agency; b) establishing state - level cross-agency children's cabinets, commissions, or councils to plan, coordinate, and integrate programs and services; c) creating public - private partnerships in which state government partners with private entities to fund early childhood initiatives; and d) establishing local early childhood governance structures.