Sentences with phrase «large local contributions»

The funding overshadowed large local contributions from traditional donors Eli Broad and A. Jerrold Perenchio, who have long sought to counteract the influence of the teachers union.

Not exact matches

State and local employees» contributions to the two largest pension systems increased by 10 %, from 5 % to 5.5 % of their annual salaries and increased the retirement benefit age for new public employees, from 55 to 60 years.

The Friends of New York State Senator Tim Kennedy and the local bricklayers union also made large contributions to the WNY Progressive Caucus.

Most independently owned grocery marts focus on giving to local politicians, and larger chains make state - level political contributions every year.

«What better way to honor his contribution to the local community and the state at large.»

Contribution rates for retirement benefits remain a key factor in municipal budgeting as well as a large cost for local governments.

According to campaign finance reports, Zimet raised $ 6,949 in her now - ended challenge against Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, and two large campaign contributions came from local landowners.

As the Pew report notes, «Among those states that require local governments to pay for part of the health care costs incurred by Medicaid patients within their jurisdictions, New York's local governments make a particularly large contribution.»

Medicaid contributions may be the largest unfunded mandate on local governments, but state - mandated pension contributions are the fastest - growing.

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

Ritz has said she won't accept large out - of - state contributions and is relying on grassroots support from local teachers unions to run her race.

Larger contributions state or local chapters of teachers unions — which provided more than three - quarters of Ritz's campaign funding — no doubt helped Ritz with bigger expenditures.

Better to Give During the holidays, in particular, smaller retailers that make a large contribution to the local community generate a distinction that separates them from big - box retailers.

Well, regretfully, to an ever - growing number of state and local legislators who don't seem to spend a whole lot of time thinking critical — unless of course it will lead to larger contributions to their campaign funding — it does.

BTL Park is part of the Council's larger plans for the area, and CARILED national coordinator Leidi Urbina says the project meets its standards for contribution to the local economy.

Addressing this global experience, and through his current ties to the contemporary artists and galleries that comprise the local art community, Gross is able to contextualize the influence Los Angeles has on the larger art world and how the ideas of these local artists are being championed in contribution to a global discourse.

Also we analysed UK contributions to international initiatives for climate resilience and finance mechanisms and realised that they have so far not provided funds for local community - led projects; with the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) having only spent 1/2 of their budget (# 1.4 bn) on overseas development and a focus on investing in large scale (e.g. # 20m), readymade projects on forests.

This may be reasonable in isolated island areas with small local grids, where the cost of undersea grid links to the main land, to export occasional excess power, is very high, and it does mean that more / new renewable capacity can be added to supply a larger contribution at other times.

While replacement capacity may be advanced to mitigate resource adequacy concerns, unconfirmed nuclear retirements create uncertainty around local transmission adequacy and the ability to plan for future resource and demand needs due to their large baseload contribution.»

Aberdeen's business owners make a large contribution to the local economy while providing the goods and services its residents need.

Established consistent image of company branding.Selected accomplishments: • Increased quarterly store traffic 12 % and sales 10 % consistently since implementation of marketing program • Exceeded company mandated store events by 50 % • Launched first - time store wellness fairs and educational classes (e.g. deleted examples of fairs and educational classes that were launched) • Initiated unprecedented participation in community events (e.g., deleted examples of community event participation) • Increased holiday catering orders 35 % by educating staff in store offerings and recognizing weekly team performance • Achieved successful placement of press releases and store coverage in local newspapers • Managed large marketing program on small marketing budget by effectively soliciting vendor contributions and utilizing community partnerships • Successfully attained employee participation in community & store activities while strengthening store moraleEDUCATIONTRADE SCHOOL NAME HERE1995 - 1998Associate of ArtsMarketing / Product DevelopmentMAJOR UNIVERSITY NAME HERE1992 - 1995Communications Major