Sentences with phrase «largest budget increase»

Lawmakers there have agreed to give schools their largest budget increase in a decade.

This would give them an overwhelming argument in convincing Congress for a large budget increase dedicated to further space exploration.

Not exact matches

The FY 2019 request is an even greater disparity: Commerce's request increased to $ 9.9 billion while SBA received the third largest cut of all agencies, at $ 0.6 billion — now just 6 percent of Commerce's proposed budget.

While the budget proposes large spending cuts to many government agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department budgets would be cut 31 % and 28 %, respectively — defense and military spending would increase substantially.

In addition, Mr. Speaker, Budget 2014 will result in the largest annual increase in funding for research through the granting councils in over a decade.

And over his seven - plus years, the budget's gone up by 86 %, so that's quite a large increase.

The single largest «restraint» measure «not» announced in Budget 2013 was an increase in the «lapse», which resulted in an estimated «savings» of between $ 2 to $ 3 billion (1) per year.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

This is an extremely large increase, given that the Economic Action Plan stimulus spending was not expected to have a major impact in 2011 - 12 (remember it was originally supposed to be a two - year program only - 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11) and that departmental / agency budgets were to be frozen in 2011 - 12 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

Yet one knows how much future Supplementary Estimates for 2011 - 12 will increased the Estimates for 2011 - 12, especially given the large difference in the relationship between the Estimates and the Budget for 2011 - 12.

The government could reduce the 50 percent deviation to 25 percent and direct increased funding for MLAs representing large electoral districts for the cost of multiple constituency offices and an increased travel / outreach budget.

Walmart, the largest food retailer in the United States, and other supercenters that often target budget - conscious consumers, are continuing to increase their organic food offerings — both Walmart and Target announced new organic food initiatives in 2014.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Village officials have adopted a 1997 - 98 budget that includes large increases for the Parks and Recreation Department, Village Manager Michael Grubermann said.

And the consecutive years of no tax increases mirror another trend under Daley, non-property tax revenues have become an ever larger chunk of the budget — accounting for 32 percent in 1999.

In total, the budget included a $ 158 million increase for early learning, the largest new investment in early learning the state has ever adopted.

And in a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm among our 300 schools, paying for that 1/2 cup increase is likely to be a big drain on our school food budget.

Village officials have adopted a 1997 - 98 budget that includes large increases for the Parks and Recreation Department, Village Manager Michael Grubermann said.

Arguably, a contracting economy would decrease the tax base, increasing the budget deficit while at the same time decreasing the domestic market's ability to buy treasuries, leading to a larger trade deficit.

The large portion for why Trump is pushing a budget increase is the decay of military readiness under sequester and continuing resolution.

Let us take a deep breath and patiently say this once again: when a budget is large and complex it is possible to make overall savings whilst increasing or maintaining spending on specific areas!

He said the minimum wage increase is tied to larger compromises as part of the budget process, such as increasing spending on environmental protection and giving a tax cut to the middle class.

«Although school aid is statutorily capped at the annual growth rate of personal income, the projected increase for next fiscal year is a much larger 7.5 percent,» the budget watchdog wrote.

State Senate Republicans, some of whom resisted such a large increase, now seemed resigned to accept a some kind of minimum wage compromise as part of the budget.

Councilor Michael Kelly (Ward 2) said at the last Finance and Budget committee meeting that the Common Council will need to make at least $ 600,000 in permanent cuts and another $ 100,000 in temporary reductions this year to stave off a large tax increase in 2019.

The County Executive may at any time during the fiscal year transfer part or all of the unencumbered appropriation balance between classifications of expenditures within the same administrative unit, provided that prior approval by resolution of the County Legislature shall be required if the proposed transfer (1) would result in an increase exceeding ten thousand dollars ($ 10,000), or such larger amount as may be prescribed by local law, during the fiscal year in any one line item in the budget as adopted, or (2) would affect any salary rate or salary total.

The City Council increased its budget 27 %, the largest raise in at least a decade.

Cuomo also said he's confident the budget deal will include a plan to allow workers to take paid time off to care for a new child or sick loved one, and will also contain a large increase in education spending.

The president will lay out a budget plan with big increases in defense spending offset by large cuts in domestic programs — exactly, his budget director told reporters, what Trump promised to do on the campaign trail.

Walker said his plan for the next budget involves an investment of 25 percent more than the last budget for the Local Road Improvement Program, $ 65 million in new aid to local governments and «the largest increase to the Local Bridge Improvement Program in over 20 years.»

The city has already launched a separate initiative to fix small parks and the parks budget has increased by $ 56 million to more than $ 500 million, the largest ever.

Other speakers at the budget hearing asked the council not to burden the city's taxpayers with a large tax increase.

The mayor's team could also celebrate a smaller victory: though the budget sets aside a large lump sum to increase aid to charter schools across the state by $ 430 per student.

ALBANY — The one - house budget bills introduced by the Assembly on Tuesday strip some of the larger, more controversial pieces of Governor Andrew Cuomo's health budget, ignoring several proposals that would increase the administration's power to remake state health policy.

On May 6, 2003, for example, the Governor issued a press release with the following lead paragraph: «Governor George E. Pataki today announced that the fiscally irresponsible budget passed by the State Legislature will harm New Yorkers by imposing the largest tax increase in the history of the State — a tax increase that will lead to massive job losses and a projected $ 13 billion budget shortfall in the upcoming two years.»

TICONDEROGA Large increases in health insurance costs are driving up school budgets in the area, superintendents say.

According to the Governor's budget proposal, the Homer Central School District would see the largest increase in aid.

Edmund J. McMahon, the director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy, an affiliate of the conservative policy group the Manhattan Institute, called the proposed spending increase the largest in an executive budget «since Pataki's first election - year budget.»

And while they acknowledge that Cuomo is proposing spending a record amount on education in his budget, they say previous administrations actually enacted larger year - to - year increases.

«In the Budget I set out the tax increases we were prepared to make, including on capital gains at the higher rate, pension relief on the largest contributions and... a permanent levy on banks.

In the Executive Budget in May, the City Administration increased capital funding to fully meet the MTA's request of $ 657 million the largest general capital contribution to the agency in recent history.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

With the Senate and Assembly planning to enact their «one house» budget bills this week, Spano said he is urging them to increase AIM payments, at least to the State's large cities which face financial stress.

Malloy is expected to propose both tax increases and spending cuts to balance the largest budget gap in recent state history.

This situation has gone beyond dysfunctional, the citizens of NY are faced with large budget gap, yet our state leadership passes an increased budget?

The state Legislature signed off on a final state budget on March 31 that will deliver an extra $ 465 million to New York City schools next year, a 6 percent increase that is the largest in eight years.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

These increases are far larger than those secured in the last budget deal two years ago.

Scientists greeted the report with cautious enthusiasm, praising the increased budget and the plans to launch the long - desired European Research Council (ERC), a Europe - wide grantmaking body that will fund individual scientists instead of the large and often unwieldy collaborations supported by previous Framework programs.

Each enterprise has its own time frame and budget, although the total amount exceeds $ 20.7 billion (US$ 28.4 billion), and «guarantees annual budget increases of at least 5 percent for the largest science funding and science performance organizations», explains Max Vögler, director of the North America Office of the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).