Sentences with phrase «least cost to the public»

It is a program that succeeds at the least cost to the public while providing the best possible life for the feral cats themselves.

TNR programs succeed at the least cost to the public and provide the best possible life for the cats themselves.

Not exact matches

«Despite this Parliament and the public are still in the dark about crucial details: not least when the railway will open, how much it is expected to cost and precisely where it will go.

The commission's findings marked at least the fourth time the agency found Armor's care inadequate in Nassau inmate fatalities since the county first inked a two - year, $ 11 million - a-year public - private partnership with the vendor in mid-2011 in an attempt to cut costs.

The resulting Committee to Save New York rapidly became the state's biggest single lobbyist, raising and spending at least $ 15 million and running TV and radio ads that backed Cuomo's (ultimately successful) proposals for capping local property taxes and reducing the cost of public - employee pensions.

While the additional jobs are a boost for the local economy, their cost to the public treasury has not yet been calculated — or at least disclosed.

A report produced late last year by the Empire Center for Public Policy and the American Action Forum said raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour would cost the state at least 200,000 jobs.

At the very least, there can be no disagreement that Kingston Citizens did a fabulous job of informing the public and contacting the offices of power in a clear, full presentation of real costs to be weighed against benefits, which were, after all, not well defined at all.

Mr. de Blasio has pledged to charge rent to charter schools, and he has said he will deny, at least temporarily, future requests to use space inside public school buildings — a lifeline for many charter schools given the high costs of real estate in the city.

Fred Guterl's eloquent plea for manned exploration of Mars, or at least a return of humans to the moon, is bound to be frustrated by the high cost, the risk, and the lack of interest among the American public.

Legge 133/08 also requires public institutions to reduce their costs for nonmanagerial permanent staff — a category that includes researchers on the first rung of the academic career ladder and technicians — by at least 10 %.

Students of color are even more underrepresented among graduates with education majors, at least 82 percent of whom are white.65 This disparity could be related to a number of factors students of color face, including negative experiences with the public education system; 66 the additional costs and time involved for teacher credentialing; 67 or pressure from their families to seek out higher - earning and higher - status jobs and career tracks.68

Under Walker's plan, most public workers - excluding police, firefighters and state troopers - would have to pay half of their pension costs and at least 12 percent of their health - care costs.

Portland Public Schools takes at least 20 % off the top of what comes to my child's charter school per student these numbers don't include facilities costs.

A spokesman for Wake County Public School System, the state's largest K - 12 district, said local officials don't expect to have an estimate on the new costs for at least a month.

(MPRN - Lansing) A new report says it costs at least $ 9,600 to properly educate a student in Michigan's public schools.

For example, if the average cost of a voucher is $ 5,000 and the average student variable cost is $ 7,000, then at least 71 percent of voucher users will need to come from public schools for the program to not cost taxpayers anything.

Currently, private schools are the least accessible to lower income families, despite the per - pupil cost to attend typically being less than both the public school and charter school systems.

But it costs at least $ 15,000 to fund a public high school student, Budd said.

For the public - school teachers to attend a group meeting after hours with the principal (as happens at least once a week on the charter side) would cost $ 41.98 extra per hour for each attendee, and attendance would still be voluntary.

Although the city's records on spending per student generally and in any particular school are difficult to pin down because of all of the accounting intricacies, the best estimate is that it costs at least $ 19,358 per year to educate each student on the public side of the building, or $ 980 more than on the charter side.

Considering the reckless usage of deposits and other public monies to build buildings just to claim that gdp is high (they count the cost of real estate as investment not their final sales as the rest of the world does), all depositors in Chinese banks stand to lose or at least have their funds frozen (since all credit funding the real estate building comes from the banks and taxes & land seizures to a lesser degree).

I am not sure if an intelligent buyer would go through all this trouble to buy the Titanic assets and also agree to the conditions set forth by the Judge — agree to keep the collection together and also allow it to be displayed to the public occasionally - while at the same time risking capital to earn enough revenue in order to offset at least the cost of maintenance of the assets.

Same answers apply here as previous games and indeed upcoming games: Unless you, the buying public were going to be happy with say PS4 costing # 600 + by keeping all that lovely fast Ram, but having more powerful CPU / GPU etc to deliver at least 1080P 60 FPS games like Watchdogs in the 1st 18 months at least, it was never going to happen.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»

David Roberts at Grist echoes Joe Romm in hoping that the petro - eruption on the Gulf seafloor finally fires up the American public on the need, if not to act on climate, at least to absorb the full costs of our oil addiction.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Based on those constraints, the panel concluded that climate change was the least cost - effective area to invest public money.

A growing number of climate scientists have warned that if these nuclear plants were to abruptly close, carbon emissions in New York will increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, resulting in public health and other societal costs of at least $ 1.4 billion.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

In documents unearthed by Greenpeace, the GCSCT group devises a communications plan, estimated to cost at least $ 2 million, which aimed to make climate change a «non-issue» by reaching out to media and the public.

To provide the public the same protections, will be an issue — or will at least be a problem — either choosing to work «without a net» or the safety net imposed (insurance and regulation), will then, add increased cost to the delivery (as it does with lawyersTo provide the public the same protections, will be an issue — or will at least be a problem — either choosing to work «without a net» or the safety net imposed (insurance and regulation), will then, add increased cost to the delivery (as it does with lawyersto work «without a net» or the safety net imposed (insurance and regulation), will then, add increased cost to the delivery (as it does with lawyersto the delivery (as it does with lawyers).

The involvement of the private sector is an interesting one, and is perhaps a recognition that at least some of the intelligence gathering, early monitoring / investigation and indeed cost needs to be «outsourced» from a cash - poor public sector.

If Labour or a coalition are returned we might expect that the whole reform programme, at least that pulling on the public purse and its cost will be abandoned in the short term or at the very least pushed to the back burner.

Perhaps, however, it is what is not going to happen (at least immediately) that should be headlined: no increase in the RTA PI scheme and no extension of a similar scheme for employers» and public liability; no extension yet of the fixed costs regime; no pre-action mandatory directions; and, of course, no increase in the small claims track for personal injury.

It appears that a lack of knowledge, and perceptions of cost are the two key underlying barriers preventing the public from turning to a legal professional for assistance... More than two - thirds of British Columbians have experienced at least one serious and difficult to resolve problem in the past three years... Seven - in - ten British Columbians who faced a serious issue sought no assistance.

You will almost certainly be able to find the least expensive coverage in the Marketplace, while private insurance may provide cost and choice benefits that public insurance doesn't.

This cost was at least partly offset by reduced government spending on foster care placements and public services related to child maltreatment.