Sentences with phrase «local budget challenges»

Do you view them as riskier than they have been in the past given state and local budget challenges?

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'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

These students, and others from 14 local public high schools, were competing in Cooking Up Change, a healthy cooking contest in which teams were challenged to create nutritious school lunches on a tight budget — $ 1 per meal — and limited ingredients and prep work.

Since I served on a local parks & rec board, I understand the budget challenges involved in maintaining parks and improving trails, playing fields and playground equipment as well as in funding programming for children.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

The potential for substantial cuts in domestic spending poses gargantuan challenges for the state budget and budgets of local government entities throughout the state.

The credit rating agency Moody's in a report released Thursday enumerated the challenges facing the state's budget, including faltering tax revenue, increasing costs for Medicaid and education, and the capping of state and local tax deductions by Congress.

A legal challenge to the cap was first made in 2013, when the New York State United Teachers union held the limit on local property tax increases constricts both local education spending and unlawfully requires a 60 percent majority to approve a budget that increases the levy over the cap.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

Comptroller DiNapoli understands the budget challenges New York's State and local governments face.

The group's agenda comes amid what is expected to be a challenging budget year for Albany that includes a $ 4.6 billion budget deficit and the looming impact of a cap on deductions of state, local and property taxes.

Despite continued fiscal challenges facing the state, the governor was still looking at helping counties, whose budgeting woes are also considerable as local leaders deal with Cuomo's requirement that tax levy growth be held to the inflation rate or 2 percent, whatever is lower.

«This budget continues my administration's commitment to being both fiscally responsible as well as socially responsible and we have accomplished this in an era of complex fiscal stressors that have severely challenged all local governments.»

Each year during budget season, the challenge for state and local officials is to allocate their resources to the uses that will have the highest return on investment for society.

Even though education and local authority budgets are being squeezed, API members pride themselves on creating stimulating, challenging, engaging and fun places that children enjoy playing and learning in and that teachers and nursery managers see immediate benefits from.

There is a misconception that the Local Control Funding Formula, authored by Gov. Jerry Brown and enacted in 2013, «fixed» the budget challenges experienced during the recession, district officials said.

While federal cuts to education would cause all districts to either reduce services or compensate for deficits with state or local dollars, Trump's proposed budget would have the most severe impact on districts with high concentrations of poverty and other challenges.

The budget increases school spending per student to $ 10,591 in 2016 - 17 — a boost of nearly $ 3,600 compared with 2011 - 12 levels, according a post on Brown's website: «The budget provides a fourth - year investment of more than $ 2.8 billion in the Local Control Funding Formula, which focuses on students with the greatest challenges to success, bringing the formula to 95 percent implementation.

«Lower class sizes are desired, but how the legislature has chosen to implement them presents significant challenges for districts and will result in either local budget cuts or local governments may have to increase taxes to pay for this change,» said Todd LoFrese, assistant superintendent for support services for Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools.

The numbers are even more impressive given the funding challenges facing the district in recent years, where rising teacher pension costs and declining state support have forced endless borrowing, budget cuts and layoffs, escalating tensions with the local teachers union.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

Francesca Richmond reports on local authorities successfully challenging government cuts to the school building budget