Sentences with phrase «local council budgets»

The bottom line is that local council budgets aren't being cut because of immigrants.

Central government cuts to local council budgets are already resulting in crucial services being put on the line.

«Cuts to local council budgets are destroying life - saving services that it has taken my community decades and decades to built,» Brown said.

Not exact matches

The unique Council partnership has resulted in a strategic approach to high tech economic development that involves matching funds research, workforce development and a marketing program leveraging governmental, corporate and economic development organization budgets on a regional rather than local basis.

It has to be subsidised with money from school budgets and local councils, to the tune of # 140 million a year.

By cancelling Whitehall advertising and consultancy budgets, a Tory government would help local council's freeze council tax for two years.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

Councils and local government, in particular, have to determine how best to maintain effective services in a climate of austerity, accepting that rising demands and tighter budgets require new delivery tools and new models of provision.

As the chancellor decimates local authority budgets, he's encouraging councils to make one - off assets sales to plug the gap.

«Huge cuts to council budgets have left local authorities struggling to provide local services and look after our road network, resulting in crumbling roads, vehicle damage and placing the safety of drivers and pedestrians at risk,» she said.

During his tenure as a minister, local councils» budgets were slashed by 20 %.

Governor Paterson's Executive Budget contains several items which may be of interest to Business Council members who contract with NYS or local agencies.

The budget squeeze isn't easy but it is forcing local government to innovate (which the Coalition has given it unprecendented freedoms to do so) and also merge functions with other councils or public sector institutions.

The government must also ensure that every council plays its part in meeting UK climate targets by introducing local carbon budgets in the decentralisation and localism bill.

The Council even reduced the budget for the local LINk which has such a vital role, anything I can do t5o help, please let me know.

Miliband will also back proposals for local councils to be given more control of the ballooning housing benefit budget.

The slush fund scandal indicates to Mr. Lander that «we don't have a vital local democracy,» and sees the scandal as a function of a system whereby the City Council focuses a great deal of energy and attention to the 1 % of the City budget that is allocated to Member items.

Town hall budgets will be capped ruthlessly if local authorities attempt to drive up revenue through council tax rises, the government has warned.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has revised its estimates for council tax increases down from the previous forecast of 3.5 per cent, as local authorities are revising their budLocal Government Association (LGA) has revised its estimates for council tax increases down from the previous forecast of 3.5 per cent, as local authorities are revising their budlocal authorities are revising their budgets.

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Today, Labour Councils across the UK, and the Labour administration in Wales, are just so abjectly carrying out the devastating new wave of terminally damaging budget cuts, that the «Corbynite Left agenda» is being actively discredited, on the ground, long before we actually have any influence on the agenda of local councillors at all.

The younger Vallone, who was first elected to his Astoria City Council seat in 2002, pointed to his time in office tackling local issues like graffiti and fighting cuts to the police department's budget as head of the City Council's Public Safety Committee.

While the cuts to Local Government in the Welsh Government's Draft Budget were less than feared, the Welsh Government's formula to distribute the money to local authorities has meant that rural councils have been disproportionatelyLocal Government in the Welsh Government's Draft Budget were less than feared, the Welsh Government's formula to distribute the money to local authorities has meant that rural councils have been disproportionatelylocal authorities has meant that rural councils have been disproportionately hit.

Both Puleo and Croft said local Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez needs to pony up and allocate funding for the Parks Department to add more PEP officers as the Council's proposed budget for 2016 does not include money for that staff.

The Taxpayers» Alliance said it hopes councils could follow the lead of local authorities like Hammersmith and Fulham, which are «trimming the fat from their budgets» and still providing much - needed services for local people.

«Many councils have bigger budgets than FTSE 100 companies and to get the brightest people to deliver the best services for local people they need to pay a competitive wage.»

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking pCouncil's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking pcouncil tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

But it did reveal that the Budget's title would be «Building a Britain Fit For The Future» — a phrase which is already being seen by - word for cuts programmes across the NHS, social care, local councils and even Transport for London.

Oral Questions - Assisting families facing homelessness as a result of housing benefit changes due in April - Baroness Turner of Camden; Face - to - face careers guidance for all young people in schools - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch; Effects of local council tax support schemes on poverty - Lord McKenzie of Luton; Representations received from the public on the negotiations for the new EU budget perspective period to 2020 - Lord Dykes

One hundred Liberal Democrat council and group leaders join Gerald Vernon Jackson, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the Local Government Association, in a letter to the chancellor on the state of the UK economy ahead of Budget 2012:

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other local leaders slammed the city for recently asking the NYPD to submit a budget reduction plan — especially after Saturday morning's attack in TriBeCa and the brutal sexual assault of an elderly birdwatcher in Central Park earlier this month.

KINGSTON — U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D - Hurley, leads federal representatives in the region in securing federal pork - barrel funds for local projects, according to the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste's annual «Pig Book,» which put Hinchey's budget earmarks at $ 54.96 million.

The referendum plan, he says, will mean councils have to defend their budget decisions and bill increases to the local electorate instead of Whitehall.

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Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

Claimants can talk to a work coach at their local Jobcentre, or ring Cornwall Council on 0300 1234 121, option 5, and ask to talk to someone about personal budget support.

Indeed, yesterday's Budget cuts to Housing Benefit are a sideshow to the big issue in housing, which is that spending has shifted dramatically towards supporting individuals with housing costs - rather than investing in bricks and mortar over the last twenty or so years since rent controls were abolished and local authorities were made to stop building council houses.

The new Commissioners, elected on 15 November 2012 to take office from 22 November 2012, will have responsibilty for setting the policing budget and for deciding how much to raise from local council tax for the police.

In Eti - Osa Local Government, Governor Ambode who was represented by State's Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, commissioned the 1.9 km Unity / 1st Avenue Osapa London Road in Eti - Osa Local Government and block of 16 classrooms with modern facilities at Kuramo Primary School in Iru - Victoria Island Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

«Participatory budgeting is a gateway to greater civic participation and leadership in our communities, encouraging collaboration between residents and local elected officials to find creative solutions to neighborhood needs,» Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan) said.

Surrounded by local families, community leaders and Little Leaguers, State Senate Coalition Co-Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Council Member Andrew Cohen (D - Bronx) announced $ 3 million in capital grants securedin this year's state and city budgets for a comprehensive renovation of the baseball fields in the Woodlawn area of the Bronx.

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The Communities and Local Government Department will have its budget cut by 51 per cent, with councils receiving 28 per cent less from Whitehall.

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On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

CVH has worked with a range of partners, including Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn), as well as The Participatory Budgeting Project, and many other city - wide and local partners to facilitate a new process for city determines how the city identifies and prioritizes discretionary budgeting dBudgeting Project, and many other city - wide and local partners to facilitate a new process for city determines how the city identifies and prioritizes discretionary budgeting dbudgeting decisions.