This year's budget hearings begin on Monday, with
local government officials coming to Albany to testify before members of the Senate and Assembly.
Not exact matches
Saturday I got to do a presentation for a group of
local elected
officials at the DC - area Council of
Governments retreat, and plenty of good questions and concerns
came up during the discussion.
The New York State Association Of Counties released its to - do list of budget priorities for the
coming fiscal year, with the
local government officials backing a variety of measures aimed at easing the burden on municipal - level
officials and taxpayers.
The state's action
came about 16 months after a village resident, Michael Hickey, alerted
local government officials that PFOA had contaminated the public water supply.
Now, according to New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, the governor is trying yet again to grow his authority, burying in his proposed budget language that would give the state budget director unilateral ability to pass cuts down to
local government officials to manage the funding reductions widely expected to
come from the Trump administration and GOP Congress.
Picente also said he and his fellow county
officials told the governor at dinner Tuesday night that they were upset by his proposed
local government consolidation measures in the 2017 - 18 budget, and they
came away comforted.
An Ijaw leader claimed that security
officials arrested an aide to a
local government chairman in the state, last Thursday, in Warri, as soon as he
came back from a trip to Port - Harcourt and whisked to an unknown destination, while the Navy picked up another suspect the previous day, Wednesday.
I am pleased to announce that I am forming a highway committee comprised of
officials from the county and
local governments, as well as town and village highway supervisors, to
come together to address our issues.
The lawmaker said even his eyes glaze over when it
comes to navigating U.S. Census data, and grows frustrated when he can not answers to questions posed by
local government officials and constituents.
Mayo's resolution sat in committee for more than a year before it
came to the legislature for a vote, where it was defeated shortly after the Times Union revealed through a two - month - long examination of municipal payrolls and other public records that at least 11
local elected
officials in the Capital Region have at least three relatives each working in
local government.
In an era of partisan gridlock at all levels of
government, we would do well to remember the moment a half century ago when
local leaders, elected
officials, civil rights pioneers, and others
came together to ensure equal access to the ballot.
The comment by Kim Dong - yeon on Wednesday
comes as traders at home and around the world have been spooked by conflicting comments from
government officials in South Korea, a major hub for cryptocurrency trade, that Seoul was planning to ban
local digital coin exchanges.