Sentences with phrase «local taxpayer groups»

The Empire Center and local taxpayer groups said the state needs to give districts greater leverage in negotiating teacher contracts by amending a law that deals with pay scales and benefits.

Our goal in this project is to help elected officials, local taxpayer groups, community associations and concerned taxpayers explore ways of improving the quality and cost - effectiveness of local government.

Not exact matches

Threaten to immediately bring in local police or other law - enforcement groups to have the taxpayer arrested for not paying.

But while there is a lot we don't know, we can identify a group of taxpayers likely to face tax increases from this proposal: people with moderate to upper - moderate incomes who take itemized deductions, like those for mortgage interest and state and local taxes paid.

To simply take the property taxes levied today and add a debt service figure to it, as has been suggested by a local taxpayer watch group, ignores both the issuance over several years, as well as the debt that is scheduled to be retired in the coming few years, on which that tax will no longer be collected.

The Community Builders interviewed by the auditors lacked knowledge of HUD's grant programs, the report said, and in some cases improperly interfered with housing transactions between local officials and nonprofit groups, resulting in the loss of millions of taxpayer dollars.

Andrea Vecchio of East Islip, a longtime activist in local and regional taxpayer groups, said that fluctuations in caps can be considered desirable.

I have written about the many times local community groups have had to clean up the tracks and haul away truck loads of trash and debris at the City of Kingston's taxpayers» expense as it's carted away to the dump.

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill provides a much - needed opportunity to mend our broken compensation system to ensure a better deal for genuine claimants, taxpayers, local authorities, the NHS and businesses alike» Matthew Davis, Head of Group Insurance, Home Retail Group (whose brands include Argos), said: «Managing our business costs is crucial to ensuring that we remain the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

A spokesman for Adams said it was too soon to say how much taxpayers would save, but the BP's office is working with local groups and government staffers to begin studying the impact on taxpayers, as well as the impact on the environment and on municipal transportation.

Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., government watchdog group, said the Army is trying to stir up local communities with scare tactics.

But local governments and green groups bitterly oppose the measure, citing concerns over reduced payments to their localities and school districts, a lack of comprehensive study and how the program might change under future administrations — all of which would lead to a larger tax burden for local taxpayers.

A local taxpayers» group had sought information from the job - application packets submitted by five teachers hired by the Easton school district.

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

More recently, the group sent out glossy mailings to voters in a number of Connecticut legislative districts «thanking them» for their pro-charter school vote — a vote that will actually end up costing state and local property taxpayers even more money.

The advocacy group commissioned its own phone survey using a local survey company, and talked to 555 people at a total cost of just $ 350 (just 3 % of the cost endured by taxpayers) and found that 65 % of respondents opposed the ban on pit bulls, while only 29 % were in favor.

Italian consumer group accuses Christo of wasting taxpayers» money Codacons, an Italian consumer rights group, has described Christo's «Floating Piers» installation on Lake Iseo as «an unreasonable waste of public money», and is filing an official complaint to the local authority's consumer watchdog.

jury pool: A group of people from lists of registered voters, licensed drivers, state and local taxpayers, people receiving public assistance or unemployment benefits who can then be picked to sit on a jury.