Sentences with phrase «make budgeting a challenge»

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When I was challenged to make five dinners on a budget of $ 20 for this week's Cash Diet challenge, I wasn't too worried.

Later chapters offer a detailed peek into how the Canadian media sausage is made, detailing the challenges of offsetting public funding with ad sales, the overwhelming importance of NHL hockey to the CBC's operating budget, Ceeb - style office politics and the uphill battle against the private channels of Corus, Rogers and Bell.

«The challenge is that there were a lot of promises made that can't live comfortably with each other,» said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Looking back, the $ 60 weekly budget was pretty extreme, and I didn't ditch my plastic again in 2017, but the challenge made me realize that I could afford to set aside more money each month.

There are, however, a unique set of SMB - specific challenges, such as limited budgets, a fragmented market, a wide range of service preferences, and decision - making processes that vary from one company to the other.

This budget makes a substantial investment in upgrading away from diesel: $ 220 million (over 11 years) for communities south of the 60th parallel and $ 21.4 million (over four years, starting next year) for continuing an existing northern program, and a portion of a new $ 75 million «challenge» fund aimed at solving clean tech problems through innovation.

Given the current budget and logistical challenges facing the Canadian Forces, some tough choices will have to be made if Canada is going to add a credible military component to the range of its relations with China.

A senior Democratic aide said the party's position is that emergency spending need not be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, making Pelosi's statement a challenge to Republicans who have insisted that previous aid packages not add to the federal budget deficit.

«Despite tight budgets and persistent challenges, school nutrition professionals are making efforts to incorporate more clean label foods and expand menus to encourage children to make healthier choices.»

It's about more than making and serving meals — school nutrition is a balancing act; strict nutrition guidelines, challenging budgets, making meals the students will love, and navigating student allergies — these are just a few of the daily considerations of your «average» school nutrition superhero!

Although Massachusetts made much progress towards meeting its RTT - ELC goals during 2014, the state's budget spend - down rate remains a challenge.

Overhaul internal processes More challenge to tax and Budget policy making.

Unions have made noise about challenging Sen. John DeFrancisco, the deputy majority leader, over his vocal opposition to a minimum wage increase, though that could be tempered after all 31 Republicans backed the budget bill containing the hike.

«Sadly, Republicans believe breaking their campaign pledges on the budget and on ethics is easier than making the hard decisions necessary to confront the challenges facing this state.»

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.

Mr Aboagye - Gyedu said Government, within the constraints of its budget, had made great efforts to overcome the inherent challenges within the health sector, which included provisions for professional training, conditions of service with remunerations, logistics and improved health facilities, housing and transportation.

A key component of the Senate GOP's lawsuit against the prisoner counting change included in the 2010 - 2011 budget is a challenge to the way that switch was made — through a budget extender bill sent to the Legislature by then - Gov.

Perhaps the more interesting thing will be to see where the Assembly stands on the challenge from the Senate regarding changes made through budget language to how prisoners are counted for legislative districting, where the Assembly likely sides with the governor on the policy outcome but with the Senate on institutional prerogatives and procedure.

(Recall that Cuomo has more than a passing interest in this lawsuit, since it challenges his right as governor to make policy through budget extender bills).

The Minority challenged a number of the statements made by Ken Ofori - Atta in Parliament, even raising cards with «419» budget printed on them.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank The Empire Center, says to make things even more challenging, the governor's budget office has said the state still faces a structural $ 1.7 billion deficit.

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Friday challenged the state Governor, Nyesom Wike to make the public the state's 2018 budget...

EJ McMahon, with the fiscally conservative think tank The Empire Center, says to make things even more challenging, the governor's budget office has said the state still faces a structural $ 1.7 billion deficit.

New York is facing one of its largest budget shortfalls in nearly a decade this year, and deficits in coming years will get larger and larger — making life more challenging for lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

«The challenge now is to continue making progress despite the cumulative impact of devastating budget cuts.

That made it more challenging and difficult to focus on the real fiscal aspects of the budget.

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.»

In addition, Majestic called for the allocation of about $ 10,000 toward the cost of new bookkeeping software, estimated as costing $ 32,000 to $ 35,000, to replace the extremely dated system that the town government is currently using, which itself is making budgeting more of a challenge.

«The City of Syracuse has made significant progress in addressing the reality of our fiscal challenges,» In her letter to the council, Miner said the budget makes progress in addressing the «reality of our fiscal challenges.»

Police forces and authorities had generally made reasonable assumptions about the financial challenge ahead, and used these to work out their budgets for the next four years.

We must challenge ourselves as approach this year's Budget to achieve the Governor's vision of making government work better, smarter and operate more efficiently.

Roche told The News she agreed that because of the state's budget challenges this year, «it would be inappropriate to make changes right now.»

State and federal aid has been flat — Rockland County, particularly the Town of Ramapo, is fiscally stressed due to the property tax cap, making it a formidable challenge to bring the county budget in at less than two percent.

The draconian tax cap limits mandated by Albany combined with the 2016 budget will make the 2017 budget a challenge.

«These preliminary budget recommendations reflect a central challenge in government: making our city more equitable while also planning prudently for the future,» said Ferreras - Copeland, in a statement.

According to Mr Dogara, «So the budget being a law, therefore, means that it is only, I repeat, only the parliament that can make it because it is law and I challenge all of us to look at the law and tell me where it is written that the President can make the budget.»

I even challenged myself to make them all budget friendly, under $ 100!

A strict budget makes decorating more challenging, but that can also be more fun too!

The result is a deeply challenging, big budget, female - driven sci - fi film, which begs a question — how did this get made?

«In every area, from staffing to stationary, school leaders are having to make difficult decisions about where to cut and restrict resources to balance their budgets, and it's clear they anticipate further financial challenges ahead».

Of course, there are other challenges, too... like meeting the requirements of key stakeholders and making the best use of a limited budget.

In times of contracting budgets, curriculum time and increased group sizes, this presents many challenges but we can not afford to lose what is at the heart of D&T, namely designing and making things.

«In every area, from staffing to stationery, school leaders are having to make difficult decisions about where to cut and restrict resources to balance their budgets, and it's clear they anticipate further financial challenges ahead.»

Budgeting in the Accountability Age Doing more with less has been the challenge for school districts in recent years, but now the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act, coupled with shrinking resources, are making budgeting eveBudgeting in the Accountability Age Doing more with less has been the challenge for school districts in recent years, but now the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act, coupled with shrinking resources, are making budgeting evebudgeting even harder.

These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.

The Trump - DeVos budget threatens to exacerbate the budgetary challenge states face by cutting at least $ 3.6 billion from ESSA programs and $ 9 billion from the Department of Education overall while making an unprecedented investment in an ambiguous «school choice» program.

Given the significant challenges our schools face and natural rising costs, another year at $ 11,000 per student would force us to make yet another round of painful budget choices.

«With budgets already stretched, and uncertainty about future funding, ASCD is sensitive to the challenges school leaders face when making financial decisions for their staff and students,» said Deb Delisle, ASCD Executive Director and CEO.

The Challenge of Making Universal Prekindergarten a Reality in New York State by the Citizen's Budget Commission.