Sentences with phrase «making significant budget»

If paying off your mortgage is just the last hurdle in your quest to become debt - free, you may have already made significant budget cuts to help you pay off credit cards or other loans.

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And it blew a significant hole in our budget once we decided he needed several days a week in local daycare to make new friends.

To do any significant research, you had to get a budget or a government grant for which you must make your purpose clear.

In previous budget forecasts, the Department of Finance made significant upward revisions to «other revenues, without adequate explanation.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has made balanced budgets a key plank in the campaign debate and his government's April budget left little fiscal room for other parties to promise significant new spending.

If you have a big family like me, these kinds of savings can make a significant difference to your budget and thus your quality of life.

«We passed a budget resolution that makes significant cuts to recognize we do have a $ 9.2 billion deficit, but we also make partial restorations and we adopt budget forms proposed by Lt. Gov Dick Ravitch.»

Much has been made of backroom deals between the Chancellor George Osborne and Manchester City Council's chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein to deliver the most significant devolutionary settlement of Whitehall budgets in England.

That makes this an especially significant budget.»

Reacting to the report, Highways Term Maintenance Association chief executive George Lee said: «This year's ALARM survey makes for very interesting and possibly surprising reading, as it seems to indicate a significant turnaround from previous surveys with a 10 year high in maintenance budgets, the budget shortfall dropping and the critical «catch up cost» dropping by # 2.7 Bn.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pledged to fund half the cost, Mayor Bill de Blasio has for months refused to put new money toward the plan — which he was not consulted on crafting — arguing that city taxpayers already make significant contributions toward the authority's operating budget.

A budget watch dog group is giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo a mixed grade on his budget proposals, saying he's done a good job reigning in spending, but is making a mistake by shifting some significant costs to New York City.

He says much less about the significant cuts he's going to have to make to the state's budget — what hospitals he will close, what educational programs he will suspend — if he intends to keep his campaign pledge to not raise taxes and, more to the point, to prevent New York from sliding any further into a financial abyss.

Chris Keates: «A significant proportion of the Chancellor's Budget statement was re-announcements of measures already in progress and promises made but not yet delivered».

«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.»

Those projections could rise further considering that the City did not make significant upward adjustments in its own forecast for those years in the new budget.

But I know that fuel costs still make up a significant part of household budgets and weigh heavily on small firms.

Without overriding the tax cap or making significant cuts to the proposed budget, the comptroller warns Troy will have an unbalanced 2017 budget that will not have sufficient revenues to fund operations.

The mayor set aside $ 1.5 million in the executive budget to study systemic issues with the BOE and said another $ 18.5 million would be included in the adopted budget if the board agrees to make significant reforms.

He sought to cut the state's Medicaid budget by nearly 30 %, or $ 20 billion [47]($ 10 billion from the state's share, the other $ 10 billion coming from the county and federal shares)[48] by making significant cuts to benefits, reducing reimbursement rates, [49] requiring identification, fingerprints, and drug testing for individuals to receive benefits.

The budget saw some significant developments centered on the city's beleaguered subway system, strengthening sexual harassment policies and repairing the city's public housing — though some key issues, such as voting reforms and extending the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse victims, did not make it into the budget.

The Chairman said, «It is important that the budget of INEC be made to show more widespread public accountability and transparency of the Commission — which is a significant reform in itself - with a multiplier effect on electoral reform.»

The $ 359 - million budget slightly reduces the tax levy for the coming year and includes several areas in which significant changes will be instituted in areas where major municipal expenditures are made.

Despite steadily shrinking federal support for public housing, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has made significant gains in public safety and in balancing its annual operating budget under Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is up for reelection on Tuesday.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who made significant compromises, including giving up the so - called «Millionaires» Tax» on high - income earners, described the budget as «a sobering one.»

From NASA's point of view, the value of amateurs is obvious: The more pairs of telescope - aided eyes scanning the cosmos, the greater the likelihood that significant discoveries will be made — and given the budget crunches of the past few years, the agency needs all the unpaid sky watchers it can get.

«In an area like haemophilia I think that approach is going to make a ton of sense, since the budget impact there starts to get more significant,» Marrazzo said.

In a statement, NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot said that the proposed budget «is in line with our funding in recent years, and will enable us to effectively execute our core mission for the nation, even during these times of fiscal constraint,» although it should be noted that it does make significant cuts to the agency's earth science and climate - change related programs.

While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.

We make the site free and spend significant 5 - digit marketing budgets per day to build up a user base.

As is true for any low - budget indie, well - made or not, the experimental approach carries with it a significant risk of failure.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation that will make some significant changes in the state's accountability system and budgeting requirements for schools, including tougher high school graduation standards and elimination of a requirement that school districts must spend 65 percent of their operating budgets on classroom instruction.

Instead, districts would have to do significant parts of their budgeting in an ad hoc manner to make the numbers come out right each and every year.

While all of those funds wouldn't be eliminated in the Trump - DeVos budget, the proposal does make significant cuts.

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.

The school funding law is based on what the Legislature has put into state statutes before significant budget cuts that were made during the recent record drop in state revenue.

North Carolina introduces another variable that will still make it hard to compare student performance across state lines if all of these states don't leave the program en masse the state education budget has seen significant cuts in an effort to reduce spending, as have budgets in other states.

In his budget proposal for 2017 — 19 biennium, Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal underscored the importance of investing in teachers, noting, «Student success from the state's increased investment in full - day kindergarten, K — 3 class size reduction, and other... basic education components depends on making significant changes in Washington's ability to attract and retain qualified teachers.»

For the second year in a row, even in the midst of continuing state budget constraints, policymakers are making significant investments in state - funded pre-K programs.

With Opportunity Culture models, schools can extend the reach of excellent teachers and the teams they lead to more students, for more pay, within budget (not temporary grants)-- making significant pay increases possible for all teachers.

This time we have the advantage of the governor proposing a significant increase to schools in his budget and we need to make sure the legislature knows how important that investment is to our schools and the students they serve.

But a spokesman for the Department for Education said:» «We are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase and have made significant progress towards fairer funding for schools.

Faced with a deficit, the District had to make significant cuts to balance its budget.

Within these zones, significant changes can also be made to budget allocations, staffing levels, curriculum, assessment, even the length of the school day and year.

While Connecticut's state budget approval process is far from over, the Connecticut General Assembly's Appropriations Committee has made some significant changes to Governor Dannel Malloy's proposed state budget including deleting some of Malloy's $ 80 million in cuts to public schools and reducing Malloy's plan to INCREASE charter school funding by more than 25 percent.

Those are significant costs regardless, but they're especially striking given that all three districts — like many statewide — have recently been forced to make deep budget cuts.

The network keeps significant decision - making at the school level, like curriculum, staffing, budgeting, school and classroom materials, and professional development.

«Considering I've got to make significant cuts to the budget — where am I supposed to find these lump sums from?»

Adamowski made significant changes to the High School, mostly with an eye to creating «school choice» and keeping the budget super-lean.

Our findings make clear that a significant fraction of the resources allocated toward teacher compensation in current public education budgets is not being invested in resources to educate today's students at all.