Sentences with phrase «of budget transparency»

There needs to be a higher level of budget transparency and a higher level of consideration of parent and community input in the decision making process.

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The White House Office of Management and Budget must first approve the new transparency rules before the old rules can be formally rescinded.

«We've made a lot of progress in the last 10 years on transparency, but there's still some real problem areas,» said Bob Williams, the president of watchdog group State Budget Solutions.

I am aware of no one else that writes with that kind of transparency both with his budgeting and individual investment selection.

What can the government do to improve the transparency and accountability of the budget process; the effectiveness of Parliament in reviewing the budget and government spending; and, the understanding of Canadians, as to what the government is actually doing in its budget and financial planning?

The current impasse between the Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Government is the result of a clash between the Government's business model, based on a lack of transparency, and accountability; non-evidenced based decision - making; and hostility to public debate and discussion; and, a Parliamentary Budget Officer business model with the exact opposite principles.

Budget 2012 will be remembered for its lack of vision; its lack of transparency; its lack of accountability; and its lack of sound economic policy.

In Budget 2007, the Minister of Finance proposed «to amend the FAA to provide for greater transparency and accountability regarding the government's borrowing activities and increase flexibility to meet future borrowings needs, especially with respect to the consolidation of Crown corporations».

The lack of the promised «sustainability» report seriously undermines the transparency, accountability, and credibility of Budget 2012.

A key objective in budget planning will be to re-establish the credibility, integrity and transparency of the budget process.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

Both studies made recommendations on how to improve the process and transparency of budget forecasting, most of which were readily adopted by the governments at that time.

The Auditor General, in her Observations on the financial statements, stated that «having accrual - based budgeting results in improved financial oversight as the plans and related results are on the same basis of accounting and therefore result in better transparency and accounting.

For accountability and transparency, it is vital that such reconciliations be provided on an ongoing basis and to the latest Budget projections, not to Update estimates, which would be seriously out - of - date.

[2] «Fiscal Transparency: Parliament and the Expenditure Management System Analysis of Government Responses to a Motion of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance» February 25, 2011 Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

This lack of transparency has been denounced several times by opposition parties and by the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Kevin Page.

The election platform proposed a number of initiatives to improve the credibility, transparency and integrity of the budget process.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess or in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.

The back - and - forth came after DiNapoli issued a pair of reports this week critical of economic development spending and the agreed - upon state budget, questioning the transparency commitment in the Cuomo administration.

Lawmakers met Monday afternoon for the start of the joint budget committee process — a meeting known in Albany as the «mothership» and initially held as a way of enhancing transparency in the opaque state budget process, but also a chance for lawmakers to lay out their public priorities in the talks.

This week, members of the New York City Transparency Working Group sent a letter to The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey thanking them for publishing their budget online in a machine - readable format.

They include greater accountability measures for the awarding of government contracts, more transparency for «lump - sum» budget appropriations and expenditures, and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

A budget watchdog group says New York's new 10 - year plan of how it will spend over $ 174 billion in road and bridge and numerous other projects lacks transparency.

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Leaders of prominent good government groups gathered at the state Capitol to decry not only the inability of Cuomo and legislative leaders to achieve ethics reform in the budget process, but also the lack of transparency in the ongoing three - men - in - a-room negotiations.

The «Truth in Spending» legislation (bill # pending) is a response to the numerous public corruption scandals that have rocked the state Capitol to its core over recent months through lack of transparency in budget allocations, due to shadow spending where some leaders and members gamed the system.

The Executive Budget takes two steps backward for one step forward — with improvements to target poverty this year outweighed by the loss of predictability and transparency in future years and by not doing enough to ensure that schools serving low - income students and students of color receive the resources they need to increase achievement and opportunity.

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A new report «Spending in the Shadows» by Citizens Union found «$ 2.4 billion in opaque funds in 80 «lump sum» pots in the state budget» which allow spending decisions to be made without an appropriate level of transparency, scrutiny and review after the budget has passed.

The NYC Department of Education, which controls one of the largest municipal budgets in the nation, is brazenly blowing off basic transparency, pro-charter school protesters argued.

DiNapoli's report also raises issues with transparency in the finalized budget agreement beyond the so - called «sweeps» of funds.

Members of the City Council's Finance Committee pressed the de Blasio Administration for more transparency in the proposed $ 77.7 billion budget today, kicking off the first of many hearings on the preliminary budget.

Finance Committee Chairwoman Julissa Ferreras began the hearing by saying that many of the problems surrounding transparency in the behemoth budget remained unchanged in the second year of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.

Greater transparency for School Leadership Teams: In order for School Leadership Teams to fulfill their role of serving as advocates for their school communities, superintendents should be required to ensure that all principals in their districts give their leadership teams thorough information about fund allocations, including their schools» Galaxy Table of Organization in addition to the budget summary available on the DOE website.

Gun control, transparency over school funding and housing matters were among issues still being negotiated Wednesday in Albany as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers tried once again to close down a new state budget in advance of a self - imposed Friday deadline as religious holidays loom.

Reacting to the news, Co-chair of the Ghana Extractive Transparency Initiative, Dr Steve Manteaw, told Joy News» Evans Mensah on Joy FM's Newsnight programme that the budget is «pretty surprising».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has outlined his plan for greater transparency of state lawmakers» outside income, and has made it part of his budget proposal.

Governor Cuomo has outlined his plan for greater transparency of state lawmakers» outside income, and has made it part of his budget proposal.

Cuomo intends to insert his lengthy list of ethics reform proposals — pertaining to lawmakers» outside incomes, the warping power of big money in elections, and transparency improvement — into the budget plan, according to Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi.

Meanwhile, in their one house budget proposals, the Assembly and Senate are asking for more transparency, at least in relation to some of the governor's economic development programs, which have been the subject of Bharara's probes.

DiNapoli's report raises a number of transparency concerns with the budget proposal, which includes several measures that would bypass existing provisions intended to ensure integrity in the state's procurement process.

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At the same time, DiNapoli said the budget proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to rely heavily and expand on lump sum appropriations for projects that are yet to be determined, a move that is at odds with the Budget Reform Act of 2007, which was designed to increase transparency in the prbudget proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to rely heavily and expand on lump sum appropriations for projects that are yet to be determined, a move that is at odds with the Budget Reform Act of 2007, which was designed to increase transparency in the prBudget Reform Act of 2007, which was designed to increase transparency in the process.

Meanwhile, in their one - house budget proposals, the Assembly and Senate are asking for more transparency, at least in relation to some of the governor's economic development programs, which have been the subjects of Bharara's probes.

A point of distinction that the current administration has drawn repeatedly between itself and the Bloomberg / Quinn years is the transparency and efficiency of the budget process.

The President also said the proposed budget would focus on increasing efficiency and transparency in government operations and the blocking of leakages from revenue generating agencies.

«The Senate supports enhanced disclosure to ensure transparency and accountability in government, and will modify the Governor's ethics proposals, as well as the education reform initiatives advanced as part of the Executive budget,» the Republican conference stated.

Manhattan Councilman Corey Johnson is set to unveil a set of reforms — including putting the entire city budget online 48 hours prior to a vote — he says would boost transparency in the Council that he'd commit to if elected speaker.