Sentences with phrase «of local government reform»

However, Labour's record of local government reform has largely been a mixed bag, with some notable successes like the Greater London Authority.

Not exact matches

Reform of metropolitan councils is set to be derailed unless there is a quick response by the state government to concerns over funding implementation costs, according to the WA Local Governgovernment to concerns over funding implementation costs, according to the WA Local GovernmentGovernment Assoc

A program like the one proposed in both Senate and House versions of immigration reform bills would be a good start, awarding grants to nonprofits and state and local governments to run immigrant integration programs.

For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.

They include value - added tax hikes, lower jobless benefits, wage cuts for state employees and billions of euros in savings from local government reforms.

While the Better Government Association has claimed Illinois» budget contains no fat to trim, a deeper analysis reveals the state has many areas of expensive inefficiency to reform in state and local government costs, the Medicaid program and K - 12 Government Association has claimed Illinois» budget contains no fat to trim, a deeper analysis reveals the state has many areas of expensive inefficiency to reform in state and local government costs, the Medicaid program and K - 12 government costs, the Medicaid program and K - 12 education.

Ahead of the next congress of the Chinese communist party in October, where President Xi Jinping will unveil his new leadership team, there have been indications that Chinese policymakers have increasingly shifted their emphasis away from potentially disruptive reforms aimed at reducing excessive debt levels, particularly among local governments, and toward stabilizing the level of economic growth.

Tax reform is a mixed blessing for state and local government in Illinois, according to an analysis by the Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission, an arm of the General Assembly.

The point of public pension reform is to reduce the risk for New York taxpayers, who — in addition to their own financial concerns — now stand behind a constitutional guarantee of defined - benefit pensions for all current and future state and local government retirees.

He incorporates this notion into many of his programme recommendations, such as the establishment of citizens» task forces in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan to hold local governments accountable for agrarian reform.

When Cuomo last week proposed reforms to make voting easier in New York state, he left something out: The cost, and how the additional expenses of maintaining early - voting sites would be covered, which worries local government officials.

There are proposals for a national funding formula although this, like Local Government Funding reform, are the stuff of very lengthy and difficult consultation processes.

Babandede also stated that it is his desire «to reform our processes down to the Local Government Area level in order to promote the ease of doing business in Nigeria.

The bill allowing all veterans to buy added pension time was vetoed by Cuomo last year because, notwithstanding a clause in the governor's Tier 6 pension reform, it failed to appropriate money to cover the projected state and local government share of the «past service» catch - up cost of the measure.

Cuomo's budget includes non-spending measures such as his slate of ethics reforms, allowing ride - hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City and a plan to encourage local governments sharing services to reduce property taxes.

Without fundamental reform of local government finance, more cities will face a funding crisis in the coming years

The first such political post was the Mayor of London, created as the executive of the Greater London Authority in 2000 as part of a reform of the local government of Greater London.

He must support PR in the House of Lords, or local government along with party funding reform and lobbying transparency.

During the one - hour event — the first of at least 10 debates and forums that the Faso campaign has agreed to — Faso highlighted his record as a fiscal hawk, his deep roots in the district and outlined a series of policy proposals to streamline government, eliminate burdens on business to kick - start the local economy and reform Washington's fiscal chaos.

The 2013 - 14 Executive Budget and Management Plan builds on two years of balanced, fiscally responsible budgeting and invests in economic development, education reform, rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy, provides support to local governments and school districts, and includes no new taxes or fees.

Tonight, at the launch of our report at NEF, we will be joined by esteemed figures such as Phillip Blond (Respublica), Jessica Studdert (New Local Government Network), Sarah Ayres (University of Bristol) and Katie Ghosh (Electoral Reform Society).

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

adoption of a real property tax cap, as advocated by Governor Paterson, coupled with significant mandate reform and local government consolidations - actions that would reduce the enormous size and cost of local government, and the state's crippling real property tax burden.

Behind Europe, to be sure, but well ahead of such «Westminster bubble» issues as House of Lords reform, reform of local government, or even the referendum on Scottish independence.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

BY CHERYL SLAVIN The bi-partisan state Senate Majority Coalition, seeking to identify and eliminate the most costly government regulations that inhibit business and job growth and drive up local taxes, hosted one of 10 public forums on regulatory reform at the Nanuet Public Library last Monday.

Local government - mandate relief, reform of government pensions and benefits, job - creating tax reform and education reform are only some of the politically difficult matters requiring Albany's attention.

The largely amicable town board race will feature former town building inspector Paul Andreassen, running on the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines; longtime Saugerties police officer Donald Tucker, running on the Republican and Conservative lines; Vincent Altieri, who serves as the Captain of the Sheriff's Police Services Department and holds Republican, Independence and Reform party lines; and Democrat John Schoonmaker, who majored in Biology at Siena College and currently works as a Gnotobiologist at Taconic Biosciences, is running on the Democratic line and hopes to bring the town's youth into the fold of local government.

Since the state Constitution guarantees pension benefits for current employees, pension reform needs to be understood as a strategy that will impact state and local finances for the next generation of government workers and taxpayers, not current workers and taxpayers.

In this first three research appointments and his PhD studies local government issues were the dominant interest, a theme which covered work on issues as diverse as the executive and scrutiny reforms; member allowances; the role (s) of local councillors; local elections; departmentalism; community appraisals; consultations; ward boundary changes; and history and structure.

The phased takeover of local government administration of Medicaid will accomplish statewide economies of scale, lead to associated savings and help New York achieve reforms proposed at the State and Federal level.

In January 2006 the Government published a welfare reform Green Paper entitled «A New Deal for Welfare: Empowering People to Work» which included further proposals for reforming Housing Benefit, in particular rolling out an adjusted version of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to the deregulated private rented sector.

5.15 pm Communities and Local Government Subject: Codification of the relationship between central and local government Witness (es): Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Policital and Constitutional Reform Committee Location: The Wilson Room, Portcullis Local Government Subject: Codification of the relationship between central and local government Witness (es): Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Policital and Constitutional Reform Committee Location: The Wilson Room, PortcuGovernment Subject: Codification of the relationship between central and local government Witness (es): Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Policital and Constitutional Reform Committee Location: The Wilson Room, Portcullis local government Witness (es): Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Policital and Constitutional Reform Committee Location: The Wilson Room, Portcugovernment Witness (es): Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Policital and Constitutional Reform Committee Location: The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Antonacci said regardless of what local governments try to do, real savings will not be seen until there are state government reforms.

Governor Andrew Cuomo walked back a step from his proposal to give new state workers the option of a 401k style pension plan Monday, but the governor says without major pension reform, local governments and the state of New York could end up «bankrupt».

Back in 1991, the well - respected and reform - minded local League of Women Voters studied term limits, and to the surprise of some good government types, rejected the idea.

Prime Minister: David Cameron Deputy PM & First Secretary of State: William Hague Chancellor of the Exchequer: George Osborne Leader of the Commons: Ken Clarke Home Secretary: David Davis Foreign Secretary: Sir Malcolm Rifkind Business & Employment Secretary: John Redwood Communities & Social Justice Secretary: Iain Duncan Smith Cabinet Office Minister: Francis Maude Defence Secretary: Dr Liam Fox Environment and Energy Secretary: Oliver Letwin Leader of the Lords: Lord Strathclyde Nations Secretary: Lord Trimble Education Secretary: Michael Gove Health Secretary: Chris Grayling Women & Equalities Secretary: Theresa May Pensions & Welfare Reform Secretary: David Willetts Trade & International Development Secretary: Alan Duncan Justice Secretary & Lord Chancellor: Dominic Greive Transport Secretary: Damian Green Farming, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary: Nick Herbert Housing & Local Government Secretary: Philip Hammond Culture Secretary: Julie Kirkbride

«On top of that, Mr. Latimer voted against last year's historic property tax cap vote and he went MIA for Governor Cuomo's pension reform vote last week that will ease costs on local governments.

Chris is interested in the politics of UK and comparative local government, particularly elections and electoral reform, political leadership and management.

A reform group studied votes taken by local governments across the state on whether to allow hydrofracking, and found numerous potential conflicts of interest that they say could have tainted the outcome of the votes.

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Academy schools are self governing and free from local council control and their expansion has been a central part of the government's education reforms.

Professor Gallent explained: «Planning and Local Government reforms are seen by community groups as serving the interests of policymakers rather than local peLocal Government reforms are seen by community groups as serving the interests of policymakers rather than local pelocal people.

In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.

At noon, Citizens Union will unveil its position on a variety of police oversight reforms and urge New York City government officials to enact local laws that create a more cohesive system of public oversight with enhanced accountability to New Yorkers, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«Large, underlying deficits in some local areas need to be tackled as a matter of urgency, while the reforms will continue to flounder if the government fails to get doctors, nurses and other health professionals fully on board.»

The job of the State and Local Government Reform Group is to avoid addressing The Spoils System in the Agencies and Authorities as THE source of the problem (or rather, THE PROBLEM)... like The Plague!

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting Economic Development to create local and lasting Suffolk County jobs — improving Long Island's Water Quality to protect the region's water supply — and enhancing the Quality of Life of Suffolk residents by improving public safety and investing in County parks and roads.

The document briefly sets out our current democratic arrangements, and provides options for possible reform including devolution to independent local government in England, the election of the Second Chamber, and letting people vote directly for the Prime Minister.

The WFP, which is closely aligned with the radical group ACORN, is composed of a variety of public employee unions and special interest organizations that oppose fiscal reform in state and local government and promote increasing spending, raising taxes, and expanding debt to bloat the public workforce.