Sentences with phrase «on local government budget»

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He is a strong proponent of a smaller local government and supports cuts to certain popular programs and caps on entitlements to township employees to keep the budget in balance.

Even assuming, as the Parliamentary Budget Office does, that Ottawa's debt will steadily shrink and disappear around 2040, provincial, territorial and local governments are on track to swell Canada's total public debt to the equivalent of 100 per cent of GDP by 2070.

In contrast, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the provincial, territorial and local government sector does not have a sustainable fiscal structure, even though their aggregate debt - to - GDP ratio is currently under 30 per cent, but expected to rise significantly due to the impact of an ageing population on their finances.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

Many Democrats say Trump's plan puts too much pressure on state and local government budgets and are calling for $ 1 trillion in federal spending.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget director on Wednesday downplayed the look - back for local governments when calculating a tax rebate for local property owners.

Meanwhile, local governments are pushing to save a tax on third party Internet sales in the budget.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

Local authorities in England and Wales currently have the highest highway maintenance budget (# 3.5 Bn) in a decade, up 20 % on last year, with funding from central Government (# 1.2 Bn) also at a 10 year high.

At 10 a.m., the state Senate Finance Committee and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee hold a joint hearing on the 2018 - 2019 executive budget in regard to local government officials, Legislative Office Building, Hearing Room B, second floor, Albany.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

He pledged to veto all unfunded mandates on local governments if he's elected, and also nix any bill — be it Democrat or Republican — that increases spending and throws the budget out of balance.

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

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.

The hearing on Tuesday is part of «tin cup day» at the Capitol, in which local government officials — namely the mayors of the state's largest cities — comment on the proposed state budget.

The New York State Association Of Counties released its to - do list of budget priorities for the coming fiscal year, with the local government officials backing a variety of measures aimed at easing the burden on municipal - level officials and taxpayers.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in a radio interview on Monday blasted the plan approved in the 2017 - 18 state budget that encourages local government consolidation and sharing of services.

The tax cap talk at the joint legislative hearing on the state budget and its impact on local governments was dovetailed by the GOP - led Senate approving, once again, a cap on property tax increases for New York City.

ALBANY — State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli yesterday blasted his fellow Democrats for «wasted time» and warned that further delay on the weeks - late budget could devastate schools and local governments.

Public employee benefit costs in New York are incredibly out of line with those in the private sector, and impose enormous pressure on state and local government budgets.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature approved a plan in the state budget to hold the line on taxes and encourage local governments and schools to merge and share services over the next few years.

Regarding the $ 485 million cost shift from the state to city proposed in the most recent executive budget, he said, «The intent there on that proposal was, there's a belief that the local government should invest more money in CUNY.

Governor Cuomo has proposed a five year extension in his Executive Budget, but instead of addressing business concerns, it proposes new and unworkable requirements on state and local government contractors.

The budget document itself is based on the State - mandated Uniform Accounting System for New York State Local Governments, and provides a line - by - line accounting of all County revenues and expenditures.

Mayor Bill de Blasio testifies during a joint legislative budget hearing on local government in Albany, N.Y. AP Photo / Hans Pennink

Shifting Medicaid costs onto New York City would be a «giant step backwards» for local governments in New York, the Citizens Budget Commission warned in a blog post on Friday.

That's more hyperbole, not least because the SNP's share of the vote and number of councillors was actually up slightly on the 2012 result - no mean feat considering local government budget cuts in the interim.

The Fiscal Policy Institute released its annual budget analysis Tuesday, touching on everything from the non-fiscal policy issues included in the governor's 2014 - 15 plan to its impact on local governments.

The tax plan would require local governments to budget within the state's cap on local property tax levy increases and then in a second year find ways to share services.

This year's budget hearings begin on Monday, with local government officials coming to Albany to testify before members of the Senate and Assembly.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo raises the possibility of an «extender» budget blamed on federal government - level uncertainty over potential cuts in spending to the state, the Fiscal Policy Institute has released a report examining the impact of D.C. aid to New York state and local governments.

«Our infrastructure is aging, and in desperate need of repairs and improvements,» said de Blasio at the Budget Hearing on Local Governments on February 25.

While there are no new state resources set aside to ease the financial burden of state mandates imposed on county tax payers in the proposed State budget, Governor Andrew Cuomo continues to recognize the fiscal pressures on counties, and has provided some tools to help stabilize the costs imposed on local governments.

State Senator James Seward was named co-chairman of the general government / local assistance budget conference committee and will also serve on the education budget conference committee.

The measure was among the proposals in Cuomo's $ 142.6 billion budget proposal designed to ease the cost of required spending on local governments, which some critics said offers too little to struggling local governments.

The New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) on Monday presented testimony on the county impact of the 2013 - 14 State Budget to a Local Government Hearing of the New York State Legislature.

During a speech in Irondequoit Thursday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo kept up pressure on local governments to cut their budgets.

De Blasio is expected to testify Feb. 5 in Albany at a state budget hearing on aid to local governments.

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele said on Wednesday that a defeated referendum testing the public's support for a $ 60 - a-year wheel tax should show state lawmakers that local governments simply can't be left to fend for themselves when they need more money for their transportation budgets.

The budget also includes a proposal to authorize local governments to work with the MTA on installing cameras at railroad grade crossings, including throughout the LIRR system.

The governor and the legislative leaders, meanwhile, announced an agreement on a budget scheme allowing the state and many local governments — but not New York City — to «borrow» nearly $ 6 billion over the next three years from the state pension system in order to use the funds to make required annual contributions back to the pension fund.

Tensions between upstate state senators and the mayor of New York City were highlighted during a budget hearing on aid to local governments in Albany when lawmakers questioned the mayor for more than five hours.

None of King Cuomo's numbers ever add up,... If he just quit pizzin» away billions on sellin» himself as President, there'll be plenty of money to pay what the State shoulda been payin» from the get go,... This is exactly like the thousands of State Mandates that county, «n local governments end up payin» for,... The Problem here is King Cuomo, «n the 3 men in a room budget process,... Put the budget out in the daylight,....

A frustrated anonymous WNY local official on the governor's budget demand that local governments hold referenda ostensibly designed to cut local tax bills: «Cuomo's plan doesn't cut (excrement).

The proposal contained in Cuomo's budget plan would require local government leaders on the county level to convene a review of ways to share services on the municipal level, with a plan that would be voted on in a public referendum by November.

In 2015 - 16 the Scottish Government is funding participatory budgeting support for local authorities, a learning programme, developing innovative digital approaches and researching the impact of participatory budgeting on communities.

[I'd like him to succeed as well but his budget, like so many others, is largely based on screwing local governments and school districts.]

I'd like him to succeed as well but his budget, like so many others, is largely based on screwing local governments and school districts.

The budget office also pointed to the benefits the revenue would have on property tax bills, along with school and local government aid — something of a long - form version (with numbers) of the referendum language voters will see in November.

One hundred Liberal Democrat council and group leaders join Gerald Vernon Jackson, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the Local Government Association, in a letter to the chancellor on the state of the UK economy ahead of Budget 2012: