Sentences with phrase «on the state budget because»

Latimer also faced questions over a suspended car registration due to unpaid parking tickets and missed votes on the state budget because he was traveling in the United Kingdom.

The married Democratic lawmaker who didn't vote on the state budget because he was reportedly overseas with a gal pal accused County Executive Rob Astorino on Wednesday of trying to divert voters» attention — but didn't deny taking the trip.

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And this Al - Monitor (a media site focused on Middle East which was accused of following «the agenda of the Iranian and Syrian governments and Hezbollah») article details a bit more the military budget and the growing trend of Iran's military spendings, although it does not state the current total defense budget and its numbers are considerably lower than SIPRI's for the past years, maybe because the fiscal year used in this article begins near 20th March:

Yet her campaign is being run by hacks formerly employed by Pataki, who is loathed by most NY right - wingers because he was pro-choice and he compromised on state budgets with Assembly Democrats.

And their half baked schemes to bring a bloated budget into balance because of years of bad decisions that Davey sat on the side lines watching are setting the groundwork to ruin the state.

On top of these problems, our state faces a huge budget deficit because our government has spent beyond its means for a decade.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

«In a sworn affidavit that is part of the paperwork, Assistant District Attorney Eric Seidel states that in an interview on March 12, Haggerty acknowledged that «he did not disclose to Mayor Bloomberg, his agents, and campaign employees that he was going to keep the money that was budgeted for election day ballot security operation for himself, because if he did, he would not have received the money.»»

Cuts to personnel and other expenses are on the table for the Niagara Falls School District, since the district faces a $ 6.5 million budget gap and can't increase the overall tax levy because of restrictions related to the state's tax cap.

Business Council President Heather Briccetti says her group is endorsing Cuomo over his GOP challenger Rob Astorino because of the governor's record on achieving four on time budgets, enacting business tax cuts and holding the increase in state spending and property taxes to 2 percent per year.

Sen. William T. Stachowski of Buffalo had been a holdout on passing a budget because he wanted the University at Buffalo to become a flagship campus for the state.

Ritchie says the state is in better shape now than two years ago, and that's in part because of her efforts to work with Governor Andrew Cuomo to pass an on - time budget, and because of the property tax cap.

«They told us that they had over 400 positions that were either on hold or cut because there was no state budget.

The vote on that bill — originally expected to occur last month — now might not happen until June because the assembly has prioritized the state budget, said Assemblyman John McDonald, a co-sponsor of the bill.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

Sen. Joe Griffo, a Utica Republican, made some unusually critical comments about Gov. David Paterson last Friday, accusing the Democratic governor of dragging his feet on issues surrounding the almost - historically late state budget because he's «bitter» and more interested in remaining relevant than making deals.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — New York State Senator George Latimer failed to vote on the New York State Budget this past spring because he departed for Europe the day before the vote was held in the Senate to go on a week long vacation in the United Kingdom with his girlfriend, New Rochelle City Court Judge Susan Kettner, Talk of the Sound has learned.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

«We will be working very hard together with Mayor Bloomberg to push Albany for a state budget that is fair and equitable to New York City, because the fact of the matter is our city budget depends on getting our fair share from the state.»

Business Council President Heather Briccetti says her group is endorsing Cuomo over his GOP challenger Rob Astorino because of the governor's record on achieving four on time budgets, enacting business tax cuts and holding the increase in state spending and property taxes to 2 % year.

In January 2015, Cuomo delivered a strikingly upbeat State of the State speech, complete with a PowerPoint slide depicting himself, Dean Skelos, and Silver as the «Three Amigos,» because they'd become such close collaborators, delivering four straight on - time budgets after years of blown deadlines, pre-Cuomo.

Business Council President Heather Briccetti says her group is endorsing Cuomo over his GOP challenger Rob Astorino because of the governor's record on achieving four on - time budgets, enacting business tax cuts and holding the increase in state spending and property taxes to two percent each year.

Rep. Josh Elliott, one of the chamber's most liberal Democrats, told The Courant that he is still undecided because the House Democratic budget has deep spending cuts and no income tax increases on the state's wealthiest citizens.

In the right hands, that's an extraordinarily important post and its a crucial element of home - state «pork» because it wields tremendous discretionary power on the Defense budget.

Bob Megna, the state budget director, joked that he had to cut short the synopsis of McCall's impressive resume because of time constraints on the event.

Republican leadership said Monday it was prepared to insert into the budget measures that would eliminate most collective bargaining rights for public workers unless the High Court ruled on the bill, which had been blocked by circuit court judge Maryann Sumi because of concerns over the state's open meetings law.

While efforts to impose state taxes on Indian retailers are a perennial budget gambit, Nephew and others said they were concerned because members of the administration told them Paterson wanted to start collecting the money on Sept. 1.

New York's budget was due April 1, but little progress has been made because Paterson and the Legislature can't agree on how to close the state's $ 9.2 billion budget gap.

David Friedfel of the independent Citizens Budget Commission disputes the Cuomo administration's view that borrowing through the Dormitory Authority doesn't put taxpayers on the hook because in the event of any default, the state would «at the very least» feel political pressure to cover the costs.

House Republican Leader Themis Klarides of Derby said, «The deficit was expected because the state's budget policies over the years have been built on false assumptions, that increasing taxes will be sufficient to meet spending levels.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — New York State Senator George Latimer failed to vote on the New York State Budget this past spring because he departed for Europe the day before the vote was held in the Senate to go on a week long vacation in the United Kingdo

Fitzpatrick went on to say that the commission had to have some involvement from the governor's office, mainly because the state was in charge of the Moreland Commission's budget and the committee was provided staff and office space to work by the state.

A $ 272 million program to help states and school districts use technology for education would be axed under President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget, partly because the White House says it lacks rigorous data on its effectiveness.

Although 20 states had reported decreased or stable budgets for K — 12 education and 28 reported cuts or level funding for state education agencies, only 12 states reported cutting back on common core implementation because of budget constraints.

On pensions, the issue is the cost to taxpayers (i.e., the employer's costs) rather than a speculative value to an individual (R & B's approach), because the policy context is state and local budgets.

Some growing Oklahoma school districts have not hired new teachers they need or have made budget cuts because the Governor and the state legislature could not agree on doling out special payments for the districts.

Largely because of the increasing costs of meeting federal mandates on environmental quality, Medicaid, welfare, and other programs, the presidents argued, states have slashed their higher - education budgets.

Those included the location of charter facilities; the concern that charter schools were not serving their «fair share» of high - need students; and the impact of charters on the district's budget and teacher quality because of state - imposed constraints on the district's ability to dismiss ineffective teachers.

The commissioner said the grant would allow Connecticut to move forward on some significant education reform proposals, such as the high school reform plan proposed last year but never approved because of state budget problems.

Second, multiple programs that assist families in need have been dramatically cut, supposedly because of budget constraints, yet suddenly the state has money to spend on private schools.

Their chances of passing have risen because of crushing state budget deficits that have put teachers» unions on the defensive.»

It's the «scariest part» of the school budget, district officials say, because increases can be big, and state limits on revenue can make them hard to cover.

North Carolina State Superintendent June Atkinson added that the sequestration cuts would be doubly damaging because states and districts are already operating on shoestring budgets.

Crellin — which ranked as the state's No. 1 elementary school on achievement tests in 2010, according to The Baltimore Sun — was nearly shut down last year because of the district's budget crisis.

Funding pensions may always be a challenge because of competing budget priorities, but some experts believe states might benefit from reduced earnings assumptions that would encourage more realistic contribution levels.7 In the long run, higher interest rates for lower - risk, fixed - income investments could put pension funds on more solid ground, but until that happens many state funds are likely to remain on the fiscal edge.

If the total carbon budget to give the world a 66 % chance of keeping warming below 2 °C is 270 gigatons carbon (GtC), then because the US population is 5 % of world population, a case can be made that the United States carbon budget must be below 13.5 GtC even before this number is adjusted on the grounds of fairness or equity that takes into account the US's world leading share of historical emissions.

It considers OMTs ultra vires for two reasons, first because the ECB thereby acts outside its monetary mandate, and second because OMTs infring the prohibition on monetary budget funding stated in Article 123 (1) TFEU.

For the most part, however, because enforcing debts against state governments is so difficult, transactions are structured as much as possible to prevent the need to enforce debts in that way through (1) legal limitations on governmental liability, (2) legislative budget rules requiring interest on debt and currently due principal payments to be made first, (3) third - party bonding of state and local governmental construction projects, (4) the creation of publicly owned corporations whose debts can only be collected out of the corporation's assets and revenues, and (5) avoidance of trade credit obligations by paying bills in cash.

Large universities are not able to build much new on - campus housing to compete with privately - owned properties because state budget cuts have trimmed their ability to finance new projects.