ALBANY, N.Y. — Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner told state legislators during a budget meeting today that her city needs state money to fix its water system and
other aging infrastructure.
Not exact matches
Among
others, there's rebuilding or repairing
aging infrastructure, supporting businesses with needed financing, and allowing the government to borrow to meet its debt obligations.
Others, like Kessler, say the economy could grow beyond its recent sluggish pace if domestic policies encouraged investment in large
infrastructure projects, such as upgrading
aging transportation and power networks, which in turn would put more businesses to work.
However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and
other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing
infrastructure needs, such as
aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.
Now,
other advanced countries, the U.S. especially, are readying to sustain the next cycle to repair its
aging and uncompetitive
infrastructure.
If President Trump's promise of
infrastructure spending to fix and replace bridges, roads, airports and
other aging public facilities across the country comes to fruition, it would also be expected to add to GDP growth.
The first budget of Premier Rachel Notley «s NDP government includes a 15 percent increase in capital spending over the next five years, with a goal to create jobs and tackle the province's
aging and neglected hospitals, schools, roads and
other public
infrastructure.
Heastie said the higher taxes on millionaires would generate sufficient revenue for the state to increase funding for schools, the
aging,
infrastructure and
other public priorities.
And while his administration has cut deals to save
other pieces of upstate's
aging energy
infrastructure, no such deal has emerged for FitzPatrick.
Getting state support to fix
aging infrastructure, is something she,
other municipalities and a statewide coalition have been vocal about for months.
Cuomo announced that $ 36 million has been invested to restore the
aging infrastructure at Jones Beach and
other state parks.
Other issues still on the table include: education spending, college affordability, raise the
age, water
infrastructure spending, workers comp reform and subsidies for three upstate nuclear plants.
There's an increasing consensus that the money, estimated to be between $ 5 billion and $ 7 billion, should be spent on
infrastructure — the state's
aging roadways, bridges, transit and
other public systems.
Common Council President James Noble, who recently formed an
infrastructure committee to help track and coordinate the city's efforts to deal with an
aging sewer and stormwater system and
other problems said that he had received no word from the Mayor's office regarding the status of the sinkhole project.
Other factors included increased building costs — think bigger and fancier homes — and
aging infrastructure.
Most of the region's population lives in cities, which are particularly vulnerable to climate change related flooding and life - threatening heat waves because of
aging infrastructure and
other factors.
«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and
aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or
other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in
other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.
In the
age of hybrid cloud and
other infrastructures designed to streamline several systems, applications such as Docker could be called into action increasingly.
The announcement has followed
other recent commitments from political parties that address physical inactivity, including the Coalition's pledge to provide an extra $ 60m for the Sporting Schools program, Labor commitment to an «active
ageing fund» and an extra $ 21m to the ABC to provide greater coverage of women's sport; and the Greens $ 250m plan for cycling and walking
infrastructure.
The ECN sought to achieve the following goals: (1) establish a comprehensive, sustainable SOC with a reliable
infrastructure for young children
ages 0 - 5 and their families; (2) reduce stigma and increase community awareness about early childhood mental health needs and the importance of responding to their needs early and effectively; (3) improve outcomes for young children 0 - 5 who have significant behavioral or relational symptoms related to trauma, parent / child interaction difficulties or impaired social emotional development; (4) provide statewide training and local coaching for providers, families, and community members regarding evidence - based practices for effectively treating early childhood mental health and social emotional needs; and (5) develop a seamless early childhood SOC using a public health model for replication in
other areas of the state.
All of these and
other domestic initiatives the president referenced, including a public - private effort for rebuilding the country's
aging bridges, ports, and
other infrastructure, are intended to help boost the economy and the middle class, which he said has been disproportionately hard hit for the past decade.