Sentences with phrase «percent vote on the budget»

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It has been keeping track of the votes since 1969, and they say on average 83 percent of budgets are approved each year.

The NYC Council's Committee on Finance voted to increase the Council's operating budget to $ 81.3 million, an increase of nearly 27 percent from the current budget, following through on Speaker Corey Johnson's promise to increase internal resources and produce a stronger role for the legislative body in areas such as land use and oversight.

New York voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, May 16, to vote on school budgets that are benefiting from a $ 1 billion boost in state aid and a more flexible property tax cap, with just 12 districts seeking a 60 percent vote to override the cap.

For some, such as most town and village boards, the tax cap is only a matter of optics: on a five - member board, a 60 percent override requires the same three votes as a simple majority needed to approve a budget.

If he does, his first contribution could be to the New York City budget — saving the expense of a runoff election,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement, referring to the runoff election that will take place in October if no candidate gets 40 percent of the primary vote on Sept. 10.

The Mattituck - Laurel Library will hold its vote Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.. On the table is a budget increase of 1.55 percent, which carries an additional tax cost of about $ 7.12 for the average household, according to the library's fall newsletter.

The reality is you'll not be voting on budgets that will raise your taxes by less than 2 percent this year.

Mr. LaValle accused Mr. Shaffer of calling the conference call to distract reporters from a Newsday article published Saturday that noted Mr. Bellone raised on average the amount a Babylon resident pays in general taxes by 108 percent since 1999, when he first voted on a town budget as a council member.

«While Howard Kopel voted to eliminate the tax on heat and electricity and voted for two no - tax - increase county budgets, his opponent, Adam Moser, wants a 39 percent tax hike so county employees can continue to get free health care, 61 paid days off and big six - figure salaries.

The average tax levy increase in the 37 school budgets voted on in the two counties is 1.8 percent, and that apparently sat well with voters.

The district voted on its budget last month, which included a 6.4 percent increase in spending — a total of about $ 418 million.

The rare move came during a vote on a fiscal year 2012 budget proposal by the Republican Study Committee, a group of 176 conservative House Republicans, or 76 percent of the entire Republican conference.

Wilber's budget for the coming year, on which the town board will vote shortly after the election, calls for a tax levy increase of 0.823 percent, meeting the state's imposed cap on taxes, factoring in Woodstock's growth rate.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Suffern Village Board met on the evening of April 1 to vote on the village budget, clearing a plan with a two percent village tax and several last - minute amendments to items such as sewer and water rates.

Whereas Leave.EU relied on Cambridge to influence voters through its use of data analytics, Vote Leave turned to AIQ, eventually paying the firm roughly 40 percent of its # 7 million campaign budget, according to The Guardian.