Sentences with phrase «power over the state budget»

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.

Not exact matches

First, the state Education Department and the teachers unions must resolve a lawsuit over the evaluations or Cuomo will insert his own plan into the 30 - day amendments (taking advantage of the broad powers the governor has over the budget in New York).

First in his original budget, and then in the 30 - day amendments released last Friday, Cuomo placed controversial ethics and education reforms in appropriations bills, over which the Legislature is afforded very little power under the state Constitution.

A one paragraph clause in Governor Cuomo's budget has caused some concern among state lawmakers over the separation of powers between the governor and the legislature.

George Pataki greatly expand the powers of the governor over state legislators in the budget - making process met this week with Cuomo administration lawyers.

At the time, Cuomo did not include any contingency plans for action on the federal level, such as a repeal of the Affordable Care Act or cuts in spending that would impact the state, save for a desire to have expanded powers over the budget without the consent of the Legislature — a non-starter with lawmakers.

Cuomo has supported public financing of political campaigns in the past, but has up until this point not included such a system in the state budget proposal — a process that the governor's office has broad power over.

A controversial provision that would have given the state veto power over certain New York City affordable housing projects was nixed during budget discussions.

Cuomo says the broad powers his office has over arenas like the state budget gives him the «strength» to get things accomplished.

That change perhaps allowed Pataki to score a victory in a struggle for power with the legislature over the state budget, when the governor won in case known as Pataki v Silver.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the recently - passed New York State budget is a mixture of «simple pros and cons» and vowed that he will lobby Albany on his proposal to impose a new tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's power over the city's school system extended at least another year.

Pataki's term had been marked with annual debates with the State Legislature over the powers allocated to the Executive and Legislative Branches on the adoption of the state buState Legislature over the powers allocated to the Executive and Legislative Branches on the adoption of the state bustate budget.

To the relief of New York City officials, the budget did not include Mr. Cuomo's proposal to give a state agency veto power over individual affordable housing projects paid for with federal tax - exempt bonds the state gives to municipalities.

Well on his way to wresting rightful control over the state budget from a shameful Legislature, Gov. Paterson must exercise his newly asserted powers to full and best advantage.

«New York State has literally taken billions of dollars over the decades out of that plant to subsidize the other power plants that lose money and worse yet, billions have been dumped into New York State's general fund budget,» Jacobs said.

Mr. Raskin criticized the governor's proposal, arguing that Mr. Cuomo already had power over the agency's spending priorities and its funding in the state budget.

Finally, the Citizens Budget Commission said the New York Power Authority, a favorite budget - balancing source for governors across party lines over the years, would again help Cuomo keep his state - funded portion of the budget below a 2 percent annual growthBudget Commission said the New York Power Authority, a favorite budget - balancing source for governors across party lines over the years, would again help Cuomo keep his state - funded portion of the budget below a 2 percent annual growthbudget - balancing source for governors across party lines over the years, would again help Cuomo keep his state - funded portion of the budget below a 2 percent annual growthbudget below a 2 percent annual growth rate.

«The staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

Governor may exercise line - item veto power over overall state budget plan, which passed legislature but has yet to reach his desk.

For example, Victorian public schools have power over most of their own budget — including staff hiring - while other states, such as New South Wales, make large budget and staffing decisions centrally, leaving schools with minimal autonomy.

The spending plan would also allow Superintendent Johnson, who's been embroiled with the State Board of Education in a battle over budget and hiring powers, to name up to 10 new positions reporting solely to his office.

Recent EPA actions on climate, air quality, human experiments, the Clean Power Plan, the war on coal, and «waters of the United States» were used to expand its budget, personnel, and powers over the nation's environment, energy, and economy.