Sentences with phrase «proposed a budget cap»

Despite the concern at the proposed budget cap, Wolff said he was at least happy that everyone knows what the intentions are going forward and can work together to achieve a set of regulations that work for everyone.

Pai has also proposed a budget cap on the program, which could severely limit the number of people it serves.

Not exact matches

Modelling by the Curtin University's Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has proposed a capped rental deduction for investors using negative gearing, arguing it will be a a budget saver that will have minimal impact on the less well off.

The budget also proposes block granting Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at pre-ACA levels along with a state option of per - capita cap funding.

Since college athletes don't make salaries and can't be capped (or because the NCAA's capped their earnings at Tuition Plus Some Costs), think about capping the sport's most influential budget line, as proposed in Bill Connelly's nine - part plan to improve college football as commissioner.

The proposed $ 150m budget cap could have been tailored for Williams, as that is the team's approximate operating budget.

The Senate budget resolution would reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed cap on STAR property tax rebates and wants to expand the program while also freezing tax increases on the local level for seniors while phasing it out over the next decade.

The most notorious clause in the bill proposed to cap the amount of money that NGOs could receive from foreign sources at 15 % of their total budget.

NYC Administration for Children's Services Commissioner David Hansell said that his improvements to the agency face an obstacle in Cuomo, who has proposed a cap to cut state reimbursement for the city's child welfare costs from its current $ 449 million to $ 320 million in his budget.

She accepts George Osborne's budget surplus idea and has adopted a clear line on benefit cuts, supporting the Tories» proposed cap of # 23,000 per family.

Even though the cap has been overridden by the Legislature every year since it was adopted, this is the first time Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a budget that exceeds the school aid cap.

President & CEO of the Long Island Association Kevin S. Law said, «Tough times calls for tough decisions and Governor Cuomo has shown courage and leadership with his proposed budget that lowers spending, does not propose new taxes and supports a property tax cap along with mandate relief to our schools and local governments.

If the district asks voters to exceed the cap, the proposed budget would have to be approved by 60 percent of those voting rather than a simple 50 - percent majority.

There are 36 school districts that have proposed budgets overriding the cap, double the 18 districts that do so last year.

At the same time, Republicans have been ones running on tax cuts, including a cap on local property tax levy increases and the middle - class tax cut in the budget — a measure initially proposed by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Levy went on to note that a number of the cost - saving measures Paterson says he supports, including the property tax cap and wage freeze for state employees (or, alternatively, layoffs), were not included in the governor's proposed budget.

«This Proposed Budget highlights Erie County's growth and also underscores the challenges that the NYS tax cap and state - mandated costs, which constitute fully 90 % of our Budget for 2018, still present.

Many have proposed the big changes we sought — minimum wage, meaningful paid family leave, a balanced budget that caps spending and cuts taxes — but almost all have failed.

The Minority leader also accused the Finance Minister of hiding behind «rigidities» to launch an aggressive raid on statutory funds by proposing in the budget statement to cap statutory fund payments at just 25 % of revenue in order to remove «rigidities» in their allocation.

The state Council of School Superintendents raised a package of issues on Wednesday with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education budget, arguing the funding plan doesn't go far enough and that the tax cap makes it difficult for schools to raise revenue.

The governor has been particularly vocal about the proposed cap on the state and local property tax deductions, otherwise known as «SALT,» which he said could have a dire effect on New York's 2018 - 19 budget.

That plan would replace a circuit breaker program Cuomo proposed in his own budget, which many lawmakers criticized as detrimental to municipalities and school districts already struggling under the weight of a two - percent property tax cap passed into law in 2012.

After staying below the 2 percent property tax cap for several years, Utica's mayor is proposing a budget that would raise taxes by 7.8 percent.

«My proposed 2013 budget is balanced, holds property taxes under the New York State tax cap, includes no general fund tax increase and will not lay off any additional employees... I look forward to working with the Suffolk County Legislature to enact this fiscally responsible budget.»

The proposed budget of $ 40.2 million includes a tax increase of 8.86 percent, and a tax levy increase of 11 percent, blowing past New York State's new 2 percent tax levy cap.

There's no word on whether Cuomo will propose a debt limit cap in his new budget.

Districts whose proposed spending plans override their individual caps can gain voter approval only by mustering a supermajority of 60 percent or better in the May budget vote.

It reinforces the governor's claims that districts are spending too much on administrative costs — including superintendents» salaries, which he has proposed capping (although that's a program bill that came after his 2011 - 2012 budget was unveiled).

NYSUT amended the suit to include both the cap and a rebate program Cuomo proposed last year that he referred to as a «freeze» for tax increases in the budget agreement.

Of the nearly four hundred municipalities that have proposed their budgets, the vast majority, close to eighty - five percent, have stayed within the cap.»

A tax cap for New York City has never been a feature of major tax cap proposals — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's draft legislation in 2011 — or mentioned as a budget possibility until the Cuomo administration proposed shifting Medicaid costs back to New York City earlier this month.

But the issue took up the lion's share of time in a grilling of the mayor that lasted nearly five hours, as lawmakers made the argument that city should enact a cap in exchange for the Legislature's willingness to protect the city from proposed budget cuts that could cost the city $ 1 billion in the coming fiscal year.

State Senator Tony Avella, a member of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference representing Queens, sought to tie the property tax cap to the restoration of $ 209 million in Medicaid payments that the governor proposed cutting in his budget.

The back - and - forth with de Blasio could signal that Senate Republicans intend to try, over the coming months of budget negotiations, to trade the Medicaid cuts for a cap in growth in city property tax assessments, a deal that would echo the Cuomo administration's own logic when it first proposed the cuts in the governor's executive budget.

The New York State School Boards Association surveyed its members, and found that the majority of schools, 92 %, are proposing budgets that are within the limits of the new tax cap.

The 309 school districts proposing budgets at the cap's limit indicate that property taxes would have increased significantly more had the cap not deterred them.

Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, Monday, presented his proposed 2013 budget of $ 408.3 million that comes in under the two percent state tax cap and reduces spending by $ 7.6 million.

He lauded Paterson for pushing the property tax cap in his last round of budget extenders (which the Legislature refused to accept both last night and this morning), while also noting that the cap he has proposed is more stringent than the governor's.

Without overriding the tax cap or making significant cuts to the proposed budget, the comptroller warns Troy will have an unbalanced 2017 budget that will not have sufficient revenues to fund operations.

Far from endorsing the tax cap, most speakers at the sparsely attended public hearing urged the board to forgo proposed budget cuts or, in certain cases, even increase spending.

A state official said the taxes from any school or municipal district whose proposed budget feel within the state's tax cap would be combined and measured against income.

Mattituck - Cutchogue School District Superintendent Anne Smith said in an email Tuesday that while school districts are just starting to evaluate how the latest proposed tax cap and state aid figures will affect their budgets, efforts are already underway to advocate for more funding.

In the New York State Senate's response to this year's proposed executive budget, lawmakers once again suggested that New York City join the rest of the state in capping property tax increases at 2 percent.

«I'm pleased to present a proposed budget that demonstrates my administration's effort to stabilize county finances, ensure our county safety and our vibrancy,» said McCoy, a Democrat, who hails the $ 679 million spending plan as one that builds on the county's «sound» fiscal practices while keeping county spending under the state - mandated tax cap for the fifth year in a row,»... despite the continuous pressures of unfunded mandates and the real cuts we face in 2018 for state aid and programs such as foster care.»

The Senate Republicans in a non-binding resolution passed last week outlining their budget priorities proposed eliminating the statewide cap on charters and unfreezes per pupil charter tuition.

New York State School Boards Association Executive Director Tim Kremer says 13 districts proposed budgets that exceeded the 2 percent tax cap and 77 percent passed: «The voters came out and said «we understand that you're gonna need more money than what the cap would allow.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposed budget now being negotiated in Albany includes massive borrowing for major construction to rebuild New York after decades of neglect, but some analysts warn the plan narrowly avoids busting a legal borrowing cap, while masking the state's true fiscal outlook.

ALBANY — Bill de Blasio's first trips to Albany this year were like walking into a buzz saw: First, the New York City mayor was confronted by a proposed state budget that shifted millions of dollars of costs onto his books, and then he was grilled by Republicans who wanted to impose a cap on his ability to raise property taxes.

In 2011, the year before the New York State property tax levy cap took effect, 2,694 Southold Town residents showed up at the polls to vote on the proposed Mattituck - Cutchogue, Southold and Greenport school budgets.

In October, Cuomo told the Freeman that he had no plans to seek changes to the cap rule and it was up to school district voters to decide whether proposed budgets are appropriate.