Sentences with phrase «public agency budgets»

In the recent era of tight public agency budgets, the community school approach has offered a strategic method for making tough budget decisions — making the most of existing resources.

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In Quebec, for instance, public low - income housing agencies estimate that a recent cut in funding slashed their repair budgets by 30 %.

Chief Public Defender Bennett Baur insists on his agency's obligation to speak out when attorneys and budgets are strained.

And while no specific numbers have yet been revealed in the Trump budget outline for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Republican replacement plan for Obamacare already has that agency in the cross hairs — by promising to eliminate a government prevention and public health fund that puts a billion dollars in the CDC's coffers, the Washington Post reports.

My multi-million dollar marketing budget included tens of thousands of dollars a month for a public relations agency, hundreds of thousands a year for print advertising and glossy collateral materials, and expensive participation at a dozen trade shows a year.

Among other proposals, the budget would slash of one - third of Environmental Protection Agency's discretionary budget, totally eliminate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, and end the grants that currently fund food assistance to the elderly via Meals on Wheels.

The simplest approach to funding - direct funding by your municipality, a government agency, or by the state (e.g., state department of public health, school department budget), or through a government grant - may be all that is needed, particularly if you are seeking to start a Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire community, or a significant segment, such as the public schools.

Other defense witnesses include people who are or have been employed by Cuomo's office, the state's economic development agency, Cuomo's budget division and the Public Service Commission, which regulates power plants such as the one built by Competitive Power Ventures, which employed Kelly, one of the defendants, and hired Percoco's wife.

In the 2014 - 2015 budget, the agency was unable to guarantee money to any of the state's counties for public defense.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) recently traveled to Plattsburgh to oppose President Donald Trump's proposed budget, which would eliminate funding from four agencies that fund art organizations, museums, libraries and public broadcasting affiliates.

But the governor will get pushback from the state worker unions if he tries to balance the budget solely through state agency cuts and consolidations, says Public Employees Federation President Ken Brynien.

The credit rating agency Moody's in a report released Wednesday found the free tuition program as approved in the 2017 - 18 state budget is unlikely to have a negative impact on the credit of the state's public universities.

On the heels of Gov. David Paterson's comment this morning that public employee layoffs would likely start in mid-November, state Budget Director Robert Megna sent a memo to all state agency heads informing them that 2,000 heads will be on the chopping block between now and Dec. 31, 2010.

The comptrollers found that the agency's 2010 budget for telling the public about the work was a mere $ 228,000 for its 2.3 billion annual riders whereas the Long Island Railroad, with a fraction of the ridership, had allotted $ 742,000 for that purpose.

Meanwhile, 30 government reform groups wrote a letter to Cuomo asking him to make good on his call for public campaign financing, and for an independent agency to enforce regulations by putting money for those plans in the budget.

Among Citizens Union's proposals are: independent budgeting for JCOPE; investing in database resources and information technology; an open process of personnel selection; making internal workings public and transparent; improving the process of financial disclosure reporting by coordinating with different agencies; reducing response time to complaints; and improved guidance of grassroots lobbying to ensure ethics compliance.

Horner said reformers» collective wish list includes changes to government contracting, including pay - to - play activities, and greater appropriations for enforcement agencies such as the state Board of Elections, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and the Authorities Budget Office.

Cuomo's proposed budget legislation contains numerous non-budgetary matters, including changes to state Freedom of Information Law that would, among other things, make the state Legislature subject to the same level of disclosure as the Executive Chamber, state agencies and other public entities.

If doing double duty as a courier or digging up spare stamps takes more time, DEC workers may have to shift around their priorities, as Gov. David Paterson's Budget Division, in another cost - cutting move last week ordered agency heads to eliminate overtime except in instances where health or public safety is impacted.

At a budget public hearing two weeks ago, concerns were raised that the sharp decline in recyclables would have the dual effect of depriving the agency of revenue and costing it more money to ship garbage to a landfill in Seneca Meadows near Syracuse.

The administration's recently released budget documents contain the little - noted proposal to create an agency that could oversee public construction projects worth more than $ 50 million.

ALBANY, NY (11/08/2010)(readMedia)-- The New York State Division of Budget will hold formal public hearings on next year's 2011 - 12 Executive Budget, including agency and capital budgets, on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, in Room 124 of the State Capitol, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Robert Megna: Director of the Division of Budget Jim Malatras: Deputy Secretary for Policy Management Andrew Zambelli: Counselor to the Governor Linda Lacewell: Special Assistant to the Governor Paul Francis: Director of Agency Redesign and Efficiency Sabrina Ty: Deputy Secretary of Legislative Affairs Barry Sample: Deputy Director of State Operations Leslie Leach: Appointments Secretary to the Governor Yrthya Dinzey - Flores: Chief Diversity Officer Gaurav Vasisht: First Assistant Counsel Alphonso David: Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights Kristin Proud: Deputy Secretary for Human Services, Operations, and Technology Elizabeth Glazer: Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Patrick Foye: Deputy Secretary for Economic Development James Introne: Deputy Secretary for Health and Director of Healthcare Redesign Thomas Congdon: Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment Yomika Bennett: Assistant Secretary for Transportation

The New York City Housing Authority is the only public housing agency that has a line item in the budget.

Details on those local reports are not yet available to the public, said Joe Wierschem, counsel for the agency, citing the ongoing budget process.

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The General Assembly's Appropriations Committee has just begun holding public hearings and state agency presentations on Malloy's proposed $ 19.8 billion budget, which is $ 569 million less than what lawmakers originally agreed to last year when they passed a two - year $ 40 billion plan.

The Council's executive budget hearings will continue for the next few weeks, looking at individual city agencies, with the last hearing scheduled for May 24 where the public will be invited to comment.

ALBANY — Though Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made expanding oversight of public officials a centerpiece of his agenda this year, none of New York State's commissions or agencies specifically charged with policing ethical lapses received an increase in funding in his proposed budget.

These functions include a variety of activities which assist both governmental agencies and the general public, such as: (1) Review and approve and sign street acquisition and damage maps for Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); (2) Review and approve street alteration maps; (3) Review and ensure the maintenance of survey monument information; (4) Review and ensure maintenance of street grade and elevation data for the Borough; (5) Issuance of street house numbers and the management of the topographical record room; (6) Present new revenue stream ideas and develop the fee structure for topography services and a system to collect, maintain and reconcile said fees; and (7) Work with the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and appropriate.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

All the Orange County legislators were provided with documentation of factual cases of civil forfeiture abuse; law enforcement agencies and local municipalities using the proceeds of forfeiture properties, cash and cars to balance their budgets; articles from conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation against this law and public comments from citizens, attorneys and former police officers expressing their view against this law.

Never mind that he balanced the state's budget his first year in office by giving wealthier New Yorkers a free ride while forcing massive givebacks from state public - employee unions, and came back for more the following March by inflicting Tier 6 on future employees, in municipalities as well as those joining state agencies.

Again this year, the annual public hearing on the proposed Erie County budget was dominated by cultural agencies and the library system.

The water authority has long kept agency information from the public, even though the agency has more than doubled the amount of money budgeted for «public information» since last year.

The proposed budget provides no funding for the Academic Centers for Public Health Preparedness, established in 2000 to strengthen bioterrorism and emergency preparedness by linking academic expertise to state and local health agencies.

Financing public health work will be another of the agency's most pressing issues — even as the Trump administration has proposed significantly slashing the CDC's budget, including a 43 percent cut to its Public Health Emergency Preparedness prpublic health work will be another of the agency's most pressing issues — even as the Trump administration has proposed significantly slashing the CDC's budget, including a 43 percent cut to its Public Health Emergency Preparedness prPublic Health Emergency Preparedness program.

On the human spaceflight side, which accounts for about half of the agency's budget, Congress continued to support both public and private approaches to getting humans into space.

Its Prevention and Public Health Fund, which is part of the Affordable Care Act, accounts for more than a tenth of the agency's budget, Frieden notes.

Public health agencies across the globe are challenged with preventing the spread of chronic diseases while dealing with limited funds and devastating budget cuts.

Therefore... we hope to see that the President's FY 2016 budget proposal prioritizes NIH funding so that the agency is able to begin the process of ensuring that our country is able to consistently support the plethora of research opportunities to improve public health that currently exist.

This budget distribution added to a disconcerting trend in public genomics funding in which agencies use large - scale centers to produce data, but balk at providing the funds to analyze those data.

Our approach to valuing pensions, which considers both the generosity and the risk of pension benefits, is entirely consistent with economic theory, the way in which liabilities of all types are valued in the private sector, public - sector accounting standards in Canada and Western Europe, academic writings, and the judgments of officials at nonpartisan government agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The report also looked at staffing changes during the Great Recession where economic distress caused many public agencies to see their budgets slashed.

North Carolina's superintendent of public schools is asking lawmakers to delay a planned $ 5.1 million cut to the state education agency's operating budget for the 2018 - 19 school year, saying his agency needs the money to be more efficient and effective.

This week's budget plan also hands down a whopping $ 50 million in cuts over two years to central office administration and operations in the Department of Public Instruction, despite claims from the state's top public school agency that past legislative cuts have severely hampered the department's ability to provide intervention and guidance in North Carolina's poorest and most low - performing distPublic Instruction, despite claims from the state's top public school agency that past legislative cuts have severely hampered the department's ability to provide intervention and guidance in North Carolina's poorest and most low - performing distpublic school agency that past legislative cuts have severely hampered the department's ability to provide intervention and guidance in North Carolina's poorest and most low - performing districts.

The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (PRA) requires that agencies obtain Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval before requesting most types of information from the public.

The public wants greater accountability; revenue for highway programs is down; and tighter budgets require highway agencies to do more with less.

Many police agencies do not have a budget for police dogs, so they are purchased by public and / or corporate donations.

However, investment in energy efficiency R&D has typically been less than 10 percent of the overall public sector R&D budget in the countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA).