Sentences with phrase «public budget»

Lawmakers held the first in a series of public budget hearings.

This has been bolstered by pressure on public budgets for development cooperation and the need to complement these with private resources to finance the future development agenda.

As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending.

A rising proportion of public budgets is now devoted to paying interest on the public debt.

Meanwhile, federal projections predict that college enrollment will grow over time, putting further strain on public budgets.

Given the present trend in public budgets in Europe, these targets are very ambitious.

«We've held approximately 100 hours of public budget hearings,» said Senate Leader John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican.

Pocan's version does agree with the public record (as far as that goes) and also explains Doyle's contemptuous dismissal of calls for a more public budget process.

Sen. John DeFrancisco continued to press the Senate Democrats over the lack of public budget negotiations.

The Senate GOP said it plans to act within two weeks on its budget proposal that will be submitted to public budget conference committee negotiations with the Assembly and used during continued discussions with the governor.

Not only has Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch refused to join Gov. Paterson at public budget meetings with the leaders of the Legislature, he has also refused to attend the governor's official Cabinet meetings.

As public budgets shrink, and technology enables increasingly individualized instruction, schools are justifiably looking toward online models for ways to improve student performance.

My research interests include public budgeting, fiscal federalism, decentralisation, party politics, and Latin American politics.

PPPs can be politically appealing as a way to pay for transportation projects without directly tapping public budgets.

A surprisingly public budget war is erupting among Tory ministers: they all want austerity — but not on their turf.

The supervisors will hold their annual public budget hearing at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Bradley Pavilion of the Marcus Center for Performing Arts, 929 N. Water Street, Milwaukee.

As part of the city's new five year budget planning, public budget sessions featuring the City Chamberlain and various department heads are being held twice a month.

He said, «We are going to embark on aggressive budgets campaign against Rivers State Government for not making public the budget since they assumed office.

The chapters from Paul Crowe, Kevin Meagher and myself emphasise that these reduced public budgets need not come at the expense of increased delivery.

But you can forget about it communicating a clear pro-business message between now and 2015 - as the continuing public budget negotiations confirm.

Antonio Aledo, Professor of Sociology at the University of Alicante, warns that «because of real estate speculation and the management of public budgets based on income from the real estate business, seismic risk has been forgotten.»

Honan — whose teaching and research interests include financial management of nonprofit organizations and organizational performance measurement and management — believes tight public budgets and intense pressure for schools to meet federal and local performance assessments have contributed to an atmosphere where foundation funding also comes with greater expectations attached.

Saul implies that STC programs drain public schools of needed funding at «a time of deep cutbacks in public schools,» noting that: «This school year alone, the [STC] programs redirected nearly $ 350 million that would have gone into public budgets to pay for private school scholarships for 129,000 students.»

And while conflict is in many ways inevitable — because school districts often oversee the biggest local public budget, are significant purchasers of goods and services, and can set property (or parcel) taxes — it can be paralyzing nonetheless.

The Amazon states — which have contributed the most to Brazil's emission reductions over the last decade — received only 9 % of the entire $ 2.2 billion, and have therefore depended on their limited public budgets, that have decreased progressively over the last 3 years.

Emerging economies, such as China or Brazil, are better able to finance energy efficiency with their own public budgets, which can be combined with international flows or domestic private finance.

«Also, governments continue to subsidise the fossil fuel industry with billions of Euros from public budgets, in order to keep energy from coal, oil or gas artificially cheap compared to clean alternatives.

More important, the cliff is an obvious effort at correcting the biggest flaw in public budgeting — the tendency of politicians to ignore the broader, long - term implications of what they do by continually kicking problems down the road.

«It might put extra pressure on public budgets in the countries that will have to purchase international emission credits in order to achieve their targets,» said EEA climate expert Francois Dejean, who coordinated the report.

As public budgets shrink, and as technology expands to allow for remarkably individualized instruction, schools are justifiably looking toward online models for ways to improve student performance.

«I am pleased that we are returning to the joint, public budget negotiation process that is set in law,» said Skelos.

«Public budget hearings are well underway, the review of the proposed Executive Budget has begun, and the Senate Majority Coalition is ready to work together with the Assembly and Governor to enact a fiscally responsible state budget.»

Rank - and - file lawmakers have complained about the lack of public budget meetings.

In return for its help, Germany has demanded that Greece slash its public budgets, sell off public assets, and reform its labor laws.

According to Fed economist Andrew Haughwout, sharply higher outlays for public welfare and education fueled the increase in the two states» public budgets, which grew more rapidly than those of the other states over the same period.

«We are funded by public budgets, and we have to be respectful of these public budgets in our attitude toward energy.»

This would finance the public budget.

Brazil Newsmakers Joaquim Levy, Brazil's newly appointed minister of Finance, will need to muster all his skills to navigate the rough waters of Brazilian domestic politics and restore the public budget surplus that made the country a darling of Wall Street investors.

I believe he has a public budget, that's probably around 100 million, and a realistic budget that only him and satan k know, which is well below that figure.

The private meetings drew criticism from the Albany press corps and government watchdogs, who questioned why the governor's office had not initially scheduled a public budget briefing.

The Conservatives have a chancellor who has epitomised the austerity agenda; the Liberal Democrats have hesitated to say boo to a Tory mouse over it; and UKIP's enthusiasm for cutting taxes must translate to cutting the public budget.

On Thursday, the Senate and Assembly called a public budget conference meeting.

Where unions were already weak, legislatures took a hatchet to what rights were left — exclusive representation, dues deduction — and to public budgets, particularly for schools.

In October, Sheriff Michael Sposato refused to answer a Democratic legislator's questions about Armor during a public budget hearing, days after the commission's September findings about the jail medical contractor became public.

Gov. David A. Paterson, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and my fellow legislative leaders - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader John Sampson and Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos - should join me in a public budget forum to be televised statewide and broadcast on the radio and Internet.

We need a public budget forum, broadcast for all New Yorkers to see.

On Tuesday, both the WFP and the Alliance for Quality Education lashed out at Cuomo over his public budget stance in the negotiations.

In a significant departure from tradition, Cuomo not only did not deliver a public budget address, but — after much back - amd - forth — briefed members of the media at almost 8 p.m. at the executive mansion.