Sentences with phrase «said agencies spent»

Spring Valley poice said agencies spent five months investigating «a network of career criminals» who had been alleged to be dealing heroin and crack cocaine in the Lakeview Village apartment complex on Memorial Dr and South Lake Street in Spring Valley.

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That would translate into an additional $ 190 spent on fuel by the average U.S. household this year compared to last, the agency said.

«Alarmingly the Auditor General said that while $ 200 million was the amount he could track, the processes were so poor he had no idea how much was being spent within individual government agencies as part of the project,» Mr Buswell said.

President Donald Trump has said he plans to pay for billions of dollars more for the military by cutting spending on domestic agencies and departments.

«We've reduced our discretionary spending over the last seven or eight years an incredible amount,» said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R - N.J. «Maybe some people don't like those agencies, but it's been pretty difficult for them to meet their mandate.»

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

«Ultimately, if users opt to stay on the platform, then it's unlikely we'll see significant shifts in media spends in the short term,» said Benjamin Arnold, managing director of ad agency We Are Social.

The ratings agency Moody's maintained the US's top - notch «Aaa» credit rating Thursday, saying, «The diversity, dynamism, and competitiveness of the US economy, along with the US dollar's status as the preeminent international reserve currency and very large size and depth of the US Treasury market, offset rising fiscal pressures stemming from aging - related entitlement spending, higher debt - service payments, and recent policy actions that will likely reduce future revenues and increase expenditures.»

On the eve of critical hearings on Capitol Hill, top White House officials are intensifying efforts to document wasteful spending by Scott Pruitt as President Trump weighs whether to keep supporting his controversial Environmental Protection Agency chief, senior administration officials said Wednesday.

Pruitt's trip to Australia was ultimately scuttled — the EPA said Pruitt needed to handle the agency's response to Hurricane Harvey — but not before EPA officials spent $ 45,000 in federal funds on a planning mission to Australia, according to Reuters.

Mulhern, who earlier in his career spent three years at sibling agency BBDO as an executive vice president, will look to continue to build momentum for McDonald's, says Clark.

«This steers away from current agency trends,» she says, «where they base their insights on customers from a cursory look at big data — our entire agency is spending time with the people we are targeting.»

Ballard said in a few years they would be spending big in free agency and people aren't going to know what to think.

• Rightsizing Government: Saying that redesigning New York State government is essential to rebuilding the state's economy, Governor Cuomo issued an Executive Order creating the Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission to make state government more accountable and efficient by reducing the number of agencies, authorities, and commissions by 20 percent.

There's no point in giving an agency money that's going to take three years to spend it,» Cuomo said.

«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding priority,» Peters said.

Nassau's financial control board could impose millions of dollars in spending cuts to the county's 2018 budget when it meets next week, affecting everything from agency budgets to contracts and equipment purchases, officials said Tuesday.

Rightsizing Government: Saying that redesigning New York State government is essential to rebuilding the state's economy, Governor Cuomo today issued an Executive Order creating the Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission to make state government more accountable and efficient by reducing the number of agencies, authorities, and commissions by 20 percent.

A former spokesman for the Goodluck Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode, has said that the suspended Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayo Oke did not spend any money on the former President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation.

«The budget includes the flexibility to react to needs that emerge during the fiscal year, and every dollar of spending must meet the statutory and program requirements established within appropriation language and be subject to a rigorous agency review process,» said Morris Peters, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget office.

A Home Office spokesperson said: «The Home Office's annual report and accounts are published each year and detail the spending of the departments and its agencies.

The city's reliance on commercial hotels is «truly out of control,» Stringer said, noting that almost half of the increased spending on homelessness across all city agencies has come from an boost in spending on these types of shelters.

A press release accompanying the audit said the Empire State Development agency had spent the $ 211 million in advertising «with no tangible results.»

«Unlike most state agencies, every single dollar spent by the Senate - including legislative mail - is specifically lined out in expenditure reports made available to the public and the media every six months,» said Reif in a statement.

Quinn said that the council's overarching strategy was to cut discretionary spending in order to restore funding to city agencies to keep core services intact.

Witnesses for the prosecution repeatedly testified that it was Silver who had the final say on how money from the Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) was spent, and that other agencies reviewed those grants only to make sure the paperwork was in order.

He says he's holding the line on state agency spending, and he's eyeing additional revenues by taxing health insurance plans, and deferring corporate tax credits.

He says the public deserves to know how the MTA is spending its money and that the new rule ensures the agency won't be able to leave the public in the dark.

Cuomo replaced Stack (without, insiders said, even the courtesy of a «heads - up» phone call) as head of the Nassau Interim Finance Agency with Jon Kaiman, who starts working for Cuomo as a paid staffer Monday, overseeing the ongoing, hugely expensive Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts — spending for which is subject to review by NIFA.

Missing from the spending plan were any cuts, which officials said would have to wait until April because agency heads are still working to identify internal savings.

Ryan McMahon, the chairman of the county legislature said the county's industrial development agency will pay $ 787,500 for the site using their own fees so no taxpayer dollars are spent.

«A wise man once said, to get results in Albany, it's a three - legged stool and on these issues there were only two legs on the stool,» Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, a Kenmore Democrat, said of Cuomo blocking plans like a searchable database of spending projects by the state's economic development agency.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo counts on $ 1.2 billion in «fiscal gimmicks» to keep spending growth below 2 percent in his proposed 2017 state budget, a government watchdog agency said.

The agency that runs New York City's troubled subway said it plans to spend close to $ 4 billion to buy over a thousand new train cars to modernize an aging fleet, a major investment meant to help remedy the delays and breakdowns that plague the system.

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

If at least 15 percent of the contractors hired for the construction are not minority - and women - owned, Destiny will pay a $ 75,000 penalty to the agency to be spent on workforce and economic development initiatives in the city, he said.

«It makes no sense to give a dysfunctional agency money that it can't spend,» Cuomo said after signing an executive order for the new monitor.

In August 2010, Rosenthal and Stringer called on the DOT to improve safety at the intersection, saying the agency was spending too much time studying the traffic - heavy site and not enough time making actual improvements.

Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to piggyback on last year's success in closing a $ 10 billion budget deficit while holding the line on taxes by reducing estimated spending increases to state agencies and local municipalities, state officials said on Thursday.

Mr. Perales said this will be accomplished by eliminating «automatic inflators,» spending increases the state has granted to state agencies and local municipalities over the past few years.

While state agencies have been receiving a 13 percent increase in spending, Mr. Perales said their budget will remain flat this year in order to create a savings of $ 1.3 billion.

ESD CEO Howard Zemsky said recently the agency must alter its ad spending because of a looming state budget deficit and Cuomo's requirement that state expenditures increase by 2 percent or less each year.

«When we need savings, we go case by case, agency by agency, program by program,» Mr. de Blasio said, saying he was more focused on changing the city's spending on ballooning healthcare costs.

«In 2015, participants in the Commercial Production Tax Credit program hired more than 15,550 workers while spending nearly $ 100 million on productions across New York State,» agency spokesman Jason Conwall said.

«Strong, conservative fiscal policies of cutting spending and limiting our debt have created a strong financial foundation that allows us to invest in our community and grow our tax base,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «The three national credit agencies have once again confirmed our conservative approach by maintaining our stellar credit ratings.»

Yet what Cantor said last year still holds true — especially now, with a worsening budget deficit and Cuomo forced to ask all state agencies to lop off yet another 2.5 percent in spending, on top of earlier cuts.

Malloy has proposed deep cuts in state spending for many cities and towns as well as state agencies, saying those reductions would have to take effect if the budget impasse continues through October.

But Cuomo, a Democrat, said during a Tuesday radio interview that his budgeters are now projecting the «essence» of a surplus, echoing earlier comments by aides that tax cuts could be accommodated if state agencies hold spending to a two percent increase.

Skelos also said he would direct the county on how to spend $ 17 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for post-superstorm Sandy flood mitigation, according to the wiretapped conversation played Tuesday at the federal corruption trial of Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre).

He said the Urban League was wasting money on legal costs that would be better spent helping the vulnerable children and families the agency serves, calling their decision to sue «unfortunate and truly sad.»