Sentences with phrase «several budget sessions»

Last year, the Common Council held several budget sessions between October and January of this year, when the 2017 budget was adopted.

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Republican lawmakers in the chamber have for the past several legislative sessions pushed for an ease to regulations in the state, and this year the GOP conference renewing that effort after ultimately backing an increase to the state's minimum wage in the budget, with the floor growing to $ 15 in some parts of the state over the next several years.

The Assembly and Senate both voted into the early hours of the morning, passing several noncontroversial budget bills — for example, a transportation funding measure that did not include anything for the MTA, which is an area that has caused considerable consternation this session.

However, George Osborne's budget statement foreshadowed several pieces of legislation for the next session.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said it's possible he'll call a special session to address potential gaps in the state budget that could total several billion dollars.

Eugene, who is one of several Brooklyn Council members to take part in Participatory Budgeting, will hold a training session on Tuesday, March 27, at Brooklyn Law School, starting at 6 p.m.

Several insiders contended that Bronx Sen. Jeff Klein, who hopes to become the Democrats» leader next year, gained power during the confusing final days of the session, when he blocked Sampson's bid to bring the final budget bill to a vote.

Within hours, Mr. Paterson counterattacked, saying through a spokesman that he would call the Legislature into extraordinary session on Sunday evening to consider several measures, including an overhaul of the state university system that would allow individual campuses to set their own tuition rates and a requirement that the Legislature certify that budgets are in long - term balance.

There's a chance that the minimum wage will be dealt with, along with several other major policy issues like government ethics reform, in the legislative session following the budget.

But several advocates I spoke with today said the true test of whether Cuomo is serious about creating a public campaign finance system is if he puts funding for said system in his 2014 - 15 executive budget proposal (assuming, that is, no deal is reached prior to the start of the 2014 session, which, given the Senate GOP's opposition to the idea, seems highly unlikely at this point).

Budgets in New York have a habit of falling out of balance over the last several years, necessitating lawmakers to return to Albany after the regular session is completed in order to plug the leak.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled today that the contentious issue of mayoral control over New York City public schools — along with several other major policy debates — will «more likely» be decided during the regular legislative session, after the state budget deadline of April 1.

Several high - level legislators have shrugged off the consequences, noting that counties reliant on sales tax don't put their budgets together until the fall (a measure to extend their power to tax also was not resolved before the end of session) and school doesn't being until September.

Cuomo was asked, by a reporter at the budget signing ceremony, whether he would support Senator Skelos to continue as majority leader of a Republican led Senate after the November elections, Cuomo did not say no, only that it was still too soon to talk about politics, with several months of the legislative session remaining.

Then, the budget was approved on time, a day early even, and Senate Republicans cooperated with Cuomo on several other items, including pension reform, during an all night session in mid March.

Mr. Harris, who chose not to seek re-election this year after 12 years in office, was one of several department heads to present their 2014 department budgets at a special Town Board work session Monday afternoon.

As Capital reported, top Cuomo aide Larry Schwartz was in contact with the Tax Foundation as the budget was negotiated last month, and their rankings came up several times in closed - door session, according to a source familiar with the talks.

HARTFORD (AP)- A day after adjourning the 2008 legislative session, some state lawmakers want another crack at the budget and other unfinished business and may return to the Capitol in the next several weeks.

With California's fiscal outlook worsening, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week called state lawmakers into a special session to balance the current budget, while governors in Mississippi, New York, and several other states sounded alarms about their own revenue problems.

A diminishing courts budget was just one of several hits justice took when state lawmakers last convened for the 2013 - 14 session.

Other issues were more contentious, but ultimately the negotiated budget increased funding to several key areas including: $ 28 million for safety improvements at the state's mental health hospitals; $ 7 million for recruiting new public school teachers and retaining existing ones; $ 190 million from the state's emergency fund to address damages from the last round of wildfires; $ 15 million to expand programs that combat homelessness; and, $ 8 million to backfill tuition cuts made to state colleges and universities during the 2015 session.

Now, with just two weeks left in the session, lawmakers not only have to agree on a budget that is reportedly still contentious in several areas, but are also trying to come up with a response to the Parkland school shooting that will offer real changes to prevent further shootings while also not betraying the Second Amendment fundamentalist coterie of the Republican - led Legislature's base.

Despite a very tight state budget, REALTORS ® and their communities throughout Florida are walking away from the 2018 session of the Florida Legislature with several key victories: a $ 31 million cut to the Business Rent Tax, $ 110 million for affordable housing projects and more than $ 400 million for Florida's natural resources.