Sentences with phrase «significant budget challenges»

During my time as a Resident, Houston Independent School District faced significant budget challenges.

The report noted «while projected budget gaps may currently appear modest — certainly when compared with gaps faced in some recent years — the next Mayor and City Council are likely to face significant budget challenges,» a situation Mr. Thompson described as Mr. Bloomberg and Ms. Quinn rather literally passing the buck.

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OPINION: Ben Wyatt has dealt with a range of challenges during his relatively short political career, but next month's budget will be his most significant.

'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

«While there are significant challenges ahead, we're eager to open a productive dialogue to steer to the county toward a structurally sound and balanced budget,» NIFA Chairman Adam Barsky said.

«The City of Syracuse has made significant progress in addressing the reality of our fiscal challenges,» In her letter to the council, Miner said the budget makes progress in addressing the «reality of our fiscal challenges.»

As a result of a decrease in energy costs and weakening of the Canadian dollar, sales tax revenue continues to decline which creates significant challenges for the county's budget.

These major issues will create a significant challenge for Erie County as we work to ensure a fiscally responsible budget.

Mulgrew took time to thank the Council for fighting to prevent teacher layoffs last year, but he challenged the lack of a significant funding increase in the mayor's preliminary budget for next year.

In recognition of those challenges and in order to help offset tightening budgets, AAAS / Science is pleased to offer a significant discount for those customers who subscribe to the new e-resource, Science Translational Medicine, before December 18, 2009.

Clearly this increase will add to the already significant challenges faced by public services, already under huge pressure because of budgets cuts.

This significant improvement has been achieved at a time of significant challenge, including: stagnant budgets; Ofqual's changes to marking, which prompted protest about GCSE English marking in 2012; the reform of GCSEs and A-levels; and the removal of a number of popular vocational courses.

Given the significant challenges our schools face and natural rising costs, another year at $ 11,000 per student would force us to make yet another round of painful budget choices.

There are lots of districts where a significant portion of the population is economically disadvantaged, and most school districts have tight budgets, and this can be a real challenge.

«Lower class sizes are desired, but how the legislature has chosen to implement them presents significant challenges for districts and will result in either local budget cuts or local governments may have to increase taxes to pay for this change,» said Todd LoFrese, assistant superintendent for support services for Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools.

This volatility poses significant challenges for projecting property tax receipts for FY2013 and budgeting for FY2014.

When asked to state the most significant challenges faced by the district, survey takers frequently cited retaining quality teachers, declining student enrollment, lowering class size, the budget and insufficient marketing of the district's high points.

This patron - driven approach to library ebooks solves a significant budgetary challenge faced by all libraries — namely that libraries under other systems routinely waste precious budget to purchase books that are never read.

Pioneering work in British Columbia suggests that it will be a real challenge to achieve that objective by April 2020, but one which is well worth the effort, and the significant funding budgeted for the purpose.»

The most significant challenge for Contra Costa CAPFO has been the budget environment.

Mundine's main messages to the conference were around the coming Federal Budget, saying he was aiming to convince the government not to make any overall cuts to Indigenous spending in return for significant savings to come from an «infrastructure audit» and in cutting a swathe through red tape which he says is the «greatest challenge» to Indigenous health policy and services.

Whilst we welcome this significant investment in medical research, we also note the challenges associated with other aspects of the budget, particularly for people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds and those that will be financially challenged by the introduction of GP co-payments and changes to the PBS.

Adding to the challenge are tight capital budgets and the significant cost nature of clinical build - outs at a time when construction costs are rising.

This uncertainty includes the upcoming and repeated challenge of raising the debt ceiling (this deadline was originally scheduled for early September, but got pushed out until December); enacting a federal government budget for fiscal year 2018 (the fiscal year began October 1st, but Congress extended last year's budget until December); and engaging in the first significant discussion of tax reform in 30 years.