Sentences with phrase «significant local costs»

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The company hasn't said whether it prefers to build downtown, as it has at its current headquarters in Seattle, or will opt instead for a suburban office park — a decision that could have significant implications for the project's effect on local housing costs.

They also find themselves up against a new kind of competitor — nimble, focused, entrepreneurial enterprises, deeply embedded in their home markets, with significant cost advantages, ready access to local talent and often a hard - driving founder.

Pricing increased 3.7 percentage points, despite deflation in key commodities, due to significant pricing to offset higher input costs in local currency.

The market's largest producers, including Newcrest Mining, Evolution Mining and Northern Star Resources, have also benefited from recognition that the recent rise in the US - dollar gold price, a weak local currency and lower costs across the sector have created significant positive tailwinds for Australian gold miners.

Ukwazi is working on a project feasibility study for a local iron - ore project, where, for example, the company recommended that the client change the location of the processing plant to save significant capital and operational costs while greatly improving efficiency.

Incentives offered by the state / province and local communities to offset initial capital outlay and ongoing operational costs will be significant factors in the decision - making process.»

While Medicaid represents the single largest cost to Erie County, more than $ 211.7 million this year alone — the local share of more than $ 1 billion annually — prior administrations failed to take significant action to help reduce this burden on local taxpayers.

«While Medicaid represents the single largest cost to Erie County, at more than $ 211 million this year alone, prior administrations have failed to take significant action to help reduce this burden on local taxpayers,» said Poloncarz.

adoption of a real property tax cap, as advocated by Governor Paterson, coupled with significant mandate reform and local government consolidations - actions that would reduce the enormous size and cost of local government, and the state's crippling real property tax burden.

Dog wardens are already equipped with micro chip readers and therefore we believe that enforcement would not result in significant additional costs to the local authority, indeed we believe considerable cost savings would be made through reducing the need for kennelling.

«Some pupils may not be able to get into their local school, some parents are faced with uncertainty and possibly significant costs of transporting their child across to a school some distance away.

Despite significant cost pressures on local government, our relentless pursuit of value for money has meant that we have cut council spending by # 7 million (or 4 per cent) in cash terms, cut the workforce by 18 per cent (or 950 full - time equivalent employees) and cut the council's debt by # 20 million.

Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.

«Incentives offered by the state / province and local communities to offset initial capital outlay and ongoing operational costs will be significant factors in the decision,» Amazon said in an eight - page request for proposal on its website.

The cost of moving all statements to plans will be incurred by local authorities that are already seeing a significant reduction in their budgets and hence staffing.

While protecting charter schools, who proved to be among his largest campaign donors, Malloy's new spending plan actually includes a variety of significant cuts to public education programs including a $ 15 million cut in the school transportation grant which will simply shift the burden for those costs onto local property taxpayers.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

While Northwest Academy's tuition is lower than many local independent schools, the cost is still a significant challenge for many families to meet.

Even if that's true, the cost to taxpayers at the state and local level will be significant.

Debt settlement can be a complex business and mistakes can cost you significant money if your customer sues or reports you to the FTC or local consumer protection group.

Fourth, the most cost - effective and significant avenue for emissions reductions is through fuel switching in the electricity grid, but state and local governments do not control the grid.

Overall, since most businesses will pass some of the cost back to consumers, and since consumers will have more money in their pockets due to the significant rebate component of the policy, business will benefit from increased liquidity in the local economy.

The landmark ruling of the state's Energy Commission is expected to lower the monthly cost of home ownership by $ 40, but it will also have significant benefits for the local economy and the electric grid.

Second, significant uncertainty underlies the «correct» monetization of the social cost of a ton of CO2 emissions (SCC), and the extent to which global benefits should motivate local policies is controversial.

This technique, which would only be carried out when other safety considerations have been assured, will deliver significant improvements to local air quality at airports and reduce fuel burn as well as costs to airlines.

The research revealed that a small but significant minority (6 %) of civil justice problems led to loss of a home and, of that number, almost half (46 %) ended up in temporary accommodation at an average cost to the local authority of # 5,640 and the costs of a failed tenancy could be as much as # 10,500.

The whole premise of LPO services is the significant cost advantage of the service (amongst other benefits) over local comparable services.

The bicyclist who was injured in the crash and airlifted to a local Los Angeles - area hospital will likely face significant financial costs as he recovers.

The whole premise of LPO services is the significant cost advantage of the service (amongst other benefits) over local... [more]

Whether outsourced to a local IT vendor or added to the responsibilities of your internal IT department, there is a significant cost in paying for the people to manage the secure environment required to keep these running.

Because of this, state and local law enforcement incurred significant costs that they are unable to afford on their own,» Deutch, Nelson and Rubio wrote.

Created a local operating procedure document that significantly streamlined accounting procedures, decreased the frequency and volume of lost tools; providing significant cost savings to the government

Unsurprisingly the courts and local authority social work teams are extremely stretched, the system is very expensive (care order applications cost the public purse well over # 25,000 a case on top of the child's care costs) and significant delays in finding a permanent placement for the child is a common occurrence.