Sentences with phrase «spending by municipalities»

           The CFIB claims this increase in spending by municipalities is a result of excessive spending on employee compensation.

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

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More money could be spent helping municipalities already devastated by the failing forestry industry, he said.

In «Baffling Budgets: The Need for Clearer and More Comprehensive Financial Reporting by Canada's Municipalities,» authors Benjamin Dachis and William B.P. Robson, say fixing these flaws is a critical step toward better accountability to voters for municipal spending and taxation.

The appropriations totals would suggest that $ 25 million has been spent or committed by the State and Municipalities Program fund.

Last year, a yearlong investigation by Newsday and News 12 Long Island found Long Island municipalities had spent at least $ 2.3 million to clean, board up and demolish vacant, foreclosed houses in 2014.

Legislature Majority Leader Peter Harkham said the measure, when signed by the county executive, would allow eligible municipalities to submit spending proposals that would use Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds to implement Green Community Program projects for properties.

Under the changes — demanded by Cuomo in the wake of the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — groups spending more than $ 5,000 lobbying municipalities with populations of more than 5,000 will have to register that activity; the previous cutoff had been populations of 50,000 or more.

Cuomo's plan would link citizen rebate checks to municipalities that abide by a two - percent spending cap and out - year spending cuts.

The two - year proposed freeze on property taxes unveiled by Cuomo's tax reduction task force this week would require municipalities to stay within their mandated 2 - percent spending increase, and in the second year the benefit would apply only to municipalities demonstrating «meaningful, concrete steps» toward permanent savings through consolidations and mergers.

«Municipalities throughout New York State, including school districts which are the biggest driver of property taxes, have by and large responded to the cap with prudent budgeting, more efficiency and restrained spending.»

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.

Under a new law that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed on the 16th anniversary of 9/11 this year, municipalities can get reimbursed by the state for the money they spend on sick leave for any firefighters who assisted in the rescue efforts at ground zero.

Cuomo's budget director, Bob Megna, said today that the state plans to pay for any such tax reductions by keeping spending increases to within two percent — a self - imposed constraint that matches the property tax cap the governor applied to municipalities.

It also thanks Silver for «rejection of the property tax freeze» that Cuomo has pushed, which would tie property tax rebate checks for homeowners to eventual spending reductions by their school district and municipality.

ALBANY — State leaders are preparing to soften Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal for a property tax «freeze» by eliminating the requirement that school districts and municipalities actually reduce spending, and by giving the localities credit for actions they've taken since the state imposed a two - percent property tax cap.

The commission recommended spending $ 1 billion over three years on a property tax «circuit breaker» — where citizens get a rebate when property taxes hit a certain portion of their income — as well as an effective freeze for ratepayers who live in municipalities that abide by a Cuomo - passed two - percent cap on growth.

Spending under the program is rooted through the state's Division of the Budget and Dormitory Authority and is supposed to be devoted to infrastructure projects, mostly sponsored by municipalities.

Most prominent among the proposals was a plan by Gov. Tommy Thompson — a longtime proponent of local property - tax relief — for a one - year freeze on spending by school districts and municipalities...

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