Sentences with phrase «spending tied to the governor»

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Heastie, in the interview, sounded a note of alarm over the governor tying policy such as income disclosure proposals to spending in the budget.

The governor is tying the measures to spending in the state budget — a move that tests the limits of the governor's legal authority.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

Silver, a liberal Democrat with powerful union ties who has repeatedly stymied efforts by the last three governors to restrain spending, said he was fully behind Cuomo's pledge to slash the budget to close a projected $ 8 billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning April 1.

And the governor is predicating his latest push for property tax relief — a $ 1.66 billion income - based circuit breaker plan tied to the property tax cap — on the idea that local governments are on a spending binge.

An advocacy group with ties to President Trump is suing the Cuomo administration saying the New York governor failed to fork over details on how $ 247 million was spent on...

In his executive budget proposal, Governor Cuomo tied education spending to changes in the state's teacher evaluation system.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).