Sentences with phrase «spent at your discretion»

Citizens Union released a report on $ 4.3 billion dollars in the budget that they say are spent at the discretion of Governor Cuomo and lawmakers with almost no details released to taxpayers.

The reforms include limiting lawmakers» outside income, closing the LLC loophole in campaign donations, and clearly identifying the purpose for, and recipients of, all state funds allocated to be spent at the discretion of legislators and the governor.

On a practical level it is very important to carefully identify any unrestricted funds as these can be spent at the discretion of the trustees.

About 100 parents and students participated in Oakland Unified School District's school board meeting Wednesday and successfully advocated for $ 1.5 million to be released for school sites to spend at their discretion.

It would create the Carbon Storage Research Corporation and funnel $ 10 billion to support the corporation over the next 10 years, with up to $ 500 million designated simply for «administrative expenses» to be spent at the discretion of its officers.

Not exact matches

Falstaff at war is a parody of the other knights: too fat to be hoisted onto a horse, he spends the battle as a tubby suit of armor, waddling from tree to tree, justifying his mid-battle feint of death with «the better part of valor is discretion.»

Because we're neither wise enough nor foolish enough to know in advance how much of our clients» initial spending is «core» (increasing with inflation) and how much is «discretionary» (declining over time), this is what we do at Cornerstone (see my February 2013 Journal column, «When an Ounce of Discretion (ary) is Worth a Pound of Core»).

Bey said it is at the discretion of the mayor of Syracuse, Stephanie Miner, to negotiate and enter business contracts and to decide how to spend the city's money.

(Once those budget holes are plugged, however, additional money can be spent at the mayor's discretion.)

At the same time, local governments that have high fixed costs will have trouble reducing expenses given the lack of discretion spending.

But pork - barrel spending has crept back into the state budget in the form of capital grants doled out at the discretion of the governor and favored legislators — to the tune of $ 1.1 billion over three years, with no competitive bidding or disclosure of which politicians requested what money.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, says the governor's proposal is weakest when it comes down to large, lump sums of money that can be spent at the governor's and legislative leader's discretion, which the harshest critics call slush funds.

«That's a lot of money to be spent at the sole discretion of an individual with no oversight.»

«All political spending and engagement is made at the sole discretion of the RSLC.»

The amount of time spent on research is at the discretion of the resident's research mentor.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty and leaders at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada — about their satisfaction with the amount of time they spent on service, the nature and impact of the work, and the discretion they had in choosing the projects they served.

For example, he and Kirst said, the state board has yet to decide how it will use $ 120 million — 7 percent of Title I funding — it has at its discretion to spend on low - income students.

In N v F, Mostyn J reminds himself that these types of case are «highly fact specific and very discretionary»; but then he goes on to spend 10 pages of a 17 - page judgment explaining the cases and other external factors — ie not «fact specific» to the case at all — that he plans to take into account in exercise of his discretion (16 earlier cases — including Ribiero PJ in LKW v DD (FACV 16/2008)-- are cited).

Most critical illness policies allow you to spend the proceeds at your own discretion.

Once the bonds have been retired, this increment goes back into the general funds to be spent at the municipality's discretion.

Regardless of the reason, the money can be made available and spent at the borrower's discretion.