Sentences with phrase «state budget chief»

Sagging tax revenues and growing health - care costs have pummeled state economies so relentlessly that states are in their worst fiscal situation since World War II, a sobering new report from the nation's governors and state budget chiefs declares.

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With state budgets being cut, former SBA chief Karen Mills discusses how local economic growth does not necessarily need radical innovation to prosper.

Some experts, such as Marcus Lemon, an attorney at Polsinelli and former chief counsel to Federal Highway Administration from 2007 to 2009, say this proposal could actually help state and local budgets, because it provides more clarity about federal contributions, thereby forcing them to adapt accordingly.

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Given the looming March 1 deadline for across - the - board sequestration which would reduce State Department operations by $ 850 million and foreign assistance by $ 1.7 billion, the US» chief diplomat used his speech to defend the foreign policy budget against spending cuts, portraying foreign affairs as the guarantor of American economic prosperity.

Its head of state is the president of the United States and its head of government and commander - in - chief is the Governor of Puerto Rico, who's also responsible for presenting the budget to the legislative assembly for their consideration.

Batavia Downs will continue to lobby the state for a tax break to allow it to keep a higher percentage of net winnings after such a proposal was not included in this year's state budget, the racino's chief operating officer said.

Senate Republican President Pro Tempore Len Fasano and Vincent Mauro Jr., Senate Democrats» chief of staff and New Haven's Democratic chairman, talk before a vote on the state budget last fall.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Half of the money spent so far from New York state's $ 10 billion in legal settlement windfall has gone to support the state budget rather than the capital projects for which it should be used, the state's chief fiscal watchdog said on Friday.

David Paterson's security chief to pressure a witness not to file an assault charge against a key aide; and a secret attempt to slip huge pay raises for police brass into the state's deficit - plagued budget.

Chief Operating Officer Mike Nolan noted proposals allowing Batavia Downs to keep a higher percentage of net winnings were in the budgets proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the State Senate and Assembly, but did not make it into the final budget passed March 31.

The chief enforcement counsel position and the compliance unit were created in the 2014 state budget after the now - defunct Moreland Commission found the board rarely took action on election law violations and complaints.

The Business Council of New York State, Inc. the State's leading business advocacy organization, opposes the Executive Budget proposal to create the position of chief procurement officer, to be appointed by the governor and given principal oversight authority over all state procuremState, Inc. the State's leading business advocacy organization, opposes the Executive Budget proposal to create the position of chief procurement officer, to be appointed by the governor and given principal oversight authority over all state procuremState's leading business advocacy organization, opposes the Executive Budget proposal to create the position of chief procurement officer, to be appointed by the governor and given principal oversight authority over all state procuremstate procurements.

With less than 2-1/2 hours remaining before the 2017 legislative session's close at midnight, State Senator Leonard Fasano and Vincent Mauro, Jr., Chief of Staff for Senate Democrats, discuss the evening's final hours during Senate debate on the budget.

«Our taxpayers are supposed to have a chief fiscal watchdog overlooking state budgets, so how is it possible that we are in the shape we are in?

One of the chief arguments over the state budget will be whether to renew an income tax surcharge on New York's wealthiest.

This is the chief executive offering a budget to the people, through the state Legislature and there's going to be a process now to go through this budget and produce something that will be enacted, hopefully, by April 1.»

Even though the state is running a multi-billion dollar surplus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top budget aide is calling on state agency chiefs to submit spending proposals that assume zero growth next year.

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The Minority Chief whip, Mubarak Muntaka, stated after the presentation of the budget in an interview with Citi News that «the most shocking and the most insincere comment of the Finance Minister was when he said they had ended dumsor.»

After 11 years of his dismissal from service, a former Chief Accountant with the Kogi State Ministry of Budget and Planning, Mr Ekele Sunday Okeme has...

The state Chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, told journalists at a press briefing on Thursday in Benin that the budget did not address the challenges and hardship facing the state and its citizens.

Cuomo's budget proposal includes language that would create a chief procurement official to oversee state contracting and purchases.

Included on the venture is Secretary Bill Mulrow, Director of State Operations Jim Malatras, Counsel Alphonso David, chief of staff and special advisor Melissa DeRosa and Budget Director Robert Mujica.

Responding to an email from a New York City deputy mayor's chief of staff, then - REBNY President Steven Spinola wrote in March of 2015 that it did not appear as if the state Senate majority leader at the time, Republican Dean Skelos, had put anything about school governance in his budget bills.

Here's a copy of the State of the Judiciary address delivered by Chief Judge Jonatham Lippman earlier today in which he again defended his decision not to heed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for a 10 percent budget cut, instead putting forth a plan with a 2 percent spending increase.

Cuomo is shuffling his staff heading into 2016, according to the DN's Ken Lovett, with Melissa DeRosa tapped to serve as the governor's new chief of staff, and the Senate GOP's Robert Mujica poached to become the new state budget director.

The Senate GOP longtime lead negotiator Robert Mujica left to become Cuomo's budget director while Assembly Chief Counsel James Yates retired this summer, potentially putting state lawmakers at a disadvantage in 2016.

At noon, state Sen. Jamaal Bailey and Assemblyman Dan Quart join the Chief Defenders Association of New York and the state Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to unveil the 2018 budget and criminal justice reform priorities, Legislative Office Building, LCA Pressroom 130, Albany.

With Hartford on the edge of bankruptcy and state legislators unable to agree on a state budget billions of dollars in the red, Aetna Chief Executive Mark T.

Commisso did not disclose to the press how or when the Jan. 7, 2016 email — from former deputy state budget director and consultant Catherine Durand to the Mayor Kathy Sheehan's former chief of staff Matthew Peter — was acquired.

Marcos Crespo (D - Bronx), and other top state officials including New York Power Authority president and chief executive Gil Quinones, state Budget Director Robert Mujica, and Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Roger Parrino.

The fiscal year 2018 New York State Budget enacted the County - wide Shared Services Property Tax Savings Plan Law, which requires the chief executive officer of each of the 57 counties outside of New York City to convene a panel of public officials to develop, publically deliberate and vote upon county - wide shared service savings plans.

Officials said they still need to calculate the exact number of youthful offenders who stand to be impacted by the change, the chief culprit in the state's late budget.

The fiscal year 2018 New York State Budget enacted the County - wide Shared Services Property Tax Savings Plan Law that required the chief executive officer of each of the 57 counties outside of New York City to convene a panel of public officials to develop, publically deliberate and vote upon county - wide shared service savings plans.

The governor in his first term has cast himself as a pro-business chief executive and pursued measures friendly toward the state's business community, including a self - imposed spending cap in the state budget, a limit on annual property tax increases and a revamped economic development program called START - UP NY.

Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, ever the embracer of his «cheerleader - in - chief» role for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, told a group of small city and village mayors today in Albany that there's just no room in the state budget to increase local aid to municipalities.

Robert Megna: Director of the Division of Budget Jim Malatras: Deputy Secretary for Policy Management Andrew Zambelli: Counselor to the Governor Linda Lacewell: Special Assistant to the Governor Paul Francis: Director of Agency Redesign and Efficiency Sabrina Ty: Deputy Secretary of Legislative Affairs Barry Sample: Deputy Director of State Operations Leslie Leach: Appointments Secretary to the Governor Yrthya Dinzey - Flores: Chief Diversity Officer Gaurav Vasisht: First Assistant Counsel Alphonso David: Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights Kristin Proud: Deputy Secretary for Human Services, Operations, and Technology Elizabeth Glazer: Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Patrick Foye: Deputy Secretary for Economic Development James Introne: Deputy Secretary for Health and Director of Healthcare Redesign Thomas Congdon: Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment Yomika Bennett: Assistant Secretary for Transportation

Lawrence Marks, chief administrative judge for the Office of Court Administration, testified at a state budget hearing Tuesday that New York's judicial system is clearing up case backlogs on its own and doesn't need Cuomo's initiative aimed at unclogging trial court schedules.

More than two - thirds of income tax collected by New York state comes from downstate residents, the state's budget chief said.

WAMC's Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard reports the budget will remain within the state mandated tax cap while officials hope to complete a project that has been in the works for more than a decade.

The panel upheld SEBAC's claim that Rowland, his budget chief, Marc Ryan, and the state acted illegally by targeting union members for layoffs while sparing nonunion employees.

Chief among these issues were the upcoming 2014 Legislative Session and the 2014 - 15 state budget, which annually impacts county operations and funding.

The Chief Whip of the House, Mr. Alhassan Ado - Doguwa, also stated that the budget must follow laid down procedure for passage.

One of the chief arguments over the state budget will be whether to renew an income tax surcharge on New York's wealthiest, known as the millionaires» tax.

Ep 4 - $ 32.5 billion — July 6, 2017 — Ben Max of GG, Maria Doulis of CBC, & guest Janno Lieber, new Chief Development Officer at the MTA discuss the state of the subways, MTA management and budgeting, major projects the MTA is undertaking and balancing them with upgrading and repairing the current subway system.

ALBANY — Maggie Miller, the state's chief information officer, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers at a budget hearing Thursday afternoon about the Cuomo administration policy of automatically deleting emails of state workers that are more than 90 days old.

Also on the agenda is a talk on the governor's ability to shape the language of the state budget, the change in the political landscape when Pataki steps down at the end of the year, the chief concerns of New York's ailing cities, and the validity of mayoral term limits.

O'Donnell and Krueger — who grilled the state's chief information officer, Maggie Miller, during a budget hearing after the publication of the initial report — agreed.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, former New York state Gov. Eliot Spitzer leads Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer 48 % -33 % in the Democratic primary race for New York City comptroller, the city's chief budget officer.