Sentences with phrase «state budget hearing»

During state budget hearings this month, some legislators questioned whether the regional councils should be more accountable to the public.

The ongoing series of 13 joint state budget hearings in Albany is entering the home stretch, with hearings scheduled today for health and Medicaid, followed Tuesday by mental health.

Martelle testified in Albany at a New York State Budget Hearing on Transportation and noted the State Aviation Capital Grant Program had been funded at a level of $ 15M - $ 17M a year until 2010.

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Still, as late as January 2014 when the mayor traveled again to Albany, this time to testify before the legislative state budget hearings, he and Cuomo were still talking about one another as old buddies who might have played lacrosse together at some posh Connecticut boarding school.

State budget hearings continue at the state capitol, as lawmakers pore over the details of Cuomo's spending plan.

There is a need for a public campaign of sharing knowledge, writing postcards, phoning legislators, attending state budget hearings and asking why there is no money in the state budget allocated for a Prosecutorial Conduct Commission, said various panelists.

LICA also sent a newsletter to its members saying that the Island's legislative delegation «showed practically no interest in our region's crumbling infrastructure» at a recent state budget hearing on transportation.

The issue came up again during a five - hour state budget hearing in Albany on Monday, with legislators questioning the need for the new process, which also includes an approval role for the governor - controlled Empire State Development corporation.

During state budget hearings in February, some legislators leveled harsh criticism at the regional councils.

Lhota, testifying before a state budget hearing in Albany, said two obstacles include the design of the current Belmont spur off the main line and the LIRR's inability to add more trains during the evening rush hour, when most Islanders fans would be traveling to weeknight games.

Acting DOCCS Commissioner Anthony Annucci announced the program Tuesday during a state budget hearing, calling it a «groundbreaking move.»

De Blasio is expected to testify Feb. 5 in Albany at a state budget hearing on aid to local governments.

During nearly four hours of questioning at a state budget hearing on transportation spending, MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota assured Senate and Assembly members that an $ 836 million «subway action plan» launched last summer to fix the city's subway system is improving service, although he admitted there still is plenty of work still to do.

State Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson, however, testified at a state budget hearing in Albany the cost shift could be avoided if «efficiencies» are found ahead of the budget approval.

Mayor Bill de Blasio testifies during a state budget hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York Tuesday, January 26, 2016.

The state budget hearing is an annual mayoral ritual that forces Mr. de Blasio and other mayors from across the state to travel to Albany in the dead of winter for a never - ending, occasionally humiliating pursuit of more state funding.

At the state budget hearing, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York spoke about education, children's services and affordable housing.

Occupy protesters briefly disrupted a state budget hearing at the State Capitol Monday, saying they were angered by inequities in the tax system.

Farrell said he realized during this year's state budget hearings that it would be his last year in the Legislature.

Typically, a state budget hearing on focuses on school aid.

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.

On Thursday, Lhota is expected to testify at a state budget hearing in Albany.

At the same Jan. 27 state budget hearing, Mulgrew also noted the persistent failure of charter schools to enroll and keep as many English language learners, students with disabilities and homeless students as neighboring public schools.

At a state budget hearing on Feb. 14, Mulgrew praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo for proposing a $ 1 billion increase in education funding statewide, but he said that «our schools won't receive enough funding to maintain the services they currently have» under the new formula for divvying up school aid that the governor proposed in his executive budget.

Those layoffs would be felt heavily in the city's poorest neighborhoods, where schools tend to have the newest teachers,» Bloomberg testified at a state budget hearing this week.

De Blasio will travel onto Cuomo's turf on Monday to testify at a state budget hearing in Albany — an annual ritual that will pit the mayor against legislators.

«As of April 1, we will hit the wall,» Kobliski said today at a state budget hearing in Albany.

In January 2013, after testifying at a state budget hearing in Albany, Miner said she was surrounded for the first time by a «gaggle» of reporters who wanted to interview her on the subject.