Sentences with phrase «state budget trick»

The Liverpool Central School District had its state aid reduced by $ 2.3 million last year because of this state budget trick.

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Trick question for you Phil (since you know everything)... what share was welfare in the NY State budget in 1990?

Cuomo already agreed to raise taxes on the wealthy back in December to close the rest of the gap, but he says «there are no new or increased fees or taxes» in the budget, no one shot revenue raisers, and in a state long known for complicated budget tricks, he says there are no «surprises» in his spending plan.

But in May he realized a little trick: he was the only one who could draft «extender» bills, the temporary, customarily skeletal budget bills that pay for the functioning of New York's government while state leaders are working out the real budget.

Gov. David Paterson, who perhaps has the most to gain from the ongoing state budget stalemate, sent an e-mail today to supporters that slams lawmakers for wanting to fund property tax relief with borrowing and continues his tough talk about the need for spending cuts over «fiscal tricks.»

If the Kings are victorious, Cuomo will send a hockey puck he had imprinted last year to mark the «hat trick» of three on - time state budgets.

Lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy are close to a deal to take $ 350 million out of the state's $ 20 billion spending plan for this fiscal year, a package that will include general cuts in the bureaucracy, maybe a few budget tricks and declining state employee rolls.

This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

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