Sentences with phrase «than a budget issue»

Bills that small are more of an annoyance than a budget issue, so automatic payment plans are conveniently available, as well.

Bills that small are more of an annoyance than a budget issue, so automatic payment plans are conveniently available, as well.

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This is usually a budget issue, but better to wait until you have a bigger budget than not enough animation.

True to form of 2006/07, program expenditures came in under budget, at $ 197.1 billion compared to $ 199.6 billion in the budget â $ «thereby preventing the Canadian Taxpayers Federation from issuing a press release decrying more than $ 200 billion in socialist waste.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

This was not an issue when the federal government was in deficit but became one once the budget was balanced and annual surpluses, larger than forecast, emerged.

The issue of housing has become the final coat of gloss on recent budget announcements, mentioned in passing to tick the boxes of a «well rounded» economic plan, but equating to little more than aesthetic fluff.

He has written more than 230 monographs, articles, chapters and books on such subjects as government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, inflation and currency issues.

Deutsche Bank analyst Ross Curran said the increased number of claims was driven by more claims from its marine and fire risk division in Asia as well as higher - than - budgeted crop losses in Ecuador and ongoing «issues» in its Colombian third party motor insurance book.

There is also the issue with who could possibly replace him, and do better than he has with the budget permitted, with the likes of Diego Simeone and Jurgen Klopp looking unlikely acquisitions come this summer, leaving us with Massimiliano Allegri as favourite, but he has 18 months remaining on his Juventus contract.

While the park district budget will be $ 38 million higher than in 1985, the tax burden will be reduced by a $ 29 million surplus carry - over from the present year and from $ 28 million in expenditures from bond issues which will not affect the current tax levy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday shrugged off the call from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for an even either minimum wage increase than what is proposed in the state budget, saying it's up to the state Legislature to vote on the issue, not the mayor.

The Senate passed its ride - hailing bill more than a month ago, and the governor has indicated he would like to see a solution to this issue — which eluded lawmakers last year — worked out as part of the budget.

Since then, despite all the efforts that have been made to tackle the issue of budget fraud within the EU, a report by the EU internal audit service in 2003 revealed serious impropriety at Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, where large sums of money had been diverted by officials for more than a decade.

Babylon Village officials issued more than $ 190,000 in raises to 23 full - time nonunion employees last summer without budgeting for the increases or disclosing them to the public, records show.

budget, dealing with the fallout of massive antipolice protests — things are simply a bit quieter this year, as City Hall moved to focus on housing more than the issues aligned with the NYPD.

Time is of the essence when it comes to public finance negotiations, since this is a key issue for many WFP activists who oppose giving Cuomo their party's endorsement this fall if he doesn't fails to deliver a more widespread program than the one included in the budget.

State Budget Director Bob Megna issued a statement yesterday rejecting the mayor's claim that the city stands to lose $ 2 billion if Cuomo's spending plan is enacted as - is by the Legislature and also insisting the mayor has more than enough stashed away to make up the difference of whatever the final aid reduction might be.

The issue of public financing is more acute, given that the Working Families Party is pushing Cuomo to get state lawmakers to agree on a broader public financing plan than what was approved in the state budget.

On these issues, our Conference has staked out clear positions that, in the case of ethics reform for example, are even stronger than what is included in the Executive's budget proposals and we look forward to advancing these issues at the appropriate time.»

The legislative leaders are working to resolve outstanding budget issues and the Senate hopes to see engagement by the governor in some form other than a press release.»

The deal is one step in the right direction for securing a fair split in sales tax revenue for the twin forks — which aren't policed by Suffolk County Police Department — a budgeting issue Legislator Jay Schneiderman (I - Montuak) said he had been working on for more than a decade.

But the budget included a range of issues popular voters, including a plan that would allow for free college tuition to families earning less than $ 125,000 a year for SUNY and CUNY institutions.

Sen. Joe Griffo, a Utica Republican, made some unusually critical comments about Gov. David Paterson last Friday, accusing the Democratic governor of dragging his feet on issues surrounding the almost - historically late state budget because he's «bitter» and more interested in remaining relevant than making deals.

«The budget should have one purpose and to go beyond the deadline when we're by law supposed to have a budget, that's more important than to have every policy issue that the governor or the Legislature wants.»

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

«Other than the budgeting, we still have a lot of drainage issues throughout the town and with the changing weather patterns these days, we really have to work with that.

Less than 15 % of the welfare budget is spent on the unemployed, and we need a different stance on welfare issues.

Voters surveyed said Collins, a businessman and former Erie County executive, would do a better job representing them than Hochul on the issues of jobs and the federal budget deficit.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli today issued his own mid-year summary, accompanied by a press release citing the «triple threat of budgetary risks» posed by «projected budget gaps, weaker than expected personal income tax collections and cuts to federal programs.»

Indeed, yesterday's Budget cuts to Housing Benefit are a sideshow to the big issue in housing, which is that spending has shifted dramatically towards supporting individuals with housing costs - rather than investing in bricks and mortar over the last twenty or so years since rent controls were abolished and local authorities were made to stop building council houses.

Beyond the bullying issue, spending for schools in Governor Andrew Cuomo's $ 168 billion budget is another challenge for the commissioner as and advocates sought more than the proposed $ 770 million increase.

According to the Citizens Budget Commission, when the state capped the program's annual cost at $ 25 million in 2004, less than $ 1 million in tax credits were issued.

Asked whether he is going to seek to get a deal on things other than the budget — including ethics reform and a property tax cap — prior to the April 1 start of the new fiscal year the governor said he's going to be «moving forward on all of these issues simultaneously — now, now.»

A Jcope report, issued in February, noted that «both the staff levels and operations budget for Jcope have been lower than those of predecessor agencies.»

He issued a «notice of funding deficiency,» and announced, among other cost - saving efforts, that all purchases of more than $ 250 in any county department would have to be approved by his budget office, plus the elimination of the eight bus routes.

But less than a month after the July contributions, a two - page memo went from Cuomo's Division of the Budget to the state's Dormitory Authority, which issues debt on behalf of schools and hospitals that have less experience (and scale) in the municipal bond market.

The group of women — which includes accusers of current Sen. Jeff Klein and ex-Assemblymen Vito Lopez and Micah Kellner — are calling for the issue to be addressed during the legislative session rather than through the state's notoriously opaque budget process in order to ensure an open dialogue that includes the voices of stakeholders and experts.

ALBANY, N.Y. — With less than a week before the state budget is due, lawmakers remain divided on a number of polarizing policy issues, and concerned about how future federal legislation may upend the state's finances.

Legislator Alden Wolfe expressed concern that although the agreement will not add any new expenses to the 2012 budget, the deferral will only address cash flow issues rather than producing positive savings.

Three days earlier, Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert Mujica, issued an 1,100 - word statement about «fair and equitable» school funding — an issue Ms. Nixon has advocated around for more than a decade.

The state's budget deficit for the current fiscal year has grown to more than 1 percent of the general fund, forcing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to issue a deficit - mitigation plan to balance the books.

The issues have almost nothing in common — except the support of a newly elected governor who achieved the rare passage of an on - time state budget and whose popularity polls have swelled to more than 70 percent.

And the governor quickly made it clear that he was more than willing to deal with these potentially controversial issues later in the session if it cleared the way for the earliest budget in at least three decades.

Continued failure to resolve the issue is particularly critical to the host cities, which have smaller budgets than the state and depend on the gaming revenues.

The older and larger RSC issues annual budgets intended as alternatives to the main House GOP budget, and the RSC typically takes a harder line on spending than their colleagues.

► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, attended by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others» on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the tight budget environment» scientists are currently facing.

Dr. Stern: Well, I think there are bigger issues that have to do with budget than plutonium.

I assumed it was more a budget issue than a style issue.

On pensions, the issue is the cost to taxpayers (i.e., the employer's costs) rather than a speculative value to an individual (R & B's approach), because the policy context is state and local budgets.