Sentences with phrase «through budget freezes»

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Most of this is to be achieved through freezes on operating budgets and cuts to defence and international assistance.

Cuomo wants to freeze the growth in the STAR rebates that homeowners receive on their school taxes as a cost - cutting move in the state budget, saying New Yorkers are already getting property - tax relief through a separate rebate check program.

Motion for reconsideration granted: New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has revised his budget request to chop $ 100 million through layoffs and a hiring freeze across the court system.

The pay freeze is the first in a series of budget proposals expected over the next two months that would save the county $ 2.875 million through 2018, officials have said.

The mayor took some precautions for the future: The plan for the 2018 fiscal year calls for preserving $ 1 billion in reserves from previous budgets; efforts to find savings through measures like reducing overtime and using office space more efficiently; and a hiring freeze on some administrative positions (with no estimate of how much a freeze would save).

The budget proposes a two - year property tax freeze through state rebates to homeowners in local jurisdictions that stay within a 2 percent tax increase cap.

The RCUK budget is frozen at 2010 levels (about # 2.5 billion annually) through 2015.

This year's focus on public schools, which includes $ 649 million in new per - pupil funding, comes after three budgets that cut or froze public school spending, and expanded the number of families who could enroll children in private schools through taxpayer - funded vouchers.

«The tax on books and the closure of libraries is an attack on writers, bookstore owners, publishers, and students (who are being hit by this budget six ways to Sunday, through school closures, deep cuts to the university, threats to the tuition freeze, the loss of grants, job losses in the community colleges, and a hike in the price of already - expensive textbooks).