Sentences with phrase «tough budget years»

The Cuomo administration, when asked, repeated the mantra that tough budget years require tough choices.

Ferreras said that while this was a tough budget year, she believed the process was transparent and praised the work of Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan).

«We are facing a tough budget this year — we expected this, which is why my colleagues and I went to Albany to push for more funds earlier this year.

Lake Placid Central School District Superintendent of Schools Roger Catania acknowledges it's a tough budget year, and noted the increase was welcome despite being below what advocates requested.

«We know this is a tough budget year.

The mayor has already warned members of the Jamestown City Council that this will be a tough budget year, comparable to... [Read more...]

This surely is a key question that will come up this spring in statehouses across the nation as they face another tough budget year.

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CB: How should the government talk about the tougher issues touched on in this budget, such as cost cutting, in the coming years?

Everyone knows that five - year budget forecasts are virtually useless, which is why everyone is expecting that the next budget is going to be the really tough one.

Faculty salaries have risen slower than many other fields in recent years, and with provincial governments squeezing education budgets tough wage negotiations are likely to remain the norm.

Samuels said that while the state has among the largest budget reserves of any state, at a projected $ 10.4 billion by the middle of next year, continued low oil prices mean legislators will face some tough decisions when they return to Austin in January.

In December, as Greek policy - makers approved yet another round of budget cuts — tough legislation that caps salaries at state - owned companies, cuts many state salaries by 10 % and diminishes collective bargaining power — some 20,000 protestors jammed the streets in the country's seventh general strike that year.

In California, home of the get - tough three - strikes - and - you're - out law, it's estimated that by 2020, $ 5 billion a year will be spent on health care for aging inmates — the amount of the state's entire prison budget for 2002.

He somehow managed to keep us in the top for four years in the toughest league on earth workout the big budgets of ManU..

Moreover Mourinho won the CL with Porto, a minimal budget and against tough opposition, this was a year where Arsenal Chelsea and Unites were in the CL.

I think it's going to be a very tough, difficult budget year the governor has ever had since he's been governor.»

During a stop at YNN Buffalo, where he did a remote interview for FOX News, Paladino took credit for Paterson's tough approach during this year's budget stalemate.

However, the Office of Rail Regulation, which monitors expenditure on Britain's rail networks, has admitted that putting together the next five - year budget for the railways will be «tough».

The chancellor's move, which will cut # 3bn a year from the welfare budget, is designed to cement the Conservatives» reputation as the party willing to take tough long - term economic decisions, even at the cost of hitting more than 5 million families characterised as working poor.

[48] Shortly before the 2010 election, Osborne had pledged to be «tougher than Thatcher» on Britain's budget deficit, [49] and he duly set himself the target of reducing the UK's deficit to the point that, in the financial year 2015 — 16, total public debt would be falling as a proportion of GDP.

«He also reduced the once - bloated county budget by 5.2 percent over four years by making the commonsense, responsible and tough decisions needed to put the county back on the right track.»

«We were able to balance the budget [this year] with the deficit that we inherited by making tough choices, but we also did it by using one - shots,» he said.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

What makes this year different is that Cuomo is pushing for education reform measures in the budget — including a tougher teacher evaluation criteria and a receivership program for struggling (AKA «failing») schools.

«We feel as though we have an obligation to support the education system,» Gerald Patterson said, adding about the tough budget, «I think it's a bad year.»

Senate Finance Committee Chair Cathy Young says even though there's a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and that «budget circumstances may be tough,» she says the GOP will resist any potential efforts by Democrats to roll back the middle class tax cuts that are to be phased in over the next several years.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

President and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership Andrew J. Rudnick said «This budget is being called «tough,» but in the face of a $ 10 billion deficit, I call it the first realistic budget proposed by a governor in years.

Mr. Ravitch's financial plan would impose tough accounting standards on state budgets, allow the state to issue $ 2 billion a year in bonds to help close budget gaps, and give the governor the power to make unilateral cuts when spending and revenues fall out of whack.

«The Legislature and the governor are going to have to make some very tough decisions on spending as we head into the budget cycle next year,» DiNapoli said.

«I have a proven track record of working with both parties to pass legislation that makes Connecticut a better place for everyone,» says Gerratana, who acknowledges the state budget deficit will require «tough decisions in terms of spending cuts» next year.

Because of the tough choices we made last year, we were able to balance this budget without broad cuts and with no new taxes, fees or borrowing.

And thanks to the tough financial control of my right honourable friend the chief secretary, government departments are forecast to underspend their budgets by more than # 11 billion this year.

He proposed the slimmest budget Albany has seen in 15 years — one that reduces overall year - to - year spending and makes tough decisions to cut funding for health care and schools and close half - empty prisons.

DiNapoli says the stock market, as well as the nation's economy faces numerous uncertainties, including the on going European debt crisis, and the so - called fiscal cliff in the federal budget, that the President and Congress have set up to occur at the end of this year, when they must make some tough spending and taxing decisions.

The prime minister promised the public they would have more money in their pockets within «just a few years» if they toughed out the forthcoming spending cuts, saying there was «no other responsible way» to deal with the budget deficit.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Cathy Young says even though there's a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and that «budget circumstances may be tough,» the GOP will resist any potential efforts by Democrats to roll back the middle class tax cuts that are to be phased in over the next several years.

Most school officials shrewdly anticipated tougher sledding this year — and their budgets reflected it.

Thus, speculation that Andrew Cuomo will ultimately seek the presidency in 2016 began even before he took office earlier this year, and it has intensified when Cuomo produced a tough budget without sacrificing his popularity.

The cause of the tough budget climate is not New York City's average teacher pension of $ 42,000, after 25 or 30 years in the classroom.

In the aggregate, these reductions represent the toughest NIH budget proposed by any Administration in over 40 years, and would return the NIH budget nearly to its pre-doubling level in constant dollars (see budget graph above).

That slump, along with an 8 % drop in the number of new grants (see table, below), confirms predictions of tough times following the recent 5 - year doubling of NIH's budget if NIH received annual increases of less than 6 % (Science, 24 May 2002, p. 1401).

Tough life) and not very soon but maybe later this year in Jeff Nichols» Midnight Special a father and son sci - fi - tinged drama (his follow up to Mud so one assumes he'll get bigger budgets now) so it surely won't be focused on her.

Even though state spending on prekindergarten has grown $ 1 billion nationwide over the past two years, a report says, state policymakers looking to sustain and expand their programs — especially in tough budget times — are still scrounging for more money.

Over the past few years, as cash - strapped states and school districts have faced tough budget decisions, spending on teacher compensation has come under the microscope.

Tough economic times mean tight school district budgets, possibly for years to come.

After years of prodding multiple administrations to reduce incarcerations and prison spending, state lawmakers this session took a tougher line with the department, holding up budget requests, passing bills aimed at accountability and setting benchmark targets for releasing more prisoners.

College applicants are facing one of the toughest years ever to gain admission to the nation's public colleges and universities as schools grapple with deep budget cuts and record numbers of applications.

You may not think it, as national insurance and employer pension cost increases begin to hit school budgets, but 2015/16 is the last year of the good times, not the first of the tough times.

House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R - MN) was critical of last year's $ 10 billion Edujobs funding, arguing that a teacher bailout wouldn't create permanent jobs and that supplementing state budgets only postpones tough decisions while making states more dependent on the federal government.