Sentences with phrase «use of taxpayer funds in»

There are few provisions to ensure accountability and transparency for private schools» use of taxpayer funds in the program.

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

I'm not sure a poll of federal taxpayers and parents would find the time and effort spent by these employees on the journal article — which I personally viewed purely as a form of reputational damage control — to be a worthy use of these funds when other aspects of our meal program are in clear need of improvement.

But if Congress increases reimbursement rates without reforming the use of federal funds in school food budgets, the end result could be significant costs to taxpayers coupled with little improvement in the quality of meals served.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats said the cut in the rate of VAT to 15 per cent, which cost taxpayers # 12.5 billion, should have been used to fund a green investment programme instead.

So even though they account for just one in ten prisons and less than one in five prisoners, private prisons use nearly a quarter of taxpayer funding.

Senate Republicans in the past year have blocked a public financing measure that was introduced by Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, saying a taxpayer - funded system is too expensive and a poor use of resources.

The campaign in Oregon drew a lot of national attention over accusations that federal taxpayer money was being used to fund anti-legalization events.

Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly have introduced legislation this year that ban confidential settlements while protecting the identity of the survivor and ending the use of taxpayer funds for settlements.

The Treasury Department audit of Innovate NY, reported by Newsday but so far ignored by other news media, highlights the pitfalls of using taxpayer funds to underwrite speculative investments in private firms.

Labour is calling for cross-party talks on how religious education is conducted and monitored in the state sector as a special poll for the Observer shows widespread concerns about the use of taxpayers» money to fund faith schools in a multicultural Britain.

Opening arguments began this week in the federal corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., and his son Pedro Gautier Espada, who are accused of using the Soundview Healthcare Network as «their own taxpayer - funded piggy bank» by funneling more than $ 500,000 from the organization and spending it on cars, spa treatments, and other personal luxuries.

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

The Conservative MP is accused of having an affair with a headmistress in his Yorkshire constituency and using a taxpayer - funded cottage to meet his lover.

Singas, a Democrat, in September had asked the ethics board to weigh in on the use of taxpayer resources to fund mailings that promote elected officials» re-election campaigns.

Senior Conservative ministers including Sajid Javid, Andrea Leadsom, Penny Mordaunt and David Gauke have used taxpayers» cash to fund the hard - Brexit European Research Group (ERG), which is now led by Rees - Mogg MP, who has been accused in recent days of trying to undermine Prime Minister Theresa May and oust her Chancellor, Philip Hammond.

«The government can still use taxpayer funds to subsidize political campaigns, but it can only do that in a manner that provides an alternative to private financing» said William R. Maurer, a lawyer with Institute for Justice, which represented several challengers of the law.

I think it would have been inappropriate for him, and certainly he would have been criticized by the McCain people and the press — and probably should have been — if on a political trip in Europe, paid for by political funds, not the taxpayers, to go essentially, then, and be accused of using our wounded men and women as props for his campaign.

«Silver used taxpayer - funded hush money to keep the victims of sexual harassment from rocking the boat in the Assembly and he brushed off serious allegations that his counsel had committed multiple rapes against women who worked there.

New York taxpayers built a $ 90 million custom factory in DeWitt for firm that walked away without creating a single job — not the wisest use of public funds, experts say.

Sanford was in the town of Conway revealing his plans to waive confidentiality in a state Ethics Commission investigation into his use of state airplanes and taxpayer - funded travel, a move that will allow to the public to view the results of the probe.

As a quid pro quo to the Power Authority taking care of George's friends and family club members, George, his oversight committee, looked the other way and abrogated his responsibility to not only the taxpayers of his district but to all Western New Yorkers by letting the Cuomo / Silver progressive establishment cartel, in two successive budget bills in 2011 and 2012, sweep $ 600,000,000 from the bank account of the Power Authority to the General Fund of the State of New York — monies that should have been used for the economic benefit of Western New Yorkers.

He noted that in his 2018 State of the State Address earlier this month, he announced a new policy in which he prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for a sexual harassment payment if it is only based on the individual's behavior.

[The images were taken in the Congressional (members - only) gym, which raises new questions about his use of taxpayer - funded facilities during his online exchanges.]

To restore the public trust in public service, he's leading the effort to bring ethics reform to Albany by helping to pass a constitutional amendment stripping officials convicted of a felony of their taxpayer - funded retirement and instituting term limits on legislative leadership position, ensuring no one can accumulate entrenched power and use it to his or her advantage.

The images were taken in the Congressional (members - only) gym, which raises new questions about his use of taxpayer - funded facilities during his online exchanges.

«I had a decision to make, whether to use per diems, taxpayer money, to use like every elected official with the exception of the governor, uses in Albany or use funds, my private campaign funds before making a more permanent decision down the road,» Duffy said.

In 2000, Espada was acquitted on charges of using $ 200,000 from a Soundview HMO in order to pay off campaign debts from 1996, while four employees were found guiltyof using taxpayer funds to help the campaigns of Espada and his soIn 2000, Espada was acquitted on charges of using $ 200,000 from a Soundview HMO in order to pay off campaign debts from 1996, while four employees were found guiltyof using taxpayer funds to help the campaigns of Espada and his soin order to pay off campaign debts from 1996, while four employees were found guiltyof using taxpayer funds to help the campaigns of Espada and his son.

«Mr. Trump held a fundraiser down in New York City a few weeks back and did raise some money, but they have — I would use the word — «struggled» to raise the private funds needed to pay these individuals who are working on behalf of the taxpayers but not being paid by the government,» said Congressman Chris Collins, who has been an advocate for Trump since early in his presidential campaign.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

Present local law fails to reasonably preclude — and could actually enable — county officers and employees from accepting an overabundance of questionable gifts, skirting campaign contribution limits through the use of the LLC loophole, abusing their offices and taxpayer funded items to freely self - promote their personal names and images (or «brand»), and awarding contracts to those vendors who unabashedly pay to play in county government.

In December, Darr agreed to an $ 11,000 fine imposed by the Arkansas Ethics Commission and accepted its finding of 11 breaches of regulations and statutes including converting campaign funds to personal use and receiving improper expense reimbursements from taxpayer funds.

Lawmakers aren't allowed to use taxpayer funds for mailings within 90 days of an election, so lawmakers were cut off from using the privilege in August.

That job, and especially its oversight responsibilities for millions in city pension funds, gives its holder enormous power that can be used in a 101 ways to promote political causes that have nothing to do with the real responsibilities of the office, which are to ensure good returns for the taxpayer.

We also made clear that a proposal to add $ 2.5 million of additional debt to the taxpayers property taxes through Rockland County Sewer District No. 1 to build a police storage shed in Clarkstown was possibly both improper and illegal due to the co-mingling of the use of sewer department funds for purposes not sewer - related.

Imprisoned Sen. Hiram Monserrate, D - Queens — convicted of using a taxpayer - funded non-profit he controlled to bolster his campaigns — was supposed to pay 10 % of his income starting in February 2015 toward his restitution.

Currently, such experiments can not be done with federal funding in the United States because of a congressional prohibition on using taxpayer funds for research that destroys human embryos.

\ n \ nWhile historically there had been a ban on taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research, there has never been a ban on private funding in this country and many European countries have allowed this type of research for years, but so far none of this research has yielded a single therapeutic use.

It's a peculiar set of «revolutionaries» who suck millions of dollars from taxpayers through the largess of their ideological allies in Congress and can not even convince their own previous members that they used the funds effectively.

There are surely better uses for scarce taxpayer funds than subsidizing borrowers who are in the upper half of the income distribution and who hold graduate degrees.

«The bottom line is that greater oversight is needed to ensure that taxpayer funds paid to charter schools are in fact used for the primary purpose of educating students.

The statement concludes: «There is no reasonable rationale for using taxpayer funds to build more charter schools until and unless the federal government provides resources to build and renovate our traditional public schools, especially in underfunded and overcrowded urban districts, proportional to the number of students currently enrolled in them.»

But the bottom line is the same; With hundreds of new graduates from Connecticut's teacher preparation programs, the state's highest ranking education officials are literally using taxpayer funds to give away good paying jobs to people who, for the most part, don't come from Connecticut, didn't get their college education in Connecticut and didn't even major in education.

A 2015 Schooling in America survey revealed that a significant majority of taxpayers nationwide supports the use of taxpayer money to fund school choice programs, approves of parents deciding which schools provide the best education for their children, and affirms that these choices lead to better outcomes for students.

The North Carolina Association of Educators and the North Carolina School Boards Association have challenged the school voucher program in court, alleging that the program is an unconstitutional use of taxpayer funds that should be used for public schools only.

And Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said it was «taxpayers» money that could be used to fund much - needed improvements in thousands of existing school buildings».

Instead of cracking down on subpar schools, SB 1 locks in a system in which students that are in private voucher schools declared to be «chronically failing» can continue to use taxpayer - funded vouchers to attend these schools.

Evers, who now opposes the expansion of taxpayer - funded school vouchers in Wisconsin, also once voiced support for them in 2000 — when only students in Milwaukee could use them.

The law also does not require private schools to disclose what kinds of teachers they employ (and no teacher need have more than a high school diploma) and how well their students are faring in their classrooms unless they have more than 25 students who use the taxpayer - funded vouchers.

[Polis» proposal being that in the face of scarce public funds, more and more taxpayer dollars should get diverted away from the public schools, and instead be used to subsidize schools like the ones he is involved in].