Sentences with phrase «water funds»
First comes that concern that this is a bad precedent — that the state will come to see the clean water fund as a routine source of «temporary» financing.
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The city recorded a surplus in the general fund and water fund while breaking even in the sewer fund in 2017.
Just happened to visit your site and see water fund., just in time for summer.
The board voted to approve a $ 255 million loan from the state clean water fund to pay for parts of the $ 4 billion bridge project.
In its pilot phase, Green Belt Movement (GBM) in partnership with TNC and Global Environment Facility / Small Grants Programme is implementing a project under the Nairobi Water Fund in Gura and Upper Sagana sub-watersheds.
Yesterday, the Thruway Authority claimed in a press release that it would save $ 35m in borrowing costs by borrowing $ 255.7 m in Clean Water funds from the Environmental Facilities Corporation.
Particularly disturbing is that if Cuomo succeeds in taking — mainly federal — clean water funds for a bridge project, he will open the door for other governors to do the same.
An independent review board has found fault with the Cuomo administration's attempts to convert a federal clean water fund loan into construction work for the New York State Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge.
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Last month, the billionaire Besen family joined with National Australia Bank, The Nature Conservancy and several private investors to raise up to $ 100 million for a fund called the Murray - Darling Basin Balanced Water Fund.
The loan was only recently made public by the Cuomo administration, which said the Clean Water Fund money would be used to protect the Hudson River estuary rather than simply support construction.
The TU says just because the state might be legally able to lend the Thruway Authority $ 511 million from a revolving clean water fund doesn't mean it should do so.
TROY — Higher than anticipated sales tax revenue, ambulance fees and property tax collections along with lower police overtime costs played key roles in the city ending 2017 with surpluses in its general and water funds budgets, Mayor Patrick Madden said.
State audit of 2007 - 2012 says town officials allowed sustained water fund operating losses, including a loss of $ 423,134 from 2009 - 11, and on Jan. 4, 2011 the Town Board improperly authorized lease - purchase agreement.
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The Republican state budget plan includes support for $ 2 billion in clean water funding proposed in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's executive budget to be used in the short term.
Oswego has just won two New York state water fund grants that the city's mayor said is a huge breakthrough in their effort to tackle a major infrastructure project.
According to Kihara, TNC and partners have developed a global portfolio of 32 Water Funds now conserving more than seven million acres of watersheds and secure water supplies for 50 million people.
TNC's Water Fund Manager Fred Kihara said the fund plans to raise $ 10 million over 10 years - backing the fund, TNC says it will provide $
The Qiandao Lake Water Fund was established with first phase funds of $ 1.58 million (10 million RMB) to reduce non-point source pollution using the best available science, work with businesses and industry to reduce their impacts to the environment, and collaborate with government, communities and other philanthropic institutes to develop long - term watershed management system for non-point source pollution.
The Rio Grande Water Fund is seriously hitting its stride for clean water, healthy forests and jobs.
In its pilot phase, Green Belt Movement (GBM) in partnership with TNC and Global Environment Facility / Small Grants Programme is implementing a project under the Nairobi Water Fund in Gura and Upper Sagana sub-watersheds.
A coalition of environmental and advocacy organizations and Assembly members met via conference call on Thursday to express their dismay over the approval by the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation to use, for the first time, clean water funds for a transportation project.
An independent review board has found fault with the Cuomo Administration's attempts to convert a federal clean water fund loan into construction work for the Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge.
In recent years, the Republican - led Congress slashed the clean water fund by 34 percent.
World Vision has a water fund which you can donate small amounts up to very large amounts.
«We can't subsidize the water rates or our water fund would go broke.»
A scheduled vote today by the Public Authorities Control Board on a controversial plan to move $ 511 million in clean water funds to the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project is being closely watched by federal regulators and lawmakers across the state.
no but he'd be honest about the cost and what the tolls will be and I doubt he would have shifted clean water funds to build it.
The Cuomo administration had a flip response for Assemblyman Tom Abinanti when he dared question the use of $ 511 million in clean water funds to help pay for a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge.
Today, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 office rejected the diversion of $ 481m of these dedicated clean water funds, while approving $ 29.1 m.
The clean water funds are a mixture of federal grants and repaid clean water loans, and state officials have contested EPA's authority over the funds.
There have been eight newspaper editorials opposing or questioning the raid on Clean Water Funds.
Governor Cuomo's recent efforts to use $ 511 million in Clean Water funds to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge has been blasted in seven newspaper editorials, as well as by a coalition of environmental and good government groups that includes Reinvent Albany.
Unfortunately, Governor Cuomo intends to use the clean water funds to tear down the old TZ Bridge and other construction tasks associated with the $ 3.9 billion bridge replacement project.
Westchester County Executive and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino pounced on the news that the EPA has rejected the bulk of a controversial loan from a state clean water fund to pay for projects related to the new Tappan Zee Bridge, saying the cash was just one more «myth» of the Cuomo administration that is being exposed.
The EPA had oversight over the clean water funds, and the administration had to back off its original plan.
ALBANY — A member of the board that will take up a controversial plan to move $ 511 million in clean water funds to the Tappan Zee bridge replacement project is asking that it be withdrawn.
Using clean water funds to build a bridge is not creative leadership, it is behaving like a kid in a candy store.
Lockport Mayor Anne McCaffrey in a letter to the governor wrote the proposed $ 2 billion clean water fund is «welcome news» for municipalities that want to upgrade their water needs.
A deficit showed up in the water fund in 2006, according to a state audit.
In drafting that budget, Madden cut out reliance on transfers from the water fund and inclusion of property sales in the spending plan in order to achieve a balance budget.
He said when he was supervisor, the Town Board knew about a deficit in the water fund of more than $ 400,000.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to use clean water funds to help pay for the new Tappan Zee Bridge has been approved by a key state board.
While the Highway and Water Funds will see significant increases under the new budget, these are partially counterbalanced by a significant drop in Sewer Fund expenditures following the payoff of a bond and a nearly flat General Fund appropriation, up only.13 percent.