Sentences with phrase «week budget extender»

ALBANY — After a Friday of furious budget activity, the Legislature returns to the Capitol today to vote on Gov. David Paterson's latest provocative one - week budget extender — including a chunky tax hike on cigarettes and tobacco products as well as stepped - up tax enforcement on sales of tobacco products on Indian reservations.

ALBANY — State Budget Director Robert Megna confirmed Friday that the next one - week budget extender will include the 4 percent raises to unionized state workers, as demanded by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.

Not exact matches

In the interview, DeFreancisco indicated Cuomo himself had already started hedging on an on - time budget at the beginning of last week when he suggested the state may have to pass a temporary extender measure to fund the governor.

Last week, Paterson sent a bill separate from budget extender to the Legislature that would have provided him with power to furlough state workers.

During an interview with WCBS 880 AM Radio, Paterson stressed that he has not yet included his plan to furlough public employees one day a week in emergency budget extenders, which would essentially force legislators to choose between infuriating state worker unions and a government shutdown.

In an effort to protest the Governor's inclusion of furloughs in the latest round of budget extenders, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt is going to be shutting down his offices for one day a week.

New York State Sen. Roy McDonald, R - Saratoga, defended the industry last week on the Senate floor as the Democratic majority shot down his second attempt to amend an emergency budget extender bill to include funds for NYRA.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

The Gov. is threatening to use the non-democratic «extender» canard... having a temporary week, two week, or month budget, with the mushy cuts he originally proposed.

Another set of big - ticket Cuomo priorities was already baked into this week's budget «extender» bill: nearly $ 15 billion in capital appropriations for purposes ranging from basic infrastructure (highways, transit) to a $ 400 million second phase of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative, a $ 700 million «community healthcare capital investment» in Brooklyn, and more 8 - figure allocations to the kind of «economic development» programs that have failed to rejuvenate Upstate.

To that end, Paterson predicted state lawmakers will pass the budget extender he sent to them last week that includes furloughs for some 70 percent of the state workforce, and again attacked the unions for refusing to negotiate a deal to help close the $ 9.2 billion deficit.

In the absence of a budget, Albany funds government operations on a week - to - week basis through emergency budget extenders.

With all 30 Republicans having voted the past several weeks against the budget extenders, all 32 Democratic votes are needed to pass the extenders or government will shut down.

«Once the Legislature made the budget late, still timely, but a week late, the governor goes to extender, but all the extenders is the power with executives,» he said.

The raise the age issue was a key policy concern for Heastie to have accomplished in the state budget, and Cuomo last week indicated he was satisfied with the passage of a budget extender bill that funded the government until May 31, but did not include the juvenile justice reform.

The budget is turning from stalemate to brinksmanship on Tuesday, a day after lawmakers approved an eight - week temporary extender measure that funds state government until May 31.

Still, Paterson aides had warned that lacking a budget deal by the end of this week, he likely will insert the education cuts into next week's extender.

An unswayed Paterson vowed to slip a provision calling for one - day - a-week furloughs for 100,000 state workers into the emergency budget extenders he sends to the Legislature next week.

ALBANY, NY (05/10/2010)(readMedia)-- The New York State Legislature has approved state budget extender legislation which includes mandatory one day per week furloughs for state employees.

All options have been roundly rejected by union leaders, who earlier this week sued to kill the furlough measure after it was grudgingly approved by legislators as part of this week's budget extender.

The very busy state Budget Director, Robert Megna, is crunching the numbers to see what would actually happen if next week's budget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shutBudget Director, Robert Megna, is crunching the numbers to see what would actually happen if next week's budget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shutbudget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shut down.

The Senate and Assembly have jointly rejected the governor's extender bills, which, as I understood it, sought to amend the amended budget bills the Legislature submitted last week.

It's likely Paterson will close the entire budget next week with a large extender, including major education aid cuts.

The first was the inclusion of up to $ 32 million in last week's budget extender, part of $ 16.4 billion in economic development funding statewide.

But for the past two weeks, the governor has added various budget components to the extenders — obliging lawmakers to accept his spending ideas or risk being blamed for a government shutdown if the weekly appropriation fails to pass.

The $ 153 billion budget passed on April 9, nine days into the 2017 — 18 fiscal year and a week after an emergency «budget extender» kept the government operating.

Paterson said last week that if a final budget plan isn't settled this week, he'll put the remainder of his budget proposal into the extender to be passed on Monday, June 28.

Last week, the governor imposed a budget «extender» to the end of May.

Having missed the April 1 budget deadline, lawmakers passed Cuomo's budget «extender» on Monday, then kept negotiating to lock down a final spending plan for the full fiscal year before they planned to depart Albany for the two - week hiatus.

Cuomo and the Legislature had passed a budget «extender» on Monday to keep state operations running, but continued to negotiate throughout the week in order to put a full fiscal year budget together.

«Picking a number now, and saying this is going to be the number, and not knowing what's going to happen next week and next month and when the federal government passes the budget or when they don't pass the budget, or when they do the next continuing resolution, is very hard,» said Cuomo, who again mentioned that everyone will know a lot more from Washington by the end of May, which is when the state «extender» runs through.

«So despite the fact that everyone knew furloughs (for state workers) were going to be in the budget extender this week, there were no three - way leaders» meetings in the last week?