Sentences with phrase «when local government spending»

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Going into the 2014 civic elections, the last until 2018, how open are local governments around southwestern British Columbia when it comes to the spending and meetings of their mayors?

The party warned that half of local health bodies are tightening their purse strings when it comes to mental health and called on the Government to ring - fence spending for mental health.

The governor was said to be returning from Takum where he spent his Christmas when the accident occurred at Garba Chede area of Gasol local government area of Taraba state

Secondly, and more importantly when it comes to the future of the party, we had spent decades building up a very local base of electoral support, from council to parliamentary levels, on the basis of populist, or indeed protest, issues that played well with disgruntled voters, but almost impossible to deliver in government.

The first hearing will be focusing local government and government operations spending, generally the day when the state's big - city mayors come to Albany to lobby state lawmakers in person.

«When we agreed to take over Medicaid growth, which was a huge, huge investment for us — $ 3 billion that we wouldn't be spending now that we are — it was premised on the desire to help local governments live within their property tax cap,» outgoing state budget director Mary Beth Labate said two weeks ago.

The focus on higher education the first day is a break with tradition, as lawmakers have generally scheduled the first day of the joint legislative hearings on the budget to be «tin cup» day — when mayors and local government officials discuss the impact of the spending proposal on their municipality.

«When the governor made this announcement (about shared services) at his regional «State of the State» addresses, he wanted people to believe that the prime reason for high property taxes is the existence of local government without acknowledging school taxes and without acknowledging that [New York] imposes more state spending on local property taxpayers than any state in America,» said Molinaro, a former state assemblyman.

When the Social Democrats in Sweden tackled their deficit in the 1990s, they started with an 11 % across - the - board cut in government spending, followed by similar sized cuts to local government.

DeVos said, «I see you when you're bearing the brunt of the regulatory burden that local, state, and federal governments — including the U.S. Department of Education, though I'm working to change that — put on you... [Principals] should be able to spend more time focusing on the people, not on the paperwork.»

Like my uncle, Léone had spent her entire life watching the strong arm of authority in action, be it the American marines who'd been occupying the country when she was born or the brutal local army they'd trained and left behind to prop up, then topple, the puppet governments of their choice.

Congress has recently enacted whistleblower protections for contract employees and those who work for state and local governments to protect them when disclosing fraudulent spending of stimulus funds.