Sentences with phrase «year mandate which»

Though the current executives have a four - year mandate which is not half spent, campaign posters of Former General Secretary of the NPP, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie affectionately called Sir John, are all over social media.

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By the end of this year the federal government must renew the BoC's mandate, which it does every five years.
It's been more than 50 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which mandates that men and women receive equal pay for equal work, but women are still fighting for compensation equality.
Beginning next year, the mandate to carry insurance will no longer be the law of the land, which may lead to more middle class Obamacare dropouts.
This year's appropriations bill, which was signed March 11 and will fund government activities for the year, killed the Bush administration's frequently criticized implementation of the congressionally - mandated program.
Barangay elections, which law mandates should be held every three years, are central to Philippine democracy because they are responsible for services like health clinics.
Only 15 percent knew that rates on government student loans are set by Congress, which has mandated that those rates be tied to yields on 10 - year Treasury notes.
Beginning early next year, Morningstar will offer a way for broker - dealers to offload the fiduciary responsibility of managing 401 (k) plans, which is mandated by the DOL rule that starts to take effect in April.
The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.
Two and a half years into the mandate and no real result on the election promise.This sort of thing is par for the course, though.A tactic played over and over which the general public doesn't seem to be able to grasp.
That's dampening what little inflation exists in the economy, which is troubling for the Bank of Canada because it's mandated to keep prices advancing at a rate of about 2 per cent a year.
Just like the matte black Tesla Semi, with a 300 - mile range, that was spotted last month, the long - range Semi was equipped with a standard set of side mirrors — mandated accessories which were absent on the long - hauler during its unveiling last year.
For over two years scores of litigants have been challenging the HHS mandate, which forces nearly all non-grandfathered employee health plans to change their terms, if they do not already cover sterilization, contraception, and abortifacient pharmaceuticals as «free preventive care» for female employees and dependents.
Giving up on Romney for whatever reason does not seem an option given the other option which is not four more years, but four years of what the president considers a mandate to go full throttle on what he has hesitantly begun.
Horvath and other members of such ministries (provided the organizations have been functioning since before the year 2000) are exempt from the ACA's individual mandate, which penalizes Americans without health insurance.
The debate over whether helmets should be mandated in girl's lacrosse, which has been raging for several years, reached a new level of ferocity recently with the publication of a blistering piece in the New York Times reporting on the backlash generated by the controversial decision by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to mandate a soft form of headgear for everyone in a girls» lacrosse game beginning this spring season.
He said he was responding in keeping with the mandate of Article 58 of the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia, which places a duty on the President of the Republic, on the 4th Monday of January every year, to present the administration's legislative program for the ensuing session of this Honorable Legislature, and to report to the Liberian people, through you, their duly elected representatives, in Joint Assembly, on the State of the Republic.
According to the Energy Commission which is mandated to ensure that energy supply meets demand at all times, even though the expected power supply this year is a significant improvement over that of last year, it will still not eliminate the threat of load - shedding until the country is able to obtain significant imports from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire to augment supply.
«John Faso's idea would finally end the inequitable system — in place for 50 years since the Rockefeller Administration — which has county governments and the City of New York paying for a local share of Medicaid benefits mandated by Albany,» said William Cherry, Schoharie County Treasurer.
Assemblyman Dan Stec, a Republican from the southern Adirondacks, has signed on to an Assembly bill mandating the state keep emails for at least seven years, which would reverse a Cuomo administration policy of automatically deleting messages after 90 days.
«Our fiscal mandate is to achieve a cyclically - adjusted current balance by the end of the rolling five year forecast period — which is currently 2015 - 16.
Bloomberg expressed disappointment that Cuomo's budget didn't include mandate relief, particularly in the forme of pension reform, which he has made a primary focus of his Albany agenda this year.
Even though, the government has a 4 - year mandate within which to deliver all the things we promised, it appears we are fulfilling almost all our campaign promises in our first year in government.
· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.
These words come from a government which has been in power for three years, armed with the mandate to fight corruption and rebuild the economy, but has chosen to invest in excuses.
«I hope the city doesn't wait years or months but gets it done in weeks, days or even hours,» he said, also hoping that every city agency integrates links to the portal in online forms, which isn't mandated in the legislation.
The Corporation which is mandated to undertake the exploration, development, production and disposal of petroleum as part of its programs wants to revive the Prestea Sankofa Gold Limited as part of its activities this year.
«Another difference which is being overlooked is that President Kufuor was exhausting his eight year mandate and his interpretation of the Constitution and the laws of Ghana can not be binding on an incoming Government that has routed the incumbent Government soundly at the polls.»
He faced questions at the time over not meeting New York's residency requirements, which mandate that candidates live in the state for five years before running.
«You can't expect to be taken seriously if on the one hand you say unions have no mandate to strike - which will only ever have a short - term effect on the public - while on the other, you champion the democratic right of police commissioners to reshape policing in our communities for years to come.»
During this year's budget process, lawmakers mandated that schools which continue to struggle would be placed under an independent receiver.
These formulas, which predominantly mandate education and Medicaid funding, increase rates annually, calling for an overall 13 percent increase in both areas next year.
According to him, eight months is too short for anybody to accuse the NPP administration of not delivering on its promises, predicting that the party, which has a four - year mandate, would surely fulfill its campaign promises within that period.
The possible return of John Dramani Mahama for a third and last bite at the presidency, has forced President Akufo - Addo, into an early campaign mood, instead of concentrating on the rest of his 4 - year mandate, which has been reduced to 3 years, a month and few days.
He said aside being a civic responsibility to file tax returns, is also a requirement by Law (Income Tax Act 2015 (Act 896) and Revenue Administration Act 2016 (Act 915) which mandates every person to file an income tax return; with the Commissioner - General not later than four months after the end of each year of assessment.
The key principle, which the Liberal Democrat leader has set out for at least a year now, was repeated in an interview in The Independent 10 days ago: «If a party with no majority has the strongest mandate, we accept the principle that that party has the right to govern either on its own or to reach out to others.»
Continuing he said, «With President Jonathan, our nation will continue in the path of unity, stability and prosperity, which has been the driving force and inspiration of our government in delivering our mandate in the last three years.
Schools are using the exams to establish student growth for the purpose of state - mandated teacher evaluations, which are in their second year in most of the state and their first year in New York City.
The AHCA would have switched Medicaid to block grants, which means states would receive a fixed amount of federal funding each year regardless of changes in program enrollment and mandates.
Lhota has also condemned members of his party for shutting down the federal government, but said he supports a one - year delay in the implementation of the individual mandate in Obamacare, which was what the House GOP was demanding in return for passing a continuing resolution that would keep the government up and running.
Local officials have been increasingly worried since the governor first said early on this year that he didn't see the need to formally couple his 2 percent property tax cap bill, which has already passed the GOP - controlled Senate, with any mandate relief legislation.
DiNapoli in an interview in August indicated he would keep the contribution rates the same for local governments, which have struggled in recent years to raise revenue amid a cap on property taxes, the flat growth of aid to municipalities and mandated state spending requirements.
Ulster's budget - making, like all towns and school districts, is an annual exercise in frustration, juggling rising healthcare and pension costs against a state - mandated tax cap which next year will restrict property - tax increases to less than 1 percent.
Among them was a one - year extension of mayoral control when he wanted at least three and a mandate that the city show it funds each of its schools, which theoretically could prove embarrassing to a mayor who speaks out about income inequality if it shows schools in poorer areas are losing out.
Mayor Bill de Blasio will release the mandated November budget modification on Tuesday, showing minor adjustments to the city's nearly $ 86 billion budget for the current fiscal year, which runs through the end of June.
Cuomo had already announced that he would mandate that New York get half of its power from renewable energy within 15 years, which is about double the current amount.
In Ghana, the government of the day work and do things on their own in consultation with their political ideologies and manifestos that do not take into consideration any national plan but here we are, the new government takes over and meet a commission mandated to ensure planning of the nation in the next 40 - years which was constituted by its predecessor.
«There is a clear legislative mandate for the Department to implement this program in a manner which enables the delivery of quality full - day pre-K programming to four year olds throughout the state in the 2014 - 15 school year
Leading the conversation was the executives» opposition to Governor Cuomo's shared services mandate for municipalities passed in the state budget earlier this year, which is supposed to help taxpayers save more money.
ALBANY — A Republican from the southern Adirondacks has signed on to an Assembly bill mandating the state keep emails for at least seven years, which would reverse a Cuomo administration policy of automatically deleting messages after 90 days.
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