Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expanded nine existing grant-in-aid programs and launched 17 new ones-may not accomplish much unless the Government is willing to bend to this diversity. "Many of our critical new programs involve the Federal Government in joint ventures with states and local governments," said the President in his Budget Message. "We must give more freedom of action and judgment to the people on the firing line." Johnson is planning a full-dress speech on creative federalism before long. Last week, in a kind of foretaste, White House Aide Joe Califano said in a Washington speech: "Now that we acknowledge...
...Half of the states go so far as to deny home rule to their cities, an absurdity that forces Chicago to ask Springfield for everything down to the right to license peanut vendors. That absurdity is also forcing Mayor John Lindsay of New York City-whose $4.6 billion budget is larger than any state's-to go hat in hand to Albany to beg for the new taxes that he believes the city needs. No wonder that, after years of neglect by rural-dominated state legislatures, city after city has learned to bypass the state capital and go directly...
...Sixty-three seemed the year of lost hope for Virginia liberals. Gov. Harrison and Lt. Gov. Godwin had defeated a liberal ticket in 1961. The "Young Turks"--Boothe of Alexandria, Toy Savage of Norfolk and others--who had fought the Byrd Organization's segregation and tight budget policies during the '50s--were beaten and tired and did not run for the state legislature in '63. The conservatives who did run and were elected ignored a state constitutional mandate to reapportion the legislature...
Answering questions from Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, Rudolph claimed that he had requisitioned in March for the plastic used to "paint" City crosswalks. However, the order to the company was not placed until last week, Rudolph said, because of uncertainties about this year's City budget...
...budget for the program has grown from $3-4000 in '64-'65 to a projected $12,000 fro next year. The $4000 grant has been supplemented with another $2000 from small donations, but $6000 still must be found for the Towers program alone...