The Council vote ratified a budget deal that was struck by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Council speaker, Gifford Miller, earlier this week, and clears the way for it to take effect at the start of the city's fiscal year next Thursday.
They will fly home for a vote, tentatively scheduled for Thursday, to ratify the budget agreement.
California is one of only three states that require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to ratify a budget.
The City Council ratified a $29.5 billion budget for New York City early this morning that adds $88 million for schools, police, parks, highway cleaning, cultural institutions and city colleges to the spending plan proposed last month by Mayor David N. Dinkins.
But Welsh councils, which have been ratifying their budgets for the following financial year, say they have faced difficult decisions to balance the books.
With the competition over, the winning budget was ratified with one last vote, 228-199.
Its budget is ratified by the board, which is handpicked by Falwell père.
He said European finance ministers would resume their review of the Greek proposals Wednesday, provided the latest batch of budget cuts were ratified by the Greek Parliament and further explanation was given on how Athens planned to cover more than $400 million in budget gaps.
To ensure those spending caps are set in stone, we should ratify a balanced budget amendment.
Today we have our Development Committee at five pm, and a Board meeting at five thirty pm to "ratify" the 2012 budget already approved by the Finance committee.
To the extent that he has a policy at all, it's a shopworn version of the twenty-first-century Republican usuals: ratifying a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution "to restore fiscal responsibility," introducing a flat tax, not raising the minimum wage, yada, yada, yada.
