And the swipe-card epiphany is just one of several that Pietrantoni has used to help the schools, including centralizing copier contracts, an apparently small thing that could save the schools essential budget funds, and working with the local Elks Club to set up a charity basketball tournament.
He also faced strong internal opposition to plans for essential budget cuts.
Otherwise, Mr. Dayton said, he hoped his colleagues would work with him on "this challenging, complicated and essential" budget process.
It is going to require enormous effort to ensure that President Obama's bold, good and essential budget proposal survives the torturous journey through Congress.
This does mean being organized ahead of time but pre-planning is an essential part of budget travel anyway.
"It is clearly an essential component of this budget, the Second Avenue subway, and it has to come out of this budget," Mr. Silver, who is from Manhattan, said in an interview today.
Edwards says the money is now an essential part of family budgets.
Information on the unit cost of inpatient and outpatient care is an essential element for costing, budgeting and economic-evaluation exercises.
Passing the fifth carbon budget is an essential first step.
They are convincingly vowing to oppose either a federal budget or an essential increase in the debt ceiling unless Mr. Obama agrees.
Your small business marketing budget is an essential component of your marketing plan.
