In Guam, the opportunity arose in 2009 to link a proven tobacco control intervention raising tobacco prices through taxation to provide sustainable local funding for cancer prevention and control through earmarked tax revenues.
His only idea for balancing the budget seems to be controlling earmarks, which Republicans now denounce with the sort of single-minded fervor they used to reserve for Democratic-appointed judges.
Modern drug control policy is earmarked by a number of policy strategies, each designed to address a specific aspect of the nation's drug problem.
They say that there would be little new control over money earmarked for intelligence and security services and that such funds could easily be diverted for other purposes.
He said on the one hand Whitehall was loosening controls by reducing earmarked budgets, and by allowing them to retain increases in local business tax, but on the other councils were losing freedoms.
The Democrat spent more than $10 million out of a campaign committee he controls that is earmarked for pushing Propositions 1 and 2, the water bond measure and rainy day fund proposal, respectively, between Oct. 1 and 18, according to reports filed Thursday with the state.
The $147 million being cut this year comes from a budget of $2.25 billion, about $650 million of which Liverpool controls (the rest is earmarked for specific programs).
The job gave the man, Robert J. Stein, control over $82 million in cash earmarked for Iraqi rebuilding projects.
City Manager Gerald Caton last month decided to withhold funding from the Social Service Agency after auditors hired by the city said the agency did not have an "adequate financial control system". The city had earmarked $50,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds for the agency in the current fiscal year.
Though the authority, which owns the site, and the city support that plan, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which controls $50 million in federal funds earmarked for the project, has explored a different location nearby.
