It would also reduce the amount available for the city to earmark for settlements with about 300,000 city workers whose contracts expire in the coming year, the officials said.
Seven are earmarked for closure.
Forcing a people under occupation from their homes, demolishing their children's school and pushing them off the land they make a living from is not only a war crime, but also serves a clear political agenda: expelling the area's Palestinian residents would pave the way for Israeli annexation of their land, earmarked for Jewish-only settlements.
The 5% figure is grossly misleading, with surrounding areas earmarked for expansion, roadways joining settlements with each other and to Jerusalem, and wide arterial swaths providing water, sewerage, electricity and communications.
"The 5% figure is grossly misleading, with surrounding areas taken or earmarked for expansion, roadways joining settlements with each other and to Jerusalem, and wide arterial swaths providing water, sewage, electricity and communications.
Eleven new settlements earmarked for specific tribes are currently at various stages of planning for populations ranging between 1000 and 5000 residents each.
And with money from the tobacco lawsuit settlement earmarked for smoking-prevention efforts, Mr. Bartlett hopes that SafeGuards and other agencies will receive money for gay-specific initiatives.
Even as casting the data as insufficient, the GAO said its analysis indicated that the amount of the settlement earmarked for cash payouts to borrowers -- $3.9 billion -- was reasonable, even at the highest discovered error rate of 24percentt.
Just yesterday, members of the NYC Coalition for a Smoke Free City protested a Giuliani administration proposal to halve and eventually eliminate $13 million in tobacco settlement money earmarked for a smoking reduction program.
Now, the County Legislature, the county executive and the State Legislature must begin three months of negotiations over fee increases, a proposal to divert tobacco settlement funds earmarked for health care for underinsured residents, a plan to defer payments to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and other measures needed to balance the budget.
