They also want a lifting of a 2003 wage freeze and a long-term solution to the financing problem, given that financing earmarked for 2011 will now instead be used to cover the shortfall last year.
In return, Croatia stands to benefit from gaining access to a market of 500 million consumers as well as about $18 billion in financing earmarked for the country from 2014 to 2020.
The developers will use a tool called tax increment financing, which earmarks a portion of a site's future property taxes to build its infrastructure.
He said $20 million in state bond financing is earmarked for construction of a 500-bed secure, residential community justice center, in addition to $5 million for operation.
Although about €14 billion in E.U. financing is earmarked for Croatia between 2014 and 2020, most of these funds require matching domestic funds, money that will be hard to come by, given the country's weak economy.
In the Hudson Valley, where a new Senate seat created through the redistricting process is seeing one of the most competitive races in the state, advocates of public financing have earmarked at least $500,000 for advertising to support the Democratic candidate, Cecilia Tkaczyk.
Nearly $150 million in state money, part of an infusion that resulted from a longstanding lawsuit over school financing, was earmarked last year for reducing class size, either through creating new classrooms or hiring more staff members to co-teach in a single classroom.
That amount is divided into $12 million of capital funding, which will be used to develop iROKO's business and technology; and $7 million that is not from equity or debt financing and earmarked solely for several years of content development deals with studios.
An additional $1.3 billion in foreign military financing is earmarked for the Egyptian dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, $235 million for the autocratic monarchy in Jordan, $58 million for Lebanon, and $12 million for the repressive regime in Tunisia.
Environmental schemes are being financed by earmarked revenues from the landfill tax introduced by the previous government last October.
