Humanitarian designers were concerned that it would divert sorely needed funding and media coverage from more modest projects.
[Daily News] State Senator Tony Avella charged that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's million-trees program diverted sorely needed maintenance funds to the planting of trees.
Under the plan, in the works since last summer, the island would have become a state park with an entry fee, thus covering the annual $6 million in maintenance and operations costs — funds sorely needed for the beloved landmark, which in recent years has fallen into disrepair.
But when councils are so short of cash to meet their statutory obligations, the women's aid organisations doubt it will do more than patch up parts of a service that has been hard hit over the past five years and which sorely needs reliable funding.
The unlikely alliance has given Mr. Thompson, an even-tempered former city comptroller, a sorely needed jolt of high-powered fund-raising as he seeks to project energy and momentum in the wide-open race for the Democratic nomination.
As the banks retreat, other forms of funding are sorely needed, which is why companies of all shapes and sizes, from MarketInvoice to BlackRock, are bullish about their prospects.
He acknowledged new funding is sorely needed, but went on to suggest increasing discounts on drugs further as well as cutting back on personnel and equipment costs involved in delivering them to patients.
Well, what I think is sorely needed is long term, institutionalized, government funded programs to help school districts mitigate their high occupancy, collapse prone schools.
