Indeed, in today's fiscally strained funding environment, there is an increasing emphasis on demonstrating value (or return) on investment.
It is the latest chapter in an ongoing saga that has seen Thomas Heatherwick's £175m bridge over the Thames transform from a sponsored gift to a burden on the capital's strained transport funds.
Several council members said they were especially disturbed by Villaraigosa's warning, sent to them in writing the night before the vote, that a failure to let the rate hikes stand would cause the DWP to renege on its plan to provide $73 million to the city's strained general fund, which pays for basic services such as public safety and parks.
If Stockton's case shows that public pensions can be reduced in federal bankruptcy court, despite state laws that protect the promised retirement funds, other severely strained communities are likely to try the same thing, said Karol K. Denniston, a bankruptcy lawyer at Schiff Hardin, who attended Stockton's first hearing on the case Thursday as an observer.
"Although short-term funding markets remain strained, they have improved somewhat since March," Mr. Bernanke said, reflecting both the intervention of the Fed in offering loans to Wall Street and "ongoing efforts of financial firms to repair their balance sheets and increase their liquidity".
That aid covers a wide range of needs related to the storm, including funds for financially-strained municipalities struggling with the recovery.
In South Africa and other host countries for HVTs, participants are often drawn from communities with relatively poor socio-economic conditions and strained health-care resources yet funded by agencies from resourced nations [ 7, 8].
Together with sustained difficulties in paying off hospital bills, this strained relations with family members from whom funds had been borrowed, a fact that in turn led to the couple's difficulty in acquiring additional postpartum support.
As shelters fill up and funding for services become more strained, domestic violence victims are finding it harder and harder to recover from losing a place to live.
Furthermore it will offer Bangladesh much needed funds to develop its infrastructure and restore sometimes strained relations with India.
