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2011年4月29日星期五

Manager takes over State and cuts, which do not a city

But, as of this month, they are literally powerless and hold no power to make decisions. PAS even on potholes.

The city is now led by Joseph l. Harris, accountant and auditor of kilometres later, one of a small group "managers of emergency" sent by the State as firefighters to extinguish the flames financial in the most troubled cities of Michigan.

In Benton Harbor, where records show, finance have had down in a morass of commingled funds, puzzling accounting and expenditures unchecked, Mr. Harris was given sweeping new powers under the legislation of the recent state that managers of emergency as he said was necessary to deal with extreme situations.

Critical say the new powers granted by the new Republican leaders of the State, are average of Michigan shrinking benefits for public workers and undermine the strength of unions, just as officials tried in Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Managers of emergency of appointed by the State of Michigan have the power to cancel collective agreements, giving the State, in the eyes of some, the opportunity to overwrite any local union treats for the repair of budget.

"The dictatorship, plain and simple," said Dennis Knowles, a Commissioner of the city who was sitting in a dark, especially empty Office City Hall the other day.

But Mr. Harris insisted that the policy and the future of collective bargaining had no impact on everything he does.

"I'm looking for what is good for Benton Harbor, nothing more, nothing less,", said Mr. Harris. "And until you can break the contracts, your hands are tied."

Only four entities in Michigan, including the Detroit public schools system, currently are deemed sufficient distress to require monitoring by managers of emergency. But some economists predict that these ranks increase, taking into account reductions in aid of State tax revenues and stagnant.

Now, managers fighting intensifies around the State. Last week, Detroit pension funds filed a lawsuit against the Governor Rick Snyder and others challenging the extent to which, according to the prosecution, gives managers who arrive with "tsar-like powers".

Others see new career opportunities: last week, 400 people participated in a training session for two days on emergency managers in a Radisson Hotel in Lansing. Some were local leaders to prevent their cities of requiring one such financial supervision, while others hope to become managers of emergency.

Around the nation, the States have long had a range of methods - appointed receivers monitoring tips - to the stage where the cities are at the edge near bankruptcy. A financial control Board has helped pull New York City at the precipice, in the 1970s. But the powers and functions of these bodies vary widely, as do the views on knowledge if they contribute to long term.

Few places with title of serious financial difficulties as Benton Harbor, a town of about 10,000 people next to Lake Michigan, where it is estimated that almost half of the population were living below the poverty line.

A financial study assigned by the State in 2009 found that the city had mismanaged the federal tax arrears. He inappropriately borrowed money to manage shortfalls in others, and its accounting was negligence.

And if last year, the administration of the predecessor of Mr Snyder, Jennifer M. Granholm, a Democrat, sent to Mr. Harris, former Auditor General Detroit and its former Financial Director.

Mr. Harris began to pay debts, laid off workers and to consider a plan to merge the fire and police services in a single unit where firefighters could respond finally burglary calls and police officers could extinguish fires.

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2011年4月22日星期五

California is due to a million by the employees of the State

LOS ANGELES--When the State of California, began to distribute the i.o.u. in 2009 due to a shortage of liquidity, taxpayers have been aghast predictable. But few knew at the time that even if the notes pay you later kept out, State agencies have been also distributing millions of dollars in loans without interest as salary and travel advances to employees without reimbursement of collection.

Now, with the State budget with a deficit of 26.5 billion devastating, Governor Jerry Brown is demanding that the bodies immediately cease the practice and determine how many employees of money with unpaid loans owed to the State.

The State controller began to study the practice two years ago and has issued several checks on the practice. In 2009, for example, an audit revealed that 11 bodies had more than 13 million dollars in outstanding loans. In many cases, the agencies had not collected on all loans.

"The situation reinforces the stereotype worst Government inefficient and ineffective", Mr. Brown said in a statement with the Decree published Wednesday. He said that he was ordered to all agencies of the State "immediately investigate the backlog of unpaid and find every penny to taxpayers."

Executive order at the time where Mr. Brown is struggling to get its own budget approved by the Legislative Assembly. He said repeatedly that he wants to go to the voters have approved tax extensions, but so far, he has been unable to obtain the support of a handful of Republicans.

At the same time, Mr. Brown is eager to show that he is aggressively on waste. So far this year, he issued decrees cutting the fleet of the State and the State employee phones cellular as well as banning the dispersal of the promotional items such as the keyrings.

Under the Act of the State, employees are able to receive the progress of the difficulties of their cheques and pay for a trip of an employment agency discretionary fund. But many organizations not followed regulations of the State in taking money from paychecks of employees. After three years, the money may not be collected without the consent of the employee.

"Collection of bad debt and accounting practices of the State are scamming public coffers at a time when vital public programs are being decimated by unprecedented budget cuts," the State controller John Chiang said Wednesday.

Administration officials expect that there are millions of dollars more loans outstanding have not been accounted for. So far, the State is not known how much money is salary advances which must have been repaid and how much is travel which were not recorded expenses.

Other amounts owed to the State also went non-paid. For example, an audit of the California Highway Patrol, State officials concluded that the Agency had not collected money from people who have been found guilty of drunk driving and the obligation to reimburse the State of the investigation.

Each of the audited agencies has now promised to harden its accounting procedures and submit all accounts offenders in the Office of the controller, so that money can be collected and refunded to the State General Fund.

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2011年4月14日星期四

Palestinians hail international "birth certificate" of a State - Ha'aretz

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Donor countries meeting in Brussels recognized on Wednesday that the "Palestinian Authority (PA) is above the threshold of a functioning state" - an assessment immediately hailed as a "birth certificate" for a Palestinian state by PA premier Salam Fayyad.

In recent months, the World Bank, the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have certified that Fayyad's state-building plans are on track for completion in mid-2011.

Palestinians enjoy an amusement park ride during Eid el Fitr in the West Bank city of Jenin.

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"We can today conclude that the Palestinian Authority is above the threshold of a functioning state," Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said after chairing a meeting of the Ad Hoc Liason Committee, a panel of donor countries to the Palestinians.

"It amounts to a birth certificate for the reality of Palestinian statehood," Fayyad told reporters after the talks in Brussels.

The development took place against the backdrop of deadlocked peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis and running tensions in North Africa and the Middle East which have heightened Israeli security concerns.

A meeting of the Quartet - the panel of international mediators comprising the European Union, the United States, the United Nations and Russia - scheduled for Thursday in Berlin on the margins of NATO talks was called off, diplomats said.

Speculation has been mounting that the Palestinians would ask the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to recognize their statehood in September, if no progress in peace talks had been achieved by then.

But when asked, Fayyad refused to confirm that intention.

"We are not looking for another declaration of statehood, nor are we looking for a virtual state, what we are looking for, again, is a genuine, fully sovereign State of Palestine," including East Jerusalem which Israel captured in 1967, Fayyad said.

The Quartet's envoy, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, reiterated the need for a "negotiated solution," warning that a unilateral Palestinian move for recognition at the UNGA would split the international community.

"Probably if we are hoping for complete unity in the international community on anything to do with this issue, it would be a rather misplaced hope," he quipped.

On the sidelines of the meeting, the EU signed an agreement granting duty-free access to Palestinian agricultural produce - provided that fruit and vegetables are sold above a set price.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton also said the bloc had earmarked 300 million euros ($433 million) in 2011 to further support Palestinian state-building.

The trade deal is expected to give a much-needed boost to the Palestinian economy and to its trade ties with the EU, which amounted only to 57 million euros in 2009, to which exports from Palestine contributed only 6 million euros.

Fayyad called it "a very important agreement," but stressed its application depended on Israel allowing goods out of the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip over which it maintains a tight grip because it is ruled by the Islamist Hamas group.

But Irit Ben-Abba, an Israeli foreign ministry official who also was in Brussels, said "there are no restrictions ... for exports from Gaza to the international markets" since the Israeli government relaxed its embargo on the enclave in December.
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Reply again LatestMost ViewedMost RatedOpen all 29.5717View >Tony Blair Stance Toward The Peace Process Is the Same as the US John Venes 14.04.11 01:21

that is a negotiated solution. But Blair should be reminded that Israelis doing all it can to stop the negotiation. It always find reason notto negotiate and continue the settlement because it will make the Palsstop negotiating. Blair should have a better idea to stop injusticecommitted against the Palestinians and not insist on negotiation. If hedo so, then he just underscores his irrelevance to the ME problem.