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Sheldon Silver.


The legislature, led by back-in-full-control-for-the-moment Speaker Sheldon Silver Sheldon Silver (born February 13, 1944) is a politician and member of the Democratic Party, currently serving as Speaker of New York State Assembly. Personal life
An Orthodox Jew of eastern European descent, Silver has lived all his life on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
 passed the bill allowing a full, $4 billion in transitional financing to be released for infrastructure improvements, as the City had requested.

Building Congress President Richard T. Anderson Anderson, river, Canada
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 said the industry "stepped up to the plate" by writing and communicating to legislators, and agencies can now start the planning for their long-term Long-term

Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year.


long-term

1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term.
 capital improvements. "That's why construction agencies have [multi-year] capital programs," he explained. "For capital planning purposes the full increase of $4 billion was warranted."

While this provides the City with enough for its current four-year program, Anderson said, "It's still an interim measure and we need a long-term resolution of the debt limit."

The debt limit is based on a five-year running average of the city's market value based on the final assessment rolls. But unlike other villages and cities, New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 does not obtain all its money from property taxes, which comprises less than a quarter of its budget. "That's why a constitutional amendment should be considered," added Anderson about amending the debt ceiling computation Computation is a general term for any type of information processing that can be represented mathematically. This includes phenomena ranging from simple calculations to human thinking. . "That's why real property is no longer as effective a measure of a municipality's debt."
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Title Annotation:Speaker of New York Legislature
Author:Weiss, Lois
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U2NY
Date:Jun 21, 2000
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