Sentences with phrase «charter amendment»

Over Auerbach's vigorous protests, accounting responsibilities were shifted to the office of finance under a 2012 charter amendment approved by the voters.

The two politicians were also joined by Carlos Verney, executive director of Broward County Charter Review Commission, which proposes charter amendments for consideration by local voters.

Syracuse Common Councilors will have to vote until 2012 before they can vote to override Mayor Stephanie Miner's veto of a proposed city charter amendment that would weaken the city planning commission.

But members of the Broward Charter Review Commission, which proposes charter amendments for consideration by the county's voters, said they had to take action to make the county safer after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

I didn't hold out much hope for Ulster County charter amendment approval, but after the smoke cleared, almost 60 percent voted in favor.

LYNN, MA — On February 23, 2015, after multiple weather related delays, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted to approve KIPP Academy Lynn's charter amendment request to expand by adding a KIPP K - 4 elementary school in Lynn.

Friendship PCS intends to enter into a sole source contract with K12 Inc. to provide an online education program for students in grades K - 8, the decision to sole source is based on Friendship PCS's PCSB approved charter amendment which authorizes Friendship PCS to continue the Community Academy Public Charter School online program.

The company has also proposed several charter amendments as part of its efforts to adopt corporate governance best practices, including board declassification, providing for the removal of directors with or without cause, a reduced supermajority requirement to amend bylaws regarding special meeting rights and the elimination of supermajority requirements for certain provisions of the bylaws.

All this, however, would require UN Charter amendment for a proper assignment of authority and responsibilities to a new or modified body, which seems difficult to come about these days.

As an Alachua County Commissioner from 1998 to 2002, he spearheaded the Alachua County Forever referendum for conservation lands, the Wild Spaces - Public Places referendum, and worked on three successful charter amendments for campaign finance reform.

A 1993 city charter amendment made Cincinnati the only U.S. city to ban enactment or enforcement of gay rights laws until 2004.

«What we've done is what I've always hoped we would be able to do with the Erie County Charter amendments,» said Poloncarz.

Charter amendment requests must be consented by the charter holder and approved by the Commissioner of Education.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse city councilors are not going to override Mayor Stephanie Miner's veto of a city charter amendment that would have expanded the council's power over the city planning commission.

On December 14, San Francisco Supervisors David Campos and John Avalos introduced a proposed charter amendment, which would change the Ranked Choice Voting system so that voters could list as many choices as they wish.

Whether a company adopts an NOL poison pill (poor fit to protect NOLs) or a charter amendment (well designed to protect NOLs), an intended or unintended consequence is that it basically allows a corporate board to pick its shareholders.

Shareholders approve a charter amendment creating two classes — typically referred to as Class A and Class B — of common stock.

Kellner, who also floated the option of a charter amendment petition, which would go to the voters, said if the city failed to implement runoff voting, then it should abolish runoff elections entirely.

For authority in shifting the two auditors to finance, Hein cites the charter amendment approved last month that «clarifies» discrepancies in language regarding auditing and accounting responsibilities in county government.

Smart people doped it out three years ago in a charter amendment that redefined executive succession.

But the two elected officials, whose positions were created by a 2006 charter amendment, have a history of conflict going back to the earliest days of the new government structure.

Miner vetoed a city charter amendment the council adopted last month that gives the council more power over the planning commission.

The charter amendment adopted by the council would make sure the planning commission couldn't quietly derail a project without the council and the public getting a chance to weigh in, councilor Pat Hogan said then.

City lawyers have said the charter amendment should be submitted to a public referendum, because it transfers power from the executive branch to the legislative.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, shown in a Nov. 7, file photo, vetoed today a city charter amendment that Common Council passed last month.

Unlike the mayor's election two years earlier, this one divided sharply along racial lines, with a majority of the predominantly white voters in wards one, two, three, and six favoring the charter amendment.

«There were predictions of doomsday for public education from all over the state if the Charter Amendment passed, but six months later, I have not seen any signs of the sky falling for district - operated schools,» says Tony Roberts, President and CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools Association.

On Oct. 4, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board approved Larchmont's charter amendment, allowing them to expand to high school.

Re: May 5 article, «Charter amendments could bring significant shifts in Austin governance.»

By engaging in a letter writing campaign, Lynn families were instrumental in getting the charter amendment approved.

Over the weekend, Einstein requested charter amendments to its contract with the Orleans Parish School Board.

Paul Zukerberg, a lawyer and former D.C. Council candidate, challenged the delay in court, arguing the council unconstitutionally ran afoul of the charter amendment approved by voters in 2010 calling for the first election to take place in 2014.

Representation of charter school operators before authorizers for charter amendments and claims of non-compliance

All courts may take judicial notice of charters and charter amendments of cities and towns.

Before the Stoneman Douglas massacre, the charter review board had hashed out 11 proposed charter amendments, covering items like creating an affordable housing trust fund, requiring local governments to post meeting agendas and materials online at least 48 hours before a scheduled meeting and establishing new rules for redistricting county commission seats.

The commission, which recently determined it would not ask voters to consider a county mayor elected countywide, has been wrapping up its work and preparing for public hearings in March on other proposed county charter amendments.