Sentences with phrase «area economic council»

It's supposed to be a live, work and play center of dynamism,» Barry Broome, President of the Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council, said Friday.

For example, sez here that a 100 - year storm could cost the area $ 10 billion, according to a study by the Bay Area Economic Council:

Additionally, she Chairs the University of California African - American Advisory Council, serves as a Board Member for the National Children's Defense Fund and the Bay Area Economic Council Institute, is a fellow for the MIT Community Innovators Lab, and formerly was Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System.

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... It's the costs associated with building and the difficulty in building anything in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco,» said Micah Weinberg, president of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, which counts Adobe, Airbnb, Google, Lyft, and many others in tech among its members.

So far the battle has entailed more words than action, with the tax's supporters trading charged public comments with representatives of the tech companies such as Weinberg's Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, which represents Salesforce, Google, Pinterest, Twilio, and others.

«I know we are competing against every other metropolitan area in the nation,» said Greg Prestemon, CEO of the St. Charles County Economic Development Council (EDC).

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Central Valley Community Foundation today announced the launch of an in - depth study to examine Fresno's important role in the fast - emerging Northern California megaregion and how the arrival of high speed rail over the next decade will dramatically accelerate economic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area and the state's fifth largeEconomic Institute and Central Valley Community Foundation today announced the launch of an in - depth study to examine Fresno's important role in the fast - emerging Northern California megaregion and how the arrival of high speed rail over the next decade will dramatically accelerate economic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area and the state's fifth largeeconomic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area and the state's fifth largest city.

The Council for Community and Economic Research (ACCRA) Cost of Living Index that measures the relative cost of U.S. metropolitan areas examines a new 2,400 square foot, four - bedroom, two - bath home with an attached two - car garage suitable for a management household.

A study conducted in 2012 by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Booz & Company found that the region, where most Silicon Valley companies are headquartered, attracted between 35 and 40 percent of all U.S. venture capital investment.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

The Club through the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation has a long established, productive and valued partnership with the council and the local community in an area with significant socio - economic challenges such as high unemployment and high levels of crime.

This partnership among Mass Audubon, Manomet, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, The Nature Conservancy, and the Southeast Region Planning and Economic Development District is made possible through an EPA grant and is a subset of the Resilient Taunton Watershed Network.

The Healthy Communities Project is a partnership among Mass Audubon, Manomet, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, The Nature Conservancy, and the Southeast Region Planning and Economic Development District.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's regional economic development council initiative started in 2011, and in the first year, the central New York area, includ...

Project Selected By Governor's North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Will Create Hundreds of Jobs and Help Alleviate Housing Shortage in Watertown Area

The Southern Tier Regional Council developed a vision for economic growth and job creation that builds upon the region's strengths by promoting innovative collaborations in the areas of energy, transportation, health care, food, and agriculture.

For the business community, there is progress in areas such as a new attention to tourism, continuation of the Regional Economic Development Councils and reforms in both the workers comp and unemployment insurance programs.

European Union leaders have agreed to re-evaluate economic area's agenda after voters sent a strong message, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has said.

While the storage facility has been opposed by environmental groups and businesses in the area, others like the state Business Council expected to be an economic boost for the area.

As the high - tech industry takes off in the Capital Region's suburbs, the area's Regional Economic Development Council is focusing in part on something different as it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes: urban poverty and inequality.

The Governor has challenged the area's Regional Council to develop the details of a viable plan to create thousands of jobs and to spur at least $ 5 billion in new investment and economic activity.

Another key area where no compromise is indicated: The regional economic development councils Cuomo wants to create and fund with $ 130 million worth of capital dollars.

Akeredolu said he never believed the kidnappers could be hibernating in Ondo creeks until he was told about a month ago during the National Economic Council (NEC) Meeting in Abuja by Osinbajo, and later Governor Ambode, while he immediately deployed his deputy, Mr Alfred Agboola who is from the riverine areas in Ondo, to take up the matter.

The Buffalo region was not eligible for any of the Hunger Games cash, thanks to its Buffalo Billion, but the area did receive $ 83.9 million for 125 projects under the latest round of funding from the state's Regional Economic Development Council program.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's running mate this fall, former Buffalo - area Rep. Kathy Hochul, says the governor's initiatives, including Start - Up NY and the establishment of ten regional economic development councils, have helped spur additional growth in all areas, particularly upstate.

Last year, the Coalition for Queens worked with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's New York City Regional Economic Development Council to incorporate Queens tech companies and the area's start - up community into the state's long - term planning, and the group is urging Cuomo to make the borough the site of a business incubator and an Innovation Hot Spot.

The Albany - area Regional Economic Development Council announced projects it wants funded in the $ 800 million race this year for state grants and tax credits, including redevelopment of the old Starlite Theater property in Colonie and the Palace Theatre's proposed renovation and expansion, which was on the wish list last year.

In Eti - Osa Local Government, Governor Ambode who was represented by State's Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, commissioned the 1.9 km Unity / 1st Avenue Osapa London Road in Eti - Osa Local Government and block of 16 classrooms with modern facilities at Kuramo Primary School in Iru - Victoria Island Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

Howard Zemsky is co-chairman of the Regional Economic Development Council for Western New York and will play a significant role in the shaping of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to invest $ 1 billion of state incentives in the Buffalo - area economy.

In this way, local resources will be used in the best way possible: we will be encouraging economic development in our area, using a local workforce to carry out that development, and using targeted local incentives to assist in appropriate development projects,» County Executive Poloncarz said Board Member Michael Hoffert, President, Buffalo AFL - CIO Labor Council, called the labor force policy «a no - brainer.»

The food emporium, which would move into the former Fulton Fish Market space that has remained vacant since the market moved to the South Bronx in 2005, has generated enthusiasm among community groups and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who said it would help economic development in the area.

He also will hit on New York's economic progress in terms of added private - sector jobs and lower unemployment, his affinity for the Regional Economic Development Council (for which he is proposing another round of awards worth $ 750 million) and some sort of regionally focused plan for the Albaeconomic progress in terms of added private - sector jobs and lower unemployment, his affinity for the Regional Economic Development Council (for which he is proposing another round of awards worth $ 750 million) and some sort of regionally focused plan for the AlbaEconomic Development Council (for which he is proposing another round of awards worth $ 750 million) and some sort of regionally focused plan for the Albany area.

So, on the biggest constitutional, economic, social, cultural and geopolitical issue of the day, Labour had nothing to say to voters in a council area greatly affected by leaving Europe.

While the exact projects compiled by the North Country Regional Economic Development Council remain under wraps for now, officials have singled out three broad areas for investment:

Each Regional Economic Development Council will be required to submit a plan outlining underserved areas, local demand and cost - effective strategies for deploying access.

Every year, between 20 and 25 Nobel Laureates from the fields of physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and the economic sciences spend a week in the Lake Constance area to meet the next generation of leading scientists at a meeting organized by the Council and Foundation for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.

The two spoke separately at a luncheon sponsored by the Metropolitan Planning Council, which asked them to address education, housing, transportation and economic opportunity issues facing the Chicago area.

The summit was hosted by the National Security Council and focused on three areas: Studying, Volunteering, and Working Abroad as a Civic and Economic Imperative; Pushing Greater Diversity of Travelers, Destinations, and Fields — Pushing Through the Barriers; and Cultural Exploration.

Much of the recent work of GCC — the group of artists whose eight members hail from various Persian Gulf countries, and whose name references the acronym for a regional political and economic alliance known as the Gulf Cooperation Council — has focused on the growing popularity in the area, among both governments and the wider populace, of the «positive energy» movement.

His work in this area was recently cited in a report by President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors.

«As a result of the credit's proven ability to create jobs and move the economic needle in the rural and urban areas where it's been invested, the New Markets Tax Credit has the support of a strongly bipartisan delegation in Congress,» said Robert W. Davenport, President of the NMTC Coalition and President Emeritus of National Development Council.

In a first case, C - 431 / 11 UK v Council, the CJEU dealt with the choice of legal basis for a measure implementing an European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement as regards social security systems and ruled that it was precisely one of the measures by which the law governing the EU internal market is to be extended as far as possible to the EEA, with the result that nationals of the EEA States concerned benefit from the free movement of persons under the same social conditions as EU citizens.

Particulars of claim The council's particulars of claim asserted that «permanent injunctive relief pursuant to s 222 of the 1972 Act restraining each defendant's behaviour was likely to achieve the promotion or improvement of the economic, social or environmental wellbeing of the council's area or alternatively that it was expedient for the promotion or protection of their area that the defendant be restrained from committing tortious and criminal acts».

The Council of Canadians with Disabilities also has an annotated bibliography of literature written between 1985 (the year Canada's constitutional equality rights came into force) and 2009 addressing themes such as: disability and equality rights, social and economic rights, and key topical areas such as income assistance, employment, housing, health care, and education, among others: Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Canadian Legal Literature Addressing Social and Economic Rights of People with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography (May 2009): online, Council of Canadians with Disabilities http://www.ccdonline.ca/media/socialpolicy/CURA-annotated-bliography-sept2-2economic rights, and key topical areas such as income assistance, employment, housing, health care, and education, among others: Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Canadian Legal Literature Addressing Social and Economic Rights of People with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography (May 2009): online, Council of Canadians with Disabilities http://www.ccdonline.ca/media/socialpolicy/CURA-annotated-bliography-sept2-2Economic Rights of People with Disabilities: An Annotated Bibliography (May 2009): online, Council of Canadians with Disabilities http://www.ccdonline.ca/media/socialpolicy/CURA-annotated-bliography-sept2-2010.pdf.

«Kevin's knowledge of the council's operations and his experience in important areas like energy and health care will be a great asset to the council as it advocates for New England's economic interests.»

However, the Council shall act unanimously on a proposal from the Commission, after consulting the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions in the following areas:

Framework agreements between governing bodies such as local councils or peak industry bodies which adopt the non-extinguishment principle would ensure that economic development of an area did not occur at the expense of native title interests but were built upon a recognition of them.

In New South Wales, the only criteria for claims is membership of the Local Aboriginal Land Council, which can claim land within or outside its area if «claimable land» (effectively, unoccupied Crown land that is not needed for a public purpose).53 The Act expressly acknowledges the spiritual, social, cultural and economic importance of land to Aboriginal people in the long title, but also recognises the devastation effected upon traditional laws and customs and connection to land by colonialism through this broad basis for claims.

It is worthy to note here that in the two meetings held by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in response to the implementation and monitoring role attributed to it in the Council's recommendations, there has been no recognition of Indigenous people's inherent rights and their necessary role in the three priority areas it has identified: community leadership; reviewing and re-engineering programmes and services to achieve better outcomes for Indigenous peoples; and building links between the business sector and Indigenous communities to advance economic independence.

As well as being responsible for formulating, administering and monitoring the effectiveness of programs to individuals, councils and community organisations in key development areas (such as economic, employment and training, housing and environmental, social and cultural, policy co-ordination), the TSRA is the regional representative body for native title and land and sea management.