Sentences with phrase «authority board last»

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie nominated Turner, a Democrat, to the Port Authority board last year.

After Erie County legislators finished interviewing three candidates for the Erie County Water Authority board last week, several said two candidates impressed them: Democratic attorney Mark Carney, widely considered the front runner, and Republican businesswoman Rhonda Ricks.

Not exact matches

The Pension Fund and Regulatory Development Authority (PFRDA) board, in its meeting last week, took these decisions with regard to the centre's flagship social security scheme.

The authority of the board of commissioners that has been diluted over the last decade by overzealous, young administrators needs to be reinstated.

When the Public Authorities Control Board approved $ 485.5 million dollars in spending last month, it was supposed to avoid situations like this.

Former Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch, who suffered a dramatic Democratic mayoral primary defeat to Joe Ganim last year, was named acting director of the New York State Thruway Authority Monday.Finch, 60, was appointed by the authority's board of dirAuthority Monday.Finch, 60, was appointed by the authority's board of dirauthority's board of directors...

Among the Buffalo Billion related questions were the review of Joe Percoco's disclosure form revealing outside income from Buffalo Billion vendors, details of Cuomo's last conversation with Percoco, the recent disclosure by Solar City of a reduction in the expected number of jobs, why the Public Authorities Control Board delayed a decision of funding certain payments related to Solar City and whether public money funding the Buffalo Billion was treated «as sacred» and if so, why an investigation is occurring.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Senator Kenneth P. LaValle introduced state legislation last Thursday that would require the Long Island Power Authority's board of trustees «to protect the economic interests of its ratepayers and the service area» when proposing rate increases.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last month vetoed a bill that critics viewed as an attempted end run around the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state control board — and by extension Curran.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through the 2013 - 14 budget passed last month, which included an increase of more than $ 358 million for transit.

When the MTA board officially approved the plan last week, many elected officials and transit advocates were surprised to learn that the second phase of the Second Avenue subway, extending from 96th Street to 125th Street in Manhattan, would be put off past 2019 after the authority cut $ 1 billion from its capital plan.

Community Board 12 submitted a letter at the last State Liquor Authority board meeting held July 25, requesting the commission to deny Papasito its liquor license renBoard 12 submitted a letter at the last State Liquor Authority board meeting held July 25, requesting the commission to deny Papasito its liquor license renboard meeting held July 25, requesting the commission to deny Papasito its liquor license renewal.

Local elected officials and Community Board 12 have been trying since late last year to arrange a meeting with the developers and the Port Authority to provide the community with new updates.

Last month, Cuomo asked some of his New York commissioners to boycott the Port Authority's public board meeting in protest of the ongoing dispute with New Jersey over what to fund in the agency's 10 - year capital plan.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Wednesday marked Joe Lhota's last board meeting as the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

«We could be two years into working through a project... and at the last minute the Public Authorities Control Board, one member, could say, «I don't approve that project,»» Been said, referring to the proposed new approval process for using the housing bonds.

Last year, both men testified before the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's board in favor of a proposal to raise the wage of airport workers to $ 15 an hour.

But the loan request was halved at the Public Authorities Control Board meeting last month by the panel's three members: Senate Finance Chairman John DeFrancisco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget director Bob Megna and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

«I want to make sure that we have a signed law that does what I've tried to accomplish for the last six years which is to reform the Port Authority, to return them completely and wholly to their mission, which is transportation and not real - estate holdings, that we make sure there's a board that we hold accountable and have the right accounting principles,» Lanza said in an interview.

Cuomo sought last week to gain more control over the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a measure that ultimately failed.

A reader brought to our attention a 5 - 0 vote last night in which the board of the tony Westchester County town of Bedford gave themselves the authority to override the 2 percent tax cap championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed by the Legislature earlier this year.

Last week, board members at the Port Authority declined to resign despite that being one of the recommendations backed by Cuomo and Christie.

Last October, after a fit of angst about the Port Authority's planning processes — a fit that featured one board member despairing, «We don't know what we're doing» — the board authorized an international design competition for a new bus terminal west of the existing one on Manhattan's West Side.

Manhattan Community Board 1 approved a unanimous resolution last month demanding the authority cancel the marina R.F.P. and issue a new one.

«After the last board meeting, [Nadler] stopped in my office to ask me for $ 70 million of Port Authority money for a further [environmental impact statement] study for the Harbor freight tunnel,» Degnan said.

But as of last week, it had «one person on board,» said Tischelle George, a senior adviser at the housing authority.

The Rosendale Town Board voted last week to send a letter to the two designated co-lead agencies on the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) of the Pilgrim Pipeline project, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York Thruway Authority (NYTA), urging them to guarantee ample opportunities for «meaningful public and municipal participation» during the scoping phase of the review process.

Last year, City Hall and the Common Council briefly considered limiting the legal authority of the Citizen Review Board.

Ms. Doherty said she's no stranger to taking a tough stance in protecting the environment, and pointed to her board's vote last year to prevent the Suffolk County Water Authority from building a pipeline to Orient.

The NFTA board did not vote on but supported a staff proposal late last summer for an authority - wide compensation study at a cost of $ 5,000, according to spokeswoman Helen Tederous.

The New York City Housing Authority has a pilot program that allows tenants to report rent payments, but as of last week it only had «one person on board,» NYCHA senior advisor Tischelle George said.

Howard Glaser, one of Mr. Cuomo's top aides, even wrote a letter last month to the Canadian transport minister, who controls the Canadian half of the authority's board, complaining about «years of foot - dragging.»

As was the case last month when, on the day State Senator John DeFrancisco of Syracuse joined with members of the Public Authority Control Board to approve the clean water fund raid, a sewer main broke in his hometown and shut down streets.

The state had attributed the previous layoffs to a cash - flow issue and appeared to address it in May when the Public Authorities Control Board approved $ 485.5 million in spending for the governor's Buffalo Billion initiative, but a spokesperson for the comptroller said when they received a request for $ 154 million in payments for the RiverBend project last Wednesday, there were a lot of unanswered questions.

Syracuse Housing Authority board of directors meet at their office - 516 Burt St. Former Syracuse corporation counsel Juanita Perez Williams (right) and the chairman Maria Revelles (left) talk with the media last year.

The Borough President acted under the authority of a new state law enacted last month that gives the two elected officials who appoint the Board's members the power to remove the Trustees they have appointed when those Trustees fail to satisfactorily perform their duties.

The letter went out last week, ahead of a planned Wednesday vote among the Port Authority's nine board members.

After sidestepping press inquiries and making a last - minute changes to its agenda, the Erie County Water Authority board Thursday morning unanimously appointed its former chairman, Earl L. Jann Jr., as executive director at a salary of more than $ 145,000.

The Erie County Water Authority board hired the Phillips Lytle law firm on an «emergency» basis late last year, agreeing to pay its lawyers an hourly rate of $ 400 to $ 435 an hour.

The House Education and Labor Committee last week approved by voice vote legislation to reauthorize — and reorganize — the Education Department's research branch, after rejecting a Republican effort to give the President authority to appoint the members of a new board that would set research policy.

The Detroit Board of Education announced the appointment of Ms. McGriff, 41, as superintendent last week, hailing her as a leading authority on empowered and chartered schools, schools of choice, and multicultural curriculum.

Over the last 20 years, England didn't abolish its «local education authorities» — Blighty's version of school districts — but it conferred so much autonomy on individual schools and their boards of governors that it essentially marginalized those authorities.

«The concept was to be a catalyst for change,» said Tom Watkins, who as CEO of the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority last year first asked the authority's board to find money for the inAuthority last year first asked the authority's board to find money for the inauthority's board to find money for the initiative.

Last Thursday, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority Board approved tax incentives for several expanding companies, including GM.

Mr. Flaherty, who mused to the Financial Post editorial board last week about getting CMHC out of the mortgage insurance business, has placed the agency under the authority of the country's banking regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.

Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) who won World's Leading Tourist Board 2010 at last years World Travel Awards, and the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi are headline sponsors of the event, which is held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, ADTA's Chairman.

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved changes to the training regulations proposed last month by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

Charles Plant, chair of the Solicitors Regulation Authority board, last month dismissed as «nonsense» the definition of reserved legal activities citing will - writing as a prime example.

Top DOJ officials have until March 8 to decide whether to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider its conclusion that Obama overstepped his authority last year when he used his recess appointment power to install three members on the National Labor Relations Board.