Sentences with phrase «before council vote»

Members of Unite Here Local 11 in the Los Angeles City Council chambers on Tuesday before the Council voted to increase the city's minimum wage from $ 9.

Speaking at separate events over a two - day span, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito acknowledged significant community pushback against the mayor's rezoning proposals and said that those plans will be tweaked before the Council votes on them.

The day our story broke, and spread across local media, I asked Speaker Corey Johnson about the internship issue shortly before the council voted to increase its budget by $ 17 million.

Mayoral spokesman Marc La Vorgna said all city agencies take similar cuts for fringe benefits, and the final amounts were clear in budget documents before the Council voted.

Not exact matches

Several years ago, at Family Research Councils Values Voter Summit, Southern Baptist leader Richard Land said he'd vote for a Jewish pro-life politician who promised to raise his taxes before he'd vote in a Christian pro-choice candidate who promised to cut them.

New York would be the first major city in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections under a bill before a City Council committee.

Kevin Finnegan, the union's most recent political director, played an instrumental role in whipping votes for Melissa Mark - Viverito (a former 1199 organizer herself) before she was elected City Council Speaker.

The Conservatives won overall control of more than 30 councils — mostly, it should be noted, councils without a single party majority before the vote.

During this time, it was being reported that U.S. Rep. Crowley was obtaining pledges for a T.B.A. Council speaker candidate from Municipal lawmakers before the lawmakers had authority to cast such votes, because the next legislative session had yet to be sworn in.

With nearly six weeks left before the general election, Republican City Council candidate Dan Halloran opened up his Bayside campaign offices Saturday to get out the vote.

Ognibene also criticized Crowley over the Council's approval of a new high school for Maspeth without concessions for neighborhood children and a curb cut for buses, suggesting she could have won the concessions from the city School Construction Authority if she had consulted more Council members behind the scenes before the vote.

«You have been supportive of historic candidacies and create a space and a platform for those leaders of color, those leaders who are women... Tish James is one of those, who for 17 years has been lockstep with this party,» former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said to party members before the vote.

As NY1's Michael Scotto reports, it's likely the plans will be overhauled before the City Council votes on them.

Before voting on all the matters facing the Council today, they'll all be discussed — including land use deals in Long Island City and Willet's Point and restaurant health inspection changes.

In June 2006, the Common Council held a packed committee meeting before voting on the settlement.

Those deals — particularly Willet's Point — held up the Council's meeting as negotiations on them continued through the early afternoon before today's affirmative votes.

«You often hear from people in a community who have had bike lanes or speed bumps put in their neighborhood and they don't know why,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said before the near - unanimous vote.

It will be reviewed by Community Board 2, which is expected to sign off on the plan, in October and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer before the City Council votes on it.

«I'm proud to say that, despite the difficult times we're facing... we have successfully negotiated and will pass a balanced, on - time budget for Fiscal Year 2011,» Council Speaker Christine Quinn told reporters before the vote.

4 p.m. — The City Council is now voting on all the measures before them today, including the Staten Island Ferry bill.

Mr. Ulrich once suggested he could not vote for Ms. Mark - Viverito after it was revealed she did not recite the Pledge of Allegiance before council meetings.

When it came before the full council, Will abstained from the vote, declining to explain why.

Shortly before de Blasio did so, Cuomo denounced the mayor's plan, and also called Council speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to talk about it as the Council was poised to vote on the relevant legislation.

As mayor - elect de Blasio jumped into the race for city council speaker, lobbying council members and pushing his preferred choice of Melissa Mark - Viverito to an anticipated victory well before the scheduled city council vote.

In March, Will voted against allocating $ 42,000 for the C.T. Male study when the issue came before the council's Finance Committee.

«I feel lucky to be alive,» Mr. Johnson said in an interview, before the Council, including all four of its Republican members, voted to elevate him as their leader in a 48 - to - 1 vote.

The court order bars the Council from holding a vote to approve a BOE pick before Dec. 20, when there will be a hearing.

Last month Will voted against allocating $ 42,000 for the C.T. Male study when the issue came before the council's Finance Committee.

City Council Member Gale Brewer, participating in her last meeting of the Technology Committee, which she previously chaired, before taking on her new role as Manhattan Borough President, said she was skeptical of Internet voting, noting that the potential requirement of I.D. cards was problematic given the Voter I.D. debates, but emphasized her support for improving reporting of election results and encouraging voter registration through other agencies.

Budgets are fluctuating documents, and Mr. de Blasio will have several more chances to update his plan before the City Council votes on it in June, after a series of negotiations.

PTA selectors (who officially vote for education council members) will review the results of the parental vote before casting their official votes from May 12 to May 14.

He added the Council members were called together at the last minute before today's vote on the spending plan — though he said he was «not at liberty» to say whether the condition was discussed.

When the mayor was public advocate, he insisted that the anti stop - and - frisk Community Safety Act deserved a vote before the Council regardless of the position of Quinn.

«It's very disturbing to me that you can't come to some sort of resolve with this thing and move the project along because time is of the essence,» said Lyle Balistreri, president of the Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, shortly before the vote.

The D.O.E.'s Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - member body appointed by the mayor and the city's borough presidents, will vote on the plan at a March 18 meeting before it is submitted to the mayor and City Council for a vote in June as part of the overall budget.

The health care workers union's entire executive council still must meet and vote before a final endorsement is granted.

Oakeshott also said Cable had known about the controversial voting predictions — which suggested Clegg would lose his seat along with three other MPs — several weeks before the party's disastrous showing in the European and council elections.

At 2 p.m., in response to de Blasio's «quest to tear down statues like Christopher Columbus,» Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich will announce legislation that would require a majority vote of the Council before removing statues on city property, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

De Blasio had proposed a cap on new permits for the popular car services, but backed down the day before a scheduled council vote in the face of industry pressure and wavering support from legislators.

However, on Monday, the Department of City Planning pulled the application, just before a City Council subcommittee was set to vote on it, because of a disagreement with legislators.

The Syracuse Common Council will narrow down a list of resumes to three candidates before voting to fill an empty counciCouncil will narrow down a list of resumes to three candidates before voting to fill an empty councilcouncil seat.

The proposed rezoning will now go before the Borough President and City Planning Commission before a City Council Vote.

- Keith Wakefield, Labour in Leeds council elections (complaints went in the year before too), illegal postal voting tactics.

Before that, he served 11 years on the Syracuse Common Council in two jobs that required a vote of the entire city — Councilor - at - large and Council President.

Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick abandoned his bid to be speaker in the moments before the City Council's vote and threw his support behind Mark - Viverito.

Council Barron wants to speak before vote.

Mayor de Blasio (center) has said he would visit a stable before City Council votes on whether to ban carriages, but he has not promised to attend Neeson's open house.

The Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, who voted in favor of the bill, was asked at a news conference before the vote was taken if she used reusable bags when she went shopping.

Hearings before the community board and City Planning Commission will be required, the Borough president will weigh in and the City Council must vote on the final land disposition.

If the merger plan included dissolving the city, the state Legislature would certainly require a home rule message from the Syracuse Common Council before voting to terminate the city's charter.