Sentences with phrase «borough board voted»

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NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich has seized on this morning's NY Post report of a top Queens GOP official's suspension by the NYC Board of Elections after being caught soliciting a «finder's fee» from a voting machine contractor to continue his on - again / off - again war with the borough's Republican chairman, Phil Ragusa.

These sites will go through the standard Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which includes public hearings by the local community boards, input from borough presidents, and votes by the Council and City Planning Commission.

While concerns about MIH can be easily translated in these meetings, the Council's issues with Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) are far more varied and reflect the opinions raised by community boards and borough presidents last year, when these plans were largely rejected in non-binding votes throughout the city.

Because the Continuum project is seeking a zoning change, it will need approval through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, which includes input from the local community board and borough president as well as up - down votes from the City Planning Commission, City Council and mayor.

But community boards across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan have voted to reject much or all of the plan — as have the borough boards consisting of the community board chairs, local Council members and the borough presidents.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, like many members of the Council's Progressive Caucus, abstained from her borough board's vote on the proposals.

The levels of turn - out for elections to its board of 53 elected members was not huge — 44 % of the electorate voted in elections across the 13 inner - London boroughs — but much better than turnout in elections for more recent devolved positions of authority, such as police commissioners.

While the votes by the borough boards, made up of community board chairs and City Councilmembers, are merely advisory, they could strongly influence the City Council's official vote on the proposals, expected to take place in 2016.

The board, made up of one Republican and one Democrat from each borough, also voted unanimously to keep Donovan on the Reform Party ballot line.

In 1989, the Supreme Court declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional, because it violated the one - person one - vote rule by giving New York's least - populous borough, Staten Island, as much power as its most populous borough, Brooklyn.

In 1989 the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional on the grounds that Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 «one man, one vote» decision.

The borough presidencies had power because they had votes on the Board of Estimate, which oversaw the city's budget and land - use.

Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use.

Both the Bronx and Queens Borough Boards - made up of community board leaders, City Council members, and the borough president - have voted against them.

In 2009, the borough president and community board voted to approve plans for a $ 1 billion NYPD cadet training facility, which will sit on 35 acres of land and house 2,000 parking spaces when complete.

An extensive borough - and community - based review of the proposals is underway, with varying results thus far as local community boards vote in non-determinative polls.

It would be too easy to say one was about style and one is about substance, when the office itself is still a vestige of a time, pre-1990, when the borough president had a crucial vote on the old Board of Estimate.

On Wednesday the Board of Education was reconstituted (with seven members, one appointed by each borough president and two by Bloomberg himself) and met for a nine - minute session, wherein they voted to retain Joel Klein as schools chancellor, and to disband themselves for good if and when the State Senate (ever) passes mayoral control for real.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., City Council Members Maria del Carmen Arroyo, Andrew Cohen, Vanessa Gibson, Andy King, Annabel Palma and Ritchie Torres, and representatives from all 12 of the borough's community boards voted against the proposals.

Advisory boards in all five boroughs voted down the zoning changes.

But the board was dismantled for giving the populous borough of Brooklyn the same number of votes as sleepier Staten Island, and the Council became a larger player in land use debates.

In recent weeks, all five of the city's borough boards, all of its borough presidents and a large majority of its 59 community boards have voted to reject one or both zoning change proposals that de Blasio's team says are needed to create homes for low - to middle - income families.

But after the vote, Miles maintained she was an «excellent» administrator and filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday claiming the board's leaders, the borough president and his staff wanted her fired because of her age, not her abilities as district manager.

The boards represent the earliest part of the city's lengthy Uniform Land Use Review Procedure for rezoning, with the next step being a vote of the borough board, composed of the borough president, local council members and the chairs of the community boards.

Stein derived most of his power from his seat on the Board of Estimate, which was made up of the mayor, the city comptroller and the city council president, each of whom had two votes, and the five borough presidents, each with one vote.

A community board's vote is merely a recommendation, though it may reflect the beliefs of the local council members and borough president, since they jointly pick who sits on the panel in each area.

If the proposal moves forward, it would be subject to the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which includes community board hearings, an advisory opinion from the borough president, approval by the City Planning Commission and a vote in the City Council.

The Bronx and Queens Borough Boards voted against the plans and other boroughs are set to vote soon.