Sentences with phrase «cities and counties all»

But the Consensus CNY Commission on government consolidation wants that law changed to include cities and counties.

Cities and counties have complained they can't continue consolidating services, but Cuomo insists there's more to do.

But Uber still would have to negotiate individual operating agreements with villages, towns, cities and counties.

«Cities and counties rely on these taxes to continue operating, and New York City schools need the continuity and predictability that mayoral control offers,» Assembly Democratic Majority Speaker Carl Heastie of the Bronx said when the bill was passed.

Still, 17 New York cities and counties have demanded one, though not Suffolk County or any East End town.

The state creates cities and counties, and it has the ultimate authority over them.

For now, all the cities and counties hoping for better broadband can do is make do with whatever service they already have.

ALBANY — Public employees are working without contracts in cities and counties across New York State, as labor negotiations stall because local governments say they can not afford to raise wages.

In recent years, dozens of states, cities and counties have passed their own ordinances, which typically require employers to provide between three and seven paid sick days a year.

«Cities and counties are struggling to fund basic services for New Yorkers,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Group.

With stakes this high, it's no surprise that nearly all of the villages, towns, cities and counties along the proposed route joined Scenic Hudson and environmental allies is clearly calling for the DEC to manage the environmental review.»

There is one way cities and counties can sometimes freeze wages: when their finances deteriorate so badly that they are taken over by control boards, as has happened in Nassau and Erie Counties.

State Senator: The State Senate consists of representatives who are elected in districts that usually span several cities and counties.

Regan McCarthy reports a number of cities and counties are pushing for more legal leeway to increase firearm safety.

«During the 30 - day period from November 16th to December 16th, 2015, at least 29 towns, cities and counties in the direct path of the two proposed oil and refined products pipelines — over 85 percent of the total — objected to the Thruway Authority's proposal to act as Lead Agency for the (state Environmental Quality Review Act) process,» town officials wrote.

I think the DEC should also be concerned that the overwhelming opposition by towns, cities and counties to Thruway Authority lead agency status could weaken confidence in the review process if both are lead.»

It isn't easy to maintain cities and counties in rural New York...

This is years and years if not decades of legislative proposals... and down the road cities and counties have had to pay for that.

Cuomo, increasingly worried that many cities and counties face the threat of financial bankruptcy, is also considering tying pay hikes to «significant» mandate relief for local governments, including possible changes in «Triborough Law,» which favors public - employee unions over local governments in contract talks, a source close to the Legislature said.

While major cities and some counties in the state — including, locally, New York City and Suffolk and Westchester Counties — do provide transgender rights protections, about 40 percent of the state's population live in areas with no such ordinances.

He also contended that unfunded state mandates are more to blame for high property taxes than the fact that New York has about 1,600 towns, villages, cities and counties.

A searchable database of tax and spending benchmarks for villages, towns, cities and counties has been posted at SeeThroughNY.net/benchmarking.

If elected, Democratic Attorney General candidate Ryan Torrens says he would not enforce Florida law that prohibits cities and counties from enacting their own gun - control ordinances.

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

«Under the Trump proposal - which just passes the buck from the feds to states, cities and counties - to build a project like I - 81, local taxes would rise and all drivers in the Syracuse area would be forced to pay a «Trump Toll» every time they got on that road,» Schumer said.

Cities and counties have a fiscal year that ends with the calendar year.

2) Those left in the Normal Pension Rate Option may end up subsidizing the big cities and counties that join the «stable rate» proposal.

At 1:30 p.m., 1,000 low - wage workers and advocates will descend on Albany to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it for inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol.

With many Upstate municipalities suffering from an overabundance in vacant and abandoned properties due to population losses, land banks will give cities and counties a new tool to rebuild communities and foster local economic development.

The new law will allow cities and counties to create and administer land banks to convert vacant, abandoned or tax - delinquent properties into productive use.

The Consensus CNY Commission on consolidating government is lobbying Albany for the petition process to include cities and counties as well.

Where globalization has sucked the industrial life out of cities and counties.

Hundreds of low - wage workers and advocates descended upon Albany today to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it to inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum.

They want cities and counties to be allowed to set their own minimum wages.

«Cities and counties all across the state have stepped up and recognized the importance of protecting transgender individuals from discrimination, and it is long overdue that the state guarantees these basic human rights for all transgender New Yorkers.»

But should cities and counties be paying for lawyers to help undocumented immigrants facing deportation?

Because of the collapse of the financial markets in the Great Recession, cities and counties have been billed increasing amounts in the last few years to keep the New York State Pension Fund healthy.

«Either we empower cities and counties to set their own destiny, or we rethink this entire process.»

«Cities and counties in Upstate New York have to be solvent,» Cuomo replied.

If we don't move this economy forward with a pro-job-growth federal agenda, cities and counties across New York are going to be in trouble.»

«Various New York cities and counties have already acknowledged the importance of equal rights for all people and passed transgender - inclusive nondiscrimination legislation,» said Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement.

Where we live, cities and counties are slow to approve applications for new church properties because it removes property from the tax base.

Larger cities and counties often have directories of social service agencies, including counseling facilities.

The most affordable cities and counties were those in which total housing costs on an average house accounted for the smallest proportion of the median income.

For instance, all cities and counties within the Seattle metro area have the same loan limits.

So higher - priced real estate markets like the Bay Area and Los Angeles tend to have higher loan limits, when compared to cities and counties with more affordable homes.

Amazon has been awarded more than $ 40 million in economic incentives for warehouses in Florida, mostly from cities and counties.

With the passing of MMRSA in 2015 and the (now removed) deadline of March 1, 2016 for local cities and counties there has been a lot of action in

After a solid majority of California voters legalized adult - use cannabis last November, the onus has shifted to California cities and counties to pass rules for how and where retail marijuana stores and other cannabis businesses would be allowed to operate.

In Minnesota taxes on real estate are an important source of revenue for schools, cities and counties.