Sentences with phrase «city mayor include»

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The mayor of Los Cabos has touted the city's security efforts, including «purging» the city's police ranks and allotting more resources to them.

Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson YaCity deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yacity for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.

This summer, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a bill requiring for - hire vehicle companies that have bases with 500 cars or more — which includes Uber — to increase their number of vehicles by only 1 % every year.

Bradley Tusk has long been known in political circles, including for managing the third campaign of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

It's a curious statement for a mayor of city where WEDC has provided some $ 186 million in tax breaks and other help for 184 projects by companies including Danisco, a subsidiary of DuPont, which reported $ 25 billion in net sales in 2015.

Cuomo's famed 1984 «Tale of Two Cities» speech has been reprised by numerous politicians, including John Edwards and, most recently, New York City's current mayor, Bill de Blasio.

Will that nation of yours include Houston with it's gay democratic female mayor and some of the other big cities that voted for Bill White in the last election?

The program also includes a national public awareness campaign, and connects mayors with innovative, cost - effective strategies to successfully reduce childhood obesity in their cities.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

and mayors and school superintendents from various cities, including Miami, Boston and Philadelphia.

The WFP was also active in several races outside the five boroughs, including the Albany mayor's race, where City Treasurer Kathy Sheehan is poised to become the city's first female leader after defeating her primary opponent, former Councilman Corey Ellis; and Nassau County, where Tom Suozzi is one step closer to his effort to take back his old county executive post from Republican Ed Mangano after beating Adam Haber on TuesCity Treasurer Kathy Sheehan is poised to become the city's first female leader after defeating her primary opponent, former Councilman Corey Ellis; and Nassau County, where Tom Suozzi is one step closer to his effort to take back his old county executive post from Republican Ed Mangano after beating Adam Haber on Tuescity's first female leader after defeating her primary opponent, former Councilman Corey Ellis; and Nassau County, where Tom Suozzi is one step closer to his effort to take back his old county executive post from Republican Ed Mangano after beating Adam Haber on Tuesday.

The questioner (who happened to be a YNN videographer) then asked Gillibrand if she thought women should be offended by Eliot Spitzer's candidacy for New York City comptroller, as some of her fellow female elected officials have suggested — including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but she had a political motive in seeking to link Spitzer and Weiner together in hopes of tarring the former congressman, who is one of her rivals in the mayor's race.

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Hundreds jammed the City Council chambers and spilled into adjoining hallways, including a slew of Long Island mayors, town officials, state and county legislators and others who will depend on Suozzi to bring federal money to local projects.

It's the latest pass at a proposal that has drawn harsh criticism in the past, including when then - mayor Michael Bloomberg unsuccessfully tried to advance congestion pricing in New York City a decade ago.

Others in attendance included police Chief Frank Fowler, city councilors Chad Ryan, Helen Hudson, Nader Maroun, Steve Thompson, council President Van Robinson, a handful of city pastors and the mayor's husband, Jack Mannion.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Many prominent leaders were present, including Coretta Scott King and Myrlie Evers - Williams, poet Maya Angelou, actor - activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, New York Governor George Pataki, and four New York City mayors — Abraham Beame, Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and Rudy Giuliani.

While Democrats including District Attorney Madeline Singas have called for a supermajority of legislators to appoint the person with that role, Mangano aides say the mayor or governor directly selects them in the city and state.

As it pertains to affordable housing development, Brawley was immediately suspicious of de Blasio when he noticed that the 116 - page document the mayor released in 2014 detailing his housing plan included EBC's planned Gateway Elton Street development, despite City Hall having never consulted with the organization or Metro IAF.

Examples of local authorities that have city mayors in the UK include Bristol, Liverpool, Salford, Doncaster and Leicester.

Duffy retired as Rochester's police chief in 2005 after seven years in the job — including aggressive efforts to curtail the city's accelerating murder rate — and ran for mayor.

Last year, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Joon Kim, who closed a probe of whether de Blasio traded favors for contributions from donors that included Singh, said prosecutors found «several circumstances» where the mayor «made or directed inquiries to relevant City agencies» on behalf of donors seeking «official favors.»

In short, Albany is a strange, strange place that many politicians, including prestigious New York City mayors, have had difficulty navigating.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has since fallen under intense scrutiny from city watchdogs — most recently, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman served subpoenas to parties involved in the flip, including the Allure Group and lobbyist James Capalino, who has previously raised money for both the mayor and prior owners of Rivington House.

Lamont's campaign is certainly not lacking endorsements from prominent Democrats in the Elm City, including Toni Harp, New Haven's first female mayor and second black mayor.

But the agency has consistently been used by Syracuse mayors, including Miner, as an «expedient» way to hire city employees - or in this case a private contractor — without going through the state civil service system or amending the city budget.

Homeless people — including many with mental illness — have crowded the city's subway system, prompting straphangers to demand action from the mayor.

His comments to reporters in New York City come a day after top advisors to the mayor, including City Hall itself, were issued subpoenas as part of the ongoing inquiry.

The mayor himself spoke for less than 10 minutes, and though his speech didn't include much in the way of actual policy — he wanted to keep it short for the benefit of those assembled in the cold — he did repeat his promise about making New York «the fairest big city in America.»

Halloran said five city workers, including two Department of Transportation and three Sanitation Department employees assigned to Queens, told him the day before that they were asked by supervisors «to take their time» plowing roads because the «mayor's office doesn't care about them.»

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Cuomo, in turn, has seemingly sought to undermine de Blasio ever more so, with the mayor's team stymied on a variety of issues at the Capitol, including mayoral control of New York City schools.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

The city conducted a «thorough review of locations, including business corridors, tourist attractions and iconic sites,» the mayor said in a release.

Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy and his wife, Barbara, reported $ 262,180 in gross income, including Barbara's compensation from a human resources consulting firm and Bob's $ 70,255 pension from the City of Rochester, where he was a police officer, police chief and mayor.

McMillan has run for numerous offices, including mayor of New York City and governor.

Ed Cox said the GOP is entering an important two - year election cycle that includes the New York City mayor's race this year and the governor's and congressional races next year.

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.

Back in January, a traffic advisory panel appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo — which includes a number of former city and state politicians, the chairman of the Regional Plan Association, and the mayor of Yonkers — released a report outlining how congestion pricing could be implemented in New York Ccity and state politicians, the chairman of the Regional Plan Association, and the mayor of Yonkers — released a report outlining how congestion pricing could be implemented in New York CityCity.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

The transportation advocacy group Move New York said the mayor should include congestion pricing in his plan to decrease the number of cars that enter the city.

Emerging from a conference with his members late Monday, he said the budget resolution would include an «acknowledgment of home rule» that would let the mayor and New York City Council raise taxes «if they choose.»

Other proposals by the Albanese campaign include new Mitchell Lama development in place of the mayor's proposal to build 90 new homeless shelters, a tax on real estate purchased by foreign individuals and corporations as investments rather than residences, and consolidating «programs like Head Start and pre-K under a single city agency.»

He has since gone on to garner the support of several elected officials, including his former boss, Attorney General Erich Schneiderman, Congressman Jerry Nadler, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Councilman Mark Levine and, most recently, former Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, who previously supported Ferrer's one - time bid for mayor.

Bloomberg also once tried to draw in a few handpicked candidates to replace him, including an invitation last year to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for New York City mayor.

Albanese has criticized the mayor for management failures related to a wide variety of city agencies and services, including the school system and Department of Correction.

Over the past few weeks, a series of loosely related public corruption investigations coordinated by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara have spilled into public view, with targets including high - ranking New York Police Department officials, the union representing city jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's macity jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's maCity's mayor.