Sentences with phrase «city mayor through»
The call for repeal comes after Sen. Malcolm Smith allegedly sought to bribe his way onto the GOP ballot line for New York City mayor through the Wilson - Pakula waiver.
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City Councilman Tim Burgess, the measure's chief sponsor, said those details would be ironed out through implementing regulations still to be developed by the mayor's office.
From Pericles through Edmund Burke, Borat and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Holdforth offers a history of the idea of manners: why they exist, how they developed, and why they matter today.
Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and ex-U.S. attorney who joined Trump's legal team last month, said the president had repaid Cohen over several months, indicating the payments continued through at least the presidential transition, if not into his presidency.
Leading Calgary through the largest flood in recent memory, Mr. Nenshi has helped redefine what it means to be a big city mayor.
Next time you travel through Jersey, make sure there are Republican mayors in the cities you'll be driving through.
The former mayor of Albuquerque, David Rusk, believes that inner cities will continue to deteriorate unless cities and their suburbs are politically connected, either through metropolitan government or through policies.
She added: «Through this campaign, peace activists, lawyers, city mayors, faith leaders, survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and many others are speaking with one voice.
Acting District Attorney Michael Flaherty, D, opened the investigation after an article in the Daily News detailed allegations that organizations, connected to New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio, were skirting campaign finance limits by funneling money through county committees for State Senate races in 2014.
The former New York City mayor is embracing his client's preferred approach to challenges as he mounts Trump's defense through the media.
As mayors prepared to make their case, the state School Boards Association released a survey that found work force costs in schools outside the state's major cities are on track to grow an average of more than $ 1 billion annually by the 2013 - 14 school year; revenues under a tax cap, however, would grow only $ 229 million per year through 2013 - 14, on average.
The metro mayor should show that congestion charging can benefit the whole city region, through investment in public transport for poorly connected areas
The mayor strongly believed that the only way to make sure the funding was permanent was through a dedicated tax on those earning more than $ 500,000 per year to fully fund pre-K for roughly 50,000 New York City children.
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.
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.
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.
She later also suggested that if the mayor's commission failed to take up the proposal, a separate Charter Revision Commission being created by the City Council, through a bill co-sponsored by James, could step in.
«There's some very open - ended language in the executive order, which could result in the city having to recur a substantial additional cost that will not go through our budget process, that the Council doesn't get to vote on, that I as mayor have no control over,» de Blasio said.
Schneiderman charged then that in order to make up for a $ 5,000 reduction in annual salary he would be paid as mayor (he previously served as city clerk and treasurer), Ortt and others devised a pass - through scheme to pay his wife for a no - show job.
With full understanding of ridership and revenues4 on different routes (through better data collection) the metro mayor should seek to offer services to connect people more quickly and affordably to job and training opportunities across the city region, as well boosting health, environmental and social outcomes.
Most of the proposed corridors on Fifth and Sixth avenues go through Community Board 5, led by district manager Wally Rubin, and City Council District 3, represented by Speaker Christine Quinn, who is vacating her seat and running for mayor.
«Pat Hogan is a friend who worked for me in my administration,» said Tom Young, the city's mayor from 1985 through 1993, who said Miner is doing a good job in difficult times.
De Blasio and Ellison released a joint statement this morning through the mayor's campaign apparatus, less than a month after the City Council's Progressive Caucus backed the African - American Muslim lawmaker for chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Alicia Glen, his deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said on Monday that a mandated prevailing wage would cost the city 17,000 affordable units through the 421 - a program.
None of this seems to faze a mayor known for his «political cool» over a career that started as an aide to then - County Executive Dennis T. Gorski and extended through the Common Council and State Senate before being elected the city's first African - American leader in 2005.
David Weprin: Well, clearly when you're dealing with an opponent that is not part of the system, who has unlimited funds, as the recent election we just went through with the mayor of the city of New York, I would remove the individual cap on contributions for donors and go to a much higher cap similar to the one that's at the state level for the governor of the state of New York.
Through his innovative transportation commissioner, the mayor has installed hundreds of miles of bike lanes, worked to reduce pollution and increase energy efficiency in city - owned buildings, and create a solid waste disposal plan that put a cleaner face on the messy business of collecting our trash.
The 12 - month extension, which was coupled with a strengthening of charter schools in the city and statewide through keeping their numbers in an available pool, was agreed to after the mayor sought a permanent program.
And we're achieving it through political reform — as with the new Police and Crime Commissioners who will be elected in November, and the new executive mayors in our great cities, following what I hope will be the positive referendums in May.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio traveled through Paris yesterday, laying wreaths at the sites of the recent terror attacks, meeting with dignitaries and Jewish community leaders and, as the mayor of a city with a prominent Jewish population, speaking about «the cancer of anti-Semitism» throughout the world.
The 66 - year - old mayor is still legally barred from seeking reelection, but he will apparently propose to change the law through City Council, not a citywide ballot.
Since 1990, every decade or so, the state governor and city mayor have negotiated long - term agreements to create thousands of units of housing for the homeless and mentally ill, through a program called «New York - New York.»
According to the source, the city council members, who were hand - selected by the mayor's staff for being among those likely to co-sponsor the bill, were told that the drivers would also benefit from getting the green medallions earlier than they would had they applied through normal channels.
The mayor, sniffling through his remarks, highlighted major investments in the city's public hospitals, whose finances, a city - commissioned report found, were teetering on the edge «of a financial cliff,» and in shoring up the city's bridges, as well as a one - time, $ 183 credit paid out on the water bills of more than half a million homeowners.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has described Silver as «a man of integrity,» later saying Silver «has followed through on every commitment that he's made and he's been consistent in his positions.»
Last year, Mr. Cuomo denied Mr. de Blasio the tax hike he sought to fund his universal prekindergarten initiative and later rammed through a law that guaranteed new charter schools free space in New York City, punishing the anti-charter teachers» union and the mayor, who was always a charter critic.
CIVIC CENTER — Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to rezone New York City's neighborhoods sailed through the City Council Tuesday, clearing its last hurdle before the mayor can enact it.
«The mayor chose to go this route because he knew he would never get this bill passed through the City Council.»
She not only joined mayors around the country in pledging to honor the Paris Agreement, but she has thoughtfully pursued implementation of this goal through a City Energy Plan and a Climate Smart Communities Certification.
In his letter to Cuomo, Lynch accused the mayor and his team of having «inserted themselves into our discussions with the City Council through a series of bad - faith maneuvers to attach a purely political cost to this vital benefit.
She was also asked whether she is concerned that the mayor is taking important actions on his own, such as the expansion of the living wage law, without going through the City Council.
[59] Through negotiations this authority was only awarded to the mayor of New York City as an attempt to overcome a system of school boards that many considered to be hampering efforts at reform.
Ben Walsh, in his first two weeks as mayor of Syracuse, had to strongly reaffirm his support of a replacement option for a deteriorating section of Interstate 81 that cuts through the city.
New York (CNN)- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio must have been in a hurry to get somewhere Thursday, according to a local media report that featured video of the mayor's two - car caravan speeding on city streets, blowing through stop signs and violating other traffic laws - just two days after he announced a traffic - safety initiative.
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The mayor also plans to increase city revenue through the enforcement of existing ordinances, such as housing code violations.
On the stand, the mayor — who narrowly won the 2009 race against then - city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is black — said he believed the ballot security effort was meant to ensure that voters didn't encounter problems at the polls, and paying for it through the party was simply standard procedure.
In promising to veto the measure last week — as well as following through a veto of the related prevailing wage bill, which that would apply to certain building workers in properties where the city leases a large percentage of space — the mayor argued that the legislation would kill jobs and undermine progress the city had made recovering from the recession.
In 2008, the mayor pushed a bill through the City Council that allowed him to seek a third term.
Mark Schroeder walks to the stage through his supporters to officially announce his candidacy for mayor of the city of Buffalo at the Historic Lodge in South Buffalo Sunday, March 5, 2017.