Sentences with phrase «city money groups»

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«If you are thoughtful about how you handle the process, you're going to get a lot more money for your business,» says John Bird, president and co-founder of Albion Financial Group, a Salt Lake City - based investment and planning firm.

Stephen Poloz used a speech on September 20 in Quebec City to educate a group of economists about the «hurdle rate» — the minimum return on an investment companies require before they agree to part with their money.

Perhaps it was the enthusiasm of Galilean pilgrims, who hailed him as Messiah as he entered the city, which called Jesus to the unfavorable notice of the Roman authorities; perhaps it was Jesus» own act of driving money - changers from the temple courts; perhaps it was the bringing of charges against him by powerful Jewish groups whom he had offended.

Veeck is also part of a Twin Cities group that has offered $ 80 million to $ 90 million to buy the Twins from Pohlad, the eightysomething billionaire banker who has 1) said he won't sell the team and 2) demanded a $ 200 million ballpark be built with taxpayer money, lest he 3) move his franchise.

And after an initial bout of setting as much money as possible on fire to prove he's serious, City owner Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose City Football Group bought the club in 2008, has gotten serious about the club's long - term prospects.

Although private groups such as the Questers and the Dole Mansion Preservation Society have advocated preservation and raised money for years, the city did not establish its Historic Preservation Commission until 1996, after the pump house was abruptly leveled to make way for a school parking lot.

Now they are hell - bent on making sure future conventions will spend their money at other cities across the country («Medical group zaps trade show in Chicago, News, Nov. 12).

De Blasio has placed his biggest bet on the Renewal program, which has pumped extra money and other resources into a group of the city's most troubled schools, at a cost of $ 582 million.

City Council member Corey Johnson, speaking for the group, said they asked for three things: An emergency declaration to waive the usual contracting requirements in order to speed housing repairs, an overall quicker contracting process for construction, and more money.

The group gets money from the City Council, and receives discretionary grants from CM Arroyo, among several others.

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.

Especially since there are few other open City Council races, outside interest groups will be paying close attention and may pour money into the race, knowing that a little can go a long way.

He also believes that «we have probably not heard the last of the slush fund scandal... we need to have accountability on whether the community groups that get City funding actually do what they say they were going to do with the money.

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office recently began an investigation into whether Shulman's group, the Flushing Willets Point Corona LDC, illegally lobbied city officials after it came to light the city Economic Development Corp. funneled money to the organization.

The group also pumped money into various victorious City Council candidates — they entered 2014 with a vow from Mayor Bill de Blasio that horse - drawn carriages, which animal rights activists call inhumane, would immediately be banned.

The projection, made in a document distributed by RNC officials at the group's summer meeting in Kansas City, comes as the committee is being forced to compete for donor dollars with a growing number of independent expenditure groups which are spending money to help defeat Democrats in November.

Money «drives the whole process,» said Kenny Schaeffer, co-chairman of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, a New York City tenants» rights group.

Under the city's campaign finance system, outside groups can spend unlimited amounts of money on local races, as long as they don't coordinate directly with campaigns.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took an unusually personal role in raising money for a nonprofit group backing his political agenda, according to several people who received fundraising appeals from the mayor.

Indeed, Save New York has not spent any money so far on advertising, with affiliated groups like the Partnership for New York City criticizing the proposal to extend the millionaires tax, which is due to be formally approved by the Assembly later today.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

Too much of the state's election process for judges revolves around raising money, said Dennis R. Hawkins, executive director of the Fund for Modern Courts, a New York City - based group that favors reform of the judicial selection process.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, representing the group, said they asked for three things: an emergency declaration to waive the usual contracting requirements in order to speed housing repairs, an overall quicker contracting process for construction and more money.

«Public assistance is not that much money to take care of the family,» said Lee, a member of the advocacy group VOCAL - NY, prior to a City Council committee hearing on the issue Monday.

DeSalvio Playground at the corner of Spring and Mulberry streets will get a $ 1.9 million overhaul with money from Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, the founder of booster group Friends of DeSalvio Playground said Monday.

In Manhattan, Inez Dickens» District 9 received the most money, ranking sixth city - wide, with more than $ 940,000 for local groups.

Weprin stood on the steps of City Hall Sunday with driver - safety group New Yorkers Stand Against Insurance Fraud to urge Albany to make Alice's Law a reality and save taxpayer money in the process.

HARLEM — A West Harlem community group, under fire over its use of $ 3.5 million in Columbia University's expansion funds, did spend at least some of the money on a summer youth jobs program, a city agency confirmed Tuesday.

However, he was not in favor of the group using the money to fund city programs.

Both groups have raised money from developers, unions and other groups with financial interests before the city.

«Last year, I rescinded funding for the group when I was informed that there was a problem with its finances; the organization received no money from my City Council discretionary funds for the last two years,» he said.

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

The group will use the money to fund outreach workers at each of the city's eight elite specialized high schools — including Brooklyn Technical High School and Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School — to help improve their dismal stats on diversity.

The PAC, called Jobs for New York, represented the trade group's first foray into independent expenditure in city races — money spent on a campaign without any involvement of the candidate.

The group, composed of 19 legislators and community members, has urged not only the government merger, but also the combination of some essential government services offered by both the city and the county to save money.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

That initiative gave money to a citizen group recommending a Syracuse city - Onondaga County governments merger.

«Everybody thinks it's just the younger traveler, but we think it's a broader group of travelers interested in spending their money in the city as opposed to on the hotel room.»

Mr. Seabrook automatically lost his City Council seat in July after he was convicted of orchestrating a broad scheme to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in city money to friends, relatives and a girlfriend through a network of nonprofit groups he controlCity Council seat in July after he was convicted of orchestrating a broad scheme to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in city money to friends, relatives and a girlfriend through a network of nonprofit groups he controlcity money to friends, relatives and a girlfriend through a network of nonprofit groups he controlled.

Demanding that Gov. Cuomo pay up on the state's long - overdue $ 2.5 billion debt to New York City public schools, two education advocacy groups at a press conference on Feb. 19 released a report that broke down the money owed by Assembly and Senate district in New York City so that each lawmaker who is going to vote on the state budget can tell exactly how much money is missing from his or her district.

Among those matters: the lifting of deed restrictions on a Lower Manhattan nursing home that allowed it to be sold to luxury condominium developers at a $ 72 million profit; whether an animal rights group that supported removing horse carriages from city streets got favorable treatment in return for generous donations to the Campaign for One New York; and whether the mayor, or those acting with him, violated state election law in raising money for three Democratic candidates to help the party gain control of the State Senate in 2014.

A local authority award (no money) was also made to Salford City Council for its highly developed relationship with voluntary groups as part of its efforts to tackle poverty.

Skahen said the county initially agreed to pay all of the rent for the office because the city at the time did not have its own local development corporation to raise money by issuing bonds for nonprofit groups.

The Rice Biochar Group won the $ 10,000 grand prize in the city's «Recycle Ike» contest and used the money to jump - start a wide - ranging research program that has since received support from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, Rice's Faculty Initiative Fund, Rice's Shell Center for Sustainability and Rice's Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering.

«[Brazil's] borders are hard to control and its extraordinary biodiversity is often seen as easy money by trafficking networks,» says Juan Carlos Cantú, a biologist in Mexico City who manages the Mexico office of Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation group in Washington, D.C. Birds are especially vulnerable, and parrots top the list of threatened species because of the high demand for them in the pet market.

«I organized a very small crew as we had no money or financing, and we just started shooting and interviewing a small group of people who were friends with Jean - Michel and familiar with what was happening in the New York City art scene at that time.»

In an underground club, DJ Williams (Columbus Short) and his friends spar with another group for a large pot of money at an urban dance off in an inner city Los Angeles» neighborhood.

After being matched by more than $ 600 million in goods and services from the local communities that were recipients, the money was given to nine large city school systems, a consortium of rural schools, and two national school - reform groups, among others.

The Council of the Great City Schools, a membership group representing nearly 60 of the nation's large urban school systems, pushed for the money to use the National Assessment of Educational Progress to compare results from city to city on a trial baCity Schools, a membership group representing nearly 60 of the nation's large urban school systems, pushed for the money to use the National Assessment of Educational Progress to compare results from city to city on a trial bacity to city on a trial bacity on a trial basis.

Wiener explains that she knew the money had been allocated, so she threatened to bring a group to protest at a meeting of the New York City Central Board of Education School Construction Authority.