Sentences with phrase «city taxpayers who»

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In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

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.

Ferguson concluded that Maggie Daley's charity was benefiting from its ties to City Hall, but he stopped short of saying those developers who were awarded taxpayer subsidies were buying influence with the former mayor.

«The New York City Democrats are flailing around because they know that their candidate is a fraud and a phony who is hopelessly out of step with the hardworking taxpayers who live in this district.

This is a fight to see which of them can be more out - of - touch with Hudson Valley families and work hand - in - hand with Mayor de Blasio and the New York City special interests who want to use our hard - earned taxpayer dollars on political campaigns and to give free college tuition to illegal immigrants.»

«Nassau County needs an independent, experienced leader who will protect county taxpayers and stop the New York City special interests that want to impose their radical agenda on Long Island taxpayers and families.»

«This funding will be available to give relief to the city, school district and Chautauqua County and their taxpayers who would be severely hurt by the loss of the payment - in - lieu - of - taxes (PILOT) from the NRG power plant,» Young said.

While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»

We support candidates who are best suited to advance the causes of the city and state like any other taxpayer,» said George Arzt, spokesman for Extell Development Corp when asked if he thought its contributions helped get these abatements signed into law.

«The advocates who were so verbal and litigious during my tenure as a spokeswoman for city government are now so completely in bed with these failing leaders, they don't dare do the same negative press or file lawsuits which cost city taxpayers millions of dollars,» she wrote.

• Rick «Wall Street Lobbyio» Lazio's taxpayer bailout bonus... $ 1.3 million • One week of unemployment insurance for more than 3,000 unemployed New Yorkers who lost their jobs following the financial crisis... $ 1.3 million • Four average mortgages on homes that were foreclosed on during the financial crisis... $ 1.3 million • Starting base salary for 30 new New York City Police Officers... $ 1.3 million • Starting base salary for 30 new New York City Firefighters... $ 1.3 million • One year of SUNY tuition for 261 New York students... $ 1.3 million

If Ryan Cronin really wants to talk about taxpayer money we can certainly do that — starting with the 124 different tax increases his New York City Democrat cronies approved the last time they were in the majority, including the job - killing MTA payroll tax and elimination of the STAR rebate checks for seniors and homeowners who live on Long Island.»

Communications between the mayor and his taxpayer - funded staff who work for the city are normally withheld from public disclosure.

Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, said, «Though deputy mayor is not just a City Hall desk job, it doesn't look good to taxpayers when she is too often at another job location, and with other staffers who didn't get Conflicts of Interest Board clearance.»

De Blasio projected that 200,000 people who use the city's public hospitals would lose insurance under the bill, which would force taxpayers to pay those costs and result in hundreds of millions in additional deficits for the city hospital system.

Echoing Gallo's populist appeal to what he called «Lunchbucket Kingston,» Woltman said the city's Democratic Committee has drifted away from its working class roots and become dominated by a «clique» of connected insiders who were out of touch with everyday taxpayers.

Former Bronx City Councilman Larry Seabrook, who infamously tried to bill taxpayers $ 177 for a bagel sandwich and a Snapple, owes $ 2,139.14 in taxes.

De Blasio, who has retained a personal lawyer and recently submitted a $ 10 million legal contract for a white collar law firm to represent the city in the matter — on the taxpayers» dime — maintained that he did everything by the rules.

City taxpayers will shell out $ 3.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died when Rikers Island correction officers failed to get help after...

Mayor de Blasio is the city's only top elected New York official who has declined to reimburse taxpayers for his personal and political use of city vehicles — including an NYPD - helicopter trip to last month's presidential debate on Long Island, The Post has learned.

The Mayor also proposed a plan for City Council to grant the city the power to sell Emergency Repair Program liens that exist on a property to a third party collector (see video above), who would then be in charge of collecting on the debt — saving taxpayer money from footing the bills for emergency repairs and possibly giving landlords more incentive to make repairs themselCity Council to grant the city the power to sell Emergency Repair Program liens that exist on a property to a third party collector (see video above), who would then be in charge of collecting on the debt — saving taxpayer money from footing the bills for emergency repairs and possibly giving landlords more incentive to make repairs themselcity the power to sell Emergency Repair Program liens that exist on a property to a third party collector (see video above), who would then be in charge of collecting on the debt — saving taxpayer money from footing the bills for emergency repairs and possibly giving landlords more incentive to make repairs themselves.

The mayor is the city's only top elected New York official who has declined to reimburse taxpayers for his personal and political use of city vehicles — including an NYPD - helicopter trip to last month's presidential debate on Long Island.

His proposal would create a temporary 3 - year surcharge for MTA region taxpayers who make more than $ 1 million a year and on New York City motel and hotel taxes.

They have also shown a different approach to the use of taxpayer funds for their respective campaigns, though Malliotakis — who plans to accept public matching funds — used to criticize the city's campaign finance system as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

«The plan that the mayor has proposed most recently is to spend the taxpayers» money to pay for a year's rent for for homeless individuals who are willing to move out of the city,» she fumed to interviewer John Catsimatidis.

Just as in the aftermath of 9/11, it is once again the onus of the federal, state and city governments to determine how to allocate taxpayer money to the businesses and residents — who have this time suffered from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy.

The sheet released today reiterated that the city employees who have met with investigators had a right to taxpayer - financed legal counsel.

«Professional politician James Skoufis votes in lock step vote with the New York City liberals who support taxpayer funded political campaigns, shifting more school aid to New York City and providing free college tuition to illegal immigrants.

Citing state figures, Schumer said removing the property tax deduction could result in an average $ 4,300 tax increase for Long Island property owners who file itemized tax returns, and an average $ 5,500 increase for New York City taxpayers.

Mark - Viverito's move shows how impossible it is in New York to figure who is poor, who is rich and who is in between — but the city persists anyway in making taxpayers «help» people who don't need help.

Brian Griffin, the Garden City lawyer who represented Ippolito, said that «any indictment that charges Mr. Ippolito, who is deceased, is not only legally moot, unfair and malicious, but also a gross misuse of taxpayer time and money.»

«Putting liberal New York City interests back in charge of our entire state government would be a disaster for hardworking Upstate taxpayers, who would surely see their taxes go up and their state aid go down.»

The billionaires who control New York City real estate want to revive expensive taxpayer subsidies for the construction of luxury housing in the hottest real estate market in the world — and they don't want requirements for affordable housing.

«Mr. Trump held a fundraiser down in New York City a few weeks back and did raise some money, but they have — I would use the word — «struggled» to raise the private funds needed to pay these individuals who are working on behalf of the taxpayers but not being paid by the government,» said Congressman Chris Collins, who has been an advocate for Trump since early in his presidential campaign.

That's because campaign spending in New York is closely regulated by strict and comparably low contribution limits — even lower for anyone with business before the city — and with a public financing system that offers matching funds from taxpayers to candidates who opt in and follow further fundraising rules.

Phillips also repeated de Blasio's assertion from last week that no taxpayer money will be used to defend him in either probe although the city has already given out $ 11.6 million in legal contracts to hire attorneys for city employees who will be questioned or called to testify.

«The stench of corruption emanating from City Hall remainswith a record number of misconduct investigations into Mayor de Blasio (D - Corruption) at a cost of millions of dollars to taxpayers,» Republican real estate exec Paul Massey, who is running for mayor, said in a mocking email.

A young Queens politico who ran for City Council in 2015 was arrested Tuesday for faking donations to get 6 - for - 1 matching taxpayer funds for her losing campaign, authorities said.

The board has come under fire for approving a $ 392,000 salary for Galante, who has been the subject of scrutiny by the City Council and the FBI concerning his outside income and questionable operation of the taxpayer - funded nonprofit.

«The goal of the Connecticut School Finance Project is to collaborate with everyone who is impacted by this problem to find solutions that are fair to kids and taxpayers, and work better for schools, towns and cities.»

As the New Haven Board of Education considers approving the deal to hand over money to help fund Achievement First Inc.'s new Elm City Imagine school, a question that arises is who exactly is behind the proposal to divert scarce taxpayer funds from New Haven and Connecticut residents to subsidize Achievement First Inc.'s effort to create the Elm City Imagine School in New Haven?

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

Thanks to an HOA's smaller focus, its residents are often apt to get more of the services they pay for than city residents who rely on taxpayer - funded public services that need to have a broad reach.

«Now the city is looking to shift the burden of these expenses from its taxpayers to the companies who produce and profit from fossil fuels, which have been shown by scientists to be the overwhelming driver of climate change.»

David McArthur, vice president of the 52 - year - old family operation, a Gateway City institution, is one of a growing number of business owners and taxpayers nationwide who are mobilizing against the so - called cap - and - trade bill, which would levy harsh fines on energy consumption that harms the environment.

Requiring that its composition should reflect the city itself means that you are discounting those taxpayers in other parts of Ontario (e.g., Timmins, Peterborough) who subsidize UofT.