Sentences with phrase «council discretionary money»

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Only CM Arroyo received contributions from the employees of the Puerto Rican Family Institute, however, and in the same month when each council office allots discretionary money.

Council Member Ruben Wills was back in the news this week when it turned out that he had allocated more than $ 30,000 in discretionary funds to the Young Leaders Institute, whose own leader, Van Holmes, was arrested for stealing money from the non-profit.

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

His scorn grew to encompass her tenure during the so - called «slush - fund scandal,» where it was revealed that Council members were handing out discretionary money to fake organizations and political cronies with little oversight.

So while MMV still has the power of the Speaker's pot of discretionary money to spread around, her authority over the Council remains largely as the Mayor's cat's paw.

For the first time, each council member generally received the same amount of money to distribute, a change from the past when some accused former Speaker Christine Quinn of using discretionary funds — known as «member items» — as a tool to punish members deemed disloyal...

Halloran is accused in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday of, among other things, accepting more than $ 24,000 in cash and campaign funds in exchange for agreeing to appropriate $ 80,000 in discretionary money from the council.

«Last year, I rescinded funding for the group when I was informed that there was a problem with its finances; the organization received no money from my City Council discretionary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

In 2008, when Quinn and the Council found themselves mired in a slush - fund scandal — she had quietly continued a bad - old - timey Council practice that allowed the speaker to consolidate power by doling out discretionary money to members in secret — she found an invaluable, unshakable source of support in Bloomberg and in the real - estate community.

That conviction was followed by a fraud investigation of Monserrate, and another conviction in December, for routing $ 100,000 in City Council discretionary funds to a nonprofit organization he controlled and allegedly using the money to fund his 2006 New York State Senate campaign.

De Blasio came into office vowing to ban the Council from showering money on its pet groups, but quickly abandoned the pledge, and the discretionary spending has only grown since.

School site councils include equal numbers of teachers and parents to help decide how to spend discretionary money coming to the school.

Under the Act, wide discretionary powers are held by the Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development over Indigenous lands, assets and moneys, band elections and council by - laws.