Sentences with phrase «council has no public hearings»

But, the City Council has no public hearings on the calendar this week

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Chances are you have never heard of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools or its textbook, The Bible in History and Literature.

I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.

Following two lengthy public hearings last month, the Council's Democratic caucus has held two private meetings to air concerns.

City Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing, announced that the Committee would require Olatoye to appear before an oversight hearing in early December.

She gave the sides an ultimatum: If they don't reach a resolution within two weeks, the Council will hold hearings, requesting both sides face the public to explain why they have blacked out the games.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has been an outspoken critic of the the 328 - bed facility for the homeless and substance abuse patients, said in a letter to constituents that she and other City Council members were presenting a resolution to the City Council's Committee on General Welfare at a public hearing at 10:30 a.m Wednesday.

The public has an opportunity to voice concerns at a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, beginning at 5 p.m., in Common Council chambers.

Even for those not surprised, there is still a desire to see and hear de Blasio think through whether as mayor, and at the top of the chain of command, he should react differently than he would as a council member or public advocate.

Wednesday afternoon, the Council's Rules Committee held a hearing on legislation that would mandate that legislative and discretionary funding data be available to the public in a machine readable format, and call on the City Council Speaker to develop a public technology plan for public access to City Council materials and meetings.

Add that outrageous betrayal of trust to her 2009 self - appointed pay raise (and the entire city council) that defied a majority opposition to any pay raise voiced at a public hearing, followed by disobeying public referendum laws that recognized term limits that she abrogated (in favor of arranging an unlawful third term for Michael Bloomberg to serve, that automatically guaranteed her own job security), plus a final and detrimental insult to the working poor that blocked our rightful vote on sick pay coverage, and collectively, it would make total sense to impeach and prosecute such unethical, improper and unfair conduct — that is unbecoming to anyone purporting to serve their constituency.

Prior to the vote, the Council also had to hold a public hearing on the move, which Republican Councilman Kenny Tompkins figured would draw displeasure from taxpayers.

The NYC Council will hold a public hearing on a bill that would require alarms on the exit doors of public schools to prevent tragedies such as the disappearance and death of Avonte Oquendo.

In February, Dr. Mary Bassett, de Blasio's health commissioner, told a Council budget hearing that «the public health literature is clear» on the benefits of the approach, which has also been endorsed by the American Medical Association.

City Council members, proposing a bill that would have the Parks Department extend the public recreation season from its current closure date on Labor Day until the start of school on weekdays and the end of September on weekends, hashed out the issue at a budget hearing Monday.

Good government groups were quick to see «horse trading» in the package deal, and called for the council to hold public hearings and follow the recommendations of a Quadrennial Commission that had suggested a lesser raise.

The City of Cortland Common Council started Tuesday evening with a public hearing on its proposed budget for 2018, but later, several agenda items related to the budget had to be tabled until December 5.

The nonpartisan commission charged with drawing new City Council districts has isolated itself from criticism by not completing a comprehensive first draft, critics of the process contended at the final public hearing in Queens last week.?

Councilmember Donovan Richards, recently named Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Safety, has said he will also schedule a hearing on the NYPD's policing of protests.

The Plattsburgh common council held a public hearing last week to take comments on a proposed change to the city charter that would alter the form of government.

City Council education chair Daniel Dromm is pushing chancellor Carmen Fariña to make Diwali an official public school holiday, but said he hadn't yet heard from the administration about a letter he wrote to Fariña on the topic last week.

If passed, the law would call for a Council committee to hold a public hearing on appeals.

Despite having the support of 38 out of the Council's 51 members, and the backing of Public Advocate Letitia James, the measure has not been able to get a hearing from Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

A public hearing will also be held during the meeting in Council Chambers in City Hall, 745 Main St.. The Tourism Advisory Board scheduled for Monday has been cancele...

During the hearing, Council member Chin argued that public notification would have given her community an important tool to fight over-development.

Speaking at the last public hearing before the City Council and City Hall finalize next year's budget by the June 30 deadline, Mulgrew said the UFT has repeatedly brought ideas to the table on how to close the city's projected budget gap without teacher layoffs, such as cutting back on outside contractors at the Department of Education or using a portion of the city's rainy - day fund.

Quinn said she would hold public hearings in the City Council if MSG and Time Warner can't resolve their dispute.

Advocates sparred at a City Council hearing to discuss a bill that would ban smoking in some public spaces.

The City Council will finally hold a public hearing on a bill that would require alarms on the exit doors of public schools to prevent tragedies such as the disappearance and death of Avonte Oquendo.

The mayor and council have scheduled the public hearing on the proposed charter change for 10 a.m. Thursday morning.

Mr. Koch went on to praise Ms. Gibson as «an excellent Public Safety chair who has led many critical and important hearings in her two years at the Council and the Speaker is proud to have her there serving the people of New York City.»

William McClellan, operations manager, said Century officials did not realize the contract would be discussed at a public hearing before being voted on by the council.

The vote isn't final — the full community board will hear the proposal March 9, after which Borough President Marty Markowitz, the City Planning Commission and the City Council will all have a say — but it is the first public rejection of the project, which entered an eight - month public review process in early January.

The plan will next be reviewed by City Council, which has 60 days to hold public hearings and vote.

Training for evaluators is one area that CEA leaders on the Council have previously highlighted as needing attention, and yesterday PEAC heard from administrators in the Wolcott Public Schools about their efforts to improve evaluator training.

Although it's been two years since Ms. Moskowitz, as chair of the Council's education committee, ran a series of high - profile hearings about work - rule abuses in the city's public - school system, the United Federation of Teachers still hasn't forgotten.

Billy and Diane Boyd had asked for the hearing to appeal a decision by the Animal Control Hearing Council to have the dogs destroyed because they posed a threat to the hearing to appeal a decision by the Animal Control Hearing Council to have the dogs destroyed because they posed a threat to the Hearing Council to have the dogs destroyed because they posed a threat to the public.

Tonight its city council «will conduct a public hearing and cast final votes on an ordinance that would make it illegal to «possess, harbor, feed, breed, maintain or keep» feral cats within city limits.»

On the other hand, Steve McIntyre is to be applauded to have made the hockey - stick result an issue in the public debate; without his efforts, we guess, there would have been not Barton letters, thus no inquiry by the National Research Council and subsequently no hearing in a subcommittee of the House.

The Commission had meetings with the Department of Planning, with individual owners of land affected by the wind farm, with Upper Lachlan Council, as well as calling a public meeting at Crookwell, where they heard from 39 speakers.

That a full hearing before the Ontario Judicial Council would go forward was overwhelming as a necessary adjunct of attempting to restore public confidence.

(6) The Judicial Council's recommendation to the Attorney General shall name the judge, but the Attorney General shall not disclose the name unless there was a public hearing into the complaint or the Council has otherwise made the judge's name public.

Public and Regulatory: Paul has presented disciplinary charges in conduct committee hearings on behalf of the British Psychological Society, including in its case against Colin Stagg arising out of the murder of Rachel Nickell; has been a sometime legal advisor to the General Teaching Council; and has advised in various professional disciplinary matters.

As I obviously wasn't in Edmonton, I was going by what had I had heard said in public meetings by CLA representatives and by the May 25th notice by the CLA Executive Council.

Steven has also attended many international health events, including the United Nation's World Health Assembly in Geneva, United Nations Economic and Social Council special event on philanthropy in New York, World Intellectual Property Organization meeting on intellectual property and public health, WHO / UNICEF / World Bank briefing on the state of the world's vaccines and immunization, International Alliance of Patient Organizations» Global Patients Congress in Budapest and U.S. Senate and House hearings on global health.

Because of the issues facing young men today, a commission to create a White House Council on Boys and Men established «Young Voices TV and Radio» to give young people an opportunity to have their concerns heard by the public, media, politicians and community leaders.

If we don't get involved, either by sitting on advisory planning commissions, or on city councils themselves, or by showing up at public hearings, we're not going to have a lot of inventory to sell.

But it speaks volumes that a government employee at CRA has never even heard of the real estate council and knows nothing about the real estate world so to him it doesn't matter that these immigrants allegedly have no SIN number but are dealing with mega millions of public dollars?

Council hearings are open to the public unless the Disciplinary Committee decides that a hearing or a portion of a hearing must be held in camera to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of financial or personal matters, or other confidential information that would be damaging to any of the parties.