Sentences with phrase «council member item funds»

City Councilman Peter Koo has given at least $ 24,000 in Council member item funds since 2012 to Bridge to Life, which promotes alternatives to abortion.

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-LRB-... The DN calls on de Blasio to use his mayoral powers to abolish the Council practice of dividing up some $ 400 million annually in so - called member items...) ************* Don't see de Blasio using up political chips to try to end the member - item slush fund.

The 3rd one is aimed at the city council for failing to release a list of their member items, known as «discretionary funding».

The slush fund scandal indicates to Mr. Lander that «we don't have a vital local democracy,» and sees the scandal as a function of a system whereby the City Council focuses a great deal of energy and attention to the 1 % of the City budget that is allocated to Member items.

With the City Council's 2010 fiscal budget, Councilman Eric Gioia (D - Sunnyside) trailed the pack in member item funding, though his office said the councilman made up for some of that by seeking private grants for constituent groups.

Council Member Maria Baez allocated discretionary funds to a nonprofit that the city had already disqualified from receiving larger member item grants from Baez, according to the New YorkMember Maria Baez allocated discretionary funds to a nonprofit that the city had already disqualified from receiving larger member item grants from Baez, according to the New Yorkmember item grants from Baez, according to the New York Post.

Around a fifth of the discretionary fund is set aside for so - called «member items,» projects sponsored by individual Council members.

Included in the massive list of «member items» — funds individual council members dole out to non-profits — is a $ 5,000 allocation to Angeldocs, whose city funds are under examination by the city Health Department.

Two months before they take office — and a week before they are even officially elected — gay Democratic nominees like Corey Johnson of Chelsea, Brooklyn's Carlos Menchaca, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx joined their future colleagues, led by Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander, to present a proposal that would «take the politics out of member Items» by allocating discretionary funding for Council districts on a «fair and objective basis.»

The focus on Tuesday, at least for some Council members, is what they were able to bring home for their districts in the form of member items — the body's discretionary funding grants it sends to local nonprofit organizations.

Cabrera has slammed Rivera for what he claims is a failure to bring capital funds for schools and playgrounds back to the district, even though state legislators don't receive the individualized disbursements of public cash (often called member items) that Council members do.

* In the third case, the Empire Center argues the City Council violated state law when it failed to comply with a March 1, 2010 FOIL request for information about the Council's «discretionary» funding, also known as initiative - based or member - item grants.

That's almost exactly two years after McLaughlin pleaded guilty to stealing $ 2.2 million in cash, carks and perks — both as a state lawmaker (he even bilked a little league team out of taxpayer - funded member item money) and as president of the New York City Central Labor Council.

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...

Mr. de Blasio, despite his repeated vows to end the member item system, also confirmed that council members would have discretionary funding that they can dole out to favored groups in the new budget.

«The speaker is going to be interested in gaining the support of the Council and may take that into consideration of her funding of member items,» said Rachael Fauss, a policy expert at Citizens Union, which authored the group's report.

«The Council is taking the politics out of member items once and for all by implementing a new system to distribute funding equally while providing additional resources to support lower income communities,» Mark - Viverito told reporters.

Thirty members of the caucus signed onto the reforms last year, citing the need to amend the council's non-existing formula to distribute discretionary funding, known as member items.

Katz also said she will advocate for transparency in how the City Council doles out member items, but stopped short of saying competitive bidding among community groups for the controversial funding is the answer — as some of her opponents have suggested.

Of Crowley's member items, $ 26,500 went to the Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, which also received a combined $ 2.5 million in capital funding from the Queens delegation of the Council, Borough President Helen Marshall and Councilwoman Diana Reyna (D - Bushwick) as it prepares to move to a new location at the former VFW Garrity Post on Fairview Avenue.

A week before the November election, several dozen members and candidates just days away from winning their seats gathered at City Hall to embrace a package of procedural reforms, chief among them one that would «take the politics out of member items» by allocating discretionary funding for Council districts on a «fair and objective basis.»