Sentences with phrase «council speaker took»

Gov. Cuomo defended his support of charter schools a day after the City Council speaker took a swipe at him on Twitter by accusing him of supporting «hedge - fund backed» charters...

The council speaker took to twitter Sunday to proclaim it «Unacceptable.»

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However, the British retail veteran — the keynote speaker at the Australian Food & Grocery Council's annual executive conference — says the major chains can avoid a UK - style grocery price war by taking lessons from successful retailers such as Britain's Waitrose and France's Leclerc.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said it would take «upwards of almost a year» for the department to put into action reforms promised as part of a deal with the mayor and City Council speaker that circumvented a package of police reform bills supported by a majority of the Council.

Where once the Democrat - dominated New York City Council was once a reliable ally of the Democratic mayor, the two branches have increasingly been split as the Council speaker, Corey Johnson, leads an emboldened and restive body itching to take on de Blasio and his administration.

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When Mr. de Blasio took office as mayor in 2014 and Mr. Heastie was the Bronx Democratic county chairman, they found themselves on opposite sides of the race for City Council speaker.

Corey Johnson of Chelsea, who was the chair of the City Council's Health Committee in 2015 and is now the City Council speaker, took a lead role in getting the city health department and the AIDS activists to come to an agreement on how to replace the lost services.

Making the council speaker a publicly elected position would take the power away from the party bosses who currently control the process, he said.

Ten open seats on the City Council will be up for grabs come November, and new leadership, including a council speaker and a chair of the powerful Land Use Committee, will takCouncil will be up for grabs come November, and new leadership, including a council speaker and a chair of the powerful Land Use Committee, will takcouncil speaker and a chair of the powerful Land Use Committee, will take over.

The speaker is selected by the council's 51 members, and voting will not take place until the new members take office in January.

At the last public forum in the race to become the next speaker of the City Council, seven of the eight men contending for the Council's top leadership spot took turns making their argument for why they would be the right person to continue Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's legacy of protecting and promoting the cause of women, transgender, and gender non-conforming New Yorkers.

But the question still begs: Why hasn't she taken a leave of absence from her position as city council speaker while running for the mayoralty?

As a legislative leader, the speaker's position entails balancing grand plans with the local needs of 50 other Council members, for whom the parochial concerns of their residents on matters such as tree planting and garbage pickup can take precedence over sweeping changes to the fabric of government.

I think Lander imagines that he has a better relationship with JFC than he did with MMV, and that he will take on a more significant leadership role in the next Council if she is speaker.)

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will pay a $ 7,000 fine for taking free advice from the Advance Group, a consulting firm, during her run for speaker, under a Conflicts of Interest Board settlement.

All but one member of the 18 - person Progressive Caucus has signed on as a supporter of the identification bill: Melissa Mark - Viverito, the Council speaker who is closely aligned with the mayor, said she's taking a wait - and - see approach.

BY SAM SPOKONY The City Council's Progressive Caucus — nearly half of whom have not yet taken office — will convene on Sunday, November 24 to interview the candidates for speaker.

The City Council speaker, who earlier this week took to Twitter to reveal she was diagnosed with «high - risk HPV,» returned to the...

Lieutenant Governor - elect Kathy Hochul and former New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn — who took on a leading surrogate role for Cuomo on women's issues during the campaign — argued there would be support for the proposal, but that difficult conversations might have to take place before lawmakers understand the proposed changes.

The council's 51 members will elect a new speaker later this year to take office in January.

Facing City Council speaker Christine Quinn, who was well respected in the real estate industry and considered Bloomberg's heir - apparent, de Blasio took his «tale of two cities» platform and positioned himself as a populist willing to take on income inequality.

During his mayoral campaign last year, de Blasio promised to abolish the industry immediately upon taking office — a pledge that earned him significant support from horse carriage opponents, who helped wage a million - dollar campaign against one of his chief rivals, former Council speaker Christine Quinn.

«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.

De Blasio took the unusual step in recent weeks of injecting himself into the speaker race, calling council members to lobby on his candidate's behalf.

Since Mark - Viverito took power last year, Pitta Bishop has been paid more than $ 3.3 million by clients to lobby council members, including the speaker, to get mostly pro-union laws passed.»

The Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, who voted in favor of the bill, was asked at a news conference before the vote was taken if she used reusable bags when she went shopping.

De Blasio, who has also taken hits in newspaper editorials, defended his role in helping Mark - Viverito become speaker, and has said he expects the Council to be independent.

Kobir Chowdhury, the president of Masjid Al - Aman, who took the podium after the mayor, mentioned that the City Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, visited the neighborhood on Sunday.

Wait till the next City Council members take office and elect a new speaker.

Common Cause Executive Director Susan Lerner took aim at four City Council speaker candidates over the perceived slight.

Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who unsuccessfully battled Bill de Blasio for the Democratic mayoral nomination in 2013, is about two weeks away from taking over as head of a homeless service provider, Women in Need (WIN).

Kasirer is equally wired with the council and said she is a «very of big fan» of Speaker Corey Johnson and had campaigned for him to take over the speaker role.

But whoever takes the post will step in to a position certain to be reshaped by the monitor, who is to be chosen by early June by the mayor, the Council speaker and a Nycha tenant leader.

The event took place in a small suite at the Roosevelt Hotel, just down the hall from the annual Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty breakfast — a must - attend event for local politicians to demonstrate their support for the Jewish community — and it took place just an hour before the annual Israel Day Parade... Neither Schumer nor Silver nor Nadler so much as mentioned Israel, though there were a couple of Orthodox supporters conspicuously positioned behind the speakers... Silver, who is now a constituent of hers, called Velazquez his «newly acquired» congresswoman, and mostly talked about her work for federal housing money and on behalf of small businesses.

During the January 22 - 31 period, which came after Johnson was formally elected to lead the Council, the new speaker's transition and inauguration entity (TIE) took in $ 31,500 in 14 donations from political action committees, according to disclosures filed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board.

More recently, Dr. John Cannel, president of the Vitamin D Council and also a speaker at the Weston A Price Foundation's 2005 conference, recommended in a newsletter that vitamin D supplements not contain any preformed vitamin A because it interferes with the function of vitamin D, and warned that «if you just have to take» cod liver oil, «don't take more than a teaspoon a day.»

Presented by Montreal Council on Foreign Relations (MCFR), the speaker series featuring the technopolys ambassadors takes place this Wednesday, November 15, 2017.