Sentences with phrase «council voted last»

As Published in East County Today, March 26, 2014 The Antioch City Council voted last Tuesday night to approve a ban on feeding feral cats on public property while also requiring permits on pet owners who exceed the number of... Continue reading →

The Common Council voted last week to rescind a contract with the town of Oswego to handle its sewage.

The City Council voted last week to hire a grant writer to secure up to $ 125,000 to put ball fields, soccer fields and other recreational facilities in the park that would be at Illinois Highway 173 and Ramer Road.

Not exact matches

Just last June, the council voted Mississauga's iconic 50 - and 56 - storey Absolute World — the so - called Marilyn Monroe towers — the best tall buildings in the Americas and became fascinated by the extent of the building boom north of the border, says executive director Antony Wood.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

Last week, the group wrote a letter to the mayor and city council of Temecula, California, urging officials there to approve the construction of a 25,000 - square - foot mosque project ahead of a vote on the matter this Tuesday.

Last night the Superior, Wisconsin city council voted down a proposed ban on toys in most kids» fast food meals.

The Village Council last month voted unanimously to approve the project with minor revisions, despite opposition from environmental groups and residents.

The City of Norwalk, Conn. made history last month when the Norwalk Common Council voted 15 to 0 to approve Youth Sport Concussion Guidelines for its 6,000 youth athletes and 700 coaches who use municipal fields, gyms and facilities.

Last September, the City Council voted to allocate $ 8 million to build the complex, with plans to open it in 2002.

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tVote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last tvote in the different county council divisions last time.

Voter participation in the council run - off election last weekend, counting everybody who mailed in a ballot or voted early, was 4.21 percent of the people who were registered to vote.

If a similar pattern is maintained at these local elections — and it was in last year's county council elections — then the Labour vote will increase more (or fall less) were the Remain vote was higher in 2016, while the converse will be true of the Conservatives.

This May will be the first time 16 - and 17 - year - olds will be eligible to vote in a Scottish Parliament election and follows a change in the law last year which allows this age group to vote in all Scottish parliamentary and council elections.

It was not so much their own failings to win new votes but the greater rise in the Conservative vote that cost the Liberal Democrats council seats last year.

While concerns about MIH can be easily translated in these meetings, the Council's issues with Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) are far more varied and reflect the opinions raised by community boards and borough presidents last year, when these plans were largely rejected in non-binding votes throughout the city.

The two chief sponsors of the Right to Know Act are renewing a call to hold a vote on the set of bills tabled by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito last month after she reached an agreement with outgoing police commissioner Bill Bratton to adopt the rules administratively at the department.

Lipton, who grew up upstate, wrote: «Jen Metzger, who lost to a Republican the last time around, handily won her race for Council by hundreds of votes yesterday, showing what a difference the WFP can make.

Last November, union members showed up at the Common Council's vote on the annual budget to protest the stalled contract.

The bill's fate will rest in large measure with the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, who voted against the Armory project last year but whose office declined to comment on the wage bill.

The City Council's land use subcommittee had voted on Oct. 25 to approve the modified proposal, but the full vote was delayed by two weeks due to Hurricane Sandy and last week's blizzard.

ALBANY — The yearslong debate over whether to impose a fee for plastic bags in New York appeared to come to a hard - fought end last month, when the City Council voted to charge 5 cents for most plastic and paper shopping bags.

and the BNP hadn't been standing last time so no one knows what vote they would have got last time - Council by elections though frequently are very localised, there isn't the focus on national issues that there is in a full set of Council Elections or a General Election or a Parliamentary By - election.

However, the approval of the subcommittee is considered to be a last step for the project, as the full Council almost never votes against its subcommittees, Crain's reported.

Barely half the people in Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney voted in 2015, the lowest turnout in Wales, and Labour lost overall control of the council in Keir Hardie's heartland last month.

Last year, she told Council members that she would not allow a vote because the measures called for in the bills were being implemented by the Police Department via its own internal policy, a position that angered some on the Council.

Although at the end of last night 14th district City Council candidate Fernando Cabrera had 90 more votes than the incumbent, Maria Baez, Cabrera is not officially the Democratic primary winner.

By midnight last Tuesday, Bronxite Diana Ayala (and handpicked successor to Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito) held a 122 - vote lead over Rodriguez.

The last ballot measure that really got voters going was New York City's term limits referendum in 1993 — famously superseded by the 2008 City Council vote allowing Mayor Bloomberg's third term.

Last week's City Council decision that quashed the controversial Kingsbridge Amory renovation in a 45 - 1 vote is being met with grumbles and finger - pointing from the real estate industry.

He has won elections to the City Council and then to the State Assembly, but he last ran in a primary in 2009, when he bid for city comptroller and mustered only 10 percent of the vote.

Conservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gay marriage.

After initially balking, members of the Council's Manhattan delegation voted to approve Praschak last week.

The Utica Common Council is moving forward with a plan to re-pave every road in the city after they voted last week to override the mayor's veto.

And yet last week, Labour lost control of the council here and then polled fewer than half as many votes as UKIP in the European elections.

Last month Will voted against allocating $ 42,000 for the C.T. Male study when the issue came before the council's Finance Committee.

Though Mayor Michael Bloomberg's support from Queens voters dwindled this year compared to the last election, he still carried the borough — in part buoyed by individuals who came out to vote for the three Republicans who won City Council seats in Queens, Executive Vice Chair of the Queens GOP Vincent Tabone said.

On Monday, the state Senate voted to block the five - cent fee approved by the City Council and signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio last year.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, a Manhattan Democrat, told council members last week that there would be no vote on two bills aimed at overhauling how officers interact with the public.

City Council Member Gale Brewer, participating in her last meeting of the Technology Committee, which she previously chaired, before taking on her new role as Manhattan Borough President, said she was skeptical of Internet voting, noting that the potential requirement of I.D. cards was problematic given the Voter I.D. debates, but emphasized her support for improving reporting of election results and encouraging voter registration through other agencies.

The Troy City Council rejected Mayor Patrick Madden's proposed 2018 budget in a 7 - 2 vote after refusing last week to move ahead on a $ 190 per residential unit tipping fee needed to balance the $ 73.6 million budget.

Sen. Bill Perkins, a Harlem Democrat who is widely expected to win a NYC Council special election tonight, has missed quite a few votes in Albany since he was re-elected last fall.

PLATTSBURGH — The City of Plattsburgh Common Council last week voted to abolish four city departments.

The Working Families Party voted last week to endorse Rebecca Lynch, a former de Blasio staffer, for an open City Council seat — setting up another showdown between organized labor and the Queens Democratic establishment.

There will be a full council vote at tomorrow's stated meeting, but the approval from the committee and Mr. Constantinides represented the project's last major hurdle.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has reportedly backed out of a fund - raiser for Congressman Michael McMahon after he voted against the health care reform bill last week.

He added the Council members were called together at the last minute before today's vote on the spending plan — though he said he was «not at liberty» to say whether the condition was discussed.

According to a poll released last week, Weiner would be a strong contender in the mayoral race, with 15 percent of the vote, trailing only behind current City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who polled at 26 percent.

Ms. O'Kane, 61, of Orient programs director for the North Fork Environmental Council, lost by more than 1,300 votes when she last ran, but she's continued to play an active role in civic endeavors in the two years since.

Perkins took 3,750 of the just 11,150 votes cast in the low - turnout race for the uptown district, which most recently belonged to Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, who bowed out of the Council after assuming her current seat last month.