Sentences with phrase «councilwoman kathee»

The bipartisan breakfast table featured several community leaders as well as elected officials including Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore), Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island) and Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Mid-Island)

The charter issue became an unexpected budget battle after Mayor de Blasio stripped $ 210 million in capital funding from the city's charter schools and rescinded co-location agreements with three charters operated by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore) whose district houses the ferry terminal, said she was thrilled.

Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, chairwoman of the City Council's Public Safety Committee; Assemblyman Victor Pichardo; State Senator Gustavo Rivera; Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union; also spoke in support of the assemblyman.

City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin called the East 91st Street project «an outrageously expensive idea,» saying, «We can't afford this garbage dump and we shouldn't build it.»

Councilwoman Margaret Chin stood with the seniors and promised she «will be speaking to all [her] colleagues to make sure they» support the current ZQA proposal.

Those negotiations - conducted by the Budget Negotiating Team on which he and Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore) serve - will ultimately yield a budget deal in late June.

Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore), who was instrumental in getting the outlet project through the city's mandated Uniformed Land Use Procedure, said, «The Empire Outlets will draw visitors from all over the globe.

«Make no mistake — very rarely do landlords lose money,» said lower Manhattan Councilwoman Margaret Chin, to thundering applause from the mostly pro-tenant crowd.

Councilwoman Mark - Viverito Invites Constituents To Vote This Week In Participatory Budgeting 2014

The bill, whose prime sponsors are Councilman Jumaane Williams and Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, would prohibit police officers or peace officers from preventing the recording of their activities unless the recording obstructs governmental administration.

Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village) made roughly the same salary as Koslowitz in the Council last year and took out money from her personal IRA.

Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, chairwoman of the Committee on Public Safety, said that it was troubling that the colorful packaging of the drug looked like candy, had cartoon characters on the cover and came with names such as «Scooby Snax.»

Earlier in the day, East Village Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, a lesbian, told Capital New York she would not vote for Williams if he does not support marriage equality and abortion rights.

LOWER MANHATTAN — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilwoman Margaret Chin rang in the start of a new season for the New Amsterdam Market at the South Street Seaport Sunday morning.

But after a larger group began chanting and several protesters refused to leave, Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson (D - Bronx), chair of the public safety committee, ordered the public out of the hearing.

Another bill, the Right to Record Act, whose prime sponsors are Councilman Jumaane Williams and Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, would prohibit police officers or peace officers from preventing the recording of their activities unless the recording obstructs governmental administration.

Speaking outside Mother AME Zion Church, the oldest black church in New York State, Councilwoman Inez Dickens said Rangel had been sloppy, but had not committed any crimes.

Councilwoman Christine Quinn outlined a comprehensive «ground to garbage» approach for New York's food system.

The winner will replace Councilwoman Carolyn McLaughlin, who won the Democratic primary to be the next Common Council president.

The citywide task force — to be chaired by city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Mary Basset, Borough President James Oddo, along with Councilmen Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island), Joseph Borelli (R - South Shore), Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore), Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Mid-Island), Senator Andrew Lanza (R - Staten Island) and Congressman Daniel Donovan (R - Brooklyn / Staten Island)-- will develop a community and public engagement campaign to increase utilization of new life - saving resources and to recruit health and medical professionals to distribute the new prescription drug resources.

But East Harlem Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito said the shelving of the bill was detrimental to low - income workers.

The bill, co-sponsored by Upper East Side City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, targets «crisis pregnancy centers» (CPCs).

Councilwoman Melinda Katz (l.) holds her son, Carter, while talking to a constituent outside her home after kicking off her campaign.

City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz collected both a pension and a salary from the city last year.

CIVIC CENTER — Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio has waded into the race to pick the next City Council speaker, urging members to pick Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito, DNAinfo has learned.

Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore) said that she's been late for official meetings after being stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire.

John Sabini, then - Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith and NYC Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, Zulunova served last fall as the campaign manager for NYC Council hopeful Albert Cohen the city's first Bukharian candidate for office.

Also at 6:20 p.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland and the Legal Aid Society host a Know Your Rights forum with free legal advice, general immigration information and emergency planning, Plaza Del Sol, 3716 108th St., Queens.

Moya faces former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate in a primary next month for the seat being vacated by Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland.

NYC Councilwoman Inez Barron demonstrated her spoken word skills on the chamber floor.

... this came the same day Citizens Union accused the state Board of Elections of dropping an investigation into Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo (the councilwoman's mother).

Also mentioned: Sen. Adriando Espaillat, who came close to beating Rangel in the 2012 and 2014 Democratic primaries; former Gov. David Paterson, Sen. Bill Perkins, NYC Councilwoman Inez Dickens, and the Rev. Michael Walrond, who ran in the 2014 primary and received 8 percent of the vote.

He ultimately lost out to returning Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, the Women's Caucus and advocates celebrate the passage of the nation's first menstrual equity policy to make pads and tampons free and readily available at public schools, homeless shelters and Department of Correction jails, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Evidence introduced in the ongoing corruption and bribery trial of former Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi has cast the spotlight on another public official: state Senator Tom Libous, who, according to witness testimony, pushed a law firm to hire his son — and inflate his starting salary — in exchange for steering government business toward the firm's practice.

But the election of Brooklyn Councilwoman Alicka Ampry - Samuel and Queens Councilwoman Adrienne Adams in 2017 brought the number of black women Council members to six.

About one - third of the private water wells used by Wainscott residents in a designated area of concern have been tested so far, Councilwoman Kathee Burke - Gonzalez reported at a town board meeting on Tuesday.

Republicans on Curran's transition team include Westbury Village Mayor Peter Cavallaro and Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney, who has worked with Curran on Baldwin redevelopment efforts.

At a candidates forum for that race hosted by the Barack Obama Democratic Club last night, Mr. Rangel's longtime friend and ally, Councilwoman Inez Dickens, spoke on the congressman's behalf and told The Politicker he's back home and out of the hospital.

«All too often sex offenders become repeat offenders,» said Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village), who represents Ridgewood and Glendale.

NYC Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito (an ally of Sen. Eric Schneiderman) is upset with Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice over Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Three former campaign workers for Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo were officially charged with fraud for allegedly forging signatures for the Bronx Democrat's re-election petitions.

An attorney for Staten Island Councilwoman Debi Rose confirmed to The Staten Island Advance on Aug. 5 that Rose had also received a subpoena, is not a target of Adler's investigation and would also be «cooperating fully» with the special prosecutor.

Special prosecutor Roger Adler announced yesterday that his investigation of the WFP's involvement in Councilwoman Debi Rose's campaign resulted in the indictment of two former aides to the Staten Island Democrat, but no allegations of wrongdoing against the party itself or any of its officials.

Also at 6 p.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland and the Hispanic Federation host a citywide PrideProm, Queens Museum, New York City Building, Meridian Rd., Queens.

Charter school advocates, led by former NYC Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, are at odds with de Blasio.

Former NYC Councilwoman Melinda Katz is serving as the finance chair for Assemblyman Jeff Aubry's re-election committee.

City Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D - Forest Hills) and Councilman David Yassky (D - Brooklyn) each announced endorsements 90 minutes apart on the steps of City Hall today.

In an interview last night, Eva Moskowitz, the founder of Success Academy Charter Schools and a former city councilwoman, would not rule out a future primary bid against Mayor Bill de Blasio.