Sentences with phrase «finance city authority»

In November 2014, the Casablanca Finance City Authority (CFC)-- a public - private partnership, which is seeking to position itself as a commercial and financial gateway for wider African operations for businesses looking to invest in the region — opened the Casablanca International Mediation and Arbitration Centre (CIMAC).

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Kevyn Orr as emergency manager in March 2013, giving him extraordinary authority to fix the city's finances.

But critics, including some environmental groups, say it's an expensive bailout for the nuclear industry that will be financed by ratepayers around the state, as well as public institutions the same ratepayers use, like the MTA and New York City's public housing authority.

Cuomo's hand - picked MTA chairman Joe Lhota gave a quick history lesson of the history of the authority, explaining that the city owns the assets of MTA sub-agency New York City Transit and the state only stepped in to fund the first capital plan in 1981 because the city's finances were a mess and the subways were a disascity owns the assets of MTA sub-agency New York City Transit and the state only stepped in to fund the first capital plan in 1981 because the city's finances were a mess and the subways were a disasCity Transit and the state only stepped in to fund the first capital plan in 1981 because the city's finances were a mess and the subways were a disascity's finances were a mess and the subways were a disaster.

In addition to a federal investigation into whether Campaign for One New York donors, many of whom had business before the city, received anything for their donation, authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 violated campaign finance and election laws.

The two fought bitterly last year when the governor leaned on the city to cough up several billion more to finance the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — which resulted in Mr. de Blasio capitulating to take an additional $ 2.5 billion for the transit system onto the city's ledgers.

Authorities allege part of the scheme included an effort to get the New York City Campaign Finance Board to supply matching funds to the ones contributed by the straw donors.

In the past few weeks, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed an executive order imposing a state - controlled monitor for the authority's finances, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decreed that the city seek permission to spend any federal funds on the authority.

That seemed to constitute Mr. de Blasio's only certainty about how the Trump administration would affect the city's finances, although he also predicted tumult in health care funding and expressed confidence that the city would withstand Mr. Trump's threat to strip billions in federal funding from the city over its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has named former New York City budget director Adam Barsky as chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, but the state oversight board will soon be down another member.

Six of the seven Cuomo - appointed members of the Battery Park City Authority are male, as are all five of his appointees to the Long Island Power Authority and his five to the Nassau County Interim Finance Authority.

Career: Executive vice president and chief risk officer of the Israel Discount Bank of New York; New York City budget director under Mayor Rudy Giuliani; deputy secretary to Gov. George Pataki for finance, housing and public authorities

True, several authorities — the city and state comptrollers, the Independent Budget Office, the state Financial Control Board — can vet de Blasio's numbers, including his revenue estimates and financing schemes.

«There's real live projects that are not going to get financed and therefore they're not going to be built,» including a project planned for the New York City Housing Authority in Brooklyn, she said.

The Homeowners Forum will host presentations from the New York City Department of Finance in reference to calculating and appealing property tax assessments, The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) who will be offering energy efficiency program options, the Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City (NHS) presenting first - time homebuyer's education & counseling as well as foreclosure prevention, and HPD which will be present to respond to questions regarding code enforcement.

The City of Rensselaer will receive $ 11.9 million to acquire a water storage tank and a portion of the pump station facilities previously built and financed by the Rensselaer Water and Sewer Authority.

The City Council is investigating why the de Blasio administration suddenly yanked $ 43.5 million in financing from an affordable housing project in Queens that would also have provided money for repairs at an adjacent New York City Housing Authority project.

«Our cities have been engulfed by filth and there is the urgent need for public authorities to finance and make our cities clean and in the case of Accra, fulfilling my pledge, one of the most ambitious of my presidency, to make it the cleanest city of Accra by the end of my term».

But Mr. de Blasio has chafed at calls for the city to assume responsibility for a much bigger share of the financing for the state - run authority.

After months of behind - the - scenes activity, the authority has been told to come back to the Common Council's Finance Committee November 21 with a plan for paying back the city, along with a copy of the forensic audit conducted for the BMHA about its spending.

On top of that debt is the urge to buy that first house, which is why we looked to the Federal Housing Finance Authority for the average mortgage rates for each city.

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San Francisco Federal Credit Union has sued the city's transit authority, the SFMTA, as a result of broken promises regarding taxi medallion sales that the credit union helped finance.

Nixon Peabody is noted as representing the underwriters in the deal involving the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority and its upcoming plan to sell $ 400 million of bonds.

The reason for Berkeley's administration to embrace a new method of funding is Donald Trump's reluctance to finance housing and support services in sanctuary cities like Berkeley, where the homeless population is growing as the city follows the policy of vast support of illegal immigrants, that includes prohibiting police or city employees from questioning people about their immigration status and refusing requests by federal immigration authorities to detain people.

The Finance Authority of New Orleans («FANO») is a housing and development finance agency with a mission to improve the quality of life in the city of New Orleans by directly investing in the creation of affordable housing and economic development projects that produce quality jobs and wealth for resFinance Authority of New Orleans («FANO») is a housing and development finance agency with a mission to improve the quality of life in the city of New Orleans by directly investing in the creation of affordable housing and economic development projects that produce quality jobs and wealth for resfinance agency with a mission to improve the quality of life in the city of New Orleans by directly investing in the creation of affordable housing and economic development projects that produce quality jobs and wealth for residents.

Because this kind of financing involves a property tax, the companies administering the program need a city's or a county's tax - levying authority to market it to residents.

So PACE financing is available only where the city council or the county board of supervisors has granted this authority.