Sentences with phrase «from local city governments»

From local city governments to vast federal agencies, the governmental sector offers an array of career types and opportunities.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Not exact matches

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

Hundreds of cities and counties have imposed fees on new development, which initially helped relieve local governments from subsidizing roads, sewers, and other expenses associated with suburban sprawl.

«The better way to think, from a practical perspective, about law enforcement, isn't like the surveillance state of advanced technology, it's like your local city government.

Uber rarely sets up shop in a new city without drawing questions, concerns, and occasionally ire from local government, but Canada's largest city has taken it to another level.

Last year, officials from Moscow's government told local media that they were looking into the technology in a bid to reduce the risk of fraud when people are voting on city management issues.

For instance, local and national governments would receive the help they need to meet the vast capital costs of investments required to protect cities and infrastructure from increasingly frequent extreme weather events.

Adam believes it is this visibility which will force accountability and responsibility from elected officials charged with the fiscal decisions of local, city, state and federal government offices.

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

Meanwhile Government launched a consultation on its Clean Air Zone framework last Thursday which looks to help local authorities reduce pollution from vehicles in city centres.

The Bridge editorial supporting BP Adams» call on the City to move government agency offices from Downtown Brooklyn to Broadway Junction to spur local economic development.

In 2009 local governments collected a stunning $ 46 billion in property taxes from business and homeowners; $ 16 billion of that was collected in New York City alone.

Peter A. Baynes, Executive Director of the New York State Council of Mayors said, «Governor Cuomo's creation of a team to examine how oppressive mandates are crippling local governments, including cities and villages, is a welcome relief from years of inaction.

Central New York this month won $ 500 million from the state for economic development, based in part on a promise that city and county leaders would work together to streamline and modernize local government.

Heastie has a history of allying with Democrats from New York City, particularly his colleagues from the Bronx, and opposing requests from local government entities upstate.

Certainly the flagship Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill does not devolve tax powers from Westminster to local authoriLocal Government Devolution Bill does not devolve tax powers from Westminster to local authorilocal authorities.

Regarding the $ 485 million cost shift from the state to city proposed in the most recent executive budget, he said, «The intent there on that proposal was, there's a belief that the local government should invest more money in CUNY.

While noting steps the city and Erie County have taken in recent years, the 102 - page report by CGR Inc., a Rochester - based consulting firm, declared that defeating «lead poisoning will require much more from local government and the entire community.»

Jen has worked to make utility costs more affordable, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

The Commission on Local Government Modernization - or Consensus, for short - was formed three years ago by six nonprofit civic groups with support from the city and county.

Jen has worked to bring down utility costs, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

The governor and the legislative leaders, meanwhile, announced an agreement on a budget scheme allowing the state and many local governments — but not New York City — to «borrow» nearly $ 6 billion over the next three years from the state pension system in order to use the funds to make required annual contributions back to the pension fund.

Now, according to New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, the governor is trying yet again to grow his authority, burying in his proposed budget language that would give the state budget director unilateral ability to pass cuts down to local government officials to manage the funding reductions widely expected to come from the Trump administration and GOP Congress.

New York City and other local governments across the region are upset over a provision tucked into the state budget that appears to exempt the MTA from local laws and zoning rules for any property it redevelops.

Officials from Appleton and nearby cities said Thursday that being able to raise a local sales tax to pay for public transportation would prevent them from regularly going hat in hand to the federal government.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

In her final State of the City speech, Mark - Viverito unveiled a slew of proposals, including blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from most spaces on city property, free birth control for all women, a significant expansion of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and prohibiting local law enforcement from coordinating with the federal government in crackdowns on foreign nationCity speech, Mark - Viverito unveiled a slew of proposals, including blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from most spaces on city property, free birth control for all women, a significant expansion of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and prohibiting local law enforcement from coordinating with the federal government in crackdowns on foreign nationcity property, free birth control for all women, a significant expansion of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and prohibiting local law enforcement from coordinating with the federal government in crackdowns on foreign nationals.

State and local government retirees - not including city workers - received $ 7.6 billion from the state's pension fund this year, up from $ 7.2 billion the year before.

The bills feature a strongly worded preemption clause that specifically bars any local municipalities, including city, town, or county government from issuing any local law or ordinance on «all matters pertaining to drug disposal of controlled substances.»

This high level reception will welcome the Conservative Party Conference to Birmingham and be a chance to hear from senior local and national politicians about what the next government can do for cities.

The event will bring together around 25 - 30 invited senior level attendees from cities, business and policy with a senior speaker panel representing national and local government, and business.

The document released by the governor started by making note of an unfolding scandal at the City University of New York and calls for greater financial disclosure from local government leaders — an oblique reference to recent arrests in Nassau County.

Collins» amendment, which excludes large municipalities such as New York City, would bar federal reimbursements for state Medicaid funds raised from local governments, shifting roughly $ 2.3 billion in Medicaid spending from the counties to the state.

The fund covers more than 1 million retirees from state and local governments, excluding New York City.

The Sheffield city region review into the case for establishing their combined authority explicitly stated, for instance, that the major rationale was to give legal effect to existing informal collaboration, enabling local authority leaders «to obtain more devolved powers from government and additional funding streams».

Pickles led Bradford City Council in the 1980s, as a revolutionary Thatcherite who tried to show local government could be run very differently from the policies of the Labour Left.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER The city health department and leading AIDS advocacy groups are scrambling to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to reverse a proposal in his new executive budget that would reduce reimbursements for local government public health spending in six core areas from 36 percent of the total to 29 percent.

On hand at the Upstate New York Power Producers, Inc. power plant in Somerset to oppose the Canada - New York City power deal were local representatives from every level of government as well as the local Barker Central School District, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force willCity to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force willcity, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

The final budget eliminates tax credits for business, suspends the sales tax exemption on clothing, and allows state and local governments to borrow from the state pension fund to make required contributions to the same fund — resulting in a hidden $ 1,300 tax on homeowners outside New York City.

The Chancellor could not be clearer regarding his conditions for accepting a transfer of powers from central to local government — «with these new powers for cities must come new city - wide elected mayors who work with local councils.

While praising Governor's lofty rhetoric, Bronx and City officials did not notice that Cuomo's proposed Executive Budget slams New York City with as much as $ 800 million more in expenses while reneging on previous pledges to support CUNY and spare local governments from increases in Medicaid.

Both candidates refuse to cede significant control of local issues to local leaders in the outer boroughs, but de Blasio appears to favor a much more «rule from the top down» city government than Malliotakis.

The local «shared services panel» required by the new law, which must include representatives from each town, village and city, is unlikely to approve the Consensus commission proposal to create a new government to run Syracuse and Onondaga County.

In a press release on April 11, Schneiderman announced that $ 20 million of funds from settlements with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would be used «to provide local governments with innovative technology to address and transform problem properties — including homes and buildings that are blighted, poorly maintained, vacant, abandoned, and in financial distress — that fell into disrepair following the foreclosure crisis,» as part of a program called Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement, or Cities RISE.

In his first four speeches, Cuomo has stressed the need to create efficiencies in local governments, to provide clean drinking water to New Yorkers, to have ride - hailing services outside of New York City and to address anger from the middle class to continue New York's service as the progressive beacon of the nation.

The amendment, which excludes large municipalities such as New York City, would bar federal reimbursements for state Medicaid funds raised from local governments, effectively shifting around $ 2.3 billion in Medicaid spending from the counties to the state.