Sentences with phrase «health city priority»

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The senator said his priorities for the coming session include permanently killing the so - called «bag tax» in New York City and fighting for additional mental health and special education funding across the city and stCity and fighting for additional mental health and special education funding across the city and stcity and state.

Oddo said he made increasing the health rate of Staten Islanders, the unhealthiest borough in the city, a priority when he took office in 2014 and funded the equipment to help his cause.

Asked if the city could afford the loss of tax revenue that raising the smoking age would cause, Quinn said protecting New Yorkers» health was a higher priority.

Roughly 10 percent of those property owners account for 48 percent of the 3,265 cluster units in the city, which in turn recorded 56 percent of the 1,119 «high priority» health, fire, building and code violations at cluster sites as of September, a report by Stringer's office found.

More than a third of adults (36 per cent) in Liverpool City Region think that health care provision should be the priority for local politicians.

The New York City Board of Health voted to ease regulations on a controversial circumcision ritual practiced in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, fulfilling a priority of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

For example, your elected officials should be focused on things like equal access to essential public services, fair governmental priorities and policies, city hall policies, school district choices, and public health measures.

«As city administrator, I have made health and safety my top priority,» Kelly began.

When Chris Seelbach became Cincinnati's first openly gay City Council member in 2011, he made improving the city's relationship with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents a priority, including offering equal partner benefits to city employees, creating a domestic partnership registry, hiring LGBT liaisons for the police and fire departments and the mayor's office, and extending transgender - inclusive health benefits to city employCity Council member in 2011, he made improving the city's relationship with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents a priority, including offering equal partner benefits to city employees, creating a domestic partnership registry, hiring LGBT liaisons for the police and fire departments and the mayor's office, and extending transgender - inclusive health benefits to city employcity's relationship with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents a priority, including offering equal partner benefits to city employees, creating a domestic partnership registry, hiring LGBT liaisons for the police and fire departments and the mayor's office, and extending transgender - inclusive health benefits to city employcity employees, creating a domestic partnership registry, hiring LGBT liaisons for the police and fire departments and the mayor's office, and extending transgender - inclusive health benefits to city employcity employees.

So we made cutting down on smoking the city's number one public health priority.

«It is crucial for city and national governments to make urban air quality a health and development priority,» said Carlos Dora, from WHO.

Currently the Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color United.

This shift in funding priorities is necessary to move the city beyond coal, which has costs that affect not only our wallets, but also our health and the environment.

a socio - economic study to identify and enumerate the difference in health spending between major cities and regional and remote Australia and from that study identify priorities for action that provide, or are likely to provide, the best return on investment for governments and communities