Sentences with phrase «joint commission officials»
A perfect storm of high lake levels, ice formation and unprecedented spring rains flooded shoreline communities along Lake Ontario earlier this year, and that would have occurred with or without the new lake - level regulating Plan 2014, International Joint Commission officials said at an environmental conference in Buffalo.
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State officials are looking into whether the attorney was unfairly demoted, while the DCJS and inspector general's findings have been referred to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics for an independent review, according to the Cuomo administration.
When he faced questions about a pending state ethics probe back in March, State Sen. Marc C. Panepinto insisted he knew of no investigation and cited the need for an official notice from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
As Jim Odato reported a little while ago, an opinion from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics is being read to intrepret that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's girlfriend and friends of his daughters may use the state aircraft when it's being deployed for official state business.
Citing unnamed sources, New York Post columnist Fred Dicker reported this morning that legislators are considering a push to have the Joint Commission on Public Ethics investigate how Duffy approached the Rochester Business Alliance and its officials about a job as the group's president, and whether he properly recused himself from government decisions pertaining to the organization.
Since Lopez has been unyielding in any regard after the Joint Commission on Public Ethics report was released this week detailing the disturbing allegations, expulsion truly seems like the only option for Albany officials who want to turn the page.
A good - government group immediately called for an investigation by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which is charged with overseeing the disclosures and policing New York's government officials.
Among his recommendations, Astorino favors switching elected officials from the defined - benefit pension plan to a defined - contribution plan; replacing the per diem system for lawmaker expenses to one requiring stricter bookkeeping; and scrapping the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics in favor of a new independent ethics watchdog appointed by the judiciary.
The proposal in Cuomo's appropriations bill would require officials to submit quarterly reports to Joint Commission on Public Ethics identifying some additional information about their clients.
Uber had spent more than $ 1 million between July and December 2016, lobbying both state and local officials, according to the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
The Legislature in 2011 adopted an ethics overhaul measure that required greater disclosure of sources of outside income for state elected officials, as well as the creation of the latest lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
Currently, state officials must file annual ethics disclosure forms with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
Some local officials are blaming Plan 2014 from the International Joint Commission for the rising water levels.
Good - government groups hope it will spur Cuomo and the state legislature to act on ethics reforms, including public financing of campaigns and strengthening official watchdogs, like the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics told the TU that «As a general matter, a reportable business relationship is one in which a lobbyist or client pays compensation to a state official who provides goods or services in return.
Regulations at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics allow state officials like the governor to appear in public service announcements that are not paid for by the state or appear 90 days before an election.
Since the law was passed, only 24 lobbying clients and 11 lobbyists have submitted paperwork detailing the hiring of state officials, according to the website of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state's lobbying watchdog agency.
The amount of information about officials» outside income has gradually increased throughout Cuomo's administration, and in the past nine years alone, the State Ethics Commission has been deemed a failure and replaced with the Commission on Public Integrity, which was subsequently deemed a failure and replaced with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
The annual disclosure forms legislators are required to submit to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics only asks the elected officials to provide income ranges, not specific dollar amounts, for their outside income as well as the value of stock and property owned by them or their spouse.
That's the finding of a new report by the International Joint Commission, a consortium of officials from the United States and Canada who study the Great Lakes.
Officials from the Education Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuring efforts.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's executive director Margaret Hoffman said, «As a result of this joint investigation and cooperative effort between state and federal officials, Texans will enjoy cleaner air.