Sentences with phrase «local development authorities»

The protocol for purchasing property also would requires disclosure of any brokers who helped arrange meetings for the deal and determining «whether recent prior owners had any connections to local development authorities or government officials or other political figures present possible conflicts of interest or other ethical issues.»

Because McDonald's had done its research and knew that within three months of the purchase or lease of that land the local development authority would be approving a mixed - use high - rise community situated adjacent to McDonald's new location that would house over 20,000 residents.

However, those watching Albany, and Buffalo, say questions remain about why the state is overseeing projects typically done by a local development authority or industrial development authority.

Not exact matches

Your local economic development authority not only can provide information about the real estate market but may also offer incentives for opening or relocating a business.

Primary Underwriting The new issue public finance pipeline provides a diverse offering of municipal products, including major governments, agencies and authorities, local governments, essential services, healthcare, housing and redevelopment, education, corporations, middle market corporations and economic development issues.

He also leads work with local government authorities, having conducted more than 60 projects throughout China to support local economic development and transformation.

A «World Development Authority» would use many more, working with local scientists.

For example, the Murray — Darling Basin Authority and Basin states will be seeking local input on the identification of state and Basin - scale annual priorities, as well as on the development of the Basin - wide environmental watering strategy and long - term environmental watering plans.

The collaboration with the local authorities in the Moroccan region of Doukkala - Abda aims to increase milk production, improve the quality of fresh milk and encourage the development of the dairy industry throughout the -LSB-...]

Activities and outputs include a Literature Summary (per country); an audit of practice (per local authority / region — two per country); the development of locally «tailored» audit tools; a Project Report; a Good Practice Guide; practitioner self - review tools and a range of training activities (workshops, training courses, action - learning sets) as well as seminars and high profile networking and dissemination events.

If local authorities are likely to struggle in the wake of spending cuts, what does the Localism Bill offer by way of positive powers to allow local groups to set up their own services, and to propose new developments?

There are other opportunities to draw in the expertise and local knowledge of local non-executive councillors across all authorities to work with their communities in community planning to feed into the development of the Mayor's spatial plan.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

New report says local and combined authorities and sub-national transport bodies should have access to more flexible financing options for infrastructure development

We need more leadership from Government, more forward thinking from Local Authorities and overall a less restrictive approach to sustainable development.

Mr. Speaker, we note that several transition programs run under the various government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary graduates.

Who exactly is getting the $ 7 billion in public tax breaks and subsidies handed out by various state programs and hundreds of local Industrial Development Authorities?

Below is the testimony that Reinvent Albany submitted to the Empire State Development Authority in which we ask ESD to «Ensure that scoping documents estimate the full cost to state and local taxpayers, and the value to the businesses building the project, of each development scenario and each part of each scenaDevelopment Authority in which we ask ESD to «Ensure that scoping documents estimate the full cost to state and local taxpayers, and the value to the businesses building the project, of each development scenario and each part of each scenadevelopment scenario and each part of each scenario.»

Key partners include: Greater Buffalo - Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT); Erie County, Niagara County, City of Buffalo, City of Niagara Falls, Association of Erie County Governments, Niagara County Supervisors Association, University at Buffalo Regional Institute and Urban Design Project (UBRI / UDP), Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement (CSCCE), VOICE Buffalo, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Buffalo (LISC), Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA), Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, The John R. Oishei Foundation, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), Belmont Housing Resources for WNY, Inc. (Belmont), Buffalo Niagara Partnership (BNP), Empire State Development, New York State Department of State, Division of Smart Growth, Niagara County Department of Social Services, and Niagara Falls Housing Authority.

The funding is in addition to over $ 104 million in capital funding for tourism infrastructure provided last year for local tourism projects as well as investments in state parks, like Jones Beach and Niagara Falls and facilities of the Olympic Regional Development Authority.

«The very great costs involved and the development of a huge complex IT interface with local authority systems are further features underlining that interest.»

Lord Haskins, who chairs Humberside's Local Enterprise Partnership, believes that a devolved body there should be «a combined economic development authority with a very specific job to do.»

Local authorities could take part of the profits made by housing developments to invest in roads, schools and hospitals, Gordon Brown has said.

So great have these become that many local planning authorities (LPA's) have been obliged to introduce specific policies to restrict or prevent such developments, and back gardens have been removed from the designation as previously developed land.

Countryside campaigners have long accused local authorities and the Government of allowing excessive development in Green Belts, and accuse them of undermining the principle.

To designate a Green Belt, a local authority must prove why normal planning and development control policies would not be adequate to protect a town from urban sprawl.

Pandemonium ensued today in Iwo, Iwo East Local Council Development Authority of Osun as irate mob attempted to lynch a suspected female kidnapper.

Give the local governments, regional governments, the authority to come with regional economic development plans.»

The ECIDA is designed to spur economic development but has partially devolved into a regulatory authority - forcing absurd demands on local businesses.

In 2003, she began working as a contractor to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), helping upstate homeowners, local governments and businesses access resources to make their buildings more energy efficient and more affordable.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

Suarau who affirmed that the sale of the LAKE RICE would commence on Thursday, said the State's Agricultural Development Authority Complex in Oko - Oba, Agege would flag off the sales while other Local Governments centres would follow suit.

The Genesee County Legislature voted unanimously to send a letter to state Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, opposing the governor's proposal to limit the authority of local industrial development agencies.

«According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request carried out in March 2011 by the NUT and National Association of Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) almost a third (29.3 per cent) of Local Authorities in England are not holding back the EMAG grant to meet the specific educational needs of minority ethnic pupils.

Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed.»

Officials at the big ones, like the Thruway Authority, as well as the small ones — the Albany Water Board, Schenectady County Local Development Corp., Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency and Saratoga Springs City Center Authority are among those that come to mind — have been asked what their policies are regarding the payment of bonuses.

He authored legislation to require more accountability from the more than 700 state and local authorities that use public funds and provide quasi-governmental services like mass transit and economic development.

(To complicate matters, or perhaps to reinforce the comparison: some nonprofits — like local development corporations, or LDCs — are also public authorities.)

Assemblywoman Vivian Cook's group, the Rockaway Boulevard Local Development Corp., shut its doors last year after The Post detailed its wasteful spending of $ 2.5 million in Port Authority money designated to spruce up a stretch of Rockaway Boulevard.

«Local authorities are the principal agents in much of the nation's infrastructure development and must be ready to rediscover the skills and techniques that can enable self - determined capital investment,» NLGN director Chris Leslie said.

«Of course local authorities should turn down inappropriate development on back gardens just as in other locations.

The ABO, which oversees the entities like authorities, public corporations and local development corporations, found that of the organizations that are yet to file, 90 are not - for - profit corporations while 28 are local public authorities.

DCP uses a wealth of detailed information about the demographics of neighborhoods, consults local stakeholders, and collaborates with other governmental entities, such as the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the New York Housing Authority, in order to make planning decisions.

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

The larger questions looming over this controversy are whether the county - appointed Industrial Development Agency (IDA) has the authority to override local objections and if so, whether in this case it will.

· Industrial and commercial exemptions, which includes public authority property and exemptions granted by local Industrial Development Agencies, accounts for 9 percent ($ 76 billion) of all exempt value; and

To further distance himself from this hot potato, Hein pointed out that the county Industrial Development Agency (IDA), which has the authority to grant such deals, even over local objections, is appointed not by him but by the county legislature.

The monarch has, therefore, alerted the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni; Director of State Security Service, Mr. Adekunle Ajanaku, as well as the Executive Secretaries of Lagos Island Local Government and Lagos Island Local Council Development Authority to move against the perpetrators of the illegal act.

Chairmen from 10 Local Governments Areas and Local Council Development Authority (LCDAs) in Oke - Ogun geo - political zone in Oyo State, have accused the Minister of Communication, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, of causing tension and disaffection in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The fair is a collaborative effort of the Utica Municipal Housing Authority; City of Utica; Norstar Development USA; Utica Public Library; Workforce Development Board; Mohawk Valley Community College Youthbuild Program; Oneida County Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES); Central New York Labor Council; and other partners to connect residents interested in construction employment with local training programs and employers.