Sentences with phrase «public benefit corporation which»

In 1986, the Ulster County Legislature obtained authorization from the State Legislature for the creation of the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (the «Agency»), a public benefit corporation which was formed for the purpose of developing, financing, and implementing a comprehensive Countywide solid waste management program.

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This fall, with the support of his investors and employees, he even reincorporated the company as a public benefit corporation, which legally requires it to prioritize its effects on society as much as its profitability.

In what may be the clearest sign that Morrison is intent on doing more than «putting the barn on the package,» she backed Plum's decision in 2013 to become a public benefit corporation, which codifies the business's social and environmental purpose in its charter.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

An article on the environmental impact of the production and disposal of millions of plastic and cloth diapers reveals the length to which corporations will go to ensure profit margins: couching advertisements in «scientific studies»; funding studies based on controversial methodologies; using unscientific statistical studies to cook the books on cost - benefit analyses of environmental damage; and employing shrewd, manipulative and effective public - relations strategies.

The Corporation also runs the unheated Parliament Hill Lido, in Hampstead Heath which the London Residuary Body with the agreement of the London Boroughs gave into the safekeeping of the City, for the benefit of the public, in 1989.

A. «Affected State Entities» means (i) all agencies and departments over which the Governor has Executive Authority, and (ii) all public - benefit corporations, public authorities and commissions, for which the Governor appoints the Chair, the Chief Executive, or the majority of Board Members, except for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The highest overall earner in that broad category was Candace Johnson, who in 2016 received $ 1,008,890 as president and CEO of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, which is operated by a special public benefit corporation.

The particulars contained in the audit included critiques of the way the agency, which as a public benefit corporation operates under different rules than government entities, handled a number of activities, including gas purchases, landfill fees and the sale of recyclables.

But for decades, the Onondaga County personnel office, which oversees local civil service jobs, has been blocked from reviewing the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency payroll because the agency is a public benefit corporation not bound by civil service rules.

(4) Dogs and cats under the care of governmental animal control agencies; animal rescue organizations which have demonstrated to the Department that they have implemented an ongoing spay / neuter plan, as well as an adoption plan; or humane societies or societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, of such societies are incorporated under the provision of California Corporations Code Section 10400 and the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law in Part 2 of the California Corporations Code, beginning at Section 5110, and successor sections; and

By becoming a B Corporation, companies leverage their leadership to influence the market beyond the success of their individual company, helping to build a new sector of the economy which harnesses the power of private enterprise for public benefit.

While the climate issue is still poorly understood by the general public, we all need to promote the benefits of a real transition towards a sustainable and renewable system model: job creation, restoring democracy, community power - decentralisation of energy systems which are now mostly in the hands of big corporations, energy sovereignty, improved air quality and health, a better quality of life...