Sentences with phrase «reduced number of department»

Reduced the number of department - specific reports by consolidating indicators into an at - a - glance format, facilitating the evaluation of crucial business developments.

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Then the company decided it needed to reduce the number of people that worked in our department.

The parks chief said he would like to see changes in the district's personnel code to reduce the number of job classifications and to eliminate the requirement for a physical education degree for many entry - level positions in the Recreation Department.

After hearing the concerns of the HISD Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, our school food department informed us yesterday that it has already reduced the number of times juice is served to our children from five days a week to three, that it's switching over to a lower - sugar (but not artificially sweetened) juice, and that it's entirely eliminating Craisins (which contain six teaspoons of sugar per serving) from the breakfast menu.

At 10 a.m., Housing Rights Initiative and NYC Council Oversight & Investigations Committee Chair Ritchie Torres announce an investigation into Kushner Companies for falsifying permits with the NYC Department of Buildings and the impact it had on reducing the number of rent - stabilized apartments across the city, Kushner Companies Headquarters, 666 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

The Suffolk Legislature is to decide on the methods used by the Department of Public Works to reduce the number of mosquitoes in Accabonac Harbor and elsewhere.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT To help county residents reduce the number of mosquitoes on their property, Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert have announced the availability of free mosquito control products: Mosquito Dunks ®: Come to the Health Department, Building D, 50 Sanatorium Road in Pomona, Mondays — Fridays, from -LSB-...]

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

The fire department will move ahead in the coming months, with a reconfiguration that will merge two stations and reduce the number of firefighters to 65.

Earlier this week the Department for Work and Pensions select committee published evidence that the reduced cap was leading to sharp rises in the number of people affected outside London, with increased workloads for Citizens Advice and homelessness charities as people struggled to cope with the sudden loss of income.

The Mall is expected to reduce the number of costly emergency department visits by more than 3,400 in its first year of operation as expanded primary care options decrease the need for unnecessary emergency department visits.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

He said the department is focusing on additional oversight and training to reduce the number of stops, which he said are working.

At a recent forum sponsored by the New York State Department of Health and state Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse), experts hope more information about prevention of the bacterial disease can reduce the number of people that are infected.

To reduce those damages, the Wildlife Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a program to reduce coyote numbers, an effort that has drawn criticism from conservation groups.

«Using more catheters and caring for sicker patients are not justifications for higher numbers of infections,» Richard Shannon, then chair of Allegheny's department of internal medicine, told a congressional panel last year that was considering proposals designed to reduce hospital - acquired infections.

As part of a drive to make England a safer place to give birth, the Department of Health has set a target of reducing the number of babies that incur brain injury during or soon after birth by 20 % by 2020 and to halve them by 2030.

Proponents of targeted testing — who argue that it is more beneficial to perform fewer tests but have more tests be positive — say limiting HIV screening to those with identified risk reduces the number of tests emergency departments have to perform, saving time and cost.

«One promising strategy to reduce the number of people affected by pancreatic cancer is to identify and treat premalignant pancreatic lesions,» said first author Jennifer Permuth - Wey, Ph.D., M.S., assistant member in the Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Gastrointestinal Oncology at Moffitt.

Sandra's knowledge in bullying behaviour in schools is extensive, due to her teaching career and the fact that she has been involved in the development of a number or initiatives focused on reducing bullying in Australia, including the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development's Review of Antibullying Policy and Practice.

To realize that goal, the commission urged the Department of Education to reduce its focus on monitoring a large number of postdiagnosis procedural requirements and instead concentrate on «a much smaller number of substantive measures guided by broad federal standards that focus on performance and results.»

«Our alignment of Smarter Balanced scores from the 11th grade assessment will assist the regental system in its continued collaboration with the South Dakota Department of Education to reduce the number of students who require remedial coursework when they arrive at one of our six public four - year institutions.

«And we're doing it in a way that isn't necessarily at the expense of other educational cuts,» Tillis said, emphasizing that the House doesn't include severe cuts included in the Senate's plan, which would offer teachers an eleven percent raise but would also eliminate second and third grade teacher assistants from the classroom, cut the Department of Public Instruction by 30 percent, and reduce the number of badly needed school nurses around the state, among other cuts.

Recently, most local authorities have been following a policy of reducing the number of principal teachers in secondary schools by combining departments and having PTs titled «curriculum leaders» or «faculty heads», who essentially carry out the same responsibilities but over more than one department.

In Bridgeport, where 99 % of the city's public school students qualify for free or reduced lunches, according to the data provided to the State Department of Education, the number of students who meet that standard at Achievement First's Bridgeport Academy is more than 30 points percentage points lower.

Additionally, the Department has consolidated and reduced a number of data centers.

The Department will need to continue to work to understand this increase and step up efforts to reduce the number of deaths and injuries through Department programs and activities at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and the Office of the Secretary (OST).

The Policy Office coordinates with the Operating Administrations (FAA, FHWA, FMCSA, FRA, FTA, MARAD, NHTSA, and PHMSA) on the safety activities that further the Department's goal to reduce the number of individuals injured and killed as a result of transportation.

Contra Costa County Animal Services Department is committed to protecting the health, safety and well - being of all people and animals in our community through enforcement of state and local laws, providing compassionate care for every animal regardless of its temperament or condition, and reducing the number of animals that enter our County shelters.

In an effort to build a model for saving the lives of community cats, while at the same time reducing their numbers and environmental impacts, PetSmart Charities ® awarded Best Friends Animal Society ® a $ 700,000 grant to work with the Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department (AAWD) on the Community Cats Project.

Would the existing language in the PUPS Bill have the unintended consequence of dramatically reducing the number of available dogs that that are specifically bred and trained for use by law enforcement throughout the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense, such as bomb sniffing dogs?

And neighborhoods are made safer and healthier by reducing the number of unvaccinated cats and costs are lowered by reducing animal shelter admissions and the number of nuisance calls to the local animal control department.

Director John Cicirelli's says his department is focusing on «reducing the number of cats being born in the community, which will reduce the number of cats in the shelter and the number of [calls] we must respond to.»

Reducing the number of packages on display will reduce the shelf space needed for the department.

The municipal water department in Paris, in concert with the mayor, has embarked on a new project called Fontaine Petillante, the aim of which is to encourage Parisians to drink more healthful water and to reduce the number of plastic water bottles in the city's landfills.

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In Phnom Penh (Cambodia) steps are being taken to improve the coordination between municipal departments, universities and private organisations for controlling and monitoring the microbiological and chemical quality of the wastewater - fed fish and plants in order to reduce a number of health problems (especially skin infections) related to wastewater fed aquaculture.

In the case of litigation hold software, they ran into issues of budget restrictions and IT department restructuring, as well as an effort to reduce the number of applications the company uses.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is rolling out a video series «The Faces of Distracted Driving,» just in time for the holidays as authorities hope to reduce the number of distracted driving car accidents in Chicago and nationwide.

He cut Tyco's spending on legal matters by 20 per cent without reducing headcount or reducing the department's coverage of critical legal matters — and in a move widely followed in the City, Mr Faure slashed the number of law firms that Tyco dealt with from more than 280 to only one.

Martin is quick to note that even though she has reduced her number of direct reports it doesn't mean she is completely removed from what's happening day - to - day in the department.

Maine's Department of Transportation has put in a lot of work with state law enforcement officers and highway patrols to reduce the number of crashes in the state — and it seems to be working.

Attending traffic school in Arkansas will reduce the number of demerit points found on your Department of Finance and Administration driving record.

(U) Each school owner that teaches driver education courses shall collect adequate student data to enable the department to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the driver education course in reducing the number of violations and accidents of persons who successfully complete the course.

Drive 4 Life Academy, Inc. offers a State of Tennessee approved 8 hour Driver Improvement Course for drivers that wish to reduce the number of points against their license, or who have been instructed to take the course by the Tennessee Department of Safety.

We provide a State of Tennessee approved 8 hour Driver Improvement Course for drivers that wish to reduce the number of points against their license, or who have been instructed to take the course by the Tennessee Department of Safety.

To implement the legislation and funding cuts, the Texas Department of State Health Services reduced the number of funded family planning organizations from 76 to 41.

Strengthening and Preserving Adoptive Families: A Study of TANF - Funded Post Adoption Services in New York State (PDF - 400 KB) Cornell University, Department of Policy Analysis and Management (2004) Reports on information about adoptive families in a program intended to strengthen families and reduce the number of children returning to foster care during the first 18 months of implementation.

Other types of prevention programs may be necessary to reduce more normative types of disruptive behavior among young adolescents.32 In light of the impact of this program on maternal and youth crime and corresponding government expenditures, 8,33 the US Department of Justice is now supporting an effort to make this program available to a larger number of high - crime communities.34