Sentences with phrase «several council members said»

The parcel is separated from the city by the Thruway, and several council members said the site is ideal because it doesn't abut residential neighborhoods, nor would a casino there define the city as a downtown casino might.

Several Council members said they changed their minds after Mark - Viverito and her staff asked them to reconsider.

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Several D.C. Council members said the Catholic Church is trying to erode the city's long - standing laws protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination.

And critically, several sources said, Heastie and other Democrats from the Bronx are open to pushing the former Brooklyn council member because of the move's secondary effects.

Several council members who would speak only on background because of the ongoing negotiations said talks have accelerated in the past few weeks.

During the meetings, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has been tallying up the members» varied concerns on the two proposals, while making it clear she wants them to pass, several members said.

Several Milwaukee Common Council members, in opposing both spending city money on a proposed extension of the city's streetcar line and the reappointment of the Department of City Development commissioner, say they are not satisfied with what they see as a lack of development outside downtown.

Auburn Mayor Michael Quill, a non-voting member on the council, said he couldn't think of an economic development project Fish wasn't involved in over the past several years.

An Oneida spokesman said tribe officials have reached out several times seeking meetings with high - level members of the Cuomo administration, and also asked to be included on one of the regional economic development councils, but have yet to receive a response.

Several members of the Council, who would only speak on background, said the talks around the Right to Know Act came to a head this week following the deadly shootings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Council Member Brad Lander said, «I am amazed by the turnout and cross-community collaboration we saw over the last several months.

«I pledge the residents of NYCHA — this hand will not sign the state budget unless there is a real remedy that is going to make repairs at NYCHA and make them in real time,» Cuomo, holding up his right hand, said as he led a press conference alongside several tenants and City Council Member Ritchie Torres.

«New York City is committed to taking on institutional injustice wherever we find it,» Mark - Viverito said to the crowd, which included all of the city's council members and several senior members of the de Blasio administration.

Rick Coca, spokesman for Council Member Jose Huizar, who is sponsoring the legislation, said their office spent several years crafting a bill that attended to the concerns of both Airbnb hosts and Los Angeles residents.

Speaking to a rally of several hundred union members in front of the hotel's Lodge Street entrance, Sheehan recalled supporting a city tax break package for the hotel, worth more than $ 1 million a year, and said hotel owners United Capital Corp. had «broken their promises» by failing to reach a contract with the Hotel Trades Council, which represents about 140 workers at the hotel.

Several parents and Community Education Council members said they heard the DOE is eyeing the unscreened Richard Green High School on the Upper East Side for 26 Broadway next fall.

All five members of the council lauded members of the Police Department during their settlement speeches, and said on several occasions that their comments, negotiating tactics, and stances were in no way meant to indicate any displeasure with the officers themselves or their performance.

«We have been fighting for several years, as all of you know, to restore the funding that was cut from the libraries beginning in 2008,» said Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, who chaired the hearing, in his opening remarks.

Several regional council members said they weren't entirely sure how some of the decisions are made.

«There are 20 other countries that have already expressed an interest,» says Mr. Sokolov, who notes that at a May Arctic Council meeting, members blocked several nonnorthern states — including China, Japan, South Korea, and the European Union — from becoming «permanent observers» in the group.