Sentences with phrase «several council members who»

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

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James drew my attention to an email he sent to several members of the faith council, the Trump campaign liaison, and also to others who oppose Trump's candidacy.

While they didn't want to open up permits to the general public, several council members felt it would be OK to allow residents who already had chickens before the ordinance went into effect and were unable to obtain a permit to get a permit and allow them to be within the law.

It was attended by many prominent community figures, including Mayor Susan Haynie and the Boca Raton council members, Mary Csar of the Boca Raton Historical Society, and several board members from the Junior League of Boca Raton, who also received one of the special Addison Boca Raton awards that evening!

At a meeting before members of the Corridor Planning Council for Central Lake County in Lake Zurich, Long Grove officials introduced several consultants who agree with them that the state should consider other alternative sites for Illinois 53.

Governor Paterson's Executive Budget contains several items which may be of interest to Business Council members who contract with NYS or local agencies.

During the race, The Advance Group helped Mark - Viverito prepare for the race, which included several community forums and debates as well as behind - the - scenes politicking with council members and county party leaders who helped collect votes in her favor.

Councilman Brad Lander, the co-chair of the Progressive Caucus, also dodged several questions about whether a council member who is not pro-choice and pro-same-sex marriage should be a leading member of the caucus or a speaker candidate.

Toss in the former key Gov. Cuomo associates who face criminal trials this year, plus the several City Council members sent to the hoosegow as well as other local officals across the state, and the only thing that stands out about Harris is that she ran for office after starting her alleged crime spree.

Eugene, who is one of several Brooklyn Council members to take part in Participatory Budgeting, will hold a training session on Tuesday, March 27, at Brooklyn Law School, starting at 6 p.m.

The rally, though not billed as another labor - related event for Mr. Cuomo, corralled hundreds of members from three of the state's major unions — 1199 SEIU, 32BJ SEIU and the Hotel Trades Council — into several pens on Seventh Avenue around 41st Street to hear the Democrats, who spoke from a stage above the crowd.

The current speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, who is to deliver her State of the City address on Thursday, can not run for re-election because of the term limits law; several other prominent Council members are also serving their last term.

The measure passed overwhelmingly, despite significant objections from several Council members, including some who questioned its legality.

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.

Several council members confirmed the mayor has been directly reaching out to members who have yet to back the proposal.

That included City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who ended her boycott and led an official contingent that included several openly gay Council members.

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.

«After having several conversations with residents, I came up with a new inspirational receptacle wrap to inspire and set the tone for new community engagement in the 12th District,» explained Council Member King, who unveiled the first of the more than 50 new receptacle cans last Wednesday, March 12th at his 2015 State of the 12th Council District Address.

Torres was one of several elected officials and police - reform groups — which included Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Council members Brad Lander, Carlos Menchaca, and Andy King, and the New York Civil Liberties Union, Communities United for Police Reform — who held a press conference outside City Hall announcing they had filed an amicus brief in the Garner case, urging the city to release the information.

Dromm will be joined by several members of the City Council, including its speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat who also boycotted the last two years.

The head count changes depending on the hour and the agenda of who's doing the counting, but of the thirteen allegedly undecided, it's impossible to see Simcha Felder and several others voting against Bloomberg — leaving seven council members who still appear to be truly undecided, and who hold the fate of a Bloomberg third term in their hands.

Council Member Bill Perkins, elected in a February special election, won the primary with about 50 % of the vote against several competitors, most notably Marvin Holland, who earned about 20 % of the vote.

The caucus, then under the leadership of Council Members Helen Rosenthal and Laurie Cumbo, met and interviewed all eight candidates who were running to lead the Council, and extracted several promises from each, including funding for a new staff position to serve the caucus.

Several African - American members of the City Council ripped into Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson and Judge Danny Chun over the sentencing of former NYPD Officer Peter Liang — who avoided jail time for the 2014 killing of black Brooklynite Akai Gurley.

Members of several groups were on hand to dispense information on a variety of topics, like the «Not On My Watch Youth Council», who were on hand to discuss their work combating human trafficking, pedophilia and domestic violence.

While the official list of council members implementing PB will not be released until Wednesday morning, several participating council members have begun holding initial information sessions in their communities and Gotham Gazette has confirmed at least 20 council members who have committed to the program for fiscal year 2015, which just began on July 1.

«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.

«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.

She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.

Consisting of several new faces as well as loyal supporters from the original founding of the program in the 1990s, this Council counts among its members active artists, cultural philanthropists, and arts educators who put civic engagement and arts education advocacy among their highest priorities.

Several members of the Council of Chief State School Officers, who met here at the invitation of U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, vented much of their anger and frustration on their host, who they claimed has been remiss in his responsibility to promote public education as a member of the Cabinet...

They're high school students, taking the stage to argue HB3431, a bill dealing with technology in their schools, in front of an audience of 900 fellow youth city council members, not to mention the several real legislators who might end up actually using these arguments in real committee hearings.

Irene wishes to clear her sister's name and meets with several members of the fortress» Council while trying to find the real thief, who used to the treatise summoned a powerful primeval demon.Magic Academy 2 is a hidden object game with a narrative that requires the player to solve various mini-games to find the clues needed to find the missing treatise and banish the demon.

Williams comments on this New Jersey case involving a lawsuit by a former town council member against NJ.com, who posted several anonymous and derogatory remarks about a firefighter involved in litigation against the town.