Sentences with phrase «several city council»

The City of Cape May, N.J. has been pressured by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to abolish its successful 12 - year - old Trap - Neuter - Return program for outdoor cats, despite resistance from the city's mayor, several city council members and many residents.Â

Highlights include closing arguments in Sheldon Silver's corruption trial; the continuation of Dean Skelos» corruption trial; the release of the Public Advocate's «worst landlord list»; several City Council hearings and a full - body «Stated Meeting»; two public meetings of the city's commission on elected official compensation; and more.

Mayor Bill de Blasio will sit down with several City Council speaker candidates this week, sources told the Daily News.

Later Wednesday, the mayor joined several City Council members for a celebratory hearing on the bill, in which advocates lined up in the City Council chambers at City Hall to trumpet the legislation as a major achievement for immigrants.

NEW YORK CITY — If you want to vote in this year's September primary election — featuring several City Council races and the mayor's re-election bid, among others — you're going to have to hurry.

Several City Council members recently asked Cuomo to declare a state of emergency.

Cuomo said Monday he wouldn't be endorsing anyone in the Democratic primary for mayor because he lives in Westchester County and can't vote in the race — even though he had already endorsed several City Council candidates.

The ad campaign has already received a rebuke from the de Blasio administration and several City Council members

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.

Today's meeting was meant to be a wider - ranging discussion of the larger traffic problems plaguing parts of the city, and several City Council members — including Mark Levine and Corey Johnson — expressed support for Move NY's plan as one component of a larger scheme to combat congestion.

Several years back, after many years of public exhibits in my local public library that included a wide variety of subjects, one of which had been recognition of October being «National Gay & Lesbian History Month»... all H — L broke loose in several city council meetings.

By working with several city councils in our region, San Diego Humane Society recently helped pass legislation banning local pet stores and other commercial businesses from selling dogs, puppies, cats, kittens, and rabbits that are obtained from puppy mill farms, commercial catteries, and other large breeding establishments.

Not exact matches

Seattle's City Council voted on Monday to levy a special tax on sodas and other sugary beverages sold to consumers, becoming the latest of several local government bodies across the country to take such action for the sake of public health.

Mr Bernard, who also serves as the President of the Council of Churches of the City of New York, said he submitted his letter of formal resignation on Tuesday after stepping away «quietly» from the Board «several months ago».

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.

Several task groups evolved from these; their goal was to raise the level of concern on the city council by working to elect candidates aware of urban problems.

It met in the presence of several members of the City Council.

The Highland Park City Council recently approved an ordinance to allow several new structures to be built at Rosewood Park Beach.

The company has been waging a regulatory battle in New York at the both the state and city level over the last several years, which has spilled over into political campaigns as well and put the firms at odds with hotel chains and the influential labor group Hotel Trades Council.

The issue opened not only yet another rift with City Hall but also NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson and several state lawmakers.

Anna Stankiewicz, owner of the New York - based spray tan company Suvara, specializes in house calls, and said she has been hired by several New York City politicians over the years — including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who she said was «cool about it.»

[182][183] On the first day of City Council hearings on Daley's 2009 budget proposal, several aldermen questioned the administration's public relations spending.

Several members of the City Council's progressive caucus — including Ben Kallos of Manhattan, Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, and Antonio Reynoso and Carlos Menchaca, both of Brooklyn — went to the rally to support the groups but neither mentioned the governor by name nor joined the anti-Cuomo cheers.

The idea of community was a theme that ran strong through all of the speakers, which included several Rochester City Council members, local activists and Mayor Lovely Warren.

City Council Watch spoke to three primary challengers for the 8th CD seat, and reached out to several others.

De Blasio's stance placed him on the opposite side of several left - of - center Democrats on the City Council, who last week called for new taxes on hedge funds.

The group gets money from the City Council, and receives discretionary grants from CM Arroyo, among several others.

The press conference, organized by the Empire State Pride Agenda, and featuring several out gay members of the City Council as well -LSB-...]

The Unity Maps, developed by joint effort of several advocacy organizations, puts all of Inwood and much of the eastern half of Washington Heights into City Council District 10, while District 7's northern border would start at the George Washington Bridge and end farther south at 113th St.

Next Tuesday, several thousand Bronx voters are expected to head to the polls to elect a new City Council member, but they have to choose from a large crowd of candidates.

He has also served as the City Council Transportation Committee chairman for the last several years.

Actor Tom Hanks and producer Rob Reiner are among several high - profile donors who helped add more than $ 654,000 to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's campaign coffers over the past six months, the latest campaign filings show.

James» kickoff demonstrated the momentum behind her bid to replace Eric Schneiderman — supporters from several unions, old colleagues from the City Council and kind words from party leaders — and a pretty cogent demonstration that she and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are on the same page.

The consultation used the case study of Bonn city council, which has made extensive use of land pooling and typically has several pooling processes running concurrently.

Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

Mr. de Blasio said his program consisted of several measures that would be considered as legislation by the City Council.

City Council candidate Daniel Dromm was joined by state Assemblyman Jose Peralta (D - Jackson Heights) and several members of the Queens Latino community for a campaign rally outside the Jackson Heights post office Saturday.

The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.

Also in the Democratic primaries, several council seats were contested, as was three city judge seats and chief city auditor.

Several trade associations and unions associated with construction made large donations to governor's campaign committee, including $ 25,000 checks from the New York City Council of Carpenters and New York State Laborers, $ 12,500 from the Building Trades Employers Association and $ 5,000 from the Associated General Contractors.

It played a critical role in the election of Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, and John C. Liu, the city comptroller, as well as several members of the City Councity comptroller, as well as several members of the City CounCity Council.

Also at the City Council on Tuesday: — The Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management will meet at 10 a.m. to discuss several proposed laws relating to litter and rodents.

Several candidates running for Utica Common Council this fall, such as Lou Poccia in the city's first ward, are coming out against the proposed downtown hospital.

As he runs for reelection this fall, Carlos Menchaca, the City Council member for District 38, which includes Red Hook, Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace, faces several challengers in the Democratic primary.

The issue opened not only yet another rift with City Hall but also City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and several state lawmakers — and it's not as harsh as originally planned.

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 downtcity 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 downtcity'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 downtCity Development commissioner, say they are not satisfied with what they see as a lack of development outside downtown.

With the battle over, the question now is whether the Republicans can form any sort of detente that will allow them to defend several Council seats against in the next city election, take on State Sens. Tony Avella and Joe Addabbo in 2012, and defend Bob Turner «s congressional seat.

In her recommendations, the former Chair of the New York City Council Land Use Committee (2002 - 09) cited several concerns with the proposals, namely the impermanence of senior affordable housing, the effect of eliminating parking for residents in a transit desert like Queens, the scores of extensive contextual rezonings previously issued throughout the five boroughs, and the insufficiencies in skilled labor commitments.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer agreed, and demanded the mayor and Council finance both summer jobs programs and several of the anti-gun groups that appeared at the rally.

And while the borough has had several uncontested elections in past years, the Democratic party nominated medical marijuana advocate Dylan Schwartz to run against Joe Borelli for the South Shore City Council seat and retired engineer Rich Florentino to run against Steven Matteo in the Mid-Island Council district.