Sentences with phrase «while other elected officials»

That's because while other elected officials will be paid the amount suggested by the independent Quadrennial Commission, assigned to review the issue of salaries, the Council decided to pay itself $ 10,000 more than the commission's recommendations.

While other elected officials rushed to the scene of the murders over the weekend, it took the mayor more than 24 hours to issue a written statement on the killings, and a full two days before he addressed the community, during funeral prayers for the two men.

While other elected officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined Sharpton, Cuomo participated by phone.

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While the majority of that sum came from Trump's already - underway reelection bid, roughly $ 72,000 came from the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and fundraising groups affiliated with other elected GOP officials, including Republican congressmen.

Amazon is not without controversy, with the company being pushed by some to add union jobs while a coalition of liberal advocacy groups have called on elected officials to not offer tax breaks and other credits to the company in exchange for job creation.

While some officials who took part in the meeting voiced support for Schumer afterward, others said they would consider it a strike on his record if the provision is left out, noting that he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and was the last of New York's major elected officials to voice support for gay marriage.

Nassau's elected officials — Republican and Democrat — have sent government mailings over the years that blame the other political party for tax increases or other county problems while boasting, sometimes inaccurately, about their own records.

In her statement, Farias claimed district residents are tired of seeing other areas of the Bronx and throughout this city prosper while our area remains stagnant due to a lack of vision and initiative from local elected officials who only care about themselves and not the people they represent.

While many elected officials aspire to assume higher office one day, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is heading in the other direction, at least for now.

She defended the salary increase by saying she had not had a raise in her 8 years in office while other countywide elected officials — including the sheriff — clerk and comptroller have.

While the reforms put forth by DiNapoli could help ameliorate corruption in the state government, said Nicole Gelinas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the other moderator at Wednesday's event, «How do you convince other elected officials to tie their own hands and in effect not give themselves these opportunities for corruption?»

While the backing of the borough president and other elected officials will likely weigh in the council's decision, members usually defer to the will of the local representative — in this case, Councilman Fernando Cabrera.

The other, Clifton Stanley Diaz, while an attractive candidate, supports Mayor Bloomberg for re-election and has worked for other Republican elected officials.

All the while, elected officials, advocates, service providers, and others will be lobbying, holding press conferences and rallies, writing op - eds, and seeking to influence the budget process to their desired outcomes.

While stating that the party remained in intact, Maku described Agbaso's leadership of APGA as void, adding that Oye and other party officials were elected through a properly organised convention of the party duly monitored by INEC and other appropriate agencies in line with the party's constitution and the Electoral Act.

While no one seems to be in a rush to answer the question, a neglected sidewalk owned by one of the city's top Republican elected officials has caught the attention of other city residents forced to pay top dollar to fix their own sidewalks.

Mahoney defended the salary increase by saying she had not had a raise in her 8 years in office while other countywide elected officials, including the sheriff, clerk and comptroller have.

While the massive rally has prompted New York City elected officials to be more responsive to the need to take action on climate change, it has had little impact on state and national political leaders who used their partisan gridlock to avoid needed action on this and many other critical issues while promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for theWhile the massive rally has prompted New York City elected officials to be more responsive to the need to take action on climate change, it has had little impact on state and national political leaders who used their partisan gridlock to avoid needed action on this and many other critical issues while promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for thewhile promoting increased wealth and tax giveaways for the 1 %.

While the city's revenues are quite strong and the budget has been growing rapidly, Mayor de Blasio and many other elected officials have decried income inequality and may be reluctant to exacerbate differences between their salaries and the earnings of lower - income constituents.

While Mayor Bill de Blasio did not directly criticize the decision, Ms. Rose, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and other minority elected officials angrily denounced the outcome, echoing reaction that came after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer for shooting a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo..

Yet while many animal rights groups applauded the measure, other organizations and some elected officials condemned it as a ploy to relieve the city of having to provide additional services and of possibly losing a lawsuit challenging its treatment of animals.

Latest in the Legislature It's all transportation, all the time these days in the statehouse, with some elected officials calling for solutions while others are drawing lines in the sand around no new borrowing.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.

Unfortunately, however, the U.S. Department of Energy, its National Laboratories and other contractors, and various «renewable» energy advocates are misleading the public, elected officials and regulators by underestimating the true costs and emphasizing the claimed advantages of wind energy while failing to provide information on the disadvantages.

While other guides suggest an array of tips, Cooler Smarter offers proven strategies to cut carbon, with chapters on transportation, home energy use, diet, personal consumption, plus tips and suggestions for how you can influence your workplace, community, and elected officials to make Cooler Smarter decisions today.

The Fourth Circuit holds that «when a state agency is operated by market participants who are elected by other market participants, it is a «private» actor,» and therefore must be actively supervised by other state officials to receive state action immunity (while also stating that its «opinion should not be read as precluding» an otherwise undefined category of «more quintessential state agencies,» not «composed entirely of private market participants,» from «arguing that they need not satisfy the active supervision requirement»).