Sentences with phrase «after city council voted»

After City Council voted to defer the issue until its October 22 meeting, Miller told the Globe and Mail, «I underestimated the impact that TREB's campaign was having on individual members of council who were undecided.»

Yakima's 29 - year - old ban on the dog breed will remain in place after the City Council voted 4 - 3 against moving the issue to committee for further discussion.»

RICHMOND, Va. — Mayor Levar Stoney and other Richmond educators were all smiles just hours after City Council voted to increase the meals tax from 6 to 7.5 - percent.

Authorities have more power to crack down on shops selling synthetic marijuana after the City Council voted unanimously to pass three bills aimed at halting the spread of the drug.

The federal government sued the city of Ferguson one day after the city council voted to revise an agreement aimed at improving the way police and courts treat poor people and minorities in the St. Louis suburb.

it would begin disbanding in March, after the City Council voted on zoning plans the mayor viewed as integral to his affordable housing plan.

United for Affordable NYC said it would begin disbanding in March, after the City Council voted on zoning plans the mayor viewed as integral to his affordable housing plan.

The district's Garden Plots were eliminated as an option after the City Council voted not to allow a skate park there.

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After finishing the review, and assuming everything is in order, Austin's city council will have 10 days to either adopt the language in the petition or put it up for vote on a May 7 ballot.

WOODSTOCK — Less than 15 minutes after voting to hold an April referendum on a $ 3.9 million bond issue for recreation, the Woodstock city council debated a proposal to reorganize the parks and recreation department as an independent park district.

After getting the results, the City Council will vote on the Citizens proposal.

The group, NYCLASS, «feels very good» about the chances of a new measure being unveiled as early as January, as pressure has been mounting for a compromise after Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito failed to corral enough votes for an outright ban or other reforms.

The City Council voted on Tuesday to confirm Cappelli to the Civil Service Commission after Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped him for the paid position.

The two chief sponsors of the Right to Know Act are renewing a call to hold a vote on the set of bills tabled by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito last month after she reached an agreement with outgoing police commissioner Bill Bratton to adopt the rules administratively at the department.

INWOOD — A City Council committee in charge of rezoning unanimously voted against the Sherman Plaza project Tuesday morning, a day after Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez announced he could not support the project due to community opposition.

Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito appears to have the votes she needs to become the next speaker of the City Council, after Brooklyn Democratic chair Frank Seddio broke ranks with his fellow county leaders at the urging of Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio, sources said.

But with races in three of the city's nine wards well within the margin of being flipped after absentee ballots are opened, the actual makeup of next year's council will remain in doubt until next week when the final votes are counted.

-- After a City Council rezoning vote, the developer of a Sutton Place condo tower temporarily halts construction.

A City Council hopeful who came within a couple hundred votes of scoring an upset against Chinatown Councilwoman Margaret Chin is gunning for a rematch after unexpectedly winning the Independence Party line.

The Syracuse city council has approved a 20 - year contract for garbage disposal, just two days after it voted the deal down.

Almost immediately after the Senate vote, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said she would amend the language in the new law so that it will take effect in February instead of October, as originally planned.

The Utica Common Council is moving forward with a plan to re-pave every road in the city after they voted last week to override the mayor's veto.

Espada actually struck an optimistic tone after the Council voted the project down: «Today's City Council vote on the Armory should clearly send forth the message that the Bronx is pro-business,» Espada said in a statement on Dec. 14, the day of the Armory vote.

Most recently — after five years of wrangling that spanned two administrations at both REBNY and City Hall — the City Council voted unanimously on Aug. 9 to rezone a 78 - block swath of Midtown East.

After what he deemed a «disastrous» hearing on the subject, City Councilman David Greenfield for the City Council to delay its vote on Mayor Bill de Blasio's horse carriage ban, scheduled for Friday.

Budgets are fluctuating documents, and Mr. de Blasio will have several more chances to update his plan before the City Council votes on it in June, after a series of negotiations.

Syracuse Republicans are just a few dozen votes shy of winning back a city office as a race for Common Council will come down to absentee ballots, but the rest of city hall remained solidly Democratic after Tuesday's election.

After the super PAC funded by online rental giant Airbnb launched a TV ad campaign knocking Republican Sen. Sue Serino's vote for a law designed to restrict ads for multi-family dwellings in New York City, both the Hotel Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York are pushing back with an independent expenditure campaign of their own in the race.

The Washington D.C. City Council will meet as early as next week for an emergency vote after a mistake by the city's Democratic Party threatened to leave Sanders off the presidential primary ballot in JCity Council will meet as early as next week for an emergency vote after a mistake by the city's Democratic Party threatened to leave Sanders off the presidential primary ballot in Jcity's Democratic Party threatened to leave Sanders off the presidential primary ballot in June.

After two students drowned in the water near a tunnel, Cornell officials have proposed installing a steel gate at its opening — blocking the only entrance to a section of Fall Creek Gorge stretching from the top of Ithaca Falls to the swimming area below Forest Falls — and the City Council is scheduled to vote on the proposal tomorrow.

The Troy City Council rejected Mayor Patrick Madden's proposed 2018 budget in a 7 - 2 vote after refusing last week to move ahead on a $ 190 per residential unit tipping fee needed to balance the $ 73.6 million budget.

In a significant political blow to Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York City Council decided to abandon its scheduled vote on a bill to restrict the horse - drawn carriage industry to Central Park after a key supporter of the deal — the Teamsters — rescinded its backing.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has reportedly backed out of a fund - raiser for Congressman Michael McMahon after he voted against the health care reform bill last week.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will not allow a set of police reform bills to come to the Council floor for a vote, despite overwhelming support from her members, after the speaker and the NYPD reached an administrative compromise on the proposals.

Austin Shafran, a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has conceded his City Council race against Paul Vallone, after falling behind by more than 190 votes.

That's more than the number of votes needed to be put into effect after the new City Council takes power on Jan 8.

The council vote was announced at a rally yesterday, which City Council Speaker Christine Quinn «stormed» out of, the Post said, after a supporter called the mayor «Pharaoh Bloomberg.council vote was announced at a rally yesterday, which City Council Speaker Christine Quinn «stormed» out of, the Post said, after a supporter called the mayor «Pharaoh Bloomberg.Council Speaker Christine Quinn «stormed» out of, the Post said, after a supporter called the mayor «Pharaoh Bloomberg.»

The vote would come less than two weeks after city officials received low marks from Council members for their inability to answer questions about the legislation at a hearing.

«As the cost of living in New York City continues rising, we recognize that the creation and preservation of affordable housing is imperative to ensuring New Yorkers can continue to live and thrive in our diverse neighborhoods,» City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said in a statement after the vote.

The surprise move came a day ahead of an expected City Council vote to set a cap on car - service expansion and hours after Gov. Cuomo defended Uber.

CITY HALL — After months of deliberations and negotiations, the City Council voted to pass Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to rezone East New York on Wednesday.

After serving on the City Council, Diaz was elected to the State Senate in 2002, voting against every major LGBTQ rights initiative right up to opposing GENDA, the transgender rights bill, this year in a key committee vote.

Several sources said the councilman had thought about running for the borough president seat back in 2009 but changed his mind after the Council voted to extend term limits for all city elected offices.

Ex-Real IRA prisoner Gary Donnelly is on course to take a council set in Derry city after polling more than 1,100 first preference votes in local government elections today.

After a lengthy legislative process, a bill regarding police misconduct is likely to move through the City Council this week, beginning with a Tuesday committee vote.

A decade ago, a similar congestion zone proposed by then - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had passed the City Council after much arm - twisting, only to die in Albany after Assembly leaders refused to bring it to a vote.

After nearly 11 hours of debate, the 20 - member Madison Common Council early Wednesday morning fell two votes shy of the 14 needed to overturn a city Landmarks Commission decision to withhold a certificate of appropriateness for the Brookfield developer's project.

He shifted course after making a public records request for Assembly, Senate and City Council members» voting records and putting them online via the Open Government Foundation, he said.

Portsmouth City Council remained under no overall control after the vote on 3 May, with the Conservatives as the largest party.

«There are some very valid reasons why there is a deference to members in their home districts,» de Blasio, who represented Park Slope for eight years in the City Council, said at an unrelated press conference after the vote.