Sentences with phrase «allow city dollars»

De Blasio told the Observer at his proposed spending plan roll - out in April that, while he would meet Mark - Viverito's request he make permanent a pilot program for attorneys for those fighting deportation, he would not allow city dollars to go toward the defense of someone found guilty of one of those 170 crimes — a stance he maintained today.

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How could the city allow Leeb, an outsider, to sell the Silverdome for just half a million dollars?

«It took nine months between our attorney and the city attorney to put together a public - private agreement that allowed us to invest close to half - a-million dollars to construct and bring online two wells,» Norgrove explains.

New NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is calling for an end to what he describes as a tax loophole that allows New York City private equity firms, hedge funds and venture capital firms to keep several hundred million dollars a year in their coffers instead of giving it to the tax man.

At 1:30 p.m., 1,000 low - wage workers and advocates will descend on Albany to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it for inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol.

But the mayor told the Observer that he would not allow public dollars to go toward the defense of anyone found guilty of one of the 170 crimes that New York exempts from its «sanctuary city» protections — violent offenses like rape, murder and terrorism, for which local law enforcement will turn over a foreign national to federal authorities.

$ 1.2 million for a UV disinfectant project - a requirement for water treatment that allows the city to avoid investing in a multi-million dollar filtration plant.

This process, called Participatory Budgeting, allowed residents in four city council districts to directly decide how to spend millions of their own tax dollars.

De Blasio has drawn criticism from good government groups for his use of the Campaign for one New York, which allowed donors with business before the city to give in amounts far greater than the small dollar limits imposed by the city's campaign finance system.

He brings with him experience as a trustee of the massiveNYCERS pension fund and a track record of spearheadingpopulist economic initiatives, including the New York City Taxpayer Receipt, a website that allows constituents totrack their tax dollars.

The city's dollar vans would be allowed to accept street hails under a new proposal pitched to transportation officials.

Moskowitz's lawyers have informed city officials they will not sign a mandatory contract allowing the Education Department to oversee the charter's pre-K program, officials said — even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks thousands of dollars in public funds for each student.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

The legislature has willingly and knowingly severely underfunded urban school districts like Bridgeport for decades, but now wants to potentially point their finger at those very same cities and claim they are at fault for the performance of their public schools while allowing the proliferation of charter schools, which this year alone drained $ 5 million dollars from the BPS.

Although Bridgeport is allowed to seek state reimbursement for all transportation costs associated with the charter schools in the city, in all the years it has applied for such, in fact, the Bridgeport Public Schools has never received a single dollar of reimbursement for this.

Some restrictions that various versions of BSL impose are: - muzzling and leashing in public - muzzling and leashing in cars - extra-short leash lengths - automatic dangerous or vicious dog designation, without any bite history - banning from city parks and beaches where other breeds are allowed - banning from leash - free parks where other breeds are allowed - banning completely from jurisdiction (although sometimes existing dogs are allowed to stay)- special (i.e., more expensive) licensing and jurisdiction - wide registry - special tags identifying the dog as a restricted dog - mandatory microchipping and photograph - mandatory insurance (often one million dollars) for each individual dog on the premises - mandatory signage indicating the presence of the dog on the owner's property - mandatory secure enclosures (in some cases, mandatory chaining)- mandatory spay / neuter (to eventually eliminate the breed entirely)- higher fines and / or jail time if a restricted breed bites or menaces - fines and / or jail time for any infraction of any provision regarding restricted breeds - age limit for walking the dog in public - persons with criminal records not allowed to own a restricted breed - ability of law enforcement to stop owners on the street just to check the dog's status - ability of law enforcement to seize dogs without proof of wrongdoing - ability of law enforcement to enter an owner's home, with or without a warrant, to investigate and / or seize a dog

But if you take advantage of a stopover and open - jaw each direction, you can easily create an itinerary that would ticket at several thousand dollars and allow you to have quite the European city tour.

According to Minutouno newspaper, the first unit will have a cost of 800 thousand pesos (266 thousand US dollars) and will function with one of the lines that operate now in the city in a route that will allow developers to test its functioning.

These three numbers represent the minimum acceptable levels of coverage allowed by the state for the three distinct portions of a basic Boulder City auto insurance liability policy, expressed in thousands of dollars.

If allowed, the move would raise hundreds of millions for cash - strapped cities dealing with ageing infrastructure but would also tack thousands of dollars onto the cost of an average home.