Sentences with phrase «allowing public agencies»

Design - build reduces costs and construction times on projects by, as the name suggests, allowing public agencies to select a single contractor to both design and to build a project.

A JPA is a legal entity that allows public agencies to act collaboratively; lending their power and authority to a common governing board.

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Law enforcement agencies have reportedly torpedoed efforts to allow commercial drones to fly over public crowds because of concerns over the ability to track drones remotely.

«Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to «leak» into the public,» Trump tweeted.

The White House has not put out an official statement confirming the order, just as it has not confirmed that it has frozen grants and contracts at the age ncy, that the agency is not allowed to communicate with the public, or that the EPA will be barred from funding original science.

The public has vehemently rejected its current proposal, which would allow Internet service companies to enact «fast lanes,» but if the agency decides to enforce net neutrality and reclassify broadband providers, it faces an avalanche of lawsuits from phone and cable companies.

Similar to other agencies, Equifax also offers paid credit monitoring services for $ 5.99 per month, allowing you to track changes to all three scores as well as any new credit or public record activity.

Okeechobee, FL, routinely closes and hands over entire public side streets to allow expansion of church campuses / At urging of local monied «fundamentalist believers» including major insurance agency heads and realtors, city just approved a full scale commercial restaurant open to public on COG campus without changing tax status or collecting fees.

Interns are allowed to witness and assist in many of the different job aspects that public recreation agencies provide and will work with and for different supervisory staff during their internship.

He called on well - meaning Nigerians to disregard any attempt to politicise the menace of cultism but focus instead on joining hands with the government and security agencies to bring the menace to an end in the interest of public safety while allowing the rule of law and justice to prevail in the matter.

Ayorinde explained that as the election that would bring on board a new set of public officers for the next four years at the local government level, the restriction of movement will allow the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and the security agencies to distribute electoral materials in good time and ensure a seamless electoral process.

It will no longer allow central and local government agencies to gather and retain data for the purpose of public health, tax collection and financial markets regulation.

WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court appears poised to overrule a 1977 case allowing public sector union «agency fees» — a ruling that would end the fees, which are paid by non-members to support public sector unions» collective bargaining work.

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

Legislators in Albany perform public service part - time from January to June each year and are allowed the hold employment positions at law firms, companies and government agencies.

To keep a close liaison and coordination with state security elements for the activities — the use of armed escort as much as possible and maintaining strong security training and awareness for the personnel; careful selection of all election related sites and the maintenance of security for polling staff, electoral materials and equipment and situational awareness through a well - developed public information strategy to support election operation and ensure timely distribution of security information / advisories; identify hotspots (fragile security locations) in coordination with the Security Agencies and the most likely threats in each constituency and provide a clear order of priority for concerted efforts to be made to mitigate and manage these concerns and to allow resources to be targeted for maximum effect.

They allow for more transparency in the form of regular audits and the release of documents to the public, as well as a closer look at decisions made by officials in the agency.

Allowing Governor Cuomo to make all agency funds fungible permits him to play a shell game with the Legislature and the public.

She also would require the board to set public guidelines for the types of projects it will approve, including a minimum number of «quality» jobs that must be created, and allow the agency to claw back benefits if those goals are not met.

This will allow other government agencies and watchdog groups to easily combine political contribution data on the NYOG site with state and city contracting and public expenditure data.

«The database will allow data sharing among Suffolk County public and private agencies in an effort to create a more comprehensive understanding of domestic violence and assist with developing strategies to reduce the occurrence of domestic violence across Suffolk County,» the release states.

Typically, the process calls for a 30 - day public comment period to allow citizens and agencies to weigh in on the scoping document and bring forth additional issues to be addressed.

Former Hudson Valley Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, in his first major public appearance since retiring from office in January, says he just penned a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to wait for the results of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency on the impacts of fracking before deciding whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.

Public authorities are not subject to the same oversight as state agencies, which allows for «backdoor spending,» or the spending of millions of taxpayer dollars without traditional checks and balances.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry engaged in serious ethical violations by allowing its credibility as a public agency to be used to amass profit for a private non-profit organization which it can not hold to public standards of accountability as well as by using the name of the President of the Republic as a means to make such profit;

Shortly after the meeting, Cuomo's Counsel Alphonso David issued a public letter claiming the Council members and the Governor had agreed to a number of proposals including an emergency declaration on NYCHA, which would allow the State to play an active role in managing the city agency.

These public forums provide an opportunity to increase citizen awareness and participation in the Consortium's federal Community Development program by allowing the general public, as well as agency advocates for low and moderate income individuals, the elderly and handicapped to offer suggestions and information on the needs of these populations to County and municipal officials.

Franklin Templeton is separately challenging a new law in Puerto Rico allowing some troubled public agencies to restructure their debt, saying it violates the U.S. Constitution.

The bill would allow faith - based adoption agencies, including those that receive public funds, to turn away would - be parents on the basis of their marital status or religion and religious beliefs.

James Klutse Avedzi and Dr Dominic Ayine accused the Ministry of engaging in unethical violations «by allowing its credibility as a public agency to be used to amass profit for a private non-profit organization which it can not hold to public standards of accountability as well as by using the name of the President of the Republic as a means to make such profit».

BATTERY PARK CITY — State Senator Daniel Squadron is calling out the Battery Park City Authority — the state agency that oversees the neighborhood — for not allowing public comments at its public board meetings.

The BHRT allows our public safety agencies to quickly direct specific assistance and treatment to those in need, while allowing our first responders to operate more efficiently.

is a science - news service that provides reporters with free access to breaking research news, while allowing universities, journals, government agencies, and other organizations to deliver science news to a global press and public audience.

With cases rapidly mounting in four West African countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) today declared the Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), a designation that allows the agency to issue recommendations for travel restrictions but also sends a strong message that more resources need to be mobilized to bring the viral disease under control.

In the decision, which came in June, the judge, Gabriel Gorenstein, ordered NIH to turn over the waivers, but allowed the agency to protect other documents, known as recusal lists, from public scrutiny (although they had to turn over redacted versions of the lists during the course of the litigation).

As such, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation have opened a public comment period, allowing the general public to weigh in on the proposed changes.

Still, she says that the NIH is confident it will be able to make arrangements to allow the agency to continue research essential for human public health.

The space agency created Web - based tools to allow the public to take part in explorations of the Red Planet.

To address the growing observation that the proposed site can not geologically isolate the waste, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gerrymandered the zone of compliance for environmental laws — what is called the «controlled area» — around the Yucca Mountain site to allow for the site to be licensed, rather than protect the public health and environment for generations to come.

Instead, the space agency intentionally blacked out communication with the public, allowing the astronauts to carry out the top - secret investigation of a Cybertronian spacecraft.

Before Justice Scalia passed away in February of 2016, the Supreme Court was set to strike down «agency fees,» which allow public sector unions to force non-members to pay for the collective bargaining efforts of the union.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

In follow up to legislation opposed by TCTA and passed last session allowing school districts rated acceptable or higher to become «innovation districts» that can be exempt from major provisions of the Education Code, the Texas Education Agency issued proposed rules and held a public hearing April 25, 2016, to receive input.

The revised Assembly school accountability bill was released Tuesday and outlines a series of sanctions for persistently low - performing public schools, including converting them into charter schools or allowing the school board to hire an education management agency that would have the power to fire principals.

The state Assembly could vote as early as next week on the latest version of a school accountability bill that outlines a series of sanctions for persistently low - performing public schools, including converting them into charter schools or allowing the school board to hire an education management agency that would have the power to fire principals.

She cited a ruling that says the privilege allows people in government agencies to offer «uninhibited opinions and recommendations without fear of later being subject to public ridicule or criticism,» and «to protect against confusing the issues and misleading the public by dissemination of documents suggesting reasons and rationales for a course of action which were not in fact the ultimate reasons for the agency's action.»

As White points out: «School choice» means something different to everyone but usually encompasses the idea that a benevolent federal agency «allows» low - income parents to move from one education facility to another (charter schools), with public money (vouchers), «in order to provide their children with what the bureaucrats or philanthropists think will be a better education for them.»

He could also campaign for Amendment 8, which would allow an alternative process for approving public schools, including charter schools, rather than by local school boards, and Amendment 12, which would impose a six - year lobbying ban on former state elected officials, state agencies heads and local elected officials.

The agency has sent a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking to OMB that would allow them to collect more public comments, specifically on the distance education portion of the proposed teacher prep regulation, a department official told Morning Education.

Its mission is to focus public tax dollars on the K - 12 education of public school students by opposing legislation in the Indiana General Assembly that would fund private school vouchers, expand private school tax credits, privatize charter schools by allowing private colleges and agencies to be authorizers, put for - profit managers in place to take a profit from operating public schools and privatize public schools through any other means.»