Sentences with phrase «appointed community board»

«I want to thank all of our newly appointed community board members of volunteering their valuable time to help serve their communities and ensure that our city government serves their communities effectively,» Borough President Katz said.

The Borough President appoints the Community Board members.

Except for appointing community board members, borough presidents have mostly advisory powers and can easily be ignored.

The borough president appoints community board members, issues advisory opinions on land - use projects and has a sizable staff.

Members of the City Council help the borough president appoint community board members.

Not exact matches

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

In this Message to Members, The Vancouver Board of Trade's President and CEO, Iain Black, discusses what Greater Vancouver's business community can expect from some of Canada's newly appointed cabinet ministers.

He has also made huge contributions to the community as a volunteer board chair of numerous organizations, including the Centre in the Square, the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum, the Waterloo Public Library and the BarnRaisers Council, and was recently appointed to the board of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Said Williams, «I am honoured to be appointed to my new position at Alberta Enterprise by the Board and look forward to continuing to foster the growth of a local venture capital community and their investments into innovation and technology in the province of Alberta, creating jobs and contributing to diversifying Alberta's economy.»

The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA)- a non-profit organization established by the Wine Institute and California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) to promote environmental stewardship and social responsibility in the California wine community - recently elected new officers to its Board of Directors and appointed a Managing Director.

Durham Youth Commission members commit to a one - year term of service; serve on City boards and committees as appointed and attend all meetings of those boards and committees; complete 40 hours of community service during their term of service; as well as attend and actively participate in all meetings, service projects, and special events sponsored by the commission.

He was one of two residents appointed to a joint Park District - Village of Gurnee committee that earlier this year studied ways the two boards can work together to pay for family recreation, including a community pool, without raising property taxes.

The SUNY Board of Trustees has appointed Ty A. Stone as the sixth president of Jefferson Community College.

She is Vice Chair of the Broome County Industrial Development Agency Board and was appointed in 2008 as a Committee Member of the National Association of Counties; Community and Economic Development Steering Committee.

All four of the Democrats running would continue and build on Stringer's exemplary system of screening, appointing and training community board members — which has pretty much ended the cronyism and conflict of -LSB-...]

The Beep has a small amount of capital funding to dispense every year, and can appoint members of local community boards.

In consultation with Committee Chairs, to appoint members to all committees or to remove members from such committees; to appoint representatives of the board to Business Improvement Districts and other governmental, non-profit, community based, or other organizations, as appropriate.

The state Education Department last year appointed a team of monitors that has been working with the district, the school board, and its new superintendent to put the district back on track and restore community trust.

«Every member of the community has told me one thing: «This store matters to us»,» said the newly appointed Chair of Community Board 12 Shah Ally, who reported that board had currently collected over 3000 sicommunity has told me one thing: «This store matters to us»,» said the newly appointed Chair of Community Board 12 Shah Ally, who reported that board had currently collected over 3000 siCommunity Board 12 Shah Ally, who reported that board had currently collected over 3000 signatBoard 12 Shah Ally, who reported that board had currently collected over 3000 signatboard had currently collected over 3000 signatures.

Community board members are appointed to staggered two - year terms, with half selected by the Borough President and half nominated by City Council members.

«Community boards are appointed to give input.

· A co-operative approach to school governance whereby students, staff, parent / carers and the local community vote for members of a board of trustees responsible for appointing governors.

But that proposal has been vehemently opposed by the Orthodox Jewish community and its allies, who say it would undermine democracy to allow one appointed individual to overrule the duly elected board.

Stringer also gets to appoint most members of Manhattan's 12 community boards, which are largely advisory bodies.

I have worked with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer to appoint numerous people with disabilities to my community boards and hope to work with 504 Democrats and others organizations to recruit members of the disability community to join as public members so they have a voice now and are more likely to be appointed to the full board.

BATTERY PARK CITY — Gov. David Paterson has appointed Anthony Notaro, a local community leader, to the Battery Park City Authority board, State Sen. Daniel Squadron announced Monday.

Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr. today announced that Camille Tauroney Kahler and William Calli Jr. have been appointed to the Mohawk Valley Community College Board of Trustees as appointments from Oneida County, the sponsoring county of MVCC.

He wants to see an overhaul of the vetting process for choosing Community Board members that are appointed by the City Council Member and the Borough President, a process he feels is corrupt.

Stringer himself was just 16 - years - old when he was appointed to serve on his community board in Washington Heights, where he fought to save the «A» train, among other issues.

Community Board members are appointed to staggered two - year terms by the Manhattan Borough President, with half selected solely by the Borough President and half nominated by the City Council members representing each Community Board district.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

By contrast, the community boards across Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn which have large rejected the de Blasio plan are entirely appointed by the borough president.

Leila Eliot was just appointed by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer to the Lower East Side's Community Board 3, and she's only...

Under the revised bylaws, Jamestown Mayor Sam Teresi was able to appoint Jamestown Community College director of development Tim Smeal to represent the Manufacturer's Association of the Southern Tier (MAST) on the JLDC board, rather than go with MAST's selection of John Zabrodsky.

Until 1996, the community school boards had authority over the elementary and middle schools in their districts, including the power to appoint superintendents and to approve the superintendents» choice of principals.

He is appointed to Manhattan's Community Board 4 and on New York City's Democratic County Committee.

JAMESTOWN - The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation board of directors has appointed Tory Irgang as the organization's new executive director.

In her letter, Harrington asserted that Li told her she could not be appointed to lead the Human Services panel because «a member had to be on the community board for a year before being considered.»

The Borough President, currently Gale Brewer, appoints members of the community boards in consultation with local City Council members.

All Queens Community Board members are appointed by Borough President Katz, pursuant to the City Charter, with half of her appointees nominated by the City Councilmembers representing their respective Community Board Districts.

All Queens community board members are appointed by Borough President, with half of her appointees being nominated by the City Councilmembers who represent the districts covered by the community boards the appointees will serve.

«As someone who has devoted his life to the promotion of literacy and learning and to the betterment of the community, I am thankful that Borough President Katz has appointed me to Queens Library's Board of Trustees,» Mr. JACKSON said.

All Queens community board members are appointed by Borough President Katz, with half of her appointees nominated by the City Councilmembers for the respective community board districts.

All Queens Community Board members are appointed by the Borough President, pursuant to the City Charter, with half of her appointees nominated by the City Councilmembers who represent the districts within each Community Board.

«The mayor came forward and joined the issue of affordability with long - term capital support of the subway system together, and I think he appropriately, obviously at that time, focused on the incredible wealth that's available to a select few New Yorkers and really this would be a very modest imposition on them,» David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio and president and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York, who supports the tax, said.

The 54 members were appointed by Katz to serve two - year terms on their respective community boards, which play an important advisory role in dealing with land use and zoning matters.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick has been appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Erie County Supreme Court Library at Buffalo, a free public library for area residents, particularly for members of the legal community.

Of the 550 people who applied to be on Manhattan Community Boards, 76 new members were appointed by elected officials, according to Borough President Scott Stringer's office.

AAAS had by that time begun a number of its still - ongoing efforts in connecting the science and engineering communities to the world of policy and broader societal interests, including having established several Board - appointed committees.

The move has shocked Georgia's education community — particularly the seven members of the state school board who were appointed by Mr. Miller.