Sentences with phrase «as council members voted»

Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat from East Harlem, as council members voted for her as speaker.

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Even the UN Security Council, which offers to its members the «best way to protect their own sovereign rights and national interests» by exercising the veto power, counts the votes of an absent member as an abstention.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

«The uncertainty of not having a food contract service vendor worries me more,» council member David Grosso (I - At - Large) said as he urged his colleagues to vote in favor of the contract while conceding that the new arrangement has flaws at its start.

The 51 - member council in February voted itself a hefty pay hike retroactive to Jan. 1 — a move Mayor de Blasio hailed at the time as well deserved.

As supporters and opponents go head - to - head with their positions on the Horse - Carriage Ban, lobbyists will be targeting City Council Members with a full on assault to sway their votes, but there's one legislator who could not be bought.

In a release, the Medina campaign reached back to 1994, when Dilan as a member of the City Council voted for vacancy deregulation.

During the race, The Advance Group helped Mark - Viverito prepare for the race, which included several community forums and debates as well as behind - the - scenes politicking with council members and county party leaders who helped collect votes in her favor.

Council members said their vote protects the city's future as state aid projections grow increasingly uncertain.

Members of Community Board 1 voted to endorse the bill to limit tour buses when it was first introduced in 2015, and former board staffer Noah Pfefferblit testified at a City Council hearing in 2016, where he described the sightseeing buses as «significant contributors» to congestion on Lower Manhattan's already clogged streets.

As from 1 November 2014 and subject to the provisions laid down in the Protocol on transitional provisions, in cases where, under the Treaties, not all the members of the Council participate in voting, a qualified majority shall be defined as followAs from 1 November 2014 and subject to the provisions laid down in the Protocol on transitional provisions, in cases where, under the Treaties, not all the members of the Council participate in voting, a qualified majority shall be defined as followas follows:

This past weekend, 20 members of the Progressive Caucus decided they would vote as a unified bloc on a choice for the next Council speaker, according to a New York Times report.

But community boards across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan have voted to reject much or all of the plan — as have the borough boards consisting of the community board chairs, local Council members and the borough presidents.

Helen Rosenthal, Council Member - elect, Manhattan «I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to vote for Melissa Mark - Viverito as our next Speaker.

Fish, who has served on the council since its inception in 2011, will likely relinquish his role as one of the county's voting members.

As mayor - elect de Blasio jumped into the race for city council speaker, lobbying council members and pushing his preferred choice of Melissa Mark - Viverito to an anticipated victory well before the scheduled city council vote.

«I feel lucky to be alive,» Mr. Johnson said in an interview, before the Council, including all four of its Republican members, voted to elevate him as their leader in a 48 - to - 1 vote.

Sections 69 and 110 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and section 116 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) empowers INEC to conduct Recall proceedings against a member of the National Assembly, State House of Assembly, or the Area Council of the FCT, upon the receipt of a valid petition alleging a loss of confidence in the member, by more than 50 % of voters registered to vote in that member's constituency.

Mr. LaValle accused Mr. Shaffer of calling the conference call to distract reporters from a Newsday article published Saturday that noted Mr. Bellone raised on average the amount a Babylon resident pays in general taxes by 108 percent since 1999, when he first voted on a town budget as a council member.

City Council Member Gale Brewer, participating in her last meeting of the Technology Committee, which she previously chaired, before taking on her new role as Manhattan Borough President, said she was skeptical of Internet voting, noting that the potential requirement of I.D. cards was problematic given the Voter I.D. debates, but emphasized her support for improving reporting of election results and encouraging voter registration through other agencies.

As Gotham Gazette has reported, several of the speaker candidates have donated heavily from their campaign accounts to those of other City Council members and candidates, in apparent effort to win favor ahead of the speaker vote, which will occur in January.

As a member of Westminster Council and deputy Leader of the Labour Group, he was a leader of the campaign to expose the «Homes for Votes» scandal which led eventually to the surcharging of the former Conservative Council Leader Dame Shirley Porter and colleagues.

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

Any council member who can scrape together five or six independent votes and go to Boss Joe on his knees, promising to work as a faithful and reliable cog, can be the speaker.

Linares and Duane were members of the same NYC Council class, (elected in 1992), and grew close during their years there as participants in a small, yet vocal, group that consistently voted «no» on the budget deals reached by then - NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr..

A member of the Council of State who doubles as Chief of Vogu Vonaa, Mohammed Bawa Abdulaia has called on the people of the Northern Region to vote massively for President John Dramani Mahama on December 7 for his unprecedented works in the region.

As the city's 51 other Council members one - by - one cast their vote for Mark - Viverito, those from Queens who had not originally pledged their support congratulated the new speaker.

Council Member David Greenfield said, «Participatory budgeting gives residents the chance to have a direct and real say in the future of their community, so I am pleased that so many people from Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst took the time to volunteer as a budget delegate or voted last week for their favorite projects.

The D.O.E.'s Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - member body appointed by the mayor and the city's borough presidents, will vote on the plan at a March 18 meeting before it is submitted to the mayor and City Council for a vote in June as part of the overall budget.

The added pressure from the labor sector could further complicate things for council members as they make up their minds ahead of an anticipated Friday vote.

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.

Other council members are not as sure the 17 budget votes will translate into votes to keep the project alive.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

Grimm charged that Recchia, as a council member, voted to raise property taxes by 18.5 percent and voted in favor of a congestion pricing plan that would have instituted an $ 8 toll on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The City Council could vote as early as next Friday on a contentious proposal to restrict the horse carriage industry, leaving Council members little more than a week to decide on one of the more polarizing proposals of Mayor Bill de Blasio's tenure.

The son, a former Bronx assemblyman and City Council member who was voted out of office twice, started last week as «deputy director of intergovernmental relations,» a $ 120,000 - a-year job, according to Austin Shafran, a Senate spokesman.

The measures have 33 and 28 of the Council's 51 members as co-sponsors, respectively, but Mark - Viverito defended her decision to block either from getting a vote.

Kekemeke has been having a rough time with members of the State Executive Council of the party in recent times as the latter passed a vote of no confidence in him following a series of allegations of gross misconduct.

Several council members praised Ms. Mark - Viverito in Spanish, citing her victory as a milestone for Hispanic politicians, and a group of drummers and maracas players broke out into a salsa - inflected song when the vote was over.

Two members of City Council are demanding an end to pricey runoffs such as Tuesday's vote for public advocate.

Quinn's engagement in the negotiations that led to the compromise came as a dozen or so Council members had pledged to support a motion to discharge on Brewer's legislation, a parliamentary move aimed at sidestepping Quinn's opposition to allowing a vote.

Greenfield argued against that characterization, too — insisting that the full Council would contradict the local member if if there is not a «legitimate land use rationale as to why the Council member is voting against it.»

The police union is calling for constituents to blitz Upper East Side City Council members Dan Garodnick and Jessica Lappin, as well as Queens» Mark Weprin, with emails and calls protesting their recent votes for anti stop - and - frisk legislation.

Rodriguez is just one of 51 Council members, but his vote counts the most — when it comes to matter of land use, the Council almost always votes the same way as the local member.

Mark - Viverito, who has repeatedly engaged the community and ethnic media since taking office, touched on many of the key points from her State of the City speech, as well as other topics that have made recent headlines, such as the City Council's controversial February 5 vote to give its members a pay raise of $ 36,000 a year, a higher rate than a special salary committee had initially recommended.

Inez Barron is known for her advocacy on police brutality issues, and was among the Council members who voted against the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills that were revised as part of a compromise with de Blasio, Mark - Viverito and the NYPD.

Williams drew thunderous applause as he implored members of the City Council who might not be affected by high crime rates and poor relationships with police to understand his viewpoint and vote for the profiling bill.

Mark - Viverito's victory was a huge boost for the 20 - member progressive caucus, which vowed last year to vote as a block in choosing the next speaker for the council, which has 51 members.

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