Sentences with phrase «as drafting policies»

Many of the tasks, such as drafting policies, running finance systems and processes, and HR support, are delegated to other members of staff.

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Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization in Washington, has met with members of Congress and their staff about the bill to argue that while the policy goals make sense, the language as drafted isn't needed, said Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research.

(If drafted by management lawyers, as they are now, these policies are often management - friendly and restrict the board unnecessarily.)

But the Web is especially well - suited to teaching technical topics, effective sales and customer - service techniques, financial skills, product and policy updates, and things that can be learned step by step, such as drafting a business plan or managing a project.

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

The ALEC draft document for this week's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting encourages state policymakers to recognize the value the electric grid delivers to all and to update net metering policies to require everyone who uses the grid, such as distributed solar users who feed into it, to pay for it.

Harper even drew on Canadian John Humphry's drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an argument for militarizing Canadian foreign policy.

Moreover, since the rise of the Wildrose Party, PC throne speeches tended to propose policies driven by talking points — not the other way around as you might imagine — drafted mainly to cancel positions and strategies that had proved effective for the Wildrose Opposition.

But drafting another LT as an insurance policy is a waste of resources, unless hes going to start at LG or RT for the time being.

On a related note, in my former life as a lawyer I spent many a day drafting website privacy policies (and, yeah, that's almost as fun as it sounds), so I'm very sensitive to reader privacy.

To help make you aware of our data practices we drafted this Privacy Policy to describe the ways in which DC Central Kitchen collects, uses, discloses, and securely stores information from or about you through our websites and through offline engagements, such as mail or in - person events.

The site is truly comprehensive, not only covering all aspects of school food reform (including competitive food) but also related topics such as drafting a solid wellness policy, starting a school garden, or dealing with teachers who hand out candy rewards.

It showed that 20 countries have enacted laws, decrees or other legal enforceable measures, 27 have enacted many of the Code's provisions as law, 21 countries have implemented the entire Code as a voluntary measure or as a national policy and another 22 are currently drafting regulations based on the International Code and Resolutions.

On 15 May 2012, Miliband appointed Owen Smith to replace Peter Hain — who retired from frontline politics — as Shadow Welsh Secretary, and also promoted Jon Cruddas to the Shadow Cabinet, putting him in charge of overseeing Labour's ongoing policy review with a view to draft Labour's manifesto for the next election.

The Committee thereafter approved the inauguration of a special Technical Committee, made up of external resource persons and experienced internal staff to consider the recommendations and come up with a draft document capable of being adopted as the new Communication policy.

As the Member of Parliament whose constituency contains the UK's largest nuclear complex in the form of Sellafield, I threw myself into efforts to draft a new pro-nuclear energy policy with Malcolm Wicks and the No 10 Policy Unit almost immediately after my election inpolicy with Malcolm Wicks and the No 10 Policy Unit almost immediately after my election inPolicy Unit almost immediately after my election in 2005.

The various draft documents on education (spoken of by Ed Miliband and Tristram Hunt as if they were Party policy, ahead of the forthcoming National Policy Forum meeting) that in future new schools would be created by a similar tendering prpolicy, ahead of the forthcoming National Policy Forum meeting) that in future new schools would be created by a similar tendering prPolicy Forum meeting) that in future new schools would be created by a similar tendering process.

The committee advised that companies would still need to seek specialist legal advice in drafting their own policies as these will vary according to company size, structure, vessel types and trade.

The expiration stamps also come as several lawmakers said they were drafting legislation that would change the policy, which was formally adopted by Cuomo administration in June 2013.

Energy secretary Ed Davey avoided answering questions about the Cameron idea as officials frantically considered how to draft the new policy into the forthcoming Energy Bill.

In the draft version of the U-M report, released in February, the new DEQ regulations are described as proposed rule changes and were analyzed as policy options.

The Department of Defense, which announced its draft public - access policy this week, is creating a public repository that will include all full - text manuscripts, as well as links to articles on publishers» websites.

Prior to release of the draft, speculation was rife on whether the pope, who was trained as a chemist, would delve into scientific and policy details.

Furniture giant Ikea, however, recently drafted a letter supporting the changes to California policy, as did the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA).

While at the AAS, Bethany managed the public policy activities including, creating and managing a federal and local grassroots advocacy program designed to work with association members to effectively communicate with policy makers and successfully leading a coalition, working with Congressional leaders, and drafting legislation to secure millions of federal dollars appropriated for the restarting domestic production of Plutonium - 238 as a fuel source for planetary exploration.

In a given day you will find me holding proposal strategy sessions with individual faculty members; facilitating a brown bag on cracking Google research funding; reaching out to Federal Relations re: an upcoming faculty member's visit to D.C. (our Seattle location has its challenges); drafting policies related to the management of our research centers; planning our transition to an eIRB system; helicopter - parenting a proposal as it makes its way through OSP review; advising my ADR on internal seed fund requests... If it pertains to the conduct of research, I pick up the phone.

She has extensive experience working with elected officials, constituents and stakeholders, as well as researching, drafting and presenting various policy issues.

ASBMB's science policy fellow Chris Pickett describes the role of scientists when it comes to preparing those in the government and the judiciary for dealing with high - profile controversies, such as the Supreme Court's ruling on patents on complementary DNA and the release of the draft High Quality Research Act.

AMP opposes the draft NCD as written and recommends CMS refocus the policy to ensure continued patient access to NGS - based tests.

The role of the Climate Change Commission is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Hawai`i and provide advice and recommendations to the mayor, City Council, and executive departments as they look to draft policy and engage in planning for future climate scenarios.

With Whitehurst moving to the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution after his term expires this month, and as drafts for IES reauthorization begin to make the Beltway rounds, it is time to assess the contribution of IES to the history of federal education research and look ahead to its future.

In a column in U.S. News that deserved more attention than it got, Andy Rotherham recently observed how far removed the world of teaching and learning has become to those of us who spend our time flapping our jowls on panels, blogging, drafting policy briefs, and beating each other bloody on social media as if the fate of the republic depended on our next Tweet.

The Draft Code states that maintained mainstream schools, maintained nurseries and academies must ensure there is a teacher designated as a SENCO, who must have day - to - day responsibility for the operation of SEN policy and must ensure that the school can track and record support plans.

Additionally, the NSBA provides written protocols drafted by two school districts and two state Boards of Education as examples of good policy.

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.

But as departments have begun to release first, second, and third drafts of accountability plans to gather more feedback, constituents are inevitably split on policy decisions regarding statewide goals, testing and accountability systems.

Earl has also worked as a policy analyst for LAUSD's school board president where he made key recommendations for the district Superintendent's 2016 — 2019 Strategic Plan, analyzed expenditures for the districts $ 7.6 billion budget, and drafted a report evaluating factors affecting student achievement in mathematics.

Year after year, The Florida Coalition of School Board Members has increased its influence by welcoming additional members from each corner of the state and serving as a vital organization in the process of drafting, passing and implementing student - first education policy in Florida,» said Ziegler.

According to the district's draft of the policy, «equity is attained when there is sufficient evidence that each student has a high - quality education experience, and outcomes are not predicted by race, gender, socioeconomic status, [individualized education program] status, or learning English as a second language.»

A third option would be to name your estate as the beneficiary of your life insurance policy and then draft a will that states how you wish to divide your assets and you can name your significant other as the beneficiary of the life insurance benefit.

The debate over DOEE's draft centers on a policy known as Trap, Neuter, and Return.

As an attorney, she helped to draft potential legislation in Pennsylvania about a spay neuter policy, and worked with counties around the state, educating them about trap - neuter - return (TNR) and its laws regarding homeless animals.

Together, Marx and his fellow leaders drafted a ten - point specific policy proposal for, as the document says that «those negotiating the COP 21 [United Nations climate conference] in Paris,» November 30 — December 11.

The proposed law, which is expected to be adopted by early next year, says that «energy supply should be where you can plant your foot on it,» meaning that as much as possible should come from within China, said Li Junfeng, a senior energy policy maker and member of the interagency committee drafting the law.

It also supports the sharing of experiences and lessons learned from this pilot project with other developing countries through the formulation of a set of draft legal provisions that could serve as a reference tool to policy makers and legal drafters of a larger number of countries, in their efforts to further strengthen existing legislation to support and facilitate adaptation.

The EPA's draft CPP repeal, put online Friday by Politico, picks up on those arguments, saying that the CPP's provisions «raised substantial concerns that the CPP would necessitate changes to a state's energy policy, such as a grid - wide shift from coal - fired to natural gas - fired generation, and from fossil fuel - fired generation to renewable generation.»

Now, absent a 180 in the new draft policy statement, I shall resign my APS membership of many decades, and disown my status as an APS Fellow.

This multi-stakeholder forum functions as a platform for dialogue and consensus building among the various stakeholders regarding the following: problem definition, agenda setting and identification of priorities; making choices among alternative strategies and policy instruments available; coordination of the drafting of action plans and participatory budgeting.

As passivehouseplus.ie reported at the time, Dublin City Council voted at the end of May to retain a policy in the draft city development plan requiring the passive house standard or equivalent for all new buildings in the city, in an early sign that Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown's initiative could serve to inspire others.

In the coming months, as Congress and the Obama administration dole out billions in stimulus dollars to kick - start a green economy and draft sweeping legislation to curb climate change, the future of coal will be at the heart of the debate over energy policy.