Sentences with phrase «as elected commissioners»

Many political pundits and serving police officers were disappointed that Sir Hugh did not win the post, with observers keen to see the outspoken former head of policing in Northern Ireland clash publicly with the government on issues such as elected commissioners.

Not exact matches

The county government, where Gilman serves as one of three elected commissioners, promises building permits in fewer than 30 days.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle didn't look very happy last Thursday morning as he sat in the first - class cabin of American Airlines Flight 82, 35,000 feet above Arkansas, returning to New York City from Dallas and the league's third unsuccessful attempt to elect his successor.

As the NFL prepares to go to Cleveland for its annual fall meeting on Oct. 24 and 25, the owners are deadlocked 13 - 13, with two abstentions, over whom to elect as the next commissioner: Saints president Jim Finks, 62, or league lawyer Paul Tagliabue, 4As the NFL prepares to go to Cleveland for its annual fall meeting on Oct. 24 and 25, the owners are deadlocked 13 - 13, with two abstentions, over whom to elect as the next commissioner: Saints president Jim Finks, 62, or league lawyer Paul Tagliabue, 4as the next commissioner: Saints president Jim Finks, 62, or league lawyer Paul Tagliabue, 48.

MILEPOSTS — ELECTED: As commissioner of baseball by the major leagues» 26 owners, FAY VINCENT, 51, replacing the late Bart Giamatti.

In addition to the players voted in, former commissioner Bud Selig and longtime Braves executive John Schuerholz will be inducted as well, the latter two elected by committee in December as part of the Today's Game Era.

She started as business manager in 1967, retired as executive director in 1987 and, when she decided she couldn't stay away, she said, went on to serve two six - year terms as a member of the elected Board of Commissioners.

Newly - elected commissioners Silosky and Peter Steinys, along with board president Peter Hurtado, have come under criticism since May when the three voted to hire Village Trustee Garrett Peck as the park district's executive director.

She has held elected office as a Naperville Park District commissioner and president, has advocated for a bike trail link between Jefferson and Ogden avenues in Naperville and has also co-chaired DuPage Neighbors for Open Space, Clean Water and Clean Air.

Park commissioners recently elected Mary Kay Ludemann as board president and Janet Silosky as vice president.

NYSUT had never been big fans of King to begin with, having passed a vote of no - confidence in his tenure as commissioner, including knocking the roll out of the Common Core education standards, which education observers and elected officials had said was was flawed.

He was elected to the BMHA Board of Commissioners in 2006, by a constituency that Mascia describes as 90 percent minority.

But the district attorney's office is different, because it is an elected job rather than an appointed position such as commissioner.

They have two children: a son Darryl Towns who was elected to 10 terms in the New York State Assembly before being appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as commissioner and chief executive of New York State Homes and Community Renewal; and a daughter Deidra.

The job of assembling a team of Commissioners that strikes an acceptable balance between the size and location of each Member State, as well as the nationality, gender, political affiliations, and attributes of individual candidates, falls to President - elect Jean - Claude Juncker, a Luxembourgish Christian Democrat.

John Prescott caused controversy this morning by insisting he would interfere with police operations if elected as police commissioner.

Those elected as Police and Crime Commissioners will have an influence on the delivery of firearms licensing services to the shooting community.

If a member of the legislature be elected to congress, or appointed to any office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, the state of New York, or under any city government except as a member of the national guard or naval militia of the state, or of the reserve forces of the United States, his or her acceptance thereof shall vacate his or her seat in the legislature, providing, however, that a member of the legislature may be appointed commissioner of deeds or to any office in which he or she shall receive no compensation.

It's the latest addition to a sparkling resume that includes service as a state senator, United Nations ambassador, commissioner of the Port Authority and the state Division of Human Rights, president of the New York City Board of Education, and the first African - American elected state comptroller.

The levels of turn - out for elections to its board of 53 elected members was not huge — 44 % of the electorate voted in elections across the 13 inner - London boroughs — but much better than turnout in elections for more recent devolved positions of authority, such as police commissioners.

«And of course then they're all going to want positions with you and stuff,» Mr. Modi said, alluding to earlier conversations in which the county leaders and Mr. Halloran were asking Mr. Smith for Republican appointments as judges and commissioners should Mr. Smith be elected mayor.

In other races, Suffolk County police commissioner Tim Sini was elected as Suffolk County district attorney, earning an overwhelming majority of the votes (62 percent) against Republican Raymond Perini.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

Quinn has repeatedly said she'd like to keep Kelly on as commissioner if she's elected mayor.

Peers have inflicted a second defeat in as many days against the government, which must now look again at plans to introduce elected police commissioners.

«Directly elected police commissioners not only compromise autonomy but as our poll shows undermine trust in the community they serve.»

-- the choice to prioritise pet projects, such as free schools, elected police commissioners, and David Cameron's disastrous top down NHS reorganisation - even as school repairs are cancelled, police officers lose their jobs, and patients wait longer.

The assemblywoman was elected in a special election after Aubertine was elected in his own special election to a previously held GOP seat in the Senate, (he has since moved on to accept a post as Ag and Markets commissioner in the Cuomo administration).

And we're achieving it through political reform — as with the new Police and Crime Commissioners who will be elected in November, and the new executive mayors in our great cities, following what I hope will be the positive referendums in May.

Liberty, which commissioned the poll from YouGov, fears that elected commissioners could pressure police to use their powers in ways which meets a political agenda, rather than serving the community as a whole.

It was that experience that helped launch his political career as the county welfare commissioner, a post he was elected to in 1959.

As a system for electing single winners such as Mayors or Police and Crime CommissionerAs a system for electing single winners such as Mayors or Police and Crime Commissioneras Mayors or Police and Crime Commissioners.

«Commissioners should be nominated by a bipartisan panel and then selected by elected officials, much like the judiciary,» Cherkasky said in a statement he read Thursday at the close of what's likely to be his final meeting as chairman.

In addition to the officers elected, the committee also nominated Allison McGahay of North Elba to the Republican members of the Essex County Board of Supervisors to again serve as the Republican Party commissioner on the Essex County Board of Elections.

Thursday's announcement by Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio that Bill Bratton will return to the city as New York's 42nd police commissioner is welcome news.

The former commissioner stressed that the reform of the electoral system was very import as the people's votes would count, leading to the emergence of truly elected leaders.

«His son described him as the only candidate who will end the era of stop and frisk and that was a purposeful branding of de Blasio as a reformer and then immediately, as soon as he was the mayor - elect, he announced he was bringing back perhaps the most controversial police commissioner in the city's history,» Trujillo said, referring to de Blasio's early campaign ads with his son, Dante.

She was first elected commissioner in 1996 and served as deputy commissioner for eight years prior to that.

Bellone, a Democrat, was criticized when he chose county District Attorney - elect Timothy Sini — a former federal prosecutor who was never a police officer — as police commissioner without looking at candidates from across the country.

The ad comes as Akshar launches his first - ever campaign for elected office against Fiala, an ex-Broome County executive and former commissioner at the Department of Motor Vehicles during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term.

(15) Former Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners; former Parliamentarians of the House; and former elected officers and minority employees nominated as elected officers of the House (subject to clause 4).

PREVIEW: Voters who live within the Mattituck Parks District will be asked to elect a new commissioner Thursday, as two candidates are running for the seat being left vacant by outgoing commissioner Nicholas Deegan.

The commissioner urged the monarch - elect to support the present administration, as well as use his wealth of experience to bring about socio - economic development to his domain and the state in general.

Since then, Linares served as city immigrant affairs commissioner under Mayor Mike Bloomberg and was elected to the Assembly.

The board or the commissioner also would have to decide whether Paladino made the comments while acting as an elected official, which could slice two ways.

Bullen was elected as a commissioner of education in November 2011 and began his term January 2012.

Ryan Quarles (R) was elected as agriculture commissioner in Kentucky.

The elected Mayor of London is classed as the commissioner for the Metropolitan Police District; the Court of Common Council is the commissioner for the City of London; and the position in Greater Manchester Police is due to be merged with the newly established Greater Manchester Mayor next year, and as such will not hold elections this year.

There are numerous tiers of government in the UK for which voters are regularly asked to cast their ballots, including local councils, directly elected mayors, police and crime commissioners, national assemblies and parliaments.The first past the post system for local councils in England and Wales as well as Westminster also means that the nuances of local politics can vary significantly from place to place.