Sentences with phrase «as elected officials needs»

Our focus as elected officials needs to be centered on jobs for our region.

Not exact matches

Despite criticism from local elected officials, de Blasio said the city does not need to provide advance notice when it rents out an entire hotel to use as a homeless shelter.

This bill, according to experts and city elected officials, addresses an increasing problem of investors who acquire older properties to flip them for profit without making needed repairs, such as finding the source of a leak rather than just plastering over a water - logged wall.

Prior to the vote, GOP leaders said they needed a candidate with significant name recognition, such as an elected official, to run a competitive campaign against Mr. Krupski, who had served in town government for 28 years.

Gipson points to recent indictments and convictions of various elected officials as evidence of the need to prioritize ethics reform.

A spokesman for the Democratic mayoral nominee said he was acting as an elected official responding to the needs of constituents in both instances.

«We don't need a bridge to nowhere that will foul up Long Island Sound for generations,» Marcellino said during a news conference at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park in Oyster Bay as a bevy of environmental and civic activists and current and former GOP and Democratic elected officials surrounded him.

«We need only look as far as Michigan to see what happens when elected officials allow profiteers like Betsy DeVos to drain resources from public schools and weaken the regulations that govern private, religious and charter schools,» he said.

This Ombudsman respectfully requests our elected officials, including County Executive Ed Day, Assemblypersons Kenneth Zebrowski and Ellen Jaffee, as well as Senator David Carlucci, to share with our readers the projected costs of removing and replacing the numerous signs needed to re-label the Tappan Zee bridge as the Mario Cuomo bridge.

«While acknowledging the potential negatives of such a convention — e.g., the risk of amendments being approved that would weaken the home rule authority of local governments — the Executive Committee viewed the opportunity to strengthen the position of municipalities in New York's governmental structure as more important and voted to approve NYCOM's support of a «Yes» vote on the constitutional convention question facing New York voters this November, with the additional stipulation that municipal officials would need to run for and be elected as delegates to the convention if our intended outcomes are to be achieved,» the guide states

«Clearly the fact that he's talking about people needing equal access to justice and feeling that they're getting it is an important part of what we're saying as a conference,» said Democratic conference leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is the top black elected official in the Senate.

The investment by the State, which had been previously indicated to go toward these needed projects and to be matched by the City budget, has been redesignated to fund legislators» pet projects such as landscaping and playgrounds... [Adams] will be joined by local elected officials and area tenants.

Nassau Democratic Leader Jay Jacobs said in an interview: «I think, Judi Bosworth leads with integrity, and I think that she is certainly, demonstrating that she believes that the town's political operation should be above reproach, and I fully understand her need as the top Democratic elected official to reassure the public that the political process is being run properly.»

District Leaders serve as conduits to the community they serve and they play a very important role in communicating the needs and concerns of the community to elected officials.

While it's clear that the compensation levels of elected officials need to be reviewed from time to time, the announcement of a review commission is generally seen as unfavorable — in this case prompting the New York Post to print a headline declaring, «Bill de Blasio moves to give himself a raise.»

As an elected official, Rapp's position will need to be filled quickly, negating any savings.

The task before her is especially important because of the need for this agency to succeed as an impartial panel charged with oversight and enforcement of our state's new ethics law and the pressing need to restore the public's faith in our government and elected officials.»

«It is really amazing that we are not having the kind of outcry we need from elected officials to understand that as go our full - service hospitals goes our community and goes our city,» said Stringer, who volunteered to share the expertise of his land use committee and his community affairs unit with proponents of a new hospital.

Despite criticism from local elected officials, Mayor de Blasio said Thursday the city does not need to provide advance notice when it rents out an entire hotel to use as a homeless shelter.

«We appreciate the support of elected officials who are stepping forward to help improve the system we all share and rely upon - and as elected officials, businesses and civic leaders already have, we need City Hall to be a partner with us in this plan.»

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

Equally important, as a constituent, I am deeply disappointed that our elected officials are standing in the way of our children's right to be educated by charter public schools that provide the learning environments they need and deserve.

In the future I would like to see more parent involvement in these efforts, but for now I know it will be our responsibility as citizens to hold our elected officials accountable to our needs.

But Deal repeatedly postponed that pledge after he was elected, and entering his final year in office, he made official what many lawmakers long figured was inevitable: There would be no rewrite of a formula he once assailed as a disservice to students, a drain on taxpayers and not suitable to «meet the needs of a 21st century classroom.»

As such, our elected officials will need to decide: Is this the most responsible action to take?

And, as such, if our elected officials could take time to understand the human - animal bond and how important it can be to so many of us, they might pause and recognize the need to give animals their due.

That it didn't take a disaster to trigger the reconstruction is a credit to the team of engineers and managers in charge of the water supply, along with elected officials willing to sell the need for the proactive investment to the 8 million users of the system, as well as the community campaigners who pressed for action.

«And if we're going to do our job as elected officials, we're going to need to think about how to redesign, or as we go forward, make the modifications necessary so we don't incur this type of damage.

«This poll is something Ohio's elected officials need to know, especially as new legislation is being considered in the Republican - led Ohio General Assembly to reduce energy efficiency standards,» said Mike Hartley, consultant, OHCEF.

Elected officials need to show that they are looking out for the electric bills of their constituents as well as working to mitigate climate change.

Forty bipartisan local elected officials delivered a powerful message at a recent summit: Coastal flooding is becoming more costly and dangerous for people, businesses and cities along America's shorelines — and policy makers at all levels of government, as well as presidential candidates, need to pay attention.

«As a high percentage of elected officials, judges and corporate executives are lawyers, it is imperative to begin the process of trying to ensure that American leaders, especially its lawyers, have the historical knowledge needed to make intelligent decisions in the national interest,» Velvel said.

The Fourth Circuit holds that «when a state agency is operated by market participants who are elected by other market participants, it is a «private» actor,» and therefore must be actively supervised by other state officials to receive state action immunity (while also stating that its «opinion should not be read as precluding» an otherwise undefined category of «more quintessential state agencies,» not «composed entirely of private market participants,» from «arguing that they need not satisfy the active supervision requirement»).

My campaign is endorsed by dozens of elected officials and community leaders who serve Ward 3 residents and understand the needs of our community, such as Supervisor Sharon Bronson and Constable Bennett Bernal, who represent Ward 3 each and every day, and community leaders like Rev. John Fife, who is a renowned human rights activist and founder of the sanctuary movement and No More Deaths.

WASHINGTON, DC — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) hosted college students from Michigan, Nevada, North Dakota and Pennsylvania on Capitol Hill today as they visited with their elected officials and talked about the skyrocketing cost of birth control and the need to restore affordable birth control.