Sentences with phrase «as holding a public hearing»

Erie County Executive Poloncarz will hear about the pros and cons of natural gas fracking Monday afternoon as he holds a public hearing on limiting the energy source in Erie County.

What's even more disturbing to watchdogs like Wood is that almost all of the U.S. cities pushing forward with the U.N. «climate change» agenda are doing it without so much as holding a public hearing, let alone a voter referendum.

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THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will next week hold public hearings in Perth and Albany as part of its national inquiry to determine whether there is a need for retail price control arrangements to continue to apply to Telstra after Ju

Here in China where I live and work as a teacher, there is a state church that is monitored heavily by the government and there are the House churches that are now beginning to be heard and are holding there services out in public, but the members are being arrested and thrown in jail and yet they continue to hold there services.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

Governor Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing held at the State Capitol today, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

Also at 7 p.m., Suffolk County holds the first of three required public hearings on a proposed consolidation plan as part of a statewide municipal shared services initiative, Brookhaven Town Hall, Town Board Room, 1 Independence Hall, Farmingville, Long Island.

The public hearing held by the DEC yielded 6000 comments raising several new concerns about risks to our water supply such as the presence of a toxic chemical dump in the middle of the pipeline alignment.

The letter comes as lawmakers in the state Senate held a public hearing on Tuesday to discuss issues stemming from the floods.

The commission, which is holding hearings across the five boroughs to solicit public input as to what its agenda should be, can consider any proposal presented to it, though de Blasio charged its members with particularly looking at voting access and campaign finance reform.

A panel commissioned to review practices at New York's troubled ethics commission held its one and only public hearing Wednesday, as its Chair says lack of staff and excess of paperwork may make it difficult to meet the group's November 1st deadline.

The NYC Council will hold a public hearing on a bill that would require alarms on the exit doors of public schools to prevent tragedies such as the disappearance and death of Avonte Oquendo.

At 11 a.m., as the governor's wage board holds its third public hearing, workers and advocates will call on the Wage Board to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., Bhearing, workers and advocates will call on the Wage Board to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., BHearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., Buffalo.

The hearings also come as Senate Republicans, the IDC's governing partners, last week announced plans to hold a hearing on fraud and abuse in the New York City public financing system.

At 11 a.m., the Assembly will hold a public hearing to examine the growing need for home care and personal care as well as the obstacles to recruiting, employing and retaining an adequate home care workforce, Hearing Room C, LOB, 198 State St., hearing to examine the growing need for home care and personal care as well as the obstacles to recruiting, employing and retaining an adequate home care workforce, Hearing Room C, LOB, 198 State St., Hearing Room C, LOB, 198 State St., Albany.

The Assembly's Correction Committee on Wednesday will hold the first of what's expected to be a least two public hearings to examine the operation of the state's prison system as well as recent allegations of inmate abuse.

It would require Town Board members to clearly define the goals, and a public hearing would be held on the moratorium itself, as it's a law.

Cuomo has said he intends to launch a new effort for campaign finance reform, and Samuels says he could hold public hearings and create an open process to develop legislation, as well as setting a good example on his own, by saying he won't accept any more corporate donations.

In his words at the public hearing on constitution and electoral reform held at Ogun State Cultural Centre, Abeokuta today, Governor Fayose said; «Even when it inherited a working system that conducted elections adjudged as free and fair by local and international communities, INEC has failed consistently to replicate the inherited working system due to overzealousness and rabid passion to work as appendage of the federal government.

Unlike the Medicaid Relief Task Force, which held public hearings all over the state, the governor's hand - picked Mandate Relief group (under the leadership of Paterson administration holdover Larry Schwartz) hasn't met nearly as publicly or as often.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Education issues are on the agenda in Albany as state Assembly lawmakers hold another in a series of public hearings on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposals.

HORICON The Horicon Town Board, acting as the local Board of Health, will hold a public hearing at its Oct. 19 town board meeting for a sanitary holding tank at 248 E. Shore Dr., in Horicon.

A special legislative committee of the Buffalo Common Council will hold a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on a proposed law requiring that new apartment developments set aside a certain percentage of their units as affordable.

Torres will hold a hearing Thursday on the roof debacle as head of the Council's Public Housing Committee.

Mayor de Blasio's handpicked Charter Revision Commission held its first public hearing Wednesday with little fanfare as a only nine people testified.

The Westchester County Board of Legislators will hold a public hearing on a bill to allow county employees to join in the New York State Early Retirement Incentive Program on Monday June 14th otherwise known as the «Double Dipping» Program.

Its statement came as an Assembly committee was holding a public hearing on the bill.

The Assembly's Correction Committee on Wednesday will hold the first of what's expected to be a least two public hearings to examine the operation of the state's prison system as well as recent allegations of inmate abuse, said Committee Chairman Daniel O'Donnell (D - Manhattan).

Swierczewski said he hoped the PACB could schedule another meeting by year's end to vote again on the Lighthouse Point subsidies, as well as $ 1.85 million for an office complex in downtown Albany that, according to Conwall, ESD held back because it needed to analyze the results of a public hearing.

The City Council will finally hold a public hearing on a bill that would require alarms on the exit doors of public schools to prevent tragedies such as the disappearance and death of Avonte Oquendo.

The proposed amendment establishes a redistricting commission every 10 years beginning in 2020, with two members appointed by each of the four legislative leaders and two members selected by the eight legislative appointees; prohibits legislators and other elected officials from serving as commissioners; establishes principles to be used in creating districts; requires the commission to hold public hearings on proposed redistricting plans; subjects the commission's redistricting plan to legislative enactment; provides that the legislature may only amend the redistricting plan according to the established principles if the commission's plan is rejected twice by the legislature; provides for expedited court review of a challenged redistricting plan; and provides for funding and bipartisan staff to work for the commission.

«As we work through the number of bills passed, the public hearings held, and the number of ad - hoc committees that have been established — we know the challenges of not being able to fund some of our activities.

Borough President Marty Markowitz will hold a public hearing on tomorrow before he makes a decision, which will also act as a suggestion to the City Planning Commission and ultimately, the City Council.

After the County Executive submits his budget for ECC the Legislature will hold several meetings and a public hearing to consider the budget and the County's role as the primary sponsor of the College for the upcoming year.

A public hearing on the moratorium and a vote by the board could be held as early as June 19.

Meanwhile, the congressionally chartered Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development is holding public hearings (the next will be held 7 December at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland) and is formulating a report on specific strategies for how to deal with the slow pace of change in academia as well as business and government.

As the City Council holds a hearing this afternoon on three resolutions aimed to cap and slow the co-location of public schools, district and charter school leaders who share facilities are speaking up about their experience co-locating with other public schools; collaboration, community building and putting kids first are recurring themes among all of them, demonstrating that educators know to check politics at the door.

As a member of the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, I recently saw what this looks like in Cleveland, where we held our first public hearing.

As a demonstration of how out of touch the NAACP is, they recently held public hearings about charter schools AFTER they

The 15 - member group, created through Act 51 of 2014 (sponsored as House Bill 1738 by Rep. Bernie O'Neill), held 15 public hearings around the state over 11 months and heard from more than 110 individuals, including superintendents, school board presidents, business leaders, nonprofit organizations, national experts and parents before making their recommendations.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding met for the first time yesterday (Dec. 14), holding an informational public hearing that featured presentations from the staff of the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) as well as the Department of Public Instruction public hearing that featured presentations from the staff of the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) as well as the Department of Public Instruction Public Instruction (DPI).

As the legislative report (JR report) explains, when the Education Committee held its public hearing, the testimony was almost unanimous in favor of the bill.

Tomorrow — February 24, 2016 — the Connecticut General Assembly's Education Committee will be holding a public hearing on legislation that Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor Wyman submitted as part of their destructive proposed state budget, a spending plan that that coddles the rich while making massive cuts to vital health, human service and education programs.

The Public Hearing listed below will be held as close to 3:00 p.m. as the business of the State Board permits.

As evidenced during the recent public hearing held by the General Assembly's Education Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluation system.

Superintendent Beth Schiavino - Narvaez, as if anticipating a backlash, said before the slide show presentation that «this is a first draft» and that public hearings and other meetings will be held to gather input from families, educators and community members.

I think it is unconscionable and ridiculous and frankly appalling that a school board has to hold a public hearing to adopt a textbook but that a takeover of a school by a private entity can be done without a public hearing, without an election, without an expiration date, and without any public input, discussion, or choice as to which private entity gets the charter.

Meanwhile, the press release quoted the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), which was founded by Achievement First's Jonathan Sackler [the same Jonathan Sackler who held a $ 40,000 fundraiser last May for the political action committee affiliated with Governor Malloy] as saying, «We welcome [the New York charter school association] and look forward to working with the Network to further ensure that the voices of communities, families and students who demand more quality public school choices are heard loud and clear in Connecticut.»

(d) In carrying out its functions under this section, the Board shall conduct investigations, hold public hearings, and issue such orders as it deems necessary to insure compliance with the provisions of the Acts cited in subsection (b).