Sentences with phrase «at the joint commission»

Ride - share companies in the last several years have assembled a team of high - profile and politically connected lobbying and consulting organizations to influence city and state government in New York, records at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics show.

An opinion from the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found Lee would not have to reimburse the state for rides on state aircraft as long as it is being used for state business.

Catsimatidis in the radio interview with Talk 1300's Fred Dicker said he had not spoken to Cuomo about the bill and that it was his idea to contact ethics regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to receive approval for the trip.

Additional Funding for Enforcement; Review of JCOPE to Ensure Performance The Budget also provides an additional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operating budget.

The Budget also provides an additional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operating budget.

Kevin Gagan, a key staffer at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics whose hiring reignited complaints about interference by the Cuomo administration, has now applied for the top job of executive director.

At the Joint Commission on Public Ethics most recent meeting, commissioners discussed a proposal that could change New York's open ended campaign finance rules.

Republican John DeFrancisco urged the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics on Monday to sack its executive director, Seth Agata, over what the state lawmaker is an unwillingness to investigate Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Though Albany is reeling from yet another corruption scandal, the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics didn't discuss the case at their meeting.

Ride - hailing firm Uber Technologies was the top lobbying spender for the first half of 2017, a report released Wednesday by the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo received the OK from the top lobbying and ethics regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to take a billionaire donor's plane to the Virgin Islands to survey hurricane damage.

Regulations at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics allow state officials like the governor to appear in public service announcements that are not paid for by the state or appear 90 days before an election.

Not exact matches

A joint venture between Civmec and Sedgman has won a $ 145 million engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract at BHP Billiton's Jimblebar iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

The People's Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday published its list of attendees for the upcoming 19th party congress in Beijing on October 18, with two notable exclusions: Fang Fenghui, who was recently replaced as the chief at the Joint Staff Department in China's military and is currently under investigation for corruption, and General Zhang Yang, the director of the political work department, who also sits on the military commission.

He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board of Missions, of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director of the Christian Center for Asian Studies, and Director of the Doctor of Ministries Studies, a joint program with San Francisco Theological Seminary.

«We would like nothing better than to stand shoulder to shoulder with you at a (City) Council meeting and say we are together on this,» Scott McKibbin, joint commission and Frontier Park Committee member told the group, which met at the Naper Boulevard Library.

At the same time, we have also learned that FIB has continued its divisive crusade by launching a campaign that urges mothers to complain to hospitals and The Joint Commission about the early care they have received related to infant feeding.

Arsenic (As) exposure from rice is of particular concern for infants and children.1 - 4 Infant rice cereal, a common first food, 5,6 may contain inorganic As concentrations exceeding the recommendation from the Codex Alimentarius Commission of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations of 200 ng / g for polished (white) rice, 4 the new European Union regulations of 100 ng / g for products aimed at infants7 (eTable 1 in the Supplement), and the proposed US Food and Drug Administration limit.8 Infants consuming only a few servings of rice cereal or other products (eg, rice snacks) per day may exceed the now - withdrawn provisional weekly tolerable intakes for As set by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives.9, 10

An inkling of the movement for constitutional reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 1983: 1).

Republicans called for a Joint Commission on Public Ethics investigation when Duffy announced he had interviewed at the RBA and it's likely many of these same Republicans will call for another ethics probe if Duffy takes the job.

The International Joint Commission Board, which controls the water level on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, voted to continue record - high water releases at the Moses - Saunders dam in Massena until further notice.

Details of the allegations were made public this week in two reports issued by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan, and with the revelations drew widespread disgust and outrage at the lawmaker.

Lhota said he had reached out to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) to make sure he had proper legal footing after Gov. Andrew Cuomo tapped him for the position at the transit agency in June.

We are looking at everything,» said a joint statemeent from the commission's three co-chairs, which include district attorneys Kathleen Rice and William Fitzpatrick, and Milton Williams Jr., the chair of the Fund for Modern Courts.

At the moment, neither Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given entity.

A perfect storm of high lake levels, ice formation and unprecedented spring rains flooded shoreline communities along Lake Ontario earlier this year, and that would have occurred with or without the new lake - level regulating Plan 2014, International Joint Commission officials said at an environmental conference in Buffalo.

The group spent at least $ 160,000 last year to fight a variety of bills, but paid particular attention to the Child Safe Products Act, according to records filed with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

At a joint consultative meeting organized by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) in Accra, the utility service providers presented their proposals for upward tariff adjustment and justified the need for it.

The panel, created by Governor Cuomo in May, is tasked with looking at ways to improve the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE, which has been widely criticized as secretive and ineffective.

He was speaking at a joint tax education campaign held in Lawra, the municipal capital, by the Commission and the GRA.

But a form filed with the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) says Benjamin is on paid retainer «at a rate of $ 5,000 per month» for Genesis, beginning June 2017, a month after he was elected, and ending in June 2018.

Chair Daniel J. Horwitz leads a meeting of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics at their offices Tuesday, March 22, 2016, in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

At 3 p.m., Reps. Chris Collins and John Katko will host a meeting with state leaders and representatives from government agencies to discuss the devastation to the Lake Ontario shoreline that is directly related to the International Joint Commission Plan 2014, HVC - 214, The Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Also at 11 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Labor and Commission on Skills Development and Career Education hold a joint public meeting on pre-apprenticeship and work preparation programs in New York state, Hamilton Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany.

The Suffolk County lawmaker's filing with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics shows he earned at least $ 100,000 and as much as $ 150,000 at the firm.

Instead, Ryan filed an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics pointing to testimony in a Yonkers corruption trial from disbarred attorney Anthony Mangone that alleged Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm paid for by $ 50,000 from a lobbying organization.

At 10:30 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, the Committee on Energy and the Subcommittee on Infrastructure hold joint hearing evaluating natural gas safety efforts by utilities, Assembly Hearing Room, 250 Broadway, Room 1923, 19th Floor, Manhattan.

The probe by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics looked at the accusations against Lopez, and also investigated Silver's role in trying to mediate the situations.

Chair Daniel J. Horwitz, far left, leads a meeting of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics at their offices Tuesday March 22, 2016 in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

's review of filings with the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the distributors spent at least $ 62,000 on lobbyist compensation from March through April; their efforts appear to have largely focused on medical marijuana - related policies or legislation, with some success.

According to The Alt's review of filings with the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the distributors spent at least $ 62,000 on lobbyist compensation from March through April; their efforts appear to have largely focused on medical marijuana - related policies or legislation, with some success.

De Blasio accused Cuomo and his appointees at the state Board of Elections and the Joint Commission on Public Ethics last week of instigating the probes.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told reporters in New York City this afternoon that the Joint Commission on Public Ethics launched a full investigation of the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal, an inquiry that presumably includes a look at his role.

«When an entity goes beyond its legal purview — possibly for, you know, the wrong motivations — there's a point at which you say enough is enough,» Mr. de Blasio said about an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE, at a City Hall press conference today.

Lopez resigned from the Assembly last month rather than face almost certain expulsion after a blockbuster report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics accused him of sexually harassing at least eight young female staffers in recent years.

Batra, a Brooklyn lawyer, said that at times, his service on the Joint Commission on Public Ethics created last year «made me feel I was in the midst of something sinister.»

That's a question that lawyers and their bosses at the state Office of Medicaid Inspector General are hashing out after the agency's head, Dennis Rosen, calls for its 22 senior attorneys to file financial disclosure forms with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

However, the most recent lobbying records filed with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics show that Litwin's Glenwood, a major beneficiary of real - estate tax incentives, which has directly or indirectly contributed more than $ 1 million to Cuomo's campaigns, was lobbying the governor's office at least as recently as February.

The New York Civil Liberties Union and Family Planning Advocates of New York had asked the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to allow them to withhold the names of the donors because they said identifying them could put the donors at risk of harassment.

But the Joint Commission has acknowledged that individual alarm signals can be difficult to detect, and that this phenomenon is at least partially responsible for the patient safety problems associated with medical alarms.