Sentences with phrase «budget as a council member»

Mr. LaValle accused Mr. Shaffer of calling the conference call to distract reporters from a Newsday article published Saturday that noted Mr. Bellone raised on average the amount a Babylon resident pays in general taxes by 108 percent since 1999, when he first voted on a town budget as a council member.

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From what I understand — from what BoC convention is and what members of the Governing Council have indicated — monetary policymakers take government spending as an input into their forecasts based on what's in the budget, what's enshrined in law.

As it is done every fiscal year, council members publicly disclosed any connections any of them have to institutions or groups being funded in the city's budget.

The slush fund scandal indicates to Mr. Lander that «we don't have a vital local democracy,» and sees the scandal as a function of a system whereby the City Council focuses a great deal of energy and attention to the 1 % of the City budget that is allocated to Member items.

Van Bramer, who chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, where the debate over library funding has largely been heard, reminded of the Council's budget priorities as final negotiations take place between the 51 - member legislative body and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Council Member Ritchie Torres would like to invite you to participate in «an exciting new experiment in democracy called Participatory Budgeting» as his office put it, if you are one of his constituents.

Albany Common Council member Judd Krasher listens as Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan delivers her 2017 budget proposal on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at City Hall in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron / Times Union archive)

As federal lawmakers continue to try to reach a budget deal, Sheehan and Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway traveled to Washington, D.C., where they met with members of the North Country delegation, including Rep. Paul Tonko (D - Amsterdam) and former army secretary and Rep. John McHugh, who now works as a lobbyisAs federal lawmakers continue to try to reach a budget deal, Sheehan and Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway traveled to Washington, D.C., where they met with members of the North Country delegation, including Rep. Paul Tonko (D - Amsterdam) and former army secretary and Rep. John McHugh, who now works as a lobbyisas a lobbyist.

Linares and Duane were members of the same NYC Council class, (elected in 1992), and grew close during their years there as participants in a small, yet vocal, group that consistently voted «no» on the budget deals reached by then - NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr..

At 10 a.m., members of the NYC Council's Committee on Governmental Operations hold a preliminary budget hearing to discuss the mayor's budget proposals for the next fiscal year, and examine spending during the current fiscal year by eight city agencies, boards, commissions, departments and offices, as well as community boards; Committee Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

Council Member David Greenfield said, «Participatory budgeting gives residents the chance to have a direct and real say in the future of their community, so I am pleased that so many people from Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst took the time to volunteer as a budget delegate or voted last week for their favorite projects.

The D.O.E.'s Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - member body appointed by the mayor and the city's borough presidents, will vote on the plan at a March 18 meeting before it is submitted to the mayor and City Council for a vote in June as part of the overall budget.

Other council members are not as sure the 17 budget votes will translate into votes to keep the project alive.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

«I pledge the residents of NYCHA — this hand will not sign the state budget unless there is a real remedy that is going to make repairs at NYCHA and make them in real time,» Cuomo, holding up his right hand, said as he led a press conference alongside several tenants and City Council Member Ritchie Torres.

«Working together, as I've said again and again was going to happen, we've produced an on - time, balanced budget for our city that does not raise taxes on New Yorkers and that preserves the essential services that we all rely on,» the mayor said at a press conference at City Hall, flanked by dozens of City Council members.

As Walcott tried to justify the layoffs to frustrated Council members at a budget hearing that lasted through the early afternoon, Quinn released a list of $ 75 million in alternate cuts the Council said could ease the layoff burden.

The UFT hosted a legislative breakfast for City Council members on April 20 to discuss the union's funding priorities — with Teacher's Choice topping the list — as the Council considers its budget for the fiscal year starting on July 1.

CVH has worked with a range of partners, including Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn), as well as The Participatory Budgeting Project, and many other city - wide and local partners to facilitate a new process for city determines how the city identifies and prioritizes discretionary budgeting dBudgeting Project, and many other city - wide and local partners to facilitate a new process for city determines how the city identifies and prioritizes discretionary budgeting dbudgeting decisions.

«There's been plenty of discussion around it as far as I know,» Council Member Dromm said, when asked by Gotham Gazette if the Council should hold an oversight hearing of its own budget.

Multiple Council members also addressed what they see as underinvestment in city youth, particularly the Summer Youth Employment Program and afterschool programs under School's Out New York City (SONYC), key issues the Council had highlighted in its preliminary budget response.

The mayor presented his budget in the Blue Room of City Hall, as City Council members in a chamber upstairs wrapped up a hearing on a package of new bills aimed at bolstering New York's protections for immigrants, in direct opposition to the Trump administration's policies.

But, Council members expressed concern that crucial priorities remained unfunded, or underfunded, even as the latest budget plan increased projected

Members will be forced to reconvene Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. to formally pass the deal reached late last Friday night after a glitch in a new software program scrambled numbers as files passed between the Council and the Mayor's budget office, staffers said.

UFT members began working closely with their local City Council members as the arena for the budget battle shifted to the negotiations between Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council on a final budget, which is due by June 30.

That is the underlying question that Mayor Mike Spano and members of the City Council are considering as they review a budget for fiscal year 2019, which starts July 1 and cuts more than 400 positions from both the Yonkers Public Schools and city government.

When Fuleihan's hours - long turn at the witness table wrapped up, Contracts chair Helen Rosenthal brought out home - baked apple muffins for him and his budget staff, as well as fellow Council members.

The council members will be joined by members of the citywide steering committee as well as local district committee members and budget delegates.

As mayor and therefore an ex-officio member of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council, I would advocate that some of the $ 25 million budgeted for a Commission on Government Modernization out of the recent $ 500 million state grant be devoted to developing and negotiating a detailed proposal for property tax sharing for a Municipal Development Fund.

(d) The Executive Officer shall be a member of the Board without vote; a member of the Council, of the Committee on Council Affairs, of the Executive Committee, and of the Committee on Investment and Finance; shall serve as secretary of the Board, of the Council, and of the Committee on Council Affairs, and as staff officer of the Committee on Nominations; shall be in charge of the Association's offices and shall manage the affairs of the Association in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board; shall be custodian of the current operating funds; and shall have the authority to enter into contracts for the Association that have been approved by the Board or that are required for the conduct of the Association's activities specifically provided for in the approved annual budgets.

After 2 years of debate, Horizon 2020 (or H2020 as it is often abbreviated)-- the pan-European funding program that is to support research and innovation in Europe, starting in 2014 and finishing in 2020 — has been given the green light as both the European Parliament and the European Council (which gathers E.U. member states) gave their final approval to the budget and the overarching legislation.

Within the Section he served as budget officer, a member of Council and a significant contributor to Law Practice magazine, as both an Editorial Board member and author.

The Council was already facing financial difficulties with a budget deficit from the previous year which had resulted in the appointment of an administrator and the redundancy of a number of skilled community - members (such as trades - people).

It will no doubt also serve as a pointer to the forthcoming Federal Budget on what sorts of cuts it may deliver to Indigenous funding (given Warren Mundine's warning to the Indigenous Advisory Council that he chairs for its members to «be prepared to be among the most hated people in Australia» and how those cuts will be framed.