Sentences with phrase «by city council members»

The complaint is heavy on «legislative history,» i.e., statements made by City Council members about how horrible a decision was McDonald.

Last April, a three - judge panel reinstated a lawsuit filed by city council members in Alpine, Texas, challenging the open meetings law on First Amendment grounds.

Surrounded by city council members, key members of the community, and partners, Park City Mayor Jack Thomas signed on to Climate Reality's 100 % Committed campaign.

Aurora City staff are helping Richardson draft his ordinance based on one that was passed recently by city council members in Phoenix.

Ramos was also recently endorsed by City Council members Jimmy Van Bramer and Costa Constantinides, both of Queens.

The allocation came after lobbying by City Council members and after online petitions claiming that it was «too hot to learn.»

At a Tuesday night town hall hosted by City Council Members Dan Garodnick and Rosie Mendez at Gramercy's Church of the Epiphany, stakeholders voiced concerns about problems related to homelessness, an increasingly controversial issue facing the East Side of Manhattan.

Community Board members are appointed to staggered two - year terms by the Manhattan Borough President, with half selected solely by the Borough President and half nominated by the City Council members representing each Community Board district.

Members of New Yorkers for Beverage Choices were joined by city council members and representatives from a local soft drink and beer workers» union to speak out against the proposal to restrict the size of sweetened drinks sold at certain stores to 16 ounces.

Community board members are appointed to staggered two - year terms, with half selected by the Borough President and half nominated by City Council members.

Pressed recently by City Council members to explain the disparity, police brass said they were responding to where they were called..

The announcement by Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña caps off a long campaign by City Council Members and hunger advocates to keep children from going hungry.

She was also backed by City Council member Rosie Mendez and tenant leaders of some of the Lower East Side's largest low - and - middle income buildings.

According to a recent report by City Council member Brad Lander, 81.6 percent of white or black New Yorkers would need to move to a new neighborhood to create a more equal racial distribution in the city.

A new report by City Council Member Ritchie Torres» office found a vast backlog in necessary repairs of sidewalks outside New York City public housing, particularly developments for senior citizens.

Stringer was joined by City Council Member Jessica Lappin, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Assembly Members Micah Kellner and Dan Quart at a news conference to announce the opening of the school.

He wants to see an overhaul of the vetting process for choosing Community Board members that are appointed by the City Council Member and the Borough President, a process he feels is corrupt.

State Assembly candidate Paul Newell was endorsed by City Council member Rosie Mendez last week, in his bid to replace Sheldon Silver in Albany.

On Friday, Mendez was joined by City Council member Margaret Chin, NYCHA officials, Henry Street Settlement head David Garza and Nancy Ortiz, tenant association president of the Vladeck Houses.

Irish Council General Barbara Jones (right) is joined by City Council Member Daniel Dromm (left) and Mayor Bill de Blasio at the Irish Consulate.

A bill introduced by City Council Member Dan Garodnick to require the NYPD to publish its patrol guide online will be heard for the first time by the City Council's Committee on Public Safety next week.

A police oversight bill sponsored by City Council Member Jumaane Williams unanimously sailed through the Council's Committee on Oversight and Investigations on Tuesday, and is all but certain to be voted through the full City Council on Thursday.

The bill, sponsored by City Council Member Vanessa Gibson, chair of the public safety committee, also adds another plank to the Council's broad agendas of criminal justice reform and

119), introduced in 2014 by City Council Member Jumaane Williams, a Brooklyn Democrat, would require the city's Law Department to post online, and to

But, it is apparent that the mayor is making many fundraising calls and attending a variety of fundraising events already — he appeared at a small - dollar young professionals fundraiser for his campaign in Harlem Wednesday night; on November 15, he'll appear at a fundraiser in Southeast Queens hosted by City Council Member Donovan Richards.

2:00 Speech by City Council Member Brenda Stardig — 10 mins 2:10 President Tiffany Moore — HDPA support & education for dog parks — 10 mins 2:20 Nathalie Bland talks about importance of picking up poop — 5 mins 2:25 Crista Meyer's «Tips for entering a dog park safely» — 5 mins 2:30 Ribbon Cutting 2:00 — 4:00 Face Painting, Doggie Hair Spray, Refreshments, Vendor booths

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Fabian Bedne, a Nashville City Council member, said the city should ask the company to help mitigate its impact, perhaps by financing affordable - housing progrCity Council member, said the city should ask the company to help mitigate its impact, perhaps by financing affordable - housing progrcity should ask the company to help mitigate its impact, perhaps by financing affordable - housing programs.

Federal Member for Curtin Julie Bishop shows more foresight than some other Federal Parliamentarians by recognising the importance of capital cities, according to Property Council executive director Joe Lenzo.

The debate got louder Thursday when members of Iron Workers Local 86 showed up at a rally in front of Amazon headquarters called by a socialist city council member.

It is also concerned about council members being placed in difficult situations, when the majority of the donations are coming from companies and unions that have a direct interest in decisions made by city council.»

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

In Zürich, the early practice of calling and ordaining a minister, according to an Order for Preachers written by Leo Jud and Henry Bullinger, was as follows: A commission of examiners consisting of two ministers, two members of the City Council, and two laymen experienced in the reading of the Bible, examined the candidates who either had been proposed or had applied to be called to a vacant ministerial office.

Organised by the newly - formed Right to Food Coalition, whose members include the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, Foodbank NSW, Red Cross, SecondBite, Blacktown City Council, NSW Department of Health (South Western Sydney District), Liverpool City Council and others, the centrepiece of this conference is the presentation by Joel Berg, Executive Director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger.

But because city staff said the direction council members wanted them to take was unclear, the council asked for revisions to the weed control ordinance, which identifies designated natural landscape areas as land owned by the city, the Naperville Park District or forest preserve districts.

Park Board members told the council in a joint meeting that they need a clearer understanding of the guidelines of the lease and would like more control over city - owned park sites maintained by the district.

Advisory council members say the new guidelines may be an effort by the Park District to restrict park advocates» voices, especially with regard to the city's bid for the 2016 Olympics.

The budget laid out by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and members of the City Council designates funds for crime prevention in public housing developments, enhanced services for inmates, free school lunch for middle schoolers, child care for low - income families, and...

This session will update on progress since last year's conference, on the work between coalition members of the Baby Feeding Law Group to develop a resource for food bank organizers and volunteers, and a pilot to implement the resource supported by Leicester City Council.

NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the first lesbian and first woman ever to hold her leadership post, called Paladino's remarks «dangerous,» particularly since they came on the heels of an anti-gay torture spree of two gay teens and a gay man by members of a Bronx gang that rocked the city over the weekend.

Forty fired - up NYC Council members have signed a letter, authored by Torres, demanding de Blasio «finally» address the New York City Housing Authority's failing heating systems.

The five Democratic state senators who are former members of the New York City Council are pushing back on a claim made by IDC Sen. Diane Savino that they are blocking a measure that would create a system to publicly finance political campaigns.

Some in the Council even see the suggestion of more hearings as an attempt by state leaders to «embarrass» the Democratically elected members of the New York City Council.

Fort Greene Focus article on BP Adams allocating $ 1 million to encourage participatory budgeting by Brooklyn members of the City Council.

Jon Gower Davies, a former Head of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Newcastle and a Labour Councillor on Newcastle City Council for 20 years, has written a report for the think - tank Civitas, entitled «Small Corroding Words: the slighting of Great Britain by the EHRC», which advocates the abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, currently chaired by Trevor Phillips, the ex Labour member of the London Assembly.

A task force of 14 members — seven appointed by the mayor and seven appointed by the Speaker of the City Council — created the curriculum for citywide safety training.

Woodhaven is currently divided between two City Council districts: District 30, represented by Council Member Elizabeth Crowley; and District 32, represented by Council Member Eric Ulrich.

Several members of the City Council's progressive caucus — including Ben Kallos of Manhattan, Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, and Antonio Reynoso and Carlos Menchaca, both of Brooklyn — went to the rally to support the groups but neither mentioned the governor by name nor joined the anti-Cuomo cheers.

They were joined by more than a dozen Democratic City Council members on the steps of City Hall in railing against the mayor's support for what amounts to a promotion of Cassano, 28, the son of former Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano.

Rodriguez, who has been a member of the State Assembly since 2011, is running for the open seat held by the City Council's term - limited Speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito.

City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) criticized a bill passed by his fellow Council members and championed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that increases funding and the hours of operation for animal receiving centers but gets rid of a requirement for full - service shelters in Queens and the Bronx.