Sentences with phrase «by borough board»

Disagreements over candidate petitioning for the unpaid, party position are typically settled by borough Board of Elections officials and occasionally advance to a county - level Supreme Court.

While the votes by the borough boards, made up of community board chairs and City Councilmembers, are merely advisory, they could strongly influence the City Council's official vote on the proposals, expected to take place in 2016.

Not exact matches

Asking rents in the borough increased on 10 of the 14 retail corridors tracked by the Real Estate Board of New York, according to a report released by the trade group in October.

NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich has seized on this morning's NY Post report of a top Queens GOP official's suspension by the NYC Board of Elections after being caught soliciting a «finder's fee» from a voting machine contractor to continue his on - again / off - again war with the borough's Republican chairman, Phil Ragusa.

Former Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. was slapped with more than $ 21,000 in fines by the NYC Campaign Finance Board for numerous violations during his failed 2013 bid to become borough president.

The WFP's state executive board also issued Wilson Pakulas in borough - wide races, and City Council races, which will not be affected by this challenge.

These sites will go through the standard Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which includes public hearings by the local community boards, input from borough presidents, and votes by the Council and City Planning Commission.

«The Board of Elections must release a step - by - step uniform statement detailing exactly how each of their five borough offices conducts voter purges before any further action is taken,» the group said.

For Capital and Expense Budgets, the process begins with consultations at the district level and moves on to consultations at the borough level; public hearings scheduled by the board, the borough president and the city council before the budget is adopted.

While concerns about MIH can be easily translated in these meetings, the Council's issues with Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) are far more varied and reflect the opinions raised by community boards and borough presidents last year, when these plans were largely rejected in non-binding votes throughout the city.

The man who wants to open a new spa in the College Point Corporate Park got the backing of state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) last week, and the lawmaker questioned why the proposal was ever denied by both Community Board 7 and the borough president in the first place.

A former Queens Councilman was slapped with more than $ 21,000 in fines by the city's Campaign Finance Board Thursday for numerous violations during his failed 2013 bid to become borough...

Mayoral control was introduced in 2002 to replace the older system of a Board of Education dominated by borough president appointees and local elected school boards which were, in some cases, corrupt.

After mayoral control officially expires on June 30, the city will have to create a new Board of Education with two mayoral appointees and five appointees made by each borough president.

Last month, Luthmann officially bowed out of the borough president race after he was kicked off the ballot by the Board of Elections for not having enough signatures in July.

Officials have taken steps to reform the process around deed modifications, including running new proposals by the borough presidents, City Council members and community boards of the affected buildings.

Voters can find their designated polling places at the city Board of Elections website, and report any problems to poll workers there or by calling their borough offices.

The Borough President's budget office prepared these priorities after reviewing information supplied by the borough's 14 Community Boards and by local organizations seeking City funding.

A new flashpoint is the refusal by Oddo and Councilman Vincent Ignizio (R - South Shore) to submit for Council approval the name of Deborah Alvarez as the borough's GOP Board of Elections commissioner.

If the law goes belly up at the end of the month, the mayoral control system would be replaced by a return to the old Board of Education that would be made up of two mayoral appointments and one each by the borough presidents.

As part of the ULURP, the proposal — which could add 6.5 million square feet of commercial space to the neighborhood — will be reviewed by community boards 5 and 6, the Manhattan borough president, the City Planning Commission and the City Council.

At 5:30 p.m., the Queens Borough Board, chaired by Borough President Melinda Katz, will hear a presentation on homelessness in the borough from Steven Banks, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, Queens Borough Hall, 120 - 55 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens.

The Water Board will be holding hearings next week in each borough, though the members who began to challenge the status quo last year were for the most part replaced by the Mayor.

In 1989, the Supreme Court declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional, because it violated the one - person one - vote rule by giving New York's least - populous borough, Staten Island, as much power as its most populous borough, Brooklyn.

Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr., who is running for Bronx borough president in an April 21 special election, has decided to forgo public financing from the NYC Campaign Finance Board despite his eligibility, according to a press release issued by Diaz» campaign last night.

Corey Johnson, chair of Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen's Community Board 4, said he's long been impressed by the borough president and liked what he heard.

The boards, which are appointed by the mayor, City Council and borough presidents, have criticized the rezoning plans as not providing enough housing that is affordable to the actual income levels of people in the neighborhoods and for fear that it would spark more gentrification and overcrowding.

In fact, in 2009, as the stalemate dragged on, several of the borough presidents pushed for the school board to act as more of a check on the mayor, in part by having oversight over contracts.

The borough president closed his speech by citing Community Board 1's fight to keep the terror trials out of lower Manhattan as a prime example of the power of community advocacy.

The board had seven members, two appointed by the mayor and one by each of the five borough presidents.

She could have faced a conflict of interest had she remained in her position as deputy borough president and conducted fund?raising for her campaign, according to an advisory opinion issued by the board in 2001 that states individuals making a bid for office must resign from their positions if they are policy?makers before they solicit donations.

In 2005, when she gave up her seat on the City Council to run for Manhattan borough president, the New York Times editorial board praised her as «smart and driven and an expert on education issues,» but ultimately concluded «her style — often described by those who have worked with her as abrasive — would not be well suited to this office.»

Community board members are selected by the borough president, and half of them are nominated by local City Council members.

The board is made up of 10 commissioners, two from each of the five boroughs, chosen by the Democratic and Republican parties.

The idea was approved by Bronx Community Board 3 in February 2006 and by the Bronx Borough Board in October 2010, making it a borough - wide initiative.

On Wednesday the Board of Education was reconstituted (with seven members, one appointed by each borough president and two by Bloomberg himself) and met for a nine - minute session, wherein they voted to retain Joel Klein as schools chancellor, and to disband themselves for good if and when the State Senate (ever) passes mayoral control for real.

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It's also planning to certify the project into ULURP in July, triggering hearings at the community boards and by the borough president and City Planning Commission.

In December, Carrion was fined $ 10,000 by NYC's Conflicts of Interest Board for getting an architect who had benefited from his actions as borough president to work on a personal project for him.

When asked Monday at an unrelated press conference about the borough's feelings on zoning changes, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wasn't surprised by community boards» concerns.

While the de Blasio administration hopes to implement Mandatory Inclusionary Housing by the summer, the proposal has been met with resistance by local community boards and politicians across the boroughs.

If Chin and Brewer's application for a zoning text amendment is approved, the projects would be forced to undergo a review by Community Board 3, the borough president and the City Council.

The Borough Board is chaired by the Borough President under the New York City Charter and comprised of the borough's City Council members and the chairperson of each Community Board in the borough.

Before mayoral control in the city, the school board was made up of seven members, two of whom were appointed by the mayor and the rest by the borough presidents.

«Queens is a borough of families, and our borough's Community Boards help our families live better lives by addressing important quality - of life issues,» said Borough President KATZ.

On the subject of affordable housing, Mark - Viverito acknowledged the critiques of Mayor Bill de Blasio's rezoning proposals by community boards, borough presidents and many Councilmembers.

The board, made up of 13 members appointed by the mayor and borough president, is part of the governance structure of the DOE.

Director of Queens Community Boards Barry Grodenchik also received the first union endorsement of the race when he was backed by Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the largest union in the borough by the candidate's count.

If the proposal moves forward, it would be subject to the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which includes community board hearings, an advisory opinion from the borough president, approval by the City Planning Commission and a vote in the City Council.

The proposals are part of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning and Zoning for Quality and Affordability, two main pieces of the mayor's Housing New York plan that are being reviewed by community and borough boards now before some version goes to the Council.