Sentences with phrase «by city commissioners»
13) Florida: A plan to rehabilitate the Miami Marine Stadium with private money is turned down by city commissioners after «questions about rosy financial projections and «self - dealing»» arise.
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The city's streets commissioner found that a month later, the average speed along that stretch of road dropped by 38 km / h, bringing it under the speed limit.
«IBM and Verizon, by their silence, facilitated this fraud,» Richard Condon, special commissioner of investigation for the city's schools, concluded in the report.
San Jose City Councilmembers Raul Peralez, Chappie Jones and Sergio Jimenez endorsed Antonio Villaraigosa for governor... Insurance commissioner candidate Asif Mahmood has been endorsed by Antioch Councilmember Monica Wilson; Skyler Tempel, Vice Chair Riverside Democratic Party and Monterey Councilmember Alan Haffa... The Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, San Francisco's largest Democratic Club, has endorsed Dave Jones for attorney general... State Treasurer John Chiang's campaign for governor announced the endorsement of the AAPI Democratic Club of San Diego... The Latino Victory Fund endorsed Gil Cisneros in CA - 39.
Last week, Kong Hee and five other leaders of his 17,000 - member City Harvest Church (CHC) were found guilty by Singapore's charity commissioner of siphoning $ 35.9 million in church funds to support the singing career of Kong's wife and church co-founder, Sun Ho, in the United States and Asia.
The legislation was proposed at a Board of Health meeting last month by Dr. Jay K. Varma, deputy commissioner for disease control for New York City's health department, after 11 infants contracted neonatal herpes between November 2000 and December 2011, after the circumcision ritual.
Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.
While much of what the speakers at the N.F.L. / USA Football luncheon I attended last week in New York City was concussions and football safety advice MomsTEAM has been giving parents for years, what impressed me the most was what we were told about the ongoing efforts by the league and its youth football partner to improve health and safety for football players from the pros down to the youth level, a topic which takes up more of N.F.L. commissioner Roger Goodell's time than any other.
In 2001 when trying to get my husband to remove a job bid that the son of the county commissioner wanted as well as a city councilman and the sons of three of the most influencial farmers in the county, My husband suggested I take his pimp father by the hand and both of us go to the interstate and step out in front of a semi.
Tom Mazaika, a former park commissioner, has been leading the merger effort, which could save some of the $ 100,000 that the city of 2,300 spends annually on a youth center that largely is used by children living in the town's main, 350 - home subdivision.
At a special park board meeting held to consider the concept, park commissioners appeared receptive to suggestions from aldermen to combine specific services offered by the Park District and Oakbrook Terrace's city - owned and - operated youth center, at 17 W 261 Butterfield Rd.
Park District commissioners discussed finding an alternative location that was not owned by the city but decided to stick with the Garden Plots.
The former deputy prime minister was criticised by South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner for his opposition to Sheffield city council's controversial tree - felling programme.
The report argues that there is now insufficient local oversight of school performance and the creation of locally accountable school commissioners, appointed by partnerships of local authorities across city or county regions, would act to address this vacuum and support better local coordination of education.
The president of the bridges and tunnels division, Cedrick Fulton, offered up the information regarding the funding set aside for this project, when questioned by the city's transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg, who is also an MTA board member.
The Move NY plan, proposed by former city traffic commissioner (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz, would place tolls on the East River bridges and 60th Street in Manhattan in order to raise money for mass transit repairs and infrastructure.
(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.
His new DCAS commissioner has put a hold on all deed restriction changes and the matter is being looked into by the city's Department of Investigation and Comptroller Scott Stringer.
Questions during the post-speech «gaggle» included the cost of a special election, his reaction to a New York Republican Party 50 Shades of Grey parody of Bill de Blasio and Al Sharpton, Rudy Giuliani's recent comments about Barack Obama, the expected Republican candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election, state legislature financial disclosure forms, the refusal of Port Authority commissioners to accede to Cuomo and Chris Christie's request to resign, his planned trip to Cuba, congestion pricing, and UFT comments asserting that the governor has shortchanged New York City schools by $ 2.5 billion.
The two chief sponsors of the Right to Know Act are renewing a call to hold a vote on the set of bills tabled by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito last month after she reached an agreement with outgoing police commissioner Bill Bratton to adopt the rules administratively at the department.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - City Councilor Jake Barrett held on by a 38 - vote margin to win re-election to his 1st Council District seat representing Syracuse's North Side, elections commissioners said today.
That charge — laid out in a letter sent by Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks to Sam Roberts, commissioner of the state's office of Temporary Disability and Assistance — represents another extraordinary escalation in the public battle between Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over the city's homelessness problems.
Joseph Ponte, the city's new correction commissioner, started his job recently, the report noted, and «was not present when the misconduct» found by the investigation had occurred.
By custom, the City Council rubber - stamps the county party leaders» picks for election commissioners.
KINGSTON, N.Y. >> The city Board of Police Commissioners should have been more transparent in the way it handled a complaint by a resident who was tased by police after they mistook him for an assault suspect, a commissioner says.
Unlike other commissioners, however, Vinal was not sworn in by the city clerk, who Vinal said refused to accept his oath unless he agreed to the termination date established by Perez Williams.
He was hired as city parks commissioner by former Mayor Stephanie Miner in 2015.
City Board of Elections (BOE) commissioners last week ruled, 7 - 2, that Tabacco did not have enough valid signatures to get into an Independence primary against McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), who is backed by the party.
At a speech hosted by the New York City Bar Association, a man in the audience asked the NYPD commissioner if he would «apologize for the discrimination and violence» at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in 1969.
New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly (right) and his rumored successor Bill Bratton ran into each other at Fresco by Scotto.
De Blasio and incoming NYPD commissioner James O'Neill said Tuesday they would examine the city's policy on the matter after POLITICO New York reported that Officer Daniel Pantaleo boosted his salary by more than 20 percent in the two years since he was placed on modified duty following his role in the 2014 death of Eric Garner.
As outlined in the cultural plan law, the agency will work with a specially formed «citizens» advisory committee» - made up of 12 members appointed by the mayor, city council speaker, DCLA commissioner, and borough presidents - to gather information and make recommendations.
With overdose deaths from opiods setting a record in New York City last year, the health commissioner is calling on doctors to help solve the problem by prescribing fewer painkillers.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson was today joined by Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Ian Blair in calling for an end of the violent killing of teenagers in the city.
In a briefing with reporters at NYPD Headquarters, a news release that contained a point - by - point rebuttal and an appearance on national television by the current commissioner, Bill Bratton, police officials denied any altering of statistics and defended the city's low crime figures for 2015.
Reacting to the police shooting death of an unarmed man in a Brooklyn housing project on Thursday night, City Councilman Jumaane Williams said a new strategy announced by NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton that would remove rookie cops from crime - ridden patrols has not been implemented.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked New York City commissioners to look for ways to cut costs in a gesture of fiscal moderation prompted by worries over the rocky world economy, drawing cautious praise from budget watchdogs.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who joined the commissioner at the hospital, said the episode was the latest example of bravery by the New York City police.
With input from Antoniello, Republican Councilmen Steven Matteo and Joseph Borelli will select a replacement for Castorina's commissioner position, with confirmation by the full City Council.
«The 2016 - 2017 school year was the safest on record in the history of New York City,» Mr. de Blasio said at Middle School 88, the Peter Rouget school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where he was flanked by Carmen Fariña, the city schools chancellor, and James P. O'Neill, the police commissioCity,» Mr. de Blasio said at Middle School 88, the Peter Rouget school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where he was flanked by Carmen Fariña, the city schools chancellor, and James P. O'Neill, the police commissiocity schools chancellor, and James P. O'Neill, the police commissioner.
Thursday's announcement by Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio that Bill Bratton will return to the city as New York's 42nd police commissioner is welcome news.
New York State United Teachers, a statewide union, along with national and city - based groups, is hoping to leverage the outrage expressed by parents, teachers and lawmakers over state education commissioner John King's decision to «suspend» four town - hall meetings after a raucous forum in Poughkeepsie.
That's partly why the city's health department has been commended by public health officials across the country, including Tom Farley, former mayor Michael Bloomberg's health commissioner, even as local politicians — most prominently Governor Andrew Cuomo — have publicly wondered whether the department could have done more or acted quicker.
A social media post about addiction by a Saratoga Springs police officer does not reflect the thinking or the policies of the city, according to the police chief and public safety commissioner.
By JOSH ROGERS Mayor Bill de Blasio last week put Downtown's Julie Menin in charge of one of his signature priorities — providing paid sick leave to small business workers — when he tapped her to be the city's next Consumer Affairs commissioner.
Kelly told DNAinfo.com New York on Wednesday he was unsure whether he'd want to serve another term as commissioner if asked by the city's next mayor.
The city's correction commissioner is fighting to keep union boss Norman Seabrook in power — because the labor boss is so distracted by a federal corruption investigation, he has no time to advocate for his members, according to a union challenger.
The task force, chaired by city Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks, Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Vicki Been and Laura Mascuch, executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, will help the city expedite the creation of the new housing units, de Blasio said, as it faces high numbers of homeless people living in city shelters and on the streets.
The panel was made up of commissioners from city agencies and a representative selected by the mayor and the City Council speacity agencies and a representative selected by the mayor and the City Council speaCity Council speaker.
State officials also are requiring the city to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case the education commissioner doesn't approve the takeover plan by the U of R.