Sentences with phrase «by city dollars»

«New hires funded by city dollars at this point would be a reckless move in light of the fiscal state of our city,» said Councilwoman Corazon Pineda - Isaac.

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The media covers companies that reap billion - dollar valuations, and society measures success by the car you drive and the city in which you live.

Its first project, Drawing for Dollars, surpassed its humble $ 20 goal by raising $ 35, which came from three backers who bought artwork from an artist in Long Island City.

Jerrit Tan, CEO of New York City - based Canopy, believes more entrepreneurs should take advantage of the billions of dollars in business grants offered by government agencies, which can buy a startup valuable R&D time and boost credibility.

The 2012 Inner City 100 is packed full of innovative businesses such as Intelect (# 96) that are not only energizing their communities by generating dollars and jobs, but are growing at outstanding rates.

Ken Odeluga, a market analyst at City Index, told BI: «The key for the moment seems to be more about gold's role as a counterweight to the dollar and, more precisely, as the inverse of the Federal Reserve's willingness to create more ideal dollar conditions by tightening policy.»

The Queen City is the crown jewel in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's multibillion - dollar business - development strategy to revitalize economically depressed Upstate New York by turning it into a 21st - century manufacturing powerhouse.

Uber admitted that it underpaid New York City drivers by tens of millions of dollars, with the blame being cast on an accounting error.

By opening up bids for its second headquarters to cities and municipalities across the country, Amazon is countering that narrative: For only a few billion dollars in tax breaks, the lucky winner would get 50,000 jobs.

In a press release announcing HQ2, Amazon said it «estimates its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $ 38 billion to the city's economy — every dollar invested by Amazon in Seattle generated an additional 1.4 dollars for the city's economy overall.»

By subsidizing high - paying jobs — often to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars per job — cities and states end up cancelling out whatever economic benefit these jobs bring.

This shows the rewards in dollars that are being left on the table by the average consumer in each city.

Of the approximately $ 291,000 embezzled from Centro San Antonio, none were taxpayer dollars, according to a third - party audit firm hired by the City.

In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters.

Both parties have profited from tens of millions of gambling dollars, with the Democrats supported by Native American money and the Republicans by Las Vegas and Atlantic City money.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

The multi-million dollar jet — a 10 - seater with a range of 3,900 nautical miles — was presented to Ayo Oritsejafor by members of his congregation, Word of Life Bible Church in the oil - rich Delta state city of Warri.

The multimillion dollar scheme, which includes new offices and industrial production space, was granted full planning approval by York City Council in September 2011.

On the one hand he is being sued along with the NFL for 100 million dollars by the city of St Louis.

Man city is funded by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Authority, estimated wealth of 800 billion dollars, way more than abramovic, umanov and kroenke combined.

Five years on from Arsenal's ex no. 8 # 25m move to Manchester City and we are almost re-living the Nasri years, as Iwobi continues to step up to the plate with dynamism and a passionate desire to do well for the football club, having the added company of more familiar citizens (English) and prime, premium top dollar quality to combine with, led by Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez, who look likely to still hang around beyond Iwobi's own potentially cracking third season.

Barring unforeseen problems with needed approvals, construction could begin next spring on two city harbors that would expand the number of mooring spaces for recreational boaters by about 20 percent and bring in more tourism dollars, Chicago Park District officials say.

-- «The city is being unfairly... coerced «by an implied link between its acceptance of the new park district marinas and the district «s willingness to renew the city «s dollar - a-year lease of park property at Meigs Field, which expires in 1996.

Cuomo wants to fund a statewide version out of existing budget dollars, while de Blasio is pushing for a tax hike in the city, but that must be approved by Albany.

One of the key players in Rochester's multi-million dollar Photonics institute, Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, was charged for extortion and bid - rigging by both the state attorney general's office and the U.S. attorney's office, raising questions about possible impact on the city's $ 600 million dollar project.

At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.&raCity Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.&racity, state, and federal government dollars spent.»

Comptroller Scott Stringer wants to tap into millions of dollars raised by the Battery Park City Authority each year to help fund the New York City Housing Authority's crumbling infrastructure...

Republican Julie Killian, a former Rye city councilwoman, is taking on Democrat Shelley Mayer, an assemblywoman from Yonkers, in a contest that has generated national attention and sparked millions of dollars of spending by the candidates and their allies on both sides of the aisle.

«It's a spectacular multi-million dollar municipal project commissioned by the Governor of New York, of which we're supplying US$ 65M in products and systems for the nine bridges and four tunnels surrounding the city.»

A City Hall spokeswoman said, «The truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.

The lawsuit, against BP Plc, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, follows similar lawsuits filed last year by San Francisco and other California cities seeking billions of dollars in damages from rising sea levels due to climate impacts.

Policy agendas for important issues like the 421a tax abatement and New York City rent laws are being set by publicly elected leaders who have become dependent on the real estate industry's onslaught of millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

A city that relied heavily on dollars from payments by a Native - run casino within its borders is now living without that money and making some tough decisions to address a budget gap.

Oliver Rosenberg's campaign says that days after he filed papers to run in the June 28 primary, he was contacted by a Nadler ally who offered to raise thousands of dollars in campaign funds if Rosenberg instead ran for a City Council seat.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE As Christine Quinn's 14 years in the City Council come to a close, some community groups are expressing concern that they are losing a sympathetic leader who steered millions of city dollars into their coffCity Council come to a close, some community groups are expressing concern that they are losing a sympathetic leader who steered millions of city dollars into their coffcity dollars into their coffers.

«Between in or around 2010 and in and around September 2015, I gave and raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to an elected New York City official in exchange for efforts by that official... and other City officials to obtain action from a New York City agency that would benefit myself and restaurants I owned.»

Most recently, she served as Legislative Director for Council Member Rosie Mendez, where she was tasked with helping shape legislation and policy to address homelessness, improve health, regulate the recent spate of new construction, take on landlord harassment, and save taxpayer dollars by improving inefficiencies within city agencies.

De Blasio's pledge to settle the wrongful conviction lawsuit brought by five men known as the «Central Park Five» against the city could cost tens of millions of dollars, according to recent cases with similar circumstances, even as legal experts said it is a case the city could possibly win.

Prior year claims were over budget by an estimated one million dollars, while transfers to the city's Solid Waste Fund were over budget by about $ 440,000.

As a trustee of the City's largest public pension fund, I have repeatedly called for the divestment of all public pension dollars from gun retailers and manufacturers, and I am encouraged by the Mayor's call today to divest from assault weapon manufacturers.

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisCity's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these priscity to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

The projection, made in a document distributed by RNC officials at the group's summer meeting in Kansas City, comes as the committee is being forced to compete for donor dollars with a growing number of independent expenditure groups which are spending money to help defeat Democrats in November.

The advocates, including Citizen Action's Karen Scharff, want the state to adopt a public campaign financing system similar to the one in New York City where every one dollar donated by a private individual to a political campaign releases $ 6 of public money.

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

Only the current mayor has sought to address that problem by establishing a new city corporation that will oversee large - dollar city technology projects.

Takin» It to The Streets by David Greene This week we asked Bronxites their thoughts on sanctuary cities and protecting undocumented individuals at the cost of the federal government withholding tens of millions of dollars in resources allocated for U.S. -LSB-...]

Traffic jams could afflict New York City's heavily traveled West Side Highway for three years as a multibillion - dollar train tunnel is built under the Hudson River, draft proposals obtained by...

City Comptroller - elect and City Councilman John Liu (D - Flushing) was recently ripped off for thousands of dollars by a member of his own staff impersonating his high - profile boss, according to police.

Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith blamed the cuts squarely on skyrocketing pension costs, which have forced the city to up the pension allocation by a billion dollars to $ 8.3 billion in 2012.