Sentences with phrase «by city government»

Vancouver's downtown, located along the Columbia River, is being revitalized by the city government.

Among the places that impacted Malani's works were the slum community near her former studio in Bandra that was leveled by the city government, and her past residence in the working - class neighborhood of Lohar Chawl.

A major outbreak of cholera in 1892 was badly handled by the city government, which retained an unusual degree of independence for a German city.

HHS is also a non-profit and we are not constrained within a city limit whereas animal controls departments are constrained and funded by a city government.

For example, in Colorado a boarding facility must be licensed by the Department of Agriculture and by the city government.

«I think everybody understands that... problems that have taken decades to create, are not gonna be solved in one budget cycle, or two budget cycles,» he said, pointing out that the challenges faced by the sector aren't a problem specific to the de Blasio administration but one faced by city government at large.

For the 20 years that I have been working with homeless youth in NYC, it has always been accepted as a given by city government that many homeless youth must sleep on the streets because of an inadequate youth shelter supply to meet the need.

Diaz is doing his best to ensure that gentrification works to the benefit of hardworking Bronxites for stayed through the fires, devastation, and neglect by city government.

First, it was discovered that Mayor Bloomberg's pet project, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), is being run on City government servers and administered by City government staff:

Suburban residents who work in NYC do not have to pay city taxes, unless they're employed by the city government.

A new Chinese blockchain fund has $ 1.6 billion available to invest in innovative startups - 30 percent of which is backed by a city government.

At this point, they designs are hardly cast in stone — or glass, in this case — and subject to change and approval by the city government.

While Democratic organizations are not bound by these regulations, they can take a cue from these guidelines and strides made by city governments to become more user friendly, according to David Moore, a civic technologist who launched New York City's Councilmatic, an interactive online tool for understanding the activity and legislation that moves through the City Council.

Prof. Craig's other recent work extends his research into low income assistance by analyzing the political interaction between the three major Medicaid recipient groups, and by examining fiscal copycatting behavior by city governments.

More important: Its theory may be one better carried out by city governments than by the state; certainly any such plan should find a way to give mayors and municipal officials the flexibility to respond to local conditions.

Not exact matches

While it's true that Uber has done a pitiful job of engaging the governments in charge of regulating local taxi regimes — by and large, that's been a key part of the company's strategy — it's time Uber learned to play nice with the cities it hopes to conquer.

The complex is home to the death chamber where all three prisoners executed by the federal government since 1988 have died by lethal injection, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

The city government has for the past several months urged its citizens to drastically cut their consumption by taking short showers, and reusing the water in their toilets and gardens, among other measures.

Shanghai is expected to build an intelligent - vehicle network covering about 62 miles (100 square kilometers) by 2020, the government said, adding that Shanghai will explore the possibility of connecting to major transportation junctions within the city.

The City of Cockburn has continued its attack on the interim report by the state government's Major Stadia Taskforce, flagging the possibility of legal action as part of its next move.

But attacks claimed by IS in and around the city last week killed more than 100 people, sparking anger in the streets over the government's failure to ensure security.

Regardless of which city potentially wins its bid, Clark said the federal government will be instrumental by making the connection between the Bank of Canada and People's Bank of China.

Martin Ron's untitled mural was organized by Buenos Aires Street Art in association with the City Government of Buenos Aires.

Still, it's an audacious plan, not least because Billy Bishop's operations are hemmed in by its short runway and a ban on jets — part of a 1981 agreement between the city, the federal government and the Toronto Port Authority designed to protect local residents.

He immediately offered to show me Zappos's future digs, which are still occupied by the Las Vegas city government.

About 1,500 entrepreneurs are in attendance at the Summit, which is jointly hosted by the governments of India and the U.S. Rao introduced Trump by saying that in Hyderabad, «IT also stands for Ivanka Trump,» and indeed, her face appears on billboards throughout the part of the city where the conference is being held.

Like the other Italian cities on this list, Florence has been crushed by the sovereign debt crisis and the political turmoil of the Berlusconi government.

All provincial and city governments in China are now authorised to allow testing of self - driving cars, according to new national guidelines released by the Chinese Ministry of Transport.

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.

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.

TZOA CEO Kevin Hart said that the company has proven that the gadget is cheaper than sensors used by government agencies for monitoring air quality in cities.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

But our governments need to make the case, as the Dutch and the Swiss recently did by sending delegations to Asian capitals to promote their cities as European hubs.

Figures released by the Mexican government showed there were 336 homicides in the city during the first five months of 2015 — a 63 % increase over the same period in 2014.

The federal government, meanwhile, is trying to tame the market by tightening mortgage lending standards and warning the public at every opportunity that Vancouver is a risky city for buying real estate.

In addition to their public campaigns, private providers have worked to prevent government competition by seeking state - level legislation that takes away cities» right to build their own services.

The principles — conceived by Chase and a league of academics, researchers, and city and transport organizations — outline a set of rules that ensure the goals of businesses, city governments, and NGOs remain aligned.

City of Swan spokesman Charlie Gregorini said that, while the Rothgard proposal sounded impressive, the State Government's plan was just as big or bigger in terms of employment and investment opportunities as the Rothgard proposal, and had been strongly supported by the community through public consultation.

A tax plan approved by the House of Representatives on Thursday would sharply curtail a federal deduction that millions of Americans can now claim for tax payments to state, county, city and town governments.

The government's findings put the city behind New York as the world's second-most unequal city in terms of income, according to the household income distribution report released on Friday by the Census and Statistics Department.

Such a move was no longer attractive after recent measures taken by the Singapore government to cool the city - state's property market, Overseas Union said.

According to photographs taken at Trump Tower in New York City and published this week, the session was attended by Ivanka Trump, who has no government security clearance and is an executive at the Trump Organization.

The national credit system planned for 2020 will be an «ecosystem» made up of schemes of various sizes and reaches, run by cities, government ministries, online payment providers, down to neighborhoods, libraries, and businesses, say Chinese researchers who are designing the national scheme.

Local governments, especially those outside mega cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, spent at least 8.6 billion yuan ($ 1.3 billion) subsidizing airlines in 2016, mostly for them to start direct services to far - flung places such as New York and Paris, according to data compiled by Civil Aviation Data Analysis.

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Cities, though public entities «owned» by their governments and residents, are dependent upon private businesses.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

It's taxes collected by governments that provide us with the wide array of social services and infrastructure, such as schools, medical services, libraries and parks, safe streets and livable cities.

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