Quoting from another decision in a case
called Public Trustee of British Columbia (Price Estate) v. Price, the court reiterated:
Not exact matches
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.
The meeting was prompted by
calls to my office from concerned citizens and
public officials, including several from Village of Kenmore Mayor Patrick Mang and
Trustee Salvatore Muscarella.
Cuomo is also
calling for establishing an independent ethics commission, full disclosure of outside income and clients by legislators, a board of
trustees rather than the sole
trustee model for the state comptroller's office and the creation of «Open NY» — a one - stop - shopping clearinghouse of all
public information much like his «Project Sunlight» at the AG's office.
Specifically, the UFT shall not ask teacher unions,
public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to
call upon the
trustees or other persons responsible for investment decisions of the pension and retirement funds covering their members and / or employees to not invest in these investment funds.
In December, a New York - based nonprofit research organization
called Public Agenda released a report about
trustee engagement that concluded that most board members believe their role is to select and support a good institutional leader rather than directly question administrators or initiate reform.
The California Teachers Association local set up an entity
called «Teachers for Local Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating
public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected
trustees.»
We have created a new
public advice and guidance product specifically for self - managed super fund (SMSF)
trustees and their advisors,
called an SMSF Regulator's Bulletin (SMSFRB).
For years Village
Trustee Jeremiah Quinlan and a volunteer group
called Friends of the Old Hastings Marble Quarry have advocated turning this historic site into a
public park with a trail connection down to the river.
The so -
called «pub lic trust doctrine» requires the State, as a
trustee, to manage its
public trust resources (including water) so as to derive the maximum benefit for its citizenry.