Sentences with phrase «cities lobby a company»

While cities often play up their strengths for tourism, it's unusual to see major cities lobby a company so unabashedly.

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«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.

Currently, a Vancouver bylaw restricts the number of permanent taxis to 588, and the city's four cab companies fiercely lobby to keep that number from rising.

IT industry lobby National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is in the process of setting up newer co-working centers, christened «Startup Warehouse», across major cities.

Recently, the company tapped four former mayors to help lobby city governments.

In October, Emanuel stood with representatives from the nation's three largest soft - drink companies and the American Beverage Association, a lobbying group, to announce a $ 5 million soda industry - sponsored fitness competition between city of Chicago employees and those from San Antonio.

The fine stemmed from the company's use of a third - party service incorrectly reporting lobbying figures to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics as the company pushed back against New York City's efforts to curtail its operations.

Ride - share companies in the last several years have assembled a team of high - profile and politically connected lobbying and consulting organizations to influence city and state government in New York, records at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics show.

A.E.G. Live, which is owned by the Republican donor Philip F. Anschutz, hired Mr. Ickes in 2014; his firm lobbied several city officials and agencies on the company's behalf, disclosure records show.

Airbnb paid the lobbying firm $ 150K in 2015 to lobby the Brooklyn borough president and City Council members, and the company also made a $ 32,000 contribution to Adams» nonprofit, the One Brooklyn Fund.

The ruling allowed to City Hall advisers Rebecca Katz and Hayley Prim to work for Hilltop as it was running the Campaign for One New York in spite of a one - year ban on public employees going into a company that directly lobbies the government.

LaBarbera and representatives of construction labor management funds, which advocate for companies that use organized labor and related unions, said it was clear the real estate lobbying group had more sway at City Hall than they did, given that they were not invited into the 421 - a discussions the administration and REBNY had engaged in.

A top executive at an «incubator» office - space firm bundled the largest contribution to de Blasio's re-election bid from her bosses and others — while the company was lobbying the city over a Financial District conversion project.

Records show the consulting firm that formed the advocacy organization subsequently signed a $ 20,000 - a-month lobbying contract with a New York City taxi company.

But the UFC has over the years funded a campaign and lobbying effort to bring the sport to the New York City and upstate markets, with the company planning an event later this year at Madison Square Garden.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

The new company separated campaign work from lobbying and communications work done by MirRam, amid scrutiny on connections between lobbying and consulting work in Albany and New York City.

The organization that lobbied for years to make the city adopt new hiring laws has not taken a position on the local company preference, said Matt Brusky, director of Good Jobs and Livable Neighborhoods, a project of Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

The organization had come under fire from good - government advocates over its receipt of large donations from companies lobbying City Hall, including more than $ 1 million from real estate developers, some trying to influence the administration's zoning and housing policies.

A MediSys spokesman insists that Seminerio was hired only to lobby for the company on the city and federal levels.

In 2014 when this law went into effect in New York City, tobacco companies lobbied against it in a lawsuit.

THE LHOTA FILES: «A 2010 lobbying form MSG filed with the city cited «taxation» as an issue the company was discussing with EDC at the time.

Even the US has jumped into the fray, with cities and states and even companies (think GE, GM, Alcan, Dow and DuPont, Alcoa, PepsiCo and Xerox) devising their own plans in the absence of any action from Washington and lobbying the government to take the leap.

Our recommendation is that we should abandon the sky - is - falling and phantom job loss tactic, and lobby the administration with several «asks,» that could include: MLP / REIT status for solar companies; fast - track permitting; reducing environmental studies; tax - free manufacturing zones in the interest of U.S. national security and to revitalize certain cities; a revision of accounting rules that penalize solar project owners; federal policy allowing net metering for homeowners and community solar projects; including solar in the upcoming infrastructure spending bill; and finally increased PV deployment on federal buildings.

Directed the remodeling of company lobby and executive offices using employees, vendors, and the City of Danbury Building Dept.

Volunteerism Stand Up For Kids (New York, NY) 02/2008 — 3/2011 Co-Executive Director • Reestablished an all - volunteer organization focused on assisting and advocating for homeless youth in New York City • Coached over 25 volunteers in the mission of SUFK and techniques to effectively work with the homeless population • Coordinated Thanksgiving dinner that served over 30 homeless youth in Midtown Manhattan • Drove successful partnerships with corporate sponsors to acquire donations and publicity to expand reach of the mission • Lobbied successfully for changes in administration of Regent's testing for students in shelters and / or unstable situations • Participated in national advertising campaign with Stand Up For Kids» partnership with Jedidiah Clothing Company