Sentences with phrase «cities of federal monies»

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When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

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It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

David Samson, former chairman of the agency that controls New York City - area bridges, tunnels and airports, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of soliciting a bribe for pressuring United Airlines to reinstate a money - losing flight offering convenient access to his vacation home.

But unlike the transit hub, built largely with federal transportation money, the church is being funded through donations including from the Greek government, Greek Orthodoxchurch members around the world, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Italian city of Bari, whose patron saint is St Nicholas.

The loss of federal funds has stung city school officials, who started the program with the idea that they would get federal money to help pay for the free meals, which are being served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at various elementary schools during the strike.

Earlier this month, Brown asked the Federal Aviation Administration to step into the dispute over the fate of Meigs Field, contending that federal grant money received by the city to make airport improvements require the tiny airfield to remain open through the yeaFederal Aviation Administration to step into the dispute over the fate of Meigs Field, contending that federal grant money received by the city to make airport improvements require the tiny airfield to remain open through the yeafederal grant money received by the city to make airport improvements require the tiny airfield to remain open through the year 2009.

Hundreds jammed the City Council chambers and spilled into adjoining hallways, including a slew of Long Island mayors, town officials, state and county legislators and others who will depend on Suozzi to bring federal money to local projects.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

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As New York sorts out how to spend millions of federal dollars for railroad upgrades, officials in Albany and Rensselaer are hoping some of that money can help restore a pedestrian and bike pathway over the Hudson River to reconnect the two cities.

Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged that President - Elect Donald Trump's proposal to implement the use of stop - and - frisk nationwide are not going to fly with him — noting the federal government can threaten deny New York City money, but can't force it to change its policing methods.

She claimed Monday that poor data tracking and documentation of students with disabilities has prevented the city from recouping the Medicaid money it is owed by the federal government.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, whose committee shapes the city's annual budget, estimated that the Trump administration could endanger more than 10 percent of the funding the city receives directly from Washington — plus additional federal monies that get channeled through the state.

While the City of Kingston, home to some of the Ulster County's poorest census tracts and a recipient of federal entitlement money for anti-poverty programs, has a combined poverty / ALICE rate of 61 percent, the rate in Shandaken and Saugerties is 56 percent.

One recipient of PBA campaign money, CM Gibson joined about a half a dozen of her City Council colleagues in ripping police unions in 2014 for appealing a federal judge's ruling that the controversial stop - and - frisk program was unconstitutional.

In addition to cutting the Department of Education's budget by $ 350 million, the plan replaces $ 853 million of expiring Federal stimulus funding with city money.

And instead of more details, it effectively punted, saying that the state would at some point put in money, but only after the MTA spent down its contributions from the city and federal government.

Stringer said his office has identified $ 165 million worth of sanctuary city money alone that's in jeopardy, and up to $ 7 billion worth of federal dollars — all told — many of which go to supporting the safety net.

The city of Auburn will not see any change in its 2018 - 2019 Community Development Block Grant funding from the federal government, despite struggling to comply with recently revised regulations attached to the grant money.

The city needs to make its TIF contribution available to the developer by the end of the month for the federal money to come through.

We understand how it works — and small owners have no power but it is not going to stop with small property owners — they just needed to effectively neutralize us through impoverishment and unpopularity first — but the retailers are going to catch it and frankly, having these small business service things just waste money — it's not going to be a proper defense if there is a lawsuit and there will never be a federal prosecution of what this city does.

On Tuesday, the mayor proposed a new budget of $ 84.7 billion that included more money in the city's reserve accounts in case of federal reductions.

Just as in the aftermath of 9/11, it is once again the onus of the federal, state and city governments to determine how to allocate taxpayer money to the businesses and residents — who have this time suffered from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy.

Galesi received tax breaks for environmental remediation at the new Golub headquarters; $ 583,162 a year in tax exemptions for the new Center City building, and was recently rolled into a federal package to receive money to demolish a former county department of social services building so the land could be used for apartments.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

Major money is headed to the Buffalo City Mission for its work to help the homeless in the region: The mission received a $ 3.26 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, sponsored by M&T Bank.

DeFrancisco said Mahoney's offer this week to pay for the repair of some city streets was praiseworthy, but he questioned why it was accompanied by public statements suggesting that Miner had no plan to repair infrastructure other than begging for more state and federal money.

Meanwhile, city and federal prosecutors begin the first of many investigations of Soundview, looking at whether the Espadas diverted Medicaid money to their campaigns.

In addition to the impact a repeal of Obamacare might have, Cuomo said he wants to talk to Trump about the need for federal housing money to help ease the city's homeless crisis.

The de Blasio administration proposed a new $ 84.7 billion budget on Tuesday that includes extra money in the city's reserve accounts in the event of federal cutbacks.

That's not counting the $ 11.6 million low - interest line of credit Delaware North obtained from the city when it moved into its new quarters for a spell, until federal officials objected because the money was supposed to be used to combat poverty and blight.

Hartzog tried to float arguments that de Blasio has put forward — that the state should fund the MTA and new MTA revenue streams should include «lockboxes» to keep the money in the city, and that the administration had made unprecedented investments in NYCHA in the absence of federal and state funds.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer identified a total of $ 7 billion in federal monies potentially at risk.

But things quickly soured after de Blasio clarified that the money in his proposal could only be used for people who were not accused of committing certain crimes, specifically any offense listed among the 170 crimes which the city has deemed «deportable offenses» that would require law enforcement to turn over offenders to federal immigration authorities.

By Sean Ryan The president of a sewer construction company near Milwaukee wants the city to spend more federal stimulus money on sewer construction.

The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force willCity to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force willcity, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign accounts.

If you live in Manhattan's 65th State Assembly district (the Financial District, Chinatown, the Lower East Side, Little Italy and Battery Park City), you'll be voting for an assembly member to replace former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who'd held his seat for nearly 40 years before a federal jury found him guilty in November on charges of fraud, extortion and money laundering.

The signature Bloomberg administration program has been called one of the most generous housing subsidies in the country and is funded by city, state and federal money.

Howe's attorneys — Kevin Hulslander, of Syracuse, and Richard Morvillo, of New York City — said the lawsuit belongs in federal court because it involves parties from different states and involves a sum of money over $ 75,000.

The city has started an aggressive campaign to foreclose on properties and will continue with or without any promise of state and federal money, Mayor Stephanie Miner said.

Several big - city districts agreed to experiment with this controversial and promising reform, thanks to the availability of «free» money from the federal government.

Putting so much money up for grabs in round two «sets up the best possible dynamics for states,» said Charles Barone, the director of federal legislation for the New York City - based political action committee Democrats for Education Reform.

The federal government granted the DOE money to help turn around 33 of the city's lowest performing schools — but a condition of that grant was improved teacher evaluations.

Some of the state's lowest performing schools — including several in Pueblo City Schools (D60)-- are in worse shape today than before they received more than $ 60 million in federal grant money to improve achievement, a report from a Denver education reform advocacy group said.

Some of the state's lowest performing schools — including several in Pueblo City Schools (D60)-- are in worse shape today than before they received more than $ 60 million in federal grant money to improve achievement, a...

The city schools system is planning to use up to one - tenth of its $ 256 million share of the federal grant money for as many as 16 new standardized exams to cover science, math, social studies and English in the 3rd through 12th grades.

HARTFORD — City and state educators said Monday that they had been served with subpoenas by a federal grand jury examining the expenditure of millions of dollars in public money by the troubled charter school management company FUSE.