Sentences with phrase «citizen committees in»

«Unfortunately, it's hard to get people to volunteer - and we already have a lot of citizen committees in Bloomingdale,» he said.

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Gillibrand was endorsed Tuesday by End Citizens United, a political action committee established in 2015 to push back against the results of the 2010 court case.

In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizenIn this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizenin the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign surveillance.

The committee, which in January blocked one other high - profile acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm, has raised concerns about the security of U.S. citizens» private data in the Genworth deal.

Encourage the minister and laymen to become involved in citizens advisory committees of community mental health services (such services are beamed toward both prevention and treatment)

They in turn have chosen him to serve on various citizen advisory committees, even at the national level.

Then, in words which call on the central motifs of the civil religious tradition, Reston thanked the Charlottesville citizen committee for suggesting «that a responsible society must have a common center to which the loyalty and trust of the people are bound, and that these fundamentals must be defined and discussed among the people and put right before the bicentennial of the Declaration in 1976.»

In America, Tocqueville observed, when citizens discerned new needs or purposes, they voluntarily formed committees or other informal organizations to meet them.

The proposed rule follows recommendations from the National Organic Standards Board, a federal advisory committee of 15 citizens appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture that includes representation from the various stakeholders involved in the organic industry, including farmers, handlers, a retailer, a certifier, scientists, a natural resource conservationist and a consumer.

Ben & Jerry's has teamed up with the International Rescue Committee to ask concerned citizens to contact European leaders and ask them to support legislation to help some of the world's most vulnerable people rebuild their lives in safety.

Another option cited in the report, which Chairman Christopher Smith said a majority of committee members supported, is for the village to wait for citizens to initiate a referendum measure to create a new park district or to annex into an adjacent one.

GURNEE — Members of the Gurnee Park District Citizens Advisory Committee voted Thursday night to recommend that the Park District Board ask taxpayers in April to approve a scaled - down version of the $ 15 million Hunt Club Leisure Center rejected at the ballot box last April.

Wehrli, who works in both sales and property management, currently serves on the Naperville Parks Foundation board and the forest preserve's Greene Farm citizen committee.

The Navy's housing plans never materialized and, in 1971, the Park Board organized a Blue Ribbon citizens committee to help in the acquisition of the land.

A committee of citizens and park and city officials is studying whether to keep open the public pool at Reed - Keppler Park or to pursue building a water recreation center similar to facilities in Wheaton and Lisle.

But West Chicago Mayor Paul Netzel and the members of a citizens committee studying what to do with the city's existing pool in Reed - Keppler Park are saying, «no thanks.»

Fred Featherstone, a 26 - year resident who was on the citizens committee, said the group wanted the center to have broad appeal, a place where mothers could work out while their children were in class.

Board President Ellen Noth said a citizens advisory committee should be created to study the proposed $ 2 million in improvements.

In other business, the board agreed to form a citizens advisory committee to study the development of an outdoor pool and community center that would house an indoor pool.

Second, the Constitutional Committee was tasked with convening a National Assembly in 2010 at which 950 citizens, drawn at random from National Register, defined and discussed their views of what should be in the new constitution.

Today, Reinvent Albany, submitted joint testimony with fellow NYC Transparency Working Group member organizations NYPIRG, Citizens Union and Common Cause / NY to the NYC City Council Technology Committee oversight hearing on open data: In addition, TWG members BetaNYC and Jessie Braden of Pratt's SAVI provided testimony.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

Technical aspects and proximity to the Long Island Power Authority's substation on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton make Beach Lane in Wainscott an excellent potential landing site for the transmission cable that would run from the proposed offshore South Fork Wind Farm, officials of Deepwater Wind told members of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee's environmental subcommittee on Monday morning at Town Hall.

Ms. Glen told the Council's Committee on Housing that several independent studies, including those done by Columbia University and the Citizens Budget Commission, showed that mandating real estate interests receiving the tax deduction to pay union rates would result in 30 percent fewer affordable units getting built.

There is a case in the press where a committee had people fill out an absentee ballot, so it would be easier for the citizens, but the committee people were there watching the people fill them out.

«The vast majority of crimes committed by youth are misdemeanors and notably, under this proposal, the most serious crimes would continue to be handled in the criminal court system and all youth would be held accountable for their actions,» said Jennifer March, executive director of the Citizens» Committee for Children of New York.

At 8:30 a.m., during a panel discussion about the MTA's five - year plan for construction and renovation projects, representatives of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA and the Urban Land Institute New York introduce an initiative titled «Keeping NY on Track: The Importance of the MTA Transit Network in a Changing World»; Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor, Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, NYU, 60 Washington Square S., Manhattan.

Established in 1978, the Southold tree committee works to keep trees along streets and on public grounds to «preserve and enhance the beauty of the environment for the benefit of its citizens and future generations.»

The slate of trustees included the chairwoman of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, Rona Klopman, Sima Freierman, Deborah Klughers, Samuel Kramer, Raymond Hartjen, Nanci LaGarenne, Loretta Sears, and Steve Lester, a former town employee who has been a trustee in the past.

Ms. Overby, a former chairwoman of the town planning board and the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, ran unsuccessfully for town board in 2001.

At least in the Republican Party, the Citizens United ruling has weakened the fund raising power of the Republican «establishment» in the form of the «three major» Republican campaign committees (Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee).

Williams encouraged an audience at Syracuse University to fight to repeal the decision made in the landmark campaign finance court case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee.

[153] Columnist Thomas B. Edsall notes that in 2008, «the last election before the Citizens United decision», the three campaign committees «raised six times» the money that «nonparty conservative organizations» did — $ 657.6 million vs. $ 111.9 million.

As outlined in the cultural plan law, the agency will work with a specially formed «citizens» advisory committee» - made up of 12 members appointed by the mayor, city council speaker, DCLA commissioner, and borough presidents - to gather information and make recommendations.

To analyze the TCJA and identify and evaluate options for appropriate State and local government action, in December 2017 the Citizens Budget Commission convened a Special Committee consisting of CBC trustees, business and civic leaders, and policy experts.

At the 14th Annual Anna Buchholz Citizen of the Year Award by the town of Poughkeepsie Democratic Committee last week, Democratic Sen. George Latimer feted Gipson at a citizen of the year award ceremony in a sign the party wants the one - term lawmaker to take another shot at the Senate.

The Democratic political action committee End Citizens United wasted little time in criticizing Rep. Claudia Tenney's vote in favor of the tax overhaul bill, approved Wednesday in the House of Representatives and signed by President Trump.

Ahead of the third and final tranche of secondary legislation due in the autumn, Roger Berry, chair of the committees, said: «We welcome the ruling that any UK citizen trading overseas in high - risk light weapons should require a licence but we feel that the extra-territorial provisions should cover the trade in all the other weapons that appear on the UK Military List as well.

Earlier this week the Department for Work and Pensions select committee published evidence that the reduced cap was leading to sharp rises in the number of people affected outside London, with increased workloads for Citizens Advice and homelessness charities as people struggled to cope with the sudden loss of income.

Also at 10 a.m., various Assembly committees hold a public hearing on the causes, risk factors, and impact of poverty among senior citizens in New York, Hearing Room B, LOB, 198 State St., Albany.

A foreign affairs committee report suggests Britain is facing a sustained loss of influence in Europe because so few of its citizens are finding work in key institutions.

A committee comprised of local business owners, state Forest Rangers, and citizen volunteers is overseeing the process, alongside the town board in Schroon Lake and the Regional Office Of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) in Lake Placid.

So, while he's decried the role of money in politics and called for publicly funded campaigns and the overturning of Citizens United, he's solicited large donations to county committees that are then passed on Senate candidates, who would not legally be able to accept those donations directly.

The citizen - based Steering Committee of the Oneida County Sewer District Sanitary Sewer Overflow Abatement Project has reached a significant milestone in the 15 - community initiative, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today.

That's an example of a «bus - sized loophole» in the Citizens» Election Program, said state Sen. Michael McLachlan, top ranking Republican senator on the legislature's Government Administration and Elections Committee.

According to Citizens Union executive director Dick Dadey, «registration with the Charities Bureau is one existing mechanism that can help shed light on 501 (c)(4) organizations engaging in this political activity, though campaign communications and expenditures by veiled third - party entities and individuals should be disclosed in a manner similar to candidate campaign committees.»

Members of the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee have prepared responses to the suggestions included in a planning study for the hamlet that consultants are working to finalize.

In collaboration with the Manhattan Borough President's Office and Citizens Committee for New York City, funds earned from these events have been used to support community compost grants.

PRONACO; the main citizens» movement advocating for Nigeria's restructuring based on democratic self determination and citizens» ownership of the Nigerian constitution also urged the Federal Government to quickly set up a technical committee to navigate concrete strategy for national reconciliation and stability in the country in tandem with the spirit of June 12