Sentences with phrase «city agencies»

It's important because the comptroller oversees audits of city agencies as well as the city's $ 140 billion in pension funds.

The administration also said it has held monthly meetings with city agencies since the announcement last year.

The city is launching a Web app that will inform people seeking to open a business of all the permits they need — including agencies in other city agencies, he noted.

The project still needs to be reviewed by city agencies and community groups for final approval.

Representatives from city agencies had to answer to problems affecting the entire neighborhood, a block or the living room in someone's house.

He said the buildings department will help lead the effort to reduce unnecessary fines across city agencies.

But some board members fear a near - summer - long play street will cause traffic congestion in the neighborhood even though all relevant city agencies appeared at the meeting supporting the play street.

The public advocate has sought to bring her legal experience to the role, filing a slew of lawsuits against various city agencies.

As the city's chief financial officer, the comptroller audits city agencies and manages $ 137 billion in pension funds.

Many city agencies, including the comptroller and public advocate's offices, are based there.

The city charter narrowly defines the duties of the public advocate, limiting the office to gathering information, hearing complaints and writing reports about city agencies.

So why are residents being fined and not city agencies, when they've only reduced consumption by 15 percent?

That would require talks with the MTA once the program is funded to determine which city agencies should be involved, he said.

The mayor has already asked city agency heads to prepare lists of potential new cuts, in addition to the thousands of teacher layoffs that are already planned.

When they complained, city agencies said there was nothing they could do to prevent it because the building was a co-op.

Most other city agencies face cuts of more than twice that size.

By executive order, the agency has unlimited access to city agency internal communications, including emails.

The public will learn about pension funds, auditing city agencies and approving city contracts.

He said he had no idea the deal was happening, and blamed a «lack of coordination» amongst city agencies for the fact that it went through.

The project is finally getting off the ground after nearly 10 years of delays, as officials and city agencies attempted to raise funds to make the repairs.

Don't be surprised when these various elected officials and city agencies stay silent or come out in favor of the mega project.

She has also embraced some typical Republican priorities, like reducing wasteful spending, freezing property taxes rates, and eliminating redundant city agencies.

The effort pairs a full - time coordinator with each school and its community to pinpoint needed services and coordinate their delivery via city agencies and non-profits.

Animal control officers usually work in government settings with county or city agencies where their core work is to deal with animals.

In each neighborhood, we'll work with city agencies, community organizations, and businesses to look at assets and liabilities and then develop a strategy for meeting these requirements.

The suggestions are preliminary and will require review and approval by city agencies.

Sounding off on a familiar issue, City Comptroller Scott Stringer recently spoke directly to local small business owners about the relatively poor track record of city agencies on granting contracts to minority and women - owned businesses enterprises (M / WBEs)-- and how to hold them accountable to change.

A New York City agency charged with investigating police wrongdoing forced an employee to resign after discovering that the employee had leaked the disciplinary history of the officer who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold.

Aqueduct Entertainment Group, which emerged late last month as the surprise — and controversial — winner of a drawn - out bidding process to develop the Queens racino, is moving to smooth things over with the public by cutting ties with Darryl Greene, the partner who pleaded guilty to stealing $ 500,000 from city agencies in the 1990s.

The Public Advocate also serves as an ombudsman for city government, providing oversight for city agencies, investigating citizens» complaints about city services and making proposals to address the shortcomings and failures of those services.

Mr. de Blasio highlighted the continued growth of the city's economy but raised concerns about a decline in tax revenues, saying his administration had focused on finding savings at city agencies.

And budget analysts on Thursday continued to criticize de Blasio for his spending plan's lack of a «program to eliminate the gap» or «PEG,» a budgeting practice common under all de Blasio's predecessors dating back to former Mayor Ed Koch, which requires city agencies to identify a specific amount of money they could cut in the coming fiscal year.

The findings were circulated among several city agencies in a January 2016 study, but otherwise went mostly unnoticed by the public and media.

Lhota closed by criticizing a lack of coordination among city agencies in implementing the Citi Bikes, without mentioning or directly criticizing Michael Bloomberg.

In clear breaks from his predecessor, Melissa Mark - Viverito, Johnson promised greater independence from the mayor, expanded oversight over city agencies, and a

De Blasio ordered city agencies to fly all flags at half - staff starting sunrise Saturday in honor of Tuozzolo, the mayor's office said.

Deputy Mayor Lilliam Barrios - Paoli worked for five mayors and oversaw seven city agencies under Mayor de Blasio — but she couldn't get meetings with him, sources said.

The charter «enables the public advocate, in essence, to oversee city agencies, perform related investigations, and attempt to resolve individual complaints concerning city services, does not extend to allegations of conduct that may constitute a crime.

«CVH looks forward to working with our PB partners to expand this pilot project to more council districts and into city agencies over the coming years, and working to grow the funds available for community investment so that all needed projects can be fully funded.»

De Blasio's report found that 10 % of FOIL requests — 5,000 a year — are ignored, and 40 % of city agencies do not even put FOIL contact information on their websites.

«CIDNY is calling for systemic changes to ensure that voters with disabilities are no longer disenfranchised by lack of training on disability access and voting technology, locked doors and blocked pathways, and lack of coordination by City agencies charged with providing facilities for voters,» CIDNY executive director Susan Dooha said in a statement.

Tom Finkelpearl, the city's cultural affairs commissioner, said that Ms. Bruguera had been one of the first artists who came to mind when city agencies began talking early this year about creating artist residencies to bring new kinds of thinking to city programs.

Being locked out from the one - day squat resulted in a New York City agency giving the Colab artists control of 156 Rivington, which became ABC No Rio.

«There are at least half a dozen City agencies in the Downtown Brooklyn area, all of which have access to their own automobile fleet,» he wrote in a Feb. 1 letter addressed to the mayor.

City agencies control 14,000 properties across the five boroughs — but a hefty chunk of these aren't being used, a new study argues.

It's important because the comptroller oversees audits of city agencies as well as the city's $ 140...