The mayor
said city commissioners and mayoral staffers will have to disclose their meetings with lobbyists starting next month.
Apopka
city commissioners on Wednesday adopted emergency legislation repealing their city's law and adopting the county's version.
«We're hoping that Florida courts will follow their lead,» said Michele Lazarow, an animal advocate and Hallandale
Beach city commissioner who has championed the crackdown on puppy mills.
City commissioners in Fort Lauderdale recently considered a proposal to nearly double the city's storm water fees.
Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Queens), who joined the mayor at City Hall along with a host
of city commissioners, called the President's move a scary and dangerous one.
Just two days after the Valentine's Day shooting,
Parkland city commissioner Ken Cutler asked Schwartz to preserve the mementos, which will involve photographing, cleaning, storing and digitizing the objects for future display.
A Miami Herald report says
city commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to cancel their contract with American Traffic Solutions for dozens of traffic cameras that have been used to issue red - light violations,» per the Miami Herald.
Meanwhile, an effort has mounted against the Sheriff's Office: A group called Concerned Parents of Parkland Florida has
asked city commissioners to drop the Sheriff's Office and use another law enforcement agency.
On Tuesday, the tables are to be filled
with city commissioners; Staten Islanders can sign up for time to talk to them.
When Doug Berwick's five - day suspension ends July 31, he won't be returned to his three - day - a-week job as animal control officer although he may be reassigned, Police Chief Jim Brown told
city commissioners Monday.
However,
city commissioners worried about rising construction costs and appeasing DC's rich landowners, since L'Enfant wanted expansive public areas.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked New
York City commissioners to look for ways to cut costs in a gesture of fiscal moderation prompted by worries over the rocky world economy, drawing cautious praise from budget watchdogs.
Alex Heeren received endorsements from three local elected officials in his bid for term - limited Larry Ahern's House District 66: Belleair Beach City Councilmember Wanda Schwerer and Belleair
Bluffs City Commissioners Joe Barkley and Jack Nazario.
The tables were draped in blue cloth, with white folding chairs arranged
where city commissioners and their staff would soon sit, across from everyday Staten Islanders voicing their concerns.
Herman Badillo was the first Puerto
Rican city commissioner and borough president, and the first Congressman to have been born in Puerto Rico.
«He told our office that while he
required city commissioners to submit weekly memos, he had stopped consistently reading those memos months before,» Stringer said.
On the endorsement list were Alachua County Commissioners Hutch Hutchinson and Chuck Chestnut, Putnam County Commissioner Chip Laibl, Alachua County School Board members Gunnar Paulson, Eileen Roy, Rob Hyatt, and
Gainesville City Commissioners Helen Warren, Adrian Hayes - Santos and David Arreola.
On Tuesday, locals can meet with
top city commissioners and senior staff at Queens Borough Hall from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
School security: Coral
Springs city commissioners are asking Broward County school officials why promised school security measures have not yet been installed at Coral Springs High School.
13) Florida: A plan to rehabilitate the Miami Marine Stadium with private money is turned down
by city commissioners after «questions about rosy financial projections and «self - dealing»» arise.
The staff issued the opinion last week after Robin Gibson, who is a Lake
Wales city commissioner and general counsel for the Lake Wales Charter Schools, asked about potential ethical conflicts if the city donated or sold land to the charter schools.
She and fellow students successfully
petitioned city commissioners to get permits and she's learned about sponsorships and tax exemptions for charitable groups.
Developers have filed a lawsuit alleging
Margate city commissioners stopped an already agreed - upon development plan that would have created a downtown.
Fort
Lauderdale City Commissioners could decide as early as 6 p.m. Tuesday night whether to end the regular gun shows at the War Memorial Auditorium.
As a former president of the REALTORS ® Commercial Alliance of the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast and a
past city commissioner, Morrison is very active in her community already.
DELTONA —
City commissioners on Monday pledged to toughen up a city rule so that dangerous dogs can be removed from neighborhoods after just one bite.
Michele Lazarow — a Hallandale
Beach city commissioner and activist who has helped pass numerous laws across Florida preventing pet stories from selling dogs that come from puppy mills — recounts the dreadful experience she had in 2004 after buying her dog, Alfie, from a pet store, which misrepresented where the dog had come from, thereby launching Lazarow on the path of crusader to make such transactions illegal.
You'll notice I quoted former
Parkland city commissioner, Stoneman Douglas alum and state Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D - Coral Springs, several times in the story.
In a 3 - 1 vote,
city commissioners approved an ordinance Tuesday amending a city ordinance to remove a line that had required dogs to be muzzled.
City commissioners last week approved the purchase of two sporty T - birds, complete with electric seats, windows, power steering and power brakes.
DELTONA —
City commissioners voted unanimously Monday for changes to an ordinance aimed at making it easier to impound a dangerous dog after just one attack.
City commissioners on Tuesday night will consider the law, which would establish a stormwater utility to improve the city's drainage and curtail flooding.
The CHA and city Department of Human Services sites feed an average of 11,000 children a day, according to Judith Walker,
city commissioner of human services.
As the budget nears its deadline of April 1,
city commissioners have been working their way through Albany to make their case for funding to combat homelessness and improve public housing.
City Hall is accusing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration of recklessly leaking a false report of a gang rape in a homeless shelter to a tabloid, in what
a city commissioner described as a «political media hit» designed to make the city look bad.