Sentences with phrase «city commissions give»

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Under the plan, the park district would give the school board 10 school fieldhouses that were built in the 1970s by the city «s Public Building Commission.

«Given the city's inaction and protracted 10 - year proposal, it is now time for the commission to examine steps to expeditiously close Rikers and to ensure that the constitutional rights of inmates and staff are protected,» a 70 - page report from the Commission on Correccommission to examine steps to expeditiously close Rikers and to ensure that the constitutional rights of inmates and staff are protected,» a 70 - page report from the Commission on CorrecCommission on Correction said.

«I gave this Commission a difficult but critically important mandate to create a blueprint for justice for New York City.

A commission created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property has recommended that most be kept where they are with historical markers added to give additional context, with just one moved from its high - profile location.

The boisterous Brooklyn borough president asked the city's Charter Review Commission yesterday to consider giving control back to him and the other four Beeps over their budgets, a move that would restore much of the powers they lost 21 years ago.

Testifying at a hearing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights yesterday, Markowitz urged the 15 - member commission to consider giving borough presidents an independent budget rather than the current process in which they have to beg the City Council for dollars.

Last week, the city's Landmark Preservation Commission gave the green light for Soho Properties to demolish the connected buildings, which the mosque would replace.

Murphy referenced the fact that Killian gave $ 70,000 to Republican candidates — most of it in the two years prior to her 2012 City Council appointment and 2011 Westchester County Charter Revision Commission appointment — sparking allegations of pay - to - play.

Eric Lane, who served as executive director and counsel of the city's charter commission in 1989 and helped write the provisions creating the public advocate's office, said «we did not intend to give that power to the public advocate.»

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio gave his stamp of approval to a city commission's plan to raise the salary of elected officials, and to make the City Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first tcity commission's plan to raise the salary of elected officials, and to make the City Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first tCity Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first term.

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave his stamp of approval to a city commission's plan to raise the salary of elected officials, and to make the City Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first tcity commission's plan to raise the salary of elected officials, and to make the City Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first tCity Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first term.

Seven of the 15 people Hizzoner handpicked for his Charter Revision Commission have given him a total of $ 10,250 since his 2001 run for City Council, filings show.

Members of the 15 - person redistricting commission listen as Queens residents give testimony about where new City Council lines should be drawn.

Ep 12 - 77,651 — Listen to excerpts of a speech the city's housing commissioner, Maria Torres - Springer, gave at a Citizens Budget Commission event on Wednesday, September 20, followed by 15 minutes of Q - and - A with the commissioner.

And Denno and Kessner were among six councilors who voted to approve giving the Common Council added authority over the city planning commission.

Cuomo's leadership here goes all the way back to his years as head of the city Commission on the Homeless — whose February 1992 report, «The Way Home,» warned that simply giving housing to the homeless guarantees a surge in folks claiming to be homeless.

On Nov. 28, the council adopted a change in the city charter that gives the council more power to step in and prevent developments from being killed when they don't pass muster with the five - person planning commission.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner today mounted a last - ditch, double - barreled attack against recently passed legislation which, if it survives her challenge, would give the city council more power over the planning commission.

The company's plan to build the apartment is on hold after the city's Historic Preservation Commission last month gave the building temporary historic protection that would prevent demolition for the apartment project.

In January, Denno will be one of five returning councilors who supported the measure, which changes the city charter to give the council more power to prevent proposed developments from being killed when they don't pass muster with the five - person planning commission.

France's Special Commission for the Public Debate on Nanotechnology is organizing a 4 - month discussion in 17 cities to inform the public about advances and dilemmas in nanotechnology and to give citizens a chance to express their opinion.

According to reports just filed with the LA City Ethics Commission, Broad gave the Coalition $ 250,000.

To date, Swift's application for landmark status has been given an enthusiastic thumbs up by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission and is awaiting the vote of the Beverly Hills City Council.

Once the SPCA gives the city formal notice, the commission agreed, City Manager Harold Emrich can advertise to add two animal control officers to the city payrcity formal notice, the commission agreed, City Manager Harold Emrich can advertise to add two animal control officers to the city payrCity Manager Harold Emrich can advertise to add two animal control officers to the city payrcity payroll.

We focus on new commissions, giving the opportunity to artists to engage with the public space through our city and community projects, such as opening up closed gardens within the center of Athens to house public art exhibitions and bridge our formidable cultural heritage with contemporary art initiatives.

The so - called Mexican vogue in the U.S., which lasted until World War II, was given a huge boost by Mexican artists who lived and worked in New York and got commissions to practice the new Mexican form of mural art in the city.

As a result of his participation in this trial, David has considerable knowledge of the English law of secret commissions and bribery (and has given a number of talks on this topic to City law firms).

[24] In numerous decisions, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a broad, policy - based and liberal interpretation must be given to human rights legislation and the policies behind such legislation: see Canadian National Railway Co. v. Canada (Canadian Human Rights Commission), 1987 CanLII 109 (SCC), [1987] 1 S.C.R. 1114; Quebec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) v. Boisbriand (City), 2000 SCC 27 (CanLII), [2000] 1 S.C.R. 665; B. v. Ontario (Human Rights Commission), 2002 SCC 66 (CanLII), [2002] 3 S.C.R. 403 at para. 44.

To date, Swift's application for landmark status has been given an enthusiastic thumbs up by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission and is awaiting the vote of the Beverly Hills City Council.

«That exercise gave the planning commission and the city council and everyone else a vision,» he said.