Sentences with phrase «city contracts»

Many complain these companies are being shut out of city contracts and not given the support they need.

The goal is to continually gather information on who is benefiting from city contracts.

He had resigned from that office a decade earlier in 2003 after being convicted on federal corruption charges for steering city contracts in exchange for private gifts.

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

That allows officials and the public to identify when campaign donors receive city contracts and benefits.

The City will coordinate across all agencies and use every tool at its disposal — from legal action to closer scrutiny of City contracting with bad actors — to protect tenants in rent - regulated housing from landlord harassment and neglect.

ADC is Harlem's largest provider of affordable housing and social services, but has recently become a target of probes conducted by the State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and had the de Blasio administration cancel $ 3.1 million in city contracts in September.

The timing of Mr. de Blasio's announcement of an advisory council this morning was perhaps intended to dampen criticism during a City Council hearing this afternoon on city contracting with minority - and women - owned businesses, known as MWBEs.

Kwame Kilpatrick, who was mayor from 2002 until 2008, was convicted this week of two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery for a scheme to collect kickbacks on city contracts for himself and associates.

In September, de Blasio unveiled a new goal of allocating 30 percent of city contract dollars to MWBEs by 2021.

Reports are out claiming that Chelsea and Real Madrid are already moving for Manchester City contract rebel Yaya Toure.

almost impossible for citizens who are not trained labor lawyers, which is why hearings on the New York City contract held by New York City councilwoman Eva Moskowitz were so important.

If the study determines some city workers would lose their jobs, the agency must then look at the benefits and costs of contracting out the work and submit that analysis to the city comptroller, who reviews city contracts.

Manchester City are set to launch a complaint against title rivals Arsenal in response to their failure to sign Alexis Sanchez, with Pep Guardiola's side believing that the Gunners blocked the player's move after he'd signed City contract, according to the Sun.

Hart has two years left to run on his current City contract, but he is seemingly dispensable at the Etihad Stadium.

Arsenal face competition from Liverpool for the potential signing of Manchester City contract rebel James Milner, who is available for free in the summer.

«We passed a great bill tonight, helping increase city contracting opportunities for Minority and Women Business Enterprises in our community,» she wrote.

Charles Hocking, de Blasio's No. 7 bundler, has seen his engineering consulting firm, Hazen and Sawyer, score more than $ 146 million in city contracts since the mayor took office.

She noted a decline in city contracts going to M / WBE businesses and pointed to problems in the Department of Education.

That is why yesterday Mayor Bloomberg launched a comprehensive strategy that will reduce organizations» fixed costs, improve City contract procedures and build new partnerships to help strengthen nonprofits.

Blacks and Latinos received only.43 percent of the $ 13.8 billion in city contracts given out in fiscal year 2015, according to a report from Comptroller Scott Stringer.

His main power derives from investing the city's pension funds, but the office also affords Stringer a bully pulpit for critiquing city contracts as well as other investments, including those related to real estate.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) wants to use city contracts to punish banks that will not restrict and / or regulate clients involved in the firearms industry.

Companies with significant city contracts would have to pay wages starting (in fiscal year 1996) at $ 6.10 per hour, increasing to $ 7.70 by 1999 and keeping pace with inflation thereafter.

A normal city contract would be subject to approval by the Common Council.

DEALS — Daily News's Greg Smith: «A contractor whose former company was suspected of mob ties won $ 37 million in taxpayer - funded city contracts last year — despite his history of blocking investigations into his prior company.

They've clashed over city contracts, teacher layoffs, and pension costs, and Bloomberg's team thinks that Liu is basically using City Hall as a foil to make himself look good for a 2013 mayoral run.

The SURA contract did not require review or approval by the Common Council, as most city contracts would.

The Common Council introduced a Resident Employment Ordinance, which would require that a portion of new hires under city contracts be city residents.

De Blasio's office arranged for the Fund for the City of New York to loan $ 1.36 million to four private pre-K programs too troubled to get city contracts and now wants to use taxpayer money to repay the loans.

At Good Shepherd Services, the number of employees whose salaries have to come from outside money allotted through city contracts is so high that the de Blasio administration's projected two percent personnel increase for next fiscal year would only cover 48 percent of the staff.

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The Bloomberg administration's plan to give more city contracts to firms owned by women and minorities resulted in just 7 percent of revenue going to black - owned companies, the Wall Street Journal reports, while the bulk went to companies owned by Asian - Americans or white women.

Lawyers for the charter school network are refusing to sign a contract the administration maintains is mandated by city contracting law and the state's pre-K grant.

The next major legislation on the council's agenda is Councilor Khalid Bey's proposal that Syracuse city contracts and services require 20 percent hiring of city residents.

De Blasio's campaign responded with a typical comment harping on the mayor's universal prekindergarten initiative, his executive orders hiking pay floors for public employees and city contract workers, his affordable housing plan and the continued downward trajectory of the crime rate during his tenure.

As of May 17, 2013, the center had $ 32 million in active city contracts and about $ 19 million in contracts with the state.

Eliot Spitzer met with a small group of M / WBE business owners today to discuss the challenges that they face in obtaining city contracts.

The measure, passed by the City Council last month, would subject city contracts to a kind of cost - benefit analysis and require agencies to publicly disclose what services they plan to contract out in the coming year.

Following a competitive request for proposals, the city awarded a lucrative city contract to Conner and a partner in 2010 to deliver lost luggage from the airport.

The giant social service agency RAIN which scored a controversial city contract to take over most of the borough's Meals on Wheels deliveries from rival organizations (Norwood News covered this in 2004) now has extended its reach to include Riverdale and Kingsbridge.

And Success suffered an embarrassing political defeat recently when state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia ruled that the charter network had to sign a mandatory city contract in order to get public funds for its pre-kindergarten programs, after Moskowitz tried to defeat de Blasio on his signature education issue by effectively appealing to his higher - ups in Albany.

A few neighboring cities contract with the shelter that is in Huntington Beach, but they have their own Animal Control as part of the police department.

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The legislation notes that Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a new vision for the city's MWBE program that includes a new goal of allocating 30 percent city contract dollars to MWBEs by 2021.

Even then, however, making sense of these mammoth documents is almost impossible for citizens who are not trained labor lawyers, which is why hearings on the New York City contract held by New York City councilwoman Eva Moskowitz were so important.