Sentences with phrase «city council committee»

UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New York City Council Committees on Education and Finance regarding the FY 2017 city executive budget.

The New York City Council Committee on Public Housing holds an oversight hearing examining elevator safety in NYCHA housing following the death of Olegario Pabon at Boston Road Plaza, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

(Bloomberg)-- Two New York City Council committees approved a zoning change that would clear the way for what developers say will be the first primarily office project to be built in Brooklyn in more than a generation...

De Blasio appointed his panel's first members a day before a scheduled City Council committee hearing on legislation that would create a separate charter revision commission.

Cari Meyers, founder of The Puppy Mill Project, testifies before a Chicago City Council Committee in February.

The Chicago City Council Committee on License and Consumer Protection will meet on the ordinance to ament the Municipal Code of Chicago regulating the retail sale of cats and dogs on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at Noon, Room 201A, City Hall.

10:30 AM — Dream Act Press Conference calling for passage of the Dream Act of 2017, followed by City Council committee vote on Resolution 1484 - A.

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NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's rezoning proposals were easily passed by two City Council committees Thursday — but not before some lawmakers expressed concerns that one of the plans will keep New York City one of the most segregated cities in the nation.

JOLIET — The special City Council committee studying whether Joliet should help build a swimming complex will now focus on the details of such a facility, an official said last week.

INWOOD — A City Council committee in charge of rezoning unanimously voted against the Sherman Plaza project Tuesday morning, a day after Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez announced he could not support the project due to community opposition.

A Troy City Council committee rejected a plan to fix the Knickerbacker Ice Rink for the short term and instead plans to install a modern ice - skating rink with a new scoreboard and sound system.

A slew of elected officials, including Public Advocate Letitia James and several key City Council committee chairs, including Daniel Dromm and Laurie Cumbo, also issued statements.

Hudson Square moved a step closer today to getting more new housing when two City Council committees approved a controversial proposal by the property arm of Trinity Church to rezone the Lower Manhattan neighborhood, the New York Observer reported.

UFT Vice President for Special Education Carmen Alvarez testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education regarding the FY2018 education expense plan.

NYCHA General Manager Vito Mustaciuolo appears before the New York City Council Committee on Finance, Public Housing and Subcommittee on Capital Budget on Wednesday.

He said copies of the proposed agreement have been sent to the mayor and his key department heads as well as the chairmen of relevant Chicago City Council committees.

Ritchie Torres, who chairs a city council committee on public housing, said at the press conference that there was a direct link between the falsification of permits and the decline in affordable housing in New York.

They included three psychotherapists, two nurses, two pastors, a seminary professor, a graduate student, three counselors, a school psychologist, a half - dozen teachers and one member of a city council committee charged with identifying emerging issues.

«Here we have summer coming, when kids don't have jobs and need a place to go, and the Adler museum is proposing to raise admission for children by 40 percent,» Burke said at a City Council committee meeting.

Earlier this week, another City Council committee voted to amend an ordinance passed last year that would require separate washrooms for men and women at every gas station in the city.

Crowley is the odd woman out in this case, although today she reported raising $ 100,000 in a very short period of time — an impressive number somewhat dampened by the City & State report that some 30 percent of her contributions were «refunded donations,» meaning cash was given back to her City Council committee donors, who then gave it right back to her congressional committee.

New York would be the first major city in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections under a bill before a City Council committee.

StreetsPAC Executive Director Eric McClure delivered the following testimony at today's City Council Committee on Transportation oversight hearing on Vision Zero progress and needs:

A prominent Bronx politician lobbied to run a new City Council committee that oversees taxis and car services after collecting thousands in campaign funds from the industry.

The New York State Assembly minority leader appeared in front of a New York City council committee this week, urging officials to halt a proposal that would ban plastic foam containers in the city.

The NYC Board of Elections is pushing a $ 6.8 million plan to turn old voter machines into voter information kiosks, but the chair of the City Council committee overseeing the agency dismissed the scheme as too costly.

Hudson Square moved a step closer today to getting more new housing when two City Council committees approved a controversial proposal by the property...

Been, the housing commissioner, testified before a City Council committee in January to offer a full - throttled defense of 421 - a.

Ritchie Torres is the Chair of the City Council Committee on Public Housing.

«We are considering whether the proportion of the units in the building that must be affordable should be revised,» Been, the housing commissioner, testified before a City Council committee in January as part of a full - throated defense of 421 - a.

The head of the New York City agency at the center of a disputed real estate transaction told a City Council committee she couldn't speak about the deal because it was still under investigation.

Today, we're devoting the roundup to the living wage legislation, which was debated in a City Council Committee hearing yesterday.

No employee will be worse off under our plan,» city budget director Dean Fuleihan said during a City Council committee hearing before the final vote.

UFT Vice President for Middle Schools Richard Mantell testified before the City Council Committee on Education regarding efforts to help struggling schools.

«I'm here to say: yes, we are safer now than we were before Sandy,» Daniel Zarrilli, director of recovery and resiliency for Mayor Bill de Blasio, told a city council committee today.

Two City Council committees approved a 10 - year permit for MSG, with the zoning and franchise subcommittee approving the measure by a vote of 7 - 0.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Monday took aim at a slew of laws a City Council committee is considering, calling them unnecessary and saying they would handcuff cops trying to...

-- CM Rafael Salamanca convenes the City Council Committee on Land Use, 250 Broadway, 16th floor committee room, City Hall, Manhattan.

«Public assistance is not that much money to take care of the family,» said Lee, a member of the advocacy group VOCAL - NY, prior to a City Council committee hearing on the issue Monday.

A City Council committee on Thursday paved the way a proposal to limit new self - storage development in large swaths of the city's industrial neighborhoods...

Last week, one day after a City Council committee unanimously approved the bill, two construction workers fell to their deaths at separate sites in Manhattan within hours of each other.

«The city council committee meetings have finished.

The City Council Committee on Veterans held a preliminary budget hearing Monday, hearing testimony from the Department of Veterans Services and advocates for military veterans in New York City.

A City Council committee passed a resolution Monday asking for a review of illnesses covered for 9/11 first responders, in an effort to add cancer to the list.

In this effort to increase funding, the biggest ally of seniors and senior advocates was Council Member Margaret Chin, chair of the City Council Committee on Aging.

With a projected $ 3.8 billion budget gap in FY 2019 and signs of a potential economic slowdown, Comptroller Stringer emphasized the importance of building up the City's budget reserves and finding savings in his testimony before the City Council Committee on Finance's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2017 Executive Budget.

Kolb spoke Monday at a seven - hour New York City Council Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management hearing.