Sentences with phrase «city councils putting»

«We'd like to see more city councils putting it on the ballot,» she says.

Our city council put that on the ballot last election but we couldn't get the levy passed.

Casino opponents with the group SAVE Saratoga say the March vote by the City Council puts a full - size casino in the Spa City out of the question.

On Monday, some of the strongest supporters of the bill in City Council put a positive spin on the delay.

Two powerful contractor groups are demanding the City Council put the brakes on a proposal to create a sliding scale when awarding damages in construction - fatality cases.

The City Council put money to cover the discount fare program in its budget proposal.

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The City of Fremantle moved a step closer to kicking off works on a $ 220 million revamp of King's Square, with the council approving a plan put forward by development group Sirona Capital at a special

After finishing the review, and assuming everything is in order, Austin's city council will have 10 days to either adopt the language in the petition or put it up for vote on a May 7 ballot.

The original decision is to be overturned and the city council plans to put forward a new proposal.

The author founded an anti-corruption campaign that resulted in putting «a couple of municipal politicians and a developer in jail,» and she was subsequently elected to council for the City of York.

Anabaptists rejected Reformation structure that put city council as the governing body over churches.

The city council has drawn up plans to put the heart of Amsterdam through an «extreme makeover» over the next 10 years.

Lausanne City Council has approved a motion put forward by the Green Party that cafeterias in schools and daycare centres leave meat off the menu for one day a week.

Lismore City Council achieved the certification through Australian Organic by putting in place new screening processes to remove plastics and other inorganic materials from the kerbside waste as well as stringent product testing and cleaning / hygiene controls.

But it doesn't seem everyone has the same enthusiasm, Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said the city council is made up of «the most infuriating people in South Australia» and that «they are big on complaining but not putting their hands in their pockets to help their ratepayers».

The City Council voted last week to hire a grant writer to secure up to $ 125,000 to put ball fields, soccer fields and other recreational facilities in the park that would be at Illinois Highway 173 and Ramer Road.

If there was any lingering doubt that de Blasio's mostly harmonious relationship with the NYC Council was about to change, Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, who has been chosen by new Speaker Corey Johnson to be in charge of a new investigations unit that will look into the operation of city agencies, may put that question to rest.

Every assembly comes up with a list of priorities, which are put forward to the city's budget council.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said it would take «upwards of almost a year» for the department to put into action reforms promised as part of a deal with the mayor and City Council speaker that circumvented a package of police reform bills supported by a majority of the Council.

The company has been waging a regulatory battle in New York at the both the state and city level over the last several years, which has spilled over into political campaigns as well and put the firms at odds with hotel chains and the influential labor group Hotel Trades Council.

City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Hillcrest) came up empty - handed when the Council speaker was doling out committee chairmanships last week, but the Queens Democratic Party loyalist did get a seat on all three public safety committees, a vantage point he said puts him in a unique position to ensure the city's safCity Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Hillcrest) came up empty - handed when the Council speaker was doling out committee chairmanships last week, but the Queens Democratic Party loyalist did get a seat on all three public safety committees, a vantage point he said puts him in a unique position to ensure the city's safcity's safety.

Yesterday, for example, during the City Council's vote to overturn Mayor Bloomberg's veto of the stop - and - frisk and police oversight bills, it was startling to hear Barron, following his customary sit - in during the Pledge of Allegiance, stand up and pay tribute to Viola Plummer, his former chief of staff: «There wouldn't be no today if it weren't for Viola Plummer, the December 12th Movement, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, who put it on the line, to make this day history.»

As Michael Lesher, a prominent Orthodox critic of the shomrim puts it, «If the Nation of Islam were to set up a private force of Muslims, ostensibly to scour Harlem for «bias crimes,» would City Council members be heaping public money into its coffers?»

After the Houston City Council passed HERO in 2014, activists with the Campaign for Houston ran a referendum to put the wide - ranging measure before voters in an attempt to repeal it.

Leaders in the City Council's so - called progressive caucus, councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Ritchie Torres, enthusiastically supported Alcantara, putting their own political interests over the future of long - lasting progressive change in the state.

Besides assisting communities affected by state facility closures, these funds will be used to provide more than $ 130 million for competitively determined economic development projects put forward by the Regional Councils, $ 100 million for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital program and $ 10 million towards the State's existing commitment for the New York City Empowerment Zone.

The bill would delay the surcharge from taking effect for a year, but the measure would likely put an end to the fee entirely given a new council would take office next year in New York City.

The council agreed to pull out of the convention because it did not want to put at risk the financial benefit of the Chinese Olympic team's training facilities in the city.

The Unity Maps, developed by joint effort of several advocacy organizations, puts all of Inwood and much of the eastern half of Washington Heights into City Council District 10, while District 7's northern border would start at the George Washington Bridge and end farther south at 113th St.

De Blasio's plan to close the jail complex is expected to take 10 years and puts the onus of picking where the smaller jails will be located on the City Council.

Rather than have all this vague disclosure, the city should mandate that council members put in 40 - hour weeks to enable them to provide true, full - time constituent services.

A controversial proposal to put a five cent impost on paper and plastic bags cleared the City Council today — and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he is ready to ink it into law.

And after a hearing on the issue Thursday, City Councilman James Oddo, along with Speaker Christine Quinn and other members of the Council are calling on Albany to change the state law to distinguish between Sandy repairs and putting an addition on a home.

«The forum today that the council had was just probably going to put our people in the position that could jeopardize the city in various lawsuits and eventually hit us in the pocketbook,» Carroll said.

The Boulder City Council voted this week to put on the ballot a referendum asking if corporations are citizens.

«You often hear from people in a community who have had bike lanes or speed bumps put in their neighborhood and they don't know why,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said before the near - unanimous vote.

«In these challenging times, we need independent and experienced leaders who will put the community's interests first — and that's why I am very proud to endorse Jimmy Van Bramer for City Council,» Assemblymember Nolan said.

The reunification proposal was put out Monday by Brown, state Democratic Party Vice Chairwoman and former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Rep. Joseph Crowley, of Queens, who chairs the House Democratic Caucus, and Hector Figueroa, president of the influential Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.

Williams stressed that the proposed reforms will «make the City Council more accessible and accountable to the people that put us in office in the first place.»

City Council Minority Leader Mike Breen and City Councilman John Rubbo recently put the finishing touches on the green line that runs down the...

A day after Mr. de Blasio signed the legislation, the City Council issued rules putting into effect a law signed by Mr. Bloomberg to reduce fines against restaurants.

The contract, which was put in place by former mayor T.R. Gallo, was renewed each year, but it wasn't in the 2012 city budget prepared by Sottile and approved by the Common Council at the end of 2011.

«Instead of protecting the autonomy of the New York City Council and our legislative process, Gov. Cuomo has added to the rampant dysfunction that is Albany by putting cheap politics ahead of our environment and the will of the people who actually live in New York City,» Levine said.

If there was any lingering doubt that Mayor Bill de Blasio's mostly harmonious relationship with the City Council was about to change, Councilman Ritchie Torres may put that question to rest.

The 29 members of the New York Electoral College unanimously voted to consign their compensation to the New York Immigration Coalition in a motion put forward by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and seconded by New York State AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento.Those electors included former President Bill Clinton, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate Letitia James and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

The chapter also gives the reader insight into the many years of work that both Sabatino and Voorheis put into Marriage Equality, long before Marriage Equality passed in New York State, and before Sabatino was elected to the Yonkers City Council.

Ordinarily, the City Council Speaker would be included among the contenders, but Democrat Melissa Mark - Viverito is term - limited out of office in four years, putting her in an unusual spot.

In baseball you're supposed to play fair, but she puts the hammer on City Council members that don't follow her agenda.

But a new poll puts Weiner, who is making a very public bid for political redemption, in second, behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, with less than two months to go until the September primary.

After putting the decision on hold for nearly a month, the Niagara Falls City Council yesterday acted on Mayor Paul Dyster's plan to remove City Controller Maria Brown, unanimously approving the effort.