Sentences with phrase «city funded programs»

The FHA Mortgage program blends well with first time homebuyer and down payment assistance programs; areas like Stockton, Elk Grove, and Sacramento, CA have city funded programs currently available Click through to learn more on the Stockton FHA first time homebuyer program.

The back - and - forth revolves around details of a contract that all pre-K providers are required to sign before the city funds programs.

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Amazon has suspended part of its expansion plans in Seattle, pending the outcome of a City Council vote on a new tax on large employers that would fund programs aimed at providing affordable housing and helping the homeless.

It worked well enough to get them accepted into the city's Dreamit Health accelerator program, where they secured $ 50,000 in funding and met a handful of business advisers.

The protesters argued that the city's lost tax revenue directly impacts funds for public programs for the indigent.

Boston and Washington, D.C., for example, use a mix of federal, state, and city money to fund their programs, while New York City's bike - sharing initiative is financed entirely by private mecity money to fund their programs, while New York City's bike - sharing initiative is financed entirely by private meCity's bike - sharing initiative is financed entirely by private means.

Infrastructure spending could come, just as it did by the efforts of Van Rysselberge in Oklahoma City, from passing local sales taxes to fund those programs.

He criticized states for kicking the can down the road, living beyond their means year after year in a «never - ending sense of crisis» that results in «stop - and - go funding of vital programs,» such as those for infrastructure, education, pensions and city and county services.

Instead, they agreed to a symbolic payment of $ 1 each and asked the city to fund $ 200,000 for a grant program for high school students aspiring to become entrepreneurs.

Funds for the $ 200,000 program will come from the city's Finance Department budget, Dunn said.

Almost this exact time last year, the City ended it's decade - long red light camera program which funded things like the crossing guards, flashing lights for school zones and some police equipment.

Amazon has halted a plan to build a new office tower in Seattle after the city proposed to introduce a tax to fund homelessness programs.

The program is the idea of the city's 27 - year - old mayor and will be primarily funded by the basic income advocacy group Economic Security Project...

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Howard Bancorp Inc. in Ellicott City last year repaid its $ 5.98 million in TARP money with about half of the $ 12.5 million it received by switching to another government program, the Small Business Lending Fund.

EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is calling on the Alberta government to commit to funding the Edmonton Drug Treatment and Community Restoration Court, a unique program in the city that provides a path to meaningful rehabilitation while at the same time improving community safety and saving money.

Soon after, the city, including Mayor Sander who is also a Rancho Cordova Athletic Association board member, jumped on board and steered Nill toward its Community Enhancement Fund program.

Memphis was one of five cities in the original Breakfast - in - the - Classroom pilot program, generously funded... Continue reading →

Eunita Rushing feels at home when she's near plants, so perhaps it's no surprise that since 1999 she has been the enthusiastic president of the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, which works in partnership with the Chicago Park District to raise funds and awareness for educational and public programs for the conservatory, located on the city's West Side.

The loss of federal funds has stung city school officials, who started the program with the idea that they would get federal money to help pay for the free meals, which are being served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at various elementary schools during the strike.

There is a similar program in the United States according to Dr. Deborah Campbell of Children's Hotel in New York City which also has been very successful for years now — the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program which is funded by the government.

Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.»

On Monday, the board discussed possible funding sources for several building projects: additions and renovations of Mill Creek Elementary School, Geneva Middle School South (the city's original middle school) and the Friendship Station (a joint preschool program conducted by the school and park districts).

And Betti Wiggins, executive director of the Office of School Nutrition for Detroit Public Schools, says moving to the new program had zero impact on the city's Title I funding.

Originally, the district was to receive $ 187,000 for the 2000 fiscal year through the annual program in which the city shares funds with community and other organizations.

These eight districts joined our original five districts — Dallas ISD (Dallas, TX), Little Rock (AR), Memphis City Schools (TN), Orange County Public Schools (FL), and Prince George's County Public Schools (MD)-- in the work of increasing access to, and participation in, the federally - funded School Breakfast Program, with the goal of reducing childhood hunger, and improving health and educational outcome for students.

Leah Schmidt, president of the School Nutrition Association and director of nutrition programs at a Kansas City, Mo. school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost meals.

With unusual bluntness, the mayor criticized the Success Academy charter school network for refusing to sign a contract his administration says is mandatory for all organizations offering city - funded pre-kindergarten programs.

«From taxing the wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs to ending unnecessary subsidies to big corporations and investing in our CUNY system, Bill will be an ally for working families in City Hall.

Last year, Cuomo resisted de Blasio's push to allow New York City to raise taxes on high - income earners in order to fund a city - wide pre-Kindergarten program (In the end, Cuomo funded a statewide version without a surcharCity to raise taxes on high - income earners in order to fund a city - wide pre-Kindergarten program (In the end, Cuomo funded a statewide version without a surcharcity - wide pre-Kindergarten program (In the end, Cuomo funded a statewide version without a surcharge).

Syracuse's 20 - year - old lead program will close by the end of the year because federal officials rejected the city's latest application for funding.

But Klein has doubled down on his support for de Blasio's plan to tax wealthy New York City residents to fund universal pre-K and after school programs.

Cuomo next week in his State of the State address is expected to unveil the details of his plan to create a congestion pricing program in the New York City metropolitan area in order to provide for more transit funding.

City Council Member Liz Crowley (D - Middle Village) has come under fire for co-sponsoring a bill that will cut funding for a program that turns the NYC DOC into a flock of stool pigeons for the Federal Government.

The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.

Kim has not participated in the city's matching funds program, which matches contributions to candidates under $ 175 by as much as six times.

He commended the efforts but remained adamant that such a program should be funded by the state, given that it oversees all things MTA, and not the city.

In supporting de Blasio's plan, Klein said hiking the city income tax on those earning at least $ 500,000 will ensure a future funding stream for city prekindergarten programs and «will guarantee 50,000 4 - year - olds the opportunity to enroll in this life changing program.»

After Mayor Bill de Blasio snubbed the proposed Fair Fares program in the city's FY2019 budget for the second year in the row, the Council has struck back with a proposal to fund the program in its budget response, reports the New York Daily News.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said the city must make modifications to the plan to gain her support, such as the addition of «significantly more new affordable units,» a delay in the rezoning of the commercial district, and $ 7.5 in funding for anti-displacement programs.

The date happens to coincide with the new mayor's planned descent upon Albany to convince reticent state lawmakers to support his plan to raise taxes on the city's wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs.

Intro 656 will cut the city's funding for the program that has turned Rikers Island into an unorthodox Customs detention center.

The Partnership Fund created a $ 15 million loan program to encourage bioscience companies to move to The Alexandria Center, the city's first commercial science park.

When de Blasio unveiled his $ 84.68 billion second - draft budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, he announced that the city would meet Mark - Viverito's request that city establish a permanent taxpayer funding stream to the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, a pilot program that has provided attorneys to unauthorized foreign nationals in immigration court.

After leaving the City Council, Zellnor became chair of his Neighborhood Advisory Board where, through community organizing, he helped secure nearly $ 400,000 in federal funding for job training, after school programming, and tenant protection.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

While this agenda item must compete with those of various other agencies and advocacy organizations jockeying for program funding at the end of the budget season, the potential risks of shuttering nonprofits could be particularly devastating across the city, as has been demonstrated recently.

News 12 Brooklyn story on BP Adams calling on the City to fund an expansion of Operation Safe Shopper, his security camera initiative for commercial corridors, following the program's success in assisting with the apprehension of a robbery suspect in Crown Heights.

Despite gaining the support of transit advocates and several local officials, including Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Mayor de Blasio has been reluctant to fund the pilot program, or any variation of it, saying the city can not afford it and that ultimately the MTA is the state's responsibility.

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.