Sentences with phrase «city government need»

As the population in this city expands, not only does city government need to tackle issues such as affordable housing for new residents, but also providing modes of transportation and preventing city streets from becoming overly congested.

«In these tough financial times, the city government needs to ensure we are using taxpayers» money wisely and not wasting it,» said Gioia press secretary Eric Koch.

Our city government needs to do all it can — use every available resource — to help children achieve and improve the quality of our public schools.

Our city government needs to do all it can — use every available resource — to help children achieve and improve the quality of our public schools.

City governments need to strengthen their capacity.

Not exact matches

One is the live experience they need of actually being in a working enterprise, whether it's a bank or city government, and two it gives them the credibility of being able to say, «Hey, we've got this installed at the city government and they've got this many taxpayers or employees or traffic.»

The city is working on a more comprehensive refugee plan but it needs more help from the federal government, said councillor Kristyn Wong - Tam.

Providing for the infrastructure needs of a growing city is an often - daunting challenge for governments.

But our governments need to make the case, as the Dutch and the Swiss recently did by sending delegations to Asian capitals to promote their cities as European hubs.

Clean Harbors provides comprehensive environmental, industrial and emergency response services to all areas of Regional, City and Town government through established contracts, or on an as needed basis.

For instance, local and national governments would receive the help they need to meet the vast capital costs of investments required to protect cities and infrastructure from increasingly frequent extreme weather events.

In contrast, Public Banks empower small businesses, students, homeowners, city and state governments, and community banks to prosper and thrive by banking for the common good over the long term, and making low - cost credit available where it is needed in the real economy.

Municipal governments also need to be a partner with their federal and provincial counterparts in determining immigration targets and migration strategies, because cities are truly where the rubber will hit the road.

Clean Harbors provides comprehensive environmental, industrial and emergency response services to all areas of County, City and Town government through established contracts, or on an as needed basis.

Though governments are vocal smart city champions, some industry pundits say connected cities need the data power of private sectors like banking to evolve.

While the LRT is a City of Edmonton project, it will be funded by all three levels of government so they need to hear from us.

Horgan said Christy Clark's refusal to come to the table and offer a substantial partnership with cities and the federal government will only cause more delays of badly needed transit infrastructure.

Churches in the inner city have been there for people when the government has disappointed them and other citizens fled for greener pastures in the suburbs; they continue to be a crucial part of organizing and ministering to needs in the community.

The drug lords need to have their drug income reduced by about 95 percent so they can no longer bribe local and national officials, and can no longer finance government and local police forces to protect their drug traffic, and spread terror throughout all those Mexican cities on the border, and then have the terror cross the border into our American cities.

Let me lust list some areas that will require government action and planning: rejuvenating the centers of big cities, providing mass transportation systems, controlling pollution, maintaining open spaces and recreational areas, taking care of future energy needs, making health care available to all.

In regards to educating city government, controlled - environment agriculture requirements for permitting, sewer, water and fire codes need to be understood and perhaps re-evaluated at the city level when it comes to indoor farming.

What current atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration tells us about the need to stabilise the global climate and the need for a step change in government, city and business action.

Newcastle is in many ways at a lower ebb than it was back then — before the consequences of the credit crunch and years of Tory government had really been felt — and, as I noted in that October article, is «in desperate need of the sense of community and belonging, the civic pride and identity, the feelgood factor and escapist pleasure, the solace and succour that the city's football club can potentially provide».

The federal government has approved New York City's plan to spend the first $ 1.77 billion in aid for Hurricane Sandy recovery, with the money expected to start flowing by early summer to homeowners, businesses and others in need.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

The mayor wants to extend his pre-K program — promising free full - day child care for all city 3 - year - olds by 2021, but he'll need help from the state and federal governments to pay for it.

The Real Moreland Takeaway SUNY New Paltz dean and state government expert Gerald Benjamin and former New York City corporation counsel Fritz Schwarz wrote an op - ed in the Daily News this week to emphasize the need for public financing at the state level.

«I want to thank HELP USA, SAGE, and our partners in government for their collaboration in providing desperately needed affordable housing for our seniors who helped to build this city.»

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

As reported by the New York Post's Yoav Gonen, Kavanagh joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United States.

«We need to challenge anyone that has a role to play in supporting candidates to make sure that we are creating pathways of opportunity for young women in government,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said on the steps of City Hall.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

«You've been on the sidelines for five years,» Stringer hit back, noting that the comptroller needs to work cooperatively with both city government and capital markets.

«I need all of you to speak to every elected official in Albany and urge them to step up and to urge the governor of the state of New York and the state Legislature to work with the city government, to work with the mayor, to work with my office, to work with the City Council to provide more resources to come up with more innovative plans and proposals to address the crisis of affordable housing in the city of New York,» she adcity government, to work with the mayor, to work with my office, to work with the City Council to provide more resources to come up with more innovative plans and proposals to address the crisis of affordable housing in the city of New York,» she adCity Council to provide more resources to come up with more innovative plans and proposals to address the crisis of affordable housing in the city of New York,» she adcity of New York,» she added.

Cuomo last week suggested the other elected officials — county governments and New York City — need to spend more to fix the problem.

Cuomo says the restructuring board could also provide political cover for local government leaders who need to make unpopular decisions, like laying off workers in order to consolidate services, or reducing the number of city councilmembers or supervisory boards.

Meanwhile, government reform groups say New York's politicians need to enact public financing of campaigns, one day after a State Senator was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe his way onto the ballot for the New York City mayor's race.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — An otherwise friendly mayoral race soured during tonight's debate when one candidate questioned the need for another's job in city government.

The duties of the public advocate are limited but include acting as the city's ombudsman and helping residents having trouble with the government get the services they need.

I see what has been going on in the city and we need more diversity represented in our government.

«We need balance in state government between New York City and the rest of the state,» said Young, the chairwoman of the Senate Republican campaign committee.

The Council either needed the political support of the merchants and gave them what he said was a $ 100 million incentive to back it or the city recognized it lacked the legal authority to impose a fee that went to the government, he said.

«We need to start consolidating services either with the county or the private sector looking at ways to cut costs within the city government to save the taxpayers money.»

«Council Member Ben Kallos is my partner in local government who I can count on when we need to cut through bureaucracy and politics to do the right thing for New York City,» Cuomo said.

The city - sponsored retirement plan from de Blasio still needs to be approved by the federal government.

At the 2015 meeting, Brewer pledged her support in identifying needed resources, and last month she was joined by Congressmember Adriano Espaillat, Assemblymember Inez Dickens, City Councilmember Bill Perkins, and Community Board 10 in establishing a task force to coordinate government, business, and community efforts for making it a reality.

At the Kingston Times, where we'd editorialized against the «institutionalized lassitude» of city government, it seemed Gallo's promise to ride into office, wielding torch and sword, was just what the city needed.

«The ghost of Tammany Hall does not haunt New York City government, but I do think it haunts Albany in general and we need a much more transparent and better approach in general,» de Blasio said.

This was one of Mayor Bloomberg's empty promises - he established a Commissioner but gave them no ability to implement the needed resources for the disability community in city government.

«We need to challenge anyone that has a role to play in supporting candidates to make sure that we are creating pathways of opportunity for young women in government,» said Mark - Viverito at a City Hall event for her Young Women's Leadership initiative earlier this year.