Sentences with phrase «city lawmakers gave»

The «new» Buffalo was on display yesterday as city lawmakers gave final approval to everything from bicycles and ice cream to a new Main Street bar and a new City Hall security system.

Not exact matches

Mexico City lawmakers want to help newlyweds avoid the hassle of divorce by giving them an easy exit strategy: temporary marriage licenses.

The de Blasio administration warned of corruption and chaos should state lawmakers end the legislative session next week without renewing a law giving the mayor control of the city education system.

The IDC this year has grown from five members to seven, with the addition of Sens. Jesse Hamilton and Marisol Alcantara, now giving them one lawmaker representing each of the five boroughs of New York City.

A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.

Officially, the lawmakers returned to Albany to provide a temporary extension of a lapsing law that gives the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, control of his city's schoCity, Bill de Blasio, control of his city's schocity's schools.

And while lawmakers seem prepared to give New York City almost all the money Mayor Bill de Blasio asked for, there is not as much funding for upstate.

Lawmakers hope to end their session next month after voting on whether to renew or modify New York City's rent regulations and a tax break given to developers of Manhattan real estate.

Rev. Al Sharpton and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson led a chorus of advocates and lawmakers Tuesday in calling on the NYPD to stop making arrests for lighting up in public — which accounts for the vast majority of marijuana arrests — and give out summonses instead.

State lawmakers from New York City have given the thumbs down to Gov. Cuomo's plan to boost voter registration.

And yet he acknowledged, as he did yesterday, that a system based on the New York City public matching program for political candidates is difficult to accomplish given Republican lawmakers in the Senate oppose the measure.

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NYC City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina went to bat for de Blasio in Albany, urging state lawmakers to renew the law giving him control of the school system.

But given the Democratic governor's often rocky relationship with the legislature, including leaders of his own party, his lame - duck status could embolden lawmakers to ignore some of his less popular initiatives, such as cutting money for cities and towns, or allowing cities and towns to assess a new tax on hospitals.

Give upstate counties in New York relief from Medicaid payments: Lawmakers added a provision that would ban the federal government from reimbursing New York State for Medicaid funds raised by counties outside New York City.

Upstate lawmakers worry Cuomo's plan will give preference to New York City and say funds should be spread fairly to ensure upstate bridges, highways and transit agencies aren't left out.

Attempts by preservationists to protect a pre-Civil War house in Buffalo's Fruit Belt, as well as three other city buildings — including the former North Park Library — have failed, with city lawmakers deciding not to give the properties historic landmark status.

Stringer blamed some of the city's failures in addressing infrastructure concerns on the administration's sometimes contentious relationship with Albany lawmakers, who must often give the city the OK to move ahead on projects, such as congestion pricing.

Staten Island Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour collided on social media this week over the latter's upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious views.

Earlier this year, some county lawmakers suggested the new agreement should return to an earlier distribution formula which gave the city 10 percent of the total and the towns 2 percent.

«We are collaborating on the testing,» said Cuomo, who was in New York City to discuss with minority lawmakers his recent executive order, which gives the Attorney General special prosecutor powers in certain police - involved deaths of civilians.

Three other lawmakers confirmed the 2011 meeting, and a separate but similar presentation was given to city of Buffalo officials the same month.

Several developers gave money to state lawmakers at around the time they quietly won a tax break for some luxury apartment projects in New York City.

Cuba City High School principal Jim Boebel, left, gives a tour to lawmakers on the Rural Schools Task Force in 2014.