Sentences with phrase «city legislation»

Residents will be able to use this platform to comment on city legislation, put forward their own ideas and vote on proposals.

Prior to joining the Charter Center, Erik was the Director of City Legislation for the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, Legislative Director to Council Member Diana Reyna, Campaign Manager to former Council Member Melinda Katz in her race for Comptroller, and Director of Candidate Services at the Campaign Finance Board and Director of Lobbying and Grassroots Organizing for Common Cause / NY.

New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer stands with members of Community Action for Safe Apartments outside of Bronx County Housing Court today to announce his support for City legislation to provide attorneys for New Yorkers facing eviction or foreclosures.

Councilman Brad Lander, a leader of the effort to pass the 5 - cent fee legislation, said he expected any other city legislation would meet the same fate in Albany.

Councilman Mark Treyger says he's drafting city legislation outlawing cops from having on - the - job sex.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE City legislation that would expand the eligibility for rental assistance, food stamps, and other benefits for people with HIV may be getting a new life after being dormant for years during the Bloomberg administration, according to City Council records obtained by Gay City News under the state open records act.

An unprecedented movement by labor unions to raise Disney park and resort worker wages, through city legislation, is facing

On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer toured the Bronx County Housing Court and held a press availability with members of Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) at which he announced that he was supportive of City legislation that would provide attorneys to New Yorkers facing eviction or foreclosures.

If many of the members from Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island are complaining that the city legislation puts an undue and disproportionate burden on working class constituents, of course the Speaker is obligated to do more than simply pay the issue lip service.

The city legislation is intended to encourage shoppers to give up the plastic bags whose omnipresence on city sidewalks and in city trees and landfills have long frustrated environmentalists.

But both the Hotel Association and the Hotel Trades Council, a union representing hotel workers, have backed state and city legislation that would obligate Airbnb to register all its listings with local authorities — a requirement that badly dented the company's business in San Francisco.

«The effective date of the city legislation has been pushed back to Feb. 15 of next year so we can work together on a solution,» said Heastie spokesman Michael Whyland.

Mendoza had spent two years working behind the scenes on the Chicago ordinance in conjunction with advocacy group The Puppy Mill Project to get the city legislation passed.

I've spoken with a few people who are buying, but the majority of advice I receive it to stay away - mostly from Poughkeepsie due to the crime, schools and city legislation.