Sentences with phrase «city mayors need»

It's also a recognition that elected city mayors need to cover a wider area than the tightly bound city authorities they currently have responsibility for.

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE RUDY GIULIANI BOMBSHELLS The former New York City mayor revealed on Fox News last night that Trump had known about the $ 130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, since he had reimbursed lawyer Michael Cohen for the expense.

Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

But the mayor's office, city aviation and Park District officials have criticized efforts by Edgar and his Transportation Department to threaten a lawsuit blocking Meigs» closing and steadfastly have defended the need for a new lakefront park.

Cuomo was headed into re-election mode and he didn't need a liberal New York City mayor already unpopular in those coveted suburbs blowing up his spot.

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.

Cuomo was headed into re-election mode and he didn't need a liberal New York City mayor — already unpopular in the coveted suburbs — blowing up his spot.

Ultimately, the mayor needs to join Gov. Andrew Cuomo in support for congestion pricing, which has proved effective in cities like London and Stockholm, according to Jon Orcutt, spokesman at the nonprofit TransitCenter and former policy director at the city's Department of Transportation.

The stark contrast for the governor and mayor in the poll comes after de Blasio went public in July with his frustrations with Cuomo and what he said was an inclination toward aiding Senate Republicans in Albany at the expense of what was needed in the city.

In May, the metro mayor will take on strategic powers over housing, transport and planning and will need to manage and sustain the city region's strengths in these areas.

The governor undercut the mayor by arguing that state law should obligate developers — who endorsed Mr. de Blasio's ideas — to pay construction workers prevailing wages, a requirement Mr. de Blasio asserted would cost the city dearly needed new below - market apartments.

«We as a city should be grieving and should be figuring out how to continue to get on that road to reform because it's desperately needed and I understand the mayor is working aggressively with the commissioner to that end.

If Perez Williams is elected mayor, she can't let the county dictate tax breaks for a city that needs all the money it can get.

«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.

In order for Rikers to fully close, the city needs to reduce its jail population to 5,000, according to the mayor's office.

Because the Continuum project is seeking a zoning change, it will need approval through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, which includes input from the local community board and borough president as well as up - down votes from the City Planning Commission, City Council and mayor.

«We think that every city needs an Irish mayor.

Albanese needs to raise and spend close to $ 175,000 to force the mayor into a debate under the city's Campaign Finance Board rules.

The metro mayor will need to set the agenda on this, convening the business community, universities and skills providers, and highlighting the importance of high quality apprenticeships for residents and businesses, as well as matching apprenticeships with businesses from different areas of the city region.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

«We think the structure that the mayor has put in place today will enable us to make the kind of progress we need to for clients,» said Mr. Banks, who spent his legal career suing the city to force it to provide more services to the homeless.

The metro mayor should use his or her influence and informal powers to better link businesses with colleges and universities to ensure that courses and vocational education match the needs and opportunities of the city region's businesses, and provide residents with higher skills and better access to opportunities in the future.

He joins this edition of Need to Know to talk mayor - school district partnership, the current state of the city school system and more.

Even Democratic allies have complained of Mr. de Blasio's high - handedness — not everyone thought it was a moral obligation to make mayoral control permanent — and Ms. Wolfe will need to figure out how to keep securing wins in an environment that can be hostile for a big city liberal mayor.

Seeing the upcoming mayor's race as an opportunity to make some much - needed changes to school governance in New York City, the UFT has reconstituted its School Governance Committee.

She added, «The mayor should focus on the city's needs, instead of a congressional race that she declined to participate in.»

«We always believed that the far West Side of Manhattan had tremendous potential for providing what our growing city needs, and that's more jobs for New Yorkers and more affordable housing for them to live in,» the mayor said at a press conference Monday.

Bloomberg came to the Capitol on a day that has become known as the «Tin Cup Brigade,» where mayors from the largest cities around the state testify to their constituent's needs.

Conversations between the Police Department and the mayor's office are ongoing while the city determines the «appropriate» amount based on need, as well as available resources.

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.

One place where Giuliani has not campaigned this month — in the city he once ran, even though his former deputy Joe Lhota needs all the help he can get in the race for mayor.

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Mayoral control would eliminate board members» need to run on party lines, better holding the mayor accountable for the state of city schools, Lavine said.

«Mayor Bloomberg and I have learned in this particular job, you really need a sense of humor to be mayor of New York City,» Mr. de Blasio said.

The mayor's plan estimates that the city alone will need $ 1.7 billion over the next five years to implement universal pre-K.

For the mayor and the City Council to win support for the plan, they need to embrace it.

Perez - Williams questioned whether the city auditor's office was a waste of time and money, and pledged that as mayor, she would reconsider the need for an auditor.

He called the shooting death of the cops the «direct spinoff» of anti-police-brutality protests that the sympathetic mayor had allowed to take over city streets, blamed marijuana — which, thanks to the mayor, you can now carry a larger quantity of without getting locked up — for a spike in murders, has proudly declared stop - and - frisk isn't going away, and has repeatedly broken with the mayor on the subject of how many more cops the city needs (the mayor has said none, the police commissioner now says at least 1,000).

The upcoming battle is reflected on this list by the presence of Albany - centric lawmakers, who the mayor will need to get his affordable housing plan off the ground; real estate industry players, who will no doubt have their deep - pocketed say in the legislative skirmish to come; and the city officials who will lobby hard for tenant - friendly rent laws in the state capital, or cut a few deals that alienate their progressive base.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for mayor Sunday, citing a need to bring leadership and services to every community in the cCity Public Advocate Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for mayor Sunday, citing a need to bring leadership and services to every community in the citycity.

New York City schoolchildren deserve a mayor who believes their needs are worth focusing on.

The City Council speaker has — more than her Democratic rivals — the kind of common sense a mayor needs.

«He'd be exactly what New York City needs,» former mayor Rudy Giuliani told CBS 2's Marcia Kramer on Dec. 6.

The mayor said he'd spoken «plainly» with Cuomo and told him the people of New York City are «depending on him» and «need to hear his strong voice.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't need to see the Assembly and Senate one - house budgets to know where he stands with each chamber - Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is a close ally of the mayor, his fellow New York City Democrat, while Senate Republicans hold a major grudge against de Blasio for leading a failed effort to boot them from the majority two years ago.

The Department of Correction is the city agency that has «suffered the most neglect and needs the most support,» said the mayor.

They need to stay in the City of New York,» Wright said during a 90 - minute rally of hundreds of construction workers blasting the mayor for leaving out the prevailing wage requirement.

Christine Quinn: We need to have a bipartisan united mayor and city council.

The mayor's nominee to the MTA board, who has been waiting nearly a year to take her spot, along with two others, said that the city needs its full voice at the agency.

• The 311 system: In one visionary sweep, the mayor created what residents needed for decades — a front door to the city's vast bureaucracy.