Sentences with phrase «city over the objection»

At a Manhattan news conference, the Democratic attorney general praised Duffy's efforts to consolidate agencies and bring mayoral control of schools to New York's third - largest city over the objection of teachers unions.

Not exact matches

The committee unanimously approved the Chicago Park District plan over the objections of residents who fear the tot lot will alter the square's 19th Century character and set a precedent for carving up the city's boulevard system.

The Working Families Party voted to endorse a slew of City Council candidates, with a few candidates getting the nod over the objections of one of the party's local chapters.

Over objections from an adjacent major employer, the city Planning Board has approved construction of a sports field and large indoor field house in an industrial section of South Buffalo.

The bill delaying the fee, set to take effect next week, was approved by the Senate and Assembly this week over the objections of its supporters on the New York City Council, who say it can be an effective way of cutting down on waste.

Miner cited the $ 44 million in tax breaks that the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency gave last year, over the city's objections, to Cor Development Co.'s $ 350 million project to turn the Syracuse Inner Harbor into a hotel, residential, office and retail center.

Sources said the issue is personal to Silver, who was infuriated when city officials, over his objections, sought to put the Ross Global charter school in a public - school building in his Lower East Side district.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

The plan honors a proposal put forth by the City Council over Mayor Bill de Blasio's initial objections.

The commissioner promoted him over the objections of the city's Department of Investigation, The Times found.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today declared Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal a Superfund site over the city's objections and after considering the designation for almost a year.

But last year, over the objections of Bloomberg, the Senate GOP successfully pushed to require city bus service for students at private schools that offer classes until at least 5 p.m.

The proposal favored by Mr. Cuomo and the unions, meanwhile, could simply be passed over Mr. de Blasio's objection — if legislation is written to target the entire state, rather than the city, it does not require a home rule from the Council.

The Garden (Unrated) Oscar - nominated documentary about the ugly legal battle being waged over a 14 - acre plot in a South Central L.A. ghetto sold by the City to a real estate developer over the objections of the hundreds of local residents who had turned the blighted piece of property into a productive farmland.

In papers filed with the court over the objection of city officials on April 30, the department requested the elimination of numerical quotas for the admission of blacks and women to firefighter and police training classes.

Unfortunately, the City betrayed its promises to DOG and passed a horrible dog law that still exists, over the objections of most dog advocates.