Sentences with phrase «city oversight»

In the spring, Moskowitz pushed hard for sympathetic state Senate Republicans to include a law liberating charters from city oversight over their pre-K programs, but the language was taken out during final state budget negotiations.

Stringer's audit shows deplorable conditions in many shelters and a lack of city oversight of shelter providers with whom they contract.

The de Blasio Administration is now proposing a battery of stringent new regulations and strict city oversight to fix a system that many HDFC co-op owners say is not broken.

DiNapoli's audit recommends that OTDA fix problems identified in previous inspections, take steps to complete all annual inspections and facility certifications on time, and better monitor county and city oversight activities.

«As the mayor has said before, we agree with the speaker on the need for more city oversight and input on MTA spending,» Rothberg said in a statement.

Moskowitz's lawyers have already informed city officials they would not submit to city oversight even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks about $ 10,000 in public funds for each of its 72 pre-K students.

But one year ago, Ritz - Carlton corrected that oversight when it opened its first hotel in the city

City officials have asked the real estate industry to share blame in the discovery that hundreds of homes violated affordable homeownership program rules, but the problem raises questions about flagging city oversight.

But the city says Success has refused for months to sign a mandatory contract granting the city oversight over its pre-K program.

Asked if Success believed that SUNY could allow it to operate prekindergarten independent of city oversight, Stefan Friedman, a spokesman for the network, said in a statement, «The legislature gave SUNY broad power to regulate charters, and it's up to SUNY to decide how it wishes to exercise that power.»

Among local issues that drew attention at the debate was the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in shaping the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's filtration avoidance determination, which gives the city oversight of environmental rules in its upstate watershed communities.

State education department commissioner MaryEllen Elia ruled in February that Success needed to sign the contract granting the city oversight over its pre-K program in order to receive public dollars.

State education department commissioner MaryEllen Elia ruled in February that Success needed to sign the contract granting the city oversight over its pre-K program in order to receive public dollars.

Since October, the city has maintained that it would be illegal to fund Success's pre-K program without a signed contract, which grants the city oversight over all pre-K programs.