Sentences with phrase «city taxpayer dollars»

Investing precious city taxpayer dollars in our schools will not get the job done alone.

«I think there may be legal services somewhere that they deserve, but not with New York City taxpayer dollars,» he said.

«There may be legal services somewhere they deserve, just not with New York City taxpayer dollars,» de Blasio said.

Not exact matches

Stateside, the Coyotes eke out a precarious existence via taxpayer dollars from host city Glendale; other American teams are losing millions of dollars a year.

If governments provide subsidies to these companies, they will often end up paying money to a number of companies that would have come (or stayed) in the city anyway, a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Of the approximately $ 291,000 embezzled from Centro San Antonio, none were taxpayer dollars, according to a third - party audit firm hired by the City.

All known factors & risks when the city approved the project and funding plan, and all much less painful than asking taxpayers to fund a billion dollar arena on top of all of these costs.

Though, paradoxically, the other reason is that the city of St Louis apparently are willing to throw taxpayer dollars into a stadium, meaning that Stan can't move the Rams.

This is a fight to see which of them can be more out - of - touch with Hudson Valley families and work hand - in - hand with Mayor de Blasio and the New York City special interests who want to use our hard - earned taxpayer dollars on political campaigns and to give free college tuition to illegal immigrants.»

«The Speaker's take - it - or - leave - it negotiating position is even more surprising given that the New York City Board of Elections said they would be forced to shell out untold taxpayer dollars to cover the overtime costs necessary to comply with holding just the congressional primaries in June.»

While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»

Meanwhile, Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills is on trial for stealing $ 30,000 in taxpayer dollars.

As the city prepares to dish out tens of millions of dollars to political candidates this year, the City Council's Republican minority leader wants to scale back the generous taxpayer giveacity prepares to dish out tens of millions of dollars to political candidates this year, the City Council's Republican minority leader wants to scale back the generous taxpayer giveaCity Council's Republican minority leader wants to scale back the generous taxpayer giveaway.

The city Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.&racity Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.&raCity taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.»

At a typical cost of $ 400 per square foot, we estimate that the City spent roughly $ 400 million taxpayer dollars to acquire the one million square feet (23 acres) of Willets Point Phase One property, which the Bloomberg administration intended to gift to QDG for $ 1 (one dollar).

«The advocates who were so verbal and litigious during my tenure as a spokeswoman for city government are now so completely in bed with these failing leaders, they don't dare do the same negative press or file lawsuits which cost city taxpayers millions of dollars,» she wrote.

«Ruben Wills betrayed the trust of all New Yorkers when he abused his position in the State Senate to steal thousands of dollars from the hardworking taxpayers of New York for his own selfish gain,» City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said in a statement.

«In vetoing this costly legislation, Governor Paterson has made a difficult and wise decision that will save the taxpayers of the State and the City millions of dollars, demonstrating the courage to control spending in this difficult fiscal climate.»

«With thousands of jobs and millions of taxpayer dollars at stake, a potential bailout holds profound ramifications for its workers, the racing industry and the City and State.»

Teachout has called for a New York City - style campaign finance law that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and force taxpayers to pay for negative attack ads and mail.

Most recently, she served as Legislative Director for Council Member Rosie Mendez, where she was tasked with helping shape legislation and policy to address homelessness, improve health, regulate the recent spate of new construction, take on landlord harassment, and save taxpayer dollars by improving inefficiencies within city agencies.

The Erie County Holding Center houses defendants from every town and city within Erie County and saves the taxpayers of those municipalities from building and manning their own facility which saves millions of dollars.

«I believe that New York City, although larger, although having a unique set of circumstances, if we're one state, then we're one state, and we should be under the same guidelines to save our taxpayers dollars,» said Senator Kathleen A. Marchione, a Republican from Saratoga County.

«In vetoing this costly legislation, Governor Paterson has made a difficult and wise decision that will save the taxpayers of the State and City millions of dollars, demonstrating the courage to control spending in this difficult fiscal climate.»

Jen has worked to make utility costs more affordable, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

Jen has worked to bring down utility costs, helped local governments save energy and taxpayer dollars, and organized dozens of town and city councils across the political spectrum to stop new crude oil pipelines from endangering our communities.

The New York City Housing Authority held up millions of dollars in taxpayer money allotted to repair its old developments and to install new security cameras, the New York Daily News reported.

The investigations are costing city taxpayers millions of dollars.

Some of New York City's top cultural organizations are cutting staff, facing budget shortfalls and soaking up taxpayer money — yet their top officials rake in millions of dollars in compensation.

A firm that manages dozens of city homeless shelters — including the Bronx site where two toddlers were killed by a radiator steam leak in December — has kept years of tax problems hidden from the city even as it continued to collect millions in taxpayer dollars.

AG Eric Schneiderman and DiNapoli announced the guilty plea of Van Holmes, a nonprofit executive accused of pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds intended for public services in New York City.

They have also shown a different approach to the use of taxpayer funds for their respective campaigns, though Malliotakis — who plans to accept public matching funds — used to criticize the city's campaign finance system as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

As WBFO's Chris Caya reports - there appears to be little appetite for recouping taxpayer dollars sent to the BMHA or any other agency or service provider to the city of Buffalo.

The city already offers hundreds of different services backed by millions of taxpayer dollars to support women and their businesses.

In the wake of charges that outgoing state Sen. Shirley Huntley (D - Jamaica) misused taxpayer dollars, City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) said every nonprofit connected to an elected official should be the subject of scrutiny.

What was this «white powder» that caused such a commotion, including a tremendous expense to the taxpayers of the City and State of New York as well the USA due to antiterrorism dollars that are given to the local jurisdictions?

What earned the former city councilman and state legislator a five - year prison term, though, was funneling taxpayer dollars to friends, family, and phantom youth programs.

STATEN ISLAND — One city agency under constant criticism from the Staten Island borough president for its late and expensive work got the OK to build a new office closer to its critic — at a cost of about half a million taxpayer dollars a year.

De Blasio is participating in the CFB's matching funds program, which provides taxpayer dollars to qualifying candidates in an effort to empower regular New Yorkers in city elections.

Despite having taken more than four hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer - funded government salaries, Claudia Tenney has gotten more done for New York City than her upstate constituents.

When asked if he planned to register with the NYC Campaign Finance Board, Duran wrote that he was undecided about participating in the public campaign finance program (where donations up to $ 175 from city residents are matched 6 - 1 with taxpayer dollars).

Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills is up for re-election with some influential backers — even as he stands trial on charges he stole thousands of dollars from taxpayers.

As part of the negotiations, the city has also agreed to use taxpayer dollars to renovate stables in Central Park.

«The stench of corruption emanating from City Hall remainswith a record number of misconduct investigations into Mayor de Blasio (D - Corruption) at a cost of millions of dollars to taxpayers,» Republican real estate exec Paul Massey, who is running for mayor, said in a mocking email.

During the campaign, Singas said if elected she would expand a review of the county's contracting system that her office conducted in April, to include towns and cities in an effort to «expose vulnerabilities to corruption» when it comes to municipalities awarding millions of dollars in taxpayer - funded contracts.

«Furthermore, the MTA should guarantee that the billions in additional taxpayer dollars from the City will be solely used for overdue MTA improvements and enhancements.»

The removal of Confederate monuments from their municipalities is costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. cities.

They are not getting their fair share taxpayer dollars — the money goes to the cities, and also they are not getting their fair share of respect — people assume folks in small towns are ignorant and racist.

City Hall has poured millions of taxpayer dollars into his Renewal School program and designated them «community schools» — meaning, in part, they'll qualify for washing machines and dryers.