Sentences with phrase «citywide elected»

In 1995, the state Legislature dissolved the citywide elected school board and gave the mayor the power to appoint the superintendent — otherwise known as the chief executive officer — and the citywide school board.

And empowering a citywide elected board enables the priorities and values of the majority to take precedence over those of discrete communities and neighborhoods.

Among those calling for the funding were the city's other two citywide elected officials, Public Advocate Letitia James, Controller Scott Stringer, and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. — all seen as likely candidates for mayor in 2021.

Although, the mayor is the first citywide elected to have begun to campaign outright for the 2017 cycle.

The Speaker represents the 8th District, which includes El Barrio / East Harlem and the South Bronx, and she is the first Puerto Rican and Latina to hold a citywide elected position.

It's one of three citywide elected offices with 9 million constituents and definitely not for the faint of heart.

The law now restricts citywide elected officials, borough presidents and Council members to two four - year terms.

The program would make New York City the first city in the U.S. to offer its own retirement savings program for private sector workers who lack access to employer - sponsored retirement plans, de Blasio and other citywide elected officials said Thursday at City Hall.

The state attorney general was joined by two of the city's three citywide elected officials: Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James.

The legislation, which the council passed by a vote of 40 to 7, will also raise the salary of other citywide elected officials, but its the Council's pay that has garnered the most attention and the most controversy.

Out Councilmember Corey Johnson of Chelsea also voted against it as did Inez Barron of Brooklyn, a staunch advocate for public education, but it passed 43 - 4 with the support of all three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Letitia James — as well as otherwise liberal officials such as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

James, the first woman of color to hold citywide elected office in New York City, has served as the people's advocate and as a watchdog for city government for the last several years.

Diaz, who some rumor may eventually run for a citywide elected position, used part of his speech Thursday to call for greater police accountability.

New York City's three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate Tish James and Comptroller Scott Stringer — and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito joined a press conference today demanding federal action to address Puerto Rico's deep fiscal and financial crisis.

The press conference produced an infrequent appearance of all three citywide elected officials and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — the «CW3 + MMV», perhaps — at an event.

A candidate forum hosted by the Queens Tribune and St. John's University Tuesday night included a «lightning round» question asking which council member or citywide elected official each candidate would most and least like to be stuck in an elevator with.

Polanco acknowledged that in order to enact such an agenda, the Public Advocate — a largely ceremonial citywide elected position with little direct authority — needs to heavily rely on the bully pulpit and organizing, as opposed to hard power.

He contrasted this to citywide elected officials who supposedly don't have to deal with constituents» needs.

James is not the first public advocate to push the limits of the office, which, as one of three citywide elected posts, offers a bully pulpit but little in the way of concrete powers.

Held at the National Action Network's House of Justice on 145th Street, the celebration featured appearances by almost all of New York's statewide elected officials and all of New York City's citywide elected officials.

It would also help the county deliver a Latino citywide elected official, which would be the only Latino to hold such a post after Mark - Viverito completes her term.

It notes that Mark - Viverito, who became speaker in Jan. 2014, is «the first Puerto Rican and Latina to hold a citywide elected position.»

The younger Diaz is the de facto leader of Bronx Democrats and harbors ambitions of being a citywide elected official one day.

Fuchs» reasoning is that the public advocate, who is one of only three citywide elected officials, shouldn't have to look over his shoulder every time his actions displease those in control of the budget.

It also had broader implications: Then NYC Councilman John Liu, who is now city comptroller and the city's only Asian - American citywide elected officials, backed his protege, Young, over Meng in 2006.

The rally featured two citywide elected officials, Scott Stringer and Tish James, as well as Assembly Member Phil Goldfeder, State Senator Joe Addabbo, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Council Members Eric Ulrich and Vincent Gentile.

«If the conventional wisdom that the mayor is vulnerable among black people holds true,» they said, «one shouldn't look past the only black citywide elected official.»

The other two citywide electeds, Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stringer, have not been especially active on the campaign trail, though both are raising some money.

Not exact matches

New York City wants elected and community officials to speak up about potential locations for new homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywide.

De Blasio's plan to reshape neighborhoods is facing widespread opposition from community leaders and elected officials, setting up a battle for his administration as it seeks to build more affordable housing citywide.

At 9:30 a.m., the de Blasio Administration and elected officials will announce that the Department of Homeless Services has ended the use of more than 42 percent of cluster units citywide as part of the its commitment to phasing out the 18 - year - old stop - gap cluster site program, 1146 Ogden Ave., the Bronx.

«I'm choosing my words carefully so as not to disrupt an investigation... I'm elected citywide and I take this seriously.

In addition to Mr. Skelos, a healthy string of ambitious Democratic citywide and local elected officials have made the soup - ladling trek, which says nothing of their efforts to pay tribute to other prominent Jewish social service organizations but also speaks volumes about the community's growing political significance.

Letitia James — the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position, who was a rumored 2021 mayoral candidate — would be the first woman and woman of color to hold the AG position.

The official who held the seat previously, Bill de Blasio, was elected to the citywide position of Public Advocate in 2009.

James, who was first elected in 2013 and reelected last year, was the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position.

Former Mayor David Dinkins, New York City's first and only African - American mayor, said he might back Public Advocate Letitia James — the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position — if she decides to run for mayor in 2021.

Letitia «Tish» James is New York City's third Public Advocate and was the first African American woman elected to citywide office in 2013.

Seems like a lotta electeds are testing the citywide political waters, and that now includes Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

As of Nick's last post on this subject, no vote had been scheduled for the leadership race, but he noted that the contest could pit a top Republican donor's family against one of the first African - American candidates the party has had run for elected citywide office in recent memory.

Several prominent Democratic elected officials and voting reform advocates on Tuesday assembled outside City Hall to call for instant runoff voting in citywide primary elections.

Such talk, that the Common Council has no business in citywide affairs and those should be left to him, is the talk of tyrants, not democratically elected officials.

July 1 — Elected and appointed Community and Citywide Education Council Members for the 2015 - 2017 term take office.

As part of the broader Community and Citywide Education Council selection process, elected officials urged parents to apply.

The primary victory of John Liu as comptroller — likely the first Asian - American to be elected to a citywide office — is a sign of growing ethnic power that's likely to change the city in years to come.

Endorsements for Rangel also came in from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Public Advocate Leticia James, who is the first African - American woman elected to citywide office, along with civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.

Independence candidate Adolfo Carrion has 4 % while 1 % of likely voters citywide wants another candidate to be elected.

Elected to his citywide post in 2013, Stringer has talked up the possibility of challenging de Blasio to several Democrats over the last two months, and his chief of staff has approached at least one veteran Democratic operative about signing on to a potential bid next year.

Ms. James, the first black woman elected to citywide office, is a natural candidate for City Hall someday — though her historically close relationship with de Blasio makes her less likely to challenge him directly in a primary than some of the other candidates bandied about, like Comptroller Scott Stringer or Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

During the race for the Democratic nomination in the 11th Council District, Koppell repeatedly used Cassino's support for Bloomberg as a counter-weight to his attacks on Koppell's efforts to overturn the two - term limit (imposed after two citywide referendums) for the city's elected officials.