Sentences with phrase «civic group meetings»

Start talking about a tax on climate pollution at your local environmental, religious or civic group meetings.

Meanwhile, who is providing community services and representing their interests at community and civic group meetings — and who is in charge of those people?

Leaders from more than a dozen eastern Queens civic groups met in Bellerose last week, demanding their communities be united by the state task force that will redraw the area's legislative lines for the coming decade.

Not exact matches

At the Park District meeting, civic groups opposed to the plan and residents who live across from the proposed museum site raised previous concerns that the structure would go against long - standing court rulings that restrict such construction in Grant Park.

According to the resolution, scheduled to be considered at the next park board meeting on Sept. 13, the park district staff would meet with the club, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and interested civic and community groups for 90 days to either adapt the gun club activities to eliminate violations or to relocate it to another site on park district property.

Virtually overnight, campaign signs peppered the neighborhood, bumper stickers were given out, and soon civic groups and political organizations met members of his campaign team.

Israel made further rounds at the FDR Democratic Club, and then with a plethora of civic groups and senior centers all the while meeting one on one with community leaders.

Mr. Stringer, who was an assemblyman in 1999 and voted against the repeal, will describe his plan in a speech on Tuesday at a meeting of a prominent civic group, the Association for a Better New York, a regular stop for the city's presumptive mayoral candidates as they try to define themselves amid a crowded field of left - leaning progressives.

The plans were met with fierce criticism from civic groups, community boards and borough presidents who felt they either undid specific neighborhood protections or did not include deep enough affordability to help the New Yorkers who need it most.

Delegates will deploy in two - person teams to regional capitals across Ghana to meet with election administrators, parliamentary candidates, domestic observer groups, and political and civic activists in these localities.

Despite a recent uproar over the validity of civic - minded groups such as co-op and condominium organizations being allowed to meet in public schools, the city Department of Education assured them that the doors would remain open.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

She spoke to civic and business groups, attending Rotary lunches and meeting with other community agencies.

CPAG is the host organisation for the Campaign to End Child Poverty coalition, which has members from across civil society including children's charities, faith groups, unions and other civic sector organisations, united in their campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is met.

Urban school boards partner with religious organizations, charities, civic groups, and local government agencies to rally community resources to meet the needs of students and their families.

The candidates for the Orleans Parish School Board will meet tonight (Tuesday, Oct. 2) at a forum moderated by Tulane University President Scott Cowen and hosted by a number of local civic groups.

MHHS volunteers are available to present programs to school classes, church groups, civic clubs, scout meetings, and meetings of citizens in nearby counties trying to organize a humane society or operate animal shelters.

Now she had time to meet donors for lunch and speak to local civic groups about the organization's work.

Over the past several months, Tradewind agents have met with more than a dozen residential, civic and governmental groups to explain the wind farm project, which would generate $ 1.5 million annually in landowner lease payments and $ 1.2 million annual in taxes, mostly in Martin County.

DIY Tech + DIY Civic Engagement Projects selected to be featured in a street exposition last weekend — described as a «one - day explosion of DIY tech meets DIY civic engagement meets SF art scene» — ranged from Clip + Slide, a kit that converts stairs into musical slides, to the DIY Traffic Counter, a simple device that allows individuals or community groups to measure automobile or bicycle traffic on a given street.

Students often miss opportunities to join career - related organizations and clubs, speak with visiting professionals, attend off - campus professional meetings and presentations, take internships or volunteer for related business and civic groups.

They join local civic groups, go to meetings, sponsor events and groups, and more.

A group of civic leaders from some of the Edge Cities — a term coined a decade ago to denote cities built at the far fringes of development around major cities — met in Schaumburg, Ill., to discuss possible solutions to the problems these cities face.