Sentences with phrase «civic meetings on»

On Wednesday night, San Jose hosted the first of nine civic meetings on the proposal.

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With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

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.

Eighty - nine years ago today, 12 civic movers and shakers met in the office of Chicago's premier architectural firm, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, on the 14th floor of the Railway Exchange Building (later the Santa Fe Building and today Motorola) on Michigan Avenue.

The local Momentum fuehrer was making a long - winded point in our draughty civic hall when I shouted «This isn't what I came to the meeting for» and flounced out thinking, perhaps, that at least I haven't put my name down for any canvassing... Thanks for this article; spot on!

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.

CIVIC CENTER — Amidst a barrage of public criticism and slights, Mayor Bill de Blasio is scheduled to sit down with the heads of the five police unions in a meeting closed to the public on Tuesday.

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.

We'll keep you up to date on local and county - wide issues and invite you to events where you will meet your fellow dynamic, civic - minded people of Delaware County, NY.

On Thursday, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development was expected to introduce a Yard Expansion Program, or YEP, at a civic meeting in Broad Channel.

Brought to London by the «Blue Labour» community guru Maurice Glasman, on his first meeting with Ed Miliband in 2011 Graf urged him to appoint someone he trusted to tour Britain talking to civic leaders, headteachers, unions, churches and voluntary organisations and thus assess the mood of the grassroots.

In this episode meet a would - be utopia in Spain where civic life is managed on Twitter; a teacher who becomes the target of a digital lynch mob; and the father of a school shooting victim who must prove to the internet that his son existed.

As current trends in contemporary society demand new educational responses, and traditional systems of learning are substantially challenged and reshaped, consensus is building around the importance of developing learners well prepared to meet the demands that current and future global trends make on individuals and societies, particularly in the area of civic and social participation, and ethical behavior in a world increasingly marked by difference.

Mr. Hornbeck said the idea was based on his belief that schools should help students learn to meet their social and civic responsibilities as well as attend to their academic needs.

I was able to travel across the U.S. and Canada meeting with school boards leaders, community organizations, foundations, and governments to collaborate on initiatives that fostered civic education, and was grateful to see the collective passion that educators across the country held for the success of students.

The SAC met four times over the course of the 2016 - 2017 school year and selected seven key topics that the SAC feels can be changed or improved in the DC education system.The proposals submitted by the SAC focused on graduation requirements, security, access to humanities and civic engagement courses, hall sweeps, food and nutrition, grading systems, and student socialization.

Updates from Regional Director David Castillo on cash flow challenges, CIVICS, OUSD SELPA changes, the upcoming Oakland Regional meeting and more.

The store front is located on the famous De La Guerra Plaza a historic meeting place for civic rallies and centrally located in Santa Barbara's downtown shopping district on the 700 Block of Lower State Street.

The full list of 58 selected artworks was officially presented to civic leaders at an event on Saturday, June 21, in Dallas, at the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors.

My goal in doing this was to introduce some key social challenges and then spend most of the rest of the course addressing (civic engagement) perspectives on meeting these challenges.

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

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.

on «High science should meet up with civic science» for climate adaptation says former Holdren student

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At a 2003 meeting of the International Communication Association in San Diego, California, one presenter described political discussions as a type of «civic engagement» that had the potential to not only contribute to political tolerance on a broader level, but to strengthen interpersonal bonds.