Sentences with phrase «committee meetings all year»

State Sen. Tom O'Mara, R - Big Flats, hasn't attended a Transportation Committee meeting this year until Tuesday this week.

These events have further silenced chapter voices as the absence of monthly consultation committee meetings all year has deprived the chapter of our voice on issues such as fiscal and budgetary matters, instructional goals, programming, and how to best serve students while honoring the contract.

Not exact matches

It's a different story in the U.S., where, after a five - year delay, transcripts of Federal Open Market Committee meetings — where U.S. interest rates are set — are released to the public.

The Federal Open Markets Committee will meet for the final time this year in two weeks, and many economists are expecting the group to finally raise rates following that gathering.

«We've reduced our discretionary spending over the last seven or eight years an incredible amount,» said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R - N.J. «Maybe some people don't like those agencies, but it's been pretty difficult for them to meet their mandate.»

When he testified before the committee last year, Page denied meeting with Diveykin, adding that the encounter in question was «a brief, less - than -10-second chat with Arkadiy Dvorkovich,» Russia's deputy prime minister.

In January 2013, according to Page's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee last year, he met Russian businessman Victor Podobnyy, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, at an event in New York.

Page met with several top Russian officials during the trip, according to his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee last year.

«This year's selections — independently elected by 16 committees around the country meeting simultaneously — reflects the rich diversity of America,» Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in a news release.

Each automatic triennial stock option grant and each stock option grant for service as lead independent director, member of a Board committee or chair of a Board committee, in each case as described above, will vest 1/36 per month for three years starting on the one month anniversary of the vesting commencement date, subject to continued service in the capacity for which such grant was made (except that if a director who was granted such an option ceases to be a director on the day before an annual meeting that is held earlier than the anniversary date of the vesting commencement date for that calendar year, vesting will accelerate with respect to the shares that would have vested if such director continued service through such anniversary date).

Upon the recommendation of our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, our Board has nominated the persons listed below to serve as directors for the one - year term beginning at our annual meeting on May 19, 2010 or until their successors, if any, are elected or appointed.

The Board and its committees met throughout the year on a set schedule, held special meetings, and acted by written consent from time to time as appropriate.

Mr. Lacker, a voting member of the policy committee this year, has indicated he is likely to dissent if the Fed does not raise rates at the September meeting.

Each non-employee director also received $ 2,000 for designated Board meetings attended in excess of six per year and $ 2,000 for each committee meeting attended in excess of six per year.

The central bank raised interest rates for the first time this year in March; its most recent announcement came after a meeting of its Federal Open Market Committee.

At all regular committee meetings during the year, a portion of such meeting is held without management present to allow a more open discussion.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

Generally, compensation decisions are normally made at the first and second regularly scheduled Compensation Committee meetings of the fiscal year.

Director compensation typically consists of a cash component (retainer), smaller cash amounts paid for attendance at board and committee meetings, and incentive compensation in the form of stock and stock option grants which vest over a period of a few years.

Among the R.G.A. documents is a 21 - page schedule of the policy committee's Carlsbad meeting last year that lists which companies attended, who represented them and what they contributed.

After the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen indicated the rate - setting body was on track to raise the federal - funds rate three times in 2017 and continue on that path next year, even though inflation is well below the Fed's 2 % target rate.

During the past year, the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the design, amounts, and effectiveness of the Company's compensation of senior executives, management succession planning, the Company's benefit and compensation programs, the Company's human resources programs, including review of workplace discrimination and harassment reports, and feedback from the Company's shareholder engagement.

The Committee shall meet in person or telephonically at least two times a year at a time and place determined by the Chairperson, with further meetings to occur, or actions to be taken by written consent, when deemed necessary or desirable by the Committee or its Chairperson.

During the past year, the Audit Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the Company's risk assessment and compliance functions, information security, public policy expenditures, treasury and investment matters, accounting industry issues, the reappointment of our independent auditor, and pending litigation.

A two - day meeting of the the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee was to begin Tuesday, when central bank officials will consider a potential second rate hike this year.

Eight times per year, the Federal Open Market Committee — the FOMC — meets to set the path of monetary stimulus over the next six to seven weeks.

Later that same year Fed Vice President Donald Kohn, speaking at a Shadow Open Market Committee meeting held here at the Cato Institute, complained that «the large volume of reserves is contributing to the loose relationship of our deposit rate and market rates,» while assuring those present that the Fed would eventually «drain the banking system of excess reserves for that reason.»

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England next meets on December 12 - 13, 2017, for the last time this year.

«Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising moderately so far this year.

The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meet today ahead of the final announcement of the year tomorrow at 2 pm EST / 7 pm GMT.

On February 18 this year the Fed released the document — the minutes of the April 1997 meeting of the G - 10 Gold and Foreign Exchange Committee as compiled by an official of the New York Federal Reserve bank.

Committee members have an average of 18 years of tenure in investment management and leverage our established and proven process to help you meet your fiduciary duty.

To do so, each year they look at hundreds of companies (and formally recommend dozens to the investment committees), have more than a thousand meetings and discussions with management teams, and also consult countless other knowledgeable sources, such as customers, suppliers and former employees to supplement their analysis.

The Federal Open Market Committee holds eight meetings per year.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 percent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

As expected, the Fed raised interest rates at its December meeting, but for the first time in more than a year, two members of the rate - setting committee dissented, in favor of leaving monetary policy on hold.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

The Fed committee is scheduled to meet eight times this year and could raise rates as many times, though it probably won't.

At its Federal Open Market Committee meeting this month, the Fed telegraphed that it is preparing to raise interest rates to what we consider a more normal level after many years of ultra-accommodative monetary policy.

At its July meeting, the BoE left interest rates unchanged, with its monetary - policy committee appearing to place less priority on inflationary pressures resulting from the British pound's depreciation, maintaining its view that UK inflation would peak at around 3 % later this year.

Mike Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics, said the index dropped to its lowest «in more than a dozen years... as interest rates increased going into today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.»

There is oversight of the RBA's risk management practices from the Risk Management Committee, which meets at least six times a year.

The Audit and Risk Committee met with management and the auditors to review and discuss the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014, as well as management's assessment of the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting and the auditor's assessment of our internal controls over financial reporting.

One year while serving as pastor of a congregation just outside Indianapolis, I met with a two - member worship committee to plan Holy Week and Easter services.

I was not present at the finance committee meeting the night they voted on next year's budget.

Between that meeting and this year's, a Vatican - appointed committee produced a document.

In thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and conversations short and long, I have heard God mentioned rarely, and when he is mentioned he is never talked of in a way that assumes his reality.

In 1956, the Joint Committee presented, to both organizations, a statement tracing the history of the association of the two bodies and offering the Committee» s conviction that the time had come for the World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council to consider afresh the possibility of integrating the two Councils.18 In the same year, the Joint Committee prepared a draft plan of integration, with a booklet entitled: Why Integration 2, to be presented to the World Council of Churches Central Committee Meeting in 1957 and the Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council in 1957 - 58.

Two years later, I was in town for what turned out to be the last meeting of the Jerusalem Committee, an international advisory panel to Mayor Teddy Kollek.

A committee of cardinals, including Cajetan, met at the beginning of the year and put proposals to the Pope in March.