Sentences with phrase «community hearings on the matter»

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«There's absolutely no truth to the idea that Mark is running for office and I've heard it directly from him,» the anonymous confidant told the news site, adding that Zuckerberg identifies Facebook as a «global community» that «plays an incredibly important role in shaping the base on the issues that matter.»

In addition, Boards regularly conduct public hearings — on the City's budget, on land use matters, and other major issues — to give the people of the community the opportunity to express their opinions.

We'll hear more from Senator Young and her initial thoughts on the state budget later today on our Community Matters program, which airs at 5 p.m.

«Community boards hold hearings on and issue recommendations regarding land use and zoning matters, the City budget, municipal service delivery and many other issues relating to their communities,» Katz said.

The Orient community's vocal opposition continued at an April 22 NYMTC public hearing on the matter.

If Brexit means that people care about the places they'd never heard of before (Sunderland, Hartlepool, Spalding), if Brexit means that embarrassing levels of inequality are considered a problem, if Brexit means that those in charge realise that a sense of community and of job satisfaction matter as much as income to live on, then 2017 may the long overdue — a year when we start to address these challenges.

«The voices of the parents, teachers and the community have been heard,» said Leonie Haimson, the executive director of education blog Class Size Matters, who delivered 13,000 signatures to Steiner's apartment on the Upper East Side Monday evening urging him to deny the waiver.

Lhota has also refused to make service investments in Northeast Queens where it matters such as adding a Bayside / Whitestone / North Flushing to Lower Manhattan service which the MTA has admitted is a good idea; or having service on the QM2 and QM20 begin earlier in the morning which would better accommodate lots of people; or adding a 3rd Avenue branch to the QM20 bus; or restoring North Shore Towers to Lower Manhattan Express Bus service which the MTA quietly cut in 2008 without a public hearing, and at a time when there were plenty of service investments being planned, such as a Q45 extension to Atlas Park which drew widespread opposition in Glendale and by Community Board 5.

The Community Board is scheduled to hold a hearing on the matter on Nov. 9.

Then there's the liberal progressive group Community Voices Heard which takes it a step further, calling for an investigation by the Jonit Commission on Public Ethics into the matter:

At the Community Board 3 hearing on the matter, a slight majority of those who testified voiced support for the tech hub.

A. I haven't heard the scientific community speak with a unified voice in some time on this subject matter.

«While we often hear that educators feel overwhelmed, we also hear that the schools and districts that take the necessary steps to implement SEL see that it pays off — for student achievement and wellbeing, and for the adult community — in a matter of months, if they focus on climate and practices,» said Rachel Poliner, this year's conference organizer.