Sentences with phrase «concerns about the city»

Though council members supported the concept of a skate park, they had concerns about the city's liability if the park is built at the Garden Plots.

Moreover, there were concerns about the City Council legislation since the fee is open ended.

«These are comments that are attributed right to the mayor, this global notion that the county isn't as concerned about city resident as the city,» Mahoney said.»

Commissioner of Finance Jacques Jiha did a nimble job of answering questions and concerns about the city's tax structure, revenue collection, deeds, etc..

That's why I am out in the community every single day, in every single neighborhood, talking to the people of Buffalo, and listening to their concerns about our city,» he said.

Syracuse Common Councilors on Monday expressed concerns about the city's department of finances budget during a two - hour - long hearing.

Alex Walsh has been state Sen. John DeFrancisco's assistant for almost three years and said he is concerned about the city facing bankruptcy.

He made news recently by raising concerns about City Hall's budgeting practices, which have involved the use of reserve funds the past three years to balance the books.

The constituent services advocate is tasked with responding to people's questions and concerns about city government.

Hundreds of residents from the city of Oswego packed the gym at Oswego Middle School on Thursday to voice their concerns about the city's proposed budget.

Concerned about the city's increased spending and possible future budget deficits, a majority of City Council members have appealed to Mayor Bill de Blasio to have his agencies evaluate their priorities and find ways to reduce spending before he releases his next preliminary budget.

Local elites (for example, businesses, local foundations, and philanthropic leaders) are naturally concerned about their city's viability and are often the first to join the fight on the side of reformers.

Anyone with equity concerns about the city's reforms should read two recent pieces.

In addition to the dense hanging of artworks, posters, and other archival materials, along with an area to read books and watch videos, the exhibition features four town - hall discussions to examine pressing concerns about city life now.

Liz rode her bike often while living in Arizona but hadn't made the leap to becoming a bike commuter since moving to Portland a few years ago (concerns about city cycling being a primary factor).

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She's more concerned about the skyrocketing cost of rents in the city, which have risen 200 percent in the past three years, and where a modest storefront like hers can go for as much as $ 17,000 per month.

Many businesses shy away from moving into inner - city areas like South Central Los Angeles due to concerns about market viability, vandalism and gangs, but when we were looking for a location for our Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar franchise, my partner, Karim Webb, and I realized it didn't make sense to look anywhere else.

The mayor was so concerned about gang violence in the city that he had certain liquor stores and gang - heavy communities closed, he told CBS News in July.

Concerns about Western influences seeping into Saudi society might be assuaged by the promise to develop a rural area far from major cities.

As the world population grows and concern about dwindling resources and climate change increase, there has been a push globally towards creating more sustainable cities.

«Like many of you, I'm concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump,» Zuckerberg said, referencing the orders Trump signed earlier this week to build a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border and prioritize the deportation of undocumented immigrants from so - called sanctuary cities in the U.S.

With as many as 160,000 apartments to be completed in Australia's major cities by the end of next year, some forecasters are becoming concerned about «settlement risk».

If Donald Trump ever took the time to talk to people in the «inner cities» he loves to denigrate, he'd know that many of them are more concerned about rising rents than they are about rising crime.

About 300 people have been killed by the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes and kills about 8 % of people who contract it since July 2017, causing concerns about an epidemic if the virus hits the country's densely populated ciAbout 300 people have been killed by the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes and kills about 8 % of people who contract it since July 2017, causing concerns about an epidemic if the virus hits the country's densely populated ciabout 8 % of people who contract it since July 2017, causing concerns about an epidemic if the virus hits the country's densely populated ciabout an epidemic if the virus hits the country's densely populated cities.

While Duncan is optimistic about the city's long - term prospects of growing local entrepreneurship, some concerns remain.

Last December, Texas's regulator for payday and auto - title lenders announced - without naming TitleMax - that it was «concerned» about the practice of offering a zero percent loan to customers in those cities.

But the public response has been more lukewarm, particularly in cities where rising housing costs have already led to concerns about affordability and gentrification.

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The cheap loans helped propel property values to record highs in big cities such as New York and San Francisco, alleviating concerns about the mountain of debt coming due.

On Tuesday night, Peterborough City Council approved a plan for a for - profit corporation to own and operate a new student residence at Trent University. I'm concerned that this may signal a new trend at Canadian universities; about a year ago, I blogged about a similar plan at the University of Toronto.

«We're all concerned about what could be gentrification or displacement, how do we deal with that,» said Aisha Glover, president and chief executive of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation, which is involved in the New Jersey city's bid.

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised concerns about an oversupply of apartments in Brisbane and other cities.

This Friday December 29th at 6:00 PM members of more than two dozen New York City and other community groups who are seriously concerned about the situation in Puerto Rico, now that more than 100 days have passed since the devastation that hurricane Maria brought to the island, will converge on the south side of Union Square to have their voices heard.

Now banks are growing cautious about lending to developers, especially those active in smaller cities that face an oversupply of housing, and Beijing is concerned about a buildup of debt and unoccupied housing.

It is also concerned about council members being placed in difficult situations, when the majority of the donations are coming from companies and unions that have a direct interest in decisions made by city council.»

About 2,000 demonstrators concerned about pollution have taken to the streets in southern China to protest plans for a planned refinery on the outskirts of the city of KunAbout 2,000 demonstrators concerned about pollution have taken to the streets in southern China to protest plans for a planned refinery on the outskirts of the city of Kunabout pollution have taken to the streets in southern China to protest plans for a planned refinery on the outskirts of the city of Kunming.

But the city's firefighters and cops say they have concerns about their future workplace that have not been addressed because they've been left out of the conversation.

In 2015, the Prentice plan did not invest any new funding in FCSS despite advocacy by volunteer organizations concerned about a lack of resources to support Alberta's growing cities and communities.

The authorities have expressed concern about speculative activity, and have raised the effective minimum mortgage rate, and increased the minimum downpayment ratio in those cities experiencing the most rapid house price growth.

«Factory activity accelerated in April despite concerns among many firms about changes in international trade policy,» said Chad Wilkerson, vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

On the other hand, millennials in cities away from the coasts are are less concerned about affordability.

The Department was quite properly concerned about having any school in this diverse City identified with one particular religious belief or practice.»

Archbishop Maria Calist Soosa Pakiam of Trivandrum, the capital city of the state of Kerala, wrote a pastoral letter to his parishioners about the proposed Vizhinjam port, outlining his concerns.

Many whites, chastened by the apparent failures of 1960s - style social engineering but genuinely concerned about the tragedy unfolding in our inner cities, are reluctant to engage the issue.

A Canadian 15 - year - old named William Gadoury only furthered our concerns about the next generation, by using historical clues to possibly discover the long - lost Mayan City he calls «The Fire Mouth» by analyzing satellite imagery on Google maps.

Because the church was congregationally concerned, it was also active in the neighborhood, and that meant that, it cared about what was happening in city politics.

Tarkington's concerns about industrialization and the growth of cities surface in works by Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, as in the latter's portrayal of the factories of Saruman in Isengard.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

Precise dates elude me now, but in about 1966 Richard and Peter saw to it that I was invited from Stanford to come to New York City to join the Board of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vieabout 1966 Richard and Peter saw to it that I was invited from Stanford to come to New York City to join the Board of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About VieAbout Vietnam.