Sentences with phrase «costs to public safety»

«This historic decrease in criminal summonses is proof that meaningful criminal justice reform is possible without any cost to public safety or order.»

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«We're still in the early stages of that program, but we're hoping that there will be results showing that this technology can make a real difference to public safety in a more cost - effective way, but also in a more effective way,» Ger Daly, Global Managing Director of Defense and Public Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation Cpublic safety in a more cost - effective way, but also in a more effective way,» Ger Daly, Global Managing Director of Defense and Public Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation Csafety in a more cost - effective way, but also in a more effective way,» Ger Daly, Global Managing Director of Defense and Public Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation CPublic Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation CSafety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation Cities.

«If public health and emergency management officials determine that taking potassium iodide is appropriate, the pills will be provided to people at no cost,» the document says, also noting that the pills should only be taken at the instruction of a doctor or safety officials.

The governor said he issued an executive order Friday to halt the erosion of the bank's dwindling liquidity by allowing withdrawals only to fund necessary costs for health, public safety and education services.

Public access to information is a cost effective way for government to improve safety.

«The Council's plan to increase headcount while also including cost control measures is fiscally responsible and will go a long way towards ensuring public safety and better community relations.»

A de Blasio spokesperson said Flanagan's proposal «would add an arbitrary, unnecessary and restrictive cap to the New York City property tax code — which already has a number of existing caps — and cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

Reforming the state's pension plan for new employees will put our costs in line with other states across the nation and preserve the invaluable services, like education and public safety, that make New York the best place to live, do business and raise a family.»

So far town officials have expressed concerns about costs related to visitors from a public safety angle.

If doing double duty as a courier or digging up spare stamps takes more time, DEC workers may have to shift around their priorities, as Gov. David Paterson's Budget Division, in another cost - cutting move last week ordered agency heads to eliminate overtime except in instances where health or public safety is impacted.

State Senator James Seward visited Cortland Friday morning to see how the city uses special state funding that he obtained to offset extra public safety costs because of the state college being here.

But City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., chair of the council's Public Safety committee, said the proposal would open the city up to a flood of lawsuits and threatened that the costs, even without monetary damages, would be massive.

We've got to move on — and develop a sensible plan for prison reform that will deliver better outcomes, improved public safety and lower costs for taxpayers.

I am proud of the work done by the Legislature to identify areas where we can save costs and reprioritize funding to support critical services, including public safety, road work and other vital departments.

POUGHKEEPSIE — This afternoon, the Dutchess County Legislature's Public Safety Committee authorized $ 3.2 million to be taken out of the County's general contingency fund as well as out of general fund balance to pay for increasing costs relating to the Dutchess County Jail including overtime costs and inmates housed in other institutions.

«Each and every day we depend on thousands of uniformed officers to keep our streets and communities safe, and many New Yorkers are deeply concerned that we have seen encounters with police cost unarmed civilians their lives,» Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson (D - Bronx), chair of the Public Safety Committee, said in a statement.

The Council's plan to increase headcount while also including cost control measures is fiscally responsible and will go a long way towards ensuring public safety and better community relations,» Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said in a statement.

The city opposes the measure, with a de Blasio spokeswoman saying it would «cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

Commisso looks to replace the red light camera program run by vendor GATMO USA, which Mayor Sheehan has touted as successful in managing public safety with no cost to residents and not a program that was supposed to provide long - term revenue.

in managing public safety with no cost to residents and not a program that was supposed to provide long - term revenue.

«We don't have the people, the population or the industry in this city to support the costs for those public safety departments,» Castiglia said.

Writing in an open letter to Brown in 2011, Donnelly accused the governor of submitting new contract agreements that «protect the well - paid public employee unions, even at the cost of students, public safety, and jobs.»

PRESS RELEASE County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef has announced that the Department of Public Transportation recently retrofitted one of its bus shelters with solar panels and a light box designed to provide cost - efficient and reliable power, increased safety and improved delivery of customer information for its Transport of Rockland (TOR) and TAPPAN ZEExpress (TZx) bus -LSB-...]

The effort comes as a way to stem the tide of rising costs for government and public safety from a growing drug epidemic in Westchester County, which has seen opioid - related deaths increase by 60 percent in the last year, according to county Legislator Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat.

The Unsustainable Quo is a mandatory arbitration system that creates leap frogging of generous public safety contract awards between Nassau and Suffolk counties — to the point now where it costs us an average of two hundred thousand dollars per police officer between salary, benefits and pension costs.

By declaring that the health and safety problems in public housing constitute a public nuisance, the executive order, pursuant to state public health law, obligates the city to cover those costs.

We are open to fellows with a broad range of interests that include, but are not limited to: medical research issues, food and drug safety, health care quality and costs, coverage of the uninsured, health information technology, and public health.

Combining data from four different databases to look at injury occurrence and reporting in the Philadelphia Fire Department, researchers from the Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) program of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health discovered that, once injuries were more accurately coded, the difference in workers» compensation costs was as much as $ 1 million for some injuries.

P. Balaram, a molecular biophysicist and director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and 60 others last week wrote an open letter to the public, stating: «We strongly believe that India must radically review its nuclear power policy for appropriateness, safety, costs, and public acceptance, and undertake an independent, transparent safety audit of all its nuclear facilities, which involves non-Department of Atomic Energy experts and civil society organisations.

In an e-mail to ScienceInsider, he says, «Without support for data and research in this area, it is very difficult to know which policy changes are most likely to generate net improvements in public safety that can justify the costs involved.»

«We chose to focus on alcohol because even relatively small changes in alcohol consumption could have profound implications for public health, safety and related costs,» said lead author Katarína Guttmannová, a researcher in the UW's Social Development Research Group.

This advanced nuclear power plant has major appeal in domestic and international markets, offering a right - sized, cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy, and ensuring attainable power options to existing and emerging global economies demanding increased certainty of public safety, environmental protection and security from intrusion and proliferation of nuclear materials.

Among them: how far people must travel to shop; availability and safety of bike paths; parking costs; and access to public transportation.

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In order to keep the construction and repair cost of school buildings down, safety codes for public schools have not been revised in nearly 40 years (since 1971).

Furthermore, by pledging not to «raise» taxes at the state level, there will be no meaningful state increase in state aid to municipalities and that will translate into massive increases in local property taxes, as towns face the growing costs of education, public safety and other local services.

There are significant opportunities to improve public safety and lower costs through elimination of unnecessary differences in US and EU regulatory requirements, harmonization of crash data to better understand safety problems and more accurately measure the effects of potential actions to address those problems, and improved cooperation in research and rulemaking addressing emerging safety issues and technologies.

approaches to taking advantage of these opportunities to improve public safety and lower costs

High quality Work Zone Safety Grant training offers the TCT, TCS and FIT courses at no charge to public agencies, and low - cost for private firms

Messages about how spaying and neutering reduces the number of homeless / unwanted animals born annually are the most motivating to encourage people to have their dogs and cats sterilized, along with educating the public about the safety and quality of low - cost clinics and the appropriate age for a pet to undergo surgery.

PAWS of Dale Hollow has helped more than 3,000 homeless dogs (and, from time to time, cats) find their way to safety since its inception and has facilitated the spay / neuter of countless others through their low - cost public outreach program.

The cost and the manpower involved in banning a specific breed or type of dog has certainly proved to be high with very little effect on public safety.

Beyond the challenge of changing its approach to feral cats, the county must research the costs involved in the program and consider the long - term - safety and public - health issues, Stone said.

On whose scale would the benefits outweigh the risks and cost to the dog and, moreover, to public safety?

Not having accessible spay / neuter programs can be expensive to a community due to excessive costs of impounding and sheltering unwanted animals, extensive spending by local governments responding to animal complaints such as dog bites and other nuisances, and public health and safety risks.

Spaying and neutering can significantly reduce the number of animals being euthanized at open intake shelters or turned away at no kill shelters due to lack of space, decrease the cost of picking up and housing stray or unwanted animals, and lower threats to public health and safety.

(2) Due to the large number of stray and abandoned cats, euthanasia is not a cost effective, acceptable or ethical solution to the threats to public health and safety posed by large populations of stray, feral or homeless cats.

This humane approach to managing community cats can decrease municipal costs, reduce public health and safety concerns, decrease nuisance complaints and reduce predation on wildlife.

(a) Uncontrolled and irresponsible breeding of animals contributes to pet overpopulation, inhumane treatment of animals, mass euthanasia at local shelters, and escalating costs for animal care and control; this irresponsible breeding also contributes to the production of defective animals that present a public safety risk.

County officials also cited public safety and cost of upgrades that would soon be required as the primary reasons for the switch to lethal injection as a means of euthanasia for shelter animals.