Sentences with phrase «discussion about mayoral control»

For these politicians, the discussion about mayoral control is just another game.

Any discussion about mayoral control must first be had in Yonkers before making its way to Albany, they said.

Not exact matches

«We have given the Assembly and Mayor de Blasio three different options that would each extend mayoral control and ensure the continuity they crave, and we have even signaled our willingness to have further discussions about other options,» Flanagan said.

As much as the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming it.

After the debate, we asked him about a frequent topic of discussion among the mayoral candidates: mayoral / city control of the MTA.

«This becomes too much of a political football often in Albany, where the discussion is, unless there's additional changes in favor of charters, people talk about perhaps not extending mayoral control of education,» he said on the John Catsimatidis AM 970 radio show.