Sentences with phrase «district meeting voters»

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About a dozen people came to the Park District meeting room on Tuesday to talk about the idea of asking voters to fund the project through a referendum issue.

The chance to meet the seven candidates and get answers to questions about the proposed district is meant to appeal to voters who have not made up their minds.

Three times in the late 1990s the district went to voters to ask for more money to deal with the costs of overcrowding and make ends meet.

Both Tailor and Dirk Van Beek, representing Dixmoor voters, argued that the park district could be dissolved under state law since the district failed to hold regular meetings for the last five years, failed to acquire and maintain land for park purposes, failed to have a planned program of recreation and failed to pass an annual budget and act to levy taxes.

At Legislative Task Force on Redistricting meeting in Buffalo this week, Sen. Tim Kennedy, a freshman Democrat, tries to make the point that the 63rd Senate district that's being carved out of the Capital Region is unconstitutional and disenfranchises minority voters.

It may sound cliché, but if Gates Republican Mark Assini wants to do something no one has been able to do in nearly 30 years — defeat veteran Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter — he'll have to convince the voters of New York's 25th Congressional District they meet that definition.

«In addition to the money raised Chris McGrath has been meeting with voters from across the district every day and built an operation that has knocked on thousands of doors as well as made tens of thousands of phone calls,» Murray said.

A party meets the requirements for ballot access if a candidate nominated by the political party at one of the two immediately preceding statewide general elections received at least 5 percent of the vote, or if a combination of candidates nominated by the political party for a combination of districts that encompass all of the voters of the entire state polled at least 5 percent of the vote in each of their respective districts.

I've just returned from a remarkable fringe meeting at the party's annual autumn conference, in which Ian Dexter, a Ukip member, former candidate in county and district elections and potential parliamentary candidate for 2015, outlined his strategy for winning over Labour voters.

PORT EWEN, N.Y. >> The Esopus Democratic Committee and Indivisible Ulster will co-sponsor two meetings to give voters the opportunity to question the six candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the 19th Congressional District election.

Like Mulverhill, Jones said he's been traversing the district meeting with voters and garnering support.

Seeks voter approval, as part of the annual budget vote at the annual district meeting for a multi-year (2017 - 18 through 2021 - 22) student transportation contract with Brega Transportation, Inc. in accordance with its response to RFP ER -3-1-7.

On Thursday, October 27, candidates for Erie County District Attorney will meet at the WNED WBFO studios for a debate on issues facing county voters.

Some voters in New York's vast 21st Congressional District are urging their Republican Representative Elise Stefanik to hold town hall meetings, but on WAMC's Congressional Corner Thursday the congresswoman who has just started her second term tells WAMC's Alan Chartock that she prefers smaller, private meetings with constituents.

Rep. Elise Stefanik has no current plans to hold a town hall meeting in her district during this week's so - called «district work period,» even after pushing out a 22 - page report last week that strongly advises members to be accessible to millennials and other voters.

He also went door to door in his district, hung around at the local Starbucks talking one on one with voters, staked yard signs at the entrance to residential subdivisions, and attended homeowners» association meetings.

Two of three candidates in the race for the 24th congressional district, met with voters in Cayuga county yesterday during a town hall forum organized by one of those candidates, Republican Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle.

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Both the candidates for family court judge, as well as those for District Attorney and State Assembly, will appear at a Meet the Candidates Forum, hosted by the Chautauqua County League of women Voters — on Tuesday, Oct. 25 in the Sarita Weeks conference room of Jamestown Community College.

Today's proposal by Buerkle is for voters to be able to ask the candidates questions in town hall meetings in all four counties in the 24th congressional district.

The candidate spent the rest of the day in the western and central parts of the district, meeting with voters and canvassing in Canton, Potsdam, Massena, Malone and Lake Placid before returning to Elizabethtown, where supporters began gathering at the Cobble Inn, Woolf's adopted local pub, earlier that afternoon.

Syracuse, NY - While Assemblyman Al Stirpe was meeting and greeting voters this fall, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was waging his own kind of campaign to try to keep the 121st District in Democratic control.

Georgia legislators have scrapped a proposal to fund school construction through voter - approved local sales taxes after meeting resistance from municipal leaders who did not want to have to compete with school districts for funds.

The committee, whose first meeting is Feb. 21, would also look at the best ways to break up school districts, including whether to require a referendum by voters.

The district and school board also are looking at developing a new district - wide teacher compensation model, too, and may ask voters in April for $ 3.5 million to be able to provide raises, according to school board meeting documents.

Incumbent State Superintendent Tony Evers and challenger Lowell Holtz, a former superintendent of three school districts, met on Friday for the final time before voters go to the polls on Tuesday to choose one to lead the Department of Public Instruction for the next four years.

State Representatives Ed Vargas and Minnie Gonzalez both attended that meeting and spoke against the creation of a new Achievement First school; Gonzalez said that if the BOE thinks about touching Burns, she would go door - to - door in her district to activate voters.

The voters in these swing districts rejected this antiquated approach to education and supported candidates who believe every child deserves to attend the school that best meets their needs.