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Notable park district supporters sampling Doan «s kitchen wizardry included Elmhurst Mayor Charles Garrigues and his wife, Pat, as well as numerous Elmhurst Park Board officials, including board president Thomas Hanlon and parks director Mick Pope.

Park District officials said the concept would give them more time to develop a better idea of the scope of any facility it needs.

Joliet Park District officials promise they will build a new well to replace the popular artesian well they capped for health reasons earlier this month, but they ca n`t promise it will be artesian.

Although all of the Oak Lawn votes had not yet been counted late Wednesday, voters there were rejecting the measure by better than a 2 - 1 ratio, stunning Park District officials who had seen them overwhelmingly approve an advisory referendum on the matter in November 2004.

Park District officials also stepped up the design process involved with their building after realizing the programs they wanted to house would not be best utilized in the basement of what is to become the city's third library.

The Naperville Park District had its best year ever in terms of golf revenue in 1994, a $ 315,000 increase to nearly $ 2.2 million that park officials contend was directly attributable to nice weather.

Park District officials are «confident» they will raise the money within a year and will later decide with help from the community, how to best use the land.

Park District officials defend privatization as a good deal for the district and the tDistrict officials defend privatization as a good deal for the district and the tdistrict and the taxpayer.

Park District officials told prospective participants last week that they hope the event, to be held May 13 - 21 under a huge tent in Butler Field, east of the Petrillo Music Shell and north of Buckingham Fountain, will draw tourists as well as inspire city dwellers to make the most of their patches of ground.

«We want to solve some of the problems in Grant Park — pedestrian movement through the park, reduction of the impact of the roadway system, better facilities for staging events and moving things around so we don't impact just one place in Grant Park,» said Edward Uhlir, a former Chicago Park District official who now is an assistant to Daley and director of the Millennium Park project.

But park officials maintain that, even though the facility, which will feature two basketball courts, administrative offices, a small nursery and storage space, will be visible from several homes, it is in the best interests of a majority of Park District residents.

GURNEE — In its quest to be the best park district in the area, the Gurnee Park District is looking to its residents for planning help, officiadistrict in the area, the Gurnee Park District is looking to its residents for planning help, officiaDistrict is looking to its residents for planning help, officials said.

Since then, Park District and library officials have determined that two separate buildings would better serve the city's south side.

Park District officials couldn't have timed the opening of the $ 4.8 million facility better, coming as it did in the midst of this summer's first wave of scorching days.

Also, the playgrounds at Twin Lakes and South Park, Euclid Avenue and Rohlwing Road, need better accessibility for handicapped children, district officials said.

A team of Chicago Park District officials led reporters Friday onto the field at Soldier Field to show how well the grass is doing.

While the health of the recreation fund is ailing, officials say the district's overall financial picture looks good.

Because CHA basketball leagues are aimed at their residents, Park District officials say they realized there was an interest in such a program well outside the boundaries of public housing.

The criticism was mounting as park district officials prepared to meet Thursday with Chicago yacht club commodores to discuss the controversial plan that calls for damming Diversey harbor, as well as the inner and outer harbors at Jackson Park and the 59th Street harbor by next summer.

Rather, several district food services officials, as well as relevant industry representatives, indicated the need for a permanent federal decision on these restrictions, which USDA has also acknowledged.

Specifically, GAO reviewed relevant federal laws, as well as USDA regulations, guidance, and studies; interviewed USDA officials and groups of food service officials and relevant industry representatives; and visited eight school districts.

Wheaton Park District officials thought they had a gift from DuPage County: a good plan for cleaning up the long - neglected, eroding streams and ponds in Northside Park, at the county's expense.

Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird announced the unprecedented decision, concluding that park district officials had squandered the public's funds as well as its trust.

You will also find that you have to be a teacher of the regs as well as a student; it will be up to you to make sure that others you come into contact with, including your supporters, key district officials, and the media, all understand the regs too.

The district wants to sell revenue bonds to pay construction costs and, once the center is running, officials project that program fees and membership dues will cover expenses as well as earn an annual profit of $ 235,000 within five years.

Mayor de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer, Public Advocate James, Congressmembers Jeffries and Maloney and 21 Democratic Elected Officials Endorse Brian Kavanagh Endorsements follow Kavanagh winning majority of 26th Senate District Democratic County Committee New York - Today, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh's campaign for State Senate was endorsed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries as well as 21 Democratic elected officials, following the conclusion of processes in Brooklyn and Manhattan that resulted in Kavanagh receiving 53 % of the combined Democratic County CommitOfficials Endorse Brian Kavanagh Endorsements follow Kavanagh winning majority of 26th Senate District Democratic County Committee New York - Today, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh's campaign for State Senate was endorsed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries as well as 21 Democratic elected officials, following the conclusion of processes in Brooklyn and Manhattan that resulted in Kavanagh receiving 53 % of the combined Democratic County Commitofficials, following the conclusion of processes in Brooklyn and Manhattan that resulted in Kavanagh receiving 53 % of the combined Democratic County Committee vote.

Jimmy Van Bramer, Council District 26, Queens (Incumbent)-- No Queens elected official has been a better advocate for safe and complete streets than Van Bramer, the Council's Majority Leader.

Lancman and the New York Democratic Lawyers Council joined together with federal, state and local elected officials to announce a mobilization effort to protect the vote in swing states as well as swing districts within New York State.

Neighborhood organization presidents like Warren Schreiber and Devon O» Connor including CB11 Chair Jerry Iannece, as well as every elected official from Congresswoman Grace Meng to District Leader Mary Ann Dorsa (including the entire Queens County Democratic Organization) have all endorsed Paul Vallone as the best choice for District 19.

A better idea might be that elected officials should be required to have outside income, at a real job, for at least 10 hours a week, outside their districts.

Malliotakis recalled the post-Sandy recovery in her assembly district, noting that local officials acted well before significant federal aid arrived.

99th Assembly District (Stony Point and parts of Orange County) Stony Point residents need an Assembly representative who will be there for them, constantly attentive, in the community, and able to work alongside local elected officials to better meet their needs.

The working group is expected to include members of the 75MCA, the District 2 Community Education Council and CB 2, as well as representatives for local elected officials.

In addition to electing club officers and executive committees, members of New York Democratic clubs are extremely influential in nominating and electing unpaid party officials known as District Leaders and members of the New York State Democratic Committee, as well as Democratic legislators at the City, State and federal level.

The letter credits the sponsors of the bills, Senator David Carlucci and Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee, as well as co-sponsor Assemblymember Kenneth Zebrowski, with designing a plan the county legislators describe as a collaborative partnership between a state - appointed monitor and East Ramapo officials to develop a five - year plan to improve the operation of the district and rebuild trust in the community.

Heastie says he's consulting with other elected officials and district leaders, even though Diaz is a good friend and supporter of his.

District officials, in their reply to the audit, said they would take corrective action and better monitor their bidding process.

Valesky has the support of many mainline Democrats in the three - county district, including Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, most of the Syracuse Common Council and several county and town officials, as well as party committees in the district.

State environmental officials last night ordered Northrop Grumman to grant access to wells monitoring a Bethpage plume after the local water district reported levels of the radioactive element radium exceeded drinking water standards.

Elected officials and political insiders pay close attention to this arcane process of map - drawing, because they understand well that new district lines could result in major shifts of political power.

In Issa's district, the party already has four well - funded challengers: Sara Jacobs, a former Obama administration official who boasts the endorsement of EMILY's List; Paul Kerr, a real - estate investor with a talent for raking in campaign cash; Doug Applegate, a veteran and attorney who narrowly lost to Issa in 2016; and Mike Levin, a lawyer.

That month, however, officials in the Bethpage school district reported that monitoring wells at Bethpage High School — across the street from a park that is part of the Superfund site — had detected elevated levels of radium.

«These actions, as well as testimony that Percoco required employees to obtain his permission to leave State employment and otherwise attempted to control their post-State-service employment, also demonstrate Percoco's control over State employees, making it more likely that Percoco directed State employees to take official action,» a letter from prosecutors to U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni stated.

He's a good person, good man, good elected official but there's a very strong feeling that Kathy Hochul, who obviously had been successful in that district before, would be the best candidate,» he said.

«We will also present our Shared Services Plan that we spent the last few months working on collaboratively with local city, town and village officials as well as school districts and BOCES.

School officials in neighboring districts said they're evaluating the best course of action to address the latest budget constraint.

Some lawmakers and local government officials say that while a cap is a good idea, mandate relief is necessary so that districts and municipalities can live within the cap.

But now sources have told Kramer that if any good is to come out of the drumbeat of corruption charges last week, which also ensnared state Sen. Malcolm Smith and City Councilman Dan Halloran, it will be the passage of legislation that gives local district attorneys and the state attorney general more power to nab crooked officials themselves.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.

Officials say that process won't take place until the absentee ballots are counted in the 3rd Congressional District race as well.