Sentences with phrase «elected commissioners who»

The Park District is governed by five elected Commissioners who set policy for the District's operation.

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Broward County commissioners decided Tuesday to sue Florida over a 2011 law that prohibits local governments from enacting their own gun laws — and imposes severe penalties on elected officials who try.

The district is governed by an elected Board of Park Commissioners who serve six year terms of office without pay.

Named in the action are Bonita Wright, immediate past park district president; board secretary Kathi Jackson; newly elected park district president Sam Johnson; and Robert Lewis, who claims to have been elected police commissioner of the district.

Last week the BBC reported that arrests for cannabis related offences plummeted 50 % since 2010 and directly elected police commissioners in Durham, Derbyshire, Dorset and Surrey have acknowledged that they will not arrest anyone who grows or possesses small amounts of cannabis.

From May next year, the public will be able to elect a police and crime commissioner for their police force area, who will have the power to set the policing budget, determine the policing plan and hire and fire the chief constable.

They have two children: a son Darryl Towns who was elected to 10 terms in the New York State Assembly before being appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as commissioner and chief executive of New York State Homes and Community Renewal; and a daughter Deidra.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton blamed the media for the NYPD's crackdown on disclosure of officers» disciplinary records last week — but elected officials and advocates say it is the mayor and the commissioner who are flouting state law.

Ministers want to replace elected police authorities with a single elected police commissioner, who would have the power to hire and fire chief constables and control the budget of their police force.

And we're achieving it through political reform — as with the new Police and Crime Commissioners who will be elected in November, and the new executive mayors in our great cities, following what I hope will be the positive referendums in May.

This is made up of 28 Commissioners, one from each country, and the President (Jean - Claude Juncker) who is elected by MEPs.

«His son described him as the only candidate who will end the era of stop and frisk and that was a purposeful branding of de Blasio as a reformer and then immediately, as soon as he was the mayor - elect, he announced he was bringing back perhaps the most controversial police commissioner in the city's history,» Trujillo said, referring to de Blasio's early campaign ads with his son, Dante.

Bellone, a Democrat, was criticized when he chose county District Attorney - elect Timothy Sini — a former federal prosecutor who was never a police officer — as police commissioner without looking at candidates from across the country.

It would be great to think that before elected police commissioners come in, this anomaly could be removed — allowing real accountability for their priorities, the style of policing and also the shape and level of resources required to meet the demands of a public who are still very wary.

PREVIEW: Voters who live within the Mattituck Parks District will be asked to elect a new commissioner Thursday, as two candidates are running for the seat being left vacant by outgoing commissioner Nicholas Deegan.

Talk now turns to Plice and Crime Commissioners who will be elected in November this year.

Some stirrings of interest this week in who might stand as police and crime commissioners when they are elected to oversee police forces outside London next November.

«Three years into his first term as Governor, he's the most popular elected official in Florida's history because of his outstanding career as a no - nonsense attorney general, a progressive education commissioner, and a fiscally conservative chief executive who last year led Florida to its largest property - tax decrease ever.

Kelly, who has spent more than four decades with the NYPD, will be replaced as commissioner by William Bratton on Jan. 1 under Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio.

«The two, white suburban legislators, they propose that the white county executive appoint a commissioner who will have parallel authority to the democratically elected school board, and in my book, that's an attack on the democratic rights of the citizens of Milwaukee, the majority of whom are black and brown,» Peterson says.

The governor - elect is pledging to appoint an education commissioner who's a proponent of charter schools and public school choice.

Shortly after he was elected with CEA's first endorsement in 2010, the governor of this state disrespected every teacher with his «tenure» comment, then promoted Common Core, supported the corporate education movement through charter schools, advocated for more and more standardized testing, hired an education commissioner who had absolutely no public school experience (in fact had ties to charter schools), chipped away at teacher security through negative tenure reform, and championed the complete elimination of the state contribution to the retired teacher's health insurance fund.