Sentences with phrase «elected city mayor»

In 2012, 10 English cities, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Sheffield and Wakefield, many of which will be getting a metro mayor next year, held referenda on whether they wanted to introduce a directly elected city mayor to replace their current leaders.

A directly - elected city mayor, in contrast, is the head of a single city council or local authority and is responsible for public service delivery within that area.

It's also a recognition that elected city mayors need to cover a wider area than the tightly bound city authorities they currently have responsibility for.

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He was elected mayor of New York City in 2001 as a Republican, but prior to that he had been a registered Democrat.

It's a strange juxtaposition when a city modern enough to elect its mayor on a wave of social media strength is also host to big - money chuckwagon races and bullriding.

Michael Bloomberg, the self - made billionaire and former Republican mayor of New York City, on Wednesday night told the Democratic National Convention that Hillary Clinton must be elected for the good of the country.

Wilmot Collins, 54, made history this year when he became the first black person to be elected mayor of a city in Montana.

In 2005 the self - made furniture exporter was elected mayor of Solo, a 500,000 - person city in Indonesia.

In this capacity, Orr supplants the authority of Detroit's elected officials, both the mayor and the city council.

Minister Bernier is a former mayor (elected in 2008 and 2011) and city councillor (elected in 2005) of Dawson Creek, and has extensive experience in the natural gas industry.

Edmonton's last mayor with any lengthy amount of prior elected experience was Jan Reimer, who served three - terms on City Council before being elected as mayor in 1989.

Giuliani was elected mayor in 1993 on a pledge to slash the city's sky - high crime rate.

We met with Vera Baboun, the newly elected and first - ever female mayor of Bethlehem, a small city in the West Bank.

Shortly after the vandalism, the city elected its first Haredi mayor, who ran on a platform of moderation, insisting that a temperate, Sephardic Haredi rabbi could and would serve all constituencies equally.

Racism was certainly a serious problem, but in 1973, Los Angeles voters elected as mayor the pragmatic African - American City Councilman Tom Bradley over Sam Yorty, the acerbic and somewhat anti — civil rights movement incumbent.

Yes, the citizens of Saratoga Springs elected a token black woman to be their mayor just to have a token minority in their city government.

It also mentioned the letter being sent out by MFM this week calling on London mayor Boris Johnson and the UK's other elected mayors to promote meat - free days like those adopted by the Belgian city of Ghent, which goes meat - free every Thursday.

Traditionally, St. Paul has been the less favored twin — «Before I was elected mayor of St. Paul, my mother in Brooklyn thought the Twin Cities were Minneapolis and Indianapolis,» says Norm Coleman, who is now a U.S. senator — and there were doubts that the more affluent suburbs west of the Mississippi would cross the river to support the embryonic franchise.

The mayor said the city and the developer, Montalbano Homes, are legally obligated to fill the land for a park unless the annexation agreement is changed or the Park District elects to keep it in its current state.

Whatever you think about the current elected mayor for Bristol, the role has certainly changed the way politics in the city works and has changed people's perceptions of the city to some extent — with greater visibility both within the city and externally — something Bristol has undoubtedly lacked in the past.

MPs Gisela Stuart and Liam Byrne are expected to seek Labour's candidacy if the city votes to adopt the directly - elected mayor model in a referendum held alongside local elections on May 3rd.

The questioner (who happened to be a YNN videographer) then asked Gillibrand if she thought women should be offended by Eliot Spitzer's candidacy for New York City comptroller, as some of her fellow female elected officials have suggested — including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but she had a political motive in seeking to link Spitzer and Weiner together in hopes of tarring the former congressman, who is one of her rivals in the mayor's race.

Plans to create dozens of new directly elected mayors were also confirmed this afternoon, but came under criticism from Labour for being imposed on cities without their consent.

Whether in electing PCCs or city mayors, we have so spectacularly failed to build a narrative of what is means to be a citizen in Britain today.

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily baCity Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily bacity region elections; but also on a daily basis.

There has been speculation on and off as to whether Miner's tense relationship with Cuomo has cost her city, particularly given the governor's close alliance with another local elected officials with whom the mayor must frequently work — Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, a Republican who crossed party lines in 2014 to endorse the governor's reelection bid.

Greater Manchester's newly elected mayor had to deal with a terrorist attack in his city within weeks of his election last month.

The de Blasio administration is scrambling to enlist influential elected officials — like Brooklyn BP Eric Adams — to marshal support for the mayor's plan to open 90 homeless shelters across New York City.

In essence, the Conservative approach to English devolution focuses on three themes: a better and more balanced economy; bespoke Growth Deals and decentralisation of powers to (large) cities which choose to have elected mayor; and English Votes for English Laws (EVEL).

A directly - elected metro mayor will have powers and responsibilities to make strategic decisions across whole city regions, in contrast to existing city mayors (which are also directly elected) or local council leaders that only make decisions for, and on behalf of, their local authority.

Sheffield City Region elected its first metro mayor, Dan Jarvis, in May 2018.

On the one hand, advocates suggest that a directly elected mayor would create greater local political accountability and raise the profile of cities and city regions.

Previously the core cities had stood aloof from London, regarding it as a wildcat for having an elected mayor.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

Meanwhile Manchester, along with eight other cities, actually declined the opportunity to have a directly elected mayor in a low - turnout referendum in May 2012.

If elected, James would be the first black woman mayor of New York City.

Sheffield City Region will elect its first metro mayor in May 2018.

Consultations took place in 12 English cities due to have referendums over the introduction of elected mayors, over what powers those mayors should have, and how they should be scrutinised.

Research looking at the impact of the mayor in Bristol has shown that the introduction of an elected mayor directly resulted in an increase in the visibility of city leadership.

The directly - elected metro mayors are responsible for setting out a strategy for growing the city region economy, and will have certain powers over issues such as housing, transport and skills.

The city mayor would have the same position in the combined authority cabinet as other city leaders, regardless of how they are elected.

The highlight each year is the mayor's performance, which serves as a rebuttal of sorts to the reporters» show, which opens the night by skewering the mayor and other city and state elected officials.

The mayor believes the mandate he was elected on is one of equality for all New Yorkers, and the best way to level the playing field is with initiatives such as universal pre-K, strong support for state - funded institutions in the city and higher wages, which de Blasio supported long before Cuomo.

We were willing - despite our fundamental objections to elected mayors - to deliver a City Region deal and saw this effectively blocked by Tory MPs in narrow party political grounds.

Suozzi's voice cracked as he began talking about his father, Joseph Suozzi, a former Glen Cove mayor and city court, state Supreme Court and appellate court judge who died at age 95 on Oct. 16, less than a month before his son was elected to Congress.

Some of the combined authorities that will elect metro mayors in 2017 have existing city mayors.

Sheffield City Region will elect a mayor in 2018.

After 12 years under Mayor Bloomberg — the last four of those only thanks to a controversial, legislative extension of term limits — the city is set to elect a new mayor.

All the cities except Bristol voted against electing a mayor.