Sentences with phrase «elected citywide officials»
As has been well - documented, Mayor Bill de Blasio - along with Stringer and James, one of three popularly - elected citywide officials - has not yet held a town hall event himself.
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New York City wants elected and community officials to speak up about potential locations for new homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywide.
De Blasio's plan to reshape neighborhoods is facing widespread opposition from community leaders and elected officials, setting up a battle for his administration as it seeks to build more affordable housing citywide.
At 9:30 a.m., the de Blasio Administration and elected officials will announce that the Department of Homeless Services has ended the use of more than 42 percent of cluster units citywide as part of the its commitment to phasing out the 18 - year - old stop - gap cluster site program, 1146 Ogden Ave., the Bronx.
«If the conventional wisdom that the mayor is vulnerable among black people holds true,» they said, «one shouldn't look past the only black citywide elected official.»
In addition to Mr. Skelos, a healthy string of ambitious Democratic citywide and local elected officials have made the soup - ladling trek, which says nothing of their efforts to pay tribute to other prominent Jewish social service organizations but also speaks volumes about the community's growing political significance.
The rally featured two citywide elected officials, Scott Stringer and Tish James, as well as Assembly Member Phil Goldfeder, State Senator Joe Addabbo, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Council Members Eric Ulrich and Vincent Gentile.
The official who held the seat previously, Bill de Blasio, was elected to the citywide position of Public Advocate in 2009.
It also had broader implications: Then NYC Councilman John Liu, who is now city comptroller and the city's only Asian - American citywide elected officials, backed his protege, Young, over Meng in 2006.
Fuchs» reasoning is that the public advocate, who is one of only three citywide elected officials, shouldn't have to look over his shoulder every time his actions displease those in control of the budget.
The younger Diaz is the de facto leader of Bronx Democrats and harbors ambitions of being a citywide elected official one day.
It would also help the county deliver a Latino citywide elected official, which would be the only Latino to hold such a post after Mark - Viverito completes her term.
Held at the National Action Network's House of Justice on 145th Street, the celebration featured appearances by almost all of New York's statewide elected officials and all of New York City's citywide elected officials.
He contrasted this to citywide elected officials who supposedly don't have to deal with constituents» needs.
Several prominent Democratic elected officials and voting reform advocates on Tuesday assembled outside City Hall to call for instant runoff voting in citywide primary elections.
Such talk, that the Common Council has no business in citywide affairs and those should be left to him, is the talk of tyrants, not democratically elected officials.
As part of the broader Community and Citywide Education Council selection process, elected officials urged parents to apply.
A candidate forum hosted by the Queens Tribune and St. John's University Tuesday night included a «lightning round» question asking which council member or citywide elected official each candidate would most and least like to be stuck in an elevator with.
The press conference produced an infrequent appearance of all three citywide elected officials and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — the «CW3 + MMV», perhaps — at an event.
New York City's three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate Tish James and Comptroller Scott Stringer — and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito joined a press conference today demanding federal action to address Puerto Rico's deep fiscal and financial crisis.
During the race for the Democratic nomination in the 11th Council District, Koppell repeatedly used Cassino's support for Bloomberg as a counter-weight to his attacks on Koppell's efforts to overturn the two - term limit (imposed after two citywide referendums) for the city's elected officials.
Out Councilmember Corey Johnson of Chelsea also voted against it as did Inez Barron of Brooklyn, a staunch advocate for public education, but it passed 43 - 4 with the support of all three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Letitia James — as well as otherwise liberal officials such as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
The legislation, which the council passed by a vote of 40 to 7, will also raise the salary of other citywide elected officials, but its the Council's pay that has garnered the most attention and the most controversy.
The WFP played a key role in helping the Democrats take the state Senate majority in 2008 and reached its apex in 2009 when it helped elect a handful of so - called «progressive» City Council members and its first citywide official, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
The state attorney general was joined by two of the city's three citywide elected officials: Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James.
The program would make New York City the first city in the U.S. to offer its own retirement savings program for private sector workers who lack access to employer - sponsored retirement plans, de Blasio and other citywide elected officials said Thursday at City Hall.
The law now restricts citywide elected officials, borough presidents and Council members to two four - year terms.
DNAinfo New York compiled a citywide map comparing each elected official's salary after the pay raise to the median income of the constituents they work for:
Mark - Viverito, 47, the first Hispanic elected official to serve in a citywide post, appeared to embrace her role as a Clinton delegate in Philadelphia.
Among those calling for the funding were the city's other two citywide elected officials, Public Advocate Letitia James, Controller Scott Stringer, and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. — all seen as likely candidates for mayor in 2021.
In an initiative now being piloted in six cities across the country, communities are working to redesign their municipal systems and form new citywide partnerships so that everyone — elected officials, nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals, social workers, parents, business owners, and educators — takes on the responsibility of supporting children and closing the opportunity gap.