Sentences with phrase «elected commissioners of»

Though the newly - elected commissioners of the Plainfield Park District board pledged to cut spending, a budget approved last week shows the district will slightly increase spending in the coming year.

George was elected commissioner of this organization in 1978, a post she held until 1980.

Not exact matches

The county government, where Gilman serves as one of three elected commissioners, promises building permits in fewer than 30 days.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle didn't look very happy last Thursday morning as he sat in the first - class cabin of American Airlines Flight 82, 35,000 feet above Arkansas, returning to New York City from Dallas and the league's third unsuccessful attempt to elect his successor.

MILEPOSTS — ELECTED: As commissioner of baseball by the major leagues» 26 owners, FAY VINCENT, 51, replacing the late Bart Giamatti.

In addition to the players voted in, former commissioner Bud Selig and longtime Braves executive John Schuerholz will be inducted as well, the latter two elected by committee in December as part of the Today's Game Era.

This is the side effect of the commissioners electing to use bowl sites instead of campus sites.

The Fox Valley Park District is governed by a seven - member Board of Commissioners, which is elected by District residents and approves all policy and financial decisions, and also appoints the Executive Director, along with the Park District attorney and auditors.

She started as business manager in 1967, retired as executive director in 1987 and, when she decided she couldn't stay away, she said, went on to serve two six - year terms as a member of the elected Board of Commissioners.

Elected to the Arlington Heights board were four newcomers: Thomas Stengren, a real estate broker; Thomas Hayes, an attorney; Kathie Hahn, a businesswoman and vice president of the Arlington Heights Council of PTAs; and Arlene Mulder, a Park Board commissioner.

Members of the Board of Commissioners are elected to four - year terms and serve without compensation.

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.

By a community - elected, five member, Board of Commissioners, each of whom serves four years.

Sitting across from the curator of the Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn, Michael Formento, a DuPage County Forest Preserve District commissioner, on Thursday posed a question rare for an elected official.

WAUKEGAN — The Waukegan Park District Board of Commissioners has elected officers for the coming year.

The remaining three seats on the five - member parks board of commissioners could be filled by write - in candidates or elected during the next regularly scheduled park district election, Smith said.

The Park District of Highland Park is governed by a five - member elected Board of Park Commissioners.

Governance Our district is governed by a five - member elected Board of Commissioners.

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.

NYSUT had never been big fans of King to begin with, having passed a vote of no - confidence in his tenure as commissioner, including knocking the roll out of the Common Core education standards, which education observers and elected officials had said was was flawed.

In contrast, they welcomed the contributions of those with direct experience of the issues — whether a prison guard talking about immigration in Boston, a former EU commissioner describing his work in Brussels, or a Brussels - based journalist challenging the elected politicians representing the campaigns.

He was elected to the BMHA Board of Commissioners in 2006, by a constituency that Mascia describes as 90 percent minority.

The authority to remove an elected School Board member from office falls with the state commissioner of education, and a spokeswoman for MaryEllen Elia said that since she might be called on to act in this instance, she could not comment on the situation.

And if the board does elect to remove one of its members, that person can appeal to the commissioner of education.

Staff in the offices of elected officials or department commissioners would be protected when transferred to other departments within the town.

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.

The work of such a CRC could be returned either to the NPS to run (although this is unlikely given how overstretched it is), or to the offices of elected regional mayors or police and crime commissioners — a prospect London Mayor Sadiq Khan has welcomed for probation services in the capital.

The job of assembling a team of Commissioners that strikes an acceptable balance between the size and location of each Member State, as well as the nationality, gender, political affiliations, and attributes of individual candidates, falls to President - elect Jean - Claude Juncker, a Luxembourgish Christian Democrat.

First, we need the police to be more accountable to local communities - through the introduction of directly - elected local police commissioners.

(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a new proposal Monday aimed at evaluating pay for statewide elected officials, agency commissioners and members of...

The Board of Regents on Tuesday unanimously elected a former Florida schools superintendent the new commissioner for the state Department of Education.

Many MPs have been elected by well under 50 percent of their electorate, let alone Police Commissioners or MEPs.

Newly - elected police commissioners have been given far too much power over chief constables, an influential committee of MPs has found.

Those elected as Police and Crime Commissioners will have an influence on the delivery of firearms licensing services to the shooting community.

On a recent People Before Politics Radio Show, Dr. Giulio Cavallo, Chairman of the Westchester Independence Party spoke on the conflict of interest when major party chairman elect themselves to be Commissioners of the Board of Elections that represent their party.

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.

If a member of the legislature be elected to congress, or appointed to any office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, the state of New York, or under any city government except as a member of the national guard or naval militia of the state, or of the reserve forces of the United States, his or her acceptance thereof shall vacate his or her seat in the legislature, providing, however, that a member of the legislature may be appointed commissioner of deeds or to any office in which he or she shall receive no compensation.

In May 2012, voters in 10 out of 11 of England's largest cities rejected proposals for directly elected mayors; and in November 2012, only 14.9 % of voters in England and Wales bothered to elect new Police and Crime Commissioners.

DeHaney was elected in 2014 to the Board of Commissioners in the Town of Hempstead's Sanitary District 2.

It's the latest addition to a sparkling resume that includes service as a state senator, United Nations ambassador, commissioner of the Port Authority and the state Division of Human Rights, president of the New York City Board of Education, and the first African - American elected state comptroller.

Mr. Torres said he hoped a commissioner with a lower profile would be «more accountable to the democratically elected branches of government.»

The levels of turn - out for elections to its board of 53 elected members was not huge — 44 % of the electorate voted in elections across the 13 inner - London boroughs — but much better than turnout in elections for more recent devolved positions of authority, such as police commissioners.

In elections to its board of 53 elected members, 44 % of the electorate voted: much better than the 15.1 % in 2012 elections for police and crime commissioners.

The district is governed by an elected five - member Board of Fire Commissioners.

«And of course then they're all going to want positions with you and stuff,» Mr. Modi said, alluding to earlier conversations in which the county leaders and Mr. Halloran were asking Mr. Smith for Republican appointments as judges and commissioners should Mr. Smith be elected mayor.

In other races, Suffolk County police commissioner Tim Sini was elected as Suffolk County district attorney, earning an overwhelming majority of the votes (62 percent) against Republican Raymond Perini.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).