Sentences with phrase «enact public works»

Over time, you'll enact public works projects.

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Our representatives are sent to Washington to work on behalf of the American people, to create laws and enact policies intended to keep the public safer.

During the years of the Pataki Administration, the state raised its tobacco tax, enacted one of the nation's most sweeping restrictions on smoking in public places and in work environments.

The Working Families Party in an email to supporters on Monday is pushing the Legislature in the wake of the Sheldon Silver corruption scandal to enact the «number one recommendation» of the defunct Moreland Commission To Investigate Public Corruption, which it was says public finaPublic Corruption, which it was says public finapublic financing.

«They can start by enacting the Moreland Commission's number one recommendation: passing statewide public financing of elections to level the playing field between wealthy donors and working families.»

«With the public's faith in Albany rapidly eroding, now is the time for Governor Cuomo to enact the Moreland Commission's number one recommendation: pass statewide public financing of elections to level the playing field between wealthy donors and working families,» Lipton said.

«I want to thank the Commission members and staff for their dedication and public service, and look forward to reviewing the Commission's findings in detail and continuing to work with the Legislature to enact systemic reform.»

When gaining the endorsement of the labor - backed Working Families Party, he pledged to enact the public financing of political campaigns statewide, the DREAM Act for undocumented immigrants, allow local governments to raise the state's minimum wage and accelerate the timetable for increasing the wage itself.

The Amanda Hansen Foundation creates resources to supply the public with CO detectors who could not otherwise afford them; educates, as to the real and imminent dangers of CO poisoning, its causes, and it's prevention through the proper use of detectors, and proper installation / maintenance of household appliances; works hand in hand with local and national organizations to future educate and promote awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide; aims to enact local as well as national legislation to mandate that all buildings, both private and public, be equipped with CO detectors, without exception.

We will continue to work with the Legislature to get this important public protection bill enacted.»

«The governor continues to unequivocally support public campaign finance, has worked to enact it, and, though it was and remains the primary sticking point standing in the way of broader reform, will continue to push for passage this year,» DeRosa said in a statement.

He introduced and enacted legislation on a wide range of issues including expanding job opportunities for public housing residents; protecting the City's affordable housing stock; improving mental health resources for the LGBT community, and establishing work standards for industrial laundromats.

Arizona, Maine and Connecticut each have enacted public financing of elections laws that have worked.

The Center for Public Integrity hopes to use the reports to work with states to enact reform.

The mayor player has a larger influence on the development of the town and can enact town ordinances and begin the construction of public works projects.

Hobson applied to be a teacher fellow with StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's organization that works to enact public education policy that puts students» interests at the forefront.

This working paper from the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), however, could not find any evidence that this theory played out after St. Louis enacted a large pension enhancement for public school teachers.

And he worked pro bono to help enact a «parent trigger» law in California, which allows parents to seize control of a failing public school and bring in new management or staff.

It would eliminate a student loan forgiveness program, enacted in 2007, that encourages college graduates to enter careers in public service - such as social work, teaching, or working as doctors in rural areas - by relieving them of their college debt at the end of ten years of such employment.

With a workaholic Shih Tzu named Isabelle on hand to help, you can install Public Works Projects — fountains, camp sites, that sort of thing — and enact Ordinances — laws that change how the town functions in some way.

After working with County officials to develop and approve its grant process and guidelines, the proposal defining the policies and procedures for administering a grants program for the arts in Howard County, was put up for public comment for a period of one year and then accepted and enacted, with Howard Arts United being permanently designated in 1984 as the agency authorized to serve as the county arts council in accordance with provisions of the Howard County Charter and Howard County Code.

Nonetheless, they faced the same issues as later generations, and enacted some of the same adaptations and solutions: playing both at femininity and masculinity as artificial roles, speaking to each other in private in a different manner than in public speech, and letting their work be filled with their own, unnamed sensibility.

Part of the curatorial department, the Public Engagement program collaborates with artists to develop and present works that create an exchange between the institution and visitors, enacted both inside and outside the galleries.

In their words, «they create installations, make videos, photographs, print and online works, play with archival traces, make exhibitions and art interventions in public spaces, write essays, enact lecture - performances, engage with pedagogical procedures, edit books, design events, and foster collaborations.»

Examining the crisis of publicness, progress and the loss of private life, Cally Spooner's writing will be published in eight parts and made public online as they are written, enacting the process of «thinking out loud» integral to all of Spooner's work.

We work to educate the public about the impacts of climate change on our world and the animals and plants that live in it and to build the political will to enact solutions.

Energy Guardian (2/14/13) reports: «Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer on Thursday put a new carbon emissions fee bill on track for committee action by this summer, even as the chances for the proposal to be enacted appeared slim... The fee is part of a package of two climate bills by Boxer, D - Calif., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I - Vt., that sidesteps President Barack Obama's call for a market - based mechanism to cut greenhouse gas emissions.»

With that caveat in place, based on the discussion in Barr we know that they focus on the fact that the law is necessary, works well in practice, protects the public good, and is properly enacted.

The executive branch in each Canadian jurisdiction (provinces, territories, federal) is free to enact its own copyright and licensing policy in relation to the work product of its public servants, and so does in a variety of ways, some more permissive than others (see Noel Cox, «Copyright in Statutes, Regulations, and Judicial Decisions in Common Law Jurisdictions: Public Ownership or Commercial Enterprise?&public servants, and so does in a variety of ways, some more permissive than others (see Noel Cox, «Copyright in Statutes, Regulations, and Judicial Decisions in Common Law Jurisdictions: Public Ownership or Commercial Enterprise?&Public Ownership or Commercial Enterprise?»

Doing so could potentially affect relations between governments and public servants, either as regards the adoption of special laws like the one recently enacted to force government lawyers and notaries back to work, or special laws that relate to the provision of essential services.

Linda Klein: Well the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program was signed into law by President George W. Bush and enacted in October of 2007, and that's an important date to remember, because it provides incentives for graduates — and not just law school graduates, to pursue full - time public service careers by forgiving student loan balances for individuals who make timely loan payments for 10 years while working in a full - time public servicPublic Service Loan Forgiveness Program was signed into law by President George W. Bush and enacted in October of 2007, and that's an important date to remember, because it provides incentives for graduates — and not just law school graduates, to pursue full - time public service careers by forgiving student loan balances for individuals who make timely loan payments for 10 years while working in a full - time public servicpublic service careers by forgiving student loan balances for individuals who make timely loan payments for 10 years while working in a full - time public servicpublic service job.