Sentences with phrase «existing city mayors»

It creates a new role, that of the metro mayor, in addition to local authority leaders, existing city mayors and — depending on whether the local area agrees to merge the two roles or not — police and crime commissioners.

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

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.

Not exact matches

From Pericles through Edmund Burke, Borat and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Holdforth offers a history of the idea of manners: why they exist, how they developed, and why they matter today.

It's part of Labour's proposal to devolve power to metro mayors with control over combined authorities, which already exist in other core cities (Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool) and could be a key part of the answer in Bristol.

Miner took particular exception to the assumption of abolishing the city government in Syracuse, an authority the mayor asserted doesn't exist.

In a statement issued shortly after the mayor's announcement, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan called for the mayor to fund subway improvements with part of the city's existing surplus.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Given the newly devolved powers, the new metro mayor will be well placed to improve workforce skills across the Liverpool City Region and should prioritise giving residents who are not working a «second chance» to develop skills that match the existing and future jobs.

Pataki wasn't quite as down on New York's current condition, implicitly acknowledging that the City's progressed during the de Blasio administration but declaring that all of such progress is «based on the momentum that existed before de Blasio was mayor.»

«I don't think that pushing (for mayoral control) in the last eight weeks of session, disenfranchising the voters of the city of Buffalo, and disempowering nine elected members of the board makes sense,» the senator said, adding that he hoped an additional two board members selected by the mayor would «help to reduce the acrimony» among existing members.

The mayor's office, however, maintained that the governor's regulations are redundant of existing city statutes and could leave working families scrambling for a place to care for their children.

Tony Sinagra, an old hand at city politics who recently stepped down as chairman of Kingston's Republican Committee, said the problem was less with mayors handing out existing jobs to supporters, but with mayors creating new positions in city government as a means of increasing their patronage powers.

He has control over the whole Liverpool City Region combined authority area and works with existing city leaders and the mayor to take forward their strategic pCity Region combined authority area and works with existing city leaders and the mayor to take forward their strategic pcity leaders and the mayor to take forward their strategic plan.

The mayor also plans to increase city revenue through the enforcement of existing ordinances, such as housing code violations.

One can not help but see the irony in the mayor and the City Council cutting funding for an office which exists to monitor city governmCity Council cutting funding for an office which exists to monitor city governmcity government.

To insulate the city against negative pressures from international markets and the widely foreseen economic slowdown, the mayor added more funds to existing city reserves.

Among its instructions: Spend whatever it takes to hire a critical mass of the best operatives in New York City, exploit existing rifts between the mayor and fellow Democrats, spend millions on ads and direct mail, and find a way to create trouble for de Blasio with his base.

The plan, which the mayor stressed was merely an agreement «in principle» between city officials and labor leaders, would create a single, consolidated pension investment management board that would manage all five of the city's existing pension funds.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Taylor at the city Department of Buildings called last week's announcement «an impressive legislative package» that complements existing provisions in the mayor's earlier PlaNYC initiatives, such as property tax abatements for green roofs.

QNS reached out to the mayor's office as well as to the Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) who are under a contract with the city to operate existing animal shelters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island, as well as the admission centers in Queens and the Bronx.

The mayor is committed, he says, to «making the city a national model of how industry and ecology can exist side - by - side.»

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