Sentences with phrase «first as a council member»

First as a council member and more recently as a Youth Facilitator, Cengiz has strived to make the Student Voice heard, especially in regards to the importance of STEM education.

Shewan's most influential years in organized real estate were the six years he volunteered for the Real Estate Council of B.C., serving first as a council member, and then vice-chair and chair from 2000 to 2006.

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The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

According to Yurdiga, «it was vitally important to listen to and engage with the Council of Yukon First Nations about issues concerning their members, as well as the various stakeholders who are impacted by federal legislation on a daily basis.»

Former CEO of T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services, Todd Ruppert will be joining Melonport AG, a swiss company for technology regulated investment funds, as an advisor and serving as a council foundation member for the newly created Melon Foundation which was announced last week at the first annual M - 0...

People generally expressed concern about the food dye issue as well as other aspects of our food supply which may be unsafe, and I shared with the group some resources I've recently learned about — first, a link to Natural Candy Store.com (which, coincidentally, I found out about from Jenna herself via Twitter) as well as a mobile phone app created by CSPI to help consumers sort through additives on food labels (shared with me by a TLT reader and fellow Houston School Health Advisory Council Member — thanks, Mike!)

Mike Hardy, a member of BASC Council and chairman of BASC's Scottish committee, said: «As the first green shoots of the 2017 growing season begin to appear it is not just the livestock that are looking forward to the taste of fresh green grass.

«I have had the honor of working with Brian Kavanagh many times throughout my first term as City Council Member.

Members of Community Board 1 voted to endorse the bill to limit tour buses when it was first introduced in 2015, and former board staffer Noah Pfefferblit testified at a City Council hearing in 2016, where he described the sightseeing buses as «significant contributors» to congestion on Lower Manhattan's already clogged streets.

Despite her earlier career as a «radical» on the far left of city politics, first as a campaign manager for Council member Tom Duane and then later a Council member herself, Quinn has emerged as the real estate community's favorite for mayor, besting Comptroller John Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, co-sponsors of a rent control bill that has plagued the industry.

The packed event in Manhattan was the first chance Council members had to publicly and directly question and chide apologetic city officials about their handling of the storm, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg had described as «inadequate» and «unsatisfactory.»

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

McGovern was first elected as a councillor for Brunswick Park in the London Borough of Southwark in 2006, later becoming the Deputy Leader of the borough council's 29 - member group of Labour councillors.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who made history this January when he was sworn in as New York's first openly gay member of Congress, is endorsing City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for mayor.

First ward Common Council member Dorcey Applyrs served as emcee during the upbeat presentation.

Mr. LaValle accused Mr. Shaffer of calling the conference call to distract reporters from a Newsday article published Saturday that noted Mr. Bellone raised on average the amount a Babylon resident pays in general taxes by 108 percent since 1999, when he first voted on a town budget as a council member.

Lord West of Spithead, an advisor to Gordon Brown, member of the defence council and former First Sea Lord, will chair the inaugural meeting but will not do so in his capacity as security minister.

Some NEC members seen at the meeting included Chairman of the Council of Elders C.K. Tedam, Council of Elder member Hackman Owusu Agyemang, National Youth Organiser Sammy Awuku and First Vice Chairman Freddy Blay who supervised the meeting as the acting Chairman.

But after a rocky first term he is wounded by multiple investigations into his fund - raising and actions in government; and many Council members have grown impatient with what they see as his garbled management style.

All Council members know they have only two terms to make a mark, so those interested in serving as speaker begin lining up backing midway through their first term.

Nevertheless, senior figures such as European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, [22] German Chancellor Angela Merkel, [23] and former Commission president Jacques Delors [24] questioned the aspiration of European political parties to link the presidency of the European Commission with the result of the European elections and insisted that the future Commission president has to suit Member States» expectations first.

For the first time, each council member generally received the same amount of money to distribute, a change from the past when some accused former Speaker Christine Quinn of using discretionary funds — known as «member items» — as a tool to punish members deemed disloyal...

As techPresident previously reported, Kallos was one of the first Council members to embrace AskThem, the new platform from the Participatory Politics Foundation.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

She was first elected as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member of Belfast City Council in a by - election in 1975 for «Area B» (the forerunner to the «Victoria» electoral area).

«He may actually have a conflict because as a member of the City Council, his first obligation is to the people of the city,» said Richard Brodsky, the former assemblyman who led a successful effort to reform the state's public authorities.

«As the member who first originally proposed that we, the Council be part of that, adding additional officers, is that still not the case?

Mark - Viverito got 29 council members, and six other elected officials, to sign her letter, which she began circulating as outrage mounted over a plan to name Lopez - Rivera the first «National Freedom Hero» at the June 11 parade.

As the Council begins to schedule its first committee hearings and readies for the reintroduction of legislation from the last session, there are a number of priorities that Council members are planning to pursue.

Christine Quinn, the first openly gay speaker of the New York City Council, also joined the Lavender and Green Alliance in the parade, as did council members Corey Johnson, Daniel Dromm and Jimmy Van Council, also joined the Lavender and Green Alliance in the parade, as did council members Corey Johnson, Daniel Dromm and Jimmy Van council members Corey Johnson, Daniel Dromm and Jimmy Van Bramer.

She was encircled by a dozens of council members, as well as a minimum of 2 UN agency opposed the first bill, and labor leaders UN agency had advocated for the bill since it had been introduced regarding 3 years agone.

«Despite her relative youth, Rebecca Lynch knows first - hand the challenges working families face in New York City and will fight tirelessly on their behalf as a member of the City Council,» said Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ.

Wymore is seeking to become the first transgender member of the City Council, and has not lived what we may think of as a typical male life.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

As the city rejected the hopes of a candidate who would be come the first woman mayor, the number of lesbian and gay members who will be sitting on the Council grew from four currently to a record six in the new year.

Council members say they do not see the direction of the City Council shifting as 10 new members — including four new women, the first Albanian - American elected official, the first Ecuadorian - American elected official and a conservative Democrat — take office.

WHEREAS, Santa Clara County was at one point known as the Feminist Capital of the World, with Janet Gray Hayes serving as the first woman elected Mayor of a major US city as part of a San Jose City Council with seven women, (including a female vice-mayor) at the same time as the San Jose Chamber of Commerce was led by a woman; as of August, only two women serve on the eleven member San Jose City Council and only one woman serves on the five member County Board of Supervisors; and

During the embarrassing moment Councilman Ritchie Torres, 29, who represents the 15th District and is the youngest member of the council and is also the deputy Majority Leader and Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, 39, who represents the 16th District and is the chair of the Council's Public Safety Committee, were captured giggling in the first pew at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's Church as Gibson looked at her cellphone — as the Ambassador to Ghana sat less than five - feecouncil and is also the deputy Majority Leader and Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, 39, who represents the 16th District and is the chair of the Council's Public Safety Committee, were captured giggling in the first pew at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's Church as Gibson looked at her cellphone — as the Ambassador to Ghana sat less than five - feeCouncil's Public Safety Committee, were captured giggling in the first pew at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's Church as Gibson looked at her cellphone — as the Ambassador to Ghana sat less than five - feet away.

Sunset Park - Red Hook: District 38 Menchaca, the first out gay legislator in Brooklyn as well as the Council's first Mexican - American member, had been on the outs with the Kings County Democratic Party since he ousted incumbent Sara González in 2013.

The City Council Women's Caucus rolled out its first - ever «legislative equality package» — which members touted as a counterblast to President - elect Donald Trump's agenda.

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Council's Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

In 2012 the first flagship Christian Siriano store opened on Elizabeth Street in New York City, and in 2013 he was inducted as a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).

As part of the visit the Swedish team met with both senior members and officers at Bedford Borough Council to hear about their experiences first hand.

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In addition to her duties as a member of the West Virgina State Board of Education, she served as West Virginia's first lady; a commissioner on the West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service; the chairwoman of the Governor's Healthy Lifestyles Coalition and the West Virginia Citizen's Council on Children and Families; and as co-chair on the Governor's 21st Century Jobs Cabinet and the Intellectual Infrastructure of Vision Shared.

The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Professor Maathai was an active member of the National Council of Women of Kenya from 1976 to 1987 and served as its chairman from 1981 to 1987.

During my first 30 days on the job as the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council's (PIJAC) new president and CEO, I have traveled across the country to meet and hear from many PIJAC members and others within the larger pet business community.

As a founder member of the first meetup in 2010, I am proud to sit on the Global Council and continuing to grow the community both in Canada and worldwide.

In 1957 he showed for the first time in the UK, as part of an Arts Council touring exhibition, and held his own among a group that included Dubuffet, the Canadian abstract expressionist Jean - Paul Riopelle, the French tachiste Pierre Soulages, and Karel Appel, Bogart's compatriot and a member of the Cobra group (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam).

Since receiving her doctorate in 1994 she has worked as a consultant for a number of institutions in the Caribbean and Britain including the Royal Academy, London where she worked as coordinating editor for the exhibition and publication Africa the Art of a Continent (1995) the National Gallery of Jamaica where she has been a visiting curator member of the Board of Directors since 2000; The British Council where she worked as a consultant to evaluate and promote the profile of that organization in the Caribbean (1999 - 2000), The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas where she spearheaded the development of that institution's curatorial practices and policies following its establishment (2000 - 2002), and the School of Visual Arts in Jamaica where she designed that college's first degree program in Art History (2002 - 2004).