Sentences with phrase «first elected commissioner»

She was first elected commissioner in 1996 and served as deputy commissioner for eight years prior to that.

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In 1990, after switching to the Republican Party, Perry was elected agricultural commissioner, his first statewide office.

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.

In 2017 — for the first time in the Park District's 70 - year history — residents took to the voting booth to elect seven commissioners from three two - member districts, and one commissioner at large.

In 2012 it was employed for the first time to elect Police Commissioners in England and Wales.

Toulon, a former New York City deputy corrections commissioner, becomes Long Island's first African American nonjudicial countywide elected official, political observers said.

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

If the numbers hold, Toulon, a former deputy New York City corrections commissioner, will become Suffolk's first African - American countywide elected official.

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.

Candidates in last November's first ever police and crime commissioner elections spent a total of # 2.1 m trying to get elected in the four weeks before the polls, an average of # 11,220 each, the Electoral Commission has reported.

The ad comes as Akshar launches his first - ever campaign for elected office against Fiala, an ex-Broome County executive and former commissioner at the Department of Motor Vehicles during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term.

There are numerous tiers of government in the UK for which voters are regularly asked to cast their ballots, including local councils, directly elected mayors, police and crime commissioners, national assemblies and parliaments.The first past the post system for local councils in England and Wales as well as Westminster also means that the nuances of local politics can vary significantly from place to place.

«Three years into his first term as Governor, he's the most popular elected official in Florida's history because of his outstanding career as a no - nonsense attorney general, a progressive education commissioner, and a fiscally conservative chief executive who last year led Florida to its largest property - tax decrease ever.

The mayor - elect has said that post, along with police commissioner and first deputy mayor, are the most important to fill.

De Blasio's first big decision as mayor - elect was to take a step in that direction — while at the same time reassuring the city's elites that blood wasn't going to start running in the streets — by reinstalling Bill Bratton as police commissioner.

Transparency and accountability have been key areas of concern since the commissioners were first appointed in September 2014, with opponents of academies questioning why responsibility for schools is being removed from elected local authorities and given to appointed civil servants.

Shortly after he was elected with CEA's first endorsement in 2010, the governor of this state disrespected every teacher with his «tenure» comment, then promoted Common Core, supported the corporate education movement through charter schools, advocated for more and more standardized testing, hired an education commissioner who had absolutely no public school experience (in fact had ties to charter schools), chipped away at teacher security through negative tenure reform, and championed the complete elimination of the state contribution to the retired teacher's health insurance fund.