Sentences with phrase «for cities commissioned»

In May 2016 Centre for Cities commissioned ComRes polling to find out what issues the residents of Liverpool City Region think should be top priority for their new metro mayor.

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A study commissioned by the city's economic development authority estimated that the bottom - line benefits of telecommuting for employers, employees and communities across Canada could be as high as $ 53 billion a year.

Additionally, Glossier continued to run its brick - and - mortar showroom in New York City's SoHo and expanded its nearly year - old representative program, where sellers hawk products for a commission.

Saladino works for Elite SEM, a digital marketing business based in New York City, whose CEO allows employees to select their compensation: straight salary or a commission - based hybrid.

There's a critical mass of people working for Uber in the city and a strong regulatory authority, the Taxi and Limousine Commission, upon which the guild can exert influence to affect change in the industry.

In June 2012, a relatively obscure lawyer for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, appeared before the Miami - Dade County Commission to pitch a tv and movie production facility in Homestead called Trump Studio City.

Jungle Island plans to present a plan for a 13 - story family - friendly hotel to the Miami City Commission on May 24, after another hotel plan failed last year.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

On Monday, TransCanada Corp., which is seeking a cross-border permit for an 1,179 - mile pipeline between Hardisty, Alberta, and Steele City, Nebraska, asked the State Department to suspend its review until the Nebraska Public Service Commission approved a revised route through the state.

Giacometti, a Swiss modern master known for his haunting sculptures of blank - face Everymen, cast the work 50 years ago as part of a commission to plant several of his bronze figures outside Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City's financial district.

• Last April we wrote about New York City's Commission on Human Rights» suing some Haredi, or Ultra-Orthodox, shopkeepers in Brooklyn for their dress code, which runs (or ran, the stores having taken down the notices): «No shorts, no barefoot, no sleeveless, no low cut neckline, allowed in this store.»

The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.

Walz had sued to enjoin the New York City Tax Commission from granting property tax exemption to religious organizations for properties used solely for religious worship.

A minister in the United Methodist Church, he was Director of Visual Education for the United Methodist Board of Missions, then Executive Director of the Communication Commission of the National Council of Churches in New York City.

A central feature of the church is a large altar picture piece by William Hogarth originally commissioned for St Mary Redcliffe and subsequently passed on to the city.

New York (CNN)- The building slated to house a proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero leads Tuesday's agenda for a meeting of New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission.

In Zürich, the early practice of calling and ordaining a minister, according to an Order for Preachers written by Leo Jud and Henry Bullinger, was as follows: A commission of examiners consisting of two ministers, two members of the City Council, and two laymen experienced in the reading of the Bible, examined the candidates who either had been proposed or had applied to be called to a vacant ministerial office.

EAGLE, ID, August 15, 2006 — Along with the rest of the Boise area, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) is busily preparing for the Sixth World Potato Congress & Farm Show set to occur in Idaho's capital city Aug. 20 - 26.

All four of the AFC's divisions are spoken for, with New England, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, and Kansas City commissioning new banners.

We have taken great pride in working for the past two years with USA Rugby, the All Blacks, the great city of Chicago and the Chicago Sports Commission, to bring unprecedented rugby matches to the pitch in Soldier Field.»

Considering the FA commission banned Jack Wilshere for two games for a needless gesture towards Manchester City, to have some real credibility in the game I think they should be retrospectively punishing dangerous tackles like Mikel's on Arteta.

The travelling City contingent eventually made it into Anfield unscathed though that's more than can be said for their poor bus, which was so badly damaged it had to be taken out of commission and a replacement sent from the Manchester depot for the return journey.

Although private groups such as the Questers and the Dole Mansion Preservation Society have advocated preservation and raised money for years, the city did not establish its Historic Preservation Commission until 1996, after the pump house was abruptly leveled to make way for a school parking lot.

The city's Advisory Cultural Commission had recommended the funding come from other sources, but Councilman Steve Chirico disagreed, saying he doesn't mind using the grant money for capital projects.

The Park District will pay the group $ 40,000 and will take plans for Lincoln Park to the city's Plan Commission before resuming construction.

The Chicago Plan Commission last month approved an amendment to the developer's 2002 agreement with the city for construction of 247 units rather than the 74 originally approved.

A community park for residents on the northwest side of Naperville was approved Wednesday by the city's Plan Commission.

When the city Landmarks Commission in 2006 recommended designation for the Arlington - Deming District in Lincoln Park and the East Village District near Wicker Park, the plaintiffs in the suit, Albert Hanna and Carol Mrowka, both owned property in those areas, the Appellate Court ruling states.

The lack of an existing agency to defend, protect and advance the city «s lakefront interests prompted me two years ago to suggest creation of a Chicago Marine Commission that would be authorized to monitor and boost Chicago «s marine activities and provide accommodations for out - of - state boaters.

GENEVA — Aldermen this week sent to the Plan Commission an agreement between the city and the Park District for a proposed skate park.

GENEVA — Aldermen have agreed to refer a proposed ordinance to increase the fair market value of an acre of land in the city for development purposes to the Plan Commission for public hearing.

A community park for residents on the northwest side of Naperville has been approved by the city's Plan Commission.

Plans also include increasing the seasonal venue's fixed seating from 8,000 to 8,600, according to an agenda for the city's Plan Commission.

While de Blasio has promised a public airing of grievances over the city's more controversial statues, he said a commission to study them has to stay quiet — for now — because it's dealing with «very sensitive, complex subject matter.»

A year and a half after first opening in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, The Wing, a high - profile members - only association for women, is the subject of an investigation by the New York City Commission on Human Rights for possible discrimination violations.

Donovan reiterated his call for the trial of «9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed» to take place before a military commission far away from the city's federal courts.

«Given the city's inaction and protracted 10 - year proposal, it is now time for the commission to examine steps to expeditiously close Rikers and to ensure that the constitutional rights of inmates and staff are protected,» a 70 - page report from the Commission on Correccommission to examine steps to expeditiously close Rikers and to ensure that the constitutional rights of inmates and staff are protected,» a 70 - page report from the Commission on CorrecCommission on Correction said.

The Smith Commission has set out a raft of new powers for the Scottish Parliament, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has signed a new devolution agreement with Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Deputy Prime Minister has signed an agreement with Sheffield City Council, and the Cabinet Committee on Devolved Powers has reported on options for change in Westminster.

Members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation today are set to meet in New York City to determine whether to increase the pay for 213 members of the state Legislature, hiking their salaries from the base $ 79,500 to as much as $ 116,900 a year.

At 8 a.m., the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) will host «Options for Enhancing New York's Health Home Initiative» — the second tele - video, dual - city symposium on challenges in implementing Medicaid redesign strategies, 1285 Ave. of the Americas, Manhattan and 99 Washington Ave., Albany.

Jon Gower Davies, a former Head of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Newcastle and a Labour Councillor on Newcastle City Council for 20 years, has written a report for the think - tank Civitas, entitled «Small Corroding Words: the slighting of Great Britain by the EHRC», which advocates the abolition of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, currently chaired by Trevor Phillips, the ex Labour member of the London Assembly.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and the county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance and establishes an environment that will support economic opportunities for all our residents.»

The campaign fund recorded $ 140,000 in unitemized expenditures between 2008 and 2013, according to City and State, and Moreland Commission documents indicated the money paid for everything from wine to a clown rental.

«It's a spectacular multi-million dollar municipal project commissioned by the Governor of New York, of which we're supplying US$ 65M in products and systems for the nine bridges and four tunnels surrounding the city.»

For more information on the New York State budget gaps, see Rachel Bardin and Tammy Gamerman, Citizens Budget Commission, «New York City and New York State Budget Briefing» (presentation, June 23, 2015), Slide 15.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer has also announced a «Red Tape Commission,» made up of various business and community leaders, that will spend a year producing recommendations for streamlining the regulatory process.

A second, less direct option to repeal the term limit would be for Miner to appoint a commission to review the city charter.

City resident Kennard Ray, who served on the Metropolitan District Commission board and was a legislative director for the Connecticut Working Families Party, collected enough signatures to get onto the ballot but was disqualified because of a paperwork error.

The City Council voted on Tuesday to confirm Cappelli to the Civil Service Commission after Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped him for the paid position.

Kann said he would like for the city to create a teacher's commission that would make decisions on city education.