Sentences with phrase «for city functions»

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JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

Cities and villages across the state are raising taxes or implementing new ones for a variety of functions, from attracting a fast - food restaurant to catching up on rising pension costs.

The Treasurer's Office functions as the collection agency for the towns, villages, cities and school districts in the County when taxes become delinquent.

And then there's CITE, the Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation, a self - contained functioning city currently being built in the New Mexico desert.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Even when we have not participated directly in this radical shift, we have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

We have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

Prior to joining the Brooklyn faculty in 2016, she was a member of the faculty for nine years at The Waldorf School of Garden City, where she served as a class teacher, mentor, and lower school chair, and where her ability to plan, organize, and maintain a high level of executive functioning skills, within both her personal class preparation and her classes themselves, were highly recognized.

Park District Director Ronald Dodd said the kitchen is needed for functions to be held at the center and for cooking classes for juveniles identical to those conducted at the Inwood Center on the city «s west side.

I do know that the 9.5 - pound Pockit can go from fully functioning stroller into a compact little package the size of a handbag in seconds, making it an excellent choice for moms who live in cities, travel frequently (it fits in an airplane's standard overhead bin — !!!)

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The chief function of the Community Board is to serve as a vehicle for resolving citizen complaints as it relates to city government and the residents of the community.

Both businesses and residents of the City, or «Square Mile», are entitled to vote in elections, and in addition to its functions as the local authority — analogous to those undertaken by the 32 boroughs that administer the rest of the Greater London region — it takes responsibility for supporting the financial services industry and representing its interests.

According to the plan, the new tolls would not only function as a way to raise money for the MTA (the city pledged more than $ 2 billion to the transit authority's recent capital plan), but would also help reduce existing tolls on crossings such as the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

Although the city could have required teachers at nearly all the Renewal schools to re-apply for their jobs — thus weeding out the low - performing teachers who might have been partially responsible for their school's struggles — the city used that forcing function only at a handful of Renewals.

He charged that restoration of funding for specific departmental legislative branch personnel «without considering the respective value of the positions» functions, in the context of the overall city budget and impact on our city's tax base, is not only unjustifiable but wreaks of putting politics between the public interest.»

This evening's move also functions as a power - play against Ms. Mark - Viverito's remaining rival, East Side Councilman Dan Garodnick, who is seeking to solidify the support of the county organizations in his own bid for the city's second - most - powerful post.

Host Grant Reeher engages her in a discussion of the challenges facing the museum, her strategies for renewed financial and artistic vibrancy, and the cultural function of an art museum in a small city.

The Syracuse Common Council voted Monday to give the city's newly formed land bank a loan for startup costs and to share property tax revenue so the land bank can function over the long term, but some felt the details of those plans left a lot to be desired.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is moving key aspects of doing business with the city away from a paper - first model and allowing for quicker online function.

They had neared agreement to allow ride - hailing outside the five boroughs — where, as a function of the city's economy and regulatory might it functions and is treated like a traditional for - hire car service — during talks about a December special session that never happened.

The ombudsman function of the office, some say, is not being embraced enough by Ms. James — even sympathetic Democrats privately question whether Ms. James, a colleague of Mr. de Blasio's when they served in the City Council together, will ever be able to seriously act as a watchdog for Mr. de Blasio.

«If I were to go to my district tonight at a meeting with the community, or school or a function and ask people if they thought the city was better prepared today for a storm than they were three years ago, very few hands would go up,» Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich said.

Using the Google Hangout's chat function, participants such as Joe Kerns, co-founder of the start - up Roundview.co and a volunteer with the New York City Code for America brigade betaNYC, and Chris Whong, a data solutions activist at Socrata who is co-captain of betaNY, asked questions about the degree to which information about constituent services prompted by social media and other avenues is available as public data for analysis.

The New York City projects are (1) «The Big U», a series of berms and bridges around lower Manhattan, (2) «Living Breakwaters», a series of breakwaters off the south shore of Staten Island, and (3) «Lifelines», to provide flood protection systems for Hunts Point, the site of a major food market that functions as a hub of the region's food supply chain.

Drawing on data from the Budget Function Analysis and Mayor's Management Report, the CBC's new NYC Money Meter allows you to track spending by service line for 15 New York City agencies

«To function, you need to have an ID and the city has provided this for that reason,» said Espaillat.

BY ANDY HUMM City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

This policy is for application to those libraries within the City of Buffalo (Central Library and Buffalo Branch Libraries) and Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System functions.

For example, two core functions of the Council are to legislate bills and negotiate the city budget, and this budget increases staffing and adds resources to the Legislative and Finance divisions.

Many individual city functions could be taken over by the county through mutual agreement, without the need for a full merger.

The guest list for Tuesday's functions has remained pretty tight, but aides for former New York City Mayor David Dinkins also confirmed to DNAinfo on Tuesday that he would be in attendance.

The cuts in the Corporation Counsel and the City Clerk offices, Noble said, would make it more difficult for City Hall to function.

Nabada and its neighboring cities seem to have functioned as relay stations for caravans traveling the ancient routes between Anatolia (present - day Turkey) and Babylonia or between Egypt and Mesopotamia.

This robot which is essentially an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is ready for applications, as it can be programmed to perform specific functions, for example, for underwater archaeology such as exploring nooks and corners of wreckage — or sunken city which are difficult for divers or traditional AUVs to access.

Around the same time, Shahid Naeem, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability in New York City, was also looking beyond species numbers to study ecosystem function, zeroing in on the diversity of species at different levels of the food web.

«The decomposers have the same function in the forest as the waste collection service in our cities,» explains study director Ulrich Brose, head of the research group Theory in Biodiversity Science at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany).

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He says the premium service will include functions that Tinder users have long been asking for - including the ability to travel and use Tinder in multiple cities.

Miyazaki creates complex fantastical worlds that function according to their own mysterious but incontrovertible logic — and then embeds those worlds within equally specific real - life settings (so that, for example, the magical undersea kingdom in Ponyo believably exists side by side with the bustling small port city where the human hero, Sōsuke, lives with his mother).

Produced in 1949, the vintage Technicolor short «Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City» functions as an obvious travelogue for both American and foreign audiences, particularly post-war nations in the process of rebuilding shattered governments and cities.

Though he loves his wife and kids, Michel is one of those cops who is the job, even if he's transferred to the much more dangerous Marseille, the port city that functions as a gateway for the heroin trade.

The GamePad functions as a Communicator to talk to others, is used to scan the surroundings for clues or criminals, or to view the handy map and GPS route when driving around the city.

And though the residents» «home school» is a well - designed, high - functioning inner city school, they have structured mini-internships in some of Chicago's most challenging neighborhood schools in order to prepare them for the teaching and leadership obstacles they will face once they begin teaching.

For all other public functions, most respondents said separate city and county governments should be maintained.

It functions, in some ways, like a consulting firm for the city's Catholic schools, providing professional development for teachers and principals; bolstering fundraising, marketing, and public relations efforts; and strengthening management.

The ASD functions as an authorizer for six schools in the city and operates an additional six Memphis schools as «achievement schools,» which are run as though they were a separate charter - management organization within the ASD.

«The Assembly acted responsibly by extending mayoral control for New York City schools as well providing the certainty that our local governments so desperately need in order to function properly.

As we included in the Smart Cities book: «Learning is best formula for promoting economic growth and reducing the crippling effects of poverty... Schools can serve as the foundation for highly functioning democratic and sustainable communities and societies.»