Sentences with phrase «from city councils»

Work in public relations includes position as Production Assistant and Staff Coordinator for Bravo Entertainment Company, which included hiring of 100 + employees, on - site management of event logistics, gathering permits from city councils, hiring of entertainers, mitigation of interpersonal problems and arranging flights of VIPs.

We rely on 350 local groups to fight for climate action in their communities from city councils to state legislatures.

However, our political system, from city councils to the state legislatures to the federal government, solutions are paralyzed by intractable, partisan gridlock.

The team is able to scrape agendas and minutes from City Councils that use the Legistar system, such as for Philadelphia.

Library Board President Bruce Knopp plans to step before the City Council on April 4 with the board's revised plans for a third facility near Neuqua Valley High School, but he will also be seeking increased cooperation with the Park District and cash commitments from the City Council.

Following public pressure from the City Council, the Chicago Park District on Wednesday agreed to cut an admission fee increase for Chicago residents at the Art Institute of Chicago that was scheduled to take effect May 23.

If approved by the Park Board, the project would still have to receive the go - ahead from the City Council, due to issues related to zoning and design.

CRYSTAL LAKE — Residents over 55 years of age will soon receive a survey asking them what they want from the City Council.

But there's a new plan to add tolls to the four southern East River bridges and Manhattan itself at 60th Street, and it has backing from the City Council's Progressive Caucus.

Miner awarded Jewett a no - bid contract through an obscure arm of city government, the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency, which Miner controls without oversight from the city council.

«I would like an answer from the City Council, what do they want the state to do specifically,» he said.

She brought in the least amount of money from the City Council and her community was jilted because of her incompetence.

The group gets money from the City Council, and receives discretionary grants from CM Arroyo, among several others.

Now, thanks to $ 300,000 in additional funding from the City Council, many markets (including this one) are equipped with wireless scanners which shoppers use to swipe their EBT cards in return for tokens.

Recently one of the Greens resigned from the city council, so the remaining Greens, still in the majority, Read more»

Lloyd faced tough questioning from the City Council during budget hearings in March.

James» kickoff demonstrated the momentum behind her bid to replace Eric Schneiderman — supporters from several unions, old colleagues from the City Council and kind words from party leaders — and a pretty cogent demonstration that she and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are on the same page.

Riders Alliance spokesman Danny Pearlstein said the plan is «enormously popular» and has broad support from City Council members and other elected officials.

The mayor previewed legislation from the City Council that would make New York City the largest in the country to have regulations regarding the cleaning and inspection of cooling towers, which are responsible for spreading the disease.

The measures require further approval from the City Council and New York State Legislature, however.

MUNICIPAL DISTRICT — Two longtime Chelsea activists received proclamations from the City Council Thursday in recognition of their nearly 30 - year battle to develop the Chelsea waterfront section of Hudson River Park.

Just a weeks after some of his top staffers faced ridicule from the City Council over their apparent cluelessness about key details about his plan to regulate the horse - carriage industry, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed the body would surely pass the proposal.

While a major component to his platform is criminal justice reform — specifically, to «end quota - driven Broken Windows policing» — he is also pushing for reduced or free MetroCards for low - income New Yorkers, a pilot version of which got $ 50 million from the City Council Wednesday.

Some of the charges directly stem from the City Council's slush fund scandal — which brought down former Councilmember Miguel Martinez last year.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Under the guidance of Peter Parente, president of The United Veterans Memorial & Patriotic Association of New Rochelle, NY, the association has received permission from the City Council to install a Vietnam War Memorial in

In rolling out his $ 84.68 billion second - draft budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, the mayor acceded to requests from City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito that the city set aside money to help foreign nationals faced with arrest and expulsion under President Donald Trump's aggressive enforcement agenda.

One was Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who again fended off a challenge from City Council Member Fernando Cabrera, who also ran in 2014.

The mayor shares a longtime friendship with Oddo dating back from their City Council days.

One of Mayor Bloomberg's great big plans for changing the city just got a huge boost from the City Council.

----- The full statements from City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, the NYC Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus and the Council «s Progressive Caucus:

Right now, both sides are hammering out agreements on requests from the City Council that the mayor had yet to fulfill when he unveiled his $ 73.9 billion executive budget on May 8.

«We have received verbal assurances from City Council that the funding will be forthcoming for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2013,» said Elaine Rockoff, director of community - based programs for JASA.

The application is currently in the final stages of the process, pending a vote from City Council.

Congressional hopeful state Sen. Adriano Espaillat picked up a key endorsement from City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito at a rally Sunday calling for aid to Puerto Rico.

Pamela Palanque - North, the former chairwoman of Community Board 12, was lauded for her decades of service to Northern Manhattan, earning proclamations from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Councilmembers Robert Jackson and Ydanis Rodriguez, State Senator Adriano Espaillat and Assemblyman Denny Farrell.

She said it was «premature» to consider whether the county might initiate a public referendum on a city - county merger without support from the city council.

The $ 7 million needed to fund Brooklyn Bridge Beach, one portion of the updated East River Blueway Plan, has been secured, thanks to a $ 3.5 million cash infusion from the City Council, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Thursday.

We at Queens - Politics think that Christine Quinn should step down as Speaker and from the City Council for what any normal rational person would consider public policy child abuse.

Commissioner Daniel Nigro revealed the benchmarks during questioning from City Council Speaker Corey Johnson during a hearing on diversity in the fire department held by the council's new committee on fire and emergency management.

It was some days before we located him and nice men from the city council, wearing immaculate pinstripes and serious elbow - length gauntlets, removed my old foxy friend and the pong.

Real - estate investor Jona Rechnitz, a de Blasio donor under investigation for lavishing NYPD officers with gifts, reportedly used his connections to siphon $ 655,000 over the past two years from the City Council to fund a law - enforcement sensitivity seminar at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance.

«After much consideration and discussion with my family, I have decided to resign from the City Council,» she said in a statement.

«That bill needs a home rule message from the City Council to pass, which de Blasio's support would almost guarantee.

Mayor Bill de Blasio shot down a proposal from City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to close down Rikers Island, dismissing her suggestion as a «complicated idea,» citing billions in potential costs and a lack of options to relocate inmates.

That measure, which Cuomo supports, would not require support from the City Council because it would be implemented statewide.

«We need to see a commitment from the City Council members in the districts that have been initially propose to specifically start the land use process to achieve it,» de Blasio told radio host Brian Lehrer in his weekly «Ask the Mayor Segment» on WNYC.

New York City politician Ydanis Rodriguez, who was roughed up and arrested during the NYPD raid on Zuccotti Park, has requested permission from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to donate his latest $ 5,000 leadership stipend to Occupy Wall Street, which he calls «the best thing to have happened in our city for the last couple of decades.»

The owners originally won that exemption from City Council by threatening to move the teams to New Jersey in the face of rising operational costs, but it is now the subject of much debate and whether or not MSG will be able keep that exemption in the future is unclear.

After remarks from City Council representatives at the packed - to - capacity hearing, stakeholders from the affected area urged Adams to reject it.

The recommendations will still need a vote from the City Council to become law; if they are approved, they will be retroactive to January 1, 2016.