Sentences with phrase «from local government officials»

NYSERDA developed the NY - Sun Solar Guidebook for Local Governments based on questions and feedback from local government officials.

Faced with growing opposition from local government officials (among them Mayor Stephanie Miner), Cuomo is backtracking.

And the statements, if anything, highlight the institutional support Cuomo continues to enjoy from local government officials in the primary campaign.

Not exact matches

And all small businesses that attend will interact with federal government officials, local elected leaders, representatives from national businesses and other small business experts.

He has been making the rounds in Colorado, driving from one small mountain town to the next, meeting with county and local government officials and visiting the facilities in which he hopes to take an ownership stake — so far, two dispensaries and their growing facilities.

The federal government in Brasilia quietly reassured the oil community that drilling permits were under federal jurisdiction and that they should simply ignore the howls of discontent from local officials.

Last year, officials from Moscow's government told local media that they were looking into the technology in a bid to reduce the risk of fraud when people are voting on city management issues.

(Chicago constructed this story from thousands of pages of federal court records, police reports, and court testimony from related cases, as well as from official government reports and dozens of interviews with federal and local law enforcement officials and attorneys for some of the defendants; through a spokesman, prosecutors in the Zambada case declined comment.)

AT&T has also spent decades building a national alliance of local government officials and nonprofit groups — particularly from black and Hispanic communities — that it will certainly be asking to weigh in again in Washington, as it tries to get the merger approved.

Clearly they had not learned from the Ministerial Panel last year who had not contacted any local government officials to attend or consult.

Broward County commissioners decided Tuesday to sue Florida over a 2011 law that prohibits local governments from enacting their own gun laws — and imposes severe penalties on elected officials who try.

Mindful that a government which sidesteps its own laws in attacking lawyers and writers who stray from official orthodoxy may also be tempted to ignore local and international legal standards on trade, we should continue to emphasize legal compliance.

KICKICO recently co-organized a cryptocurrency congress in Argentina, which took place from the 6th to the 10th of April in Cordoba and Buenos Aires.The event demonstrated a rapidly growing interest for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies with a KIKCICO - led group of Russian specialists meeting local students, startups and government officials.

Adam believes it is this visibility which will force accountability and responsibility from elected officials charged with the fiscal decisions of local, city, state and federal government offices.

In a bid to calm the market, officials have tried a slew of new measures: from higher down - payment requirements and mortgage rates to ordering local governments to ban residents from buying three or more homes.

The park district is one of 46 agencies statewide awarded a total of more than $ 16.5 million from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources» Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development program, which helps local governments pay for the purchase and / or development of land for parks and open space, officials said.

As a sign of support from the local government, the town of Erwin agreed to pay for every coach, administrator and official's membership fee.

Officials from both local government bodies will meet over the next month to work out a possible arrangement to build parking lots on the township property and on the pool site by 2001 for each other's use, they said.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

De Blasio's testimony this morning before a joint legislative budget committee in Albany marked the kick off of what's known as «Tin Cup Day» at the Capitol — typically a day in which mayors and other local government officials from around the state provide their reactions to the governor's budget proposal.

If the main official national records that purport to offer an authoritative picture of the state of the public finances (for instance, PESA and the Local Government Financial Statistics) can not even be compared from year to year by experts, where should we turn?

Advisory opinions from the AG's office are issued in response to requests by state agency officials and / or local government attorneys.

The state has nearly run out of cash three times since December, requiring budget officials to withhold tax refunds and payments from local governments.

It seems fairly obvious that Make the Road, which receives millions of dollars from local and state government to provide social services, is siphoning some of that money to an ostensibly independent «Action Fund» in order to campaign for elected officials who will, lo and behold, allocate money to Make the Road.

The idea to stabilize property taxes was simple: Get local government and school officials to limit tax collections from growing by no more than 2 percent each year, or the rate of inflation.

The governor is placing more emphasis on his plan to freeze property taxes, which is facing widespread resistance from the legislature, local government and school officials, and unions.

Immigration Law Enforcement Compliance — Vote Passed (228 - 195, 10 Not Voting) The House passed a measure that would prohibit federal, state and local governments from restricting any federal, state, or local government entity or official from complying with immigration laws or from assisting federal law enforcement entities or officials in their enforcement of such laws.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

The incumbent was flanked by numerous elected officials, from Common Council members to county legislators to local representatives in state government.

Now, according to New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, the governor is trying yet again to grow his authority, burying in his proposed budget language that would give the state budget director unilateral ability to pass cuts down to local government officials to manage the funding reductions widely expected to come from the Trump administration and GOP Congress.

An unnamed official from the Madagali Local Government Area confirmed the Boko Haram invasion of Kuda - Kaya, adding that troops had been deployed to engage the insurgents.

Officials from Appleton and nearby cities said Thursday that being able to raise a local sales tax to pay for public transportation would prevent them from regularly going hat in hand to the federal government.

Dave Smith, head coach of the RPI Engineers men's ice hockey program, joined his counterpart from Union College, Rick Bennett, and other sports figures and local government officials Tuesday morning at Albany's Times Union Center to promote January 27th's Mayor's Cup.

In her 10th State of the County address Tuesday night, Mahoney became one of the first local public officials to defend a plan from the group Consensus to create a new metropolitan government.

In a dining room full of chattering officials from local government, agriculture and economic development, people dug into the first products of the new kitchen: Christine Hoffman's pepper jelly and fruit jam.

An Ijaw leader claimed that security officials arrested an aide to a local government chairman in the state, last Thursday, in Warri, as soon as he came back from a trip to Port - Harcourt and whisked to an unknown destination, while the Navy picked up another suspect the previous day, Wednesday.

In 2011, the Legislature approved stiff penalties for local governments and officials who violate the state preemption law, including potential removal from office and fines.

While recall elections might prevent local and state government officials from doing the opposite of what was promised, promises are exactly that, just promises.

Mr Cameron said officials from the Department for Communities and Local Government would be dispatched to the four areas where the Big Society is being tested first to help the process.

I am pleased to announce that I am forming a highway committee comprised of officials from the county and local governments, as well as town and village highway supervisors, to come together to address our issues.

The agreement finally reached on the local government pension scheme after the government made significant concessions has rather less to do with official generosity than fear about the consequences if the scheme were so eviscerated that hundreds of thousands of local government workers might decide there was no point in continuing to contribute to it since, if they walked away, they would still get the same amount of money in retirement from means - tested income support.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A top aide for Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded this afternoon to a letter from more than 100 elected officials — including Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner — defending a proposal to tie property tax relief to local government consolidation.

The Ogun Bureau of Local Government Pensions says it has paid about N2.7 billion as pensions from January to September, an official said on Thursday.

Residents of Wushishi Community in the Wushishi Local Government Area of Niger State have raised the alarm that officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission were demanding payment of N200 from the community members to be captured in the Permanent Voter Card registration.

Governor Cuomo is placing more emphasis on his plan to freeze property taxes, which is facing widespread resistance from the legislature, local government and school officials, and unions.

Adesanya said, «We have it on good authority that INEC is recruiting ad hoc (members of) staff from Ojokoro LCDA, which was created out of the Alimosho Local Government Area in Lagos, and we know that the elements working with some INEC officials are closely linked to some of Olusola Oke's supporters in Lagos and Osun states.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

While praising Governor's lofty rhetoric, Bronx and City officials did not notice that Cuomo's proposed Executive Budget slams New York City with as much as $ 800 million more in expenses while reneging on previous pledges to support CUNY and spare local governments from increases in Medicaid.

The need for the amendment emerged from Borough President Katz's Hurricane Relief Task Force, which brings together multiple local, state and federal government agencies, elected officials and civic leaders to one table to discuss relevant recovery and rebuilding issues.

And his wise call for greater financial disclosure from local officials in the wake of recent conflicts of interest exposed in local governments was a clear reference to the indictments of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto.