Effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly -
funded City employee travel to the State of Indiana that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.
Not exact matches
Over the weekend, San Francisco and Seattle mayors announced executive orders banning the use of
city funds for
employee travel to Indiana.
Button, a New York
City - based partnership platform for mobile commerce, said it gives
employees a $ 1,000 vacation allowance for families ($ 500 for individuals), and encourages them to use those
funds during the holidays.
The Kansas
City Star reported last month that American Century was being sued by
employees for excessive fees and only offering its own
funds and shares in the company in the investment menu.
The Firefighters» Pension System of the
City of Kansas
City, Missouri, Trust, 414 East 12th Street, Kansas
City, MO 64106, which held 100 shares of our common stock on November 7, 2008; along with the following co-filers: Miami Fire Fighters» Relief and Pension
Fund, 2980 N.W. South River Drive, Miami, FL 33125 - 1146, which held 10,785 shares of our common stock on November 8, 2008; and the
City of Philadelphia Public
Employees Retirement System, Two Penn Center Plaza, 16th Floor,
The New York
City Employees» Retirement System; the New York
City Fire Department Pension
Fund; the New York
City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York
City Police Pension
Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The
City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement
Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State
Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.
Greenchip Renewal Partners International Institute for Sustainable Development Responsible Investment Association Équiterre Nature Canada Greenpeace Canada SHARE Canada Forest Products Association of Canada Canadian Business for Social Responsibility Canadian Urban Transit Association Clean50 Climate Smart Business Genus Capital JCM Power Corporate Knights Toronto Atmospheric
Fund The Asthma Society of Canada Bullfrog Power NEI Investments Sitka Foundation Alterra Power Corp. 20/20 Catalysts Program Renewable
Cities VanCity Canadian Solar Industries Association Anglican Church of Canada Blue Green Canada Network for Business Sustainability Canadian Wind Energy Association Canada Quebec Employers Council Dunsky Energy Consulting NAIMA Canada Alliance québécoise de l'efficacité énergétique Marmott Énergies Biothermica Association québécoise de la production d'énergie renouvelable Enerkem Canadian Labour Congress Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada Plug» nDrive Regroupement national des conseils régionaux de l'environnement Business Council of Canada Sustainalytics Sustainability CoLab Écotech Québec National Union of Public and General
Employees Insurance Bureau of Canada Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Iron & Earth
«As a fiduciary of the New York
City Employee Retirement System for the last 8 years, Scott has worked with his fellow trustees to grow the
City's pension
funds through prudent investments, improving diversification and ensuring more rigorous assessment of risks to investments such as corporate accountability and violations of environmental regulations.»
The board of the New York
City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer s
City Employees Retirement System, the
city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer s
city's largest pension
fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion
fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for
City Comptroller Scott Stringer s
City Comptroller Scott Stringer said.
Restructuring their administration could save $ 163.8 million in taxpayer
funds annually and improve benefits to which
City employees have access.
New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Association of New York
City, Inc.,
Employee Benefit
Funds 305 West 44th Street (at Eighth Avenue) New York, New York 10036 www.HotelFunds.org
City Comptroller John C. Liu gave raises to 126
employees, despite a federal investigation into his
fund - raising practices.
The New York
City Employee Retirement System, largest of the city funds, had 17.2 percent of its assets invested in alternatives as of 2
City Employee Retirement System, largest of the
city funds, had 17.2 percent of its assets invested in alternatives as of 2
city funds, had 17.2 percent of its assets invested in alternatives as of 2013.
Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the
city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on
city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.
New York
City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jT
City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15
employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the
city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jT
city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the
city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jT
city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for
city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jT
city employees, Allowing campaign
funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
Comptroller Scott Stringer and the trustees of the New York
City Employees» Retirement System (NYCERS), one of the city's five pension funds, voted unanimously t
City Employees» Retirement System (NYCERS), one of the
city's five pension funds, voted unanimously t
city's five pension
funds, voted unanimously to...
There are also questions around whether Cuomo will include a proposal and dedicated
funding for paid family leave, something that de Blasio recently moved on for some
city employees and called on the state to pass for all workers.
In a letter sent to hedge
fund and opportunistic fixed income managers, Trustees of the New York
City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) called on its hedge
fund managers and opportunistic fixed income managers who invest in distressed debt and might therefore, at present or in the future, hold Puerto Rican municipal obligations, to «negotiate in good faith to find a just and equitable solution to» repayment of the municipal debt at the center of Puerto Rico's economic crisis.
Among those fleeced were New York
City's police pension
fund and the New York
City Employees Retirement System.
He moved to the then - predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood of Bushwick in 1973 and founded the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, which came to offer an array of social services to residents of all ages — but attracted controversy for its high salaries to politically - connected
employees and, in 2010, for falsifying records relating to
city funds.
- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public
employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement
Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York
City; - Overseeing the Justice Court
Fund and the Oil Spill
Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed
funds to their rightful owners;
His experience as a trustee of the New York
City Employee Retirement System — where he has helped to grow the city's pension funds and advance important shareholder initiatives around corporate governance, environmental stability and workplace safety — positions him to be a great comptrol
City Employee Retirement System — where he has helped to grow the
city's pension funds and advance important shareholder initiatives around corporate governance, environmental stability and workplace safety — positions him to be a great comptrol
city's pension
funds and advance important shareholder initiatives around corporate governance, environmental stability and workplace safety — positions him to be a great comptroller.
New York
City's biggest public
employee pension
fund is poised to vote today to begin pulling its investments from hedge
funds, the latest move by a large pension plan to scrap an investment path that once promised big returns.
At the same time, the party's members in the
City Council are pushing hard to guarantee paid sick leave to employees of city companies and to restore funding for student MetroCa
City Council are pushing hard to guarantee paid sick leave to
employees of
city companies and to restore funding for student MetroCa
city companies and to restore
funding for student MetroCards.
The powerful Service
Employees International Union Local 1199 and the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council quit the WFP while the
city United Federation of Teachers withdrew its
funding.
At the top of the WFP's immediate agenda, look for fat raises (and an end to all talk of pension reform) for rank - and - file
city employees (DC Council 37 and others); for Albany to finesse a moratorium on hospital economies (SEIU 1199) and de Blasio's signature millionaire - tax -
funded baby - sitting, that is, «early childhood education» scheme (UFT Local 2).
The report by the state Authorities Budget Office also says the
city «appears to misuse various grant
funds» to pay personnel costs for some
employees of the urban renewal agency.
The board of the New York
City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer s
City Employees Retirement System, the
city's largest pension fund, voted to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer s
city's largest pension
fund, voted to divest the $ 54.5 billion
fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for
City Comptroller Scott Stringer s
City Comptroller Scott Stringer said.
Should Spitzer prevail, he would assume an office that has oversight of public spending in the
city as well as the
employee retirement
fund.
The New York Times reported that Quinn has added an exemption to the living wage bill, which would require commercial projects that get
city funding to pay
employees a «living wage» of at least $ 10 per hour with benefits, that doesn't require most of the Hudson Yards development to comply.
Voicing exasperation with what he called the homogeneous hue of the financial sector, Mr. Stringer demanded that investment
funds hire more women and nonwhite
employees, starting with the
city's youths.
But, Garwood says Rochester's land bank will be staffed by current
city employees, and he doesn't foresee a need for extra
funding at this time.
He embraced a call to increase the minimum wage and, earlier this year, signed a budget that set a $ 15 hourly rate in New York
City as well as a statewide system of
employee -
funded paid leave.
De Blasio said again Wednesday that he would not take taxpayer money to pay his legal bills, although he has set aside up to $ 11.6 million in
city funds for lawyers representing other
city employees questioned by investigators.
The pension proposal — a collaboration between de Blasio,
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Public Advocate Letitia James — would allow workers at companies with 10 or more
employees to enroll in self -
funded retirement plans.
He laid out the major new investments from the preliminary budget — including $ 115 million for the $ 15 minimum wage for
city employees and contracted workers, investments in public safety,
funding education initiatives under the mayor's Equity and Excellence agenda, investments in transportation and social services, along with a few Council priorities.
Unlike New York
City's public
employee pension, which voted to exit its hedge
fund portfolio, the state pension isn't planning to yank its money from hedge
funds, Fuller said.
Supporters of
city employee and mayoral candidate Steve Noble say politics are behind allegations that he mishandled grant applications, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside
funding at risk.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The 20 - year - old lead abatement program run by the
city of Syracuse will shut down and its four
employees will be laid off because federal officials, who had criticized the
city's handling of grants, rejected Syracuse's application for continued
funding.
In part, the adopted budget indicates how OMB will allocate
funding to different
city departments, much of which is dedicated to agency personnel, including new
employees each agency is expected to hire.
«No one has a big interest in the tax component,» one Albany insider said, adding that there was a growing belief in the state capitol that the tax increases were a surreptitious way of
funding the
city's looming public
employee union contracts.
Parishes,
cities, school districts, public facilities, and associations of public
employees frequently use public
funds to influence legislation and appropriations at the state and federal levels.
A group of active and retired Chicago
city employees and four unions that represent them — AFSCME Council 31, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Nurses Associations and Teamsters Local 700 — filed suit today in Cook County Circuit Court to overturn Senate Bill 1922 (Public Act 98 - 0641), legislation to sharply reduce pension benefits for city workers and retirees who participate in the Municipal Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund
employees and four unions that represent them — AFSCME Council 31, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Nurses Associations and Teamsters Local 700 — filed suit today in Cook County Circuit Court to overturn Senate Bill 1922 (Public Act 98 - 0641), legislation to sharply reduce pension benefits for
city workers and retirees who participate in the Municipal
Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund
Employees Annuity and Benefit
Fund (MEABF).
Since mid-October,
funds have been insufficient to cover the paychecks issued to the 60 - plus
employees of Arizona's 380 - student Colorado
City Unified School District, or to pay its vendors and lease - holders, said the district's superintendent, Alvin S. Barlow.
SALT LAKE
CITY — Uintah Elementary School
employees have fielded threats since word surfaced last week that dozens of students had their lunches confiscated and thrown away because of insufficient
funds in their accounts, Salt Lake
City police and school district officials confirmed Monday.
Given that at least 6,006 Second
City teachers — or one - fifth of employees covered by the pension — will retire in the next decade, Emanuel will have to do more than just freeze cost - of - living increases for pensioners of this and those drawing off the rest of the city's annuity fu
City teachers — or one - fifth of
employees covered by the pension — will retire in the next decade, Emanuel will have to do more than just freeze cost - of - living increases for pensioners of this and those drawing off the rest of the
city's annuity fu
city's annuity
funds.
For the remaining one - third of District
employees who are in defined benefit plans, the District's pension plans are 100 - percent
funded — that is, the
city has set aside sufficient
funds each year to cover the full cost of future retirement costs.
The
fund is struggling to match projected returns promised to
employees and retirees with actual returns, and
city services are already beginning to suffer as general revenue supports the
fund.
Control facilities are totally
funded by the local government (typically,
city or county), and therefore are staffed by paid
employees.
San Francisco's local government believes so strongly in the
Fund it invests approximately 13 % of
employee airfare related to
city business.