Sentences with phrase «funding for the city»

He is well known for initiating a lawsuit that won a court order to increase state funding for city schools.

The entrepreneur's company recently announced that it would provide $ 200 million in funding for the city's startups and entrepreneurs over the next three years.

The candidate also listed increased funding for city schools, tenant protection legislation, ensuring prevailing wages on subsidized housing construction and increasing assistance for small business owners among her priorities.

She secured $ 10 billion in federal funding for our city's infrastructure.

The measure would cut off state funding for cities where officials have enacted policies prohibiting them from sharing information about the immigration status of people in custody.

These expenses are coming at a time when the city has rapidly depleted its reserve fund for the city.

The mix of public and private funding for city parks hardly helps.

With no budget, about $ 900 million in cuts to state funding for cities and towns are scheduled to take effect this month under an executive order by the governor.

The budget agreement also increases funding for the city's district attorneys by $ 22 million, and emergency food assistance — another negotiating point — by $ 5 million.

Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments did not include $ 12.5 million worth of funding for the city of Albany, without which Mayor Kathy Sheehan can not balance her budget.

After he completes his 23rd and final term in Congress, Rep. Charlie Rangel plans to raise funds for the City College of New York.

I serve as director of the Compact, and I'm here today on behalf of the members of the Great Schools Compact and the Philadelphia School Partnership not just to support Superintendent Hite, the Mayor, and many civic leaders in the recommendation for more funding for city schools, but to support the bold transformation that they — that we — must pursue.

He also proposed that the city share more in funding for the City University of New York, a move that could cost $ 485 million and affect de Blasio's own upcoming budget plan.

Quinn on Tuesday also announced her opposition to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to cut funding for the city's sexual assault response teams.

Talk about bad timing: President Obama is due in NYC today — just as news broke about his administration's decision to cut anti-terror funding for the city's mass transit system and port security.

As an example of one area where they've butted heads, he cited the state's refusal to increase education funding for the city after a landmark court ruling found the Big Apple has been consistently shortchanged.

«Slow but steady economic growth has produced additional funds for the City budget, but signs of a potential slowdown are on the horizon,» Comptroller Stringer said.

At noon, NYC Council Health Chairman Mark Levine and others call on the city to increase tuberculosis funding for the City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«This bill paves the way for a significant increase in public funding for the city's animal shelters, which will greatly expand and improve care for homeless animals,» Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) said in a statement.

Sure, the federal government is even stingier with funding for the city than it was back in the 1970s when the Daily News kissed off President Gerald Ford.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's smoothly choreographed State of the State address hit a bump today when Assemblyman Charles Barron began shouting at him over funding for city programs — forcing the governor to shout back.

The grant money includes funding for the city's CreateNYC cultural plan, which Mayor Bill de Blasio initiated in 2015 to be the first comprehensive plan of its kind to address the needs of institutions in each of New York's five boroughs and to devise «a roadmap to guide the future of arts and culture in NYC.»

The Troy Rehabilitation and Improvement Program & rsquo; s HomeOwnership Center administers funds for the City of Troy ' s Homebuyer Incentive Program and Rensselaer County ' s Homebuyer Program in the form of down payment and / or closing cost assistance.

On Wednesday, hundreds of teachers and community members in Chicago protested at City Hall to demand fair funding for the city's public schools.

Jackson, who famously walked from New York City to Albany to secure state funding for city schools, is barred from running for his council seat again because of term limits.

Last year the council slashed funding for the city's land bank in then - Mayor Stephanie Miner's budget and overrode Miner's veto of their changes.

Cuomo's budget also calls for a cap on funding for the city's child welfare program.

Benefit performance for The Public Art Fund for City Walls, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York.

Steven Rattner, who led the auto industry restructuring in 2009, said it would be a mistake for Michigan and the federal government not to provide funds for the city.

Last summer, Congress appropriated $ 3.9 billion in emergency funds for cities to acquire and rehab foreclosed properties.

But there are elements of an opening for Spitzer in the fact that the comptroller manages some of the biggest pools of money in the world, retirement funds for city employees.

Quinn called on State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman for enforcement of the harshest penalties in sex crime cases and pledged to protect funding for the city's Sexual Assault Response Teams, which provide forensic exams and counseling services to sexual assault victims at hospitals.

During his speech, Donovan referenced his record in Congress, from negotiating a budget agreement and securing critical funding for the city's transportation needs and homeland security to enacting the Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act and getting comprehensive FEMA reform to help our Sandy victims.

«We are extremely pleased the Council's budget response embraces some of our top priorities, including hiring an additional 1,000 police officers; adding more than $ 100 million to DOT budget to resurface and repair 1,500 miles of roads that badly need it; as well as expanding services for veterans and maintaining funding for our city's growing population of seniors,» Ignizio and Matteo said in a joint statement Tuesday.

For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agencies.

But ending the Syracuse program effectively reduces the amount of funding for city homes by nearly $ 2 million a year, city officials say.

Seattle filed a lawsuit over Trump's executive order threatening to cut off federal funding for cities offering to protect illegal immigrants.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY) is calling on the Federal Highway Administration and the New York State Department of Transportation to unlock funds for the city of Utica to use in a new project.

Earlier this year, the Syracuse Common Council allocated funding for the city to hire more police officers.

The exuberant pols repeatedly cheered each other on, celebrating the small increase in police officers on city streets, the introduction of a free lunch program for middle school students and new security funding for the city's Housing Authority.

Teacher's Choice received a 63.5 percent increase in the final city budget, passed on June 6, bringing funding for the City Council's popular program that reimburses educators for out - of - pocket spending on classroom supplies back up to its pre-recession high of more than $ 20 million.

The comments came after President Donald Trump threatened funding for cities that harbored illegal immigrants.

On the campaign trail, Cuomo said he wants to create a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization fund for cities, including Syracuse, outside of Buffalo.

In the governor's proposed state budget, Title XX funding for city senior centers is being eliminated — more than $ 25 million.

De Blasio said he saw five major areas where the Trump Administration and Republican controlled Congress posed a major threat: police funding, public health funding for the city's hospital system, education, environmental protection efforts and affordable housing.

In August, Denno, who chairs the public works committee, delayed funding for the city's annual street - sweeping program, saying, «I'm willing to reconsider this when they come back with an additional $ 2.4 million for the school district.»

In Milwaukee, which has been disproportionately burdened in a statewide voucher funding scheme, the city has had to raise property taxes several times in order to ensure adequate funding for the city's schools.

«We are hoping the House and Senate will be able to step up and provide more equitable funding for the city of Boston,» he said.

• Sponsoring a portion of the Mayor's Ball, an annual event to increase spay / neuter awareness and generate funding for the city Animal Welfare Department.