Sentences with phrase «funding from city councils»

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.

A Harlem non-profit bankrolled with taxypayer funds from City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito helped construct the float convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera rode during the recent Puerto Rican Day Parade...

According to a letter sent after the meeting by the Queens Pride House to Mendez, it was to discuss possible funding from the City Council, but it went wrong.

While the administration has not indicated which specific fire companies could be cut under the preliminary budget proposal, Engine 4 made a list of 16 companies slated for closure last year that were ultimately saved through funding from the City Council.

Not exact matches

Katz also saw a stagnant downtown and promised the Arena District as a carrot to both fund his new rink and get the Edmonton City Council drooling over pictures of shiny new buildings mere metres away from their offices in City Hall.

To fund the project, the park district has received approval from the Rolling Meadows City Council to include their $ 450,000 grant request with the city's application for Cook County Community Development Block GraCity Council to include their $ 450,000 grant request with the city's application for Cook County Community Development Block Gracity's application for Cook County Community Development Block Grants.

WARRENVILLE — Residents will have access to a new park, thanks in part to some additional funding from the Warrenville City Council.

At 10 a.m., NYC Council members Donovan Richards and Adrienne Adams announce legislation to return commissary funds to the formerly incarcerated, R train station outside City Hall, across from 253 Broadway, Manhattan.

According to Schneiderman, Wills used public matching funds from his 2009 campaign for City Council to pay $ 11,500 to Micro Targeting, a shell company created to translate and distribute campaign literature.

The City Council funding process is so intentionally opaque, so jackstraw and piecemeal that it should not even be a surprise to find the Members from Kew Gardens or the Upper West Side sponsoring $ 75,000 allocations for the High Line.

Wills was elected in 2010, and used public matching funds from his 2009 City Council campaign to pay more than $ 11,000 to a shell company that was supposed to translate and distribute campaign literature, the state attorney general said.

A prominent Bronx politician lobbied to run a new City Council committee that oversees taxis and car services after collecting thousands in campaign funds from the industry.

However, last month, the City Council proposed allocating $ 212 million from the city's budget to fund the program after more than half of its members penned a letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm, affirming their support for Fair FaCity Council proposed allocating $ 212 million from the city's budget to fund the program after more than half of its members penned a letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm, affirming their support for Fair Facity's budget to fund the program after more than half of its members penned a letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm, affirming their support for Fair Fares.

David's missive asserted that Johnson had agreed that the city should kick in $ 400 million toward the MTA's emergency construction plan — against de Blasio's wishes — and that the state would withhold $ 200 million in funding from the Housing Authority until the mayor, council and tenant leaders picked a private contractor to undertake repairs.

The deal received a mostly positive response from Council Parks Committee Chair Mark Levine, who said in a statement, «I am thrilled that the City Council has restored funding for gardeners and maintenance workers — saving 150 vitally needed jobs, and protecting a critical resource for parks in low - and moderate - income neighborhoods.

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

Council Member Maria Baez allocated discretionary funds to a nonprofit that the city had already disqualified from receiving larger member item grants from Baez, according to the New York Post.

Barrett's beef with the project is that the money the Common Council allocated was from the city's Development Fund.

The project has received support from a diverse base of private and public partners including the Junior League of Buffalo / Buffalo News, Rich Family Foundation, Wegmans, Patrick P. Lee Foundation, James H. Cummings Foundation, Assembly Member Sean Ryan, NYS Empire State Development, NYS Homes and Community Renewal, the City of Buffalo, M&T Bank, Peter C. Cornell Trust, City Council Member David Rivera, Simple Gifts Fund, Children's Foundation of Erie County, and individual donors.

UPPER WEST SIDE — A group of «feisty» neighborhood seniors is celebrating a promise by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to restore funding for their beloved center and prevent it from permanently closing at the end of the month.

«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 zeroing out of funds in the Council's discretionary budget for fiscal 2017 follows last week's arrest of Simon Wiesenthal Center board member Murray Huberfeld, who was accused of paying a bribe to land a $ 20 million investment from the city correction officers» union for his hedge fund.

Missing from amNY's pantheon of recently disgraced former city officials is Miguel Martinez who pleaded guilty (in 2009) to embezzling $ 106,000 in city council funds.

By contrast, City Council Speaker Quinn — who has raised more funds than any other candidate — drummed up just under $ 20,000 and Public Advocate de Blasio raised a mere $ 12,730 from real estate donors in the same period.

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.

From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., NYC Central Labor Council President Vincent Alvarez and Teamsters Local 237 President Gregory Floyd, Community Service Society of New York President and CEO David R. Jones and Thompson participate in a rally to protest reductions in federal funding for NYCHA; City Hall Park, Manhattan.

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.

During his weekly «Ask the Mayor» segment, WNYC's Brian Lehrer highlighted several of de Blasio's left - wing headaches, including the language City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito inserted into the city budget requiring the $ 26 million program to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those found guilty of violent crimes — in defiance of de Blasio's declaration that foreign nationals convicted of rape, murder or terrorism should not benefit from city fuCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito inserted into the city budget requiring the $ 26 million program to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those found guilty of violent crimes — in defiance of de Blasio's declaration that foreign nationals convicted of rape, murder or terrorism should not benefit from city fucity budget requiring the $ 26 million program to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those found guilty of violent crimes — in defiance of de Blasio's declaration that foreign nationals convicted of rape, murder or terrorism should not benefit from city fucity funds.

He was a Human Rights Campaign board member from 1987 until 2001, and on the political stump he raised funds for Tom Duane's first City Council campaign and advised Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer during his 2001 mayoral race.

«She wouldn't,» Turner said before attacking Weprin as being «tainted by a long career in politics,» referring to the City Council slush fund scandal and accusing Weprin of taking political contributions from charity.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito did not blame Governor Andrew Cuomo for keeping the city from using state funds to pay for homeless families» rental subsidCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito did not blame Governor Andrew Cuomo for keeping the city from using state funds to pay for homeless families» rental subsidcity from using state funds to pay for homeless families» rental subsidies.

Speaking of the city's $ 39 million budget (devised by Sottile and approved by the Common Council), Gallo deplored the «unfortunate impact of a million - dollar deficit due to the prior administration's allocation from the city fund balance.»

De Blasio commended sanitation workers for their role in helping the city rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as he battles the federal government over how effectively the city managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of hocity rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as he battles the federal government over how effectively the city managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of hocity managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of hoCity Council members to speed up the rebuilding of homes.

Bharara prosecuted and won convictions against several members of the New York City Council for misappropriating funds from non-profits they controlled through discretionary «slush funds.»

Corey Johnson, the City Council speaker, and Daniel Dromm, the Council's finance chairman, said in a statement that they were «disappointed» that no money for Fair Fares and the other City Council priorities was in the executive budget, though they believed there was enough money from additional revenue and potential savings to fund the proposals.

The hospital, at 79 - 01 Broadway in Elmhurst, received $ 1 million in funding for the 13 - bed unit from City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) and the Council's Queens delegation.

On Wednesday at City Hall, Council members led by finance Chair Julissa Ferreras - Copeland had questions for city budget officials, who explained that most of the new spending stems from an increase in federal and state fundCity Hall, Council members led by finance Chair Julissa Ferreras - Copeland had questions for city budget officials, who explained that most of the new spending stems from an increase in federal and state fundcity budget officials, who explained that most of the new spending stems from an increase in federal and state funding.

The council voted eight to one to strip $ 1.5 million in city funding from the organization.

«Public funds left over from the 2013 council election are owed to the city and may not be used in a 2014 state election,» he said.

Funding for the chains came from money left to the council by Colonel Rupert Alexander Smith, who played a significant role in the city, with roles including sheriff of Hull between 1949 and 1950, lord mayor of Hull in 1970/71, as well as being lord lieutenant of Humberside between 1980 and 1983.

«Our campaign was alerted on Friday about the discrepancy relating to a transfer of funds from the 2013 City Council Campaign to the 2014 Senate.

«Last year, I rescinded funding for the group when I was informed that there was a problem with its finances; the organization received no money from my City Council discretionary funds for the last two years,» he said.

However, there are some concerns from within and outside the Council that the city budget is growing too quickly and that there is not enough being put aside in reserves, though rainy day funds are at their highest levels ever.

The City Council's long - awaited public bail fund, a project spearheaded by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, is one step closer to being operational after receiving another required approval from state authorities.

The city received $ 1.75 million in funds Wednesday from the Regional Economic Development Council to continue its revitalization of Remsen Street to draw business and visitors to the city.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing stiff resistance from City Council members and immigrant advocates who are opposed to how the mayor would like to set up a fund intended to protect the city's immigrants in deportation proceedings, with the deadline for a budget deal inching cloCity Council members and immigrant advocates who are opposed to how the mayor would like to set up a fund intended to protect the city's immigrants in deportation proceedings, with the deadline for a budget deal inching clocity's immigrants in deportation proceedings, with the deadline for a budget deal inching closer.

Continuing their battle to stop the mayor from laying off teachers and cutting child care and after - school program funding, a group of parents and community members gathered at City Hall on June 16 to deliver a petition on seven 50 - foot scrolls signed by more than 20,000 New Yorkers telling Mayor Bloomberg and City Council members to invest in school improvement, not cut programs or personnel.

The path to election reform is somewhat muddled; most rules governing contribution limits and the matching funds program that provides public money to candidates are derived from legislation passed by the City Council.

Accompanying himself on guitar, Chapin's song — performed as his testimony at the Nov. 23 City Council hearing — reflected the testimony of UFT Vice President of Elementary Schools Karen Alford: namely, that art in city schools is suffering from a lack of funding, certified art teachers, space, materials and commitmCity Council hearing — reflected the testimony of UFT Vice President of Elementary Schools Karen Alford: namely, that art in city schools is suffering from a lack of funding, certified art teachers, space, materials and commitmcity schools is suffering from a lack of funding, certified art teachers, space, materials and commitment.