Sentences with phrase «governor over its operations»
Cuomo has proposed that the New York Racing Association be returned to private control, but the plan would retain sizeable influence by the governor over its operations.
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The governor's administration moved in 2012 to take over NYRA operations after then - CEO Charlie Hayward was removed and the association was caught improperly collecting millions in fees from exotic bets.
Unlike other state operations like transportation, health and motor vehicles, Governors of New York do not have direct control over the state's education department.
The governor's potential support comes during a battle between Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over funding subway improvements and just as the mayor unveiled his own plan to create a new funding source for the MTA: a millionaires tax to fund MTA operations and half - fare MetroCards for low - income city residents.
«If the governor is going to hire people for his political operation, he should be much more transparent and not bury them in corners of state government so as to avoid scrutiny,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the government reform group Citizens Union, which is currently in litigation with the Cuomo administration over a 2016 nonprofit lobbying law.
The governors of New York and New Jersey exert influence over the authority's operations, however, as indicated in emails published recently by the public radio station WNYC, which show intense interaction between the Cuomo administration and Foye in the wake of the George Washington Bridge scandal.
In particular, he wants it to create a state ethics control board that is independent and has «robust enforcement powers» over both the Legislature and the governor's offices.If that doesn't happen in the first six months, Mr. Cuomo says he will indeed allow Mr. Schneiderman's office to become Albany's one - stop, anti-sleaze operation.
In a news conference heard live on WBFO Wednesday, Governor Cuomo and Gary Doer, the Canadian ambassador to the United States, announced a deal that ends a bitter dispute over operation of the bridge.
According to a deal struck earlier this year, the plant's operations will be phased out over a four - year period and its shutdown and subsequent impact on the regional economy and environment will be the subject of a governor's task force consisting of both state and local lawmakers as well as various officials from Cuomo's administration.