Sentences with phrase «hiring of city residents»

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Uber hosted a «jobs event» for prospective and current drivers to showcase how many New York residents» jobs would be cut if the vehicle cut were to take effect, and also ran TV ads, bought banner ads on websites, sent out direct mailers to constituents of City Council members who are proponents of the proposed legislation, and even reportedly tried to persuade the Rev. Al Sharpton to oppose the for - hire - vehicle cap.

Lane said the silver lining is the Destiny tax deal with the county includes a promise of 50 percent city resident employment at the hotel and 15 percent minority and women owned business hiring for construction.

The task force is a Syracuse - based coalition of community groups and individuals who have pushed developers seeking tax exemptions in the city to commit to training and hiring underprivileged city residents.

What if in Upstate cities - Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo (the other two New York cities on a top 10 list of concentrated minority poverty)-- we dramatically reduce federal taxes for any business willing to locate within their boundaries and hire legal city residents?

Mayor Stephanie Miner has said that COR should not have been given tax breaks without committing to training and hiring underprivileged city residents for some of the jobs to be created at the harbor.

The law that requires apprentice participation also sets goals for the hiring of minorities, women and city residents.

Stamper was one of the prime movers behind changes made to the city's resident - hiring program earlier this year.

The same law also sets goals for the hiring of minorities, women, and Buffalo residents on city - funded capital projects.

CROWN HEIGHTS — As some neighbors of two planned Crown Heights homeless shelters fight to block their openings, city officials hope to mend relationships between shelters and residents by hiring a full - time Director of Community Partnerships to manage problems and volunteer efforts.

The group wants Fayetteville - based COR Development to hire and train city residents, especially those from distressed parts of the city, for construction jobs at the harbor.

Syracuse, N.Y. — A dozen members of the Urban Jobs Task Force demonstrated at the Syracuse Inner Harbor Thursday, calling on COR Development Co. to hire city residents to help build its $ 342 million complex of hotels, apartments, retail and office space at the former Barge Canal terminal.

A team of environmental scientists hired by New York City in 2009 to evaluate fracking's environmental impact concluded that the process could be «catastrophic» to the city's water supply because it degraded water quality and exposed residents to potentially «chronic low levels of toxic chemicals.&raCity in 2009 to evaluate fracking's environmental impact concluded that the process could be «catastrophic» to the city's water supply because it degraded water quality and exposed residents to potentially «chronic low levels of toxic chemicals.&racity's water supply because it degraded water quality and exposed residents to potentially «chronic low levels of toxic chemicals.»

The contract Vallas signed last spring committed the City of Bridgeport to hire 125 mostly out - of - state TFA recruits rather than give Connecticut residents, who have graduated with teaching certificates from Connecticut colleges, a chance to get these jobs.

When it came to hiring collectors, Buffalo proved to be an auspicious locale, both because there were so many veteran collectors to hire and because so many of the city's other residents were so eager to find paying work.

Local residents decided to Hire a Lawyer and fought the plan, and won, and the developer eventually donated to tree to the City of Encino.

Health Insurance Concerns — and Beyond A spate of hirings and firings has plagued the Muncie region for well over a decade — and both the state and national trends (as of 2010) suggest that many of the city's nearly 120,000 residents will remain under the gun, economically, for some time.