Sentences with phrase «how city dollars»

«Participatory Budgeting gives residents an unprecedented opportunity to make decisions on how City dollars get spent in our communities,» said Council Member Mark Weprin, whose district joined PBNYC this year.

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How could the city allow Leeb, an outsider, to sell the Silverdome for just half a million dollars?

1 Trillion Dollars in stimulus money and can anybody tell me how much of that went to the inner city infracstructure?

As New York sorts out how to spend millions of federal dollars for railroad upgrades, officials in Albany and Rensselaer are hoping some of that money can help restore a pedestrian and bike pathway over the Hudson River to reconnect the two cities.

DeMaio demonstrated how he believed the city remained hundreds of millions of dollars in the red.

American cities are in a battle with each other, dueling over how to lure jobs and industries to their communities with millions of dollars in incentives.

«The City Council has a profound effect on all of our lives, from determining how to allocate billions of dollars of our tax money to laying out the city's policy prioritCity Council has a profound effect on all of our lives, from determining how to allocate billions of dollars of our tax money to laying out the city's policy prioritcity's policy priorities.

«I honestly don't know how you can sit here with a straight face after blowing billions of dollars and ask the City Council for more money when you can't even met your own deadlines that the mayor set forth,» said Ulrich, a Republican publicly weighing running against de Blasio next year.

Garcia, by contrast, has appeared shaky in explaining how he'd pay for millions of dollars in new spending that he says would even Chicago's socioeconomic playing field — let alone how he'd deal with the city's $ 20 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.

In testimony at the federal bribery trial of former city correction union boss Norman Seabrook, Rechnitz told how he bought the key to the city for some $ 160,000 in donations to de Blasio and the state Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, plus tens of thousands of dollars more in gifts to NYPD brass.

The Republican leader sent a letter to de Blasio on Monday, claiming the city has failed to meet a state requirement by filling out a form that shows, building by building, how schools spend local, state and federal tax dollars.

After reporting on Hurricane Sandy, he broke the story of how the city planned a multibillion dollar effort to increase its resistance to climate change, and reported from the Netherlands on how the Dutch prepare for higher sea levels.

Now, she said, the governor is telling the city how it must use «these discretionary dollars» which could lead to a «hole» in the city's budget.

«Participatory Budgeting gives our communities a direct say on how the City spends public dollars and provides Council offices with an incredible tool for building relationships and engaging a broad range of constituents,» said Council Member Ritchie Torres.

«This is a historic chance for residents across New York City to have a key role in deciding how their tax dollars are reinvested in their community,» said Council Member Mark Treyger.

This process, called Participatory Budgeting, allowed residents in four city council districts to directly decide how to spend millions of their own tax dollars.

Here's how the 10 Regional Economic Development Councils have fared over the first four cycles (figures in millions of dollars) of Regional Economic Development Council funding; outside of New York City, the Capital Region has received the least support:

«As we are thinking about how to implement the program, we are obviously learning from the path - breaking leadership of the Council and the speaker and being able to develop great programs and want to learn from those, but also set sort of priorities of how to use limited dollars in ways that are consistent with the city's values and policies,» Agarwal said.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a new process for capital budgeting in which voters in participating districts directly decide how to spend millions of their own tax dollars, a first in New York City and only the second such initiative in the United States.

«And also the census data is used to determine how much federal dollars come back to places like Manhattan or surrounding cities.»

Benjy Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for his development of a mathematical model which predicts how disease data and weather patterns could spread spores of the «late blight» fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes billions of dollars in crop damages annually.

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A crowd of protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside a government building in Lower Manhattan last June, collectively demanding that the city and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawscity and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsCity schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsuit.

The city attorney's office, the FBI, and the district attorney's office are conducting separate investigations into how millions of dollars in voter - approved bond funds for new facilities and renovations were used, and whether there was criminal wrongdoing.

INEQUALITY Washington Post: D.C. is misspending millions of dollars intended to help the city's poorest students Pacific Standard: How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive Washington Post: D.C. Public Schools residency fraud often committed by teachers Mother Jones: Parents Didn't Want Fracking Near Their School

That Audi is spending millions of dollars to get trendy young professionals in Australia's major cities to notice the new A3 Sportback shows how important the prestige small car market is to the company.

This is an example of how No Kill can actually save taxpayer dollars, since the contract price is 15 % less than the amount the city had paid to run the shelter.

Quantifying the benefits in terms of a concrete dollar value is impossible without knowing how much each individual flies per year, the city in which they live, etc..

Also, how will this affect the cities that may rely on these big attractions for tourism dollars?

In «how to write a half million dollars annually, repeatedly, in commission,» I mention the square mileage size because not only did I stay within the city perimeter, but I worked an amazingly confined «my» personal (farming) boundary, mostly, with only a rare exception.

As I was driving and enjoying the beautiful fall weather I was thinking how wonderful Silver Dollar City would be that day.