Sentences with phrase «how city government»

Okay, so I'm trying to start a series of articles explaining how the city government of Fort Worth, Texas operates — mostly as a writing exercise.

Resilient San Francisco (2016) outlines pressing challenges and how City government can partner with the community to make bold and lasting progress on these challenges

By convening a national task force of artists, cultural leaders, and city officials, led by Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson, the OACCE will begin a yearlong discovery process to investigate how city government can engage a broad spectrum of communities in civic dialogue through large - scale temporary public art.

«I worked with the city and I worked alongside every commissioner we currently have, with every agency — I know how city government works and no one else in the race can say that,» said Lynch, in an interview last week.

It does not change how this city government protects its people.

Joe Lhota: Watching him at the Daily News candidate forum last week revealed his basic strength: He's a serious guy who knows how city government works and he has made it work.

Not exact matches

These government workers are focused on how to make cities, towns and economic regions prosper.

Our latest Sustainly Trend Briefing examines how some of the world's biggest companies are collaborating with tech start ups, municipal governments and community organizations working to create Smart City services and experiences, and how these innovations can deliver more sustainable living and business.

Elucd: Elucd is a GovTech company that provides cities with near real - time understanding of how citizens feel about their government.

Secondly, we would welcome invitations to speak to local groups, including economic development organizations, community bankers, and city government, about our bill and how it will help Massachusetts communities and small banks.

Of course, the biggest question will be how to win over city and county governments to allow further construction of such a structure and which startup will prevail in the bid to build our human vacuum tube of the future.

The Vatican is the larger complex and the city - state, also the name for the collective administrative offices (much like how we'll use the phrase Capitol Hill to include the workings of Congress and the rest of the government).

(how much before can not be told since the excavations by James Mellaart have been terminated by the Turkish government), this nascent city site is a veritable Goddess bonanza.

The main government sponsors of Shia extremism or terrorist actions - Iran and Syria, are within the traditional city - state structure, so they are a bit more pragmatic in how they want their support to be directed, because they have their own nations at risk.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

PPS: Maybe much of what the government did was basically just sitting around waiting for something to happen, which is fine, but I'm still curious how an early Village would evolve into a polis city state, and what governance issues they had to deal with from a human perspective, ie daily.

Golden, in the interview, would not say how long the program should be extended for, but compared the power to having the authority over other facets of city government.

He has published a number of books on cities and government, including Failure in British Government, The Politics of the Poll Tax (with David Butler and Andrew Adonis), Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings (with Howard Glennerster and John Hills) and The Politics of London: Governing the Ungoverngovernment, including Failure in British Government, The Politics of the Poll Tax (with David Butler and Andrew Adonis), Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings (with Howard Glennerster and John Hills) and The Politics of London: Governing the UngovernGovernment, The Politics of the Poll Tax (with David Butler and Andrew Adonis), Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings (with Howard Glennerster and John Hills) and The Politics of London: Governing the Ungovernable City.

But in the absence of directly elected regional assemblies in England, it is unclear how Labour plans to bring together incongruent levels of territorial government: think of Scotland compared to, say, the Leeds City Region.

Aside from modest federal savings and an end to the federal government's biggest role in the public financing of sports stadiums, repealing the exemption could also affect how cities and states approach public funding for such facilities, economists said.

Central Government invites each combined authority to set out the details of how the checks and balances will work in their city region.

With staff that includes a former Town Supervisor and others active in local government, Brown & Weinraub understands how to assist cities, towns and villages in New York State with both government relations and legal services.

Peter A. Baynes, Executive Director of the New York State Council of Mayors said, «Governor Cuomo's creation of a team to examine how oppressive mandates are crippling local governments, including cities and villages, is a welcome relief from years of inaction.

This simplistic narrative ignores how the nation's deep recession has shrunk city and state tax revenue and omits the fact that plummeting stock markets have decimated government pension funds.

This has echoes of previous initiatives when Manchester and Leeds were given the special status of «city regions», but which probably reflects how the two metropolitan areas have been perceived and trusted by government to deliver growth and investment.

Senate Republicans are nudging de Blasio to release more information on how the city spends its education money; the Assembly on Monday passed an omnibus bill that packages a two - year extender with a continuation of local government tax measures.

«The Commission is reviewing the entire City Charter and welcomes ideas from all New Yorkers on how to improve city government and the electoral process,» Matt Gewolb, the commission's counsel and executive director, said in a statemCity Charter and welcomes ideas from all New Yorkers on how to improve city government and the electoral process,» Matt Gewolb, the commission's counsel and executive director, said in a statemcity government and the electoral process,» Matt Gewolb, the commission's counsel and executive director, said in a statement.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan says the city hasn't provided documents showing how government money was spent, which is required by state law.

When I later left city government to go to Goldman Sachs, that was an incredibly gutsy thing to do, because when you really care about making cities better, how could you go work for this «evil empire»?

«From having a young family to my business background and understanding how government operates, I think I'm the best person to lead the city forward,» Masterpole said.

«Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed.

James will give a talk about her role in city government and how she uses the law as a vehicle for social justice and change.

How much of the work of city and state government is tarnished by tawdry graft?

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus: As leading city governments across the country consider how to approach the Internet age, they're taking the concept of «adaptive reuse» to a new frontier by thinking of new ways to turn old standbys like payphones or disused rail tunnels into new pieces of digital infrastructure.

There is no city or state data on how many contractors to government agencies are LGBT - owned businesses.

«When you have leadership in government that listens to the residents and that ensures that we are doing what our neighborhoods want, what our neighborhood associations what, that's how you build a strong city and that's how you build strong neighborhoods, so we want to continue that work and continue moving that forward.»

Syracuse's Youth Council, a group of young people learning how the city's government works, sat in on their first Common Council meeting in March.

They have proactively held meetings with the UK Government to discuss how a City Deal for the Cardiff City Region could work.

The face - to - face meeting with the federal government's top transportation official comes at a crucial moment for Mr. Cuomo amid intense public scrutiny on the state of New York City's deteriorating subway system, and how to fix it.

In what could become a major conflict between Trump and local governments, the showdown on «sanctuary cities» likely will result in legal challenges testing how far the White House can go in dictating its priorities.

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Both conceded they don't expect Hizzoner to drop the reins of city government without a fight so they're exploring how to jump - start the impeachment process.

Sinagra singled out the «Mayor's Task Force» as a particularly egregious example of how the spoils system can swell city government.

«Look, if I had my druthers,» he said, «the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed.»

He said he wanted to look to the technology sector for inspiration on how to deliver city services to citizens in a user friendly way «in the palm of their hand» and use technology to bridge the disconnect between government and citizens, especially in light of low voter turnout..

Just as in the aftermath of 9/11, it is once again the onus of the federal, state and city governments to determine how to allocate taxpayer money to the businesses and residents — who have this time suffered from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy.

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

«He has been exemplary, I want people to understand how important it is, if you believe in the things that I have just laid out for here in New York City, if you'd like to see our federal government respond to all of us, if you want more leaders who shared these values and then acted on then, then pay attention to the leader you have right now in the state of New York right now, your Attorney General, because he has acted on those values each and every day,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Question topics included the estimated time for completion of all of the Sandy recovery home rebuilding, the implementation of new flood maps, whether de Blasio's reported future endorsement of Hillary Clinton is tied to a longterm need for federal government assistance, whether in Secretary Castro's view the City could do better on any element of Sandy recovery efforts, communicating an increased sense of urgency to City agencies, significant variations in the reported number of Build It Back applicants, how the City will continue its increased rate of repairs, details on the construction firms used in the program and praise for developer Gerry Romski.

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