Sentences with phrase «in city contracts»

A Mayor Bill de Blasio fundraiser — whose engineering firms have been awarded millions of dollars in city contracts — has been charged with enlisting his employees to donate to...

Charles Hocking, de Blasio's No. 7 bundler, has seen his engineering consulting firm, Hazen and Sawyer, score more than $ 146 million in city contracts since the mayor took office.

Comptroller Stringer discussed critical policy issues facing New York City — from the need to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour to increasing Minority and Women - Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE) participation in city contracting.

Blacks and Latinos received only.43 percent of the $ 13.8 billion in city contracts given out in fiscal year 2015, according to a report from Comptroller Scott Stringer.

He urged a conference of New York State mayors at the Hilton hotel to be watchful for corruption in city contracts.

ADC is Harlem's largest provider of affordable housing and social services, but has recently become a target of probes conducted by the State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and had the de Blasio administration cancel $ 3.1 million in city contracts in September.

She noted a decline in city contracts going to M / WBE businesses and pointed to problems in the Department of Education.

The agency, which has received millions in city contracts and City Council discretionary funds, is a Quinn booster and there are certainly those in the community who argue that the boosterism is deserved.

What to do about the billions in city contracts that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has been unable — or unwilling — to deal with in his third term has become a major issue in the campaign to replace him.

«With the help of their grant, we believe that we can go one step further than saving the 4,000 animals outlined in the city contract, and can actually save all salvageable pets in San Antonio this year.

He is also the vice president and a part owner of SIMCO, which has gotten tens of millions of dollars in city contracts, including a $ 15 million deal with the Department of Design and Construction that was registered Aug. 22, records show.

Husam Ahmad is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of HAKS, which is based in the Financial District and has received more than $ 360 million in city contracts since 2000, records show.

Hilltop Public Solutions — a public relations firm run by two of de Blasio's five outside advisers known as «agents of the city» — pitched a top city official on behalf of a client that has since landed more than $ 6 million in city contracts.

Liu said that while minority - and women - owned businesses received $ 400 million in city contracts this year, that was not enough compared to the $ 18 billion the city awarded in contracts overall.

Bloomberg noted that since December 2005, women - and minority - certified vendors have secured more than $ 2.7 billion in city contracts, with nearly $ 563 million in city contracts awarded to firms owned by minorities and women in 2011 alone.

That would be highly unusual to have in a city contract,» he said.

MIDWOOD — A longtime friend and campaign donor of Mayor Bill de Blasio who ran a nonprofit that amassed more than $ 260 million in city contracts to house the homeless is under investigation over loans and compensation given to him and companies he ran, DNAinfo New York has learned.

A Mayor Bill de Blasio fundraiser — whose engineering firms have been awarded millions of dollars in city contracts — has been charged with enlisting his employees to donate to the 2013 mayoral election and reimbursing them through end - of - the - year bonuses in a bribery - filled corruption scheme, Manhattan prosecutors said Wednesday.

Enter Professor Lucy Calkins of Teachers College, the doyenne of balanced literacy in New York, with $ 6 million in city contracts to train teachers for the program.