Sentences with phrase «in city governance»

Have you been told of the factors in city governance that are driving up your property taxes unnecessarily?

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«It's easy to see why the City (of London) and highly - remunerated advisors cheerlead for this listing, but the U.K. currently has strict corporate governance rules and it's vital these aren't watered down in a bid to attract Saudi Aramco.

Mike Garland, executive director of corporate governance for New York City Comptroller John Liu's office, which has a $ 550 million investment in JPMorgan Chase, said «it was a disservice to shareholders that the vote became a referendum on Jamie Dimon.

In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizenIn this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizenin the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

But some in the city's investor community had pushed hard to prevent Hong Kong from changing its rules, arguing that it will mean less rigorous corporate governance.

The Comptroller serves as investment advisor, custodian and a trustee to the New York City Pension Funds, which have more than $ 160 billion in assets and a long history of active ownership on issues of corporate governance and sustainability.

The aim of the dialogue was to exchange ideas on the topic of low - carbon city development as well as share research conducted on climate change, renewable energy, and environmental governance in both Canada and China.

He holds a Master's degree in Corporate Governance and Non Executive Directorship and a degree in Mathematics from the City University London.

Winthrop became a city when it changed its governance to a council - manager form in 2005, but chose to remain known as a «town.»

Theoretically, if a philanthropic, community - based, nonprofit worked in San Diego, it could spur interest in other cities with ever - struggling dailies, though, to be sure, there are a host of management and governance issues implicit in a nonprofit model.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

For instance, Everett, a professor of ethics at Andover - Newton Theological School, notes that the confederations that eventually led to self - governance in some German cities and to democratic efforts such as the Weimar Republic after World War I had been deeply embedded in hierarchical and royal structures, with a high degree of centralized control.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

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.

Regulations and governance in European cities.

One critical component of this frenetic period of reform has been the absence of any explicit or managed process for civic engagement even though the Prime Minister's statement on the 19 September 2014 emphasized that «It is also important we have wider civic engagement about how to improve governance in our United Kingdom, including how to empower our great cities.

After the slow transition to democracy in Brazil in the late 1980s an innovative institution for municipal governance was established in the southern city of Porto Alegre.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and the county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance and establishes an environment that will support economic opportunities for all our residents.»

«New York's governance structure makes this an uneven fight that would only get worse if you give in to a governor this obsessed with hurting New York City and a fellow Democrat.»

But while smart policing will always be in demand in New York City, smart governance is in even shorter supply.

Seeing the upcoming mayor's race as an opportunity to make some much - needed changes to school governance in New York City, the UFT has reconstituted its School Governance governance in New York City, the UFT has reconstituted its School Governance Governance Committee.

The New York State Senate's failure to act on the issue of school governance in New York City is cause for great concern for parents, students and those of us at the UFT.

Responding to an email from a New York City deputy mayor's chief of staff, then - REBNY President Steven Spinola wrote in March of 2015 that it did not appear as if the state Senate majority leader at the time, Republican Dean Skelos, had put anything about school governance in his budget bills.

In his testimony, de Blasio said the request to add the surcharge is a matter of self - governance for the city.

As many Nigerians trooped out onto the streets of Lagos, Abuja and other cities on Monday February 6, 2016 protesting poor governance, a worsening economy, increasing poverty and degenerating standards of living in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesmen had late the previous evening informed Nigerians that the holidaying leader, who they had till then insisted was «hale and hearty» would no longer be returning on Monday due to «some tests» which results he would have to await.

At 8:30 a.m., Fordham University hosts Linda Gibbs, former deputy mayor for health and human services for its «Governance in New York City: The Bloomberg Years» lecture series, E. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center, 113 W. 60th St., Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, Manhattan.

And the proud liberals now in charge of city governance have their sights set on affecting far more change over the next three and a half years — and maybe another four years on top of that — of Mr. de Blasio's tenure

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schoCity worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schocity schools.

«We support a significant role for community boards in general and the Battery Park City community in the governance of BPCA in particular,» the letter read.

In this edition of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher speaks to the Green Party candidates for mayor, city council, and board of education, and explores their collective vision for a new set of city policies and a new way of governance.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance,» the application says.

A coalition of pro-Buhari organisations under the aegis of Citizens Support for Good Governance in Nigeria is mobilising to hold rallies tagged, «I Support President Buhari» across four Nigerian cities this week.

Past efforts have included fighting for more education funding in the state budget and better governance rules over city schools.

The proposals now before the City Council offer a stark choice for the future of the political system our great city: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislativCity Council offer a stark choice for the future of the political system our great city: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislativcity: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislatively.

Shael Polakow - Suransky, the president of Bank Street College of Education, who was previously the second - in - command at the New York City Department of Education, said that governance by elected school boards was «one of the pathologies of the American education system.»

Since then, Gallo has frequently fulminated against «Democratic Party elites» in league with Clement and former mayor Sottile to thwart his efforts to bring «transparent, accountable» governance to the city.

In the most recent past, people in England have taken part in three referendums concerning devolved governance: for a London mayor and assembly; for a North East Regional Assembly; and for so - called City MayorIn the most recent past, people in England have taken part in three referendums concerning devolved governance: for a London mayor and assembly; for a North East Regional Assembly; and for so - called City Mayorin England have taken part in three referendums concerning devolved governance: for a London mayor and assembly; for a North East Regional Assembly; and for so - called City Mayorin three referendums concerning devolved governance: for a London mayor and assembly; for a North East Regional Assembly; and for so - called City Mayors.

Civic - minded residents interested in playing a larger role in the governance of the city, helping to ensure the delivery of municipal services and serving Queens families and neighborhoods are encouraged to apply.»

«School systems are not corporations; they differ profoundly in their mission, dynamics and governance processes,» Jackson wrote in his letter to Steiner, which is available in full on his City Council webpage.

«Effective government and effective governance is being able to collaborate and being able to be clear about your positions, and so the mayor and I have a good working relationship, and it's always in the best interest of New York City for that to happen,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

Under the guidance of UFT Vice Pres - ident Carmen Alvarez and Staten Island Borough Representative Emil Pietromonaco, the committee has been charged with the task of making recommendations for ways to reform mayoral control and school governance before the race for the city's next mayor picks up in the spring.

It will include better city planning and building design, and it will embrace novel coolants, says Stephen Andersen of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C., who helped develop the plan.

Finally, the government should set up a policy framework that combines basic research, city transportation planning, environmental responses and governance direction in relation to human behavior.

Twice mayor of Cali, a city of now more than two million people in Colombia, Guerrero Velasco was in a position to bring a measure of scientific method to governance.

At this point, I'm of the mind that the ASD / RSD model, though it is a giant leap in our evolving understanding of public school governance and operation, is not the long - term solution for what city kids need.

We already have a rich soup of internal governance models, in portfolio cities like NYC and Denver, and need to learn more about how they do and don't work.

They point, for example, to President Bush's No Child Left Behind law (enacted in 2002), mayoral governance of schools recently instituted in some cities, and the creation of a small number (4,638) of charter schools that serve less than 3 % of the U.S. school - age population.

The book includes general overviews of mayoral control; case studies of mayoral control in Boston, Chicago, and Detroit; and chapters looking at school governance, past and present, in New York City.