Sentences with phrase «in public hearings before»

Together they provide an unparalleled combination of extensive experience providing conflicts of interest legal opinions, representing government clients in Commission investigations, representing clients in public hearings before the Commission and litigating ethics issues in both trial and appellate courts.

PROFESSIONALISM Attorney Levesque represents attorneys before grievance panels, in public hearings before the Statewide Grievance Committee, and in presentments and appeals.

County legislature will review the plan in public hearings before it adopts a final plan by September 15.

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«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.

Mayor Robert Chiszar said the Park District's plan is slated for a public hearing before the Planning Commission next month, with a Village Board public hearing and a vote on the annexation request in August.

«And today, the senator is going to take part in a public hearing that she fervently fought against for months because she put politics before the health and safety of her constituents,» said Francis.

Democrats, already fearful of getting throttled at the polls in November, are dreading a public airing of Rangel's ethical misdeeds at a hearing before the ethics panel's adjudicatory subcommittee — just weeks before the elections.

City Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing, announced that the Committee would require Olatoye to appear before an oversight hearing in early December.

The public purchase of three lots in East Hampton Village that could provide space for an expansion of Herrick Park will be the subject of a hearing before the East Hampton Town Board tonight at 6:30 at Town Hall.

MANHATTAN — Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel appears headed for a full - blown ethics trial after making little apparent progress in negotiations to settle a host of allegations he violated Congressional ethics rules before they were officially unveiled at a rare public hearing.

If that doesn't sound rushed, consider this: In her comments at a hearing in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.&raquIn her comments at a hearing in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.&raquin Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.»

The Lawyers in an official letter addressed to members of the 5 - member ad - hoc committee tasked to investigate the alleged scandal, said: «we have been instructed by our client to convey to you, which we hereby do, his desire to appear before your committee to be heard on the above allegation and to provide evidence that would assist your Committee to reach a fair and true conclusion on this substantially important matter of public interest.»

(iv) Hearings shall be private, unless the respondent requests in writing at least 48 hours before the hearing that it be public.

The mayor, who has been locked in a public feud with the governor since July, is due to testify in Albany before lawmakers at a joint budget hearing on Tuesday.

Supporters of a deal to give $ 6.84 million in tax breaks for a Destiny USA hotel outnumbered opponents three to one today at a public hearing before the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency.

Partisan tensions between the leaders of the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, erupted yesterday, just four days before Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify at a public hearing of the panel.

A signature economic development program conceived by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a success, the administration's top economic development czar said Monday after an at - times contentious appearance before state lawmakers at a public hearing in Albany.

«This growing trend (of short - term rentals) poses concerns for the City of New York — in particular, for our affordable housing stock and public safety,» the city's chief fiscal officer said in testimony he plans to submit before the City Council on Tuesday at a high - profile hearing on home - sharing.

Corps program manager Steven Wolf said at the September public hearing that dredged materials must be signed off on by the Environmental Protection Agency and the state before they're disposed of in open waters.

Meanwhile back here on planet Earth; where no one, (not even someone such as myself with a lifelong interest in politics,) has ever heard of either Jeremy Corbyn or Angela Eagle much before last week, the Ivory tower jibe chimes very much in tune with my own previous assessment of a now all but completely defunct Labor party completely out of touch with the public at large and with broader opinion, and out to lunch.

Johanna Miller, advocacy director of the NYCLU, said in a statement, «The City Council's practice of giving inadequate and untimely notice before so - called public hearings is undemocratic and virtually guarantees participation will be limited solely to professional advocates and lobbyists.»

Roosevelt also had begun public corruption hearings that could have led to the unseating of New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker, but Walker resigned before Roosevelt made a decision, according to research provided by the governor's office in 1988 and reported by The New York Times.

The Department of Homeless Services held a public hearing for its proposed contract with the Doe Fund on Thursday, one of the final steps in finalizing a city contract before it gets registered by the Comptroller's Office.

Five people spoke Tuesday at a public hearing before the Ulster County Legislature on a proposal by Legislator Joseph Maloney to increase the term of county legislators to four years, but also limit most elected county officials to a maximum of 12 years in office.

General News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com Three members of Parliamentary Appointments Committee in a recent session The deputy Special Prosecutor - nominee, Cynthia Lamptey, will appear before the Appointments Committee of Parliament, who will assess her suitability for the position, at a public hearing today May 16, 2018.

March 5, 2010 Pomona hearing 1:00 - 4:00 PM Health and Mental Health Transportation, Economic Development, Environmental Conservation Rockland County Fire Training Center Auditorium 35 Firemen's Memorial Drive, Pomona, NY 10970 Contact: Dan Moscato at [phone] or [email protected] March 12, 2010 Bronxville hearing 4:00 - 7:00 PM Education, Labor and Family Assistance Public Protection and General Government Concordia College Sommer Center for Worship & the Performing Arts 171 White Plains Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 Contact: Shelley Andrews at [phone] or [email protected] The Hudson Valley Delegation of the New York State Senate In an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituentIn an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituentin all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituents.

Vacco said he will present evidence at the hearing before state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia that the Buffalo School Board regularly goes into executive sessions to discuss matters that should be discussed in public.

Based on the concerns raised at Monday's public hearing before the state assembly's Standing Committee of Environmental Conservation, state officials will draft a «battle plan,» in the words of State Senator Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson), for how they can fight to preserve the area as open space and avoid damaging its unique, diverse ecology.

The Adirondack Park Agency is currently holding public hearings across the state to glean public input before the state Department of Conservation determines a recreational usage plan for the property, primarily located in Newcomb and North Hudson.

«These hearings were noticed more than a week ago in the New York Post and added to the public schedule hours before they took place, leaving time for members of the public to attend — which they did,» said mayoral spokesman Austin Finan.

Bellone said Suffolk County needs an outside partner «with expertise on government reform and ethics» to hold public hearings and develop a series of changes that can be put before voters in a 2018 referendum.

Greenberg said he went public once before — in 1996, when he heard about a case of a man who abused 150 kids over four decades.

There will be another public hearing before the City Council votes on the final plan in the spring.

The package also includes a provision that allows subjects of investigations by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to have their hearings before commissioners in secret, rather than in pPublic Ethics to have their hearings before commissioners in secret, rather than in publicpublic.

Public hearings and negotiations follow before a final budget deal is reached toward the end of the fiscal year, in June.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Before the public hearing, town officials had tried to put the increase into perspective — noting town taxes account for only $ 1,130 of the $ 5,078 the average West Seneca homeowner pays in property taxes.

Meanwhile, the Bond bill — which has picked up endorsements from moderate Republican Senators such as Bill Frist (TN) and Richard Lugar (IN)-- may make a detour through public hearings before coming back to the Senate floor later this year.

In their commentary, Adashi and Cohen point out that the authors of the legislation are anonymous and that no congressional hearings, floor discussions or public engagement took place before its passage.

Hartnett White's nomination had been in doubt since this past November, when she encountered tough questioning from both Democrats and Republicans during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Environment Canada's media protocol, introduced in 2008, requires scientists to get official approval before talking to the press — a demand that often delays an interview well beyond journalists» deadlines and results in the public never hearing from the scientist at all.

There would then be public hearings in Carlsbad and Albuquerque, perhaps in April, before a final supplement is issued.

On April 8, 2013, DOE and its co-permittee, Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC, submitted a class 2 Permit Modification Request — Modify Excluded Waste Prohibition — to eliminate the requirement in the WIPP permit for a public hearing before any waste that has ever been managed as high - level could be allowed.

«Statement in the Matter of Rio Grande Resources Corporation's Application to Change the Status of its Existing Mine Permit from Standby Status to Active Status; Permit Revision 13 - 2 (Permit CI002RE),» Before the State of New Mexico Mining and Milling Division, Submitted at Public Hearing in Grants, New Mexico, December 4, 2015 — Written Testimony and Exhibit 2: Slide Presentation

If you think you've heard something about ballroom dancing being used in the New York City public school system before, then you are likely remembering a documentary released in 2005.

Edward C. Schmults, the deputy attorney general, outlined the practical application of permitting prayer in public schools in a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering the Administration - supported amendment proposal.

When Albany Preparatory Charter School requested a variance on property it was eyeing, opponents appeared before a public hearing about the proposed school building and used the opportunity to argue against charter schools in general.

Only 43 % of the public — but 89 % of teachers — says it had heard of the Common Core before the survey, indicating that the debate over the Common Core has yet to register in the minds of many Americans.

The code, set to come before the public at a hearing in March, lists teachers» responsibilities to individual students, the public, parents, and the profession.

Because it is increasingly rare for legislative bodies to enact spending bills before the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1, school districts, worried about their financial vulnerability and needing to comply with personnel notification deadlines (usually in April or May), issue layoff notices and hold mandatory public hearings, even if the probability of actual personnel layoffs is slender.