Sentences with phrase «increase city contracting»

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Charlotte Business INClusion is a City of Charlotte program that seeks to increase utilization of Minority, Women and Small Business Enterprises in local contracting opportunities.

Companies with significant city contracts would have to pay wages starting (in fiscal year 1996) at $ 6.10 per hour, increasing to $ 7.70 by 1999 and keeping pace with inflation thereafter.

I accept City is run on petro - dollars Chelski on Russian money and Utd is a debt mountain.But to me Wenger AND the Board show no ambition to reach that last step up.Again I accept we run on a business model and operate within our means but tell me why Wenger with his stranglehold on the Club and the entire Board with the exception of Ivan Gazidis licking his balls he doesn't force the issue.Oh but he gets a pay increase with his new contract despite failing to reach the minimum of Champions League

Arsenal face increasing competition to keep star striker Alexis Sanchez, and while contract negotiations with the club continue to stall ex-Manchester City manager and current boss of Chinese Super League side Hebei China Fortune, Manuel Pellegrini, has made the Chilean a truly eye - watering offer.

The City of Buffalo will never confront its basic problems when the state increases its aid by $ 52 million, he said, and burdensome labor contracts will continue to hold back municipalities as long as their unions are protected by the Taylor Law.

The city's overall budget grew by 10 percent over the same time period, according to the Independent Budget Office — an increase city officials said was due largely to new labor contracts negotiated under Mayor de Blasio.

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 contractCity — from the need to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour to increasing Minority and Women - Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE) participation in city contractcity contracting.

The mayor's spokeswoman, Karen Hinton, said de Blasio was focused on his agenda of affordable housing, universal pre-K, safety and «significantly increasing minority and women business contracts» with the city.»

In his memo dated December 7, Gallo said the city faces a number of unfunded mandates that is obligated to pay annually including increased costs for the city's solid waste / sludge tipping feels with the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, and union contract settlements and medical plans for city employees and retirees.

He'd also foster the growth of minority - owned firms by partnering them with other more experienced firms, invite successful minority - owned firms outside of New York City to relocate here and challenge the private sector to increase minority contracting.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal and a coalition of nonprofits rally to call on de Blasio to fund a 2.5 percent increase to contracted community service nonprofit budgets to help pay for the increased cost of supplies and repairs, equipment, technology, food, and rent, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The letter also suggested the de Blasio administration's unwillingness to grant across the board contract increases to groups whose contracts hadn't been increased in more than a decade was at odds with the mayor's platform of helping the city's neediest, many of whom rely on the services the nonprofits provide.

At Good Shepherd Services, the number of employees whose salaries have to come from outside money allotted through city contracts is so high that the de Blasio administration's projected two percent personnel increase for next fiscal year would only cover 48 percent of the staff.

Nonprofit providers who operate shelters and provide homeless prevention and aftercare services, who have been agitating for across - the - board contract increases from the de Blasio administration as part of this year's budget, said they were concerned about how the city planned to fund what amounts to a broadening of their work.

In the letter, the groups said they were seeking an immediate, across - the - board 12 percent increase to all human services contracts in the city budget at a cost of $ 500 million.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is taking steps to direct an increased number of city construction contracts to women and minority - owned businesses.

Public Advocate Letitia James says it's time to «heal the rift» between the two politicians for the sake of the city and the state — saying it was the first step, in her mind, to increasing diversity in the city's government and its contracting.

The mayor's administration also has negotiated contracts with several city unions that call for no wage increases.

The teachers» union, for example, have agreed to a contract without a salary increase for the first year and a half, while superior officers have assented to keeping their pay flat for 11 months — «zeroes» in public employee parlance, unacceptable to Mr. Lynch, whose members are among the lowest paid big - city cops in the country.

Stringer has clashed frequently with the administration over what he perceives to be the city's abysmal performance in increasing the number of contracts given to MWBEs.

Throughout the budget process, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, chair of the contracts committee, has been calling for increased funding for human services nonprofits that contract with the city but struggle to meet costs of salaries, administration, equipment, rent, and maintenance.

Rising numbers of homeless individuals and new contracting rules for homeless shelters led to a 15 percent increase in the number of contracts submitted by City Hall for homeless services, statistics provided by the city comptroller's office sCity Hall for homeless services, statistics provided by the city comptroller's office scity comptroller's office show.

Last year's city budget has been mentioned by many as a missed opportunity to save something for the impending contract increases.

«The workers took a 0 percent or 1 percent increase in the first few years so that the city could plan and be ready for the 3 to 4 percent increases that come later in the contract.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced last week that he had already balanced the ledger for fiscal year 2015, a sign of the city's improved fiscal health which could spur the unions, who have been working on expired contracts, to increase their demands.

The candidates fielded questions about police reform, public housing, the New York City Housing Authority lead paint scandal, and increasing the number of contracts given to minority - and women - owned businesses and enterprises.

Cuomo is proposing to offset the increase in fiscal year 2017 by funding part of an expired contract with CUNY professors, but the city would bear the full cost of the funding by the following year.

As city - contracted nonprofit organizations continue to call for funding increases from the de Blasio administration, Deputy Mayor Richard Buery insists that the administration is «sympathetic» to those concerns and is doing everything in its power to ensure a «strong and robust» nonprofit sector.

«No one has a big interest in the tax component,» one Albany insider said, adding that there was a growing belief in the state capitol that the tax increases were a surreptitious way of funding the city's looming public employee union contracts.

In the city, firefighters, police, and sanitation workers had recently signed five - year contracts that awarded wage and benefit increases of 13.3 percent.

Several years ago, principals in New York City had an opportunity to consider an unusual contract offer — a huge pay increase in exchange for giving up lifetime tenure.

A monthlong teacher strike in Michigan City, Ind., ended late last month after union leaders and administrators reached an agreement on a three - year contract that provides teachers with a 6 - percent salary increase next year and 5 - percent raises in each of the following years.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

In the last several years, through the direct assistance of city departments, the district has been able to institute new behavioral health supports, create 12 new community schools, improve out - of - school time programming, increase early literacy, better prepare children for kindergarten, bring critical infrastructure repair, and end the teachers» contract stalemate.

Milwaukee, New York City, Buffalo, San Diego, and a host of other school districts are increasing their numbers of charter schools, contract schools, and innovative new district schools.

By forming NYCEDF, MORE and its allies intend to increase grassroots support for a fair contract and to organize effective opposition to the new teacher evaluation system imposed on city teachers by State Education Commissioner John King and the high - stakes testing regime that has been so detrimental to the City's public schools and studecity teachers by State Education Commissioner John King and the high - stakes testing regime that has been so detrimental to the City's public schools and studeCity's public schools and students.

Supported by the federal Teacher Incentive Fund, New York City piloted and scaled new formal roles, with corresponding pay increases, in the 2014 UFT - DOE contract.31 There are now three New York City teacher leadership roles: Model Teacher, Master Teacher, and Peer Collaborative Teacher.

Mehr said the Baltimore schools have been hampered by the city's union contract, which gave the best teachers big pay increases.

The plan proposes to address the deficit through renegotiated contracts, increased city funding, and operational efficiencies.

It pushed for an overhaul of the city's waste - hauling industry, to take effect in 2017: To win contracts, haulers must pledge to increase the amount that is recycled, use low - pollution trucks, pay a living wage and improve safety.»

Since her arrival, the organization has tripled the size of the board of directors, developed a more equitable relationship with the city of Lynchburg as their contracted pound, begun managing the regional spay / neuter clinic, created a citywide free spay / neuter effort for community cats, and increased community awareness and involvement in the cause.

In June 2001, the city of Chicago and 48 city government agencies signed a contract with local utility ComEd to purchase 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources, a figure due to increase to 20 percent in five years.

However, if you're thinking that cities with red - light camera contracts have followed the DOT's guidelines to reduce accidents and increase compliance, think again.

«They own assets around the world and really what they want to do is increase their brand presence in key markets, and if they can fund that by selling the Park Hyatt in Zurich or Chicago or Mexico City, and secure stable long - term management contracts on those,» then «that makes a lot of sense for them.»