Sentences with phrase «last board session»

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Years ago, as I spoke farewells to those who had attended the last session of a particular inquirers class — the very meeting in which I sought to «close the deal» of bringing new members on board — I noticed that two young couples stayed behind, talking intently with each other.

OAK FOREST — The Oak Forest Park District Board approved a 3 - year contract with 15 full - time union employees last week after several negotiating sessions.

Romeoville's board sifted through 65 candidates - city and village managers and administrators from across the nation - before unanimously choosing Smithberg in a special executive session last week.

The Legislature last session passed two bills, one which would allow certain capital project expenditures for Boards of Cooperative Education Services, and the other, PILOT agreements, to be exempt from the tax cap calculation.

Gambling grilled Skelos on the tax code reform deal passed during last week's extraordinary session, repeatedly asking how it's possible that lawmakers» claims of an across - the - board tax cut while generating $ 1.9 billion in additional revenue could be true.

«If anything, I think the Board of Regents comes into this next legislative session with an impressive record of success over the last five years,» King said.

EAST VILLAGE — Debate over proposed rent hikes for the city's 1 million rent - stabilized units lasted throughout the day Monday during a marathon public session ahead of the Rent Guidelines Board's annual vote next week.

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 address — which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters at the Ram's Head Inn — was seen as «disparaging to women.»

At last Tuesday's Southold Town Board work session, utility company president Chris Finan and board of directors member Tom Siebens proposed changing the single - family residential zoning at properties it owns to Hamlet Density zoBoard work session, utility company president Chris Finan and board of directors member Tom Siebens proposed changing the single - family residential zoning at properties it owns to Hamlet Density zoboard of directors member Tom Siebens proposed changing the single - family residential zoning at properties it owns to Hamlet Density zoning.

Although Southold Town Board members discussed reservations they have about a bill in the state Legislature to create a Peconic Bay Regional Transportation Council during a work session last month, Supervisor Scott Russell said Tuesday they haven't dismissed it altogether.

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 speech, which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters, was seen as «disparaging to women.»

Carl Paladino was the last to testify in what was a long and at times grueling four days of proceedings before State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia — a hearing that was supposed to center on whether the two - term Buffalo School board member should be removed for violating board policy when he publicly disclosed information discussed in an executive session.

So did the panel chairs and their discussants: Prof. W. Alade Fawole (Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ife), Kanmi Ademiluyi (former Editorial Board Chairman, Daily Independent) and Dr. Akin Akande (OAU)-- a last - minute stand - in for Kayode Komolafe, deputy managing director of This Day, who could not make the session for some personal challenges; and their panels: Dr. Bisi Olawunmi (Bowen University, Iwo), Dr. Harry Olufunwa (Federal University, Oye - Ekiti), Sanya Oni (Editorial Page Editor, The Nation), Dr. Emmanuel Oladesu (Political Editor, The Nation), Ismail Omipidan (Political Editor, Sun) and Sulaiman Salawudeen (Ekiti correspondent, New Telegraph).

«I don't think that pushing (for mayoral control) in the last eight weeks of session, disenfranchising the voters of the city of Buffalo, and disempowering nine elected members of the board makes sense,» the senator said, adding that he hoped an additional two board members selected by the mayor would «help to reduce the acrimony» among existing members.

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

On the second - to - last scheduled day of the legislative session, the committee was meeting to fulfill its statutory duty to confirm appointments, including one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nominees to the CUNY Board of Trustees.

Last night, during its final meeting before the summer hiatus, Community Board 7 held a closed - door executive session and voted overwhelmingly to direct District Manager Fernando Tirado to take a leave of absence while he runs for senate in the 33rd District.

In a survey of developers and housing agencies, the New York State Association for Affordable Housing found that 2,935 units of affordable housing currently on the drawing board have been placed in limbo by the inability of Cuomo and lawmakers to reach a deal on how to dole out the $ 2 billion before the Legislature's session ended last month.

«We have to revise the special events legislation,» Supervisor Scott Russell said at last Wednesday's Town Board work session, where the subject was discussed.

Ms. Giglio raised the issue at last Thursday's Riverhead Town Board work session, which is open to the public, and made the argument that since the FAA is running advertisements seeking a new centralized location for the facilities, the town should at least try to lure it to EPCAL.

Frascatore, who joined the NYPD four years ago and was working with the three detectives that day, told his story to the Civilian Complaint Review Board last week during a grueling and «somewhat contentious» two and a half hour session, sources say.

Things started off with a session with the town's accountant / bookkeeper, who went over the last year's audit and various pay and bill - paying policies the board and town's department heads must follow.

PRESS RELEASE — During a session of the Ramapo Town Board last night, members approved he rehiring of Scott Shedler as Town Assessor.

He is expected to carry the same message he gave to the Sag Harbor Village Board last week to Greenport at that Village Board work session on Tuesday, January 22, or the regular meeting on Monday, January 28.

Paladino later apologized for the comments and several anti-Paladino protests occurred at school board meetings up until Paladino was removed by State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia last month because of his disclosure of material discussed during an executive session.

Most if not all the issues had been repeatedly aired at a jam - packed public session held by the water board to explain the Niagara Bottling proposal at City Hall last winter and in endless exchanges on the web and in the media.

Paladino's testimony is the last in what has been a long and at times grueling four days of proceedings that was supposed to center on whether Paladino violated board policy when he disclosed information discussed in an executive session.

Drafted language follows the reasoning that if landing helicopters in residential zones is not an allowed use in the code, it's not an allowed use at all, town attorney Bill Duffy said at last Wednesday's Town Board work session.

Councilwoman Jill Doherty invited the farm bureau to a work session after the group reached out to the Town Board following last month's cancellation a public hearing on proposed updates to special events legislation.

He has argued that the information was coincidental to the closed door meetings, and necessary to expose the financial troubles presented by a teacher's contract that he says was «rigged» when the Buffalo Teaches Federation supported candidates in last year's school board session.

But when the board of trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation met last month to choose some of the shooting stars of the next generation, the session took place amid the dark wood paneling, plush couches, and crystal chandeliers of the private Cosmos Club in Washington.

After an all - night negotiating session, the Chicago Teachers Union and the board of education reached agreement last week on a new contract that narrowly averted a strike in the nation's third - largest school system.

Why It Works: At the beginning of each work session, I ask student teams to open their Trello boards and review the group work they've completed since the last class session.

The Michigan legislature, during a special session last month, passed a new charter law designed to address the judge's concern that the state board of education did not have adequate oversight of charter schools under the previous measure.

Washington state teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards would see a 15 percent pay increase under a proposal that Gov. Gary Locke plans to present to the legislature during the session that convened last week.

The Park City Board of Education held their last public Strategic Planning session on Wednesday evening.

At the beginning of last session, Republican political heavyweights at the Indiana statehouse remained on board with the new standards.

General Assembly members threw it out last session, ordering the State Board to come up with a new model next year.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson, a Republican elected last November, has been silent on the cuts and he did not speak during the public portion of Tuesday's conference call session, but Cobey has said his office has been sharing proposals for the cuts with board members.

Last week's eight - hour session — only the second board meeting of the school year — was not long enough to hash out the details of the district's Common Core implementation plan, so they've sandwiched in a Special Board Meeting between two others thboard meeting of the school year — was not long enough to hash out the details of the district's Common Core implementation plan, so they've sandwiched in a Special Board Meeting between two others thBoard Meeting between two others that...

The State Board of Education has done such an abysmal job overseeing charters that the legislature was forced to pass a law tightening charter oversight rules last session and added a layer of legislative oversight to the Department of Education's charter authorization process.

The Attorney General has told the state Board of Education that its interpretation of language passed last session prohibits the Board from allowing any new schools to open.

Some limited restorative progress was made during the last session in the adoption of an A-F performance grading system for schools and districts tied to student achievement, but, true to form, most educators, administrators, and school boards have risen in opposition to this grading system and are working to overturn it or at least further water down its underlying standards and rigor.

A week before I was to leave to board at the secondary school, two or three days after that last Bible study session, Mama turned to me again and asked, «Do you still think of her in that way?»

Selecting the Balance Board option from the main menu will take you through the calibration process, and once this is done, there's no need to calibrate it for as long as your play session lasts.

Since I started playing with this board game group, I have «proudly» come in last place scorewise in all but one session.

After a mediation session last Wednesday between Dakota elders, Durant, staff from the Walker, and representatives of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, clear and swift actions were announced, beginning with a traditional Dakota ceremony on Friday and a Native American construction company volunteering its services to dismantle the work.

«The biggest scam of the last 100 years is global warming,» one member of ALEC's Private Enterprise Advisory Board said during the group's 2015 annual meeting, at one of the few sessions open to reporters.

Indeed Senator Williams issued a statement on the last day of the legislative session in which he recognized that Judge Dyche was qualified for the position on the Worker's Compensation Board, but he felt the fact that Dyche would have been eligible to double dip would have been a bad precedent.

The Ripple price is seen up as much as 5 % in the last stages of the Friday session, after starting lower with much of the crypto market across the board.