Sentences with phrase «laws as a council member»

Like his colleagues, Liu argued in favor of rent control laws as a council member.

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From what I understand — from what BoC convention is and what members of the Governing Council have indicated — monetary policymakers take government spending as an input into their forecasts based on what's in the budget, what's enshrined in law.

He has also served as a member of the Financial Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and as a member of the Joint Liaison Committee on Trust Law Reform (HK).

He has served as a member of the Council of the Corporate Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, which annually recommends for adoption amendments and refinements to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

As CT reported, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) spearheaded discussion of a potential nationwide Fairness for All law — modeled after a well - regarded compromise enacted in Utah in 2015 — among its members and partners.

Her food policy experience includes having served as the Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Food Law Committee (2014 - 2015) as a Board Member of the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council (2011 - 2015), and advocating extensively on behalf of the aquaponic and hydroponic industries.

Under the proposed law, local constituencies, such as community boards, council members and borough presidents would have a say in how the plazas are used, but the transportation agency would have ultimate rule - making authority, Garodnick said.

The Oneida County Sheriff's Office is proud to announce that Governor Andrew Cuomo has recently appointed Sheriff Robert Maciol as a Member of the New York State Law Enforcement Accreditation Council for a term to expire on March 20th, 2018.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Led by New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Streets, also known as NYCLASS, the activists and council members at the press conference expressed optimism that the legislation would ultimately pass the City Council next spring and become law, despite the opposition of organized labor and a sizable number of council mcouncil members at the press conference expressed optimism that the legislation would ultimately pass the City Council next spring and become law, despite the opposition of organized labor and a sizable number of council mCouncil next spring and become law, despite the opposition of organized labor and a sizable number of council mcouncil members.

He was appointed by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond as a member of the British delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a 47 - nation body - separate to the EU - which upholds human rights, democracy and the rule of law, from 2014 - 17.

The passage of this law is in alignment with our mission and will help us start a conversation with community members about the ramifications of underage drinking and provide ideas and strategies for parents as they are faced with difficult situations,» said Andrea J. Wanat, MA, CPP, Executive Director for the Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse.

As outlined in the cultural plan law, the agency will work with a specially formed «citizens» advisory committee» - made up of 12 members appointed by the mayor, city council speaker, DCLA commissioner, and borough presidents - to gather information and make recommendations.

* In the third case, the Empire Center argues the City Council violated state law when it failed to comply with a March 1, 2010 FOIL request for information about the Council's «discretionary» funding, also known as initiative - based or member - item grants.

In Rochester, meanwhile, city Council members there re-affirmed their status as a sanctuary city, which limits law enforcement's coordination with federal immigration efforts.

NYC Council members are expected to introduce legislation today that would significantly change how the NYPD uses the decades - old nuisance abatement law against homes and businesses cops say have been used as dens of crime.

As a Council Member, Letitia James sponsored the City's Open Data Law's introduction.

Earlier, while introducing members of the Governing Council, the State's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem recalled that the CMC was established in 1999 as a unit under the Directorate of Citizens» Right of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice before it emerged as an entity by law in 2007 to provide speedy free legal services to the needy and residents of the State irrespective of tribe, race and religion.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

The state would not release its list of recusals for the current round of funding, saying in its rejection of a Freedom of Information Law request that «all aspects of pending applications, including information about recusals by members of the Regional Economic Development Council, is exempt from disclosure as it contains information that «if disclosed would impair present or imminent contract awards.»»

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

«It's so important for us to send a clear message that this is not something we're not going to stand for and that the state should intervene as the laws permit to take an appropriate stand,» said University District Common Council Member Rasheed Wyatt.

4.5.1 Ordinary Members of Council shall be the immediate Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries - General of the Constituent Organizations (if not already Officers as in By - Laws 4.1 and 4.2)

National private - school organizations, such as the education division of the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Council for American Private Education, have sent information to their member schools, explaining the new law — the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.

As members of the National Council of School Attorneys, the Georgia Council of School Attorneys and the Education Law Section of the State Bar, the firm stays current on all legal issues at the national and state level.

«Bumping rights had been viewed as a problem for those of us trying to get quality teachers in the classroom,» said Kevin Chavous, a Washington, D.C., council member who helped craft the law.»

Serving as NSBA ex-officio directors on the NSBA Board for 2014 - 2015 will be: Van Henri White of New York's Rochester City School District as the Chair of the Council of Urban Boards of Education; Ellis A. Alexander of Louisiana's St. Charles Parish Public Schools as Chair of the National Black Caucus of School Boards; Guillermo Z. Lopez of Michigan's Lansing Public School District as Chair of the National Hispanic Caucus of School Board Members; Gregory J. Guercio of New York's Law Offices of Guercio & Guercio, LLP as the Chair of the Council of School Attorneys; Karen Echeverria of the Idaho School Boards Association as the Chair of the Organization of State Association Executive Directors» Liaison Committee; and NSBA's Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

He has served as President of the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys, Chair of the National School Boards Association's 3000 - member Council of School Attorneys, Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association's School Law Committee, and a lecturer in education law at the Rutgers Graduate School of EducatiLaw Committee, and a lecturer in education law at the Rutgers Graduate School of Educatilaw at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

He also serves as a member of the board of directors for Sletten Construction Company, the Las Vegas Bowl, the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, the University of Arizona James E. Rogers Law College Board of Visitors, the University of Arizona Foundation National Leadership Council and the Marshall Foundation in Tucson, Arizona.

Richard has been a member of the Animal Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan and has served as a council member of that Section since 2009.

Also joining us is former Sonoma County Police Chief Susan Jones who details her time in service as an openly gay law enforcement official and how Sonoma county accepted her — she's now a current city council member — and her special hidden travel gems in the county.

The opposition boasted anti-gaming advocates such as an author of various books that claim violent video games creates killers, and members of the Parents Television Council, the latter which supported the California law to criminalize the sale of violent video games to children that was eventually ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 2011.

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

[1] It should be noted, though, that the Council (i.e., the Member States) reduced the scope of the EPPO's competence signifcantly as they expressly excluded VAT fraud from the Commission's initial proposal of directive on the fight against fraud to the Union's financial interests by means of criminal law.

He was a directly - elected member of the Bar Council for 12 years, and before his election as Vice-Chair he was Chair of the Ethics Committee and Vice-Chair of the Law Reform Committee.

The aim of signing the Convention was thus undertaken «with a view to encouraging broader ratification of the Convention by Member States of the Council of Europe» (para 62) and as a consequence «help extend the application of provisions similar to those of Directive 98/84 beyond the borders of the European Union and to establish a law on conditional access services which is applicable throughout the European continent» (para 63).

«We hope the representatives of member countries in the Council of Europe — and most especially those from the UK — will show themselves to be determined to help prevent threats such as these to the Rule of Law anywhere in Europe.

As a member of the Family Law Council, she has worked tirelessly on pro bono initiatives to promote legal services for the poor in Texas.

She has been an active member of the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar, serving as Co-Chair of the CLE Committee from 2011 - 2013, serving as Chair of the Publications Committee from 2015 - 2017, and having served as a member of the Executive Council.

Ms. Wyda is an active member of the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar, serving as Co-Chair of the CLE Committee from 2011 - 2013 and currently serving as Vice Chair of the Publications Committee and member of the Executive Council, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Equitable Distribution Committee, Legislation Committee, and Support Issues Committee.

Her community service includes serving as a member of the Indigenous Blacks & Mi «kmaq Initiative Advisory Council and the IB&M Standing Committee at the Schulich School of Law, and she provides pro bono legal services to individuals through the Immigrant Settlement & Integration Services (ISIS).

«Lakehead has many exceptional people and groups working hard to promote and facilitate an inclusive culture for all members of our diverse University community, including, among others, our Office of Human Rights & Equity, our Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, our chair on Truth & Reconciliation, our Ogimaawin - Aboriginal Governance Council, our Faculty of Law's Aboriginal Advisory Committee, the President's Advisory Council on Truth & Reconciliation, Lakehead's Anti-Racism Committee, Lakehead's Aboriginal Education department, as well as the Lakehead University Student Union's Pride Central, Gender Issues Centre, Aboriginal Awareness Centre and Multicultural Centre.»

In addition to her legal practice, Katie has been an active volunteer and has served as a member of the Washington State Bar Association Board of Governors and chair of the Washington Commission on Judicial Conduct, and is presently a member of the Council of the American Law Institute.

Russell serves as chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Trade Secrets Committee, a member of the Boston Bar Foundation's Board of Trustees and Executive Committee, a member of the Boston Bar Association Council and Executive Committee, and is a Fellow in the Boston Bar Foundation's Society of Fellows.

«For administrative and labour law in Canada, it's a major decision because it is now clear that the workers can examine the members of decision - making authority, such as an administrative board, executive council or in our case, a council of commissioners about the motives leading to any disciplinary sanction,» she says.

58.7 The election of members of a district school board shall be conducted in the same manner as the election of members of the council of a municipality that has not passed a by - law authorizing the use of a ranked ballot election.

Six years as a council member of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section and the founding chair of the analogous committee of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

The NSBS council for 2015 - 2017 will consist of 21 members: President Jill Perry; R. Daren Baxter, first vice president; second VP Julia Cornish; 10 members elected and acclaimed in the judicial districts; three at - large members to still be elected; David Bartol of the Legal Services Division of the Departmen of Justice as the representative of the attorney general; Kim Brooks, the dean of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University; and three public representatives.

We are a member of the UK Indian Business Council and we have been recognised by the India Business Law Journal as one of the top law firms active in India from 2015 — 20Law Journal as one of the top law firms active in India from 2015 — 20law firms active in India from 2015 — 2017.