Sentences with phrase «lead abatement programs»

Miner rejected the county's proposal to merge a city department which no longer gets federal funding for lead abatement programs with a county department that does get funding.

Despite the need, the city was forced to shut down its 20 - year - old lead abatement program last year after HUD rejected a previous application for $ 3.5 million in aid to remove lead from low - income homes with children.

«The county's takeover of the lead abatement program has not resulted in any demonstrated improvement in serving city residents,» Miner wrote.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The 20 - year - old lead abatement program run by the city of Syracuse will shut down and its four employees will be laid off because federal officials, who had criticized the city's handling of grants, rejected Syracuse's application for continued funding.

U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei and U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand asked the Department of Housing and Urban Development not to cut off federal grants for a lead abatement program that dates to 1994.

Not exact matches

In the months leading up to a state - imposed negotiations deadline in January, the Real Estate Board of New York and union leaders came tantalizingly close to coming up with a deal to renew 421a, the controversial tax abatement program for new developments.

«I think you're going to see more children, not fewer children, exposed to lead,» said Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat [from Rhode Island] who has sought more funding for lead - abatement programs on the Senate subcommittee that funds HUD.

De Blasio's last housing fight led him in June to angrily accuse Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of carrying out a «vendetta» when whey clashed on the mayor's efforts to amend a real estate tax abatement program and win stronger rent control laws.

Urs led several large technical assistance programs for greenhouse gas abatement and carbon markets in India and Latin America.

Due in part to discriminatory social policies such as redlining, children of color are more likely than white children to live in areas that can not afford the abatement programs necessary to address lead in their communities.

Corbitt says she finds it frustrating that the lead - based paint laws requiring notification and disclosure are going into effect before a federal program that sets training standards and certifies the workers that property managers and landlords need most: inspectors, risk assessors, and abatement contractors.