Sentences with phrase «legislative appointees»

Citizens Union president Dick Dadey proposed «reform light» last week, in which LATFOR's work is inherited by a panel of legislative appointees who aren't legislators.

Previously, Ravi Batra and Patrick Bulgaro, both legislative appointees as opposed to gubernatorial, stepped down.

Just two years ago, state lawmakers dismantled the old charter school advisory council and replaced it with the now Charter School Advisory Board that comprises legislative appointees who are friendlier toward charter school expansion.

Better to have the eight legislative appointees select three members from each of the other parties: Conservative, WFP and Independence.

«I'm disappointed that the Assembly's legislative appointee does not sufficiently recognize the fundamental importance of this decision,» he said.

His spokesman Josh Vlasto said he hoped the reports of more limited investigation were just «rumors», but if true, it would be «unconscionable» for legislative appointees to block the investigation, and said the governor would appoint a special Moreland Act commission to launch its own probe.

Commissioner Mary Lou Rath, who was appointed by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, partially sided with the Democratic legislative appointees, saying she wanted to explain her vote after the private meeting had taken place.

Four legislative appointees wrote the Albany Times Union expressing dismay at recent executive hires and appointments and stressed that the next JCOPE director must be found outside of state government (i.e. without direct ties to Cuomo).

Covello, an attorney and former judge, was part of a four - member faction of legislative appointees that pushed for the new executive director to come from outside Cuomo's orbit.

Last year, lawmakers dismantled that board and put the Charter School Advisory Board in its place, which comprises gubernatorial and legislative appointees as well as one State Board of Education member.

This position is duplicative of the Office of General Services (OGS) chief procurement officer, who chairs the New York State Procurement Council, which has representatives from the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC), the Executive Chamber and allows for eight legislative appointees, in addition to another by the Governor.

Carrozza would be the sole woman on what is now a five - member commission, which has been operating since February 2013 without any legislative appointees.

In a letter submitted to the Times Union, the commissioners — all legislative appointees — argued that the hiring by JCOPE's outgoing executive director is improper because Gagan's special counsel title wasn't listed in a staffing plan, approved in 2012 soon after the panel's creation, that handed responsibility for filling certain posts to the executive director.

Insiders said the breakdown of the legislative appointees was a sticking point, as Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau) insisted on a strong GOP presence.

The three who did not vote for her were all legislative appointees.

The auditors of public accounts in Connecticut are overseen by two legislative appointees, one Republican and one Democrat.

As for whether the budget would be late, Cuomo suggested lawmakers would not be deserved a pay raise — to be decided by a pay commission with a mix of executive, judicial and legislative appointees — if a spending plan is not approved in a timely fashion.

Legislative appointees to the commission were pushing for $ 116,900 in base pay, a raise that adjusts for a rate of inflation and also includes an increase.

In order for a probe to commence, three legislative appointees of the same party must approve the investigation.

The open portion of the meeting featured calls for an investigation in to who is leaking information to the press — which the legislative appointees of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called inaccurate — and what unspecified information from the prior meeting could be made public.

It was also an opening shot in the executive director search, specifically whether the hire would come from outside New York government, as the legislative appointees said they favored.

One commission member, notably a legislative appointee, suggested lawmakers should receive an approximately 76 percent raise, which would peg their base salaries at about $ 140,000 per year.

Legislative appointees are currently fuming over what they say is outside interference from the executive.

Membership consists of 16 gubernatorial appointees, four legislative appointees, the State Board of Education president or his designee and four state department directors or their representatives, including: