Sentences with phrase «legislative bodies»

The Brown Act calls for all meetings of local legislative bodies be open to the public and for their agendas and meeting materials to be publicly posted in advance, among other requirements aimed at complete openness to the public.

Our success in passing school reforms has had more to do with prevailing in legislative bodies than prevailing in the public arena.

ARSA provides a unified voice for rural schools and districts to local school boards, legislative bodies, and elected public officials.

The district compared the new councils with legislative bodies in representative democracies and defined two basic jobs for them: 1) developing «powerful partnerships» between the school and the community, and 2) setting policy in «key operational areas» for individual schools.

Because it is increasingly rare for legislative bodies to enact spending bills before the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1, school districts, worried about their financial vulnerability and needing to comply with personnel notification deadlines (usually in April or May), issue layoff notices and hold mandatory public hearings, even if the probability of actual personnel layoffs is slender.

The source of this claim is a series of recent consultant reports commissioned by teacher unions, school board associations, legislative bodies, and others, often for use in school finance cases.

It is increasingly rare for legislative bodies to enact spending bills much in advance of this date.

«Legislative bodies feel that they need to have transparency for how their public dollars are being spent.

Deal making used to be the norm in legislative bodies.

The position is also responsible for managing environment, health and safety outreach programs, developing and updating literature and coordinating research projects as well as carrying out these projects in cooperation with the Center for Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) members, American Chemistry Council (ACC) staff and member groups, key downstream customer organizations and their members, regulatory and legislative bodies, and the polyurethane customer community to help bring awareness to users of MDI, TDI and polyols used in manufacturing polyurethane.

This study is the first to advise legislative bodies as there are currently no guidelines set for the horizontal distance required between the fluid injection points and pre-existing cracks in the rock.

Researcher Developer Dr Rachel Westwood, Research Fellow Mr Sam Toon, and Emeritus Professor Peter Styles from Keele's School of Geography, Geology and Environment — together with Professor Nigel Cassidy who is now at Birmingham University — have published their study advising on hydraulic fracturing safety guidelines for legislative bodies, including governments, environmental agencies, health and safety executives and local planning authorities.

Those legislative bodies approved statements urging Cuomo to leave the facility open.

Turning to the New York State Assembly and Senate, voters» attitudes toward these legislative bodies are dismal.

«If you make a recommendation today,» Reiter said, «then we've lost any chance of still trying to reach some kind of agreement and giving the Legislature the chance to come back before the end of the year and do what I believe would be the right thing for them to do, which is to recognize the needs of their members, of their respective house members, to recognize the need to do away with outside salaries, or at least cap them substantially as other legislative bodies have done, for exactly the same reasons.»

This willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion is one of things of which I have been most proud and something that sets us apart from many other legislative bodies.

The state constitution says the nominations should come from political parties, not legislative bodies, although the council then votes on the selection.

Fried analyzed other county legislative bodies in New York State prompting his decision to see Rockland's legislature reduced in size.

He said under the law, legislative bodies are allowed some leeway in how they allocate resources to lawmakers.

The federal legislature (Congress), the legislatures in all states except for Nebraska, and many county and city legislative bodies are divided along party lines and have whips, as well as majority and minority leaders.

Albany and Washington have legislative bodies that are mixed.

Low percentages of female electeds within the New York City Council reflects a national trend of systemic underrepresentation within legislative bodies.

Both state legislative bodies will eventually meet with representatives from Cuomo's office to iron out the discrepancies between each party's budget proposal, and only afterward will the seniors really know if their center will close.

An Assembly spokesman confirmed the two legislative bodies disagree over the right approach to the problem.

The report also breaks down the presence of women in other legislative bodies.

It is one of the most like - minded — and liberal — legislative bodies in the nation.

Given how many state legislative bodies we took in 2006, and the upcoming redistricting in 2011, I'd expect a lot of bodies could change hands this fall too, and there must be a lot of intensity around those in many states.

LaVenia explained that «under proportional representation, every party gets representation in legislative bodies in proportion to the vote they receive.

In announcing the concept in January, executive Hein and Mayor Shayne Gallo made the rather arrogant tactical mistake of ignoring their respective legislative bodies.

The members of our esteemed legislative bodies have for years used their time away from home as nothing more than an excuse to act like they live in college frat houses.

Most legislative bodies have what is commonly called a «Law Review Commission» which is the main body that fulfills the «bug fixing» role you identify.

Decisions about the rules of the political game — including the geographic delineation of electoral districts, rules about campaign financing, and voting systems such as plurality election and proportional representation — are frequently made by legislative bodies.

Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced over the weekend that he'll send the members of his legislative bodies home after the official end of the session next week.

«The difficulty of getting things done with larger legislative bodies» is not obvious to me at all.

However, the difficulty of getting things done with larger legislative bodies is obvious.

Legislative bodies should not be a form of adult day care.

The competitive nature of these deals highlights the problem in two separate legislative bodies controlling the same area.

Note that in Europe, despite some very large legislative bodies (about 600 members in France, Germany, or Italy), it's not unusual to hear complaints about the number of laws (too many of them, not enough quality and too much complexity) rather than on any inability to pass new ones.

Clearly there are legislative bodies in the world with more than 15 or 35 members.

The two legislative bodies, the State Assembly and State Senate, have offered weak proposals that literally have nothing to do with each other.

Such a system, of course, seemingly has the potential to be used to curry favor by leaders, causing some legislative bodies to ban it.

Larry Seabrook of the Bronx used to brag (dubiously) about being the first African - American to be elected to three different legislative bodies, though when you consider that the three districts he represented were all similarly - sized subsets of the same group of impoverished neighborhoods, his accomplishment becomes slightly less impressive than, say, Obama's.

By the standards of legislative bodies in this country, after all, the New York City Council as a whole is about as far to the left as you could go.

Once the three men do reach an agreement, their legislative bodies then vote for the agreement.

Based on the nationally recognized model used in Wisconsin that involved bringing stakeholders together to find efficiencies and cost savings within the Medicaid program, the team includes leaders from the healthcare industry, the Governor's office, the legislative bodies, and other business, labor, and consumer advocates.

And history has shown that legislative bodies, not executives, bear most of the blame in the event of a government shutdown.

It is quite likely that political factors, for example the influence of powerful economic actors on legislative bodies, played a role in causing, or exacerbating, this crisis, as Daron Acemoglou, for example, has recently argued.

Republicans now control 69 of the 99 state legislative bodies, and that's a long - term trend that's developed, not the recent result of some wave.

Homebirth is growing increasingly popular and subsequently, is being placed under the very watchful eye of our adversaries, including legislative bodies.

Public policy via state statute is not, and that is the direction our legislative bodies will take if we do not assume responsibility and provide some form of assurance for those who view homebirth as unruly and rogue.