Sentences with phrase «legislature meeting last»

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De Blasio, meanwhile, stormed out of a town hall meeting in Lower Manhattan last night, just as the state legislature was about to adjourn for the summer without renewing mayoral control.

Following last night's meeting, legislature chairman Jay Gould (R - Ashville) said the 19 lawmakers will have their work cut out for them because of all the committee work that will need to be shared amongst 19 lawmakers.

In a statement, Christie — whose appointees were responsible for Bridgegate — urged «New Jersey's legislature to introduce and pass this bill as well so that we can finally meet the standard for reform laid out by Governor Cuomo and me last year.»

Last winter, legislature Chairman Ken Ronk appointed a study committee with orders to produce recommendations by the May meeting.

I'm not a big fan of the legislature announcing birthdays of members before regular meetings, but reading the names at adjournment of residents deceased over the last month shows respect.

The choices, said committee Chairman Rich Gerentine at last week's legislature meeting, were to do nothing, thereby costing the county something like $ 2 million a month in sales tax revenues, or this cockamamie scheme.

All the props are in place, including a dress rehearsal at last week's regular meeting of the county legislature.

Having passed muster with the legislature's financial consultants last week — the informational meeting was held the day after the election — the county executive's proposed 2018 budget should sail through with near - unanimous approval in mid-December.

At a meeting of the town supervisor's association last week, all but one supervisor in attendance went on record in favor of county takeover, according to Rochester Supervisor Carl Chipman, speaking at last week's county legislature meeting.

The legislature approved a memorializing resolution opposing the idea at its meeting last week.

The state's toothless open - meetings laws, which exempt the state legislature, took another beating last week as Ulster election commissioners refused to allow video and recording equipment inside the room where the ballots were counted.

Democrats, who hold a 13 - 10 majority in the legislature, left five seats held by Republicans open when they met in convention last week.

Dr. Nolan, who doesn't actively practice pediatrics, addressed last week's regular meeting of the Ulster County legislature after Chairman John Parete of Olive and his deputy, Dave Donaldson of Kingston, greeted the announcement of the lawsuit with charges of «bullying.»

New Paltz county Legislator Ken Wishnick, a Democrat, took umbrage with Republican legislature Chairwoman Terry Bernardo for spending $ 1,200 in public monies to rent Kingston's cavernous UPAC Theater for last week's (pro-gun) legislative meeting.

Collins, who attended the legislature's organizational meeting with his family last month, doesn't expect to miss any more meetings.

Why, only last week Assembly Speaker - since - January Carl Heastie let it be known than any attempt at expansion of open - meetings laws would not include his house of the legislature.

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Firefighters and residents spoke in equal if opposite measure at last week's legislature meeting.

No one passed a peace pipe, but judges and lawmakers last month set aside their traditional enmity on school - finance issues for a few hours of frank talk here at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

RENO, NEV. — The word «accountability» was on the minds and lips of many of the 1,500 state lawmakers who gathered here last week for the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Could anyone truly imagine that those 2012 reforms, together with whatever initiatives and meager funding may come out of the 2013 legislature, are sufficient for affixing the «Mission Accomplished» banner outside the Capitol complex, proclaiming that the state at long last is meeting its constitutional obligation to schoolchildren?