Sentences with phrase «local town board meetings»

The issue is public prayer at her local town board meetings, another contentious case over the intersection of faith and the civic arena.

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For roughly a decade, it invited local Christians — and only Christians — to offer prayers opening its Town Board meetings.

At Tuesday night's Town Board meeting, Southold's tree committee announced the winners of its annual Arbor Day poster contest, for which local students design and draw posters and fliers promoting conservation.

ATHOL — The town of Thurman's Local government functions came to a standstill Jan. 3 after a slim majority of the newly - aligned town board refused to pass routine municipal resolutions that allow government to operate, and questioned the basic authority of the supervisor to run a meeting and serve as the town's chief executive.

During a meeting of the Schroon Town Board on Monday, Feb. 13, Councilman Roger Friedman discussed the importance of creating more promotional material such as maps of the region, to aid tourists in their quest to visit local hot spots.

One year after locals expressed an outpouring of support for a townwide ban on plastic bags, a group of residents at Tuesday's Southold Town Board meeting had a question: What happened?

Jack Abrahams, new president of the Lake George Senior Citizens Club, proposed to the town board at their August meeting that the local Senior Citizens Center be used to host pre-teen students after school, and the board members approved his request.

That turns a trip to the doctor, which should require only a few hours» travel, into a days - long ordeal, said Candace Whitman, a local pastor and member of the Island Community Board, during the town's annual Fishers Island meeting last Wednesday afternoon.

On Tues., July 24th, New York City Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez, together with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat, was joined by city agencies New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development (HPD), the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), and local non-profit the Community League of the Heights (CLOTH) at a town hall meeting to address concerns of tenants in foreclosed Vantage Property buildings.

Residents at Thursday's town board meeting said they were not interested in accepting vague answers from local leaders.

The Ulster Town Board will consider ways of cracking down on the use of personal fireworks in the days leading up to and following next summer's Independence Day after a local resident discussed her concerns before councilmen at a meeting last week.

Local VFW requests a resolution requiring all volunteer New Paltz town boards and committees to begin their meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance

There are many issues facing this area and Ulster County, but I feel an important issue is to report to the people of Marbletown and Rosendale at Town Board meetings, talk with local government leaders and when I'm able to, go to local party meetings and get their feedback directly, face - to - face, and let them know what is being discussed at legislature meetings.

To that end, the Town Board meetings are now videotaped, aired live and replayed on the local public access channel.

HORICON At its Aug. 17 meeting, the Horicon Town Board honored Jane and Thad Smith on behalf of the town for years of service on local boaTown Board honored Jane and Thad Smith on behalf of the town for years of service on local boatown for years of service on local boards.

Speaking at Monday's group meeting, Ms. Hargrave, a co-owner of the former Hargrave Vineyard, said she thinks the Town Board's proposed measure would «completely upend» the wine industry and local agriculture.

Several residents spoke in favor of the project at the May 1 town board meeting, citing the need to grow the local economy.

INDIAN LAKE — This month's Indian Lake Town Board Meeting saw a number of local whitewater outfitters attending.

HORICON The Horicon Town Board, acting as the local Board of Health, will hold a public hearing at its Oct. 19 town board meeting for a sanitary holding tank at 248 E. Shore Dr., in HoriTown Board, acting as the local Board of Health, will hold a public hearing at its Oct. 19 town board meeting for a sanitary holding tank at 248 E. Shore Dr., in HorBoard, acting as the local Board of Health, will hold a public hearing at its Oct. 19 town board meeting for a sanitary holding tank at 248 E. Shore Dr., in HorBoard of Health, will hold a public hearing at its Oct. 19 town board meeting for a sanitary holding tank at 248 E. Shore Dr., in Horitown board meeting for a sanitary holding tank at 248 E. Shore Dr., in Horboard meeting for a sanitary holding tank at 248 E. Shore Dr., in Horicon.

In a June 26, 2013, letter to the Town Board, the Ethics Board concluded a nearly five - month investigation by finding that councilman Bill McKenna and councilwoman Cathy Magarelli had violated the local ethics law by appearing at an August 30, 2012, meeting of the Planning Board involving the proposed expansion of Cucina restaurant.

Officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the LIRR met with local officials and transportation advocates throughout 2016 and 2017 to develop the new schedule, and had also met with the Riverhead Town Board, the Southold Town Board and the Greenport Village Board, as well as with business groups, to discuss the changes.

The Stony Point Town Board met Tuesday night at the RHO Community Center Building to discuss town affairs and recognize the local charity work of the Stony Point SeTown Board met Tuesday night at the RHO Community Center Building to discuss town affairs and recognize the local charity work of the Stony Point Setown affairs and recognize the local charity work of the Stony Point Seals.

It's been a week since more than a dozen residents marched to the podium at a Southold Town Board meeting and urged members to consider banning plastic bags, which environmentalists warn can have serious effects on local wildlife if improperly disposed of.

BEEKMANTOWN — The developers of a proposed electric transmission line running from Beekmantown to New Haven, Vt attended a Feb. 17 town board meeting here to layout details of the plan and how it might affect local residents.

The decision was met with concern from Citizens for Local Power co-founder Jennifer Metzger, who is also a Rosendale Town Board member.

At a board meeting Monday, town officials said the state Thruway Authority would not necessarily have the best interest of local property owners and residents in mind in reviewing the proposed $ 553.2 million project.

Indeed, said the Town Board officials, their constituents properly expect them to express their views on local issues, as other Woodstock town officials routinely do at meetings of boards other than their Town Board officials, their constituents properly expect them to express their views on local issues, as other Woodstock town officials routinely do at meetings of boards other than their town officials routinely do at meetings of boards other than their own.

A $ 1.6 million plan to purchase 30,000 covered recycling totes for residences in the Town of Tonawanda is moving another step forward with a public hearing on a local law and a permissive referendum planned for the next Town Board meeting on April 10.

The town of Manlius board approved its 2012 budget at a special meeting Tuesday night, just minutes after adopting a local law allowing it to override the state's 2 percent property tax cap,

On board you'll meet travellers from all over the world, as well as locals perhaps headed to the beach for a holiday or to visit relatives in another town.

«Attend your local town or board meeting, get climate change on the agenda.»

The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board talk about the Town Hall Project, a nonprofit working with the Parkland students to help organize meetings with local legislators addressing gun reform.

If all members, or a «significant» number of members, of a local board, or boards, in conjunction with one another, withheld «all» dues, obviously via prearrangements through surreptitiously held town hall meetings etc., no board is going to throw out all of those members at once; it would be too serious a move on the parts of the boards» members.

«The owner typically works with a well - established practitioner in town, but when I announced the e-newsletter idea at our local chamber of commerce board meeting, he was so intrigued that he gave me the listing,» he says.