Sentences with phrase «made by elected officials»

The workers compensation laws of Virginia are made by your elected officials at the General Assembly.

But that is a decision that should be made by elected officials — the governor and the legislature — not by unaccountable political appointees.

«Departmental spending under budget lines approved by the county legislature fall under the policy and administrative decisions that are made by our elected officials,» Kaiman said.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

Not exact matches

By figuring out who your key audiences are in advance (typically they include employees, investors / board members, customers, opinion leaders in your community, elected officials, the press, etc.) you can make sure you have the vehicles in place to communicate.

It is claimed that government spending distorts the economy even when it is made by public enterprises, and that only unregulated markets (that is, markets regulated by financial managers rather than elected officials) can allocate resources efficiently.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Platforms are not legally binding on elected officials, but represent an articulation of the party's identity that elected officials are expected to honor by default unless they are making a point of differing from the «party line» on a point.

But he said the gist of the call was that Cuomo had created a commission to investigate public corruption by elected officials, and made specific mention of Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, alleging she has bilked taxpayers out of more money than «some of us take home in a year.»

This, in the senator's mind, is tantamount to «double crossing» of the community by its elected officials, whose names he has pledged to make public — just as soon as he figures out who has met with whom.

Serino, who made the announced flanked by Republican elected officials, is expected to once again face Democrat Terry Gipson, the incumbent she ousted in 2014.

Also at 11 a.m., Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, joined by a coalition of local and state elected officials, community leaders, organizers, activists and supporters, makes his LG run official, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Stepping up the effort to press the Cuomo administration to provide more funding to shelter homeless youth, State Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay Manhattan Democrat, appeared with fellow elected officials and advocates outside of City Hall on February 12 to make the case.

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

The Dutchess County Legislature's Republican caucus issued a statement saying it was «extremely disappointed by recent derogatory social media comments made by a countywide elected official.

They are chosen by local Republican town committees and primarily made up of party stalwarts and elected officials.

The timeline assembled by the village of Hoosick Falls — with assistance from a public relations firm, Behan Communications — details the outreach village leaders said they made to elected officials as far back as December 2014 seeking assistance in dealing with the growing realization that the town's water supply showed unsafe levels of the toxic compound.

JCOPE, by contrast, has been the vulture of ethics enforcement; its condemnations of elected officials have been limited to those who have been made pariahs as a result of investigations by others.

September 24, 2017 - New York, NY — Governor Andrew M. Cuomo was joined by New Yorkers Jennifer Lopez, Rose Perez, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo and pitcher Seth Lugo of the Mets, along with elected officials and labor, business and hospital leaders to provide an update on the Puerto Rico recovery effort and to make an announcement.

Council Member Eric Ulrich, the sole Republican elected official to have endorsed Bo Dietl for mayor, last night made clear that his endorsement does not extend to an independent run by Dietl.

Also at noon, Uber, joined by Mayor Richard David and other local elected officials will make a «major announcement» about its potential future economic impact on the local economy, Terra Cotta, 81 State St., Binghamton.

Another veteran NYPD officer decried the comments made by the mayor and other elected officials Wednesday night.

An author and one - time elected official under New York Gov. George Pataki, McCaughey has made her name largely with blistering attacks on health care reform efforts offered by Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 1990s and then eventually passed into law as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.

Queens Politics is calling on all candidates and elected officials to return contributions made by criminal lobbyist Richard Lipsky.

We'll be looking at minority candidates running for offi ces and non-minority candidates running where there are significant minority populations, to make sure that people's needs are fairly represented, that the agendas espoused by the would - be elected official is what we need in our communities.

Mark - Viverito had the support of the vast majority of elected officials, including three of the six out gay members of the Council: Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, despite the fact that it is a direct subsidy to schools mostly run by anti-gay religious groups that made up the bulk of those lobbying for it.

«Republican caucus of the Dutchess County Legislature is extremely disappointed by recent derogatory social media comments made by a countywide elected official,» GOP members of the lawmaking body said in a prepared statemnt.

Cuomo was lauded by union leaders and progressive elected officials; his achievements made for evidence in the effort to disprove de Blasio's accusations that the governor was hamstringing the progressive agenda.

The US attorney didn't make any specific recommendations about how to purge the state of dirty pols, but he did make clear that the growing list of cases against elected officials at the state and local levels brought by his office indicate that the problem is far from solved — despite claims to the contrary by any number of self - appointed «reformers.»

UPPER MANHATTAN — Northern Manhattan elected officials are sounding off after an off - duty police officer accused of raping a woman in Inwood last week said he's being targeted by the District Attorney's office so they can «make an example» out of him.

The state's highest ranking female elected official, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, is defending the Cuomo's administration in the wake of a report that shows women employed by the executive chamber make just 73 percent of what men there earn.

JCOPE — set up by Gov. Cuomo in 2011 to «restore public trust» by making sure officials follow state ethics rules — has broad jurisdiction over New York legislators, elected officials, candidates and employees.

The sentencings of Mr. Skelos and Mr. Silver made them the latest in an almost unending parade of disgraced New York lawmakers — elected officials tempted by greed and brought down by prosecutors, most notably Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan.

While it's critical in determining the balance of power in Albany and, arguably, to improving the quality of New York's elected officials by making incumbents easier to challenge and therefore more accountable to voters, just 20 percent of voters surveyed last June by Siena said changing the process was a top priority.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

For years, parents, elected officials and community members had made repeated requests for safety measures on 147th Avenue; the requests were previously denied by DOT in 2010.

«Between June 2012 and August 2012, [Huntley], while acting at the direction of the government, made numerous recordings of meetings with nine different people, including seven elected officials and two individuals who had previously been employed as a staff member or a consultant by elected officials,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul A. Tuchman wrote in sentencing memo filed Friday.

«New Yorkers have a right to know how decisions are being made by their duly elected officials.

But the Procurement Policy Board, an obscure agency if ever there was one, has decreed that the competitive bidding rules «shall not apply to contract awards made from line item appropriations and / or discretionary funds to community - based not - for - profit organizations or other public service organizations identified by elected city officials other than the mayor and the controller.»

«As young LGBT elected officials of color, the only two in New York State, we are horrified by Councilmember Cabrera's tribute to the Ugandan government, which has made homosexuality a capital crime punishable by lifetime imprisonment, and until recently, death,» their statement read.

Cuomo's office said Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló made «an official governor to governor request through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact for mutual aid,» before Cuomo, other elected officials and members of his staff took a flight to the island Friday donated by JetBlue.

As written, the amendment would allow a judge to reduce or revoke the public pension of any elected official, state official appointed by the governor, judge or certain employees involved in policy making who is convicted of a felony related to their duties.

Reed: The initiative would put language into the California Constitution that does two things: protects the benefits public employees have earned, as they're earned; and, two, allow elected officials around the state — the cities being the most important to me, but the state of California as well — to negotiate changes to bring down the costs of retirement benefits by making changes to benefits that would be earned in the future under future contracts for future years of service.

Perhaps the most politically powerful conversion was made by Attorney General Ken Salazar, the most visible Latino elected official in the state, who reversed his long - time opposition to vouchers.

Bypass all elected officials on school boards and in state legislatures by making federal funds flow to the Governor and his appointees on workforce development boards.

Make sure there is a presentation by the principal welcoming the elected official to the school.

Incredible in life, perhaps the most disturbing truth of all about Diane Kaplan Devries» work is the uncomfortable fact that so many elected officials, often led by so - called Democrats, immorally and unethically sought to throw up barriers to stop Diane's critical effort to make sure that Connecticut's children got the education they needed, while ensuring that Connecticut's middle income property taxpayers were treated more fairly.

NCLI represents a national voice for young Latinos throughout our nation, advocating on behalf of all children and making sure they are heard by elected officials.

If you don't like the way we're being treated by our elected officials, voting is the most fundamental way to make a difference, especially in state government,...

If we are displeased with decisions made by current elected officials, now is the time to act!