Sentences with phrase «majority on the board»

It also would, in effect, help eliminate a three - member majority on the board whose actions have come under question.

With a friendly majority on the board, a new contract could finally be in sight.

Of course, the mayor was furious over losing his earlier majority on the board.

With a new charter - backed majority on the board, there's lots of speculation about whether the district will accelerate the growth of charters in the years to come.

Jim Heaney, in his latest column for City & State, provides his take on the reform agenda being advanced by the new majority on the Board of Education.

The park district has been embroiled in controversy since May, when two newly elected board members — Steinys and Silosky — took office creating a new majority on the board with Hurtado.

Beginning at the 1979 Houston convention, they elected a series of theologically conservative presidents that, in turn, used their appointive powers to achieve a conservative majority on the Board of Trustees of each of its entities — including the six seminaries, the two mission boards, and the BSSB.

Several people in the audience Tuesday evening questioned whether DeVincenzo's promotion was really necessary, or a case of the Republican majority on the board taking advantage of their additional strength and hiring one of their own members for a position that never existed.

Passage of the legislation would allow the current board president to install an anti-public education majority on the board.

Sadly the hopeless majority on this board remain a united front in proclaiming that Sissoko isnt Arsenal quality and blindly beat there chests extolling the greatness of Ox and Theo

Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino's resolution to fire interim Superintendent Donald A. Ogilvie on Wednesday is not only likely to fail, but it also appears that no members of Paladino's own majority on the board will support it.

For board approval, the lawsuit would need to acquire at least one Democratic vote, as Democrats hold a one - seat majority on the Board of Legislators.

He names the head of the MTA, he has a working majority on that board.»

«You can rest assured that there will be people scrutinizing any write - in ballots,» said Philip Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, which is supporting candidates attempting to upend the current majority on the board.

Kaplowitz took over the chairmanship from then Legislator Ken Jenkins, a Yonkers Democrat, as part of a bipartisan coalition of legislators that included former Vice Chairman Jim Maisano, a New Rochelle Republican, that helped to thin the impact of a Democratic majority on the board.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

Janet Silosky, who was elected last spring and often votes with the new majority on the board, said she was surprised by Peck's resignation but also understood the reasoning behind it.

«Right now, Democrats have a 12 - member majority on the Board of Legislators, and with George as county executive, they really don't need a 13th member,» said a county Democratic leader.

I reached out to each of the members of the new conservative majorities on both boards, but got little in the way of response.

Several proposals have been floated to get the Senate's Republican majority on board, including lengthening the wage's implementation over several years upstate and on Long Island, while enacting the higher minimum wage more quickly in New York City.

The park district board has come under fire since May after the spring election ushered in a new majority on the board.

Clements» election gives Democrats a 13 - 4 majority on the Board.

«I'm also thrilled to be playing a role in such an historic moment in the history of the county, joining the first - ever female - majority on the Board of Legislators, and the most racially - diverse Board in county history.»

Give him a majority on the board.

The long - troubled Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority has a new majority on its board, with four new members appointed by Mayor Byron Brown and immediately confirmed by the Common Council.

Republicans tout several achievements from last year including keeping a majority on the Board of Supervisors, defending all five incumbent town supervisor seats that were challenged and securing every countywide elected office.

I would not be surprised to see the Democrats take back the supervisor position and a majority on the board.»

Larry Quinn is one of the new Buffalo Board of Education members and makes up the new majority on the board.

«There is a new majority on the Board and it just seems that their choices have created another, to use the term, black eye for Niagara Falls.»

Two borough president appointees plus two mayoral appointees would have a majority on the board if the issue came up.

And they hold a majority on the board and therefore other voices do not get heard.

Paladino has been part of a five - four majority on the board that has been pushing for reforms.

If the mayor could deliver his new majority on the board — the vote was set for late August — more than one - third of L.A.'s schools would eventually compete in a marketplace unprecedented in scope.

During most of current superintendent Tom Boasberg's first five years, he had only a 4 — 3 majority on the board.

Traditionally, the United Teachers of Los Angeles gets its way and has, if not complete control, at least a majority on the board to do its bidding.

For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.