Sentences with phrase «making city government»

Miner laid out her vision for making city government smaller, smarter and more effective in her second State of the City address, delivered Thursday night at the Everson Museum in Syracuse.

«It has become an international model for real grassroots democracy, and for making city government more responsive to the people.

Schroeder said change will start his first day in office, making a city government that works for every section of the city.

Syracuse, NY - In a State of the City Address that included the word «crisis» at least six times, Mayor Stephanie Miner laid out her vision tonight for making city government smaller, smarter and more effective during her second year in office.

In a prepared statement, Bloomberg said, «As New Yorkers, we were extraordinarily lucky to have Steve Goldsmith make our City government more innovative and efficient.;

She has made city government more responsive and attuned to underserved communities and to people who feel invisible and forgotten.»

Instead Bloomberg praised his former right - hand man, saying, «As New Yorkers, we were extraordinarily lucky to have Steve Goldsmith make our city government more innovative and efficient.»

Not exact matches

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

These government workers are focused on how to make cities, towns and economic regions prosper.

The local government is exceptionally proactive in making the city a promising place for entrepreneurs.

Regardless of which city potentially wins its bid, Clark said the federal government will be instrumental by making the connection between the Bank of Canada and People's Bank of China.

In April the company signed a «strategic cooperation agreement,» Rhee said, with the municipal government of Kunming City in the southwestern province of Yunnan, which will aid the company in robot building and developing artificial intelligence capabilities in Yunnan province for the purpose of making Kunming and other municipalities A.I. - enabled «smart» cities.

«To reduce the threshold of innovative entrepreneurship, the government provides appropriate financial subsidies for rent, broadband access and public software for new businesses,» said John Rhee, general manager of the Los Angeles office for UBTECH, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen City that makes humanoid robots for the home.

As we've made our great leaps from tribes to cities to nations, we have always had to build social infrastructure like communities, media and governments for us to thrive and reach the next level.

But our governments need to make the case, as the Dutch and the Swiss recently did by sending delegations to Asian capitals to promote their cities as European hubs.

The Chinese government has made taming the housing market a priority and and imposed restrictions on property sales in a number of major cities to prevent speculative activities.

That was the conclusion of the city's government, which on Feb. 1 closed its $ 10 - million Shania Twain Centre to make way for the new pride of Timmins: a literal gold mine.

The city has asked the governments of Alberta and Canada to make up the nearly $ 100 - million shortfall on the $ 480 - million price tag.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

The national credit system planned for 2020 will be an «ecosystem» made up of schemes of various sizes and reaches, run by cities, government ministries, online payment providers, down to neighborhoods, libraries, and businesses, say Chinese researchers who are designing the national scheme.

Another early morning in Vancouver, BC and a meeting starts with a full house of equity crowdfunding industry participants including entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, securities regulators, government, tech and finance executives who want to make sure this city keeps its crown as the entrepreneur and tech startup capital of Canada.

«I've just seen cities everywhere and have found that mayors and city governments are far more focused on progress in their cities here in China than I've seen elsewhere, and it makes me incredibly optimistic.»

The letter raised the possibility that a federal contractor in San Francisco would have to make its policies conform to three separate sick leave rules — one for the city, one for the state of California and one for the federal government.

In contrast, Public Banks empower small businesses, students, homeowners, city and state governments, and community banks to prosper and thrive by banking for the common good over the long term, and making low - cost credit available where it is needed in the real economy.

But now assume that the government passes a literacy law that requires that every city must have exactly one bookshop for every 10,000 residents — no more, no less — and there is a government agency whose purpose is to make sure that for every city there is the number of bookshops required by law.

In Hong Kong, banks, entrepreneurs and the government itself have joined hands to make the city a hotbed for fintech innovation and a pioneer in digital finance.

New York state last month passed a similar measure that makes it illegal to advertise apartments for fewer than 30 days in New York City, and lawmakers have pushed the federal government to take a closer look at Airbnb and other home - sharing sites on accusations of creating housing shortages and driving up rental costs.

Syrian government forces regained control of a key road to the northern city of Aleppo after making advances against Islamic State fighters on Monday, a monitoring group and state television Continue Reading

In one case, both the City of St. Albert and the provincial government refused to verify the candidate financial disclosures or enforce them after complaints were made by members of the public.

Making the transition from «Cool» to «Smart» also requires a culture change within city government.

The government have left us as captives in the hands of ISIS, who make all kinds of crimes in the city.

Another level of government makes you pay (taxes) for the privilege of living in their fair city, and ppunishes you if you fail to comply (applies to businesses, too).

you many times got «us vs them» mentaility especially on certain issues (pot growing in city limits for example) the government is made up by INDIVIDUal people..

I was too grateful for the traffic lights the «system» had installed on the corners of the busy streets my son had to navigate on his way to school, and for the school crossing guards the city government had hired to make his daily journey less dangerous, and for the fire inspectors who regularly visited his school to check for hazards, and so on.

Until 2007 Salem city government kept a strict limit on the number licenses it would issue to psychics and witchy sorts setting up shop, and on top of that, also required a one year residency before application could even be made.

Let me lust list some areas that will require government action and planning: rejuvenating the centers of big cities, providing mass transportation systems, controlling pollution, maintaining open spaces and recreational areas, taking care of future energy needs, making health care available to all.

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

Just as the new mayor of Turin launches a drive to make the city meat free, so a new Communist - led coalition government in the Indian state of Kerala is attempting to make its dietary mark — this time by introducing a fat tax.

According to the Adelaide Advertiser, the City Council met and agreed to make a formal request to the South Australian State Government to examine the chances of Adelaide and F1 rekindling their former romance.

«This is not the end of the journey and we look forward to working with the Government as it makes its final decision to support a UK candidate city.»

De Blasio is defending the privately - funded non-profit organizations tied to his administration after a government watchdog group, Common Cause New York, demanded an investigation, saying he js making a mockery of the city's campaign finance laws and may be running afoul of the City Charcity's campaign finance laws and may be running afoul of the City CharCity Charter.

The lack of a federal law does not ban a state (or even a city or county) from making a law, though the federal government could explicitly make a law banning states from making a law restricting something.

At issue were comments O'Luck made on the Times» City Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.&raCity Room blog in February 2009, in which he said that if government programs that benefit businesses owned by women and minorities weren't around «white men and the connected would have access to nearly 100 % of all city, state, and federal government dollars spent.&racity, state, and federal government dollars spent.»

«The government also appears to have made a significant double u-turn, after seeming to back down on imposing mayors on cities a few weeks ago.

Cuomo said the onus was on «the landlord» — in this case the city government — to make improvements, not raise rent.

Dr Bawumia's comments dovetail into those recently made by Deputy Finance Minister Abena Osei Asare who said there is «no country in the world that doesn't borrow» in defence of the Akufo - Addo government's borrowing for certain projects, including one that aims to make Ghana's capital city, Accra, the cleanest in Africa.

Cuomo said that there was a «human toll» that made Katrina a different story, especially after the federal, state and city government's botched response to the aftermath.

In the next few months, Consensus will make recommendations, one of which is expected to be a consolidation of city and county into some form of metropolitan government, according to leaders of the group.

«City government alone makes an enormous investment in the MTA already.

Local government legislation often makes special provision for the City to be treated as a London borough and for the Common Council to act as a local authority.