Sentences with phrase «managed community areas»

Lively user - managed community areas such as local groups, chat and blogs keeps visitors engaged

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Don Lam, managing director of the Bay Area region for IA Interior Architects, says it's a great way to spark community and innovation among startups.

«I think they feel in Seattle they're the scapegoat every time there's an issue in the community and traffic,» said Sam Bailey, vice president of economic development at the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, which is managing the area's bid for Amazon's second headquarters.

Many efforts brought PhilRice to this point with Golden Rice: getting permits of approval for the first confined test, engaging the support of local community leaders, establishing the field experiment, monitoring the experiment daily, and managing the harvested area for weeks afterward.

«We're one of just a few communities that have managed to do that,» he said of Buffalo Grove's record of «Clean Air Counts,» part of a Chicago - area initiative to improve air quality.

The fairly shambolic nature of the response from the west, and the international community as a whole (and the fact that though shamefully belated it managed to avert the imminent catastrophe in Benghazi) shows that we have learnt little or nothing from Bosnia, Kossovo, Kurdistan, where intervention helped, still less from the many other areas where nothing effective was done, and we essentially abandoned people to their fate.

De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.

Dromm worked closely with the city Department of Transportation and community organizations to manage, maintain and enhance the plaza since it was closed to increase pedestrian safety and decrease congestion in the area.

As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full - time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas: health and wellness, educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning time, parent supports and community outreach.

Some of these areas were created and are managed wholly by local communities, whereas others are managed by governments in cooperation with locals.

Similar discoveries in April of the remains of poached turtles were found in Ankivonjy Marine Protected Area which is managed by WCS in collaboration with local communities.

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

Using genetic «fin - printing», an international team of scientists has gathered the first clear proof that small traditional fishing grounds that are effectively managed by local communities can help re-stock both themselves and surrounding marine areas.

The fact that vials of this particular vaccine had to be stored in Nairobi is peculiar for two reasons: for one, according to the KCDA this is not usually required for vaccine distribution, and, for another, the Kenya Catholic Health Commission (as the medical branch of the KCCB) also manages a network of 448 Catholic health units consisting of 54 hospitals, 83 health centers and 311 clinical dispensaries plus more than 46 programs for Community Based Health and Orphaned and Vulnerable Children scattered all over Kenya's 224,962 square miles [93]-- an area larger than any US state in the lower 48 except for Texas at 268,601 square miles [94].

Beatrice Viramontes currently the senior managing director, community lead at Teach For America's (TFA) San Francisco sub-region in the Bay Area.

Manager, Political Engagement, Bay Area [email protected] 510-344-7240 The manager of political engagement engages the charter community in political work, including mobilizing charter - school families around elections, building our database of charter school parents and teachers, fundraising, campaign volunteering, and growing and managing our local PACs.

Ms. Robell was also the Managing Director of Programs for New Leaders in the Bay Area and principal and founding administrator of Elmhurst Community Prep (ECP), a middle school in Oakland Unified School District, for four years.

Gayle's areas of expertise include brain - compatible learning, block scheduling, emotional intelligence, instructional and assessment practices, differentiated instructional strategies, using data to differentiate, literacy, presentation skills, renewal of secondary schools, enhancing teacher quality, coaching and mentoring, managing change, and building professional learning communities.

With PDA models including Recommend to Library, Demand - Driven Acquisition and now Cost - per - Circ, libraries and schools will be able to more efficiently manage their digital book collections and target specific areas of their community by giving them more control of the books they purchase.

Oil companies have operated such managed communities in strategic areas of operation around the world for much of the 20th century and continue to do so today.

Instead of trying to manage communities across the country, they focus on a smaller area and build a reputation for quality in management and a deep knowledge of local needs.

Studies, Kenya (Sept 01 — Dec 01) Game counts, community and tourist interviews to assess the potentiality of a community managed conservation area in Kuku Group Ranch.

Environment Southland has also been talking to communities about managing cats in sensitive wildlife areas as part of an update of their Regional Pest Management Strategy.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — Veterinarians Without Borders Veterinarians Without Borders will leverage their grant from PetSmart Charities of Canada to host a first - of - its - kind educational conference in Charlottetown dedicated to sharing best practices for animal welfare agencies working in partnership with First Nations communities to help manage and prevent pet overpopulation and promote pet health in historically underserved areas of Canada's north.

For more information on how to get involved in managing community cats in your area or to sign up for the TNR Workshop, «Trap - Neuter - Return: How to Manage a Feral Cat Colony», please visit communitycats.ca.

Prior to moving to Maine, she held Regional Director positions with the Muscular Dystrophy Association in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Minneapolis, where she managed fundraising offices in a multi-state area, developing community programs and serving as media liaison in a vast market area.

- loaning traps - offering easy - to - follow trapping instructions - providing below - cost and sometimes free spays / neuters / vaccines for community cats at our LifeLine Spay & Neuter Clinics - educating the public about community cats - advising how to affectively manage cat colonies - offering solutions to help mediate neighbor complaints - supporting trappers throughout trapping process and the throughout the life of the colony - helping connect people with others interested in helping community cats in their area and fostering the growth of grassroots efforts in neighborhoods throughout the 20 county metro area - giving referrals for community cat resources throughout the metro area

In addition to his local and area leadership responsibilities, as Managing Partner for the past 20 years, he has had full P & L responsibilities, client service, acceptance and retention responsibilities, been responsible for the leadership, development and growth of the Audit, Tax and Advisory functions, lead all major business development initiatives, had responsibility for all HR, technology and real estate decisions, and represented the Firm in the community from a professional reputation and civic leadership standpoint.

Kevin Sheehan, senior managing director of real estate for Greystar, Charleston, S.C., said many of the Greystar communities host pet - friendly events such as «Yappy Hours,» pet costume contests, and other get - togethers to encourage responsible pet adoption from area shelters.

The Animal Community Email List managed by SAAC is designed to facilitate communication and support among Sacramento area animal advocates who care about animals and want to reduce animal overpopulation.

«This reserve was declared a protected area on December 21, 1991 and is managed by the Placencia based community, Friends of Nature,» announced our guide when we were stepping out of the boat.

The new unit will primarily manage the conduct of interviews on crime and community relations by police officers in Belize City, the rural area and San Pedro and Caye Caulker.

ACCC is designed to be a community gathering place and is managed by the Fulton County Department of Arts & Culture and will focus on three areas of programming:

«These local communities now manage almost a third of all forests in developing countries, over twice the share currently found in government - run protected areas.

The October 2011 report Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climate risks.

With about one quarter of the world's forests managed by families and communities, resources and cost related to certification are a major obstacle to expanding forest certification to the more than 90 % of forest area currently uncertified.

Our impacts in Mexico and Central America are nothing short of stunning: In areas managed by our partner communities in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, for example, logging has remained at almost zero since 2001 — remarkable given that adjacent areas suffer some of the worst deforestation rates in the Americas.

Second, with regard to solving forest tenure issue, the ministry is also allocating around 12 million hectares of forest area to be managed by local communities and indigenous peoples for five years.

Those findings were echoed more broadly in a Scientific Reports paper that found, on average, there was less deforestation and forest degradation in community - managed protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon than in those managed by the government.

The study, co-authored by Nature Conservancy policy advisor Craig Leisher, economist Peter van Beukering and social scientist Lea M. Scherl, showed that well - managed marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Asia - Pacific region - at sites in Fiji, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines - cut poverty rates and boosted the quality of life for residents of impoverished communities.

His work led to the establishment of Brazil's extractive reserves protected forest areas that are inhabited and managed by local communities.

A 2012 study from the Center for International Forestry Research showed that forests managed by local communities suffered from less deforestation than government - managed protected areas.

Nigel Rowley, Managing Partner at Mackrell Turner Garrett, said: «The Mauritian community in the UK is thriving, so it is only right that we bring them together to learn more about their areas of interest and expertise and conversely they are able to learn more about our specialisms.

«The arrival of Billy not only complements the litigation bench and existing strengths of this growing office, but his reputation and notoriety will surely catch the attention of the government, business and legal communities in the Washington metropolitan area and beyond,» said Karen McGee, managing partner of the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

Instead of trying to manage communities across the country, they focus on a smaller area and build a reputation for quality in management and a deep knowledge of local needs.

Formed in Florida in 1991 to manage Class A multi-family communities in major metropolitan areas, the company has over 22,000 doors under management nationwide.

These professionally managed communities are carefully located in areas convenient to both workplaces and the best each city has to offer.

Achieve Tampa Bay, an Affiliate of United Cerebral Palsy, Tampa • FL 1988 — 2007 Program Director of Employment and Training Services Coordinated and managed overall operation of a community based programs with a budget of over $ 600K (Employment and Supported Living) for adults with disabilities in the four county areas.

North Valley area, Phoenix About Blog North Phoenix Family is an online community resource for families in the North Valley area of Phoenix and surrounding communities with articles on parenting, managing time and stress, selecting schools, staying healthy, having fun, and everything else in between.

• Develop and implement policies for the parking lot • Issue parking permits and devise appropriate procedures for distribution of the same • Organize parking registration activities • Collect, count and record the parking fee • Supervise, train and evaluate subordinate employees • Guide and educate the campus community regarding parking procedures and SOPs • Identify and report any suspicious vehicle • Issue and submit periodic parking lot reports to the higher management • Devise and recommend ways to enhance the effectiveness of parking procedures to ensure maximum customer facilitation • Carryout paper work for long term parking requests and issue relevant permit if applicable • Inspect the parking lot physically and ensure proper physical conditions are available for parking • Ensure consumer and vehicle security in the parking lot • Operate parking lot equipment, drive through gates and car lifters appropriately as and when required • Respond to public inquiries and provide relevant information regarding parking protocols • Monitor CCTV footage and report any suspicious activity • Regularly update the members» vehicle data and stamp their permits • Oversee parking lot operations, revenue collection and ticketing procedures • Ensure proper book keeping procedures are being carried out • Conduct minor maintenance of parking lot equipment • Promote and demonstrate high standards of customer service • Issue permits to vendors and other visitors after complete validation of their personal data • Oversee flagging and validation code issuance • Organize training sessions for development and grooming of the team • Assign duties to the parking lot employees and evaluate their performance • Serve as point of contact for parking lot procedures, maintenance and permissions • Allocate separate space for visitors, special guests and handicapped individuals • Manage parking lot budget and meet the maintenance requirements within allocated amount • Devise a proper one way route within the parking area and display informative direction boards to implement the same • Oversee the cleanliness of the parking lot and keep it snow free during winters to facilitate smooth drive in and drive out • Procure and install parking signs and meters etc. • Maintain vehicle owner's data on whose IDs the permits have been issued • Record all drive ins and drive outs with timings in the computerized log system