Sentences with phrase «mandates public»

Section 8, which mandates public access, seems to me to be weaker than the previous sections.

The Erie County Comptroller's Office said it may be more prudent for the county to distribute mandated public notices online and via social media rather than the current practice of printing them in local newspapers.

And it wants to mandate public reporting of raw vote totals from caucus states.

The New York Democrat acknowledged his wrongdoing, but he campaigned in the days before the House vote for his colleagues to support a reprimand — a lesser punishment that would still require a House vote but not mandate a public dressing - down — on the basis that the ethics committee had not deemed his actions corrupt.

The Homer Central School District held a state - mandated public hearing Wednesday night, reviving

Through a constitutional convention, we can demand transparency to backroom dealings in Albany by mandating public oversight of budgetary decisions and requiring narrow, set purposes for all money funneled into the budget.

[With this oversimplified phrase, Clinton is effectively calling for court - mandated public financing, which is extremely unlikely.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D - Manhattan) is set to introduce a bill that would mandate public restrooms to offer free tampons and sanitary napkins.

I strongly encourage pet owners around the County to take advantage of this valuable and mandated public health initiative.»

o This process would compel all hotel projects in the City to go through a mandated public review through the City's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP).

Highlighted proposals included: a new, soccer and hockey stadium at Willets Point; mandating public review through ULURP for hotel permits in NYC to help ensure community input and better monitoring of growth; a borough - wide plan for bike lanes; the re-opening of the displaced Queens Field Office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); building space in public parks specifically designed for seniors to stay active.

«CSEA is offended by the recommendation on mandating public employees» share of health insurance coverage and the proposal to undermine the integrity of the public employee pension system,» said CSEA President Danny Donohue.

After the financial crisis, Labour - led councils avidly implemented the mandated public - spending cuts, closing care homes, squeezing wages and sacking workers.

Others include the 1975 civil rights law mandating public education for special needs children, the bilingual education act of 1968, and the original civil rights education law, which passed in 1965 as part of President Johnson's war on poverty and mandated federal funding to states, equal access for all children, and higher standards.

Fordham called for requiring all participating students to take state assessments; mandating public disclosure of those results, school by school, except for schools that enroll fewer than ten total students in tested grades; and requiring schools that enroll a substantial number of students to have their eligibility determined by how their students perform on state tests.

Requiring that college students have higher grade point averages in order to become teachers, eliminating teacher tenure and linking a teacher's evaluation and their job status to statistical changes in Connecticut's standardized tests is not Education Reform — nor are the expanding efforts to «privatize» our Constitutionally mandated public education system.

The increasing use of state - mandated public high school exit exams is one manifestation of the current movement in U.S. public schooling toward more explicit standards of instruction and accountability.

There are still many who consider themselves «progressive» who want to keep an outdated and sclerotic zip - code - mandated public education system in place.

I am also disappointed with the further expansions of private school vouchers and special needs vouchers which continue to take us down the path of funding dual education systems when we have not been able to maintain even inflationary increases for our constitutionally mandated public school system.

During her Senate confirmation hearing in January, DeVos struggled to grasp some of the most basic fundamentals of education terminology, student - loan policy and federal provisions mandating public schools provide free and appropriate education to people with disabilities.

«m all about reducing greenhouse gasses and the like, but yet we keep drilling for oil and not mandating our public transportation to become more fuel efficient!

to ensnare the vast majority of people into a life of cramped, stack and pack housing, mandated public transportation use, serious restrictions on personal food, water, and energy use, and indoctrination of the youth into a socialistic and fascistic outlook on life generally.»

Not exact matches

Harper is vulnerable on the economy, which is why his campaign also is emphasizing «public safety» as another reason to give the Conservatives another mandate.

The Bank of Canada dutifully let the public know that it was studying the terms of its mandate almost two years ago.

The CDC, says Wintemute, has incorrectly «interpreted that as a mandate not to do research» on the public health dangers of guns and the epidemiology of gun violence.

Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated» study.

«TSX Venture Exchange is a vibrant, well - regulated market with an impor - tant mandate to mentor newly - public companies,» says TSX Venture Exchange President John McCoach, «and also provides a cost - effective stepping stone for international companies looking to list in a quality North American market.»

But when that agenda means reneging on the EPA's core mission of protecting public health to serve corporate interests, it falls way outside any electoral mandate.

That's significant, considering he spent the early part of his mandate telling the public that economists» preferred methods for telling the future no longer worked.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

«We don't need mandates,» said Lauren «Bubba» McDonald, a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, who is widely credited with helping jumpstart the state's solar industry.

«With the Sodium Mandate, the Board has required the disclosure of just enough inaccurate and controversial information about sodium in certain food items to cause far reaching negative consequences rather than help consumers and reduce public health risks.»

In a statement, the Montreal - based airline says the public may feel anxious about potential labour disruption as WestJet pilots begin voting on giving its negotiators a strike mandate.

Friedman argued that earning profit for the owners has been the mandate — and for public companies the legally binding fiduciary responsibility — since capitalism appeared.

He noted that until the SEC mandates professional - level searches, similar to what it demands of underwriters in public stock offerings, investors are at the mercy of the sites they visit.

Pollsters say that at this point in a government's mandate, public opinion has often begun to turn against an incumbent prime minister.

With Greece at boiling point following the adoption of yet more internationally mandated austerity measures in the wake of parliament's vote to slash 25,000 jobs in the public sector, opposition leaders said it was wrong for Schäuble to be visiting at all.

What is important for attaining the Federal Reserve's mandated objectives is not that monetary policy is described in terms of a formal prescriptive rule, but rather that the FOMC's intentions and strategy are well understood by the public.

Unless the PBO's mandate is changed and the Office reports directly to Parliament, rather than to the Library of Parliament, it will never be fully independent and have access to information from departments and agencies that it requires to provide Parliamentarians and the public with the expert analysis they need to hold the Government to account.

Two and a half years into the mandate and no real result on the election promise.This sort of thing is par for the course, though.A tactic played over and over which the general public doesn't seem to be able to grasp.

Great piece Bruce - the public space has been stolen by a small group of ideologues with a mandate to destroy.

... while mandating a split between the chair and the CEO is not clearly a good idea for all public companies, it may well be a good idea for larger companies.

On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.

... the evidence on the proposal to mandate the separation of the chair and the CEO of public companies is more extensive and considerably more mixed [than evidence on say on pay].

The public bank will use the latest technology to balance the needs of participating communities and to efficiently, transparently, and securely carry out its mandate.

Still, in 2015, National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) President Jack Mozloom said that the federation's members «are strongly opposed» to a paid - leave mandate, and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), a membership organization for individual HR professionals, has taken a public position supporting only voluntarily provided paid - leave programs.

PayPal, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., released its government - mandated diversity data to the public for the first time last week after questions by Reveal.

We should mind it because the Fed's mandate doesn't include commandeering a huge chunk of the public's savings; and we should mind it because the Fed isn't designed to employ our savings efficiently.

Bear Stearns is trading at $ 6 instead of $ 2 because unelected bureaucrats went beyond their legal mandates, delivered a windfall to a single private company at public expense, entered agreements that violate the the public trust, and created a situation where even if the bureaucratic malfeasance stands, the shareholders of Bear Stearns will either reject the deal or be deprived of their right to determine the fate of the company they own.

The Fed's mission is undermined when regional Reserve Banks fail to recruit leaders who live up to the mandate to «represent the public.»