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Though federal funds will provide the bulk of the project's funding, the mayor said the state's recognition of making the DL&W attractive to developers marks a major step forward.
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At an unrelated press conference where the mayor and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced an investment of $ 7.5 million for 6,000 ballistic vests and 20,000 helmets for police officers in Brooklyn this morning, the mayor said the State Senate is «not sympathetic to the city.»
Syracuse's mayor says the state government is reversing a long tradition of supporting infrastructure investments in its cities.
According to the mayor said state officials said PFOA levels in the system would be diluted and «would not negatively impact the wastewater treatment plant» or the environment when discharged into the Hoosic River.»
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Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, said Sunday he would donate $ 4.5 million to help cover some of the United States» financial commitments to the Paris Climate Accord.
Citgo, which operates the Corpus Christi Refinery with a capacity to process 157,000 barrels a day, will provide the aid to affected families through local mayors and allot a percentage of gasoline revenue to the construction of homes and shelters in and around Houston, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on state television.
The mayor said he has not been contacted either by Foxconn or state officials about a Dane County site.
The mayor also said the city didn't make any mistakes in not reaching out to the state's economic development agency.
«We have to keep this country safe,» the mayor told reporters, addressing questions about an Associated Press report that said the NYPD was closely monitoring Muslim student associations in schools across the Northeastern United States.
State news agency Tass cited mayor Alexander Shuvalov as saying four people were killed and four wounded.
Since the particular experience in its richest state is largely uncapturable (what can be reasoned misses the full reaches of what can be said, what can be said misses the full reaches of what can be known, what can be known misses the full reaches of what can be experienced), the more significant conclusions by which a person lives can not be methodically and precisely induced, but must be put forth largely as speculative theories that mayor may not derive from something said and known.
The second paragraph of the WSJ story states, «' I don't want to have a national debate about freedom of religion when my whole purpose was to defend a strong and wonderful and appropriate city ordinance,» said Ms. Parker, a Democrat and the city's first openly gay mayor.»
The mayor said the city and the developer, Montalbano Homes, are legally obligated to fill the land for a park unless the annexation agreement is changed or the Park District elects to keep it in its current state.
Duffy, a former mayor of Rochester, said his job as the chairman of the governor's regional economic councils was that of a «convener» who nonetheless was able to establish contacts with the state's business community.
The mayor said the city's lawyers are staying on top of the issue, and plan to follow the lead of the state Attorney General's office.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday shrugged off the call from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for an even either minimum wage increase than what is proposed in the state budget, saying it's up to the state Legislature to vote on the issue, not the mayor.
The mayor had later said he would support $ 540 million in funding from the state without the tax.
«He has connections across the state, so I think it's only natural people would look at our mayor and say maybe he's destined for bigger things,» O'Donnell added.
«I think the City of Buffalo funds the schools to the tune of ten to 15 percent depending on what the state allocation is, so I think it's appropriate that the mayor have some input on the school board,» the senator said.
Gov. David Paterson this morning gave a big shout - out to Bob Duffy, who is running for the lieutenant governor post Paterson himself once held, saying the Rochester mayor is ready to step in and lead the state if necessary.
«The mayor is acting on behalf of the city and the governor in his mind is acting on behalf of the state,» Heastie said.
«No one has a crystal ball, but I think we'll see some, my hope is, we'll see some federal action on this sooner or later, so some of what's being discussed is a dire consequence, having a special session, some of the things we're talking about, probably, hopefully will not come to pass,» DiNapoli said when asked if the mayor should, as the governor maintains, pick up the tab for H+H funding, or, as the mayor insists, the state should pony up the $ 380 million it is currently withholding from the system.
The article went on to quote the same «official» as saying, «You sit down there as mayor and you believe you're the captain of the ship, but really everything is subject to state law.
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When de Blasio said the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics» investigation was driven by Albany, Lehrer specifically asked if the mayor meant the governor.
A spokeswoman for the mayor's office said that Bennett's tweet was not sanctioned and the city and state are in solidarity in mourning the attacks.
While Democrats including District Attorney Madeline Singas have called for a supermajority of legislators to appoint the person with that role, Mangano aides say the mayor or governor directly selects them in the city and state.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he is «tired of getting caught in between the governor and the mayor» and even Public Advocate Letitia James recently called for the rift between the two politicians to be healed for the sake of the state and the city.
My name is Bill de Blasio and I am mayor of the biggest union town in the United States of America,» he said.
«The mayor can't place a monitor on the governor's decrepit state prisons, or his failing upstate jobs programs, or on the water supply in Hoosick Falls,» de Blasio's press secretary Eric Phillips said.
«The reason we saved Wadleigh's middle school is because the entire community worked together in unity to make sure that everyone knew, from the mayor to the Chancellor to the DOE, that we were going to stand and fight,» said State Senator Brian Benjamin, who had engaged in meetings with the DOE and helped organize a protest to prevent the school from becoming only a high school.
Last month, before the dinner, a Cuomo spokeswoman said, «Yes, it's clear that the mayor can't manage the homeless crisis, and the state does intend to step in.»
She does believe that mayoral control of the New York City public school system should have been extended beyond the one year that the state Legislature gave Mayor Bill de Blasio «There is an element for the mayor to have some skin in the game,» she said.
While McCray said she supports lawful, regulated recreational use, the mayor said he would like to further study states that have already instituted legal marijuana laws.
Former state Rep. William R. Dyson of New Haven, who supports Doyle, said in an interview that New Haven was trying to generate unanimous support for Mattei, but the mayor and party chairman disagreed over the issue.
«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.
«The reason the mayor is implementing a municipal ID program [is] because Congress has not acted,» said State Senator Adriano Espaillat, referencing a proposal from Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide city ID cards to immigrants.
The state should work to release $ 200 million in funding that was allocated to NYCHA in last year's budget, but which it has not yet received, Dean Fuleihan, the city's first deputy mayor, said at a City Hall news conference.
The mayor, who endorsed Clinton last fall, declined to say whether he would advise the former secretary of state to release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs because they are «a nonissue.»
«It will be my pleasure to partner with New York City and the mayor to do everything we can for this city and state together,» Cuomo said.
The mayors office continues to place blame on the state funding saying, «Public housing tenants deserve that (state) funding to be quickly applied to NYCHA's most pressing needs.
«If that bill passes and there's massive tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporations, then the idea of a state millionaires tax to fund the MTA becomes even more relevant,» the mayor said on WNYC radio.
«I think we have to figure out some of the motivations behind it, because if we specifically followed every step along the way — legal guidance — and did what other mayors and other leaders have done for years and years under the laws of this state, following the letter and spirit of the law,» de Blasio said.
«I think it is reaching a point of critical mass where Democrats in every section of the state of New York, from Long Island all the way to Niagara Falls, are saying that they want to see Democrats work together,» the Buffalo mayor said.
Sources close to Cuomo say he fears the notoriously aggressive and egocentric Spitzer would use the position of comptroller to settle old political scores with the governor, second - guess the new mayor, and wage a public - relations war against Wall Street, the single greatest source of revenue to the state.
State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said Thursday he is no closer to extending mayoral control of New York City schools following Mayor Bill de Blasio's testimony before the Senate education committee Wednesday, a blow to the mayor's efforts to win a seven - year mayoral control extension.
Matt Driscoll, the former Syracuse mayor who spearheaded the I - 81 project until last year as commissioner of the state Department of Transportation, said the governor's decision simply respected the overwhelming consensus of local legislators.
The day after an intraparty war of words between Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner — co-chair of the state Democratic party — and New York Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy about Governor Cuomo's budget and how it handles floundering localities, Duffy says he sticks by comments.
Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.
State Sen. Joe Addabbo and State Sen. José Peralta said their constituents» anger was largely sparked by a lack of communication from the mayor's office and Department of Homeless Services.