Sentences with phrase «mayoral agency»

For example, in April 2015, Reinvent Albany joined seven other good government groups to ask NYC Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter to provide uniform FOIL guidance to mayoral agencies for responding to FOIL requests.

In 2013, New York City mayoral agencies (like NYPD, DOT etc) received 50,000 Freedom of Information Law requests and the City Council under 100.

Mayoral agencies get so many more FOIL requests because they perform many more functions which immediately effect the FOILing public, including providing -LSB-...]

The analysis, the most comprehensive study to date, reveals deep inequities within the current system over the last four fiscal years and recommends that these taxpayer dollars — totaling $ 49.6 million in this year's budget — should be transferred to mayoral agencies for distribution, to take politics out of the process... Under the current system, some districts receive more than four times the amount of discretionary member items than others.

That's an outdated red herring because no one can claim that as a mayoral agency the City Department of Investigation has been used to go after the «enemies» of a mayor.

Some oppose my idea of transforming the city BOE into a mayoral agency because it would lose it's impartiality.

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

Since 1990 the Borough President has acted as an advocate for the borough at the mayoral agencies, the City Council, the New York state government, and corporations.

Executive orders only apply to mayoral agencies and offices, not outside ones like the comptroller — leading the mayor's office to argue it couldn't have stripped Mr. Stringer of any power, and Mr. Stringer's office to argue the order put new requirements on businesses, but gives him no new authority to investigate them.

«You're taking that authority to investigate and putting it into a mayoral agency with no history or track record for doing this work,» Mr. Stringer said today.

Out of 32 agencies graded — 31 mayoral agencies and the comptroller's office — the Business Integrity Commission, the Department of Buildings and the Department of Sanitation each received an F.

Notably, this assortment of legislation applies only to mayoral agencies, including the mayor's office, but not the City Council itself, according to a spokesperson for Rosenthal.