Sentences with phrase «mayoral appointees»

Knight will join six other mayoral appointees on the City Planning Commission, as well as one appointee from each borough president, and one appointee by the public advocate.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D - Brooklyn) and Assemblyman Keith Wright (D - Manhattan) had introduced separate bills aimed at reducing the number of mayoral appointees to the Board of Education and letting the board, rather than the mayor, hire the city's schools chancellor.

The bomb: Rebecca «Give Me Five «Sive, the all - power - to - the - people ultraliberal mayoral appointee who got on the park district board despite a protest from feminist groups, cut herself a juicy deal — and the INK was hardly dry on her appointment before the greenbacks were going into her Gucci bag.

Both are stuffed with mayoral appointees, and neither responded.»

But Cleveland was the only mayoral appointee to directly vote against any of the closures — and did so five times.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor — over the protests of countless community members — wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

Their concerns revolve around a proposed panel of mayoral appointees, known as the Transformation Alliance, that could block future charter schools from opening in the city unless they meet a set of academic criteria the panel would later develop.

A lawsuit filed this week seeking hearings on mayoral appointees to the Chicago Park District Board signals an active effort by the Washington administration to retaliate against park Supt. Edmund Kelly.

She was again critical of Mayor de Blasio, saying that the four mayoral appointees to the board (although one of those seats has long been vacant) should «push back» against mismanagement and the «status quo.»

After mayoral control officially expires on June 30, the city will have to create a new Board of Education with two mayoral appointees and five appointees made by each borough president.

The city's Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, voted 8 to 4 at its March 1 meeting at Brooklyn Technical HS to co-locate a new charter school in Bedford - Stuyvesant's already - cramped PS 308, infuriating the school's parents, students and teachers.

Under state housing law, mayoral appointees to municipal housing authorities serve five - year terms.

The lawyer, Barry Berke of the Manhattan firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, was previously retained to represent de Blasio's campaign, and is a mayoral appointee to the Lincoln Center board of directors.

Two borough president appointees plus two mayoral appointees would have a majority on the board if the issue came up.

He has also had to contend with constant oversight and openly critical assessments from the NYPD's new inspector general, as well as the city's Department of Investigation commissioner, who are mayoral appointees.

Walsh — a mayoral appointee — leaves after six years with Mayor Stephanie Miner's administration.

Also today, the de Blasio Administration moved to remove two of the mayoral appointees (Patricia Flynn and Stephen Van Anden) from the Board of Trustees.

«The voice of parents empowers our children,» said Elzora Cleveland, a mayoral appointee to the Panel for Educational Policy and a parent of an 11th - grader.

Isaac Carmignani, a mayoral appointee on the contract committee, said he spent an hour or so in the office of the DOE procurement chief to get some basics, but it was far from enough.

De Blasio needs to tell his three mayoral appointees to excise the offending paragraph from the rules.

The recommendations also include replacing the elected IPS board with a board composed of three mayoral appointees and one each from both City - County Council caucuses.

Two mayoral appointees (including former schools chief Kaya Henderson) apparently allowed seven kids (including an Obama staffer's kid) to bypass the normal lottery system — an allowed but controversial procedure that has been all but banned in other places like Chicago after its use was revealed shortly after Arne Duncan left.

McGinley currently serves as a mayoral appointee to the School Reform Commission.