Sentences with phrase «merge city and county»

She said she liked the plan to merge the city and county bus systems.

In June 2013, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney signed an agreement to merge the city and county planning agencies.

Essentially, this proposal would merge the city and county governments into one legislative body.

Denno referenced an April press release detailing the plans to merge the city and county's planning departments.

The idea to merge the city and county governments has been meet with opposition from some in Syracuse.

After those comments, a spokesman for Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said the mayor had not agreed to merge the city and county.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — County Executive Joanie Mahoney said voters deserve a chance to vote on a referendum to merge city and county governments.

Despite approving the report as a whole, he said he disagrees with the recommendation to merge city and county government.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Add the Green Party to the list of political entities critical of a plan to merge city and county governments.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has not publicly promised that she'll support merging the city and county, although she was one of the officials who submitted the application for the $ 500 million state award.

«The reason why Syracuse and Onondaga won this competition is because they proposed consolidating and merging the city and the county,» Cuomo said.

For instance, 22 percent of suburban voters said they support a metropolitan government that merges the city and county governments and 24 percent said they oppose that.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney expressed support today for the Consensus commission's preliminary plan to modernize government, including merging city and county services and operations.

Others are more impactful, like merging the city and county police agencies or replacing elected highway superintendents with appointed ones.

But merging a city and county poses extra challenges, because the state laws that established cities and counties do not provide a clear path to combine them.

This is clear: Merging city and county government is an expedition into uncharted territory.

In 1976, Raleigh voluntarily merged its city and county schools.

Not exact matches

Consensus, a state - funded civic group, is expected to recommend within months ways governments in Onondaga County can consolidate, but the group has not publicly said it will urge the city and county to County can consolidate, but the group has not publicly said it will urge the city and county to county to merge.

A murmur ran through the crowd when County Executive Joanie Mahoney took the floor at Wednesday night's debate over the proposed merging of the governments of Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse.

The resolution also referred the proposal to merge Kingston's Historic Landmarks Preservation Commission and Heritage Area Commission to the city and Ulster County planning boards, as well as the State Historic Preservation Office and to neighboring towns for comment.

The report suggests merging the Syracuse water department into the Onondaga County Water Authority, for example, or consolidating road maintenance work among the city and its nearest suburbs.

Both concerned citizens and prominent politicians were able to ask questions and voice opinions at last night's debate on merging Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse.

On the Consensus plan for a merged government between Onondaga County and the city of Syracuse, McMahon said there will be no vote on it from the legislature this year.

A contentious recommendation by a citizens group, Consensus, to merge the legislatures of the city and Onondaga County has been debated for more than a year.

He pointed to examples of where the merger would not benefit the city, such as the dissolution of the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency (which would be merged with the corresponding county agency) and the failure to balance the city's role with that of its neighboring municipalities.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner isn't backing down from her opposition to a proposal to merge the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County into a metropolitan government.

The draft plan includes merging the city of Albany's records clerk positions with the county and consolidating 9 -1-1 services.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — In a city budget unveiled today, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner proposed to close a busy fire station, cut the number of on - duty firefighters and merge the city planning office into Onondaga County's operations.

The deal also includes some merging of services and shuffling of responsibilities between the county and the city.

Officials discuss the possibility of a merge between the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

Davis advocated for sharing other city and county services to eliminate redundant costs, but said merging governments was not in the best interest of the city.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County voters are almost evenly split over whether the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments should merge, according to a Siena College poll released Thursday.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he expected the governments of the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County to merge when he awarded the region the Upstate Revitalization Initiative (URI) grant, according to Syracuse.com.

Onondaga County voters are almost evenly split over whether the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments should merge, according to a new Siena College poll.

She'll become the fourth, and first female superintendent of the district since the Greensboro city and Guilford County school systems merged in 1993.

The citizen group Consensus in February released a report last month detailing its final recommendations on merging the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments.

The citizen group Consensus released a report earlier this year urging the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County to merge governments and other services like law enforcement agencies and courts.

To save the city and Onondaga County millions of dollars per year, citizen group Consensus recommended the city and county County millions of dollars per year, citizen group Consensus recommended the city and county county merge.

The Republican majority of the Onondaga County Legislature is coming out against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan for government consolidation and the Consensus plan to merge the city of Syracuse and county governCounty Legislature is coming out against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan for government consolidation and the Consensus plan to merge the city of Syracuse and county governcounty governments.

While the idea of merging the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County isn't getting much traction, a special legislative committee has begun work that could lead to some other kinds of government consolidation.

Consensus in February released a set of final recommendations on merging the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County governments to create one legislative body.

They negotiated a new sales - tax sharing agreement, merged several city and county departments and created a regional airport authority, among other accomplishments.

Cuomo previously said the state awarded money to the area because city and county leaders pledged to merge the two governments, and also said the leaders will have «a serious problem» if they are unable to advance the consolidation, according to Syracuse.com.

The city of Syracuse and Onondaga County planning departments have officially merged.

Whether or not Mahoney and Walsh can bridge their disagreement over the contentious Consensus proposal to merge the Syracuse city and Onondaga County legislatures remains to be seen.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner on Monday openly expressed her displeasure toward a recent report recommending the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County merge their governments.

After more than a year of deliberation and public discussion, an initiative to merge the governments of the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County has moved forward in what officials described as a «historical starting point.»

Rudd said he is not opposed to the idea of one day merging the governments of the county and the city.

But then, in 1976, without any court order or apparently any threat of one, the Raleigh city and county schools merged to create the Wake County School Scounty schools merged to create the Wake County School SCounty School System.

Major state highways include SR 94, which connects downtown with I - 805, I - 15 and East County; SR 163, which connects downtown with the northeast part of the city, intersects I - 805 and merges with I - 15 at Miramar; SR 52, which connects La Jolla with East County through Santee and SR 125; SR 56, which connects I - 5 with I - 15 through Carmel Valley and Rancho Peñasquitos; SR 75, which spans San Diego Bay as the San Diego - Coronado Bridge, and also passes through South San Diego as Palm Avenue; and SR 905, which connects I - 5 and I - 805 to the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.