Sentences with phrase «more city contributions»

And the city's comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, testifying immediately after Mr. de Blasio, told the state legislators that he, too, favored more city contributions to the subways.

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New York City Wine and Food Festival raised more than $ 1 million last year, bringing its total contribution to $ 8.5 million to help fight hunger.

And just before he did leave Manchester, he made one more significant contribution towards Manchester City's destiny — the signing of a young Belgian centre - back from Hamburg SV who would go on to lift the Premier League trophy four years later.

As I explained in the post below, city residents may also be paying state taxes to cover the pension contributions of localities elsewhere in the state, even as city residents pay more than anyone anywhere for the city's own pension contributions.

According to this story in the New York Post, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, once a generous patron of both the statewide Independence Party, and the New York city Republican Party, doesn't plan to give those parties any more contributions.

More broadly, she urged a joint City / State effort at expediting upgrades of the subway signal system and said that as mayor she would willingly increase the City's financial contribution to the MTA for such an effort.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie today echoed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for the city to put up more money toward the City University of New York system — but backed Mayor Bill de Blasio's criticism of the governor's plans to add new layers of state oversight on affordable housing funds and to cut the state's contribution toward Mediccity to put up more money toward the City University of New York system — but backed Mayor Bill de Blasio's criticism of the governor's plans to add new layers of state oversight on affordable housing funds and to cut the state's contribution toward MedicCity University of New York system — but backed Mayor Bill de Blasio's criticism of the governor's plans to add new layers of state oversight on affordable housing funds and to cut the state's contribution toward Medicaid.

In exchange, the city was allowed to adopt a more aggressive pension investment strategy to reduce its annual direct contribution to the pension funds.

What's more, they are enforced by an energetic and independent Campaign Finance Board, which oversees a carefully constructed system that combines generous public matching funds with limits on contributions to political candidates, limits that are especially strict for lobbyists and others doing business with the city.

The week began with the leak of a confidential report by the state's elections enforcer that alleged that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an illegal effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in AlbCity Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an illegal effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in Albcity agenda in Albany.

And instead of more details, it effectively punted, saying that the state would at some point put in money, but only after the MTA spent down its contributions from the city and federal government.

Donors affiliated with a major TV and film production company who never gave more than $ 250 to any city office donated thousands to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2013 — and are now dodging questions about the big - money contributions.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

Days after a Times Union report on Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan's ramped up attempts to garner more financial contributions from the city's large nonprofits amid tax - exempt institutions» growth, Albany Medical Center Chief Officer James Barba renewed his effort to encourage other large entities to help.

Among those Facebook friends are Westchester County Clerk Tim Idoni, New Rochelle Council Member Jared Rice, New Rochelle Council Member Ivar Hyden, Former Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick, Meredith Adler Hilton (New Rochelle Council Member Barry Fertel's Campaign Treasurer who Kettner asked to return her illegal campaign contribution), Yonkers City Court Judge Ed Gaffney, Former Latimer Senate Campaign Volunteer Suzanne Queener Arena, Former Employee of the City Court of New Rochelle Victoria Kane, Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court Fran Connolly, David McKay Wilson of the Journal News, and Shoreline Publications owned by Howard Sturman and hundreds more.

Antonio Reynoso, the chief of staff for Ms. Reyna, has already secured important endorsements, including from most Democratic mayoral candidates and the city's biggest unions, and he has raised more than $ 85,000 so far in contributions.

Columbia will spend more than $ 80 million of its own money on the project, and part of the city's contribution comes from debt forgiveness, discounted energy transmission costs and lease flexibility.

James S. Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates, who has not made any contributions in 2013 New York City races, explains that «limits are a big aspect to it, and I think people would give more if the limits were higher.

SUNY and City University of New York employees have been able to choose a defined - contribution (DC) plan for more than 50 years, and large majorities of faculty members have done so.

A few Seattle labor leaders have supported Socialist Alternative campaigns, and even those who still support Democratic incumbents speak favorably of the contributions this leftist electoral force has made in pushing the city's political conversation in a more progressive direction.

Seven months after the M.T.A. asked Mayor Bill de Blasio to increase the city's historically piddling contribution to the M.T.A. by an also piddling amount, and just as the mayor indicated that City Hall would meet its demands, the transportation authority asked for way mcity's historically piddling contribution to the M.T.A. by an also piddling amount, and just as the mayor indicated that City Hall would meet its demands, the transportation authority asked for way mCity Hall would meet its demands, the transportation authority asked for way more.

Amid the rancorous back and forth, a coalition of transportation advocates put out a statement urging the governor and the mayor to «move expeditiously» towards an agreement, one that includes «significantly» more city funding, and significantly more details on how Cuomo plans to fund his own promised $ 8.3 billion contribution.

More than half the members of the City Council have fired off a letter to Walmart demanding that it stop making millions in charitable contributions to local groups here.

More than half of the contributions were small donations of $ 250 or less, with about $ 50,000 eligible to be matched by the city's public matching funds program, the campaign reported.

Mulgrew said he was «perplexed» that so many upstate Republican senators — many who receive contributions from the charter industry — took so much interest in creating «more free space in New York City public schools» for charter chains.

We hear the city Department of Investigation and new Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is picking up where Bob Morgenthau left off, looking at a big - time developer who may have spread more than hefty campaign contributions around the Bronx.

Reinvent Albany delivered testimony to the mayor - convened New York City Charter Revision Commission this evening, calling for more transparency and limits on contributions to city - affiliated nonprofits by donors doing business with the cCity Charter Revision Commission this evening, calling for more transparency and limits on contributions to city - affiliated nonprofits by donors doing business with the ccity - affiliated nonprofits by donors doing business with the citycity.

«The public servant's acceptance from these persons of a valuable gift that is a contribution of $ 50 or more would presumably violate» the section of law «as a misuse of the public servant's city position,» the board wrote.

He says the city makes a huge contribution and economic and social imperatives mean it should get more power over a number of issues.

As of the most recent filing period ending on Jan. 11, the New York City comptroller has collected $ 1.37 million in campaign contributions for his 2017 re-election bid — more than de Blasio's haul of $ 1.13 million — public records show.

Fulci's cinematic contributions include an underwater fight between a zombie and a shark (Zombie), a young woman whose entrails pour from her mouth (City of the Living Dead), a man's face devoured by tarantulas (The Beyond), and a panoply of eye - focused attacks (more on that later).

Salaries and benefits rose by more than $ 18 million, and new bills, such as the $ 10 million annual contribution toward building new schools in the city are also pressing the budget.

The city's shelter contribution was in large part the kittens themselves, taken directly to the nursery to avoid the stress of moving more than was necessary.

Loring Randolph of Frieze Fairs added that the acquisiton was «an enormous contribution to the cultural fabric of this city — and the Brooklyn Museum could not be more deserving of this gift.»

Intended to facilitate further dialogue on how to define the «City of Angels» at a moment when its identity is in significant flux, No More Play includes contributions by Iwan Baan, Catherine Opie, Sarah Whiting, Charles Waldheim, Matthew Coolidge, Geoff Manaugh, Mirko Zardini, Edward Soja, James Flanigan, Charles Jencks and Qingyun Ma.

Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III on view April 24 — Sept. 9 New Orleans, LA — In celebration of Chef Leah Chase's longstanding contributions to the city of New Orleans, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will present an exhibition of 20 paintings that capture Chase at work in the kitchen of... Read More

Looking back over more than three decades of exhibitions and curatorial projects, we are delighted to celebrate the significant contribution Lia has made to the cultural life of New York City.

More recently, he was awarded for outstanding cultural contributions by two Los Angeles city officials: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in 2009 and Council Member Bernard Parks in 2012.

This set of KPIs for SSC were developed to establish the criteria to evaluate ICT's contributions in making cities smarter and more sustainable, and to provide cities with the means for self - assessments.

In addition to contributions from more traditional research facilities such as Dublin City University and the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Campesina in Brazil, articles from the Monera Research Lab and a paper about video game payment channels by a medical doctor were also included.

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A resident of Kelowna for more than 40 years, he has been recognized for outstanding community service and contribution to the well - being of the city, particularly through his cultural efforts and support of the arts.