Sentences with phrase «most local official»

The assumption here is that if you don't care one way or the other, your most local official will know what you want.

Confronted with unrealistic goals and an array of legislated loopholes, most local officials have chosen simply to run out the clock.

Any cat or dog can be impounded if it is creating a nuisance, but most local officials just don't have the heart to send the animals to Astatula.

Not exact matches

Local officials defended the restrictions, noting that most will ultimately expire.

In most jurisdictions, state and local officials offer tax incentives for businesses that reduce power use by 50 %.

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Officials say the shooting occurred at 7:30 a.m. local time and most students were inside the school building at the time of the incident.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

Upstate Thunderdome is dangling more money in one set of awards than even the most successful REDC region has received in all four years: $ 500 million for three lucky winners, based on development blueprints that will be submitted this summer by the trembling hands of local development officials.

I think it is the second of these two that irks the most; if someone intervenes / snoops / interferes unwarrantably then it makes little difference if its a government minister or a local council official thats doing it, it's still bloody annoying.

But it's efforts have drawn pushback from some local officials — city mayor Andrew Gillum and county commissioner Bill Proctor most notably.

Conservative officials also say they are likely to withhold backing from most local GOP state lawmakers unless LaValle goes.

Taxpayers in New York will get the two things they need most — lower taxes and the continuation of essential and high quality municipal services — only if Albany finally demonstrates the will to reform state mandates, giving local officials the tools and flexibility to implement real and sustainable property tax relief.

The EPA's new guidance will go a long way in protecting public health and arming local officials with the most up - to - date information to keep our drinking water safe from harmful contaminates.»

Term limits, which are common at the state and local government level, also often impose de facto age limits, because most very elderly elected officials mandated to be so old by being re-elected many times after being first elected at a much younger age.

New York Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson was among nine public officials honored by Governing magazine as among the most «outstanding leaders in state and local government.»

In another indication that the world's most powerful politician has few qualms about battling local public officials, Trump again has sued the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser over the valuation of his Trump National Golf Club.

The government is hiking the costs of the process so much that most people simply won't be able to afford to mount a legal challenge against the executive - whether that's a government minister, your local council, or any other public sector area where busybody officials look to take shortcuts.

In most states, state and local officials are obligated by statute to post the certified results on a website or in a polling place, newspaper, or courthouse at some point in the certification process.

Most of the meeting consisted of PSC reps hearing and taking notes on statements from public officials, residents, activists and other local leaders and residents.

She works most directly with local elected officials in Southern states and leads efforts on recruitment, engagement and policy support of members across the region.

A number of local residents and officials have blamed actions by the IJC for recent flooding, although members of that organization and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers have maintained that most of the issue is due to weather factors including rain during the Spring that was much heavier than usual.

An official consultation is underway, in which the local officialdom will back the deal, but most local voters are in the dark.

That's partly why the city's health department has been commended by public health officials across the country, including Tom Farley, former mayor Michael Bloomberg's health commissioner, even as local politicians — most prominently Governor Andrew Cuomo — have publicly wondered whether the department could have done more or acted quicker.

Mary Beth Walsh, a Ballston Town Board member, has the support of most local Republican elected officials, but she faces a primary against Ballston attorney James Fischer.

The recovery has moved slowly since Maria struck the US territory on September 20, leaving most of the island without basic services such as power and running water, according to residents, relief workers and local elected officials.

One of the byproducts of the Senate GOP's plan to gerrymander the district of their most vulnerable member, Sen. Mark Grisanti, so it's entirely within the boundaries of Erie County is that the Conservative Party endorsement will be controlled by local officials and not state Chairman Mike Long.

Mahoney has been a proponent of the most ambitious Consensus idea, to create a new metropolitan government, a proposal that has been widely attacked by other local officials.

Two local committees have already amended their most recent disclosure forms, after speaking with state officials about the requirement to list employees.

The most powerful opponents of the energy highway are protest groups and local elected officials from communities all along some of the earlier proposed routes.

Graziano said the practice works in constituents» favor most of the time — often, the city wants to pursue development to which locals are opposed, and they can often influence their local elected official more effectively or directly.

Local election officials will take the most recent absentee vote received at the county offices.

But most of those in Syracuse who testified — local political officials, business leaders, community workers and campaign volunteers — were focused on a local issue, not on whether an independent commission should redraw the maps.

In the interim, state and local officials assured the public on several occasions that the water was safe — most recently in December, even after the federal Environmental Protection Agency had recommended to the village's mayor that residents avoid using Hoosick's well water.

Some local officials have also questioned how de Blasio's initiatives will positively affect the middle class that make up most of Staten Island.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Lawmakers have a tentative agreement on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to spur municipal service sharing, but they have removed the aspects that some local elected officials disagreed with most, according to Politico.

Most of the Central New York delegates are current and former elected officials and political leaders with long ties to the local Republican establishment.

The most effective way for scientists across disciplines to stand up for science is by reaching out to elected officials at the local, state and federal levels to offer evidence and findings to advance understanding of pressing issues from human health to the environment, said Holt and Ornstein.

The official language of the most important events is typically English, but you could also be called upon to deliver your talk in a local language.

It was certainly true that the local officials in charge of planning and zoning had little or no interest in taking on the casino and building industries that benefited most from growth.

Federal agencies now fund only a relative handful of projects in this area, the official added, and most local districts don't have the money to purchase those found to be effective.

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State and local officials describe the system as one in which the state will provide descriptions of the major functions of teachers and principals and will leave most of the evaluation process and use of its results up to local districts.

Most importantly, we are bringing together community members, parents, school principals and vice principals, teachers, local authorities, officials responsible for emergency situations, media and national authorities to discuss the importance of taking joint and coordinated action on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and biodiversity conservation, in a comprehensive manner and towards long - term solutions.

Local school officials in the handful of states where most of the immigrants have settled are trying to set up adult - education classes for thousands more than they coped with last year, and have waiting lists of thousands more.

Congress can not do that on its own, but it can help by addressing the very real shortcomings of the most recent reauthorization, No Child Left Behind, and restoring the predictability with respect to federal policy that state and local officials need to carry out their work.

This is a breathtaking expansion of federal power into one of the most sensitive aspects of American schooling, and substitutes the judgment of federal bureaucrats for local educators and officials.

Most charter school officials said they publicized the availability of special education services in several ways, including fliers and placing ads in the local newspaper.

Though the department released basic demographic information on the reviewers — most, for example, have doctoral degrees and at least a dozen served on a state board of education or as a local or state school superintendent — federal officials have caught criticism for keeping their identities secret.

A majority of likely voters say they support the governor's tax measure headed for the fall ballot, but most also said they favor two major proposals in his budget - giving local school officials more say over spending and restructuring state school funding to favor disadvantaged students.