Sentences with phrase «of citizens committees»

«Unfortunately, it's hard to get people to volunteer - and we already have a lot of citizen committees in Bloomingdale,» he said.

But West Chicago Mayor Paul Netzel and the members of a citizens committee studying what to do with the city's existing pool in Reed - Keppler Park are saying, «no thanks.»

«I see it as a missed opportunity here,» said Tom Canna, co-chairman of a citizen committee that worked for passage of the measure.

The result of that BOC meeting was the formation of a citizens committee dedicated to finding a solution to the stray animal problem in the county.

She serves on the Board of the Citizens Committee for Children.

Not exact matches

Gillibrand was endorsed Tuesday by End Citizens United, a political action committee established in 2015 to push back against the results of the 2010 court case.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, inserted a last - minute «unmasking» provision that would change the intelligence community's process for identifying US citizens caught up in foreign surveillance.

The deal only required the approval of the library's Citizens Advisory Committee.

The committee, which in January blocked one other high - profile acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm, has raised concerns about the security of U.S. citizens» private data in the Genworth deal.

The Nigerian Senate's Committee on Banking and Other Financial Institutions will examine bitcoin's suitability for investment and recommend measures to protect citizens from suffering financial losses as a result of trading the digital asset.

«Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen.»

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

The Green Party Member of European Parliament, a German citizen who looks even younger than his tender 35 years, shepherded the legislation through as vice chair for the parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

During his 41 years at Calvary Baptist, Barbour served on a variety of city policy - developing committees, including the Chester Water Board and the Citizens Council on Urban Renewal.

I recall that my own town of Claremont set up a citizens» committee on the environment whose proposals were designed to enhance the quality of life for those affluent enough to live there.

Encourage the minister and laymen to become involved in citizens advisory committees of community mental health services (such services are beamed toward both prevention and treatment)

So let me get this straight — the US has a «committee» to monitor religious freedoms around the world and condemns a religious state for executing one of its citizens for going against their religion and statehood?

Then, in words which call on the central motifs of the civil religious tradition, Reston thanked the Charlottesville citizen committee for suggesting «that a responsible society must have a common center to which the loyalty and trust of the people are bound, and that these fundamentals must be defined and discussed among the people and put right before the bicentennial of the Declaration in 1976.»

The proposed rule follows recommendations from the National Organic Standards Board, a federal advisory committee of 15 citizens appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture that includes representation from the various stakeholders involved in the organic industry, including farmers, handlers, a retailer, a certifier, scientists, a natural resource conservationist and a consumer.

Ben & Jerry's has teamed up with the International Rescue Committee to ask concerned citizens to contact European leaders and ask them to support legislation to help some of the world's most vulnerable people rebuild their lives in safety.

But the International Olympic Committee stipulates that to run at the Olympics for a country of which he is not a citizen, an athlete needs the permission of his native land.

SCHAUMBURG — Senior citizens asked the Schaumburg Park District's Joint Advisory Committee on Monday for a room of their own that they wouldn't have to share with other park users.

The committee also adopted the recreation department's new mission statement, which was written by a citizens Recreation and Parks Advisory Board and defines the philosophical purpose of leisure services.

Another option cited in the report, which Chairman Christopher Smith said a majority of committee members supported, is for the village to wait for citizens to initiate a referendum measure to create a new park district or to annex into an adjacent one.

GURNEE — Members of the Gurnee Park District Citizens Advisory Committee voted Thursday night to recommend that the Park District Board ask taxpayers in April to approve a scaled - down version of the $ 15 million Hunt Club Leisure Center rejected at the ballot box last April.

The open house will be informational and informal, said Brenda Gramann, co-chairwoman of Citizens for Better Parks, a 12 - member committee that is working to see the ballot question approved.

The committee will draw its members from the Park District, city officials, Chamber of Commerce, Police Department, city youth workers and citizens.

This time, however, the district arrived at the proposal through a careful process of community consensus building, including the creation of a 45 - member citizens advisory committee.

Frontier Days is organized and run each year by the Arlington Heights Festival Committee, a large organization of volunteer citizens, with the cooperation of the Park District, the Village and a number of local businesses.

The Navy's housing plans never materialized and, in 1971, the Park Board organized a Blue Ribbon citizens committee to help in the acquisition of the land.

The committee also discussed citizen - initiated annexation into an entity such as the Dundee Township Park District, which already covers 20 percent of Algonquin residents.

A committee of citizens and park and city officials is studying whether to keep open the public pool at Reed - Keppler Park or to pursue building a water recreation center similar to facilities in Wheaton and Lisle.

At the request of the Park District's Citizens Advisory Committee, the board also approved asking residents to call a special Park District phone number to say whether they want the CAC to serve as a liaison between residents and the board.

The Senior Citizens Committee, formed last year as a link to the council, is readying the survey to determine the needs of older residents.

«The fact that we don't have a year - round indoor facility is kind of amazing,» said Ray Kinney, chairman of the Citizens for Recreation Committee.

«This is something I really think we need,» said Rickmon, a member of a citizen advisory committee established to help develop plans for what would be the township's first recreation center.

In other business, the board agreed to form a citizens advisory committee to study the development of an outdoor pool and community center that would house an indoor pool.

Members of a citizens advisory committee overseeing the project urged board members to not make the community pool too big.

«Yes, there are problems associated with the horrible news coming out of the Uber company over the last several months and does demonstrate a need for that company to face up to its responsibilities as a corporate citizen and something they have clearly failed to do,» said Cahill, the chairman of the Assembly Insurance Committee.

After the first round of regional conferences, the outcome can be presented to the budget committee of the Greek parliament, which can then hold an initial debate on the citizens» recommendations.

Second, the Constitutional Committee was tasked with convening a National Assembly in 2010 at which 950 citizens, drawn at random from National Register, defined and discussed their views of what should be in the new constitution.

Only American citizens (and immigrants with green cards) can contribute to federal politics, but the American divisions of foreign companies can form political action committees (PACs) and collect contributions from their American employees.

At 2:30 p.m., the state Child Welfare Coalition and the Citizens» Committee for Children of New York urge state lawmakers to reject state budget cuts targeted at vulnerable children, youth and families, third floor, outside state Senate Chambers, state Capitol, Albany.

Recruited hundreds and hundreds of citizens like you to run for our Democratic County Committee.

Today, Reinvent Albany, submitted joint testimony with fellow NYC Transparency Working Group member organizations NYPIRG, Citizens Union and Common Cause / NY to the NYC City Council Technology Committee oversight hearing on open data: In addition, TWG members BetaNYC and Jessie Braden of Pratt's SAVI provided testimony.

The Democratic Party is governed by committees of citizens who are registered Democrats, from the national level down to state and community - level.

Joining us to explain more are Brandon West, Vice President of Policy for the New Kings Democrats, Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union, and Art Chang, Co-Chair of Citizens Union's Constitutional Convention Steering Committee and Member of Committee for a Constitutional Convention.

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(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

He also worked as an attorney and advocate at Demos, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, on a nationwide effort to secure the voting rights of low - income citizens, and was a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Election Law Committee.