Sentences with phrase «of city bureaucracy»

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Setting aside the physics, the bureaucracy of acquiring land rights between large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco and dealing with all the legal issues around large - scale infrastructure construction could be significant hurdles, regardless of who builds a prototype system.

On the one side is an American technology company with a history of questionable business practices, and on the other is an outdated bureaucracy that does much to keep transportation costs high in the city.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Her list of offenders includes absent and abusive fathers, downsizing corporations, sports team owners too concerned with profit to show loyalty to the cities where teams were first formed, and armed forces too bloated by bureaucracy and careerism to provide the kind of first - among - equals training that helps boys become men with a vision of serving their communities.

At the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide them.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

In an attempt to preserve some of his administration's policies after he leaves office, Mayor Bloomberg will establish a new office to help businesses, especially smaller ones, navigate city bureaucracy.

It's not entirely clear what Spitzer would do as comptroller for education, but he has indicated he would use the office's audit authority over much of the city's bureaucracy in a more activist role.

The saga of Eliot Spitzer, candidate for an obscure job in the labyrinthine bureaucracy that runs New York City, hinges on a peculiarity of the city's election City, hinges on a peculiarity of the city's election city's election law.

The governor sharply criticized NYCHA's management and the «maze of bureaucracy» for the dire conditions at the largest public housing authority in North America, housing about 400,000 people, and called on the City Council to make specific requests regarding how to quickly fix the situation.

There may not be the bureaucracy in place to replace one system by another only for «citizens» of a particular city.

One way of closing the Authority would be for Mayor Bloomberg to buy Battery Park City from the state for $ 1 and then to run it like any other city neighborhood, without the extra layer of bureaucrCity from the state for $ 1 and then to run it like any other city neighborhood, without the extra layer of bureaucrcity neighborhood, without the extra layer of bureaucracy.

He said he viewed his new role, which is expected to be formally announced Thursday along with other Council committee assignments for the next four years, as focused on prodding a «complacent bureaucracy» to better provide city services and dig «deep into the operational failures of city government.»

The mayor recently landed the support of 2010 GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, who said Tkazyik «has a proven track record of cutting spending four straight years, cutting the city's debt and reducing the size of bureaucracy.»

Avella, who served two terms in the City Council prior to being elected to the Senate in November, expressed some frustration with adjusting to the bureaucracy of Albany.

Saratoga County apparatchiks felt snubbed when McDonald refused to sponsor a bill that would increase a sales tax to shore up the operating finances of the county bureaucracy and Rensselaer County insiders were puzzled that McDonald kept a Democratic city councilman on his staff payroll.

He predicted the order — which requires the new monitor to oversee all projects funded by the state and city — will mean NYCHA will lose control of its rebuilding projects and have to deal with yet another layer of bureaucracy.

«It is a plethora of bureaucracy,» Cuomo told an audience of business leaders in New York City recently.

Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.

On Tuesday, messaging wasn't the only issue, as de Blasio admitted that some elements of the City Hall bureaucracy were simply not working well enough.

«It's an infrastructure problem within the bureaucracy of the city that they haven't had adequate staffing,» Falicov said.

In next year's budget, the city will be spending 70 percent more on the central staff bureaucracy than under the last year of Mayor Bloomberg's administration, and 34 percent more on central staff expenses.»

But in the face of media criticism the governor retreated, promising the budget proposal was just a jumping - off point for a «jointly managed» process to «reduce the cost of bureaucracy» that, when finished, «won't cost New York City a penny.»

Lhota disagreed, saying, «The New York City Police Department has more oversight than any other police department in the United States of America and this level of bureaucracy is completely unnecessary.»

Overwhelmed by superior technology, better military organization, or a persuasive new ideology, the pioneering civilization at Brak and its environs became an adjunct of the south, which went on to create even grander city - states, bureaucracies, and empires.

The bureaucracy keeps its traditional grip, even maintaining the internal registration system from the time of the tsars that constrains Russians from moving from city to city.

This vibrant urban sprawl, inspired by the colorful buildings of the real - life city of Guanajuato, is as marvelously imagined as the cerebral landscape of Inside Out or Monsters Inc.'s bustling Monstropolis, another densely packed world of wonders that's both familiar — there's a scene about skeleton bureaucracy that kills, I swear — and otherworldly.

«The Wire» (HBO) For five seasons, David Simon's «The Wire» chronicled the lives of cops, drug dealers, politicians, teachers, kids in the slums, and the citizens of Baltimore to paint in vivid detail an unprecedented portrait of the broken bureaucracy of the American city.

The major planks of Klein's reforms are well known: breaking much of the old local district bureaucracy, empowering principals and creating a new principal training center, issuing report cards for schools, delivering autonomy and innovation zones for experimental schools, and keeping more of the city's problematic teachers out of its schools.

Takeovers by mayors have overcome the blocking power of unions and district bureaucracies in New York, Hartford, Connecticut, and other cities, but they only work for a while.

Mired for decades in Byzantine bureaucracy that wasted untold millions of dollars and incalculable numbers of student academic lives, the New York City school system was wrestled to the ground by a billionaire mayor, and almost everyone applauded.

James Merriman from the New York City Charter School Center recently pleaded with charter operators to acknowledge the unique agreement into which charters entered: «Charter schools are free from a lot of the bureaucracy that entangles district schools.

that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg seized control of the city's sprawling public school bureaucracy and its 1.1 million students on July 1, 2City mayor Michael Bloomberg seized control of the city's sprawling public school bureaucracy and its 1.1 million students on July 1, 2city's sprawling public school bureaucracy and its 1.1 million students on July 1, 2002.

The history books will show that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg seized control of the city's sprawling public school bureaucracy and its 1.1 million students on July 1, 2City mayor Michael Bloomberg seized control of the city's sprawling public school bureaucracy and its 1.1 million students on July 1, 2city's sprawling public school bureaucracy and its 1.1 million students on July 1, 2002.

He is attempting to replicate the success of charter schools by freeing up to 200 district schools from the straitjackets of the union contract and city bureaucracy.

Pearson said he and his colleagues see a «tremendous need» for good schools across the city and that charters can help meet that need because they operate outside of the city's bureaucracy.

As a city we have lost focus on finding the right educational environment for each child and instead have focused on the bureaucracy of a school system that does not serve the needs of every family.

Dr. Robert Vargas discussed how redistricting laws, bureaucracies, and public policies shape the conditions of cities, with a particular focus on the relationship between ward boundary redistricting and block - level violence in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.

«Charter schools are intended as an antidote to this bureaucracy, and, more importantly, to the monopoly that gave rise to it,» Moskowitz wrote in a March Daily News op - ed that criticized the city's Department of Education.

The consequences of these restrictions, along with the unwillingness of suburban district bureaucracies to embrace the array of systemic reforms taken on by big - city districts such as New York City, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational Progrcity districts such as New York City, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational ProgrCity, can be seen in the performance of children from low - income households on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The spell of a new city has long worn off, and their reality mostly includes putting up with bureaucracy and cultural differences that have yet to catch up with the changing times.

While the City Slept is a searing indictment of the mental health system in the United States, showing step - by - step how the failure of an overworked, underfunded bureaucracy led to a likely preventable human tragedy.

There's bureaucracy of course, but it doesn't have the same CCTV - infested Big Brother feel of cities like London or New York.

Local arts leaders blame a byzantine bureaucracy, with responsibility for the city's cultural future hovering uncertainly between the council, the regeneration company Ilex, which is in charge of redeveloping the Ebrington barracks site, and the office of the first minister and deputy first minister at Stormont.

James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, personifies American author Mary McCarthy's observation that «Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.»

The most remarkable thing about this event is not just that people will come out to contribute their uninvited ideas to a City bureaucracy that may not even listen to a word that they say, but the medium, this bar camp idea where so many diverse people of all ages and skills come together to exchange them, and use web tools like wikis, blogs, skype and flickr to disseminate them instantly.

A most mellow approach, but I have learned that as matters presently stand one can not fight the City Hall bureaucracy that is the Court Services Division of the Ministry of the Attorney General.