Sentences with phrase «of city coffers»

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With Crypto Valley's track record of attracting companies that seek to take advantage of minimal government invasion of corporate coffers and share an overall love of innovation, it's no wonder that the city of Zug (the capital of the canton of Zug) has been hailed as «Silicon Valley 2.0.»

«Unfortunately, Toronto is proposing to swipe up to 25 per cent of the provincial savings out of the pockets of young couples and put it into city coffers instead.»

It is designed to force out - of - province owners to contribute more to B.C. government coffers or rent out their homes in cities where rents are sky - high and vacancy rates less than one per cent.

If this is true, then the lack of genuine community in our cities is a matter as urgent as drugs or street crime or depleted coffers; in fact, at a deeper level, it is the very same problem.

Rarely does a day go by in the era of modern football when we don't hear of a substantial amount of money being offered for a top quality footballer, be it from the far - eastern Chinese Super League or the Abu Dhabi - funded coffers at Manchester City.

Okay, so at Birmingham City the limited coffers reduce your targets more than those of the Premiershipâ $ ™ s heavy - hitters.

New NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is calling for an end to what he describes as a tax loophole that allows New York City private equity firms, hedge funds and venture capital firms to keep several hundred million dollars a year in their coffers instead of giving it to the tax man.

As Michael Lesher, a prominent Orthodox critic of the shomrim puts it, «If the Nation of Islam were to set up a private force of Muslims, ostensibly to scour Harlem for «bias crimes,» would City Council members be heaping public money into its coffers?»

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE As Christine Quinn's 14 years in the City Council come to a close, some community groups are expressing concern that they are losing a sympathetic leader who steered millions of city dollars into their coffCity Council come to a close, some community groups are expressing concern that they are losing a sympathetic leader who steered millions of city dollars into their coffcity dollars into their coffers.

Potential candidates for public advocate are state Sen. Daniel Squadron, City Council member Letitia James and Reshma Saujani, currently a deputy in the Public Advocate's Office — none of whom has Weiner's citywide name recognition or his deep campaign coffers.

Supporters of the city measure maintained the surcharge is not a tax, since the extra nickel would go into store owners» pockets, not public coffers.

Beyond the emotions, though, where did lawmakers get the money, in the midst of continuing fiscal stress on city coffers?

Madel could make hay out of Greenfield's state - registered cash stash, which campaign finance experts say is a legal but hardly ethical way to collect contributions from real estate and other special interests barred from donating to his Council campaign coffers, thereby skirting the city's strong campaign finance laws.

And if the city council or the mayor do come to the aid of an industry that has put not only tens of thousands into their campaign coffers, but many millions into the city's treasury via medallion sales, don't expect the ride - sharing apps to go quietly into the night.

Mayoral control turned controversial primarily due to the political enmity between the Senate GOP and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose efforts to end the chamber's Republican majority have angered that conference and led to multiple investigations into his past practice of directing large sums of money into the campaign coffers of Democratic Senate candidates.

In fact, the city has actually increased the amount it expects to earn from the sales, from $ 1 billion to $ 1.46 billion over the next three years, with $ 635 million of that expected to flow to the city's coffers in the coming year.

Left unsaid was the estimated loss of a million dollars to Kingston city coffers.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York City Comptroller John Liu is proposing a historic overhaul of the city's marijuana laws, believing that legalizing medical marijuana and allowing adults to possess an ounce of pot for recreational use would pump more than $ 400 million into the city's coffCity Comptroller John Liu is proposing a historic overhaul of the city's marijuana laws, believing that legalizing medical marijuana and allowing adults to possess an ounce of pot for recreational use would pump more than $ 400 million into the city's coffcity's marijuana laws, believing that legalizing medical marijuana and allowing adults to possess an ounce of pot for recreational use would pump more than $ 400 million into the city's coffcity's coffers.

As the September 12 primary elections approach and campaigns kick into high gear, a vast majority of candidates for the city's elected offices will have their coffers bolstered by the Campaign Finance Board's (CFB) public matching funds program, which matches eligible donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio.

Senate Republicans were pushing proposals to eliminate the charter school cap and send hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to charter coffers at the expense of New York City public schools.

While the couple has not been charged with any wrongdoing, their cash has been linked to an alleged plot hatched by City Councilman Daniel Halloran to funnel illegal cash into his campaign coffers using straw donors, which was revealed as part of a larger bribery investigation Tuesday.

This week, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Saratoga Casino and Raceway and Churchill Downs Incorporated, operators of the proposed $ 300 million Capital View Casino And Resort in East Greenbush, announced a non-exclusive deal that would send $ 11 million over 10 years into city coffers.

James A. Parrott, the deputy director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, said that Mr. Bloomberg had good reason to assume that the medallion revenue would flow into city coffers, once Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers had agreed to authorize the sale.

Since CheckbookNYC started in January 2010 under then - controller Liu, 437,769 NYPD expenditures — including contracts, hundred - dollar purchases and petty cash expenses — don't list the name of the person or company paid from city coffers.

Based on the weekly average ticket take of $ 10.5 million in fiscal 2014, the Citizens Budget Commission estimated the reduction could have bled about $ 10 million from city coffers.

The City Council on Monday issued its formal response to Mayor Bill de Blasio's $ 82 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2017, capping a month of budget hearings that were fraught with concerns over how Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget would affect the city and how prepared the city's coffers are for a rainy City Council on Monday issued its formal response to Mayor Bill de Blasio's $ 82 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2017, capping a month of budget hearings that were fraught with concerns over how Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget would affect the city and how prepared the city's coffers are for a rainy city and how prepared the city's coffers are for a rainy city's coffers are for a rainy day.

The Queens Library, which receives a good chunk of funding from city, state and federal coffers, has refused to fully open its books to city Comptroller Scott Stringer, who attempted to conduct an audit of the nonprofit's finances.

While the land would remain state property, the developer would have to reach a payment in lieu of taxes with Albany's Industrial Development Authority that could add millions to city coffers.

Two stone carvings at the eighth - century city of Cancuén tell the story of King Taj Chan Ahk, who filled the royal coffers from trade in jade, obsidian, and quetzal feathers.

The city still remained the largest contributor of tax revenue to the government coffers, but industry suffered, particularly as hundreds of thousands of urbanized Shanghai locals were sent to perform manual labor in rural areas throughout the Chinese countryside.

In the action - puzzler Fat City you take control of Chris Knox and his team to plan raids and execute getaways to fill the coffers of a surreptitious crime syndicate.

But things went horribly wrong for the PQ just days later when it was widely reported that 49 lawyers with Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP have donated $ 153,000 since 2003 to the coffers of the left - leaning, sovereignty - promoting PQ — all of them with the firm's Quebec City and Saguenay offices, which are run by regional associate managing partner Éric Bédard, brother of PQ MNA Stéphane Bédard.

I can't imagine how much City Hall would have to pay out of their so called Coffers.

It says employees «won't be standing in line to move to Regina,» since the city also has the highest residential tax rate in Canada, with 2.25 per cent of the value of the property going to municipal tax coffers, followed closely by Winnipeg at 2.20 per cent.

In Colorado Springs, an hour south of here, Airbnb and the city have an agreement where Airbnb will collect the tax and remit to city coffers.