Sentences with phrase «of city governance»

And the proud liberals now in charge of city governance have their sights set on affecting far more change over the next three and a half years — and maybe another four years on top of that — of Mr. de Blasio's tenure

Not exact matches

«It's easy to see why the City (of London) and highly - remunerated advisors cheerlead for this listing, but the U.K. currently has strict corporate governance rules and it's vital these aren't watered down in a bid to attract Saudi Aramco.

Mike Garland, executive director of corporate governance for New York City Comptroller John Liu's office, which has a $ 550 million investment in JPMorgan Chase, said «it was a disservice to shareholders that the vote became a referendum on Jamie Dimon.

I was on CBC radio yesterday (along with corporate governance expert Prof. Richard Lelblanc) to talk about a conflict of interest case involving Halifax's city council (officially known as the Council for Halifax Regional Municipality).

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

The Comptroller serves as investment advisor, custodian and a trustee to the New York City Pension Funds, which have more than $ 160 billion in assets and a long history of active ownership on issues of corporate governance and sustainability.

The aim of the dialogue was to exchange ideas on the topic of low - carbon city development as well as share research conducted on climate change, renewable energy, and environmental governance in both Canada and China.

Theoretically, if a philanthropic, community - based, nonprofit worked in San Diego, it could spur interest in other cities with ever - struggling dailies, though, to be sure, there are a host of management and governance issues implicit in a nonprofit model.

Michael Garland, Assistant Comptroller — Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment, Office of New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, Bureau of Asset Management

The smart design and governance of our cities will shape all of our futures.

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).

This kind of liberty is a condition of self - governance of both city and soul, drawing closely together the individual cultivation and practice of virtue and the shared activities of self - legislation.

For instance, Everett, a professor of ethics at Andover - Newton Theological School, notes that the confederations that eventually led to self - governance in some German cities and to democratic efforts such as the Weimar Republic after World War I had been deeply embedded in hierarchical and royal structures, with a high degree of centralized control.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

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.

PPS: Maybe much of what the government did was basically just sitting around waiting for something to happen, which is fine, but I'm still curious how an early Village would evolve into a polis city state, and what governance issues they had to deal with from a human perspective, ie daily.

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Governance of Europe's City Regions.

Its section on governance is fatally flawed since it assumes the existence of legal authority to abolish the City, which simply does not exist.»

One critical component of this frenetic period of reform has been the absence of any explicit or managed process for civic engagement even though the Prime Minister's statement on the 19 September 2014 emphasized that «It is also important we have wider civic engagement about how to improve governance in our United Kingdom, including how to empower our great cities.

After the slow transition to democracy in Brazil in the late 1980s an innovative institution for municipal governance was established in the southern city of Porto Alegre.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and the county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance and establishes an environment that will support economic opportunities for all our residents.»

From Laura Lavine's call for mayoral control of the schools to Howie Hawkins» suggestion of a Marshall Plan for Syracuse, the candidates lacked the calls for community governance that we need to succeed as a city.

«As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current law for at least three years,» reads the letter, which was released by the Partnership for New York Ccity schools and extend the current law for at least three years,» reads the letter, which was released by the Partnership for New York CityCity.

The 2017 intake of metro mayors will form a new level of governance working with the local authorities that make up a city region — a similar model to that of London.

But as it fights to secure a substantial renewal of mayoral control this legislative session, City Hall is trying to show that support for the governance system should transcend support for a particular politician or set of agenda items.

The union is proposing a wide range of changes to restore balance to the city's system of school governance, including dramatic changes to the composition of the Panel for Educational Policy that will eliminate the mayor's majority.

The UFT school governance committee on March 14 proposed a set of sweeping changes to limit mayoral control of the city's schools and give parents and community more say.

City Hall has also said they expect a renewed Board of Education to cost the city $ 125 million to $ 160 million annually, to account for the cost of creating new positions under the new governance structure and the expense of holding school board electiCity Hall has also said they expect a renewed Board of Education to cost the city $ 125 million to $ 160 million annually, to account for the cost of creating new positions under the new governance structure and the expense of holding school board electicity $ 125 million to $ 160 million annually, to account for the cost of creating new positions under the new governance structure and the expense of holding school board elections.

UFT school governance committee on March 14 proposed a set of sweeping changes to limit mayoral control of the city's schools that would give parents and community more say.

The New York State Senate's failure to act on the issue of school governance in New York City is cause for great concern for parents, students and those of us at the UFT.

If a LI politicians wants to change the governance of the NY city schools then he owns the outcome.

Responding to an email from a New York City deputy mayor's chief of staff, then - REBNY President Steven Spinola wrote in March of 2015 that it did not appear as if the state Senate majority leader at the time, Republican Dean Skelos, had put anything about school governance in his budget bills.

In his testimony, de Blasio said the request to add the surcharge is a matter of self - governance for the city.

His experience as a trustee of the New York City Employee Retirement System — where he has helped to grow the city's pension funds and advance important shareholder initiatives around corporate governance, environmental stability and workplace safety — positions him to be a great comptrolCity Employee Retirement System — where he has helped to grow the city's pension funds and advance important shareholder initiatives around corporate governance, environmental stability and workplace safety — positions him to be a great comptrolcity's pension funds and advance important shareholder initiatives around corporate governance, environmental stability and workplace safety — positions him to be a great comptroller.

As many Nigerians trooped out onto the streets of Lagos, Abuja and other cities on Monday February 6, 2016 protesting poor governance, a worsening economy, increasing poverty and degenerating standards of living in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesmen had late the previous evening informed Nigerians that the holidaying leader, who they had till then insisted was «hale and hearty» would no longer be returning on Monday due to «some tests» which results he would have to await.

As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schools.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schoCity worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schocity schools.

He is the Lindsay Fellow at the Institute for State and Local Governance at City University of New York.

«We support a significant role for community boards in general and the Battery Park City community in the governance of BPCA in particular,» the letter read.

The opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute for State and Local Governance at City University of New York.

Local Progress provides its membership with policy and governance best practices, space to build solidarity, and the opportunity to partner across cities as part of a national progressive movement.

In this edition of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher speaks to the Green Party candidates for mayor, city council, and board of education, and explores their collective vision for a new set of city policies and a new way of governance.

But while the wheels of London governance kept turning under his leadership, he left little mark on the city.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance,» the application says.

A coalition of pro-Buhari organisations under the aegis of Citizens Support for Good Governance in Nigeria is mobilising to hold rallies tagged, «I Support President Buhari» across four Nigerian cities this week.

On Friday, Moskowitz released an «open letter» to de Blasio, detailing his «poor management and lack of control over the governance of city schools [and] his neglect of public charter school student needs.»

It's true there is broad agreement that mayoral control is a better governance system for the city's 1,800 schools than the previous system of local school board control.

· Dr. Michael P. Jacobson — Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance and Chairman of the Board of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency.

The proposals now before the City Council offer a stark choice for the future of the political system our great city: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislativCity Council offer a stark choice for the future of the political system our great city: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislativcity: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislatively.