Sentences with phrase «of city staffers»

Kamal ElHabr, the district's associate superintendent for facilities and construction, said the district has been discussing Alamo Stadium with the city since the summer and had hoped to avoid rezoning, but it filed the request at the behest of city staffers.

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The employees were in Spain as part of a program called GHouse, in which the company rents an apartment in a foreign city and sends groups of six staffers there for two - week spells to come up with innovative ideas.

Discount - of - the - day site LivingSocial is closing its Fifth Avenue office in New York City and eliminating its local events division, leaving 30 full - time staffers without jobs.

When staffers for New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer surveyed a random sampling of 50 businesses in the wider area surrounding Trump Tower in mid-November, they discovered more than two - thirds of them claimed they were losing revenue.More than a third called the impact «severe.»

The says Lopez required one of the staffers «to take a trip with you to Atlantic City in July 2012, and that you attempted to kiss her, that she struggled to fend you off before you stopped, and that on the drive back from Atlantic City you again put your hand between her legs.»

Cuomo also hired two former Bloombeg administration staffers: Kevin Kelly, who had served as deputy commissioner of NYC Business under the former mayor, will be COO of New York State Homes and Community Renewal; and Jamal Othman, who was chief of staff in the New York City Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs will now be deputy director of the state Division of Veterans» Affairs.

The EDC failed to turn over millions of dollars worth of rent to the city, but still managed to spend big bucks on extravagant overseas travel for staffers.

The head of internal affairs for NYC's jails, Gregory Kuczinski, was put on modified duty amid accusations he directed staffers to spy on other city investigators — who were probing him and his boss, officials said.

A New York City Council staffer accused Bronx Councilman Andy King of making unwelcome advances on her, including a request that she wear a «beautiful gown» to a fundraising event, an ethics committee revealed as they continue to investigate the complaint filed in December.

Congressman Daniel Donovan, the representative of the sole red beachhead in blue New York City, today backed one of his former staffers for a soon - to - be-vacant City Council seat that overlaps heavily with the Brooklyn end of Donovan's Staten Island - based turf.

Many of the current crop of New York City Council candidates, including incumbents, got their start as political staffers.

Panepinto confirmed then that four staffers had left his Senate payroll since the end of December, including Daniel Corum, a former employee of the New York City teachers union who worked on the senator's 2014 campaign before joining his staff in 2015.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's election - year gift of parking placards to all city school teachers and staffers will lead to rampant misuse, a Manhattan principal warned in an e-mail to the Department of Education.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson began his first round of Council staffer firings last Friday, gutting the public tech division — a unit created under the previous speaker and the only unit in the Council to be headed by a Latina woman.

Obviously it will be tight, and probably decided by a margin of hundreds at most, but remember that you heard it here first: Bob Friedrich, who has never been a staffer or a lobbyist, and is thus unknown to the City Hall cognoscenti, will win.

One of the governor's top aides, Joe Percoco, was also hassled by city staffers at the event, even though he was in the governor's entourage.

Members of Community Board 1 voted to endorse the bill to limit tour buses when it was first introduced in 2015, and former board staffer Noah Pfefferblit testified at a City Council hearing in 2016, where he described the sightseeing buses as «significant contributors» to congestion on Lower Manhattan's already clogged streets.

Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, said, «Though deputy mayor is not just a City Hall desk job, it doesn't look good to taxpayers when she is too often at another job location, and with other staffers who didn't get Conflicts of Interest Board clearance.»

Data compiled by the Empire Center also show 56 City Hall staffers — including 35 who got new job titles — received raises of more than 20 %.

After a whirlwind day that saw hundreds of couples descend on the city Clerk's Office to tie the knot as others protested furiously through the streets, Mayor Michael Bloomberg marked the historic first day of legal same - sex marriage in New York by presiding over a wedding between long - time staffers John Feinblatt and Jonathan Mintz.

The city has also proposed privatizing the operation of four of the city's marine transfer stations for garbage, which would force the Department of Sanitation to shed 248 uniformed workers and an additional 54 civilian staffers through attrition in 2013.

Just a weeks after some of his top staffers faced ridicule from the City Council over their apparent cluelessness about key details about his plan to regulate the horse - carriage industry, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed the body would surely pass the proposal.

'' «Race baiting» like «red baiting,» exploiting the values and legitimate concerns of our city's communities of color, for whatever political purpose, is abhorrent and posits a dangerous and expanding wedge in a city all to segregated by class, color and community,» Mr. Acosta stated, noting that Roberto Perez, a city hall staffer, encouraged him to speak out.

Cancel is a staffer in the office of City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Mr. Banks, an ex-Koch administration aide and City Council staffer most recently employed at Con Ed, has big shoes to fill as the newly elected leader of the city's real estate trade associatCity Council staffer most recently employed at Con Ed, has big shoes to fill as the newly elected leader of the city's real estate trade associatcity's real estate trade association.

A vice president of government relations at Con Edison and, before that, a high - ranking City Council staffer, Mr. Banks is now the leader of perhaps the city's most consequential lobbying organizatCity Council staffer, Mr. Banks is now the leader of perhaps the city's most consequential lobbying organizatcity's most consequential lobbying organization.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — A new generation of City Council leaders is gaining steam with organized labor as Diana Ayala and Carlina Rivera, staffers to influential women city legislators, both earn the endorsement this week of the influential union SEIU Local 3City Council leaders is gaining steam with organized labor as Diana Ayala and Carlina Rivera, staffers to influential women city legislators, both earn the endorsement this week of the influential union SEIU Local 3city legislators, both earn the endorsement this week of the influential union SEIU Local 32BJ.

Last week's resignation of the as - yet unnamed leaker, a low - level staffer at the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board, clearly has not placated Lynch, who is also demanding investigators dig into CCRB's practices.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer's office is working to secure huge raises for staffers in his Bureau of Asset Management — including a $ 120,000 hike for a top official who was hired 13 months ago.

Buffalo Common Council staffers and local activists held a peaceful protest on the steps of City Hall Wednesday.

In 2015, a former council staffer filed a Notice of Claim with the city, threatening to sue over King's behavior.

The revelation confirms years of suspicious activity on blog and newspaper commentary where city staffers can post multiple tirades while having their name concealed.

The mayor sent his own staffers to run campaigns against the Republicans and he got unions and people who do business with the city, like John Catsimatidis — to donate massive amounts of money.

Getting 500 Democrats out of more than 13,000 in the district to sign a petition may not be a high bar — but it appears even with the help of city council staffers Ms. Li was not up to the task.

Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who's now the vice chair of the state Democratic party, jumped into the bout, saying Griffo was out of line attacking a political staffer who worked her way up to the position she's in now.

In June of 2015 a City Hall staffer sought help from Capalino in organizing an event honoring the city's valedictorians and salutatoriCity Hall staffer sought help from Capalino in organizing an event honoring the city's valedictorians and salutatoricity's valedictorians and salutatorians.

The NYC Council will send out 20 staffers to monitor today's congressional primaries amid stumbles by the city Board of Elections.

City Hall staffers, some of whom have worked for de Blasio since he came into office, were recently asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to crack down on leaks.

Schoen is one of a host of consultants, operatives and former Bloomberg City Hall staffers who are advising the ex-mayor on his potential White House bid.

Five current and former NYC Department of Education staffers have been slapped with fines by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board for using their DOE credit cards to pay for lavish staff meals and personal snacks.

«If you are planning to go to Region Two (New York City) or Central Office (Albany) in the next few weeks, please let me know if you could also carry interoffice mail or bring back supplies... we can't pay for any shipping until the state budget is passed,» read part of a memo that went to DEC staffers.

MUNICIPAL DISTRICT — Dozens of Manhattanites turned out Wednesday to show their support for City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez before a closed hearing by the Standards and Ethics Committee into allegations that he aggressively «touched» a staffer.

The address listed for the committee belongs to Beth Rougeux, who was one of Miner's top staffers at City Hall.

Staffers with the city Department of Investigation and city comptroller quizzed Morales last March and April about two real - estate transactions that allegedly benefited developers and lobbyists who gave donations to the mayor's campaign and the mayor's nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York.

Blaber, who is paid $ 14,653 per year as a part - time parking enforcement officer, is one of half a dozen former Gallo campaign staffers who have made the transition to city jobs under the new administration.

«I wan na express something to you this evening, from my heart: I've always loved this city and as I've gone around these last four years and gotten know the city I love even more deeply, my love has grown for it,» de Blasio said before the 200 - plus crowd of staffers and New York City residents at Roulette in Brookcity and as I've gone around these last four years and gotten know the city I love even more deeply, my love has grown for it,» de Blasio said before the 200 - plus crowd of staffers and New York City residents at Roulette in Brookcity I love even more deeply, my love has grown for it,» de Blasio said before the 200 - plus crowd of staffers and New York City residents at Roulette in BrookCity residents at Roulette in Brooklyn.

Annarummo was one of the five staffers busted using fake, photocopied parking placards and slapped with fines of up to $ 500 by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.

Other likely candidates include Joe Nicoletti, a Common Councilor and longtime City Hall staffer, Andy Maxwell, Miner's director of policy and innovation and Alfonso Davis, who ran against Miner in 2013.

Mayor de Blasio says he's galled by the misuse of city resources - but he's continuing to defend and pay top Department of Correction staffers accused of doing so.

Staffers hired by de Blasio received an average raise of $ 7,000 in FY 2016 — nearly double the $ 3,600 average raise of public servants who joined City Hall before de Blasio took office.