Sentences with phrase «of local council leaders»

He will then chair a «cabinet» of local council leaders, controlling the combined authority and will need to secure their support for much of what he wants to do.

Tim reported last week the concerns of some about the failure of the local council leader to make the shortlist.

Not exact matches

«Agents provide community health education through regular community health talks, especially leveraging connections with local community groups, schools, places of worship, and support from local leaders and council members.»

While the leaders of several local Orthodox Churches have expressed their reluctance to attend the future Council, the main resistance presently comes from the Patriarchate of Moscow.

Leaders of denominations and of councils of churches are in a strategic position to encourage local churches to join the mental health revolution.

Detroit's Chaldean Catholic bishop, Francis Y. Kalabat, told church leaders the diocese is reaching out to the government, the Iraqi embassy, the local Chaldean foundation, and the US Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on behalf of the detainees, most of whom are «not hardened criminals but for the last decades have been great citizens.»

«We are excited to see Chicago Public Schools continue to be a leader by using procurement dollars to improve the freshness, quality and nutrition in their meals for students while growing opportunities for local, sustainable and fair producers and processors,» stated Rodger Cooley, Executive Director of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council.

The chair of the communities and local government committee, whose Sheffield South East constituency borders Rotherham, said the failure to implement child protection policies means at least one officer should join Labour's council leader Roger Stone in losing their job.

«President Seligman has had a profound effect on our local and regional economy as the leader of our largest employer and formerly as co-chair of the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

«As part of measures to de-escalate tension and ensure lasting peace in the town, the military is working with the local government council authorities and community leaders, including the Kagara Emirate Council, to pacify all aggrieved parties and build on the peace so far established.council authorities and community leaders, including the Kagara Emirate Council, to pacify all aggrieved parties and build on the peace so far established.Council, to pacify all aggrieved parties and build on the peace so far established.»

Local authorities could be on the brink of a revolution freeing them from subservience to Whitehall, the leader of Manchester city council has claimed.

Mackintosh approved a loan, which was intended to be used to redevelop the club's stadium, while he was leader of the local council but the work was never carried out and the money has not been repaid.

Matt Colledge, leader of Trafford council, said his local authority was getting «close to the bone» in June.

I was first elected as a Borough Councillor in 1982 and am now Leader of Hertfordshire County Council, Chairman of the County Councils Network and Chairman of the East of England Local Government Association.

In 1995, he was elected leader (Business Manager) of Local 6, and in 1996, President of the New York Hotel Trades Council.

A directly - elected metro mayor will have powers and responsibilities to make strategic decisions across whole city regions, in contrast to existing city mayors (which are also directly elected) or local council leaders that only make decisions for, and on behalf of, their local authority.

Mike Jones, the Conservative leader of Cheshire West and Cheshire Council and a senior figure in the Local Government Association, has reason to raise a sceptical eyebrow at how the details of the Government's compromise scheme over home extensions will work.

Mr. Halloran is one of the most colorful characters on the City Council, and his bio includes the fact that he is the leader of a local Pagan group, had a videotaped confrontation with a ticket agent, and sparked a Department of Investigations inquiry after he claimed that he personally knew of sanitation workers who deliberately sloughed off snow removal during a blizzard to protest Bloomberg administration policies (the investigation found no truth to the claims).

Ahead of the local elections, the Labour leader sought to manage expectations by suggesting the party would not lose seats on English councils.

More than half of adults in the Sheffield City Region (56 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leaders, while a quarter (24 per cent) disagree.

Three in five of those living in Greater Manchester (59 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leader.

One of those perhaps not entirely convinced of this fact is the local Green party leader of Brighton council, Jason Kitcat.

The mayor is currently seeking a second four - year stint in office, and Mark - Viverito is term - limited after December, and so the next administration and a future Council leader will have to endure the arduous duty of siting the numerous smaller replacement jails in neighborhoods around the five boroughs and dealing with local backlash.

The review team will include internationally renowned artists and architects, under the auspices of the New York State Council of the Arts, who will review proposed bridge designs as well as assist local community leaders and transportation experts in the evaluation process.

Fight against local authority cuts to youth services and press council leaders across the city to invest in youth centres and out of school support for young people

More than half of adults from the West of England (53 per cent) say that they agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leaders.

«We have undertaken a wide programme of engagement with the communities affected, involving relevant local authorities, landowners, MPs, council leaders, and community meetings,» Mr Hammond added.

Winning council seats and by - elections up and down the country with the toughest and best generation of local government leaders we have ever had.

He noted the opposition of the E.P.A., local elected leaders, environmental groups and members of the New York City Council as a reason to consider the proposal more fully.

Part of the reason I decided to run for Common Council is because I believe the children of Peekskill — and all residents — should be able look to our local leaders as positive examples and role models and I believe that has been missing.

The move, agreed with leaders of the region's 10 councils, will give local politicians greater control over billions of pounds of public money,

She already has support from three influential labor unions — the Communications Workers of America, the New York State Nurses Association and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union — whose local leaders joined her on stage, along with about half a dozen City Council members.

From 1980 — 1 relations with local government became increasingly confrontational, as Labour made large gains in local elections, with a new generation of council leaders such as Ken Livingstone in London and David Blunkett in Sheffield seeking to generate employment through their councils.

But Sir Simon - former leader of Westminster Council and now a key adviser to Boris Johnson - is not backed up by Eric Pickles MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Local Government:

The Conservative leader of the Local Government Association, Sir Simon Milton, has warned councils against over zealous use of surveillance powers that they were given to fight terrorism and criminal offences.

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

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 32BJ.

These are just two examples of easily avoidable types of problems that District Leader Frank Gulluscio, who won the Democratic primary last month for the City Council seat currently held by Eric A. Ulrich, state Senator Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach), and local community activist Betty Braton say could be avoided in the future if two bills currently before the New York City Council are passed.

Council leader Julie Dore said: «We've decided that the authority had to restore funding to areas that matter to local people and give us the ability to deliver the right kind of services in the right way with the support of local people.

As a legislative leader, the speaker's position entails balancing grand plans with the local needs of 50 other Council members, for whom the parochial concerns of their residents on matters such as tree planting and garbage pickup can take precedence over sweeping changes to the fabric of government.

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

In the wake of chancellor George Osborne's announcement this week of a ground - breaking set of devolved powers for Greater Manchester, LGC interviewed political leaders at half of the 10 councils that make up the city region's combined authority about the negotiations leading up to the deal and its implications for local government.

Scottish Labour leader Jack McConnell has attacked the SNP's plans to replace the council tax with a local income tax, branding aspects of it «scandalous».

He finally stated: «Why can't the prime minister listen to those in local government, to the King's Fund, the NHS Confederation, her own council leaders and recognise this social care crisis forces people to give up work to care for loved ones because there isn't a system to do it; makes people stay in hospital longer than they should; and leads people into a horrible, isolated life when they should be cared for by all of us through a properly funded social care system.

One hundred Liberal Democrat council and group leaders join Gerald Vernon Jackson, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the Local Government Association, in a letter to the chancellor on the state of the UK economy ahead of Budget 2012:

Assuming the role of the elder statesman, Mr Blair warned the Conservative leader not to be «cocky» after his local election success, which saw the Conservatives win more than 800 new council seats.

The leader of the local Lib Dem group, Chris Stanbra, says that the MPs have been very quiet on the problems facing the council until recently.

Heather Wheeler After fighting Coventry Sotuh at both the 2001 and 2005 elections, Heather was selected in November 2006 to fight her local seat of South Derbyshire, where she is Tory group leader on the council.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and other local leaders slammed the city for recently asking the NYPD to submit a budget reduction plan — especially after Saturday morning's attack in TriBeCa and the brutal sexual assault of an elderly birdwatcher in Central Park earlier this month.