Sentences with phrase «on city councils»

If we don't get involved, either by sitting on advisory planning commissions, or on city councils themselves, or by showing up at public hearings, we're not going to have a lot of inventory to sell.

Women also make a good showing on city councils.

But Jane Mafuta, a Manja Township resident in Blantyre, still blames the current situation on the city councils for failing to collect garbage on time.

Following gigs as the business manager at the University of Alberta's student newspaper and a government relations director at the students» union, Iveson beat an incumbent for a seat on city council.

Ms. Leibovici is a long - time local politician who was first elected as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in 1993 and served on city council from 2001 to 2013.

Edmontonians may remember Mr. Nickel from his unsuccessful mayoral bids in 1998 and 2001, and his one - term on city council from 2004 to 2007.

Edmonton's last mayor with any lengthy amount of prior elected experience was Jan Reimer, who served three - terms on City Council before being elected as mayor in 1989.

He was first elected in October 1989, and during his 11 years on City Council Mason earned a reputation as a strong and effective representative for his constituents.

The qualifying period begins Tuesday for Boca Raton's March 14 elections for two seats and a mayoral position on the City Council.

Lucy Faithfull House, a 61 - bed homeless hostel on city council - owned land, closed in January last year after Oxfordshire County Council withdrew its annual # 500,000 funding.

Several task groups evolved from these; their goal was to raise the level of concern on the city council by working to elect candidates aware of urban problems.

It is one thing to work on the city council to shut down bars or to prosecute drug addicts or prostitutes; it is another to remove pathological conditions in which mental breakdown occurs.

A lifelong Naperville resident, Wehrli has served on the City Council for nearly eight...

However, there are occasionally small elections (for instance, someone on a city council resigns and they have to have an election just for that office) where they don't want to spend the money for a full - fledged election, so VBM is the only option.

Earlier this year, Democrat Bill Perkins left his Senate seat after securing a seat on the city Council, which is increasingly stocked with former members of the Assembly and Senate.

But Democrats late last year reached a unity pact for the Senate races, which include filling a district formerly represented by Ruben Diaz, now on the city Council, that is meant to bring together the Independent Democratic Conference and the mainline conference.

«From her time on the City Council to her current tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives, Yvette has been a fighter to improve the lives of her constituents.»

But the Democratic lawmakers who sat on the city Council — Sens. Joe Addabbo, Tony Avella, Ruben Diaz, Sr., Martin Dilan and Jose Serrano — say in a statement that's not the case.

In short, the situation is largely unchanged from before Democrat Bill Perkins won an open seat on the city Council and left.

«She really followed Tom's lead on the city council.

Latimer an Diaz took office last week as county executive in Westchester and on the City Council, respectively.

Perkins left the Senate this year to take a seat on city Council.

I am proud to endorse her, and look forward to working with her on the City Council.»

Manhattan District 6 (Upper West Side): Incumbent Helen Rosenthal is facing a stiff challenge from Mel Wymore, who lost to Rosenthal in 2013 and would be the first trans person on the City Council.

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

State Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) may be one of 62 senators, but the lawmaker said he has a stronger voice among his colleagues than when he was on the City Council, where he was one of 51 legislators — 48 of them Democrats.

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.

De Blasio's stance placed him on the opposite side of several left - of - center Democrats on the City Council, who last week called for new taxes on hedge funds.

«You can't serve on the city council for two and a half years and not understand the issues.»

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).

The governor called on the City Council to make specific requests within two weeks regarding how to fix the issue, or said he would make a decision himself by the time the budget is done April 1.

He served four consecutive terms on the City Council.

Corey Johnson, the new City Council Speaker, said that he was in favor of a hearing on the Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA), which, as described on the City Council website is, «A Local Law

State Sen. Tony Avella says his voice carries greater weight in Albany than it did when he was on the City Council.

The New York City cap approved by the Senate on Tuesday would allow for a supermajority on the city Council to override the measure in the event of an emergency, a provision de Blasio also questioned.

Devolution in Scotland followed a decade - long debate involving a wide range of organisations in civil society; «devo Manc» is the result of confidential bargains between the Treasury and a small group of local deal - makers, mostly on the City Council.

«Bill was the architect of David Dinkins» history - making campaign and, as a Deputy Mayor, was always responsive to the needs of the neighborhoods I represented on the City Council.

After leaving the Assembly he made one last political run, but lost his campaign for a seat on the City Council.

District 9 incumbent Bill Perkins, a former State Senator who won a special election in February to replace Inez Dickins when she was elected to the State Assembly, won a full term on the City Council.

McMahon, who represents the North Shore on the City Council, and Straniere are running for the 13th District Congressional seat left open by Rep. Vito Fossella, a Republican who opted not to seek re-election after it was discovered he fathered a child outside of his marriage.

Jimmy Van Bramer, one of the Democratic candidates hoping to succeed Eric Gioia (D - Sunnyside) on the City Council, earned an endorsement this week from the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, which represents 26,000 New Yorkers in the hospitality industry.

Weprin campaigned on his experience both in his two terms on the City Council, where he served as chairman of the Finance Committee, and his short tenure as an assemblyman since he was elected to that office in a special election in February.

De Blasio's plan to close the jail complex is expected to take 10 years and puts the onus of picking where the smaller jails will be located on the City Council.

Watertown is holding a primary election next Tuesday for two seats on the City Council.

«I was on the City Council with him, and he's just another career politician — he's basically got some additional quirks. . .

In a statement, Andrew Berman, the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, called on City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to either reject the rezoning or approve it in conjunction with the creation of a nearby historic district, known as the South Village Historic District.

Manhattan Democrats on the City Council informally voted to nominate Andy Praschak as the next Manhattan Commissioner on the Board of Elections.

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.»

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

Mayor de Blasio's plan for closing Rikers Island says little about where new jails should be built — a decision he shrugged off on the City Council Thursday.