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When commission and closing costs, maintenance, moving and other expenses are added up, the sum can easily eclipse any equity amassed in that short time — even in a city with a skyrocketing condo market.

The company wants to try the wireless method in non-commercial tests starting in six California cities and six other cities scattered around the country, Google said in an August 5 filing with the Federal Communications Commission.

Cities and towns that haven't implemented formal, indefinite bans can not use overly long moratoriums, zoning rules, bylaws, or other «unreasonably impracticable» measures to effectively prevent marijuana companies from locating within their borders, according to the commission.

The city's Advisory Cultural Commission had recommended the funding come from other sources, but Councilman Steve Chirico disagreed, saying he doesn't mind using the grant money for capital projects.

In the wake of the Scottish referendum, as all parties face up to the reality that the devolutionary genie is well and truly out of the bottle, and with a powerful economic case being made by the City Growth Commission and others, the «DevoManc» deal is an idea whose time has come.

Also at 9 a.m., NYC - based taxi drivers and base owners will join community leaders and advocates to hold a morning vigil that will raise awareness about the Taxi and Limousine Commission's «excessive fees, entrapment, abusive enforcement and other unfair practices that are wreaking havoc to the NYC taxi industry,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The finance chairman and a finance committee member of Gene Locke's mayoral campaign helped bankroll the conservative political action committee that sent out an anti-gay mailer targeting City Controller Annise Parker and other municipal candidates earlier this month, according to Texas Ethics Commission documents.

Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT Community Center.

This source, like the half dozen or so other sources within the Moreland Commission who spoke to City & State for this article, did so on the condition of strictest anonymity both out of fear of reprisal and citing the U.S. Attorney's ongoing investigation.

The Commission, a panel of 15 people appointed by the Mayor and City Council, is seeking input from residents, community organizations and other groups in creating new districts.

Cuomo also wants the commission to evaluate other utilities serving the New York City and suburban areas, including New York State Electric and Gas Corp. and National Grid, which operates under LIPA.

The comments come after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed last month a commission to assess statues and other historical monuments in New York City.

(Albany, NY)-- New York State Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon today joined advocates including New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun violence.

Ford wrote letters late last month to U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue of New York's Eastern District, Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas, state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, asking for an investigation into Schnirman's handling of Long Beach finances and the payouts to Schnirman and other current and former city employees.

The Bloomberg administration and the city's Economic Development Corporation plan to commission a national study to examine how living wage laws have worked in other cities.

The boisterous Brooklyn borough president asked the city's Charter Review Commission yesterday to consider giving control back to him and the other four Beeps over their budgets, a move that would restore much of the powers they lost 21 years ago.

«Without knowing what actually transpired during JCOPE's deliberations and its investigation of the Lopez case, such an anti-majoritarian vote, had it taken place, could have blocked the extension of the investigation to other persons whose conduct merited further inquiry,» Common Cause New York and the New York City Bar Association wrote in a joint testimony to the review commission.

The panel will include Maya Wiley, counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio; City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley; and Carmelyn Malalis, commissioner of the city's Human Rights Commission; among othCity Council Member Elizabeth Crowley; and Carmelyn Malalis, commissioner of the city's Human Rights Commission; among othcity's Human Rights Commission; among others.

Mr. Lopez, who as the Democratic leader in Brooklyn and chairman of the Assembly's housing committee projected great influence across New York City and the state, resigned in May 2013 after a state ethics commission released a report about his alleged behavior including groping of female staff members and other unwanted sexual advances.

The boardwalk, officially named for former Brooklyn Borough President Edward Riegelmann, was part of a rejuvenation plan inspired by the success of boardwalks in Atlantic City, New Jersey and other places, the landmarks commission said.

The Citizens Budget Commission and many others have had enough: it's time for New York City to act on imposing a plastic bag fee.

A commission convened to assess the salaries of top NYC officials has recommended raises for the mayor, the City Council and other politicians, while declaring Council members should not be able to earn outside income.

At 5 p.m., the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City hosts a panel discussion on the role social media plays in gun violence, with New York University's Dr. Shabnam Javdani and others, John Jay College, Moot Court Room, 524 W. 59th St., Manhattan.

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Other household names like PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (No. 4) and iconic Vogue editor - in - chief Anna Wintour (No. 21) also made the list, along with public officials like City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (No. 13), Senator Kristen Gillibrand (No. 20) and City Planning Commission chair Amanda Burden (No. 33).

Mac Roberts, the general manager of East / West Management, a New York City company that operates 120 yellow taxi cab medallions, called upon the Taxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rant:

Among the other groups calling for the law's adoption were New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Giffords Law Center, which was founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly.

Knight will join six other mayoral appointees on the City Planning Commission, as well as one appointee from each borough president, and one appointee by the public advocate.

The commission also recommended raises for other city officials, including the mayor, who would get a hike from $ 225,000 a year to $ 258,750 a year.

«The recent rash of wrongdoing by legislators in Albany has shaken the public confidence, the public trust in government — from one end of the state to the other,» Cuomo said in announcing the commission on Tuesday flanked by district attorneys from around the state and New York City.

Funding which the city proposed for expanding The Queensbury Hotel, establishing a Glens Falls film commission, constructing a catwalk at Charles R. Wood Theater and projection equipment at facilities that host the Adirondack Film Festival were not specifically approved as «winning projects,» but might qualify for funding under other broad categories in the plan, and city also can seek funding in the next round of regular state regional economic development grants, Bartholomew said.

At 5:30 p.m., the NYC Commission on Human Rights hosts a panel to highlight the work of public servants of Afro - Caribbean descent, featuring Deputy Commissioner Brittny Saunders, state Sen. Roxanne Persaud and other city officials, Medgar Evers College's Edison O. Jackson Auditorium, 1650 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Council members Helen Rosenthal and Ydanis Rodriguez will gather with advocates and others to call for the creation of an independent commission to study cost reform at the MTA, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Krebs said the other elements of the job as described to him by JCOPE officials included educating state officials on ethics and eliminating «duplicate filings» with the legislature's ethics board and the New York City lobbying commission.

CAB SAFETY — «Proposed NYC Law Would Create A Public Database Of Ride - Hail Sexual Assault Reports,» by Buzzfeed News» Charlie Warzel: «New York City Council Member Dan Garodnick will introduce a bill [Thursday] to create a public record of all sexual assault and harassment incidents that happen inside vehicles operated by New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission - licensed companies and owners (which include Uber, Lyft, and other ride - hail services).

There will soon be two charter revision commissions preparing to recommend changes to the charter for approval or disapproval by voters: one is sponsored by the mayor, with recommendations due this fall, and the other by the City Council in partnership with Public Advocate James and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, with proposals due in 2019.

Things got a little testy at an unofficial meeting (no quorum) of the city's Heritage Commission, as dueling lawyers shouted over each other before a gathering of about 40 interested parties at City Hcity's Heritage Commission, as dueling lawyers shouted over each other before a gathering of about 40 interested parties at City HCity Hall.

There are 12 other members of the City Planning Commission who also vote on the application.

Other attendees included Erie County Legislator Peter J. Savage; Kimberly Trent, representing the City of Buffalo's Commission on Citizens» Rights and Community Relations; a dozen local human service agency partners; students from Bennett Park Montessori School, singer Kevin McCarthy, young entrepreneur Daniel Gibbs; and the Library System's new owl mascot «Reada Book.»

The commission will have subpoena power and includes, among others, Robert Abrams, the former state attorney general; Cuomo aide Benjamin Lawsky, who heads up the Department of Financial Services; John Dyson, the former NYPA chairman; former New York City Public Advocate Mark Green; Cuomo ally and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice; and Rev. Floyd Flake, the politically powerful pastor of Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Queens.

Cuomo's comments came a day after Mayor de Blasio's monuments commission decided that the statue of Columbus in Columbus Circle and other monuments around the city should remain where they are but be adorned with new historical markers.

But City Attorney Michael May said he worried a revised project that gets other commission's approval would be different from the project the Landmarks Commissicommission's approval would be different from the project the Landmarks CommissionCommission denied.

It envisions a commission whose members would be appointed by a range of elected officials, including the mayor; Corey Johnson, the City Council speaker; Ms. James; Scott M. Stringer, the comptroller; Ms. Brewer and the four other borough presidents.

«On the other hand, it should be noted that New York City is the primary source of surplus state revenues — largely generated by the income tax on high earners (the so - called «millionaires» tax»)- but New York City residents do not directly benefit from the commission's proposed use of $ 1 billion of this surplus for property tax reductions for suburban and upstate New Yorkers.

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Increasing starting salaries in teaching has been advocated by, among others, the National Education Association, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, and the authors of a heavily publicized 2007 report by McKinsey & Company on the characteristics of the world's most effective school systems.

Both white and minority children in Connecticut's magnet schools showed stronger connections to their peers of other races than students in their home districts, and city students made greater academic gains than students in non-magnet city schools, Casey Cobb and a team of colleagues found in this research commissioned by the state of Connecticut.

The shuttle has multiple sponsors other than the city of Las Vegas, including AAA of Southern Nevada, Keolis North America, and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.

The reason the American Bird Conservancy, National Audubon Society, The Wildlife Society, and others oppose TNR is, explained chief Animal Control Officer for Pompano Beach, Florida, David Aycock, during a barn - burner of a City Commission meeting Tuesday night, «that these animals are not safe out there — on their own, by themselves.

The Truth Will Set You Free In an August 2011 post, I suggested that Dauphiné's trapping efforts in and around Athens led the Athens Area Humane Society to cancel its contract with the city, [2] which in turn prompted the Athens - Clarke Commission — left with no other option for feral cats — to vote 9 — 1 in favor of TNR.