Sentences with phrase «oversight powers»

The comptroller's bill, would, among other things, restore oversight powers that his office held for nearly a century but lost in a law passed in 2011.

Luckily, there are still some people with oversight powers in our state who know a bad deal when they see one — and aren't afraid to say so.

The Senate Finance Committee earlier in the day advanced a bill that would restore oversight powers over procurement and contracting to DiNapoli, a bill that comes after a bid rigging case ensnared top developers and a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Ranzenhofer said more oversight powers for the state comptroller in such programs might ensure fewer problems, but he has no objection to Cuomo's process of regional economic development councils identifying local projects.

Comptroller Scott Stringer slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio for skirting the City Council to pass an executive order «in the middle of the night» to raise the living wage — and continued to argue that the order stripped his office of oversight power.

And Republicans who support the legislation say it's necessary to guard against presidential interference by giving Congress more oversight power.

After Senate Republicans proposed a one - year extension last weekend with an independent inspector with new oversight powers over city schools, the bill was met with such dissent that Flanagan was forced to publicly defend his belief in public education over multiple days at the Capitol.

They would return oversight power to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to audit contracts and subject some economic development spending to the freedom of information law.

Cuomo has heard from three of the four commissions convened to recommend measures for better emergency preparedness across the state, including the Moreland Commission earlier this week which recommended strengthened oversight powers for the state's Public Service Commission (PSC).

Be given greater financial oversight power by the Arizona Legislature to put charters on probation and, if necessary, revoke charters from schools unable to meet financial improvement plans.

ASBCS be given greater financial oversight power by the Legislature to put charters on probation and, if necessary, revoke charters from schools unable to meet financial improvement plans.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco on Monday questioned why a bill that would re-authorize procurement oversight power for the state comptroller's office hasn't been voted on in the chamber.

Recently he's been pushing to have his office granted oversight powers over the embattled air ambulance service ORNGE, and he has begun to address allegations of excessive use of force by correctional officers.

«It is about the Commission's effective oversight powers, and we regret to see those being curtailed after today's judgment,» said Jakob Kucharczyk, Vice President, Competition & EU Regulatory Policy at CCIA.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who backs the bill in his chamber, called the bill a needed reform to expand DiNapoli's oversight powers following the arrests.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie should avoid being Cuomo's patsy here: Join in restoring DiNapoli's oversight powers before the next scandal explodes.

Proposed reforms would have restored the Comptroller's independent oversight powers to review contracts before they are finalized, corralled unaccountable, state controlled not - for - profits, and created a «Database of Deals» for billions in state subsidies to businesses.

The Department of Public Service said Thursday that DiNapoli's analysis is wrong, and that they have unprecedented oversight power.

The deal includes providing increased oversight power to not only the team monitoring the district, but also to state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

Government observers and watchdog groups have called for oversight of the city and state university systems to be expanded under the state Comptroller, not the Inspector General, including certain contract oversight powers that were stripped by Cuomo and the Legislature in 2011.

A proposal that would have restored more comprehensive oversight powers to the state Comptroller's office for procurement contracts with the SUNY and CUNY systems was left on the table.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he's trying to make government more efficient by taking pre audit oversight powers away from the State's Comptroller in his state budget proposal.

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Instead of giving the comptroller back oversight powers, Cuomo would set up a special inspector general as part of his administration, to oversee economic development contracts.

Legislative leaders say a bill by the State Comptroller to reinstate oversight powers over economic development contracts, is moving forward.

North Carolina is one of just 15 states nationwide that limits charter authorization powers to a single, statewide entity, rather than granting similar charter oversight powers to the local boards of education that share funding with charters, according to a 2015 report by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), a nonpartisan, national policy organization that recommends best practices for charter laws.

Members of the state board — which is granted broad oversight powers for North Carolina's 151 public charter schools — received a policy proposal from their Charter School Advisory Board last week that they require a majority of members on any charter's governing board maintain their primary residence in North Carolina.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D - Tex) called the request «a serious misuse of Congressional oversight powers.»

The Act also gave the OEB oversight powers over the OPA and the Independent Electricity System Operator.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb lamented that the special session ignored steps to try to deal with high - visibility corruption cases that have hit the Capitol, such as restoring oversight powers to the state comptroller over economic development spending.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been using its new oversight powers to look more deeply into the private equity industry — and it does not like what it sees.

Another issue unresolved is a measure to return oversight powers to the state Comptroller's Office for State University of New York contracts, which were taken away in 2011.

Cuomo wants to strengthen oversight powers with an inspector general, but that is a person he appoints.

Late last Friday, Flanagan and his conference proposed a mayoral control bill that would extend the system for a single year and create an independent «inspector» with oversight power over the city's 1,800 schools.

Lawmakers have for the last several weeks pushed legislation that would re-empower the state comptroller to have oversight powers over state contracting for funds that pass through the State University of New York's entities.

Congress needs to use its oversight power to enforce accountability to law, science, and the public interest at the EPA.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco has reached out to his counterpart in the Democratic - controlled Assembly to iron out differences on a bill that would restore oversight powers to the state comptroller's office.

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Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco «definitely» expects there will be a vote before the end of legislative session in June that would restore oversight powers to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office, he said Wednesday in an interview.

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Six years ago, Cuomo persuaded the Legislature to rescind the comptroller's oversight powers, arguing that too many layers slowed progress of his signature economic development projects.

One measure may be to restore some of DiNapoli's oversight powers.

Instead of giving back oversight powers to the comptroller, Cuomo would set up a special inspector general as part of his administration to oversee economic development contracts.

The comptroller's oversight power was written out of the process in a 2011 law.

After weeks in which state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has needled Cuomo about his 2011 efforts to reduce the comptroller's oversight powers, the governor's Department of Financial Services issued a 20 - page report blasting DiNapoli's management of the state's $ 178.6 billion Common Retirement Fund.

Who steadfastly opposed proposals in the state Legislature last year to reform state procurement policies and restore some of the oversight powers of the state comptroller that the governor successfully wrestled away after he took office.

For 2014, we should at least start with comptroller and attorney general, the two offices that have subpoena and oversight power.

Mr. Stringer already has oversight powers, and the governor's office said the state already has the authority to shut down the city's homeless shelters if they deem them dangerous.

While Mr. Stringer supports living wage boosts he has argued, first in the New York Post yesterday, that the new executive order cedes his oversight power to the mayoral Department of Consumer Affairs, something City Hall says is not true.