Sentences with phrase «paid by public agencies»

Not exact matches

Fairbanks said another problem with Prop 61 is its linkage of prices paid by state agencies to the VA's price, which is not public information, and it is not clear if the state could compel disclosure.

To run DOI's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, one of two agencies that regulates offshore drilling, Zinke chose Scott Angelle, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission who served on the board of directors of (and was paid $ 989,238 by) oil pipeline operator Sunoco Logistics.

By buying government (or agency) debt, and paying banks to hoard the reserves it creates by doing so, the Fed shunts a bigger share of the public's savings into the Fed's coffers, and from there to government or its agentBy buying government (or agency) debt, and paying banks to hoard the reserves it creates by doing so, the Fed shunts a bigger share of the public's savings into the Fed's coffers, and from there to government or its agentby doing so, the Fed shunts a bigger share of the public's savings into the Fed's coffers, and from there to government or its agents.

To ensure that taxpayers and the vulnerable populations served by these agencies receive the maximum value for the funds paid, Governor Cuomo is proposing the following reforms beginning in 2012 - 13: • At least 85 percent of every public dollar will be spent on direct services, not administration.

WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court appears poised to overrule a 1977 case allowing public sector union «agency fees» — a ruling that would end the fees, which are paid by non-members to support public sector unions» collective bargaining work.

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

The Times Union reported in November that, at the time, more than 40 percent of the Executive Chamber payroll was actually being paid by various state agencies or public authorities.

But Dillon is being paid her $ 85,000 salary by The State of New York Mortgage Agency, a public authority that provide affordable home ownership to low and moderate income New Yorker.

Many of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new hires and promotions announced in March are working in his office but are paid by different agencies or public authorities.

According to INEC, this offer was made when a team from Facebook led by its Public Policy Director for Africa, Ebele Okobi, paid a courtesy visit to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, at the agency's headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.

But since he also said the agency learned to «pay some close attention to this» after the news broke, and that «our audits often don't reveal [the] kind of information» that was made public by the complaint, this seems unlikely.

The balance was already paid to Nassau by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which monitored and OK'd all of VIP Splash's debris removal, said Brian Schneider, a county public works official.

In addition to the state agencies, including SUNY and CUNY, public sector employees like Kaloyeros and Pato can earn more if they are paid through authorities or other quasi-public entities created by the state to carry out specific functions.

The FSB is calling on the Government to ensure that all public agencies follow the lead of central Government and pay all invoices to small firms within 10 days; that all contractors that the public sector uses pay their sub-contractors within the same time; and that all private sector companies used by the public sector sign up to the Prompt Payment Code.

The proposal, pushed by County Executive Mike Hein, would require all trash haulers, public and private, in Ulster County to take their garbage to RRA disposal site in the Town of Ulster and pay tipping fees to the agency.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue.

On the other side, public employee unions argue that agency fees are needed to avoid the «free rider» problem — i.e., non-members receiving benefits provided by union contracts, but not paying for them.

Janus wants the Supreme Court to overturn its 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, a case brought by a Detroit public school teacher who challenged a Michigan law that required him to pay agency fees to the Detroit Federation of Teachers (in an amount equivalent to the union's dues), even though he refused to join the union.

CIR is representing eight California public school teachers who are compelled by law to pay agency fees to the California Teachers Association.

As noted by Judge Cole, the IDEA was amended, effective June 4, 1997, to provide that the Act no longer requires a local educational agency to pay for educational services for a disabled child at a private school «if that agency made a free appropriate public education available to the child and the parents elected to place the child in such private school or facility.»

(a) From each State's allotment under this part for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall pay to such State or, at the option of the State agency designated pursuant to section 101 (a)(1), to a public or nonprofit organization or agency, a portion of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating special programs under the State plan approved pursuant to section 101 to expand vocational REHABILITATION services, including programs to initiate or expand such services to individuals with the most severe handicaps, or of special programs under such State plan to initiate or expand services to classes of handicapped individuals who have unusual and difficult * problems in connection with their REHABILITATION, particularly handicapped individuals who are poor, and responsibility for whose treatment, education, * and REHABILITATION is shared by the State agency designated in section 101 with other agencies.

(1) A credit services organization, its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit services organization may not do any of the following: (a) conduct any business regulated by this chapter without first: (i) securing a certificate of registration from the division; and (ii) unless exempted under Section 13 -21-4, posting a bond, letter of credit, or certificate of deposit with the division in the amount of $ 100,000; (b) make a false statement, or fail to state a material fact, in connection with an application for registration with the division; (c) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer; (d) dispute or challenge, or assist a person in disputing or challenging an entry in a credit report prepared by a consumer reporting agency without a factual basis for believing and obtaining a written statement for each entry from the person stating that that person believes that the entry contains a material error or omission, outdated information, inaccurate information, or unverifiable information; (e) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (f) make, or counsel or advise any buyer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and that is known, or that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a buyer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; (g) make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; and (h) transact any business as a credit services organization, as defined in Section 13 -21-2, without first having registered with the division by paying an annual fee set pursuant to Section 63J -1-504 and filing proof that it has obtained a bond or letter of credit as required by Subsection (2).

(5) Fees and charges prescribed by law which are or will be paid to public officials or agencies for recording or releasing a lien on property which secured the loan, provided, however, that a releasing fee may only be charged and collected at or after the time the lien is released.

74.10 (1) For the purposes of determining entitlement to public holiday pay under subsection 29 (2.1), an assignment employee of a temporary help agency is on a layoff on a public holiday if the public holiday falls on a day on which the employee is not assigned by the agency to perform work for a client of the agency.

While it's not unusual for governments or agencies to issue warnings or try to educate the public on what regulators may consider risky investments, Polish financial authorities have taken it a step further, spending taxpayers» money on a smear campaign — trying to sway public opinion against crypto assets by paying social media influencers to attack them.

Concrete actions by policy makers, already practised in many counties, are: matching paid parental leave to the rate and duration observed in Scandinavian countries; providing adequate public funding and developing tax policies that allow parents to make appropriate child - rearing choices, paying greater attention to children from poor or diverse backgrounds; integrating child care and early education under one ministry or agency and thereby enhancing quality, qualification requirements, accessibility and affordability.

No one had educated the public about buyer agency, so it became the purview of the listing agent to begin by educating their seller who had been forced into then having to decide how to pay the commission: both to their own agent and also what to offer the co-op.

Now they can allow FSBOS to: - advertise their listing on realtor.ca for $ 1 - have their direct phone number linked to realtor.ca - not be required to accurately complete their listing before posting - give them access to Webforms with no expense to the FSBO companies - give them access to CREA and Provincial Real Estate Forms - use errors and ommission insurance paid for by 99,999 agents for free - the ability to infer to the public the unneed of professional agency to list a home

Who out there will be seconded, if ever, to step up to the plate to stand up to the aided - and - abetted by government «agency» attacks of the Realtysellers et al of the real estate world (the opportunists, as I see them) who wish to highjack a privately created and paid - for MLS, to tear down a functioning, albeit imperfect, system of providing real estate services / products etc. (at the public's pleasure, no less) for free, with negotiated payment for services / products only being forthcoming upon «successful completion» of contractual obligations.

After all these years wouldn't one perhaps wonder why CREA (the industry mother ship) has not produced a boatload of buyer agency ads or actual training for the public, specifically, for the real estate law firms, and last but certainly not least, for the press who insists on declaring that only «sellers» pay the commission, creating misrepresentation by their comments and articles, either intentionally or out of genuine ignorance.

287 DOS 98 Matter of DOS v. Uqdah Realty & Management Corp. — deposits; jurisdiction; fraudulent practices; failure to pay judgment; vicarious liability; notary public; disclosure of agency relationship; broker violated 19 NYCRR 175.1 when he deposited escrow funds into his operating account; broker committed conversion when his operating account fell below deposit amount; broker engaged in fraudulent practices when he illegally retained buyer's trust funds and attempted to qualify prospective buyer for mortgage by falsely stating their employment; broker failed to disclose his agency relationship to his client; failure to pay judgment; corporate real estate broker vicariously liable and charged with actual knowledge of violation of law because of representative broker's cognizant misconduct as corporate officer; broker is not required to deposit a refundable commission in an escrow account unless contractually demanded; corporate broker and representative broker's license revoked; restitution of deposit of $ 12,000 plus interest; notary public commission revoked based on misconduct as a real estate licensee