Sentences with phrase «percent of city business»

Currently, only 4 percent of city business is conducted with women and minority - owned operations, a number that the administration is hoping to increase, the Associated Press reported.

Not exact matches

The New York City - based firm now has more than 300 million users worldwide and is used within 4 million businesses, including 97 percent of Fortune 500 companies.

The city's startup density is well above the national average, and 80 percent of small businesses are started from opportunity, not necessity.

«Show me a company with more than 10 percent of its business with one customer or more than half of its business in one industry and I'll show you a company at risk of being impacted by one company or one industry,» says Paul Weber, CEO of Entrepreneur Advertising Group in Kansas City, Missouri.

A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of WashingtoCity employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washingtocity's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28

With those stats from the city of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drcity of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on DrCity Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drugs.

Its certification of businesses that are at least 51 percent owned, operated and managed by women, is accepted by more than 1,000 corporations representing America's most prestigious brands, in addition to many states, cities and other entities.

It sought to protect existing businesses, limit the heights of building, create buildings with 100 percent affordable housing and change the city's definition of what «affordable» means in Inwood.

After all, the Department of Small Business Services (SBS) reports that 98 percent of the city's 220,000 businesses are considered small (fewer than 100 employees).

In Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, and Midtown's business district — where roughly 11 percent of all of the city's Airbnb listings were located in 2016 — monthly rents increased an average of $ 398 between 2009 and 2016.

From 2000 - 09, the number of businesses grew by 18.1 percent, a percentage three times larger than the rest of the city, and most of these businesses employed less than 10 people.

The group has voluntarily disclosed its donors, and a POLITICO New York analysis last year found that more than 60 percent of them had other business pending before City Hall.

Using that credit, businesses can get the state's taxpayers to reimburse up to 100 percent of the property taxes they pay to counties, cities, towns and schools.

Noting that the securities industry accounted for 25 percent of city wages in 2007, Thompson emphasized the need for New York to diversify the types of businesses it houses and encourage the growth of smaller commercial outlets in the city.

When it comes to export of services, firms in New York City — in finance, technology, media, business and professional services, and real estate — have a substantial footprint in global trade, accounting for $ 31.9 billion, or 58 percent of the state's total exports,» Ms. Wylde said in her testimony.

Lane said the silver lining is the Destiny tax deal with the county includes a promise of 50 percent city resident employment at the hotel and 15 percent minority and women owned business hiring for construction.

The mayoral hopeful and other City Council members announced legislation that would cut fines issued to restaurant owners under the Health Department's restaurant grading system by about 15 percent, reducing the revenue the city receives in the name of protecting small businesCity Council members announced legislation that would cut fines issued to restaurant owners under the Health Department's restaurant grading system by about 15 percent, reducing the revenue the city receives in the name of protecting small businescity receives in the name of protecting small businesses.

In the city's neighborhoods with the highest concentration of immigrants, DiNapoli said the number of businesses grew by 14.8 percent between 2000 and 2007 — far faster than the rest of the city, which grew by 3.3 percent.

The statement read in part: «Considering that over 60 percent of the property in the City is tax exempt, it is unfair to place an even greater tax burden on Albany residents and businesses.»

· A new electronic tracking system is in development that will allow the city to keep its promise to award 30 percent of its contracts to women and minority - owned businesses.

Outside of New York City, businesses pay 40 percent of the property tax levy.

But in a story last year, Politico New York reported that 62 percent of donors had business or labor contracts before the city, or were trying to get a project approved — including the union DC37, which was negotiating a contract, and a manufacturer of scented garbage bags who eventually got a contract to provide them to the city.

The legislation captures an infinitesimal six percent of city sales tax, for a one - time need, in order to make desperate repairs to a degraded subway system that serves its residents and businesses.

The report, which gives letter grades to 32 agencies as well as the city itself, detailed that out of New York's $ 13.8 billion annual procurement budget for 2015, only 5.3 percent of the money was spent with minority and women - owned businesses.

Also, less than 2 percent of the 46,000 vendors doing business with New York City are minority or women - owned.

After covering those obligations, the city would assign 35 percent of what's left to the general fund, 25 percent to infrastructure, 15 percent to business development, 10 percent to major equipment purchases, 8 percent to housing and community renewal, and 7 percent to another contingency account to be called the «tribal fund.»

He also noted that there are upwards of 500,000 minority - owned businesses and 400,000 women - owned businesses in New York City but only 4,527, less than 1 percent, are certified to do business with the cCity but only 4,527, less than 1 percent, are certified to do business with the citycity.

The spokesman also stated that the mayor has set a «bold» goal of awarding 30 percent of city contracts to minority - and women - owned businesses, and that «thousands» of homeless New Yorkers have found affordable homes during his tenure.

Eliminating town and city IDAs in favor of one IDA per county would lower by 30 percent the value of the property tax breaks being granted but would have «little effect» on where businesses choose to locate, according to Evan Mast, who studied New York's IDAs for his economics doctorate from Stanford University.

«New York City residents and businesses already pay more than our fair share at 75 percent of the MTA's regional budget, and yet in a transit desert like Queens, most of the subway stations we do have are still structurally deficient.

The Syracuse Common Council approved a Resident Employment Ordinance on Monday, requiring contractors who do business with the city to use workers from Syracuse neighborhoods for 20 percent of all work.

Stringer said the city needed to have «an honest conversation about economic opportunity» and the 4.8 percent of $ 15 billion in contracts awarded to minority and women owned businesses in 2015.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelcity into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelCity Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelcity (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

The bill references City Comptroller Scott Stringer's most recent annual MWBE report card that found that in fiscal year 2016, the city spent $ 15.3 billion on goods and services but only 4.8 percent went to MWBEs — which make up 51 percent of all businesses in New York CCity Comptroller Scott Stringer's most recent annual MWBE report card that found that in fiscal year 2016, the city spent $ 15.3 billion on goods and services but only 4.8 percent went to MWBEs — which make up 51 percent of all businesses in New York Ccity spent $ 15.3 billion on goods and services but only 4.8 percent went to MWBEs — which make up 51 percent of all businesses in New York CityCity.

«We've cut the commercial tax rate by almost 28 - percent in the City of Buffalo, making it a more affordable place for businesses to invest and to do business in the City of Buffalo,» Brown said.

Around 68 percent of these tourists travel for pleasure or vacation and some 15 percent go to the city for business, professional work or investment.

The study predicts hotel price increases of 4.3 percent in North America next year, driven by heightened business activity in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and other major cities.

Fifteen years after it got into the biopower business, the city, with help from Energy Trust, replaced its old co-generation engine with a larger, 395 - kW engine, making it possible for existing biogas to meet 50 percent of the plant's power needs.

The centre of the city, defined as the Central Business District (CBD), is 100 percent impervious surface, while the average suburban property is approximately 40 — 50 percent.

Further, the administration's move to scuttle the CPP hardly reflects the breadth and diversity of support for the plan, including 18 states, 16 cities, and companies representing 10 percent of the nation's power supply, plus big businesses and brands, like Mars, Google, and Facebook, the experts said.

Along with gathering «no car» pledges by drivers from 476 organizations, including many of the city's driving clubs and private businesses, the city has ordered 80 percent of the municipal government's and half of the central government's vehicles off the roads.

Then she found some numbers to back up what she was hearing anecdotally — a report in the Charlotte Business Journal that the number of solo practices and boutique firms opened in that city in 2008 was up 30 percent from the year before.

Released Thursday during a panel discussion in New York City on the future of the law firm business model, the LexisNexis - commissioned survey (executive summary) found that 71 percent of corporate counsel say that law firms are not doing enough to respond to the current financial pressures on their business model.

A trucking company that has less than 11 percent of its work force in the city of Roanoke, where it has only one client and in 2014 generated only 2 percent of its total revenue, does not conduct «substantial» business...

The Office de la langue française said it noticed back in 2007 that 50 percent of public agencies were offering English services to business owners in the city of Montreal, ignoring the government policy adopted in 1996.

Its customers are comprised of: 6 of the 13 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the state, more than 25,000 business in Massachusetts, 75 percent of Massachusetts cities and towns, and nearly 115,000 federal employees.

Partly because of «the power of big data and psychographics,» Cruz rose from 5 percent to 35 percent in the polls, Nix said in his speech, which he delivered at the Concordia summit, a New York City gathering of government, business and nonprofit leaders.

Skills • Demonstrated proficiency in Spanish and English • Strong aptitude for successful cross-cultural interactions • Exceptional active listening skills • Advanced negotiation skills • Innovative approach to problem - solving • Expertise in Microsoft Office, DesignWare 3D EyeWitness, and current crime mapping softwareWork HistorySergeant, Community Policing Division — Mansfield Police Department, Mansfield, TX — 2015 — Present • Supervise 10 employees, bolstering the community policing division by adding two new officers and establishing a clearer protocol for each team • Maintain relationships established in the business district and branch out to other areas of the city, continuing to build partnerships between citizens and officers • Oversee an effective community policing division that has contributed to a 3 - percent decrease in the crime rate during the last year • Provide adequate support for our officers, who are routinely faced with crises on the job.

This year's tax revaluations in Worcester caused quite a stir in the business community, as more than half of the city's commercial or industrial property values went up more than 20 percent compared to 2011.