Sentences with phrase «political appointee of the governor»

The new proposal is far longer and offers precise definitions for a public official as including state and local elected officials, judges, political appointees of the governor as well board members who sit on entities such as public benefit corporations or authorities.

Not exact matches

The governor, who was at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was accompanying by some of his security aides and other political appointees, was received by INEC staff and the administrator of Okene Local Government Council, Engr.

Hiring pricey political appointees to work for the Executive Chamber — but paying them through other entities — has allowed Cuomo and prior governors to increase the size of their staffs while escaping criticism for inflating the Executive Chamber budget.

«A situation where the governor and his cotterie of largely unproductive political appointees display ostentatious wealth while civil servants wallow in naked penury, is condemnable, to say the least.»

If a political appointee earns $ 100k per year and works for 4 years, then leaves when there is a new governor or party in power, that person walks away with $ 64000, of which they put in $ 32000.

The package includes bills that would create an independent budget office, prevent the governor's appointees from donating to political campaigns and require financial disclosure for members of the regional economic development councils that were formed by Cuomo.

In turn, the Board of Governors is comprised of political appointees, presidents of the regional Federal Reserve banks, and members of the financial system.

«They need to ask that because, of course, she seems to be a close political bud of the governor,» said Bonventre, who said in many cases the appointees often go on to vote against the views of the governors and presidents.

«The whole point of setting up the commission was so that the agency head and the Legislature and the governor and the comptroller and the attorney general and so forth didn't have to publicly say anything, that we were making the decision on their behalf, on the behalf of the people, that we were created for the purposes of removing this from the political process,» Assembly appointee Roman Hedges said last week.

He said now that Nigerians were aware of this, they should also demand for take of pay of Governors, members of state Houses of Assemblies, Commissioners and other elected or political appointees in the respective states.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has admonished new political appointees to see their appointments as a call to service and opportunities to impact positively on their communities.

The statement said the governor advised all political appointees to take their responsibilities seriously to enable government succeed in the delivery of projects contained in his administration «s development blueprint.

These are political appointees — three each from the governor, speaker of the House and Senate president — who embrace charter schools and are empowered to authorize them anywhere in the state.

The line of political accountability would run to mayors and governors through their appointees.

Considering that Governor Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education approved the two new charter schools last summer knowing there was no money in the budget to fund the schools and that the State of Connecticut would be facing a $ 1.6 billion deficit in the next fiscal year, it is unclear what Mr. Grace means when he says that that the state is reneging on its commitment to charter schools.

However, despite that opposition from the local officials responsible for education policy and despite the fact that Connecticut doesn't even fund its existing public schools adequately and the fact that the State of Connecticut is facing a massive $ 1.4 billion projected budget deficit next year, Governor Malloy's former Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education approved four new charter school proposals last spring.

Like so many of Malloy's «initiatives» once the cameras are turned off and the media walk away, the Governor and his top political appointees move on to the next media opportunity without following through with the actual task of governing.

Although the corporate education reform entity, Relay School of Education, has recently been prohibited from working in California and Pennsylvania, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education are poised today to grant the controversial teacher training scheme, «full program approval» to operate in Connecticut.

A year ago, almost to the day, a group of Bridgeport citizens, including Maria Pereira, attended the State Board of Education meeting to request Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees REJECT applications by two more charter school companies to open privately run, but publicly funded facilities in Bridgeport.

According to the State Board of Education's agenda, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees will hold an executive session, on Wednesday, and then immediately re-convene to adopt a motion that would allow the charter school industry's Relay Graduate School of Education to operate in Connecticut.

Jonathan Pelto, the Education and Democracy Party's candidate for governor called on Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy to fire Stefan Pryor, his Commissioner of Education and remove his political appointee, Andrea Comer from the State Board of Edgovernor called on Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy to fire Stefan Pryor, his Commissioner of Education and remove his political appointee, Andrea Comer from the State Board of EdGovernor Dannel «Dan» Malloy to fire Stefan Pryor, his Commissioner of Education and remove his political appointee, Andrea Comer from the State Board of Education.

But in a sadly predictable move, Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education continued their incredible record of failure by refusing to step at today's State Board of Education meeting to protect Connecticut's public school parents and children.

Sources at the State Capital report that Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees on the Connecticut State Board of Education will be directed to name Nathan D. Quesnel as Connecticut's next Commissioner of Education.

The charter school application submitted by Steve Perry and approved by Governor Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education included the names of the members of the Governing Council of Steve Perry's new charter school...

As for this charade, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education and his political appointees on the State Board of Education approved Perry's proposal for Bridgeport even though there is no funding in Connecticut's state budget for another charter school.

The board would consist of the state superintendent and 10 other political appointees, including two from the governor, six from the Legislature and two from the state superintendent.

To be eligible for the Optional Retirement Plan for Political Appointees (ORPPA), you must be an officer or employee appointed by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or Attorney General to a position of deputy, counsel or director.

If a western ISO is created, the board of governors will not all be California political appointees and that makes some people nervous.

The existing system whereby RPD members are governor - in - council appointees has long been criticized, both for the quality of appointees and the frequent use of appointments for political patronage.