Sentences with phrase «projects after taking office»

Advocated aggressive investment of public monies in lower - income communities and New Urbanist projects after taking office in 1999; spearheaded initiatives by the California State Teachers» Retirement System to channel $ 400 million into retail infill programs.

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Deteriorating transit conditions have led to renewed criticism of Christie for canceling a new Hudson River rail tunnel project soon after taking office in 2010, saying the cost to his state was too high.

Trump used his executive powers shortly after taking office to greenlight the two pipeline projects that had been blocked by President Barack Obama.

After Cuomo took office in 2011, he successfully negotiated with the State Legislature to eliminate comptroller approval for construction projects through the State University of New York, The City University of New York, SUNY hospitals and the SUNY and CUNY construction funds.

But this being New York, the state of of more than 1,000 authorities, responsibility for major development projects was diffused after Cuomo took office in 2011.

Three years later and thousands of miles away from daily politics (King left office in January after serving the maximum two terms), he is even more enthusiastic about the Maine Learning Technology Initiative that took effect last fall and that he predicted would «put Maine on the technological map,» produce «the country's most digitally literate teachers and students,» and «be the most significant project in the history of the state.»

The project cleared its last regulatory hurdle after President Donald Trump took office.