Sentences with phrase «reaches the city council»

Michael Bloomberg, a Republican - turned - independent, could be a toxic presence in the sort of Democratic primaries that often determine who reaches the City Council or state legislature here.

Not exact matches

«So I understand the City Council wants to achieve something noble, but it's going to be a very straightforward conversation with them about the actual money we have available and how far it will reach.»

A nearby City Council meeting, open to the public, had reached capacity.

Those comments will reach more people than if those people stood up at a city council meeting and yelled the same thing.

Once the trust has reached a deal with a contractor, it will then identify that company and the private investors paying for the projects before going to Chicago Public Schools, the Park District and City Council for public approval, he said.

But Democrats late last year reached a unity pact for the Senate races, which include filling a district formerly represented by Ruben Diaz, now on the city Council, that is meant to bring together the Independent Democratic Conference and the mainline conference.

It may not have reached the ear - biting level, but a wrestling match between NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council over the City Charter is heating up, with both sides moving to create their own revision commissions.

At 1 p.m., the NYC Council meets and is expected to pass the budget deal reached recently by the mayor and the speaker, City Hall, Manhattan.

Hotel Trades Council President Peter Ward announced yesterday, at a Radio City Music Hall membership meeting, that our Union successfully reached an early tentative agreement with the Hotel Association Bargaining Group on Friday, February 3, 2012 to renew our industry - wide Union contract which was scheduled to expire on June 30, 2012.

City Council Watch spoke to three primary challengers for the 8th CD seat, and reached out to several others.

As the District 20 City Council race nears the end, candidates Peter Koo, a Republican, and Yen Chou, a Democrat, (l. to r.) are reaching out to their bases in the Flushing community.

Former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn on Thursday celebrated the Women's Equality Party reaching its 50,000 - vote threshold to become a permanent line through the next election cycle.

In a release, the Medina campaign reached back to 1994, when Dilan as a member of the City Council voted for vacancy deregulation.

On 3 November, Greater Manchester's 10 metropolitan councils and the government reached a «trailblazing agreement» to devolve powers to a combined city region authority, shortly to be headed by an elected mayor.

Funding for Gotbaum's office will be cut by about 40 percent after the City Council reached a budget deal last week — a -LSB-...]

Negotiations between the de Blasio administration and the City Council over the mayor's controversial housing plans are intensifying, with both sides hoping to reach a deal by the end of next week.

Lawyers for City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito have reached a settlement with the city's Conflict of Interest Board following an investigation into free political consulting services that Mark - Viverito accepted during the race for speaker in 2City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito have reached a settlement with the city's Conflict of Interest Board following an investigation into free political consulting services that Mark - Viverito accepted during the race for speaker in 2city's Conflict of Interest Board following an investigation into free political consulting services that Mark - Viverito accepted during the race for speaker in 2013.

The two chief sponsors of the Right to Know Act are renewing a call to hold a vote on the set of bills tabled by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito last month after she reached an agreement with outgoing police commissioner Bill Bratton to adopt the rules administratively at the department.

A little after 10 p.m. Monday night and more than a week before deadline, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced that they had reached a deal on a balanced fiscal year 2016 city budCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced that they had reached a deal on a balanced fiscal year 2016 city budcity budget.

Surrounded by a phalanx of supportive fellow City Council members and activists from the Real Affordability for All coalition outside City Hall today, Council Member Costa Constantinides called for more affordable units in the proposed 8.7 - acre, 1,723 - unit Astoria Cove rezoning that reached the Council last week following its approval by the City Planning Commission.

«I understand the City Council wants to achieve something noble, but it's going to be a very straightforward conversation with them about the actual money we have available and how far to reach,» de Blasio said at an unrelated news conference Tuesday.

The move comes after Mark - Viverito reached a compromise with the NYPD to incorporate some of the proposals into their patrol guide instead of passing the «Right to Know Act,» which is widely supported by the City Council.

The Milwaukee Common Council unanimously approved a compromise reached with the mayor on how much oversight aldermen will have of money set aside to mitigate the city's foreclosure problem.

Although the failure to reach a living wage agreement with the developer had been a key issue in the weeks of debate leading up to the City Council vote, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn cited traffic issues as integral to the decision to vote against the project.

The de Blasio administration has reached a project labor agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, covering $ 3.5 billion of work and repairs at the New York City Housing Authority over the next three years.

«The notion of on average once a year a member of this city council going to jail and each and every case from misuse of member item money I think this has reached an unsustainable point and it simply proves that this system is no longer workable,» de Blasio said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito have reached a deal to add 1,300 new officers to the NYPD, a city official confirmed tonight — a significant win for the Council, which had sought 1,000 new officers, and a concession from the mayor, who had argued for more than a year that the department's headcount was high enoCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito have reached a deal to add 1,300 new officers to the NYPD, a city official confirmed tonight — a significant win for the Council, which had sought 1,000 new officers, and a concession from the mayor, who had argued for more than a year that the department's headcount was high enocity official confirmed tonight — a significant win for the Council, which had sought 1,000 new officers, and a concession from the mayor, who had argued for more than a year that the department's headcount was high enough.

Finally, REBNY and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York — the umbrella organization for the city's union hard hats — reached a framework agreement on issues such as wages and the length and value of the tax abatement in November 2016.

City Council Speaker and Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn announced last week that city lawmakers had reached a deal to install an inspector general to monitor the departmCity Council Speaker and Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn announced last week that city lawmakers had reached a deal to install an inspector general to monitor the departmcity lawmakers had reached a deal to install an inspector general to monitor the department.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council have reached a deal to close the Rikers Island complex.

The City University of New York and District Council 37, which represents its staff, have reached a tentative contract agreement, both parties announced Friday night.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council reached an early budget agreement on Friday night that is chock full of new spending befitting an election - year budget.

The deal, reached with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and announced Thursday, would pertain to $ 8 billion in projects on city - owned buildings through 2018.

We reached out to the remaining members of The Mount Vernon City Council, Council President Roberta Apuzzo (D), Acting President Pro Tem, Marcus A. Griffith (D), and Deborah Reynolds (D) as well as The Commissioner of the Westchester Board of Election and Westchester Democratic Chairman, Reggie Lafayette (who I believe is also Mt. Vernon Democratic Chairman as well - sound like a conflict of interest to me, but I digress) and other local elected officials who have yet to respond to our request for a comment.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito inserted language into the city budget today requiring that the $ 26 million plan to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those convicted of serious crimes — after she and Mayor Bill de Blasio failed to reach an agreement on the matter before the «budget handshake» last Friday at City HCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito inserted language into the city budget today requiring that the $ 26 million plan to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those convicted of serious crimes — after she and Mayor Bill de Blasio failed to reach an agreement on the matter before the «budget handshake» last Friday at City Hcity budget today requiring that the $ 26 million plan to provide legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation not exclude those convicted of serious crimes — after she and Mayor Bill de Blasio failed to reach an agreement on the matter before the «budget handshake» last Friday at City HCity Hall.

The fallen Bronx power broker said the deal was concocted after he reached out to Halloran in January 2013 for help ensuring that the City Council didn't replace one of Savino's hand - picked commissioners on the city's Board of ElectiCity Council didn't replace one of Savino's hand - picked commissioners on the city's Board of Electicity's Board of Elections.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will not allow a set of police reform bills to come to the Council floor for a vote, despite overwhelming support from her members, after the speaker and the NYPD reached an administrative compromise on the proposals.

The City Council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg reached a tentative budget agreement Friday that would prevent laying off thousands of the city's public school teachCity Council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg reached a tentative budget agreement Friday that would prevent laying off thousands of the city's public school teachcity's public school teachers.

Mayor de Blasio and the City Council reached a tentative agreement Friday on an $ 85.2 billion budget for fiscal 2018 — a 3.7 percent increase over the previous year's adopted...

«I've heard from a couple of council members that [mayoral aides] reached out and asked them to amplify positive policy successes,» said a City Hall source.

Troy Mayor Patrick Madden sat down Wednesday night with the city council in a continuing effort to reach level ground on Madden's budget proposal.

But even as De Blasio surges, many in New York City's technology sector, who feel they have benefitted under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, continue to back his rival Christine Quinn, the City Council Speaker, who is fighting to reach the second place in a possible run - off.

On Thursday, AskThem sent a message to users in the New York City area to encourage them to sign and share questions to Kallos and Brooklyn Council member Antonio Reynoso about a proposed marine trash transfer site on the Upper East Side and parking improvements so the questions would reach a threshold for a response.

«This council does not want to reach back into the city's savings account each year to balance the budget,» said Pridgen.

«So I understand the City Council wants to achieve something noble, but it's going to be a very straightforward conversation with them about the actual money we have available and how far it will reach.»

But Mulgrew assured that no matter what happens, teacher jobs are secure for the remainder of this year thanks to a deal reached in June between the mayor's office, City Council and the teacher's union that saved 4,000 teaching jobs that had been on the chopping block.

Hogan served eight years on the city council, until he reached a term limit.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito shook hands on an $ 82.1 billion budget agreement on June 8, the earliest a deal has been reached since 2001.

That will set the stage for continued negotiations with the City Council before the two sides reach a deal by the end of June.

The WFP played a key role in helping the Democrats take the state Senate majority in 2008 and reached its apex in 2009 when it helped elect a handful of so - called «progressive» City Council members and its first citywide official, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.