Sentences with phrase «regional council members»

Several regional council members said they weren't entirely sure how some of the decisions are made.

Some also have demanded that regional council members, who are mostly from the private sector, publicly disclose information about their finances as a way to deter conflicts of interest.

They claim they know as well as any regional council member the needs of communities in their districts.

Not exact matches

-- a national office in New York City — 23 affiliate regional councils nationwide — 1,750 corporate members and growing

The regional councils certify and match more than 12,000 minority - owned businesses with member corporations that want to purchase their products, services and solutions.

There was a talk in church today about this scripture from a member of our regional High Council.

The number of official ecumenical bodies has multiplied, so that a given church may be a member of the WCC, its own international confessional body, a regional confessional body, a regional council of churches, and a national council of churches.

At the same time, the Legislature may try to claw back oversight of the regional councils through the disclosure of outside income of its members and give lawmakers a greater say in how the money spent — provisions that are staunchly opposed by the Cuomo administration.

the Council programme may enable member states to focus Council discussion on issues of particular national / regional interest (e.g.: Finland and the Northern Dimension initiative)

Security council attempts to launch targeted sanctions against key members of Mugabe's ruling cabal have also been blocked by China and Russia, while South Africa - the major regional diplomatic power - has opposed further action.

«It took me doubly by surprise since I'm a member of the regional economic development council,» DeFrancisco said.

Lisa Tyson, a member of the WFP's regional council, said Gregory has been «a progressive leader for many years who's done the right thing and is an exciting candidate.»

-- The $ 130 million for the governor's regional economic development council's is IN, but it won't be taken from the Legislature's unspent member items.

«The Council also resolved that regional chairpersons, regional secretaries, regional treasurers, constituency chairpersons, constituency secretaries and constituency treasurers, are also not eligible to contest as parliamentary candidates in constituencies where the party has sitting Members of Parliament, unless they resign three years before the national general elections.»

Mujica also blasted the effort to have the regional economic development council members disclose their business interests, calling it «absurd and a not so subtle effort to end the REDCs.»

An Oneida spokesman said tribe officials have reached out several times seeking meetings with high - level members of the Cuomo administration, and also asked to be included on one of the regional economic development councils, but have yet to receive a response.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, a Democrat from Buffalo who chairs his chamber's economic development committee, supported the funding for Western New York but has been pushing other reforms, including a measure that would require members of the regional councils to formally file financial disclosure forms currently required of lawmakers and other officials.

A member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Kukubor, has charged the party's Council of elders to take «swift action» against some ten regional Chairmen who have endorsed the candidature of John Dramani Mahama for election 2020 even before campaigning officially starts.

Meanwhile, a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Kukubor, has charged the party's Council of elders to take «swift action» against some ten regional Chairmen who have endorsed the candidature of John Dramani Mahama for election 2020 even before campaigning officially starts.

The English Council Executive consists of the Chairs of the 11 English regional parties, 12 members directly elected from the English Council, and English representatives on the Federal Executive, Federal Policy Committee and Federal Conference Committee.

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.

Some members of the New Patriotic Party invisible forces Friday morning stormed the Ashanti regional coordinating council and forcefully demanded the removal...

The comment was contained on an audiotape secretly recorded as the former Finance Minister, who is also the Chairman of the New Patriotic Party's Eastern regional Council of Elders, was addressing some party members ahead of the 2016 general elections.

The council would have the ability to propose local laws to the county legislature, to nominate members of an advisory county planning board and advise the legislature and executive on matters regarding regional cooperation.

An estimated # 6 million went to political assistants to party groups on local councils in England; Healthy additional sums were spent on allowances to members of the regional assemblies and of the European Parliament.»

But this year its members weighed Cuomo's past achievements, and the access he has given the group's members through regional economic development councils, against the governor's promise to work with the Working Families Party to flip the State Senate into Democratic hands.

«A member of a regional council who is the executive director of a not - for - profit, and who secures a series of funding for his or her not - for - profit, would get accolades and high - fives.»

A group of New York City Council members sent an open letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday, asking him to invest funds to conserve regional agricultural land in the Hudson Valley and around the city.

In the Assembly, that means members of a regional council that advises Cuomo's economic development agency on Buffalo Billion funding must, like other state boards, disclose information annually about their personal finances to help avoid potential conflicts of interest.

Pressure Group, OccupyGhan, has bemoaned what it describes as risible fines imposed as a court sentence on 13 members of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Delta Force, for storming the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, and manhandling the regional security coordinator.

Before the regional councils, lawmakers divvied up pots of money, known as member items, for projects for their individual districts.

It's not unusual for board members and co-chairs to represent organizations that also receive funding from the regional councils — Tranter is one of at least six on the Southern Tier council to have done so.

Thiele said he was challenging the premise of the regional council system, which he said smacked of «cronyism» because the council members steer subsidies to their pet projects.

The deal struck by Speaker Quinn and Council Member Chin to secure space for two regional food markets at the Seaport was nothing short of a massive victory.

He was Deputy Chair of EEDA, the regional development agency for the East of England, from 1998 and was Leader of Suffolk County Council from 1993, named Council of the Year 2001, until his election as Member of Parliament.

«A process was put into place where projects are scored based upon on the merits and regional needs, council members with conflicts are required to recuse themselves, and ironclad investment and job benchmarks need to be met before funding is disbursed.

Cuomo funnels hundreds of millions in economic development grants through the state's 10 regional councils, whose volunteer members he appoints, and REDC members typically have nothing but praise for the administration.

The regional councils came into being in 2011, just as the previous «member item» earmarking program was winding down.

The Council shall consist of (a) the president - elect, the president, the retiring president, the vice presidents, the secretaries of the sections, the administrative secretary, the treasurer and the eight (8) elected members of the Board of Directors; (b) one Fellow elected by each regional division of the Association; and (c) the representatives of affiliated organizations, as provided for in Article VIII of this constitution.

In January, Manrique, the epidemiology director, was sworn in as a member of the Madre de Dios regional government council.

AACA - B was led by Canada and Russia and focuses on the adaptation activities that are being implemented by Arctic Council member states on a national, sub-national, regional and local level.

He is a member of the Scientific Council of the national Clinical Nutrition Certification Board and is on the board of directors of the Mid-American Health Organization (MAHO), the Midwest regional affiliate of the National Products Association (NPA).

Each of the new boards will have members from across local councils, teaching schools, dioceses and the ranks of academy trust chief executives to advise regional school commissioners (RSCs) on improvement strategies for failing schools.

We will seek views from Teaching Schools Council members and others with regional knowledge to help decide whether to fund applications.

«We're surrounded by the beaches and Robb Field and regional parks and resource - based parks which are a benefit to our community,» says Point Loma resident Byron Wear, a former City Council member and longtime PLHS booster.

We are members of the World Recreational Scuba Training Council (WRSTC) through its regional RSTCs in Europe, Canada and the US.

He is a board member of the Museum Association of New York, has chaired the Visual Arts Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts, and serves on several advisory committees including Cranbrook Academy National Advisory Committee, Artist Advisory Board of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and Saratoga Springs Arts Commission among other regional and national arts organizations.

Much of the recent work of GCC — the group of artists whose eight members hail from various Persian Gulf countries, and whose name references the acronym for a regional political and economic alliance known as the Gulf Cooperation Council — has focused on the growing popularity in the area, among both governments and the wider populace, of the «positive energy» movement.

Since the launch, the Council's members have been using these scenarios to develop regional perspectives, conduct deep dives focussed on specific geographies or resources, and explore the implications for energy business model innovation.

These changes had members of the eight regional fishery management councils grappling with a complex framework for determining the «right» amount of fish to catch.