Sentences with phrase «said at a public hearing»

DeFrancisco, who announced last month that he is running for governor, said at a public hearing last month that he was kept in the dark about the Soraa deal, which was announced in 2015 but collapsed last year after Soraa decided to remain in California.

MUNICIPAL DISTRICT — New Yorkers will be voting on term limits again this fall, the chair of the Charter Revision Commission said at a public hearing Monday night.

«Two years ago was normal,» Julie Welsted, a mother, said at a public hearing.

The facilities at Kent Animal Shelter aren't enough to meet their needs, representatives of the nonprofit said at a public hearing before the Pine Barrens Commission last week.

Not exact matches

At a public hearing Tuesday on the crash involving Brown, NTSB said the truck driver and the Tesla driver «had at least 10 seconds to observe and respond to each other.&raquAt a public hearing Tuesday on the crash involving Brown, NTSB said the truck driver and the Tesla driver «had at least 10 seconds to observe and respond to each other.&raquat least 10 seconds to observe and respond to each other.»

«When I heard the team [at Tanium] was looking to expand the board, I really went for it in terms of pursuing it as an opportunity,» said Chadwick, who five years ago joined the board of F5 Networks (ffiv), a public cybersecurity firm that provides software to data centers.

She said at the very least there should be public hearings on the project, adding she doesn't believe what's currently in place is transparent enough.

At a public hearing last fall, Bell said such changes would drive down its revenue and push prices up for many customers.

«Looking back now, it is clear to me that all of us that were involved at the time - and certainly myself - should have done more to protect the American public through aggressive regulation, comprehensive regulation,» he said during a grilling by then - Iowa Senator Tom Harkin during his confirmation hearing.

«The quality of this wire rod produced by the Japanese manufacturers is unavailable in the United States,» said Tim Johns, the company's vice president of manufacturing, at the public hearing.

Or, most recently, you might have heard the rumor from Bryan Fischer, from Mike Hucakbee or a friend on Facebook, saying that God abandoned the children at Sandy Hook because, though children have every right to pray in public schools, those schools can not sponsor prayer events out of deference to religious freedom.

«We've heard loud and clear your desire for restraint and control,» said David Yocca, director of landscape architecture for CDF, referring to comments at a public meeting in August and a survey completed by the park district.

A public hearing on the proposed increase is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Park District building at 10 S. 474 Madison St. Park board members are expected to approve the levy that night, said board secretary Jamie Janusz.

deadline to be pushed back to align with the USDA's coming GMO disclosure regulation — a measure that isn't likely to kick in for a few years (at least)... Gottlieb suggested during the hearing that he may be open to aligning the deadlines... You want to try to consolidate the label changes when you're making label changes as a matter of public health, he said, adding that requiring companies to update their labels repeatedly is costly.

A public hearing on the matter has been scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday at the district's Centennial Park, 120 E. Oak St.. A special board meeting will be held after that gathering, park officials said, where district leaders will discuss «land acquisition» in executive session.

«The problems that we hear at meetings are usually from new mothers who are uncomfortable with nursing in public because they are getting used to the whole process,» O'Donnell said.

Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing in Albany yesterday, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

Sheehan said the so - called «E23 project» was, in the developers opinion, not financially viable, and the developer is looking at Rensselaer - where will be a town board public hearing at Genet Elementary School at 7 p.m. and public comment will be heard regarding the proposed «East Greenbush Casino» that has the backing of Saratoga Casino and Raceway.

Governor Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing held at the State Capitol today, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

City Hall has so far been unresponsive to requests to testify at a public hearing or meet on the issue, Flanagan said.

Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D - Freeport) called Armor's tenure at the jail a «dark period» in the facility's history, but also said Tuesday legislators would have to vet the proposed NUMC contract carefully and there should be a public hearing «since it looks like it could be a 100 percent increase in spending» over the previous jail contract.

Asked if DEC workers would put themselves at potential risk if they go public on internal agency deliberations, Walsh said she doubted workers would be exposed to «any retaliatory action» and that Cuomo would be «happy» to hear such information raised in public.

Barkin said the nation has not submitted comments to the New York State Gaming Commission and is evaluating whether to speak at a public hearing, set for Sept. 24 in Ithaca.

A panel commissioned to review practices at New York's troubled ethics commission held its one and only public hearing Wednesday, as its Chair says lack of staff and excess of paperwork may make it difficult to meet the group's November 1st deadline.

She said it should've been part of the budget process, when it could have been reviewed at public hearings.

If that doesn't sound rushed, consider this: In her comments at a hearing in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.»

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has been an outspoken critic of the the 328 - bed facility for the homeless and substance abuse patients, said in a letter to constituents that she and other City Council members were presenting a resolution to the City Council's Committee on General Welfare at a public hearing at 10:30 a.m Wednesday.

«The purpose of this hearing was to simply hear from the public about how they felt about accepting a state funding to provide substance abuse treatment services at the former Broome Developmental Center,» said County Executive Jason Garnar.

«The bill that Gov. Cuomo is attempting to get through his state Legislature on fast - track — no hearings and no public discussion — shows Cuomo at his worst: Unable to persuade the bi-state Port Authority to do his bidding, he now hopes to strip it of independent action, crippling its ability to carry out its major functions, and turning it into an extension of the governor's office,» said Jameson Doig, author of Empire on the Hudson, the authoritative history of the Port Authority.

«Every public housing resident deserves to live in habitable housing that provides them with respect and dignity,» said City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who helped conduct an oversight hearing of NYCHA at the Council.

«We're not trying to kill the music in town,» Supervisor Bill McKenna said in the packed Comeau Drive meeting room, at a public hearing on the proposal.

«We invite you to come to the hearings but we'll hear from the general public at 5 p.m., Thursday, May 4,» Pridgen said.

Board meetings had to be moved to an alternate site, and at least one public hearing cancelled because the new location had not been advertised, he said.

Only two public affairs reporters at syracuse.com have heard from Jewett: A business reporter said he got a call once.

At a Council hearing on the NYPD's crowd control and protest procedures on Wednesday afternoon, Queens Councilman Donovan Richards, chairman of the Council's Committee on Public Safety, said public safety challenges are «complicated» at events involving large crowdAt a Council hearing on the NYPD's crowd control and protest procedures on Wednesday afternoon, Queens Councilman Donovan Richards, chairman of the Council's Committee on Public Safety, said public safety challenges are «complicated» at events involving large cPublic Safety, said public safety challenges are «complicated» at events involving large cpublic safety challenges are «complicated» at events involving large crowdat events involving large crowds.

«When we look at broadly the Special Victims Division, there are some cases, I believe, where we... could probably make some improvements on how we use technology going forward,» Shea said, speaking after the City Council's executive budget hearing on public safety.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

«To be clear, we all want comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing at the core and we feel public financing is the real game changer, but we're hearing a lot of myths around public financing in particular and trying to connect that to corruption in a bad way as opposed it to being a solution so we wanted to focus on that today,» he said.

Witnesses both in favor and against public financing will be able to testify at the hearing, O'Mara said.

But today Fair Elections says those members aren't being included in the hearing, which will likely take a critical look at the New York City public financing system.

Most ratepayers slammed PSEG Long Island and LIPA's planned 4 percent, 3 - year rate hike at a public hearing in Riverhead last night, saying rates were already too high and left uncertainties about costs soaring even higher.

Public Relations Officer of the Northern Regional Police Command ASP Ebenezer Tetteh said: «Last night at about 6.45 pm, we heard sporadic gunshots in town, so our men had to be moved in quickly.

A signature economic development program conceived by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a success, the administration's top economic development czar said Monday after an at - times contentious appearance before state lawmakers at a public hearing in Albany.

Two Republican state senators said Tuesday that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's public safety commissioner, Dora Schriro, should have disclosed at her legislative confirmation hearing in March that the U.S. Justice Department was investigating the New York City Department of Corrections at the time she headed it.

We may not be able to do anything about the limits of individual donors but we can separately be building another infrastructure, a public financing infrastructure that at least enables candidates to get heard in their relevant district without have a lot of money and without having big money backers,» said Teachout.

WHILE Mark Green properly refuses to say at this stage who will help him run the city, I do hear that the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association — before endorsing the public...

«This growing trend (of short - term rentals) poses concerns for the City of New York — in particular, for our affordable housing stock and public safety,» the city's chief fiscal officer said in testimony he plans to submit before the City Council on Tuesday at a high - profile hearing on home - sharing.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, and City Comptroller John Liu all endorsed a rent freeze at the Rent Guidelines Board public hearing yesterday, the TimesPublic Advocate Bill de Blasio, and City Comptroller John Liu all endorsed a rent freeze at the Rent Guidelines Board public hearing yesterday, the Timespublic hearing yesterday, the Times said.

As recently as at an April 1 public hearing, Gallo praised Fuentes, saying «she's spent the past year undoing nine years of mismanagement» at the office.

He said the commission had also demonstrated at its public hearings the correlation between the contributors and those doing business with government.