Sentences with phrase «time in a city council»

«As the father of MWBEs, having authored Local Law 1 and Local 129, during my time in the City Council,» Sanders said.

Ms. Crowley has been an active defender of firefighters during her time in the City Council, often working against the Bloomberg administration's efforts to close firehouses in cost - cutting moves.

«As my time in the City Council must necessarily come to an end, it is my fervent hope that I will be able to continue my public service,» Fidler wrote.

«De Blasio and Recchia voted together over 99 percent of the time in the City Council and teamed up to raise almost every middle class tax on Staten Islanders and Brooklynites they could get their hands on.

Throughout his time in the city council and the state assembly David Weprin has earned our respect and admiration as a public leader.

«A lifetime of service and delivering for our community,» the flier says, noting his time in the City Council, state Senate, NYPD and Marine Corps.

Instead of focusing on the people and the love story at the heart of «Freeheld,» they turned it into a courtroom drama, spending way more time in a city council room than a hospital room.

Not exact matches

«I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head - tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» Amazon VP Drew Herdener told the Seattle Times.

The city council said it needs time to consider zoning laws and lighting regulations «before commercial cryptocurrency mining operations results in irreversible change to the character and direction of the city.»

On Wednesday, The Seattle Times also reported that Amazon is pausing expansion plans in its hometown of Seattle, due to a dispute over a proposed tax by the City Council.

Chicago's sales tax rate will hit a whopping 10.25 percent next year, and just in time for Oscar Mayer to move into its new digs in the AON Center near Millennium Park, the Chicago City Council passed the largest property tax increase in modern city histCity Council passed the largest property tax increase in modern city histcity history.

At the time, some city council members also indicated interest in a city or state owned bank.

Ms. Leibovici is a long - time local politician who was first elected as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in 1993 and served on city council from 2001 to 2013.

The Washington, D.C. City Council passed a measure Tuesday legalizing same - sex marriage, and opponents plan to try to get it overturned in Congress or at the polls, The New York Times reports.

We could move toward an understanding whereby the continuing «denominational» assemblies and conventions (now deriving ecclesial authority from their conciliar commitment) would endeavor to meet in the same city at the same time (and hence at the same intervals) the episcopal council met, thereby creating a uni - and multicameral structure graphically expressing both unity and diversity.

In this sense, for instances, the decision of the Masters Barbers» Association to open neighborhood shops until church time on Sundays is just as surely political policy as an ordinance passed by the city council.

But Jane Mafuta, a Manja Township resident in Blantyre, still blames the current situation on the city councils for failing to collect garbage on time.

The Chicago City Council has been known to engage in mission creep from time to time, such as when it has tried to weigh in on U.S. foreign policy.

If the City Council decides to pursue the project, a complex could be built in time to open in 2002, city officials sCity Council decides to pursue the project, a complex could be built in time to open in 2002, city officials scity officials said.

A day after a debate hosted by the Times Union, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan challenged a figure on minorities in the city workforce cited by mayoral rival Common Council President Carolyn McLaughlin.

«From her time on the City Council to her current tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives, Yvette has been a fighter to improve the lives of her constituents.»

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

Perhaps sensing growing Dominican clout, Espaillat is now backed by a number of elected officials, some of whom backed Rangel the last time: the City Council speaker, who represents East Harlem and was born in Puerto Rico, and the Bronx Borough president.

In 2001, Robert was elected to the City Council — and three times overwhelmingly re-elected by the voters of his upper Manhattan district.

Former state senator Hiram Monserrate, who was ejected from the Senate in 2010 after being convicted of assaulting his girlfriend and who served time in prison for fraud and conspiracy, is announcing a bid for the City Council on Tuesday.

The New York City Council voted to give its members hefty pay raises in February 2016 and simultaneously imposed a ban on certain forms of outside income, effectively making the job of City Council member a full - time position.

So while the party has rolled the dice at times — like backing Letitia James in her 2003 race for City Council — it has played it very, very safe at others.

The Times keeps calling Corey Johnson, the new Speaker of the City Council, the second-most powerful man in City government.

The New York City Council is taking the first legislative steps to regulate the proliferation of topless painted women, costumed characters and others who hustle for tips in Times Square's pedestrian plazas.

Major real estate developers, using limited liability companies, funneled six figures in donations to the Democratic Organization of Queens County in the time before U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley, its chair, selected gentrification - friendly Councilmember Corey Johnson as the new speaker of the New York City Council.

Former New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is taking a full time job with the Latino Victory Fund — a PAC aimed at increasing Latino representation in local, state and federal government — in a move that could further escalate her political profile beyond the five boroughs.

As promised in the «state of the city» speech earlier this year, cameras were installed in the Council chambers in time for April budget hearings.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.

Albany Common Council member Mark Robinson questions Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan during her 2017 budget proposal presentation on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at City Hall in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron / Times Union)

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was widely regarded as the Democratic front - runner when the 2013 mayor's race began, despite simmering resentment in the party about the way she'd wielded power at times and, more importantly, about her role in extending term limits.

During his time as City Councilman, Tony brought back some of the lowest amount of discretionary funds in the entire City Council.

The crime is currently a Class B misdemeanor in the state, which means that suspects rarely — if ever — spend time in jail, said City Councilman Peter Vallone, chair of the council's Public Safety committee.

Whilst failing to win any outright overall control in any council area in Scotland, the SNP emerged as the largest political group in sixteen councils, including Glasgow City Council, knocking the Scottish Labour Party out of power in Glasgow for the first time sinccouncil area in Scotland, the SNP emerged as the largest political group in sixteen councils, including Glasgow City Council, knocking the Scottish Labour Party out of power in Glasgow for the first time sincCouncil, knocking the Scottish Labour Party out of power in Glasgow for the first time since 1980.

Sanitation said in a statement responding to Avella that the current trash pickup times were negotiated between the department and the City Council in 2006, when Tony Avella was a part of the Council.

Rather than have all this vague disclosure, the city should mandate that council members put in 40 - hour weeks to enable them to provide true, full - time constituent services.

Before her time in the Council, Gonzalez — who collected a salary of $ 141,713, according to city data — worked as El Diario's executive editor and as director of communications for the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs during the Bloomberg administration.

His Lt. Governor, Gloria Mattera, is a long time peace and single payer universal health care activist from Brooklyn who has often polled 20 % of the vote in her prior races for Borough President and City Council.

«The moratorium will allow time for such analysis to be commenced, analysis that we are confident will affirm absolutely our contention that hydraulic fracturing should never be done within New York City's upstate unfiltered water supply watershed,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Environmental Committee Chair James Gennaro said in a joint statement.

At the same time, the $ 79,500 yearly salary impels many lawmakers to pursue some form of supplemental income; the New York City Council, for example, voted in February to raise its members» pay to $ 148,500.

«These classes will empower men and women who might otherwise feel helpless at time when our City is experiencing an increase in attacks against our LGBT brothers and sisters,» said Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer.

The City Council Speaker's long - hidden struggles were detailed in a series of interviews with The New York Times published on Tuesday morning.

ALBANY — A day after a debate hosted by the Times Union, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan challenged a figure on minorities in the city workforce cited by mayoral rival Common Council President Carolyn McLaughlin.

A battle of City Council super-egos has stymied legislation that would allow corporate giants like Disney, Marvel and DC Comics to battle the phony superheroes and characters in Times Square,...

Schulman has spent much of her life working with and for city government, but she is hoping to serve for the first time as an elected official representing the 29th Council District in City Hcity government, but she is hoping to serve for the first time as an elected official representing the 29th Council District in City HCity Hall.

Albany Common Council member Judd Krasher listens as Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan delivers her 2017 budget proposal on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at City Hall in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron / Times Union archive)