Sentences with phrase «to appoint commissioners»

Critics say the move shows how the centrally appointed commissioners who cover vast areas ignore local knowledge.

Cuomo added he has not spoken with the newly appointed commissioner of education, MaryEllen Elia (the Board of Regents appoints the education commissioner, not the governor).

According to Ndace, the governor retained the three newly appointed Commissioners in the Ministries of Tourism and Culture; Mineral Resources and Livestock and Fishery.

The politically appointed commissioners of the state Board of Elections released new rules that would grant them more oversight of investigations conducted by the board's chief enforcement counsel, Risa Sugarman.

During a discussion earlier this month at the state school board, newly appointed commissioner Pam Stewart said the state was weighing its testing options and would instead make a decision by March.

Lord Hope, the Scottish judge, has argued that the negotiations are best conducted by appointed commissioners, representing the three major British parties.

Upset price - A minimum price set by a court in a judicial foreclosure, below which the property may not be sold by a court appointed commissioner at public auction; the minimum price which can be accepted for the property after the court has had the property appraised.

It was supposed to take the politics out of salary increases, but the governor's appointed commissioners refused to take action on a pay raise proposal, hinting they might be more amendable later if lawmakers enact reforms that Cuomo is seeking.

Bedford was recently appointed commissioner for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, which will be showing new work by Mark Bradford.

Early in his mayoralty, de Blasio was also harshly criticized for taking nine months to appoint a commissioner for the veterans office, and for a subsequent delay in making appointments to the Veteran Advisory Board.

«Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa.

Still, Gagan's hiring by JCOPE to a newly created dual post of chief of staff and special counsel prompted criticisms from four legislatively appointed commissioners that his hiring had been «plainly invalid» and an example of «incessant interference» by the Cuomo administration in its operations.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has disclosed that paucity of funds prevented his government from appointing commissioners since it was inaugurated in November 27, 2014...

And as the Times Union previously reported, Steven Aaron — whose LLCs gave the governor $ 25,000 during this six - month stretch and much more in prior years — received millions from the Division of Housing and Community Renewal for work in Schoharie after Cuomo - appointed commissioner Darryl Towns «bypassed competing projects that had higher recommendations from his staff.»

The most detailed version of what's being discussed has come in the form of draft bill language obtained and published by POLITICO, including laws that would allow ride - hailing services to operate upstate and would potentially give the governor more authority over appointing commissioners to the Port Authority.

The City Council appoints the commissioners to a four - year term and the board is supposed to hire a bipartisan staff to run day - to - day operations.

Each of the five borough presidents appoints a commissioner to the 13 member panel, but the mayor appoints the other six plus the chair, leaving it effectively in his hands.

The board members then appoint the commissioner.

Beyond appointing commissioners, legislators said they can request Water Authority leaders to appear more frequently before the governing body.

That left a legal door open for three of the four GOP councilmen to appoint a commissioner loyal to them, a man named Michael Michel.

Two years later, John King was appointed commissioner following the abrupt resignation of David Steiner.

«The two, white suburban legislators, they propose that the white county executive appoint a commissioner who will have parallel authority to the democratically elected school board, and in my book, that's an attack on the democratic rights of the citizens of Milwaukee, the majority of whom are black and brown,» Peterson says.

Their proposal would allow County Executive Chris Abele to appoint a commissioner charged with turning around up to five underperforming MPS schools per year.

The politically appointed commissioners of the state Board of Election plan to vote today on a rules change granting them more control over the investigations by Risa Sugarman, the board's chief enforcement counsel.

The politically appointed commissioners of the state Board of Election plan to vote tomorrow on a rules change granting them more control over the investigations of Risa Sugarman, the board's chief enforcement counsel.

A lawyer, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola has berated the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola over his refusal to appoint commissioners in the state since his second term...

In Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee County executive will have authority to appoint a commissioner who can take control of up to three of the lowest performing schools in the first year, up to five in subsequent years, and hire a private company to run these schools.

But the governor's appointed commissioners refused to take action on a pay raise proposal, hinting they might be more amenable later if lawmakers enact reforms that Cuomo is seeking.

I believe the most recently appointed commissioner — and Paterson's lone appointee — James Larocca, is still a Democrat.

The only two newly appointed commissioners are Ayo Alabi (Local Govt and Chieftaincy Affairs) and Chief Tunde Ogunleye (Water Resources).

Those measurable actions include recklessly ignoring the worsening state of the Great Lakes; failing to appoint a commissioner to the...

«Your appointees to these bodies have shown us that clout and law - breaking is what drives policy decisions in your administration,» Tresser said, directing his comments to the mayor, who appoints commissioners to the Park Board.

Perhaps Scotland would then be treated a little like Norway: possessing many of the privileges and duties of EU membership, but not able to return MEPs to the European Parliament or appoint Commissioners.

ALBANY — The politically appointed commissioners of the state Board of Elections released new rules on Thursday that would grant them more oversight of investigations conducted by the board's chief enforcement counsel, Risa Sugarman.

The court adopted the argument canvassed by Adewale Afolabi Esq, the immediate past Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Osun State and Counsel to Governor of Osun State that Kanmi Ajibola failed to make available to the court facts which showed that he suffered extraordinary injury by Governor Rauf Aregbesola's failure to appoint Commissioners and Special Advisers.

Roger Parrino Sr. is has been appointed commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services and needs confirmation.

The state Business Council, too, had made the argument the Legislature should be tasked with any campaign finance changes and not the appointed commissioners at the Board of Elections.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is appointing commissioners to take over key powers from Rahman after the report accused his council of a lack of transparency.

Morenzi was the district office manager for Upper East Side Assemblyman Pete Grannis from 1981 to 2007, and became special assistant to Grannis when the assemblyman was appointed commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation in 2007.

«As governor I will appoint commissioners... who, like me, oppose this group's plan to build a mosque at Ground Zero — and I encourage New Yorkers to call the Public Service commissioners and tell them the same,» he said.

Wisniewski maintains that the Port Authority requires a governance change: «Right now the executive branch in both states has the sole authority to appoint commissioners, leading to a very myopic agency,» he says.

But based on the ethics law, Skelos may still get to make all three appointments when his appointed commissioners Joseph Covello, Mary Lou Rath and George Weissman decide to step down.

Cuomo would be given vast new power over the Port Authority, including the authority to unilaterally remove and appoint commissioners, under draft legislation that has been privately circulating among Albany lawmakers this week.

The Comptroller overall was not highly critical of Governor Cuomo or any of the governor's appointed commissioners of any of the agencies or authorities cited in the audits.

The Jann household has given about $ 16,000 to various Republican causes in New York since he was appointed a commissioner in 2011, according to online records kept by the State Board of Elections.

But he said Republicans should get half of the 115 mayor - appointed commissioner, deputy commissioner and first assistant posts — many of which command six - figures.

Speaking at an event at the conservative Manhattan Institute, Mr. Bratton, who was appointed commissioner by Mayor Bill de Blasio, faulted the administration for playing down the problem for too long.

The commission is made up not of outside ethics experts, but appointees by the governor and Legislature, with investigations launched or blocked by the appointed commissioners.