Sentences with phrase «told city council members»

6) Colorado: The $ 1.8 billion renovation of Denver International Airport's main terminal will be costing less because «a rush by investors in December to buy tax - exempt private - activity bonds for the project shaved about $ 65 million off the anticipated cost of the 34 - year project, DIA CFO Gisela Shanahan told city council members Wednesday.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein told City Council members the $ 500 million cut in state aid coupled with increasing costs will leave the Department of Education $ 750 million short in fiscal 2011.

Not exact matches

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

Mike Rowley, city council board member for housing, told the Oxford Times: «Rough sleeping is a growing challenge nationally, and the Government simply doesn't provide enough funding.

«We would like nothing better than to stand shoulder to shoulder with you at a (City) Council meeting and say we are together on this,» Scott McKibbin, joint commission and Frontier Park Committee member told the group, which met at the Naper Boulevard Library.

WARRENVILLE — Members of the Warrenville Park Board told the City Council this week that they will proceed with a needs assessment for the newly formed Park District.

Park Board members told the council in a joint meeting that they need a clearer understanding of the guidelines of the lease and would like more control over city - owned park sites maintained by the district.

That ends today,» Quinn told the audience of council members and other city officials gathered in the auditorium of the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown in a far - ranging speech that addressed issues both large and small.

A group of police reform advocates were escorted out of Chambers for repeatedly interrupting Bratton, shouting their distain for the commissioner and telling Council members the city doesn't want or need new officers.

The City Council's governmental operations committee will vote on Tuesday, November 14 to approve a bill allowing online voter registration for city residents, Council Member Ben Kallos, chair of the committee, told Gotham Gazette on ThursCity Council's governmental operations committee will vote on Tuesday, November 14 to approve a bill allowing online voter registration for city residents, Council Member Ben Kallos, chair of the committee, told Gotham Gazette on Thurscity residents, Council Member Ben Kallos, chair of the committee, told Gotham Gazette on Thursday.

We are not isolated and we won't succeed if we just focus inward,» Curran told fellow council members, which include representatives from Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties as well as New York City and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told members of the City Council today he planned to ask for more than 1,000 additional police officers in the NYPD's headcount — just months after turning down the City Council's proposal to add 1,000 more cops.

At a recent fundraiser for the Bobov Hasidic group attended by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council member David Greenfield told the crowd that de Blasio «did not forget his friends.»

The probable cause, Smith told the judge, points to LoPorto, McInerney and at least seven others connected to the Democratic party in Troy, including five members of the City Council.

A spokesperson for Mayor Bill de Blasio told POLITICO New York that the administration «has a strong working relationship with the City Council and we look forward to working with its members on a variety of issues in the new year.»

«I really can't explain why a vote that has the majority of the members of the City Council can't make it to the floor,» Ms. James told the Observer, also noting that Mr. de Blasio's father was a veteran of World War II.

According to the source, the city council members, who were hand - selected by the mayor's staff for being among those likely to co-sponsor the bill, were told that the drivers would also benefit from getting the green medallions earlier than they would had they applied through normal channels.

Lansingburgh Superintendent Cynthia DeDominick and Troy Superintendent John Carmello told council members that the resource officers make both the schools and the city safer.

«We need to see a commitment from the City Council members in the districts that have been initially propose to specifically start the land use process to achieve it,» de Blasio told radio host Brian Lehrer in his weekly «Ask the Mayor Segment» on WNYC.

In a meeting with Council members last Thursday, the speaker told her colleagues that the long - stalled act — which would require the city's police officers to identify themselves when stopping an individual and to let that person know that they have the right to refuse a search if the officer does not have probable cause — would not go before the Council but rather would be handled internally by the police department, despite having a sufficient number of sponsors to pass.

Ask any New York City Council member and they'll tell you — there is no set formula that will send an aspiring candidate to City Hall.

«I will tell you, when I was a City Council member, public advocate and again as mayor, I believe it is perfectly appropriate to put an issue on the agency's plate, and the agency has to make the decision they see as right,» de Blasio said, shortly after his meeting with prosecutors.

University District Common Council member Rasheed Wyatt told a Buffalo Common Council committee he still wants a daytime curfew for young people in the city when they should be in school.

After the October 28 City Council veterans committee hearing, Council Member Eric Ulrich, a Queens Republican who chairs the committee, told Gotham Gazette he was optimistic about the new department's execution, but hasn't yet seen a long - term plan for veterans from the de Blasio administration.

JAMAICA — Queens City Councilman Ruben Wills is one of seven elected officials who was recorded on a wiretap worn by former state Sen. Shirley Huntley, court documents revealed Wednesday, but the council member said investigators told him he is not the subject of a probe.

«We've had some production problems that have delayed publication of the documents,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told fellow members of the Council gathered at the Emigrant Savings Bank as the clock neared midnight.

City Council member Rosie Mendez had been considering a run for Kavanagh's seat, but told us this afternoon she's decided against it.

Continuing their battle to stop the mayor from laying off teachers and cutting child care and after - school program funding, a group of parents and community members gathered at City Hall on June 16 to deliver a petition on seven 50 - foot scrolls signed by more than 20,000 New Yorkers telling Mayor Bloomberg and City Council members to invest in school improvement, not cut programs or personnel.

A slew of left - leaning City Council members gathered in Chelsea last night to fund - raise for an endangered State Senate Democrat, sources told the Observer.

«Last year, we said bag fees by Earth Day,» Council Member Brad Lander told Gotham Gazette, shortly before an unrelated committee hearing at City Hall.

«We can't ignore the fact that we as a city have embraced school choice,» Henderson told D.C. Council members during a briefing Thursday.

Late last year, for example, Uber urged its Austin - area supporters to tell Austin City Council members not to limit the way Uber operates in Austin because alcohol - related traffic accidents have declined there since Uber began providing services.

In Brisbane, Link - Up [Qld] in conjunction with the Brisbane City Council held a ceremony in the city centre, Suncorp Park, where members of the stolen generations from Cherbourg and the Torres Straits told their moving storCity Council held a ceremony in the city centre, Suncorp Park, where members of the stolen generations from Cherbourg and the Torres Straits told their moving storcity centre, Suncorp Park, where members of the stolen generations from Cherbourg and the Torres Straits told their moving stories.

After City Council voted to defer the issue until its October 22 meeting, Miller told the Globe and Mail, «I underestimated the impact that TREB's campaign was having on individual members of council who were undecided.Council voted to defer the issue until its October 22 meeting, Miller told the Globe and Mail, «I underestimated the impact that TREB's campaign was having on individual members of council who were undecided.council who were undecided.»