Sentences with phrase «typical city council»

Put yourself in the shoes of a typical city council member who is more worried about educating children and bringing jobs into the city than raising live releases at the animal shelter.

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At a City Council hearing on criminal discovery practices in February chaired by Queens councilman Rory Lancman, Sergio de la Pava, a supervising attorney for New York County Defender Services who has been representing indigent defendants in Manhattan for over 20 years, described a typical experience in the borough's courtrooms: After waiting six months or a year for trial, he said, «The DA comes in with a cart and drops about six inches of material on your desk.

I know Simcha for 15 years, before being elected to the City Council, (when he was still a private citizen), & he's not a typical political hack that's always looking out for what benefits himself.

«My response is, and using his words, «to be quite frank with you,» I think it's just a typical response like any other police commissioner who refuses to see the value and the authority of the City Council,» Mr. Williams, who sponsors one of the early intervention bills, said in a phone interview.

Wymore is seeking to become the first transgender member of the City Council, and has not lived what we may think of as a typical male life.