Sentences with phrase «urban renewal agencies»

The actions of government» through zoning boards, urban renewal agencies, public housing authorities, school boards, etc.» inevitably contributed, or so the argument went, to residential segregation.)

Alexander Marion, the mayor's press secretary, said contracting through the urban renewal agency «enabled us to hire a consultant in an expedient, efficient manner.»

The state Authorities Budget Office notified Syracuse in 2009, months before Miner took office, that using an urban renewal agency to hire city workers had been declared illegal decades ago by the state comptroller.

State officials have criticized Syracuse mayors, including Miner, for using the urban renewal agency as a vehicle to hire city employees.

Common Councilor Nader Maroun, who chairs the finance committee, said the mayor did not need council approval to hire Jewett because the contract is with the urban renewal agency.

Mayor Stephanie Miner, who chairs the urban renewal agency, said Wednesday in response to the ABO report that she will continue her efforts to reduce the urban renewal agency payroll, which has shrunk by 14 percent since she took office in 2010.

The report by the state Authorities Budget Office also says the city «appears to misuse various grant funds» to pay personnel costs for some employees of the urban renewal agency.

David Kidera, director of the Authorities Budget Office, said his office conducted the review «in part» to follow up on an article last May in The Post-Standard, which documented the urban renewal agency's continued hiring of workers who have nothing to do with urban renewal.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about Albany County's legislature voting to ban pharmacies from selling tobacco products and a vacant house that exploded Sunday in Schenectady that was owned by the city's urban renewal agency.

After an hourlong meeting with city finance commissioner David DelVecchio, who is also treasurer of the urban renewal agency, councilors said they still had unresolved questions.

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Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner has cut the payroll of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency by nearly 20 percent in the past year, responding to criticism that the renewal agency has long been misused to hire city workers without going through civil seAgency by nearly 20 percent in the past year, responding to criticism that the renewal agency has long been misused to hire city workers without going through civil seagency has long been misused to hire city workers without going through civil service.

Now that the Lagos State Government has made known its intention to reposition the hitherto ineffectual Lagos State Public Works Corporation, with the acquisition of some road construction machines for urban renewal, I wish to use this medium to draw the attention of the agency to the deplorable state of roads in the Ajao Estate -LSB-...]

«Even though there's no more urban renewal (agency), there's a lot of people that continue to work in that function.

Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed.»

The state Legislature created the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency in 1962, along with similar agencies in other cities, so Syracuse could take advantage of millions of dollars of federal and state urban renewalUrban Renewal Agency in 1962, along with similar agencies in other cities, so Syracuse could take advantage of millions of dollars of federal and state urban renewalurban renewal aid.

The federal agency that oversees public housing and urban renewal says there was simply too much demand from local governments to give them all money to inspect homes and remove lead paint, including Syracuse.

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.