Sentences with phrase «used by a local government»

New York, NY: A new report released today by the NYU Furman Center details strategies used by local governments to address rising housing costs and displacement of low - income households in gentrifying neighborhoods.

During March, BitPay's bitcoin payment tools have also been integrated into E-GovLink, a billing system used by local governments, and FoxyCart, a popular SaaS cloud - hosted shopping cart service.

Security software used by local governments could be a backdoor for Russian hackers to gain entrance to sensitive information.

This form may be used by a local government board member to confirm attendance to trainings that do not provide a certificate.

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The reversal of the Cole Memo, written by then - Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole in 2013 means that there will be more confusion about the legality of growing, selling, and using the drug in places where state and local laws clash with the federal government.

The tunnel threat report also accused Netanyahu and Ya'alon of endangering Israelis living near Gaza by halting government funding for their local security teams, and pulling out the soldiers who used to stand guard outside their communities in the year and a half leading up to the operation.

Tufekci, who has been following the use of Twitter and Facebook by people in Turkey for some time now, said that many Turkish citizens depend on social media as a news source because the local media is either censored by the government or otherwise unreliable.

The study's authors say they used the same methods researchers developed in a 2009 report titled «State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce,» compiled by business professors at the University of Tennessee.

debt obligations of the U.S. government that are issued at various intervals and with various maturities; revenue from these bonds is used to raise capital and / or refund outstanding debt; since Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, they are generally considered to be free from credit risk and thus typically carry lower yields than other securities; the interest paid by Treasuries is exempt from state and local tax, but is subject to federal taxes and may be subject to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctions

While the Chinese central government is expecting its different regions to use its comparative advantages to support the one belt, one road, this strategic deployment is constrained by the capacity of local governments.

Enterprise zone: A geographically targeted tax, expenditure, and regulatory inducement used by state and local governments since the early 1980s and by the federal government since 1993.

The Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities were developed in 2017 by Robin Chase, Zipcar co-Founder, and a consortium of leading city and transport organizations including: the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), Transportation for America (T4America), Rocky Mountain Institute, Shared - Use Mobility Center, and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

-- For Tmall Global orders, China Smart Logistics will work to facilitate cross-border imports by using bonded warehouses and coordinating with regulatory authorities and local governments to ensure that all imported goods are genuine and comply with customs regulations.

This process is fostered mainly by the global transnational corporations (TNCs) using international agencies such as WB / IMF / WTO, the governments of industrialized states, and collaborating local elites.

Wouldn't it be great if we could move whole jurisdictions towards better practices through coordinated, multi-stakeholder coalitions, endorsed by engaged local governments, and built on effective land use planning?

If you are involved in a private youth sports program which plays on publicly - owned fields, diamonds, rinks, or courts, or are in local government, you have probably been hearing a lot lately about what is being dubbed the «power of the permit»: the authority municipalities and towns around the country are using to condition use of their athletic facilities by private programs on compliance with state concussion safety laws from which they would otherwise be exempt, or, in an increasing number of instances, to fill gaps in their state's law.

Officials from both local government bodies will meet over the next month to work out a possible arrangement to build parking lots on the township property and on the pool site by 2001 for each other's use, they said.

Speaking at a conference hosted by the Local Government Network, Mr Denham said: «Local taxpayers should be vigilant if they are asked to accept reduced services because their council won't take tough decisions to introduce shared services, sharing senior staff with other local authorities, PCTs [primary care trusts] or other bidders, or through making the best use of public buildLocal Government Network, Mr Denham said: «Local taxpayers should be vigilant if they are asked to accept reduced services because their council won't take tough decisions to introduce shared services, sharing senior staff with other local authorities, PCTs [primary care trusts] or other bidders, or through making the best use of public buildLocal taxpayers should be vigilant if they are asked to accept reduced services because their council won't take tough decisions to introduce shared services, sharing senior staff with other local authorities, PCTs [primary care trusts] or other bidders, or through making the best use of public buildlocal authorities, PCTs [primary care trusts] or other bidders, or through making the best use of public buildings.

Following the path beaten out by the Plain English Campaign (now in its 30th year) and their Golden Bull Awards, organisations such as the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestabiLocal Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestabilocal authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestability.

The agencies will study options for using facilities owned by state or local governments or the possibility of using privately - run sites.

Petitions are also commonly used by a number of parliaments (the UK parliamentary process is unfortunately particularly poorly designed) and local governments, providing citizens with the opportunity to petition their representatives to consider a particular matter.

Guidance published today by the government will set out the ways in which local authorities and their partners can use the funds.

Judicial review is used by individuals, businesses and organisations to test the lawfulness of government decisions and actions, from those of ministers to local authorities.

A stunning 85 % of the 500 New York State local government websites rated by the Empire Center got an «F» for failing to provide basic information and being hard to use.

What is on ground right now is an attempt by certain individuals to use the image of the National leader of the party to entrench their own personal interest by promoting impositions of candidates from various local government, wards during the last elections.

Population figures used by the government to establish funding levels for local authorities are unworkably inaccurate, MPs have warned.

«Without accountability by local political leaders, the Federal government would continue to be the scapegoat for the failure of states and local governments to use ecological funds for the purposes they were released,» he said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also criticized the move, which would cut money used by state and local governments spent to help maintain records on those who are ineligible to purchase firearms.

He said, «We will use local, state and federal power to take over Ekiti from a rapacious government being run by a brigand in Ekiti.

For the avoidance of doubt, let me emphasize first, that INEC was not in any way involved in organizing the Kano State Local Government election beyond the legal requirement that the register of voters compiled by INEC should be used in all Local Government elections nationwide.

Both explicit and implicit in some of these reports was the suggestion that since the National Register of Voters compiled by INEC was used in the election, the alleged problem of underaged voting in the Kano Local Government election is linked to a prevalence of underaged registrants in the National Register of Voters.

While exonerating the Commission from the trending video of the Kano State Local Government Election, Prof. Yakubu emphasised that INEC was not in any way involved in organising that election beyond the legal requirement that the register of voters compiled by INEC should be used in all Local Government elections nationwide.

Brian Butry, a spokesperson for the OSC, said it is not uncommon for his office to audit credit cards used by fire companies and local governments, but there is no targeting of credit cards for audits.

«Although the CBC opposed this legislation, it was approved and has been used by 137 local governments and the State to lower short - run pension costs,» Kellermann wrote.

The text of the press conference jointly signed by Sheikh Usman Abubakar Babantine and Imam Musa Tanimu, Chairman and Assistant Secretary respectively said, «The discernible sense of disillusionment of the masses was clearly seen during the just concluded intra party local government primary elections in many states in the country which resulted into rioting, use of weapons, massive killings and vandalism, «This shows that we are still lacking qualitative and responsible political leadership.

Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Saturday, blamed use of obsolete maps for the tragic bombing of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Rann village of Kala - Balge Local Government Area of Borno State by Air Force fighter jets.

Assemblymen Brindisi Said «The Legislation signed by the Governor for The Act mandates that funds generated by it must be used for extra school aid, and for state and local governments,» Brindisi said.

And as taxpayers across the state get even more used to the protection provided by the cap, it will become a taller political order for public employee unions and local governments to riddle it with loopholes, as they've been trying to do.

Derived from self - reported statistics gathered annually by the Office of the State Comptroller, the result is a database of measures that taxpayers can use as benchmarks for evaluating local governments.

Legislator Brian May (R - Baldwinsville) said the good news is 80 percent of the money being spent would be reimbursed by the federal government, and the remaining balance, or local match, would be covered by tobacco asset money used for infrastructure projects.

Recently the Wisconsin State Journal asked Dennis Dresang, political science professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, about state Republicans» push to bar local governments from regulating everything from the sale of large sugary drinks to the use of explosives by sand mining companies.

Astorino points to the agreement doing away with local control when it comes to land use, leading to $ 20 million in grants being withheld by the federal government.

He said the fund was also used as it was directed by the CBN to pay salary of local government workers, primary school teachers and pension arrears.

ascertain if the voter register requested by the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission was actually used in the Local Government Elections

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

The Community Development Block Grant is funding distributed by the federal government to local governments and states to use on housing and economic and social development.

Policy options raised by Findlay included increasing the minimum wage, reintroduction of council house building, reduction in the use of the private sector in NHS Scotland, and allowing councils to set their own taxes to help reverse job losses within local government.

Her job was supported by the French government for the first 2 years, after which she secured funding for an extra year from the Global Environment Facility, an international environmental fund, to use West Africa as a demonstration project for the participation of local communities in the management of biosphere reserves.

With support from the school and the local community and government, Wood arranged a shipment of used computers, donated by the Toronto Stock Exchange, and helped build a computer laboratory.

(C) Cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane, including, where appropriate, programs or mechanisms administered by local governments and entities other than the State.