Sentences with phrase «way city government»

It led to far - reaching changes in the way city government is organized.

In an addendum to his «Keys to the City» platform document, Weiner lists dozens of ways he'd change the way city government works, from altering parking regulations to changing New York's municipal tax code.

Not exact matches

I've never been to one where an entire city, and a good chunk of a state government, got on board in the same way.

The center's latest report, released on October 27, highlights some of the ways that governments in high - cost cities have been responding to the affordable housing issue.

One doesn't expect a government to become a business, but many cities, notably Atlanta, Austin and New York, have found a way to inject a sense of public - private partnership to attract and support new businesses.

That was the conclusion of the city's government, which on Feb. 1 closed its $ 10 - million Shania Twain Centre to make way for the new pride of Timmins: a literal gold mine.

In Cincinnati, for example, the city government has used Tableau to build dashboards that help it recognize geographical and timing patterns in heroin - overdose emergency calls — which in turn helps them deploy police and EMTs in targeted ways to enable faster responses.

«The better way to think, from a practical perspective, about law enforcement, isn't like the surveillance state of advanced technology, it's like your local city government.

And while Premier Alison Redford has been cold towards the idea of granting cities more financial power, saying she's «satisfied with the way things are,» her party should not forget that city voters are who they owe for their narrow re-election to government in 2012.

Photo: Diana McQueen, Don Iveson, Jim Prentice and Naheed Nenshi sign the Framework Agreement that paved the way for the development of city charters on Oct. 7, 2014 (Photo source: Government of Alberta on Flickr)

I was too grateful for the traffic lights the «system» had installed on the corners of the busy streets my son had to navigate on his way to school, and for the school crossing guards the city government had hired to make his daily journey less dangerous, and for the fire inspectors who regularly visited his school to check for hazards, and so on.

He has a take on angels, Satan, and demons which I have never heard before, and which seems to fit the biblical text in a way that, if true, would cause me to read much of Scripture in a whole different way, and which would cause me to view life, and governments, and cities, and politics, and animals, and plants and pretty much everything in a whole new way also.

Governments, nonprofits, schools, healthcare systems and churches lack the infrastructures to help the way they do in the cities.

A city - owned museum displaying a piece of art in no way is an endorsement of the art in question by «the government» — if his version was correct, the Supreme Court building should be torn down immediately.

Newcastle is in many ways at a lower ebb than it was back then — before the consequences of the credit crunch and years of Tory government had really been felt — and, as I noted in that October article, is «in desperate need of the sense of community and belonging, the civic pride and identity, the feelgood factor and escapist pleasure, the solace and succour that the city's football club can potentially provide».

«This process is really about the government looking for ways to give cities the power to get on with things themselves.»

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

Consensus, a state - funded civic group, is expected to recommend within months ways governments in Onondaga County can consolidate, but the group has not publicly said it will urge the city and county to merge.

In 2014, the city and county joined with six nonprofit groups to form a Commission on Local Government Modernization, or Consensus, a 19 - member panel that is studying ways to streamline local gGovernment Modernization, or Consensus, a 19 - member panel that is studying ways to streamline local governmentgovernment.

Academics from London's City University suggest that a form of certification that provides a time stamp to show your computer is secure before it is allowed to connect is another way, a variation on the kite marking idea suggested in the government's defence review.

They just want city government to stay out of the way so they can do their jobs,» he said.

«We are way tired of having these press conferences,» Susan Lerner, the executive director of good government group Common Cause, said at a City Hall press conference today.

But both leaders are likely going to have to come up with more cash — both from state and city funds, and from Washington, assuming they can find a way to work with the Republicans who run the federal government.

The majority of the 25 Moreland Act commissioners say a public campaign finance system modeled on New York City's matching donor system is the only way to curb the undue influence of big money donors in state government.

The federal government sued the city of Ferguson one day after the city council voted to revise an agreement aimed at improving the way police and courts treat poor people and minorities in the St. Louis suburb.

Syracuse, NY — If Green Party candidate for mayor in Syracuse Howie Hawkins had his way, the current system of city government would scrapped and replaced by a system of what he calls «grassroots democracy and proportional representation.»

«We are now well on our way to the successful repowering of NRG in the city of Dunkirk, to provide a reliable source of clean gas energy and a stable tax base in Dunkirk and in our schools,» Horrigan said, adding, «And this is the result of a coalition — a coalition of people in government, in the private sector, and in labor... to be able to bring us together.»

The Green camp is now considering ways that city - government veterans, like defeated Dem candidates Peter Vallone and Freddy Ferrer, can be fitted into the new City Hall regcity - government veterans, like defeated Dem candidates Peter Vallone and Freddy Ferrer, can be fitted into the new City Hall regCity Hall regime.

Meanwhile, government reform groups say New York's politicians need to enact public financing of campaigns, one day after a State Senator was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe his way onto the ballot for the New York City mayor's race.

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus: As leading city governments across the country consider how to approach the Internet age, they're taking the concept of «adaptive reuse» to a new frontier by thinking of new ways to turn old standbys like payphones or disused rail tunnels into new pieces of digital infrastructure.

Cuomo told reporters after a visit to Liverpool yesterday that government consolidation is the only way a city like Syracuse can afford things like massive repairs to a crumbling sewer system.

It does mention once that «Micah's government experience also includes work as Director of State Legislative Affairs for New York City,» but does not in any way describe who he worked for or what his duties entailed.

Some supporters saw a potential ally in Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has spent the better part of four years blaming his failures on the way the constitution regulates elections, structures state government and imposes severe limits on the power of New York City.

She outlined several initiatives under way that will help modernize city government and make it perform better, including:

«We need to start consolidating services either with the county or the private sector looking at ways to cut costs within the city government to save the taxpayers money.»

The Government's «City Deals» represent a great start to making that happen and they provide a real platform to Government should be ready to devolve powers over planning and welfare to work to cities, in a way that will give our great cities the ability to innovate and promote job creation.

If Poloncarz's Republican opponent, Assemblyman Ray Walter, wins the election and gets his way, town and city governments will receive an average $ 166 per resident from the 8.75 percent sales tax — compared to the current $ 139.

Cameron's decision may go some way towards placating City Hall, whose mayor has become increasingly hostile to the coalition government over the possibility of a third runway at Heathrow.

Cuomo this year backed a plan that was similar to the effort in Onondaga County to find ways of merging governments, potentially to create a metropolitan - style government that subsumes the city of Syracuse.

Ms. Mark - Viverito framed both proposals for the new government offices as ways to battle inequality in the city.

«The way it works is you have a federal government, and you have a state government, and you have a city government.

He said he wanted to look to the technology sector for inspiration on how to deliver city services to citizens in a user friendly way «in the palm of their hand» and use technology to bridge the disconnect between government and citizens, especially in light of low voter turnout..

«The Governor is committed to utilizing the settlement money in a fiscally responsible way, including one - time allocations to replace aging infrastructure, rebuild upstate cities and help local governments cut costs and lower property taxes,» she said in a prepared statement.

Less remarked upon, however, was the renewed commitment in the speech to building the Northern Powerhouse, and empowering cities in the North to fulfil their economic potential — another key way in which the Government hopes to leave its stamp long after Cameron has left office.

«Participatory Budgeting has shifted the conversation, and has transformed the way we do government in our City.

Read also called for the city to «let the private sector and nonprofits work, and get the government out of the way.»

The event, which brought together over 150 leaders from across the city, was designed to create dialogue between government and other professionals from both communities in order to discuss shared concerns and ways to develop strategic partnerships.

«Let me just say, overall, government is about finding ways to work together and collaborate and I represent the City Council, which represents the city of New York, and definitely would like to see that working together,» Mark - Viverito said in the radio intervCity Council, which represents the city of New York, and definitely would like to see that working together,» Mark - Viverito said in the radio intervcity of New York, and definitely would like to see that working together,» Mark - Viverito said in the radio interview.

Regardless of the involvement of the construction unions, Ed Ott, the former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, said the group's demand for government employees to sacrifice was «too much of a one - way street.»

Either way, the lack of cooperation between the city's highest local elected official and its representative in the federal government certainly doesn't help the situation.