Sentences with phrase «when local elected»
The most effective and enduring change takes place when local elected officials come to understand how important the issue of ending shelter killing is to their constituents.
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His People's Action party opportunistically teamed up with local Communists, who helped Lee get elected Prime Minister when the British granted local autonomy in 1959.
Because when the locals use zoning laws to bully a commune, or the feds conduct a drug bust, or Democratic Party divisions get Richard Nixon elected, it's just like Nazi Germany, you know?
Despite criticism from local elected officials, de Blasio said the city does not need to provide advance notice when it rents out an entire hotel to use as a homeless shelter.
They were put out about the fact that the governor didn't brief them before going public with his initial estimate of $ 30 billion worth of damage caused by Sandy — a number that later grew to $ 42 billion when he formally briefed them and local elected officials at a meeting in his midtown Manhattan office.
Many of the polystyrene and plastic bag laws began when a concerned citizen organized their neighbors and approached their local elected officials with a plan.
Joshua Lafazan became one of the youngest officeholders in the state when he was elected to his local school board, now he's running for a post on the county Legislature.
When asked if he had stayed away because of criticism, Cuomo pointed to the support of the elected and state officials that his office picked to stand with him at the podium and said their support was an indication that locals were happy with the response of his administration to the crisis.
Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.
Unlike today when District Leaders are elected directly by the voters, in 1949 they were elected by the local county committeemen.
It's not anti-democratic to delegate the appointment of public servants to your local representatives when that's a core part of the role you elect them for!
@jamesqf It's not anti-democratic to delegate the appointment of public servants to your local representatives when that's literally a core part of the role you elect them for!
«When people have a question or problem, they don't go to the political club or to the local elected: they go to the civic association.»
«At a time when corruption in our state and local governments have eroded so much trust in our public officials, it's critical that we elect bold, honest, hard - working leaders like John Brooks,» Rice said in a statement.
It was the type of question that probably wouldn't have been posed to Stringer before Donald Trump was elected president in November, back when the local political scene was left to the diehards and the various interest groups scrapping for their budget crumbs.
That kind of thinking is pretty standard — particularly when it comes to a local elected official advocating on behalf of his own municipality.
The union said it was «staggering that a government that is committed to community empowerment is now seeking to disenfranchise democratically elected local councils who represent local people and deny them any say when proposals come forward to open new academy schools.»
In my 10 years, I've tried to be a very independent - minded local elected official, and I think people in the city really respect and appreciate the fact that I speak my mind when I think things are right, and when I think things are wrong.
These were created by the Local Government Act 2000 at a time when Tony Blair and those around him hoped to centralise local government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from WhiteLocal Government Act 2000 at a time when Tony Blair and those around him hoped to centralise local government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from Whitelocal government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from Whitehall.
The Democrats were thrown a curve Wednesday morning when Highway Superintendent Pete Harris, the party's only representative in local elected office, announced he will retire at the end of his term.
When Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced last week that they'd reached a deal to speed up the closure of Rikers Island by creating or expanding jail facilities in every borough except Staten Island, it seemed to be a clear sign of a productive partnership between the administration and local elected officials.
When prodded by City Hall, local elected officials will still say plenty of nice things about the mayor, and bolster his record with the kinds of words that should, if heard by enough ears, improve Mr. de Blasio's standing.
A group including several local elected officials known as the Rebuild New York Now coalition today called on the state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo to address the issue in the next budget when the legislature reconvenes in January.
When we are not responding to daily emergencies, we are working within the communities teaching the importance of fire safety, raising awareness to our charitable organizations such as the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and Firefighters» Coats for Kids, and taking part in the political process ensuring that our local elected officials and our state legislators understand the importance of our profession and what it takes to ensure your safety.
8 years as an elected local councillor in both opposition and control (I was also Mayor with the casting vote when Labour was evenly balanced with the LibDems)
Even though Sean Patrick Maloney was only elected to Congress two days ago, local leaders will call on him to make a commitment to his new constituents that he will fight for them when he begins his term in January, not the wealthiest 2 %.
When the Mayor climbs down from his Ivory Tower it is customary in politics to inform the local elects.
He was elected as MP for a second term in the May 2012 elections and worked as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government until September 2012, when he was named Vice Chairman of the Conservative party for Local Government.
The largest party in an election is likely to win a smaller number of proportional seats, so that governing parties may lose diversity, unless the members elected from the party list when it was in opposition then win local seats when the party gains enough support to form the government.
Rosenthal said she's known Moore for years, and once connected him with local elected officials when he was raising money for Michigan politician Jennifer Granholm.
«When people go to the polls for the council elections on Thursday and the general election on 8 June they can vote Labour to elect a local championl, or they can vote SNP to elect a candidate who will only focus on another divisive referendum.»
Look at the London local elections in 2006, the turnout was so low that many Conservatives, Lib Dems, and even Greens and BNP people were elected; a feat which wasn't repeated in 2010 when Labour voters for the General election took part in the local elections, letting Labour gain many more seats despite being less popular nationally than in 2006.
Despite criticism from local elected officials, Mayor de Blasio said Thursday the city does not need to provide advance notice when it rents out an entire hotel to use as a homeless shelter.
As he did every weekday since January 2010, when he was elected mayor, Sakurai strolled through the main entrance of the shopworn local government building, cheerfully greeting clerks before walking upstairs to his third - floor office overlooking a lattice of dense, squat housing stretching to the coast about seven miles away.
GPs will have the power to choose how to spend resources in order to achieve the best health outcomes, and we will ensure that PCT boards include directly elected individuals who can speak for patients at board level so that local people have a voice when decisions are made about local health provision.
When the film opens, Homs could pass for a thriving Syrian city, though tanks in the streets and soldiers on rooftops reflect the mounting tension between the locals and the country's leader, president Bashar al - Assad, «elected» (the 2000 ballot offered no alternatives) after the death of his father, who had controlled the country for three decades before him.
When the principal informs her that she's No. 2 and can't catch the student ahead of her, she concocts a plan to elect Bernard to the local school board to abolish class rankings.
A lawyer by training, she became legal counsel to then United Federation president Sandra Feldman in 1986, was elected assistant secretary to the local union in 1995, treasurer two years later, and president in 1998 when Feldman moved on to the national presidency.
The president - elect of the American Association of School Administrators is under scrutiny for spending up to $ 20,000 in local school district funds for promotional materials highlighting himself and his district at a time when he was seeking that leadership position.
At a time when federal policy makers are rightfully asking local educators and elected officials to take more ownership for how schools operate, community schools are becoming more important than ever.
In an era of partisan gridlock at all levels of government, we would do well to remember the moment a half century ago when local leaders, elected officials, civil rights pioneers, and others came together to ensure equal access to the ballot.
Of course, that overlooks one of the major problems and that is how does a publicly elected municipal board of education legally allow a charter school to be set up in its district when that charter school doesn't even allow a local elected board to citizens to oversee it.
When the CCJEF v. Rell school funding lawsuit was filed 11 years ago, Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy was a plaintiff in the case, one of a number of local elected officials who decried the fact that Connecticut's system of school funding was unfair, inadequate and unconstitutional.
When the final reports were filed in Bridgeport, the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent more than $ 560,000, a state record, in their effort to take away the right of local citizens to elect their own board of education.
This success builds on our fall 2015 wins at the local level, when we endorsed and successfully helped elect three Denver Public Schools Board members, including playing a key role in the reelection of the former board president in her at - large race.
This gigantic tome represents a wealth of information on pet ownership, consumer habits and other statistics that we reference when discussing the broader pet trade with elected officials at the federal, state and local levels.
Bart, what you would consider center left, our left, NDP, installed the leader of the dissolved Communist Party in the local riding of the NDP leader when he went federal, and she was elected.
(Local elected officials can arrange for the necessary introductions to State regulators when a new bio-fuel producing site is being considered.)
The 10 trailblazing civic projects profiled in our list of the top green cities in America are among the most impressive success stories to date — examples of what's possible when elected officials and local business leaders back up their green visions with scientific know - how, clout and creative funding.
This situation is more common in courts of appeals, but it also occurs at the trial court level when a local attorney is elected or appointed to serve as a judge.