Sentences with phrase «where council voted»

In the interim, readers can view a webcast of the 17 February meeting where the council voted to adopt the development plan online.

Like in 1798, there were cantons where the council voted rather than all voters.

Not exact matches

The Stonecrest City Council voted 4 - 2 on Monday to de-annex 345 acres of land if the e-commerce giant picks the area for what the company calls HQ2, a corporate hub where Seattle - based Amazon says it will one day house 50,000 jobs.

The controversy raged for two years, the final showdown coming in the 1916 General Council, where trinitarians won by a decisive two - thirds vote.

The same is true in Sweden, where the Swedish parliament voted 271 to 20 to condemn a resolution passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that supported the right of conscientious objection for physicians.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

Also at 12:30 p.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito holds a press conference prior to the Council's pre-stated meeting where members are expected to vote on a private school security bill, Red Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

To overcome this problem we have, on behalf of the BBC, been beavering away at establishing which local authorities appear to be more likely to record a relatively strong vote for Remain, which are the ones where Leave can be expected to do relatively well, and which are the council areas where the two sides could be expected to be equally matched.

Also Dickson community to community meet the people tour may turn out to be the game changer for the ruling party as the tour afforded the governor the opportunity to interface with the communities in all the nooks and crannies of the council to sell his agenda to the locals The APC may have captured power at the federal level but the PDP remains a formidable party in the state where money, to a large extent, plays a major role in swaying the vote.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.

Members of Community Board 1 voted to endorse the bill to limit tour buses when it was first introduced in 2015, and former board staffer Noah Pfefferblit testified at a City Council hearing in 2016, where he described the sightseeing buses as «significant contributors» to congestion on Lower Manhattan's already clogged streets.

As from 1 November 2014 and subject to the provisions laid down in the Protocol on transitional provisions, in cases where, under the Treaties, not all the members of the Council participate in voting, a qualified majority shall be defined as follows:

No other close Council race, even one in Queens where the incumbent is ahead by only 5 votes, was certified yesterday.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

But if they're wise enough to vote Liberal Democrat at the next local elections in Hull, or for the Conservatives in any seat where we are well - placed to defeat Labour, then they will have a council that is fulfilling its statutory duty.

In Second place in the 2015 City Council Race (where two seats are up for grabs) was Council Candidate, Andre Wallace who received 20 % of the vote with 2,226 votes.

«But we have to do this through the City Council where there's a wide range of views and what I'd say to every advocate: «You already have my vote.

Naturally we don't know how the planning officers vote although it is likely that Socialism is the prevailing orthodoxy - just as it would be, for instance, among the social workers of Cambridgeshire County Council where Labour have three of the 69 councillors.

Staten Island's two Republican Council members, Minority Leader Vincent Ignizio (South Shore) and Councilman Steven Matteo (Mid - Island / Brooklyn), were among those voting against the legislation in the Council — where many members expressed concerns about how the bill might affect small businesses but voted for it anyway.

Like any small protest party they will cause annoyance where a few votes decide seats in the Council elections but I don't think they'll be a serious threat by next GE.

Following a lengthy public session where the Ulster Town Board heard from members of the public concerned about oversight on the proposed Niagara Bottling plant, the town board voted to deny both the Kingston Common Council and Woodstock Town Board involved agency status in the plant's coming environmental review.

«They planned this hearing as soon as possible to make this lawsuit go away,» Vallone told me after this morning's meeting of the Council's health committee meeting, where he cast the only dissenting vote on the bill.

TMG's chairmen in the six councils in the division, including Mr Abiodun Iyiola (Ikorodu North), Mr Femi Agbi (Ikorodu West) and Mr Taiwo Longe (Ikorodu Central) were present at the event where Ambode was endorsed via a voice vote.

But that familiar vision of Staten Island no longer exists on its North Shore, where the borough's first black elected official, Democrat Debi Rose, was voted into a City Council seat in 2009.

Where preferential voting is used for the election of an assembly or council, parties and candidates often advise their supporters on their lower preferences, especially in Australia where a voter must rank all candidates to cast a valid baWhere preferential voting is used for the election of an assembly or council, parties and candidates often advise their supporters on their lower preferences, especially in Australia where a voter must rank all candidates to cast a valid bawhere a voter must rank all candidates to cast a valid ballot.

Unlike in parliament, where a government stands or falls by «confidence motions» and votes on the Budget, council administrations are much more vulnerable.

The dream is gone - left behind as wealthy Rochester developer David Flaum looks across the Hudson to Rensselaer, where Wednesday night the city council, in a 6 - to - 1 vote, gave Flaum the green light to site a casino - hotel complex on a 24 - acre site along the riverbank.

Each council district has polling places scattered throughout, and where you vote depends on where you live.

But with councils like Staffordshire and Derbyshire now falling to the Tories, the Conservatives can claim to be picking up votes where it counts most.

After winning more than 140 English council seats at the 2013 local election - averaging 25 % of the vote in the wards where it was standing - it gained 161 last year.

In 2010 the Lib Dems won an overall majority on the borough council and this was one of the few places in the country where the orange vote held up strong at the 2012 local elections when the national party's dalliance with power was alienating supporters almost everywhere else.

In Southold, the closest race also was for Council, where incumbent Republican Bob Ghosio led Democrat Mary Eisenstein by 123 votes on Election night.

In a statement, Vallone said he was glad to have Meng's support in a district where the Asian American vote has grown to make up nearly 18 percent of the Democratic voters in his northeast Queens Council district.

The proposal's sponsors, Councilmen Brad Lander (D - 39th) and Jumaane Williams (D - 45th), urged her to reconsider her position but said they would see that the measure got a vote regardless — an uncommon pledge in a council where Quinn generally controls what comes to the floor.

Amanda also served as the Director for Participatory Budgeting for Council District 30, where she spearheaded the allocation of over one million dollars in capital funds, as voted on by thousands of local residents, to improve public schools, libraries, and parks in the district.

He appeared alongside another top sponsor, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, at a 1 p.m. rally where Mr. Rodriguez said the Council had the votes to pass the bill and would vote on it.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Joe Nicoletti had a bad cold Monday and did not attend the meeting where the Syracuse Common Council voted 5 - 3 to appoint him to fill a vacancy.

A council spokesman said: «We had two incidents at polling stations where voters turned up and when they identified themselves they were told their names had already been scored off the list - somebody had been given a vote in their name.»

Mr. Kwatra helped turn the political arm of the HTC into a vaunted get - out - the - vote machine — ironically, his old union sided with Mr. Espaillat — and was able to win overwhelmingly in East Harlem, a noted battleground in the district where local elected officials, including Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, endorsed Mr. Espaillat.

In Sheffield, yes, this year saw slight improvements for them; they picked up a couple of extra council seats, and their vote share went up a bit both in the council elections and the by - election, where they held their deposit.

A. Voting shall occur only at Council meetings, where each Council member present shall carry one vote.

Emperor Palpatine has won a seat on Odessa Council, and Chewbacca got arrested while driving Darth Vader to the local polling booth on Sunday 25 October, where the Dark Lord wasn't allowed to vote.

But in Kentucky, where more than 85 percent of schools have site - based decision making councils, the number of parents running for council positions and voting in council elections remains dismally small.

It recently got a seat, for example, on the corporate board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where for years it has also paid for a seat and vote on ALEC's «Education and Workforce Development» Task Force, which advances a «cash for kids» lobbying agenda.

The nationwide battle over so - called «puppy mills» made its way to Carlsbad Tuesday night, where the City Council voted 3 - 1 to ban pet stores from selling dogs or cats after intense lobbying by a variety of animal rights groups.

Just one of the council's seven Labour councillors voted for the policy, leaving Labour as the only party where a majority of councillors didn't back the policy.

A yes vote will mean the decision being bumped to the European Council where a vote weighted in favour of the larger EU members would take place.

A yes vote would shift the plans up the chain of decision making in Brussels to the European Council where a qualified majority among the 27 member governments would be required in a vote weighted in favour of the largest nations.

Mohammed had become concerned when the council of Whitchurch - Stouffville, the municipality where she lives, voted to amend an agreement it has with United Soils Management Ltd..