Sentences with phrase «without public hearings»

Ponder those odds in light of Weingarten's explanation to the New York Times for the P.S. 194 lawsuit blocking the expansion of Harlem Success: «Parents should have a voice when it comes to their children's education, and by eliminating community schools without public hearings, the D.O.E. is taking away that voice.»

Cuomo and the Legislature could still push through an appointee (or appointees) in the dark of night, without the public hearings that normally attend such important nominations.

But the group takes issue with the decision by the board to suspend the cap without public hearings.

Preservationists aren't happy with a proposed rule change that would allow more applications to go through the Landmarks Preservation Commission without a public hearing...

Not a week goes by in sports without the public hearing on ESPN about a profes - sional athlete who undergoes micro-fracture surgery.

Lhota could have also restored the North Shore Towers to Lower Manhattan Express Bus route that was cut without a public hearing and during a time when the MTA was making service investments that communities did not want to have which was the case when the MTA wanted to extend the Q45 to Atlas Park.

Lhota has also refused to make service investments in Northeast Queens where it matters such as adding a Bayside / Whitestone / North Flushing to Lower Manhattan service which the MTA has admitted is a good idea; or having service on the QM2 and QM20 begin earlier in the morning which would better accommodate lots of people; or adding a 3rd Avenue branch to the QM20 bus; or restoring North Shore Towers to Lower Manhattan Express Bus service which the MTA quietly cut in 2008 without a public hearing, and at a time when there were plenty of service investments being planned, such as a Q45 extension to Atlas Park which drew widespread opposition in Glendale and by Community Board 5.

The OSPP legislation was passed in the middle of the night without a public hearing even taking place.

I think it is unconscionable and ridiculous and frankly appalling that a school board has to hold a public hearing to adopt a textbook but that a takeover of a school by a private entity can be done without a public hearing, without an election, without an expiration date, and without any public input, discussion, or choice as to which private entity gets the charter.

Not exact matches

Counterpunch Today's deepening financial and economic crisis can not be alleviated without addressing a number of problems that the public does not really want to hear about.

On the word of the Seattle Times» without evidence, without witnesses, without a hearing» Brock Adams has been driven from public life, his reputation demolished, he and his life work made infamous.

When three children at Fatima reported a series of visions, they were interrogated and challenged by both the Church and the public authorities without much sympathy: they stuck resolutely to their accounts of what they had seen and heard.

By late 1997, public discourse about the Net was so deeply anchored in Gutenbergian mythology that skeptics of the digital revolution were sometimes dismissed without a reasonable hearing.

Some residents said the project was approved without proper public hearings.

CRETE — As part of his campaign against issuing general obligation bonds without voter approval, Crete resident Richard Blievernicht spoke out against two bond proposals at recent local public hearings.

Interestingly, we haven't heard a PUBLIC word from Skelos since Klein's big reveal, although Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous went on Talk 1300 this morning with the NY Post's Fred Dicker and called Klein's coalition government statement «very powerful,» without either confirming or denying that talks to form a coalition are actually underway.

Although the IDC has introduced wide - ranging reform legislation — which includes public matching funds for small donations — and held public hearings on the matter, they've refused to bring the bill to a vote without approval from the Senate Republicans.

After hearing from both the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority administration and its management company, Common Council members are no closer to understanding how some public housing tenants were left without heat and hot water in the middle of winter.

From an eyewitness account of the Tuesday Town of Sanford Board meeting, we heard the following: «People speaking included those with land and with leases who had signed the petition asking for the resolution that was passed to be rescinded, for board members with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves from shale gas decisions, and for no resolutions on shale gas extraction to be passed without notifying the public a week in advance and allowing full participation.

At the first of three legislative hearings on Hoosick Falls and water quality issues on Tuesday, state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker pointed to the EPA dozens of times as the reason residents were allowed to drink poisoned water without public warning.

She was remanded without bail to jail on May 5 2014, despite having missed no court appointments over two years of hearings and her public insistence on refusing to plea out.

Bronx City Councilman Ritchie Torres at the hearing: You've gone 15 months without telling the general public that your agency was out of compliance.

The details of what I told the President as my reasons for wanting to revert to my position as an ordinary citizen of Ghana are contained in a letter I wrote to Mr. Martey Newman when he lied that I was dismissed for misconduct when he should have known as the Chief of Staff that one could not dismiss a senior public officer for misconduct without a formal charge and a formal hearing.

And it did so without notifying the public of its consideration of Entergy's application, or permitting the public to comment, or participate, or attend a public hearing.

It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.

If you want to influence the boundary review process (and happen to have an advanced degree in psephology) there are a series of public hearings you're free attend, but with the Boundary Commission themselves having so little freedom to manoeuvre, its unclear if voters - without the time, resources and expertise - can generate a workable alternative.

We may not be able to do anything about the limits of individual donors but we can separately be building another infrastructure, a public financing infrastructure that at least enables candidates to get heard in their relevant district without have a lot of money and without having big money backers,» said Teachout.

Without extensive public hearings over months, not days, the state invites corruption.

Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island) said it was «difficult» to support any expansion of the living wage without hearings, testimony, public debate or investigations into potential impacts of the change.

The abatement allows public authorities to immediately decrease or stop a nuisance without notice or a judicial hearing.

CHESTERTOWN The Chester Town Board got a look at the proposed 2018 municipal budget Nov. 1, but adjourned the public hearing without taking action.

Democratic Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D - Freeport) said residents «deserve better than to have the redevelopment that has been promised be kicked to the curb unilaterally by one man without public input or a legislative hearing.»

Azzopardi denied the clean energy standard was passed without public airing, noting there were 24 public hearings state wide before its passage.

At a public hearing Tuesday, Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb said the condition of Wisconsin's roads will worsen over the next 10 years and projects will be delayed for decades without an increase in spending.

Instead, the so - called «production orders» would scrap existing safeguards and conduct the discussions in hearings closed to the public and without media lawyers present.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation won't allow them to move a boulder in a creek without two years of public hearings.

Dick Dadey, director of the government watchdog Citizens Union, blasted the council for overruling the commission without holding a public hearing.

Speaking at the last public hearing before the City Council and City Hall finalize next year's budget by the June 30 deadline, Mulgrew said the UFT has repeatedly brought ideas to the table on how to close the city's projected budget gap without teacher layoffs, such as cutting back on outside contractors at the Department of Education or using a portion of the city's rainy - day fund.

But D'Esposito made a motion to «lay it on the table,» which means the hearing would be adjourned until further notice without public comment.

Sean Ryan [email protected] Renovation of the former Pieces of Eight restaurant on Milwaukee's lakefront could get government approval without a hearing despite arguments that such a public project needs public input.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

That time frame «may be extended for one additional year for good cause shown by application to the Town Board and a Resolution of the Town Board approving such extension, without requirement for a Public Hearing on such extension.»

After consultation with the President and the officer of instruction, it shall exercise its judgment as to whether the hearing shall be public or private, except that the hearing shall not be public without the agreement of the officer involved.

But a halfway through, you notice improvable, almost impossible camera placements in public places without being noticed and hear voice overs when they read letters.

You couldn't listen to the radio without hearing their ubiquitous underwriting credit on NPR, with its sublimely confident tagline «What Works in Public Education.»

But unlike the procedures established under IDEA, school - voucher laws give parents the right to select a private placement without having to convince public school officials of the need for such services, to say nothing of the legal costs of proving to a hearing officer, or a state court judge, that the decision of the school district was in error.

It is nearly impossible to turn on the news or open a newspaper without hearing about negative press for public schools these days.

«On a Friday night without any publicly shared drafts or public hearings, the forces behind taxpayer funding for private and religious schools struck again,» Evers wrote in a news release.

Yet to this day, I've never heard anyone say that these schools drain funds from Texas A&M; take the best students from the University of Texas; operate without accountability; or that students at the schools shouldn't receive public funds because of the schools» religious affiliations.

Without the benefit of any public hearing, S.B. 2 would overturn decades of giving priority to funding of neighborhood public schools by adopting the «money follows the child» concept which shifts taxpayer money away from traditional public schools to charter schools without requiring these charter schools to meet the same accountability standards as other public sWithout the benefit of any public hearing, S.B. 2 would overturn decades of giving priority to funding of neighborhood public schools by adopting the «money follows the child» concept which shifts taxpayer money away from traditional public schools to charter schools without requiring these charter schools to meet the same accountability standards as other public swithout requiring these charter schools to meet the same accountability standards as other public schools.