Sentences with phrase «years running the council»

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito says she has no regrets about her four years running the Council — and wants her next gigs to be helping Puerto Rico rebuild and fighting Trump.

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Last fall, after three years of running my own business, I took a job as Vice President of Marketing and Entrepreneurship with my local economic development council.

The conference was the third in a series of conferences that have been held under the auspices of the Pontifical Council's «STOQ» project - the «Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest» interdisciplinary study programme that has been running now in the Roman Pontifical universities for some five years, and which allows students and scholars to investigate the links and mutual enrichment of the physical and the metaphysical sciences.

Assuming the deal is approved by the City Council and the Park District board, Morgan Stanley's Investment Management Division will pay $ 563 million for the right to run the Grant Park North, Grant Park South, East Monroe Street and Millennium Park Garages for 99 years.

According to Queens and Albany sources, the Senate Democrats had been working on Avella's behalf to smooth feathers he ruffled with local Democrats thanks to his handling last year of a local NYC Council race and his short - lived run for borough president.

Last year Politics.co.uk followed the long - running legal battle between Manchester city council and rough sleepers who were camping out in the city centre.

A Lackawana businessman is running for City Council even though he did five years in federal prison after he and two family members were convicted 11 years ago for illegally sending $ 5.5 million to Yemen.

We have helped councils freeze council tax for two years running — and we're helping them freeze it again next year.

Kellner lost his Democratic primary for city council last year and did not run for re-election to the state Assembly this year.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

Light years away from Labour's manifesto and the Corbynite circle running the show, households have been burdened with council tax debts as a result of Tory cuts to council tax benefit.

State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez, a Democrat from East Harlem running for the City Council, has a second job at an asset management and financial consulting firm that has earned him hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years.

Now, after serving almost two years in the Assembly, Espinal is running for City Council in District 37, less because of his commitment to service than because his former boss, CM Erik Dilan, is term limited and needs a new job.

The speaker, who is term - limited from running for re-election, has been one of the most prolific fundraisers on the Council this year, including a $ 15,000 haul over the last filing period.

With Liu's recent endorsement of Grace Meng, Congress was out of the question and Peter Koo easily won reelection, so a Council run won't happen, at least not for another four years.

Rodriguez, first elected to the Assembly in 2010, is among a number of state legislators running for City Council this year, but he is the only one with significant outside income.

It is not a sure thing, however, as Chris Banks, the man who ran a tough primary race against Inez Barron in 2012, is seeking the Council seat this year.

Garodnick is a former securities lawyer who ran for speaker of the City Council against Melissa Mark - Viverito five years ago and at one point considered running for city comptroller in 2013.

With only three stated meetings left for the Council in 2017, time is running out for the legislation to be passed this year, as the lead sponsors of the bills, Councilmembers Ritchie Torres and Antonio Reynoso, had previously insisted would happen.

The Focus E15 campaign has been on the front line of this battle for the past two years and while we congratulate Mr Corbyn on his new position, until he challenges the actions of Labour - run councils as well as government policy, we remain sceptical.

«Francisco Moya stood with our members out on strike at Main Street car wash earlier this year — and now we stand with him as he runs to represent the 21st Council District,» said Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the RWDSU.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.

For larger jobs, Oddo will use the $ 20,000 he allocated in his last year in City Council to fund a on - call mobile litter response team run by Project One, which will start in a few weeks.

Mr. Recchia — who served as chairman of the City Council's powerful finance committee — was term - limited out of office last year and decided to challenge Mr. Grimm after failing to secure support in his party to run for City Comptroller or for borough president of his native Brooklyn.

El - Yateem, a married father of four who had been a prominent Arab - American community leader in Bay Ridge for many years, jumped into the political arena last year when he ran for an open City Council seat.

The ESRC Party Members Project (PMP) is a three - year project run by Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

The two top Republicans on the town council have opted not to run this year, leaving an opening as veteran local politicians face off alongside newcomers.

Wayne Fish, who ran two years ago as a petitioning town council candidate, is doing it again, hoping for more than the 312 votes he got in 2015.

«The only reason I can think to do this is [is that] when real numbers come out in June and show less - than - positive results, it will be Bill de Blasio's administration's fault and not on Bloomberg's twelve - year legacy running the schools,» charged Miriam Aristy - Farer, President of District 6's Community Education Council (CEC).

For 14 years, the local Council seat has belonged to Vincent Gentile, a popular Democrat facing term limits and now running a quixotic bid for Brooklyn district attorney.

Toss in the former key Gov. Cuomo associates who face criminal trials this year, plus the several City Council members sent to the hoosegow as well as other local officals across the state, and the only thing that stands out about Harris is that she ran for office after starting her alleged crime spree.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

He got trounced when he ran for City Council last year after e-mails surfaced showing him allegedly making sexually suggestive comments to a female staffer.

The Green Party of St. Paul has launched an impressive coordinated campaign effort this year, running Devin Miller for School Board, Johnny Howard for City Council Ward 1, Jim Ivey for City Council Ward 2, and Bee Kevin Xiong for City Council Ward 6.

When former Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito of East Harlem captured the council speakership in 2014, Crain's ran a photo of this then - six - year - old firm's founders on its cover.

He unsuccessfully ran for the Onondaga County Legislature 18 years ago and ran for the Syracuse Common Council in the 1970s.

And while the borough has had several uncontested elections in past years, the Democratic party nominated medical marijuana advocate Dylan Schwartz to run against Joe Borelli for the South Shore City Council seat and retired engineer Rich Florentino to run against Steven Matteo in the Mid-Island Council district.

For the first time in at least eight years, Harrison's Democratic Committee will not run a full slate of Town Council candidates in the upcoming November election.

Lunati ran for a council seat once before unsuccessfully, and this year was appointed as an alternate member of the town's Planning Board.

Nephew James ran for City Council last year.

«I attended council meetings for two years before I ran for office, and I took notes.»

He graduated from college last year and is now the Republican nominee running for Syracuse City Council's 1st District.

The claims were made by Williamsburg activist Isaac Abraham (who last year ran for City Council in Brooklyn's 33rd District).

Brown, a ward activist for years before stepping up to run for Common Council, worries that Shaut lacks the experience to be an effective representative.

The committee passed over former City Council member Corey Ellis, who ran against Mayor Jennings four years ago fir the Democratic nomination.

While Election Day is still seven months away, all three Republican incumbents on the Harrison Town Council whose seats are in play this year have told the Review they intend to run for office again.

«Tory council leader suggests unemployed take jobs picking fruit Main Boris freezes his share of council tax bills for the third year running»

Freeman has never held public office, but has worked as Westchester's prosecuting attorney between 1995 and 2000 and also ran for New Rochelle City Council last year.

He moved to Syracuse in 1991 and two years later, he ran for Syracuse Common Council.

Labour had been running a minority administration since 2014 and the council has been hung for many years.