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https://help.privo.com/knowledge/what-is-coppa | 2023-11-30T07:35:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100172.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130062948-20231130092948-00593.warc.gz | 0.938993 | 389 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__216795950 | en | The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), places certain requirements on operators of websites and online services to place parents in control over what information is collected from their young children under 13 yrs old online.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA, was enacted by the United States Congress in 1998, and became effective on April 21, 2000. COPPA required the Federal Trade Commission to issue and enforce regulations concerning children’s online privacy. In addition, COPPA gives states and certain federal agencies authority to enforce compliance with respect to entities over which they have jurisdiction.
COPPA places certain requirements on operators of websites or online services (apps, games online, connected toys, learning platforms, etc.) that are directed to children under 13 years of age or that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.
COPPA requires operators to notify parents of their information practices; obtain verifiable parental consent; collect the least amount of data possible; and maintain reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of children’s personal information.
The primary goal of COPPA is to place parents in control over what information is collected from their young children under the age of 13 online and to protect them while accounting for the dynamic nature of the Internet.
COPPA provides the FTC with civil penalty authority to encourage compliance with the COPPA Rule. The FTC has taken law enforcement actions against companies that failed to comply with the provisions of the law. A court can hold operators who violate the Rule liable for civil penalties of up to $41,484 per violation.
For more information about COPPA and a child’s rights to online privacy, visit the FTC’s Kids’ Privacy website for parents at http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/childrens.html. | public_administration |
http://www.uls.state.ut.us/uls/flyers/RH052803.htm | 2013-05-25T13:17:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00099-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.918823 | 12,267 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__34842230 | en | Utah Legal Services' Utah Renters Handbook
This handbook has been prepared to aid both renters and landlords to understand their
responsibilities as well as rights. While the information is legally accurate, it does not cover all
possible situations and problems. Click for Utah Legal Services contact information.
Please note: the term owner refers to the owner, manager, landlord or person responsible for
renting the dwelling.
The two basic ways of finding a place to rent are the newspaper classified ads and the
yellow pages of the telephone book under "Apartments", or "Real Estate Rental Service" or
"Apartment Finding & Rentals". If you need to find low-cost housing in Salt Lake County, call
the "Housing Outreach Rental Program" at (801) 359-2444. Elsewhere, refer to the last few pages
of this Handbook for organizations and phone numbers.
Low-income people can obtain information about government assisted housing or a list of
available subsidized projects at the local Community Action Program and housing authorities. In
Salt Lake County, the Crossroads Urban Center and JEDI also have information. Phone numbers
are listed in the back of this Handbook.
To apply for government assisted housing, contact a local housing authority or any private landlord who is receiving a subsidy for the apartment building directly from the government.
Rental applications fees may not be allowed in the locality where you want to rent. At the
present time, application fees are restricted in Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County outside cities.
If you are asked to pay a fee just to apply for a place, call Utah Legal Services or the local
government to find out if there is an ordinance prohibiting fees in that area. You may also call
local elected officials and get somebody interested in adopting such an ordinance.
Discrimination occurs when you are denied housing because of your
For example, if you are denied an apartment because you are on subsidized housing, this
is source of income discrimination; "adults only" complexes violate the familial status section;
and charging more rent to a family because of their religion is also discrimination. However,
there can be "seniors only" housing if some special rules are met.
It is not illegal to discriminate for reasons other than those listed above.
It is unlawful for any person to refuse to make reasonable accommodations in rules,
policies, practices or services when such accommodations may be necessary to allow a person
with a disability equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling. For example, in a building with a
"no pets" rule, that rule must be waived for a person with a visual impairment who uses a service
A resident with a disability who wishes to modify a dwelling unit for increased
accessibly/usability, must be allowed to do so, at his or her own expense, with the possible
obligation to later return the modification to its original condition. For example, a tenant who
needs grab bars in the bathroom must be allowed to install them, but the tenant will have to pay
for the installation and may be required to remove the grab bars and return the bathroom to its
original condition at the end of the tenancy.
Apartment buildings built after 1991 must meet specific design requirements so public
and common use areas and facilities are accessible to people with disabilities and the interior of
covered units must also meet certain accessibility requirements.
If you think you have been discriminated against because of your disability, you have the
right to file a charge of discrimination. The time within which you have to take action may be as
short as six months. You may file with the Utah Antidiscrimination and Labor Division or with
the Utah office of Housing and Urban Development. Contact information for both agencies is in
the back of this handbook.
If you think you have been discriminated against because of your disability or if you live in a new
apartment building that is not accessible, please call the Disability Law Center at (800) 662-9080
Voice or 1-800-550-4182 TTY.
Before you give the landlord any money, ask for a written agreement. There are two kinds
of rental agreements: oral (month-to-month) and written (month-to-month or lease agreements).
It may seem quick, easy and best to simply talk to your landlord, give some money and shake
hands, but remember that things change and memories differ. A written, signed agreement puts
your handshake in writing where you can refer to it and use it to protect your rights. When you
rent, always get and keep a signed copy of the agreement.
Read the proposed agreement before you sign it!
Find out what it really says. If you do not understand it, ask the landlord to explain. If you
understand the explanation, ask the landlord to write down what was said; then sign the
explanation you understand, not the agreement you don't understand. If you do understand the
agreement but don't like it, Don't Sign It. Tell the landlord what you don't like; negotiate to
change what you don't like.
Free copies of a fair rental agreement are available at all Utah Legal Services' offices.
You can propose to use this agreement instead of the one the landlord has. You can also use it to
give you some ideas on what should be in a rental agreement.
Before you sign a lease or rental agreement, make sure it includes the following information:
Before you sign make sure your document does not include:
Whatever the agreement, always go through the apartment and write down a list of all the
furnishings, the condition of the furnishings, walls, carpets, appliances, bathroom fixtures, etc.,
before you agree to rent. Have the landlord sign the list and make sure you both keep a copy of
the signed document. A lease usually states that you will be a tenant for a specific period of time
and the rent is set for the period of the lease. A lease may be good for six months, a year, or a
number of years. A lease can make you stay in a place longer than you want to. If you move
before the lease is up, you will be responsible for paying the rent until the landlord re-rents the
On the other hand, a lease can protect your right to stay in the apartment if the landlord
wants you to move before the lease expires, unless you violate the lease. However, you do not
have the right to stay after the lease ends UNLESS you reach a new agreement with the landlord.
This may not be the case if you are on some types of government assisted housing. The lease may
have specific provisions about this so read it carefully. If there is a clause that a notice is required
before the tenant moves out even if it is at the end of the term, give it. Discuss a new lease or a
continuation of the tenancy on a month-to-month basis with your landlord well before the current
During the term of the lease, the landlord cannot force you to accept any changes other than ones already written into the lease. For example, some leases allow an increase in the rent during its term if the utilities or operating costs increase. If an agreement is reached for you to stay after the term of the lease expires, there may be changes in the contract. If a clause is not changed, then it is still enforceable when you hold over. A lease can be terminated by the landlord only for good cause during its term but it does not have to be renewed.
You may enter a month-to-month agreement when you move in or you can become a
month-to-month tenant by staying after a lease ends with consent of the landlord without signing
a new lease. These agreements can be made in writing or orally (always try to get the agreement
in writing). However, the landlord must serve you with the proper eviction notice (see
"Evictions" to learn about the different notices). Notices of changes in terms - like the rent
amount - should be made at least fifteen days before the change takes effect, which can only be at
the beginning of the next rental period. Tenant's notices of intent to vacate should be made at
least fifteen days before the end of a rental period and the tenant must vacate at the end of the
period. NOTE: The rental agreement may require different times for notices.
Month-to-month agreements do not guarantee the tenant can stay for any definite period
of time. You can be evicted for cause or without cause.
Rental agreements between mobile home owners and parks to occupy a lot must be in
writing and cannot be terminated without cause. Due to this special protection, even if the rental
agreement is considered a "month-to-month" contract, mobile home owners essentially always
get a lease. (See the "Mobile Homes" section in this handbook.)
Note: If there is no cause for eviction, lease contracts can only be terminated before they expire by mutual written agreement. That is, both the landlord and the tenant have to do it together in writing.
Always Get a Receipt for Your Deposit and Your Rent!
Click for info about Deposit Refunds.
If you need help paying rent on a regular basis, you should apply for subsidized housing
(see the "Government Assisted Housing" section in this handbook). To do so, contact the local
housing authority. There is a listing at the end of this booklet. You may also contact the different
landlords that have obtained federal subsidies for their apartment complexes. To locate them, call
a local Community Action Program, Crossroads Urban Center, JEDI, or any information and
referral service. The local library may also have the information you need.
Seniors and disabled people can also apply for rental subsidies with the housing
authorities or private landlords. There are buildings constructed specially for these two special
DO NOT pay your rent in cash without getting a receipt signed by your landlord or
representative. You can prepare a receipt yourself, then have the landlord or manager sign it.
If possible, DO NOT pay your rent by money order unless you deliver it personally and
get a receipt. If a money order is lost in the mail, it takes a long time to trace. In the meantime,
the landlord will want the rent that is legitimately due. This can result in your having to make
two rent payments or being evicted for non-payment of rent. A money order stub or duplicate is
not a receipt. It does not prove you paid your rent, just that you bought a money order.
Payment of rent by check gives you an automatic receipt when the landlord cashes it. Until cashed, you do not have any proof of payment. You can stop payment on a check if it gets lost in the mail. You can also write on the check which month the rent is for to avoid confusion later. For help in getting emergency funding to pay rent, contact your church, Community Action Program, or the Department of Workforce Services.
You have the right to a safe and sanitary home. In Utah, cities and counties have enacted
building and health codes. Buildings in which there are major violations of these codes are not
safe or decent and should not be rented out. State law requires landlords to maintain rental units
in compliance with these local ordinances. You have the right to call a health or housing
inspector if you think there is a code violation in the place you are renting.
When you rent a place to live, you are exchanging money for the right to privacy and to
enjoy the place in peace and quiet. Your landlord or manager retains the right to enter the
property at "reasonable times" to inspect it or make repairs, but you may require they notify you
at least 24 hours in advance before doing so. You should tell them what you consider to be a
"reasonable time." However, the only way to make sure you will be notified in advance is to have
a clause to that effect in your lease.
When you pay money for rent or for deposits, you have the right to a written receipt.
Always get one for cash and money order. A receipt should contain the date, the amount, how it
was applied ("January rent plus late fee" or "paid in full"), and the signature of the person
receiving the payment. If the signature is illegible, the name and title of the person should be
legibly printed underneath. A receipt is often the only way to prove that payment has been made.
When you have a month-to-month agreement, you are entitled to at least fifteen days
notice of any change in your rental agreement. If you have a lease for a specified period of time,
there cannot be any changes other than the ones you agree with or that are permitted by the lease.
If you stay with the landlord's consent without signing a new lease after your lease expires, all the
terms of the expired lease that were not changed are still effective.
You have the right to expect that any repairs the landlord has agreed to make will be
made within a reasonable amount of time. You have the right NOT TO SIGN a lease if you do
not fully agree with its terms. Of course, if you do not sign, the landlord may refuse to enter into
a rental agreement with you.
You have the right to remain in the place you rent until you are legally evicted by a court order or until your lease expires. Landlords do not have the right to lock you out or take your property. Only a sheriff or constable following a court order can evict you.
Pay your full rent on time. However, under certain circumstances, you have the right to
withhold your rent.
Take "reasonable care" of the property you are renting. It is, after all, the landlord's
property and you are paying for the use of it. When you move out of the property, it must be in
the same condition as it was when you moved in, except for normal wear and tear.
Let your landlord know when you are going to be out of town or away from home for a
period of time, and, if possible, how to contact you. If the landlord notices you are gone, but
wasn't informed ahead of time and your rent is not current, the landlord may think you have
abandoned the property. (See "Abandonment.")
Comply with local board of health rules for tenants.
Keep the place clean.
Inform the landlord, in writing, of any necessary repairs as soon as they are needed.
Be considerate of other renters and neighbors. They have the same rights as you. Keep the
noise level in your home down so as not to disturb others.
Abide by all the terms of the lease or rental agreement. If it says "no pets", do not have
Do not increase the number of occupants specified in the rental agreements without
written permission of the owner.
Do not cause damage to the property.
If you have a month-to-month agreement, give the landlord fifteen days written notice
before you move out unless more time is indicated in the contract. If you have a lease and you
need to move before it expires, you need the landlord's approval in writing or you may owe rent
after you move out until the unit is rented.
You lose all of your rights as a renter if you are legally evicted or your lease expires and
you have not moved or made arrangements to hold over.
Remember, you can be evicted even if you are sick, unemployed, have children, or have nowhere to move!
Select tenants in a nondiscriminatory way.
Adopt reasonable rules.
Decide whether the tenant stays after the lease expires, or for another month in a
Inspect the premises with reasonable notice or as agreed by contract.
Retake the apartment if abandoned.
Lawfully evict the tenant.
Deliver possession of the premises on the date the rental agreement starts.
Comply with the law and the health, building, and safety codes of the city or county in
which the property is located.
Allow the tenant, in exchange for rent, to live on the property in peace, without
unreasonably disturbing any tenant or allowing the tenants to disturb each other.
Give the tenant notice of changes in rental terms such as rent increases or any
non-emergency entries. Fifteen days is proper notice in the case of a rent increase in a month to
month contract. Twenty-four hours is proper notice for non-emergency entries.
Maintain the unit in safe and healthy condition and not allow illegal drugs to be made,
sold, or stored there.
Live up to all the terms of the rental agreement.
Follow the legal eviction procedure.
If you own your mobile home, different rules apply to leases. The rental agreement for the
lot must be in writing and must contain the rules of the park that, if broken, may result in
eviction. The rules may be changed and are enforceable 60 days after a copy has been given to
the resident. If the park proposes an amendment to a rule, the residents must be given an
opportunity to discuss the change during the first 30 days after the change is proposed. The rules
have to be related to the health, safety, maintenance and upkeep of the park, or the appropriate
behavior of the residents.
If there is an increase in rent, or changes in dates when payments of rent or services are
due, they are not effective until 60 days after written notice is given to the resident.
In order to insure the safety and good appearance of the park, the park may require a
certain kind of material to make additions or alterations of the exterior of the mobile homes.
However, the park cannot require the resident purchase the material or equipment from a certain
If you want to sell your trailer, the park cannot unreasonably prevent it. However, the park has the right, within reason, to disapprove a prospective buyer who wants to live at the park.
The federal government helps people pay their rent and finances local housing
authorities which own and rent some low-rent units. Eligibility will depend on income, but
also on other factors.
There are programs where a housing authority owns the projects (public housing),
programs where a housing authority pays the subsidy to a landlord on your behalf (the most
common programs are Section 8 Certificates and Vouchers), and others where the subsidy comes
directly from the government to the landlord (project based ). There are also programs for
Seniors and disabled people operated by local housing authorities as well as private landlords.
Tenants pay a minimum rent of at least $25 per month. The government provides a
subsidy (through the housing authority or directly to the landlord) to cover part or all of the
For information about government assisted housing and listings of units, contact the local housing authority, the local Community Action Program, Crossroads Urban Center, JEDI, or a local information and referral service. The local library may have the information you need.
Public housing units are owned and operated by local housing authorities. Applications
are submitted to the housing authorities. Applicants must be eligible as per federal guidelines.
There are waiting lists and the housing authority may have its own policies to determine who will
occupy an available unit.
The addresses and phones numbers for all Utah housing authorities are in the last pages of this handbook.
The two most common Section 8 programs are the "Certificate" and "Voucher"
programs. Applications are submitted to the local housing authorities. Once you obtain your
assistance and know what you will be able to rent, you choose where to live within the
jurisdiction of the housing authority.
The housing authority must inspect and approve the unit before the lease term starts. Landlords in Utah cannot deny you a unit on the basis that you have government assistance
The housing authority will tell you what the maximum rent for the unit can be and determine the part of the rent you will have to pay. If the utilities are not included in the rent, the housing authority will take that into consideration. The government assistance will be paid to your landlord, on your behalf, by the housing authority.
There are NO maximum rents. The housing authority will determine the amount of the government assistance they will pay to your landlord on your behalf. You are responsible for paying the difference. Submit applications at the local housing authority's office.
The local housing authorities provide the government assistance to fix up privately owned buildings. The assistance is tied to the unit. The tenant must be eligible, but if the tenant is evicted or decides to move out, the assistance will remain with the unit for the next occupant. Apply through the manager.
The federal government also subsidizes landlords directly so they can rent units to eligible people and still be assured a profit. To apply for this program, once you have located a subsidized apartment building in the area where you want to rent, you may apply at the manager's office.
If you are disabled or over 60, you can apply at the local housing authority, or at the manager's office after you have located a government assisted apartment building. To locate these buildings, call the local housing authority, the local Community Action Program, Crossroads Urban Center, JEDI, or a local information and referral service. The local library may have the information you need.
If any part of the deposit is not refundable, it must be indicated in writing. When you
move out, your landlord must return the refundable deposit or explain in writing why not. You
must give the landlord a forwarding address in writing when you move out and keep a copy. You
may need it if you have to go to Small Claims Court.
Your landlord can keep part or all of your deposit IF . . .
If your landlord keeps a part or all of your deposit, the landlord must provide you with an itemized list of any deductions made. The landlord must send this list and any remaining deposit money to you within thirty days of your moving out or fifteen days after receiving a forwarding address, whichever is later.
After you move out, if your landlord fails to refund the refundable portion of your deposit
within 30 days or fails to provide you with an itemized list of deductions, you may sue the
landlord or manager for the deposit plus a $100 penalty in Small Claims Court. You do not need
an attorney to file in Small Claims Court. You can file by simply going to the nearest justice or
district court. Addresses are in the telephone book under County or State.
The clerk of the court will help you fill out the necessary papers. If you cannot afford the
filing fee, ask the clerk for an affidavit to allow you to file for free. Ask the clerk how to get the
papers served on your landlord. If the landlord is not served with the papers, the trial will be
postponed. The clerk will tell you the date of your trial. Try to go watch a case before that.
On the day of the trial, arrive at the courthouse early and check with the clerk to find out in which courtroom your trial will take place. The judge will announce your case and ask if everyone is ready. If you have any questions, ask them then. You will take an oath swearing to tell the truth. Tell your story the best you can and present your evidence and witnesses. After the landlord has taken an oath and told their side of the story, the judge will make a decision called a judgment which will indicate how much is owing to whom. Either person can appeal within 10 days and get a NEW trial. The clerk of the court can assist you in collecting your judgment by explaining execution and garnishment procedures. Ask for help.
THE FIVE STEPS
Eviction is a quick legal process by which a landlord can get you out of your rental unit.
The eviction process, including any court proceedings, may take as little as one week. In cases of
evictions from mobile home parks or subsidized housing, see the special sections in this
handbook. Being left homeless is serious business, so it is important to know how the process
The first and most important thing you should know about eviction is: your landlord
cannot lock you out of your home, move you out of your home, or take any property from your
home before going through the five-part eviction process. If you think the eviction is retaliatory,
call Utah Legal Services.
Another important thing you should know is that if you are evicted, the judge may order you to pay the landlord triple damages, meaning three times the daily rent (after the expiration of the eviction notice) and property damage.
The first part of the eviction process occurs when the owner gives you a written notice to
leave the premises.
THERE ARE FIVE TYPES OF EVICTION NOTICES IN UTAH
TYPES OF NOTICES
1. Three-Day Alternative Notice for Non-Payment of Rent
This is the notice the owner must use if you owe rent and they want you to move out. It
must say that you have a choice to either pay the amount owed OR move out within three days.
The three days are three consecutive days. Start counting the day after you are served and include
weekends and holidays.
Q. What happens if you pay within the time allowed?
A. You can stay. If, within three days of receiving the notice, you offer the landlord the rent
amount owed, they must accept it from you and the eviction process is stopped. If you offer the
full amount owed within three days but the landlord refuses to accept it, try to pay again in front
of a witness you can trust. If the landlord refuses, save the money. Do not spend it. You can take
it to the court once the lawsuit is filed or give it to your attorney.
If you disagree that the amount the landlord is asking you to pay is what you actually owe,
the safest procedure is to pay what is asked for and then sue the landlord for the difference in
Small Claims Court.
Q. What happens if you DO NOT pay what the landlord wants?
A. If you DO NOT pay the money within three days, and you DO NOT move out, the
landlord can go on to the second step of eviction, which is to file a lawsuit with the court.
2. Three-Day Notice to Vacate
This is the notice the landlord must use if you are disturbing your neighbors, selling
illegal drugs, violating building or health codes, damaging the property, or illegally subletting.
3. Three-day Notice to Comply or Quit
This is the notice the landlord must use if you have broken any part of the rental
agreement other than causing a nuisance, subletting, damaging property, or being involved with
drugs. This notice must give you a choice to EITHER comply with the provisions of your
agreement within three days, including weekends and holidays, OR leave the premises within
that time. If you DO NOT comply OR LEAVE, the landlord can proceed with the second step of
the eviction process. (As you can see, this notice is worded differently than the one for
non-payment of rent.)
4. Fifteen-Day "No Cause" Notice
This is the notice the landlord must use if, for no specific reason, the landlord simply
wants you to move out. The landlord can only serve this notice if you are on a month-to-month
agreement. The landlord cannot serve this notice if you have a lease that has not expired yet.
Such a notice must be given to you at least fifteen days before the end of your rental period.
However, if your contract indicates a 30-day notice is needed (when there is no other cause to
evict), a 15-day notice would not be proper. If you do not move out by the end of the rental
period, the landlord can continue with the second step of the process.
5. Five Day Notice to "Tenant-at-Will"
This notice can be used if you do not have any agreement with the landlord to live in the
unit as a regular tenant. For example, if you took over someone's apartment without telling the
landlord or if you stay after a lease expires, you did not make any arrangements to stay, and your
rent payment was not accepted. This notice to a "tenant-at-will" must notify you to leave in five
Note: No Notice Is Needed at the End of a Lease!
Unless you have made arrangements to hold over after the lease expires, OR the lease requires a 30 day notice of termination even at the end of the term and you have not received such notice from the landlord, the lease terminates without notice. Read the lease carefully and, for good measure, talk to the landlord before the last month of the term starts so you both know where you stand.
There are four ways to give you an eviction notice:
1. Hand it to you or have someone hand it to you (it does not have to be a Sheriff, police
officer, or constable); or
2. Send a copy by registered or certified mail to your home; or
3. Leave a copy with someone of suitable age at your home or business AND mail a copy to
your address (leaving a notice with a child who is not old enough to be responsible is not
4. Post a copy on your property if you cannot be located and no one responsible is at home.
Your lawyer or Utah Legal Services can tell you whether the notice you received, or the way it was served, is valid.
If you do not comply with the notice you receive, the second step of the eviction process
occurs. The landlord files a complaint and a summons with the court and has someone serve
these papers on you.
You must reply in writing within the time stated on the summons (usually three BUSINESS days counting as the first day the day after you are served). Attached to the summons will be the complaint which explains the landlord's side of the story. You or your attorney must file a paper with the court called an answer, or you will be evicted very quickly. If you don't file your answer with the court on time, the judge will issue a default judgment in favor of your landlord, ordering the sheriff to move you out. If you file your answer and disagree with the complaint, the case will be decided later. You will have a chance to submit documents or testify before the judge decides the case.
If you are also served with another paper that indicates that your landlord has posted a
plaintiff's possession bond, the eviction process has been speeded up. You could get this notice at
the same time you get the summons and complaint or anytime afterward. (Possession bonds are
not used everywhere in Utah.)
You must do one of the following WITHIN THREE BUSINESS DAYS after receiving this notice:
NOTE: Please remember that if you fail to file the Answer or do not properly respond to the Notice of Possession Bond, you will be evicted.
If you file an Answer with the court on time and respond to the Notice of Possession
Bond as explained in STEP 2 above, you will generally have a trial.
You and your landlord present witnesses and other evidence. These trials are like other non criminal cases. You have the right to a jury if you ask.
The fourth step of the eviction process occurs when the judge makes a decision. This
usually happens in court while you and the landlord are both there. Then the decision is put on
paper and signed by the judge.
You will receive a copy of the judgment or order. If the landlord wins, the judge will
order you to move out. If you don't move out, the judge will order the sheriff to move you. The
judgment will order you to pay the landlord whatever money you owe in rent plus treble (triple)
damages. You may also have to pay attorney's fees IF provided for in the rental agreement.
Treble damages are figured by multiplying the daily rent by three for each day you have stayed in
the apartment past the day your eviction notice expired. The judge will also order you to pay for
any damage you have caused to the property and could triple that too.
If the judge decides in your favor, the judgment will order that you remain in your unit.
The judge may also order the landlord to pay you some money. If you have a jury, they will
decide these issues.
Remember, your landlord cannot legally lock you out of your unit or move you out of your unit. Call the police or the sheriff if the landlord tries to take such actions.
You or your attorney can appeal a judgement within ten days after the judge signs it. You will have to pay a filing fee or sign an affidavit. By itself, an appeal does not stop an eviction.
It you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint, or to the Notice of Possession Bond, the court may issue a default judgment. If you want to have a default judgment undone, you must file a Motion to Set Aside and a Request for Hearing. You must have a legal reason to do so. This paper asks the judge to reopen the case. You can request the forms for these papers at Utah Legal Services.
If you lose in court at Steps 2 or 4, you will be served with an order to vacate and remove
your property - Order of Restitution - within three business days from the day the judge signs the
A form to request a hearing will be attached. This is not an opportunity to fight the
eviction, just to dispute the terms of the order or the way it was enforced. Requesting this hearing
will not stop the order to vacate. To stop the order to vacate, go to the end of this section.
If you do not stop this order, and you do not vacate and remove your property, the sheriff
or constable can enter the premises to remove you and your possessions. They will make a list of
what you have and put it in storage. You will have thirty days to request a hearing or reclaim
your property by paying for the moving costs and storage fees. If somebody else owns any of the
property that is in storage, that person has thirty days to prove that he or she owns it and ask the
sheriff or constable in writing to return it, or request a hearing.
If you do not claim your property or request a hearing within thirty days, your property
will be sold. They will send you notice of the sale at your last known address. If you are present
at the sale, you can say in what order your property should be sold. They can sell only what is
necessary to cover the costs of removal, storage, and the sale, and should release the rest of your
property to you.
If you are not present, your property will be sold to pay for costs and for what the court decided you owe the landlord. If any money is left, they will send it to you if they know where to find you.
If you want to stay in your unit and you lost in court, you will have to file a Motion to Set
Aside Judgment (as explained at the bottom of Step 4) a Motion to Stay, AND a Request for
Hearing. These papers ask the judge to stop the eviction and reopen the case.
NOTE: IF YOU FILE A MOTION TO STAY, YOU WILL HAVE TO DEPOSIT SOME
MONEY WITH THE COURT.
You can request the forms for these papers at Utah Legal Services.
Owners of mobile homes can only be evicted from the park for good cause, such as:
In all cases except in cases of nonpayment, after the service of a notice to comply or
vacate, the resident must continue paying rent to the park until the situation is corrected, but after
the resident is served with court papers, the resident must pay the rent to the court while the
If the eviction is for nonpayment or for bad behavior, the landlord may choose to follow
the regular eviction procedure explained under EVICTION - GENERAL PROCEDURE. For
all the other causes for eviction, the landlord must serve a 20-day summons with the complaint.
To find out how to respond to court papers, turn to the EVICTION - GENERAL PROCEDURE section in this handbook. If the court decides against you, you will have at least 15 days to remove the mobile home from the park lot.
The laws governing evictions from subsidized housing are complicated and undergoing
changes. If you get an eviction notice, contact Utah Legal Services as soon as possible. We will
assess the validity of the eviction and will set up an appointment to discuss your problem.
Make sure you pay your share of the rent on time and comply with your lease. Being evicted may result in termination of the government assistance.
The same quick court process is used here and the same court papers served as for tenants in non-assisted housing.
If you are renting directly from a housing authority, you are in public housing. When you
receive an eviction notice, you have the right to request an informal hearing, and, if they still
want to evict you after this informal meeting, you can request a formal hearing. Request your
hearings in writing and keep a copy of the paper. They can deny you the right of the hearings if
you have been involved in drug activities or any criminal activities that threatened the
health/safety or the peaceful enjoyment of other resident or the housing authority employees.
If you lose at the formal hearing, you will be served with court papers.
Your landlord can assume you have abandoned your home if:
Your landlord can enter the unit without a court order, remove your property, fix up the
unit, and re-rent it to someone else. You are responsible for any rent which becomes due before
the place is re-rented and any damages other than wear and tear.
If you abandon the property and leave behind personal belongings, your landlord can remove your things and store them, and you will be responsible for paying moving and storage costs. The landlord must make "reasonable" efforts to contact you and let you know where your possessions are being stored. If you do not try to recover your property within thirty days, the landlord may sell your property and apply the money toward any rent you owe.
Owners are required by law to keep housing safe and sanitary. You should call the Board
of Health or local building or housing inspector to have the unit inspected for serious problems
that need repair. Tenants now have several options to choose from:
1. Withhold rent to force repairs. This can be RISKY and may result in your landlord
starting eviction proceedings. Choose this method only when there are serious health and safety
problems. For good measure, have the place inspected and get a copy of the report confirming the
bad conditions. Withhold rent only after giving written notice to your landlord asking that the
problems be repaired. If your landlord wants to evict you, the landlord must follow the eviction
procedure which is outlined in this booklet. (See "Eviction") If you do not pay rent, you may
receive a three-day pay or vacate notice. If you pay the rent during that time, you can stay. If you
do not pay and hold out for repairs and the landlord sues you, you must file a written answer
telling the court that you withheld rent because the premises are unsafe or unhealthy.
When you go to court, be sure to subpoena the inspector and the inspection report. The
judge will decide if you had a good reason to withhold rent. If the judge rules against you, you
will be evicted and will have a costly judgment entered against you. You decide if you want to
take this risk.
2. Keep the rent current and then sue your landlord for reimbursement of rent paid - or part
of it - because you could not fully use the premises or enjoy them for a period of time. You may
also sue for damaged property such as furniture damaged by a leaky roof.
3. Give the landlord written notice of the problems, repair, and sue. Tell the landlord exactly
what is wrong and that you expect it to be fixed promptly. If the landlord does not make the
repairs, pay for the repairs yourself (materials, labor, or both), keep the rent current, and sue the
landlord in small claims court for all the money you spent.
4. Use local ordinances to repair and deduct. In Salt Lake City, the fit premises ordinance
gives the landlord from one to four days to make critical repairs after the tenant notifies him or
her of the problem (check the ordinance for deadlines). Critical repairs include: inoperable toilet,
no heat when it is necessary, broken or leaking water pipes posing an immediate threat to life,
safety or health, no running water, or disconnected utilities. IF YOUR RENT IS CURRENT, you
can give written notice to the landlord. If the landlord does not start within the specified time
provided by the ordinance, the tenant can have the problem fixed and deduct up to $400 from the
rent and give the landlord the original receipts (keep copies for yourself). For noncritical repairs,
the tenant has to give the landlord two notices before repairing and deducting the cost from the
rent. The Salt Lake City ordinance does not clarify if the deduction can be made more than once.
In the unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County and in West Valley City, the ordinances
are basically the same as for Salt Lake City. In Murray City, the ordinance is almost the same, but
the tenant can deduct one-half of the monthly rent up to $600 per month. If the tenant complies
with the ordinance, the landlord cannot evict the tenant because he or she repairs and deducts the
cost from the rent.
Call the city, county, or Utah Legal Services to find out the time the landlord has to start
making repairs, how the notice(s) should be written, and the ways to serve it/them.
Utah Legal Services will consider representing tenants if there is an inspection report showing major unhealthy or unsafe conditions. Should the landlord try to evict you because you call the inspectors, call Utah Legal Services. Retaliatory evictions are against the law.
Mediation gives people a way to discuss their differences face to face and reach an
agreement with the help of an unbiased person - a mediator.
Landlord/tenant mediation is voluntary. One party contacts a mediator or mediation
program which, in turn, will contact the other party - or parties - to see if they agree to pursue this
A mediator is always present at the parties' meeting and is in charge of facilitating the
communication between them. Mediation methods may vary: the mediator may allow the parties
to discuss their problem and find a way to resolve it themselves, but when the issues are
complicated or the parties' personalities or animosity get in the way, the mediator may meet with
them separately and try to smooth out the differences.
If there is an agreement, it should be put in writing and signed by the parties. In
landlord/tenant cases, such agreements may become binding if approved by a judge.
Community Action Program in Salt Lake City administers a landlord/tenant mediation program in Salt Lake County. If you reside in Salt Lake County and are interested in resolving your rental dispute through mediation, call (801) 359-2444. Elsewhere, check with Utah Dispute Resolution at (801) 532-4841, the court clerk or call the Utah Legal Services office near you for details.
Low cost housing in Utah is in short supply. It is possible that when you try to do the things suggested in this booklet, the landlord will not cooperate knowing that they can rent to someone else who will agree to take the place "as is. " It is possible that you have already rented a place without a written agreement of any kind, and you now have problems. If you attempt to enforce your rights, your landlord may simply give you a fifteen-day eviction notice.
Contact Utah Tenants United (801) 364-7765 in Salt Lake City or a community organization in your area (listed at the end of this booklet) to assist you.
One way renters can help change their position is to work for stronger laws to protect
renters' rights at both the state and local levels. Renters can work with candidates for the
legislature and for city and county offices to make them aware of renters' problems.
Renters should keep their elected officials informed of their housing problems. Utah Issues is an organization that works for better laws for renters.
People should learn how and by whom local policies for housing are set. You must learn about the local housing body: the planners, the city council, the local housing authority, building and health departments, and the Mayor, all of whom make the major decisions that control housing. People can and should provide input into policies that will determine the future of housing in their communities.
It is important that you understand your role and the attorney's role in organizing and negotiating with your landlord. The primary role of the lawyer is to educate you on the law and to be available to back you up on legal matters if necessary (for instance, during negotiation sessions). A lawyer should take a low-key role, not a controlling one, during negotiations and in your organization.
Cooperative (co-op) ownership of housing means ownership and control by the people who live there. Instead of being owned by a landlord, co-op housing is owned and controlled collectively by tenants. They take on the responsibility of doing what the landlord should do: maintaining the building, bookkeeping, paying bills, deciding who lives there, and collecting rent. Co-ops allow each member a vote in how the co-op will run day-to-day and require high-level participation from each member to run well.
There are a number of services available for people without housing. Some of these are only available in certain parts of the state, others are statewide. To find out where help is available, call the phone numbers listed below, or refer to temporary housing and emergency shelters listed here.
Help is available, including assistance with the following: legal services, shelter,
temporary housing, emergency food, federal food programs, medical and dental services,
financial aid, showers and laundry, substance abuse and detoxification services, child care
programs, child abuse protection programs, veterans' services, job services and training, adult
education, clothing and identification cards. To get any of the above services, call the Resources
Salt Lake City Human Services 801-978-3333 4300 N. 2001 S. State Street The Road Home 801-328-8996 210 S. Rio Grande St. Northern Utah Workforce Services 435-752-7242 170 N. Main St., Logan Family Support 435-734-4060 Human Services 435-734-4075 1050 S. 500 W., Brigham City Central Utah Workforce Services Richfield 435-896-1200 Nephi 435-623-1927 Delta 435-864-3860 in Loa 435-836-2732 Southern Utah Human Services Price 435-636-2360 Family Support Castle Dale 435-381-4700 Family Services Moab 435-381-4730 Davis United Way Information 801-497-9111 Weber Ogden Rescue Mission 801-621-4360 1925 Wall St. Provo United Way 801-374-6400 148 N. 100 W Food & Care Coalition 801-373-1825 154 N. 200 W. Uintah Basin Div. of Family Services Vernal 435-781-4250 Workforce Services Roosevelt 435-722-6500 Southern Utah Child and Family Services Cedar City 435-865-5600 Beaver 435-438-2443 Kanab 435-644-5885 TEMPORARY HOUSING & EMERGENCY SHELTERS Salt Lake City Catholic Community Services 2570 W. 1700 S. 84104 801-977-9119 (provides temporary shelter for homeless women and children) Crossroads Urban Center 347 South 400 East 84111 801-364-7765 (food, referrals) Rescue Mission of Salt Lake 463 South 400 West 84101 801-355-1302 (meals, showers, clothing for everyone, shelter for men only) Salvation Army 252 South 500 East 84102 801-322-1253 (emergency welfare, evening meal) The Road Home/Salt Lake Community Shelter and Resource Center 210 South Rio Grande 84101 801-359-4142 Cedar City Iron County Care and Share 140 East 400 South 84720 435-586-5142 (gasoline, food and assistance to abused children) Provo Provo Center for Women and Children in Crisis P. O. Box 1075 84603 801-374-9351 HOTLINE: 801-377-5500 (provides shelter for abused women and children) Utah County Department of Substance Abuse 100 East Center, # 3300 84606 801-370-8427 Food and Care Coalition 164 North 200 West 84603 801-373-1825 (meals, laundry facilities, clothing, food and referral to shelters) Ogden Ogden Rescue Mission 2781 Wall Avenue P. O. Box 625 84401 801-399-3058 Ogden Salvation Army 2615 Grant Avenue 84401 801-621-3580 Your Community Connection 2261 Adams Avenue 84401 801-394-9456 St. Anne's Center 137 West Binford 84401 801-621-5036 RENTERS' GROUPS Mountainlands Community Action Program 257 E. Center, Provo 84606 801-373-8200 Ogden Area Community Action Agency 3159 Grant Avenue 84401 801-399-9281 Salt Lake Community Action 764 S. 200 W., SLC 84101 801-359-2444 Utah Issues 330 W. 500 S., SLC 84104 801-521-2035 Dixie Care and Share 131 N. 300 W., St. George 84770 435-628-3661 HELP IN REPAIRING, REHABILITATING OR MAINTAINING HOUSING Assist, Inc. 218 East 500 South, SLC 84111 801-355-7085 Neighborhood Housing Services (serves 600 North to North Temple, and 500 West to 1500 West) 622 W. 500 N., SLC 84116 801-539-1590 West Valley City Housing Authority 3600 South 2700 West 84119 801-963-3320 (Low interest and 0 interest loans for Rehab to homes, including mobile homes. Grant for emergency repairs REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES Redevelopment Agencies offer low-interest and/or deferred payment loans to rehabilitate housing for low-income households. Contact the Redevelopment Agency nearest you: Davis County 801-451-2587 352 S. 200 W. #1 Lindon City 435-785-5043 100 N. State Logan City 435-750-9800 255 N. Main Mount Pleasant 435-462-2456 115 W. Main Ogden 801-629-8940 Provo 801-379-6160 55 N. University Ave. Price 435-636-3184 432 W. 600 S. Richfield 435-896-6430 Roosevelt 435-722-5001 255 S. State Street Roy 801-774-1020 5015 S. 1900 W. Salt Lake City 801-535-7240 451 S. State Street INFORMATION ABOUT SUBSIDIZED HOUSING Salt Lake Community Action 764 South 200 West, SLC 84101 801-359-2444 Crossroads Urban Center 347 South 400 East, SLC 84111 801-364-7765 JEDI 1268 West 500 North, SLC 84116 801-364-8562 LOW INCOME HOUSING Housing Outreach Rental Program (HORP) 764 South 200 West, SLC 84101 801-359-2444 HOUSING AUTHORITIES Provide rent subsidies Beaver City Housing Authority Beaver Valley Hospital Box 1670, 85 North 400 East 84713 435-438-2531 Bear River Association of Government Housing Authority 170 North Main, Logan 84321 435-752-7242 Cedar City Housing Authority 239 West Highway 56 84720 435-586-8462 Davis County Housing Authority Box 328, 352 South 200 West, #1 Farmington, 84501 801-451-2587 Emery County Housing Authority P. O. Box 551, 95 East Main Castle Dale 84513 435-381-2902 Escalante Valley Housing Authority c/o R. Bryner Wood, Sec. Beryl 84714 435-439-5584 Grand County Housing Authority P. O. Box 729, 302 East Center, Moab 84532 435-259-5891 Millard County Housing Authority P. O. Box 854 71 S. 200 W., Delta 84624 435-864-5024 Ogden City Housing Authority 127 24th Street, #2 84401 801-627-5851 Provo City Housing Authority 650 West 100 North 84601 801-374-1331 St. George City Housing Authority 975 North 1725 West, #101 84770 435-628-3648 Salt Lake City Housing Authority 1776 South West Temple 84115 801-487-2161 Salt Lake County Housing Authority 3595 South Main, SLC 84115 801-284-4400 Tooele County Housing Authority 47 South Main Tooele, UT 84074 phone: 435-843-3199 Myton City Housing Authority dba Housing Authority of Uintah Basin 58 E. 100 N. Roosevelt 84066 435-722-3952 992 W. Main Vernal 84078 435-781-4156 Ute Indian Housing Authority Box 250, Ft. Duchesne 84026 435-722-4656 Utah County Housing Authority 240 East Center, Provo 84606 801-373-8333 Utah Paiute Housing Authority 665 N. 100 E., Cedar City 84720 435-586-1214 Weber County Housing Authority 2380 Washington Blvd. , #230 Ogden 84119 801-399-8791 West Valley City Housing Authority 3600 S. Constitution Blvd. 84119 801-966-3320 FREE WEATHERIZATION Utah Office of Energy Services 324 S. State Str., #500, SLC 84111 801-538-8690 toll free 1-800-662-3633 Provides free weatherization for low-income families. TO REPORT BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS Building Inspectors Beaver 435-438-6482 105 East Center Brigham City 435-734-2031 1 South Main Cache County 435-752-8328 179 North Main, #19, Logan Cedar City 435-586-2957 110 North Main Clearfield 801-774-7220 140 East Center Kanab 435-644-5315 140 East 100 South Layton 801-546-8520 437 North Wasatch Dr. Logan 435-752-8328 179 North Main, #19 Ogden 801- 629-8950 2484 Washington Blvd. , #230 Provo 801-379-6450 351 West Center, 2nd Floor Roy 801-774-1000 5051 South 1900 West Salt Lake City 801-535-6436 451 South State, Room 406 St. George 435-674-4223 175 East 200 North TO REPORT HEALTH CODE VIOLATIONS Health Departments Beaver 435-438-2482 325 East Center Brigham City 435-734-0845 817 West 950 South Cedar City 435-586-2437 88 East Fiddlers Canyon Road Davis County 801-451-3296 P.O. Box 618 28 E. State Str., #24, Farmington Kanab 435-644-2537 245 South 200 East Logan 435-752-3730 655 East 1300 North Morgan and Weber 801-399-8433 2570 Grant Ave., Ogden Panguitch 435-676-8800 601 N. Main Salt Lake Valley 801-313-6641 788 E. Wood Oak Lane (5380 S.) St. George 435-673-3528 285 West Tabernacle Tremonton 435-257-3318 125 South 100 West TO REPORT DISCRIMINATION Disability Law Center Community Legal Center 205 North 400 West Salt Lake City 84103-1125 Voice/TTY 801-363-1347 FAX 801-363-1437 toll free 800-662-9080 toll free 800-550-4182 TTY Utah Antidiscrimination & Labor Division Utah Labor Commission 160 East 300 South, 3rd Floor P. O. Box 146630 Salt Lake City 84114-6630 801-530-6801 Utah Salt Lake City Field Office U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development 125 S. State Str., #3001 84138 Salt Lake City 84138 801-524-6070
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) distributes funds to help state transportation agencies (STAs), including the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT), carry out the activities of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Supportive Services (DBE/SS) program. Under the program, the Civil Rights team within the Office of Employee Services at the Iowa DOT provides supportive services to Iowa-based DBEs in collaboration with CPMI, Inc. and the Construction Management and Technology (CMAT) Program at Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans).
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https://www.mehna.org.uk/news/press-release-44-million-cash-boost-to-cut-emissions-from-buildings-and-help-households-save-on-energy-bills | 2022-07-04T20:49:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104496688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704202455-20220704232455-00480.warc.gz | 0.924582 | 2,626 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__145348148 | en | Tens of thousands of UK homes, businesses and public buildings are one step closer to benefitting from greener, cleaner energy thanks to £44 million of government funding announced today (Friday 28 May).
Today’s funding package addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of heating homes and workspaces which makes up almost a third of all UK carbon emissions.
Of the £44 million funding announced today, £30 million will fund 3 innovative heat network projects providing low carbon energy in south-east London, Manchester and Cambridgeshire, whilst helping to bring down energy bills.
A heat network is a distribution system of insulated pipes that takes heat from a central source, such as a combined heat and power plant or heat recovered from industry and delivers it to a number of domestic or non-domestic buildings. They are a proven, cost-effective way of providing reliable low carbon heat at a fair price to consumers.
More than £12 million of funding to develop one of the UK’s largest heat networks in the London Borough of Bexley that will supply low carbon heat to 21,000 homes. Heat for the network will be drawn centrally from the processing of non-recyclable waste, a low carbon alternative to individual gas boilers. The project is part of plans by energy company Vattenfall to deliver low carbon heating to 75,000 homes across the Thames Estuary over the next decade.
£14.7 million to develop a network across a zone of five square kilometres in Manchester’s city centre that plans to distribute low carbon electricity, heat and cooling to a range of buildings, including the local hospital, a mix of social and private housing, student accommodation blocks and commercial organisations. Heating will be powered by energy from solar panels and air source heat pumps.
£3.3 million for a first-of-its-kind community-led project in the Cambridgeshire village of Swaffham Prior, which will allow 300 properties to collectively transition from oil to low-carbon heating using a network of hybrid ground and air source heat pumps.
Minister for Climate Change Lord Callanan said:
Almost a third of all UK carbon emissions come from heating our homes and addressing this is a vital part of eradicating our contribution to climate change by 2050.
Today’s funding package will accelerate the development of low-carbon technologies that will both reduce emissions, and ensure people’s homes are warmer, greener and cheaper to run.
Securing a lasting move away from fossil fuels to heat our homes will allow thousands of households and businesses to feel the benefits of projects that are breaking new ground and making our villages, towns and cities cleaner places to live and work.
Innovative projects like those this funding is backing are developing new and effective ways to use energy in homes and workspaces, which is helping to drive down costs and making low-carbon heat affordable and accessible for consumers as the UK transitions to a greener future.
On top of the £30 million for heat network projects, a further £14.6 million announced today will benefit 11 projects in England, Scotland and Wales. The funding will be invested in exploring ways the UK can develop and use efficient, low-carbon technologies for heating and cooling buildings.
Projects include one being led by Durham University that is exploring whether water in flooded, abandoned coal mines could be used as a low-carbon geothermal source of heat. Another scheme from the University of Birmingham is looking at ways that electricity from renewable energy sources can be stored in times of low demand to meet requirements at peak periods and a further project being led by the University of Glasgow is aiming to develop the efficiency of air source heat pumps.
Today’s £44 million funding announcement comes ahead of the publication of the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy which will set out how carbon emissions in homes and workspaces will be addressed to meet legal commitments over ending contributions to climate change by 2050. The strategy is due to be published this year.
The funding also helps deliver on commitments made in the Prime Minister’s 10 point plan to make the UK’s homes, schools and hospitals greener, warmer and more energy efficient, while creating 50,000 jobs by 2030, and the government’s ambitious energy white paper that commits to transforming the UK’s energy system and changing the way homes are heated.
Notes to editors£30 million funding for Heat Networks Investment ProjectsSwaffham Prior
Funding of £3.3 million will see a first-of-its-kind project developed in Cambridgeshire that allows the village of Swaffham Prior to transition from oil to low-carbon heating, with 300 properties linked to a network using hybrid ground and air source heat pumps.
With government support, Swaffham Prior Community Land Trust and Cambridgeshire County Council have created a collaborative community heat scheme that provides a blueprint model which can be replicated in other communities across the UK.
Sheryl French, Programme Director, Climate Change and Energy Investment said:
This is a fantastic project and a first of its kind that we know of in the country. Retrofitting a whole village is a challenge but the Swaffham Prior Community Land Trust has been a great partner driving the project forward.
Securing the funding is a huge step in creating accessible renewable heat for oil-dependent homes in Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire County Council is committed to tackling climate change and I’m looking forward to seeing the continued success of this project.
Cory - London Borough of Bexley
A £12.1 million package of government loans and grants is being made to the Cory project in the London Borough of Bexley. The funding has been awarded to Cory to support heat networks that will supply low carbon heat to 21,000 homes.
Heat for the network will be drawn from Energy from Waste facilities run by Cory and is part of plans by Vattenfall to deliver low carbon heating to 75,000 homes across the Thames Estuary over the next decade.
Dougie Sutherland, CEO at Cory, said:
We are delighted that BEIS is supporting the development of one of the UK’s largest heat networks.
This is a very major step towards net zero, providing low-carbon heat for thousands of homes and businesses in Bexley and its surrounding Boroughs.
The Octagon Project Energy Network (OPEN) heat network will receive £14.7 million in grants and loans for a scheme that plans to distribute low carbon electricity, heat and cooling to a range of buildings in the city centre such as Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, a mix of social and private housing, student accommodation blocks and commercial organisations.
Heating will be provided by Combined Heat and Power generation, which will be combined with power from solar panels and air source heat pumps.
Richard Everton, Chairman of the Manchester Energy Partnership said:
I am delighted that the tenacity and single mindedness of the Manchester Energy Partnership Limited team has turned what was a personal ‘pipe-dream’ into a financially viable and practical reality for the city of Manchester.
The support received from both the local authority and central government is proof that multiple agencies can work together with the private sector to bring about infrastructure projects that will benefit communities, in pursuit of fuel efficiency and to reduce carbon emissions in our major cities. Manchester is taking a strategic lead in achieving ‘Net Zero North West’.
£14.6 million funding to decarbonise heating and cooling
11 projects are supported by the £14.6 million investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), both of which are part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Executive Chair Professor Dame Lynn Gladden said:
With the heating and cooling of buildings accounting for a large share of the UK’s carbon emissions, there is a pressing need to develop sustainable new methods of generating and supplying energy for these purposes.
In the build-up to COP26, the new projects highlight how innovative new technologies and approaches will play a key role in reducing emissions and helping the UK to achieve its Net Zero goals.
Further details on individual projectsAquifer thermal energy storage for decarbonisation of heating and cooling
The project aims to develop technology that would tap underground water to provide a renewable energy source to heat and cool buildings. The team would use aquifer thermal energy storage that would warm or cool groundwater that is pumped underground and stored in a porous rock mass, called an aquifer. This would allow warm water to be stored to provide heating in winter, and cool water to be stored to provide cooling in the summer while greatly reducing the energy required to heat and cool buildings.
SaFEGround - Sustainable, Flexible and Efficient Ground-source heating and cooling systems
The project aims to provide a template for reducing the emissions associated with heating and cooling through the use of heat pumps. The team aims to demonstrate the role that heat pumps drawing energy from the ground can play an important role in the UK’s future low-carbon energy mix.
Geothermal Energy from Mines and Solar-Geothermal heat (GEMS)
Mine water in flooded, abandoned mines has the potential to provide a huge source of low-carbon, geothermal heat for the future which is estimated to be enough to meet the demands of all the buildings that lie over old coalfields. The project will look at all aspects of mine water geothermal heating, from its extraction using heat pumps to storage, delivery and the role of local communities.
Flexibility from Cooling and Storage (Flex-Cool-Store)
With demand for the summertime cooling of buildings set to increase in the UK, this project will investigate the potential impacts of a growth in cooling demand and how they can be sustainably managed. It will conduct detailed studies to understand how cooling demand might change in the coming decades and quantify the impact of increased demand on electricity networks.
DecarbonISation PAThways for Cooling and Heating (DISPATCH)
The DISPATCH project will aim to determine how consumers can use currently available, emerging and future decarbonised energy sources based on where they live, how they and others use the buildings they live in and whether they can be retrofitted with new technologies. These include electrification of heating, hydrogen-based systems, solar panels, batteries and biomass.
Heat Accumulation from Renewables with Valid Energy Storage and Transformation (HARVEST)
The project aims to develop new heat storage and conversion technology to absorb and accumulate curtailed renewable electricity over the course of the whole year. It would ensure that renewable electricity is stored in times of less electricity demand and ready for use to meet high heating demand in winter and high cooling demand in summer.
Flexible Air Source Heat pump for domestic heating decarbonisation (FASHION)
The project aims to address challenges to the wider use of air source heat pumps (ASHPs) as a cost-effective, renewable source of energy for heating in UK homes. The project aims to develop an efficient, flexible ASHP capable of continuous heating and operating at different modes to benefit from off-peak electricity or warm air during the daytime.
Barocaloric materials for zero-carbon heat pumps
The project aims to replace the conventional technologies currently used to provide heating with an environmentally-friendly and efficient alternative using barocaloric effects. These take place when materials are subjected to changes in pressure, generating heat that can be utilised through heat pumps.
Decarbonisation of Food Cold Chain Through Integrated Hydrogen Technologies
Working alongside industry stakeholders, this project will look to enable hydrogen power to become a key part of the UK’s energy future and assist in the decarbonisation of the UK food cold chain.
Zero Emission Cold-Chain (ZECC): Building the Road to Sustainable Cold-Chain Systems for Food Resilience
This project will bring together world-leading researchers, industry, technology innovators and customers such as farmers and retailers to map the opportunities and challenges to ensuring that the cold food chain can support UK-wide Net Zero goals and decarbonise while also meeting demand and being resilient.
VTTESS - Variable-Temperature Thermochemical Energy Storage System and Heat Networks for Decarbonising the Buildings Sector
Conventional thermochemical energy storage systems require the storing or discharging of heat intermittently, but this novel system will operate continuously at variable temperatures. The project also aims to investigate to better understand the barriers to the uptake of community-based heat networks so that any socio-economic, socio-technical or environmental issues can be addressed.
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https://my.eastlink.ca/customer-support/wireless/wpa-service | 2022-05-20T20:43:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662534669.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220520191810-20220520221810-00610.warc.gz | 0.927362 | 2,690 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__136050167 | en | On May 4, 2022, Alert Ready will be testing its emergency system. Wireless Public Alerting (WPA) capable devices may receive a test emergency alert from the Alert Ready service. This test is sent by provincial emergency management officials via wireless carriers’ networks including Eastlink.
Alert Ready is a service designed to deliver critical and potentially life-saving emergency alert messages to Canadians over cellular networks.
The Alert Ready system was developed in partnership with federal, provincial, and territorial emergency management officials, Pelmorex Corp., the broadcast industry, and wireless service providers to ensure you receive emergency alerts immediately and know when to take action to keep you and your family safe.
Similar to alerts that appear on TV, emergency alerts for wireless devices are issued to a specific, targeted geographic area, which can be as small as a few city blocks and as big as province wide so that only people in the affected area(s) receive the emergency alerts. These areas are determined by the alerting authorities. Compatible cellular devices should receive the emergency alert(s) within seconds of alert issuance.
Federal, provincial, and territorial governments are responsible for issuing emergency alerts.
Federally, emergency alerts are issued most frequently by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Each provincial or territorial government decides who will have the authority to issue alerts within their jurisdictions. For example, emergency alerts could be issued by provincial or territorial emergency management offices or in some cases by municipal emergency management offices or local police and fire departments.
Media companies, including television, radio stations, cable and satellite distributors, as well as websites receive these emergency alerts and relay them to their consumers.
As of 2018, mobile service providers are capable of distributing emergency alerts received from alerting authorities directly to their consumers’ compatible mobile devices connected to LTE networks using Cell Broadcast distribution.
The Alert Ready system allows alerting authorities from federal, provincial and territorial governments to issue a wide range of public safety messages. However, broadcasters and mobile service providers are only required to distribute emergency alerts for situations that pose an immediate threat-to-life.
Government officials developed and agreed on a specific list of the types of alerts that are considered a threat-to-life and should be distributed immediately, interrupting radio and television broadcasts. These “Broadcast Immediately” emergency alerts have the highest level of severity, urgency and certainty. For a full list, visit the Alert Types section of the Alert Ready website.
Issuing alerts outside of this list (for example heavy rainfall or blizzard warnings) is at the discretion of each of the broadcasters. Mobile service providers will only receive and relay messages that are issued for threat-to-life situations.
Yes. The alerting authority determines what areas are affected by an incident, weather or environmental situation, and uses a standard system that will typically correspond with municipal, regional or provincial boundaries. The standardized system will allow participating radio, television, cable and satellite companies to broadcast the emergency alerts that are most relevant to the communities they serve.
Emergency alerts intended for mobile devices are issued to a defined geographic area, which can be as small as a few city blocks, so that only people in the defined area receive the emergency alerts. Compatible mobile devices in the targeted area will receive the emergency alerts within seconds of being issued, provided the phones are powered on and connected to the LTE cellular network.
No. In order for emergency alerts to be received on a mobile device three conditions must be met. The mobile device must be:i. An LTE-device like a smartphone (LTE is commonly referred to as “4G LTE”);ii. Wireless public alerting (WPA)-compatible; andiii. Connected to an LTE cellular network at the time the emergency alert is issued, or joins the network while the alert is still active.
A mobile device that is WPA-compatible is (1) an LTE-device, and (2) has special software embedded in it which allows for messages sent by your service provider, via Cell Broadcast, to be received in the standard Alert Ready format.
Emergency alerts that meet the Alert Ready format allow you to know when an alert is received (because of the sound and vibration), and also provides confirmation that it is issued by a legitimate sources.
Click here for information on compatible devices.
No. While the emergency alert may look like a text message it is not a text message.
Emergency alerts are sent via Cell Broadcast distribution. Cell Broadcast is a mobile technology that allows messages to be broadcast to all compatible mobile devices within a designated geographical area. Cell Broadcast is designed for simultaneous message delivery to multiple users in a specified area, and is not affected by network congestion because it uses dedicated part of the network, different from that used for traditional voice and data traffic.
Cell Broadcast can be compared to radio broadcast. Radio towers broadcast music to people in defined geographic areas as long as the individuals can pick-up the broadcast signal and have their radios turned on. Similarly, Cell Broadcast messages are delivered to those compatible mobile devices that are within range of cell towers and antennas in the designated area.
Mobile service providers are required to distribute Emergency alerts to compatible smartphones that can access LTE (cellular) networks. Additional mobile devices – such as tablets and wearable accessories (e.g. smartwatches) – may be capable, from a technical perspective, to receive some form of the message, but it will not necessarily be received on the device in the Alert Ready format.
Click here for information on compatible mobile devices.
Emergency alerts will not end or terminate a voice call or data session in progress.
If you are on a voice call when the emergency alert is received, you will be made aware of the alert by a notification tone (similar to call waiting). When your call terminates the alert will be displayed on your mobile device.
If you are on a data session, the emergency alert will briefly interrupt your data session will continue but it may be briefly interrupted by the emergency alert appearing on your mobile device screen.
A compatible mobile device that is turned off, or is in Airplane Mode, will not display an emergency alert. If the emergency alert is still active when the mobile device is powered on, and the user is still in the alert area, the mobile device will then display the alert.
A compatible mobile device that is set to silent will display an emergency alert, but you might not hear the emergency alert sound. The emergency alert sound will usually play at whatever the current volume setting is on the mobile device, so if your device is set to silent, no sound will accompany the emergency alert message. However, this behaviour can differ depending on your mobile device and in some instances the alert sound may override your user settings.
If the emergency alert is still active when the compatible mobile device is turned back on, and you are within the emergency alert area, the emergency alert will be displayed. If the emergency alert is no longer active or if you have travelled outside of the alert area, it will not be displayed.
While on Wi-Fi, if the compatible mobile device can still communicate with the LTE cellular network, it will receive emergency alerts. If the mobile device is not within reach of the LTE cellular network (or is set to Wi-Fi only) it will not receive an emergency alert.
Test alert messages will be identified as such. These messages are intended to “test” the functionality of the system, and inform consumer of wireless emergency alerts, and do not require the consumer to take steps to secure their safety. You may be required to acknowledge receipt of the emergency alert in order to allow for your mobile device to resume normal functioning. In the event that you cannot acknowledge the alert, the alert sound and vibration will continue for 8 seconds. Depending on your specific mobile device, additional reminders may occur.
It is important to take action safely, especially if the emergency alert is received while operating a vehicle. If you are driving, it is important to remain calm and pull over at your earliest opportunity to view the emergency alert.
Wireless alerts are sent on a specific cellular channel that is separate from normal text and data traffic. While the alerts may look like text messages, they are not text messages and are not billed like text messages. Also, emergency alerts are sent to mobile devices in a specific geographic area and do not require the phone numbers of those devices. As such there is no ability to identify or bill for the messages that are received.
No. Emergency alerts received on your compatible mobile device are relevant to you and require immediate attention, and government regulations mandate that all compatible mobile devices receive all relevant alerts. Unlike radio and television broadcasting, which often has broad areas of coverage; wireless public alerting is geo-targeted and can be very specific to a limited area of coverage. As a result, if an emergency alert reaches your mobile device, you are located in an area where there is an imminent danger.
Yes. Emergency alerts are issued to a defined geographic area, such that only people in the defined area will receive the emergency alerts. If you are travelling and happen to be in another province when an emergency alert is issued, your compatible mobile device will receive the emergency alert within seconds of being issued, provided your phone is powered on and connected to the LTE cellular network.
No. If you are travelling, you will only receive emergency alerts that occur where you are.
Canadians can keep track of emergency alerts occurring in specific areas (e.g. where they or other family members live) through a number of available apps and online services.
Emergency alerts are broadcast from cellular towers and antennas within the area specified by the alert issuer. Compatible mobile devices connected to the specified towers/antennas will receive the emergency alert. The towers/antennas therefore must be operational to send emergency alerts. If you are in an affected area but your mobile device is unable to connect to any towers/antennas because of the situation, you will not receive the emergency alert on your mobile device.
No. Emergency alerts are sent using Cell Broadcast distribution. Cell Broadcast can only transmit information to your mobile device. This means that no data is being gathered about you, your mobile device or your location when emergency alerts are sent out.
All WPA compatible devices require the latest software. Please check back regularly to see if your device is WPA compatible. If your device is not listed below, you will not receive Wireless Public Alerts. If you have an international version of the devices below, you may not receive Wireless Public Alerts.
iPhone 6, iPhone 6+, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s+, 7/7+, 8/8+, iPhone X, iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs+, iPhone XR, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd Generation), iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone SE
Go Flip, Go Flip 3
G6, Stylo 4, X-Power 3, G7 One, G8 ThinQ, G8X ThinQ, Q60, Q70, K30, K41S, K61, Velvet
Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7+, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy 10e, Galaxy 10, Galaxy 10+, Galaxy S20 FE, Galaxy S21 FE, Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, Galaxy S20 Ultra, Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, Galaxy 21 Ultra, Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, Galaxy S22 Ultra, Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Note 10, Galaxy Note 10+, Galaxy Note 20, Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold3, Galaxy Z Flip3, Galaxy A03s, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A8, Galaxy A10, Galaxy A11, Galaxy A12, Galaxy A13 5G, Galaxy A20, Galaxy A21, Galaxy A32, Galaxy A50, Galaxy A51, Galaxy A52, Galaxy A53, Galaxy A70, Galaxy A71, Galaxy X-Cover 4
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https://www.hartfordfoplodge30.org/about/our-mission | 2024-04-20T09:55:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817576.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420091126-20240420121126-00178.warc.gz | 0.948127 | 290 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__20666888 | en | Every member of the Hartford FOP is committed to providing the highest level of police service to our community. We are dedicated to preserving our community's peace while adhering to the highest level of ethical standards and professional conduct. As service providers, we pledge to improve the quality of life for everyone who lives, works, and does business in our community. Being a partner with the community we serve is essential to building trust and mutual respect. These partnerships allow us to understand the community's concerns and enable us to identify and solve problems together.
Members of the Hartford FOP are dedicated to the community we serve and to our fellow employees. Our motto is "Working together for a safe community." We believe in and are committed to the following values:
Honesty and Integrity - We will consistently perform and behave in such a way that we exemplify the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics and are recognized for our commitment to ethical conduct and high professional standards
Communication - Honest, frequent interaction is the basis for establishing good working relationships and is critical for team building. We will promote good communication among employees by:
- Creating and maintaining an environment that fosters loyalty and openness in sharing thoughts and ideas.
- Listening to others when they talk.
- Being approachable and sensitive to changing demographics.
- Encouraging each other to extend this relationship to the community, enabling us to better communicate with those we serve. | public_administration |
https://theinternational.in/decision-soon-says-goa-congress-mla-ravi-naik-on-buzz-that-he-will-join-bjp/ | 2022-01-28T06:01:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305420.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128043801-20220128073801-00579.warc.gz | 0.990516 | 420 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__71337211 | en | PANAJI: Congress MLA and former chief minister Ravi Naik, widely speculated to be planning to switch across to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said he has consulted his supporters and will announce his decision soon. Naik, who was Goa chief minister for a little over 27 months in the early 1990s, was responding to buzz that he will be the next one to cross sides.
Goa Forward Party, a regional party led by Vijai Sardesai, this week lost a MLA, Jayesh Salgaonkar, who quit from the assembly and the party before joining the BJP on Friday. As chief minister Pramod Sawant welcomed Jayesh Salgaonkar into the BJP, he announced that there was a long list of politicians from rival parties who were waiting to sign up with the BJP.
Naik has long been considered to be on the top of this list. Political leaders close to him said Ravi Naik could join the BJP as early as Sunday.
“There is nothing to announce at the moment. Over the next few days I will announce if there is any decision. I have heard all sides and have also consulted with my supporters,” Naik told reporters on Friday.
Naik’s exit, as and when he chooses to formalise it, will not surprise the Goa Congress which gave up on the politician who once led the state government after his sons ejected from the party.
Congress leaders said the veteran Congress politician has been considered persona non grata for all practical purposes by the party leadership after his two sons, Ritesh and Roy, joined the BJP in August last year.
Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar was upfront, and public about it. “The day his sons joined the BJP we disowned him and have also readied another candidate to take his place,” Chodankar said earlier.
The Naik camp also never made it an effort to counter the view that he will follow his sons’ footsteps. | public_administration |
https://www.tomorrownow.org/blog/tomorrownow-and-tomorrow-io-supports-the-president-bidens-emergency-plan-for-adaptation-and-resilience-in-africa/ | 2024-02-25T08:56:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474594.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225071740-20240225101740-00612.warc.gz | 0.914988 | 554 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__171345185 | en | As part of the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), TomorrowNow and private sector partner Tomorrow.io are working alongside NOAA, the Department of State, and USAID to drive resilience in the face of climate impacts.
Africa – In a groundbreaking initiative aimed at bolstering climate resilience and preparedness in Africa, TomorrowNow.org, in collaboration with Tomorrow.io, is proud to announce its pivotal role in the expansion of multi-hazard early warning systems across the continent.
This effort is part of U.S President Joe Biden’s investments of over $50 million to improve the development, delivery and use of climate information in vulnerable developing countries.
This initiative will enhance the capability of African nations to monitor, forecast, and proactively adapt to the impact of day-to-day weather, in addition to extreme events, including rainfall, drought, and heat, particularly on a sub-seasonal timescale. Climate poses a significant threat to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people across Africa, in addition to economic growth and viability.
TomorrowNow.org’s mission is to enable equitable access to next generation weather and climate technologies such as Tomorrow.io‘s cutting-edge weather intelligence for climate resilience planning based on data from its proprietary satellite constellation, as well as its world class forecasting and AI/ML modeling capabilities.
“Our mission in Africa goes beyond mere weather forecasting,” said Rei Goffer, Co-founder at Tomorrow.io. “It’s about creating a sustainable and resilient environment where communities can leverage weather intelligence to adapt and thrive despite the challenges posed by climate change.”
In partnership with African national meteorological and hydrological services (NMHSs) and regional institutions, PREPARE aims to strengthen the resilience of local communities, which is where TomorrowNow.org plays a pivotal role.
“These collective efforts, spanning the next five years, are not just about managing disasters; they’re about empowering African countries to proactively build a more climate-resilient future,” said Georgina Campbell Flatter, Director at TomorrowNow.org. “By working together to leverage the world’s most cutting-edge technology and expertise, we have the ability to implement actionable and sustainable programs now for the millions of people most vulnerable to climate change.”
A significant aspect of this initiative is NOAA‘s commitment to investing in data infrastructure in South and East Africa, facilitating a better understanding of historical weather patterns in areas where traditional observation data is sparse. This will enable more accurate and relevant weather predictions, crucial for effective disaster preparedness and response. | public_administration |
https://hausderstatistik.org/model-project-haus-der-statistik/ | 2024-04-24T12:27:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00366.warc.gz | 0.926675 | 243 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__180277851 | en | The House of Statistics at Alexanderplatz, 40,000 m² of vacancy for 10 years. A blank space and a space of potential beyond comparison, yielding the possibility to create a place that connects the existing neighborhood with the plural urban community through real cooperation of the city’s society, politics and administration.
The Haus der Statistik area is being developed as a model project for the common good. Administrative uses, a new town hall for Mitte and integrated forms of living and working as well as space for art, culture and social affairs will be created.
In order to achieve this goal, an innovative and effective constellation of actors was formed between the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, the district office Mitte, the state-owned companies WBM (Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte) and BIM (Berliner Immobilienmanagement) as well as ZKB (ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG).
With shared responsibility, we are realizing the development of Haus der Statistik for the common good. Collectively we ensure new cooperations and a variety of ways to get involved. Join in and get involved! | public_administration |
https://vaxia.org/wiki/categories/transparency | 2023-06-07T14:45:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653930.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607143116-20230607173116-00528.warc.gz | 0.954988 | 327 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__225383948 | en | "Transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed."
This means for the most part: In public. In writing. Openly.
Why? Because this keeps us honest, it increases the trust of our player base and storyhost base, and generally it keeps us on our toes. A bad idea will get punctured more quickly. A good idea will get support more quickly. Transparency isn't meant to be used as a weapon, it's meant to be used as a sanitizer - sunlight to make it clear and obvious that all those acting are doing so in good faith.
Which isn't to say every single little thing needs to be handled in the open. Personal disputes, SH saga negotiations, inter-player resolution - all of these things can be handled privately as needed. The concerned parties are already in the room after all.
Where things need to be transparent is when the concerned parties are the entire site. Criticism of leadership is a public concern (as is praise!). New rule handling, or modifications of site policy - all are public concerns. While the initial germination of an idea can be handled privately, at some point the work needs to go public, for both public review and public accountability of the decision makers involved.
Public review means: Not on AIM, not on email, not on PM. In Discussion room isn't a public enough location, and chat scroll could effectively erase the conversation from view. Public means, in the forums.
Wiki Main : Go to Wiki Main Page Site Policies : Go to Site Policies Main Page | public_administration |
http://newrecovery.blogspot.com/2006/11/alcohol-national-scourge-in-botswana.html | 2018-07-16T22:08:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589470.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716213101-20180716233101-00517.warc.gz | 0.982908 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__21557124 | en | "Families have endured the daily agony of poverty and abuse because they are headed by alcoholics. Wives have been abused and even killed by husbands whose only plea was that they were under the influence of alcohol. Lives have been lost through drunken driving. HIV/AIDS infections that could not have occurred had taken place because the infected people's judgment was impaired by alcohol. The list goes on," he said.The bill is opposed by the alcoholic beverage industry, which has a number of members of the Botswana parliament on its side. More. The alcohol industry has issued a veiled threat that if the government proceeds, it will take the trade underground in defiance of the law, as during the American Prohibition period. Source.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Alcohol a national scourge in Botswana
"The disturbing abuse of alcohol is not a party political issue but a national challenge that requires our collective leadership." So said Botswana President Festus Mogae, addressing the Botswana parliament in support of a bill to regulate alcohol sales. | public_administration |
https://www.govwolf.org/governor-wolf.html | 2023-06-06T02:09:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652207.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606013819-20230606043819-00400.warc.gz | 0.983127 | 396 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__249762074 | en | Born in Allen Township (now East Allen Township), George Wolf was the son of German immigrant farmers. His father, along with other local farmers, joined together to build the Allen Township Classical Academy in 1785, providing a formal education for the young men of the community. This building has been known as the "Wolf Academy" since the turn of the 20th century. George Wolf's early education was at this school, and he later became its principal.
After studying law with John Ross of Easton, Wolf was admitted to the Northampton County Bar in 1798, the same year he married Mary Erb. The Wolfs were the parents of eight sons and one daughter. Wolf was appointed postmaster of Easton in 1802, clerk of Northampton County Orphans Court from 1804 to 1809, and was elected to the state General Assembly for one term in 1814. He was defeated in the state senate election in 1815, and spent the next nine years practicing law in Easton. In 1824, he was elected to the US House of Representatives for three terms.
In 1829, Wolf was elected Governor of PA, and won reelection in 1832. In 1834, the long awaited Common School Law established the first statewide system of publicly financed education, which was a top priority for Wolf. After he lost his bid for a third term, President Andrew Jackson appointed him first comptroller of the Treasury of the United States. Two years later President Martin Van Buren appointed Wolf collector of customs for the Port of Philadelphia, a post he held until his death in 1840.
Wolf's most important contribution to Pennsylvania, the passage of the Common School Act, provided a basic education to all children of the state, without regard to a family's wealth or social status. Today many schools across the state are named in honor of George Wolf, "Father of the free school system", a monumental legacy for a Northampton County, PA farm boy. | public_administration |
https://www.buildingsmartuae.ae/sites/buildingsmart/en/Pages/AboutUs.aspx | 2024-04-21T05:48:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421040323-20240421070323-00401.warc.gz | 0.933639 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__134239815 | en | buildingSMART UAE Chapter
buildingSMART UAE chapter is hosted by the Dubai Municipality which aims to promote and support digital transformation in the building and construction sector in the UAE through the adoption and development of open standards. It also aims to participate actively in the various buildingSMART technical rooms, especially those related to buildings, regulations and automated code compliance checking, infrastructure, BIM-GIS integration, and digital twins.
The UAE chapter will focus on supporting the digital transformation of the construction sector in the country in cooperation with government agencies, private companies and specialised educational institutions. It will also promote effective participation in various working groups of BuildingSMART International, especially with regard to building permit procedures, automated verification of building regulations and digital twinning regulations. In addition, it will make key contributions to the development and application of global open source standards to enhance integration between BIM and GIS. | public_administration |
https://newsusa-live.com/trump-was-on-helicopter-flight-as-blasey-ford-began-testimony/ | 2018-12-09T21:48:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823183.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20181209210843-20181209232843-00140.warc.gz | 0.960921 | 320 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__172763158 | en | President Trump watched portions of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday morning aboard Air Force One on a flight from New York to Washington.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president watched some of the hearing on a delayed feed as he returned from meetings at the United Nations. She said Mr. Trump had not spoken Thursday or Wednesday to Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, whom Ms. Blasey Ford accuses of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers in 1982.
Mr. Trump boarded the presidential helicopter Marine One at a Wall Street landing platform in New York City at 10:29 a.m., four minutes before Ms. Blasey Ford began testifying. He flew to John F. Kennedy International Airport and boarded Air Force One at 10:53 a.m. for the return flight to Washington after spending the week in meetings at the United Nations General Assembly.
The president did not respond to reporters’ shouted questions about the hearing as he exited Air Force One shortly before noon at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
The president said Wednesday that he would be watching Ms. Blasey Ford’s testimony to see whether he found her allegations credible. He has said he thinks the accusations by Ms. Blasey Ford and two other women of sexual misconduct by Judge Kavanaugh are false. A press pool report said that Mr. Trump was “waving and pumping his fists” to journalists and law enforcement officials before boarding Air Force One.
Uncharacteristically, the president had not posted anything on Twitter Thursday morning. | public_administration |
https://austibeach.com.au/what-does-stvr/419191-unified-zoning-code | 2021-04-19T04:14:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038863420.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20210419015157-20210419045157-00126.warc.gz | 0.884393 | 2,283 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__255763140 | en | Last Revision — September 25, 2020. The Code is one of the City's important tools in encouraging new development and renovation that helps move the community toward its goals of being a better, more attractive place to live, work and recreate, and for a diverse and viable local economy. The Unified Development Code (Chapter 30 of the City Code) became effective August 1, 2011. Stay updated on what's happening! Adopted – October 9, 2012. 14 In … 15151 … This Ordinance, Chapter 11 of the Municipal Code of the City of Northglenn, shall be known and cited as the Northglenn Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). Whether it is a form-based code or a traditional zoning code, color graphics, tables, charts, maps and photographs are more prevalent than in the past. Below is a Master List of ALL Code-text amendments that … The Unified Development Ordinance is enacted to promote the orderly growth and expansion of Fort Smith, Arkansas (City). Section 5.37.2 defines a Marijuana-Infused Product Processor as: A licensee that is a commercial entity located in this state that purchases resin, oil, or other concentrates, to produce, package, and wholesale marihuana-infused products to licensed Provisioning Centers or other … In the Municipal Code, references to the “Zoning Ordinance” or “Chapter 11 of the Municipal Code” shall Form-based zoning regulates land development with the most emphasis on controlling urban form and less emphasis on controlling land uses (although uses with negative … The Unified Development Code (or UDC) is a single comprehensive document that is used as the primary guide for development within the city. The Unified Development Code incorporates procedures, standards, and regulations for zoning and land use applications. Reflect our community by shaping the places where we want to live, work, and play. The Unified Development Ordinance implements the comprehensive plan's theme of a tiered system that reflects the different characteristics and priorities found throughout the region. The UDC: Guides the environmental, economic and social development, redevelopment and conservation of the community. These regulations recognize and balance the various rights and responsibilities relating to land ownership, use and development. Sidebar Menu. What is the Unified Development Code? The UDO was approved at the Village Board Meeting on May 21, 2019. The Green Code UDO represents the first major overhaul to City zoning laws since 1953 and will serve as the City’s blueprint for zoning … Submit . Responds to contemporary development trends. Sign Up for Our Newsletter. Unlike many other communities, Charlotte has not waited for the Comprehensive Plan to be complete before beginning its update to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). COVID-19 information and resources. interpreted as references to this Unified Development Ordinance. Durham, North Carolina Population: over 200,000 Unified Development Ordinance Exit— Adopted December 5, 2005 Developed by Duncan Associates. What is the Unified Development Code? The Unified Development Code (UDC) is the regulating document for development in Pflugerville. That having received a recommendation from the Planning Commission, and proper notice having been given and hearing held as provided by law and … Section 62.231 relating to the zoning of wetlands; 3. Authority The provisions of this Ordinance are adopted under the authority granted by the following sections of the Wisconsin Statutes and amendments thereto: 1. The unified development code is a document that regulates all development within the city, including zoning, land use, development standards and subdivisions. Codes and Ordinances Unified Development Ordinance In 1999, St. Charles County adopted the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) (zoning and subdivision ordinance) which developed out of the land subdivision regulations that had been in place since 1959. These regulations provide for the orderly development of subdivisions, expansion of infrastructure and public services, and divide the city into several zoning districts. Unified Development Ordinance. Marijuana-Infused Product Processors as a Special Exception Use in the C2B and C3 Zoning Districts. The Zone Map has been updated to identify the new Zone Districts. The Unified Development Code (UDC) is a document that consolidates all development-related regulations including zoning requirements, subdivision regulations, design and development standards, and review procedures. Locate Us. Supplement to the Unified Development Code. SECTION 1. Tyler Unified Development Code Adopted (4/23/08) Printed (11/7/2018) Last Amendment (10/24/18) iv CHAPTER 10 TYLER UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLE I. Create an easier to read document. 24003.23 board of zoning adjustment/variances 24003.24 vacation of streets and reservations 24003.25 administrative permits 24003.26 non-conforming uses and vested rights section 24004: zoning districts 24004.1 zoning districts - general 24004.2 agricultural district (ag) B. City of Duluth. UDC - The Unified Development Code as October 12, 2020. City of Aurora » Business Services » Development Center » Codes & Rules » Building & Zoning Code » Unified Development Ordinance. The UDC includes regulations and design standards that address zoning, land uses, building setbacks, building height, parking, landscaping, neighborhood character, and procedures. INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS ..... 1 DIVISION A. Unified Development Ordinance. Unified Development Ordinance. View the May 2019 Unified Development Code Updates. Zoning and Unified Development Codes Zoning Codes have become more complex than ever before. GRANTED BY THE WICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY UNIFIED ZONING CODE, SECTION V-C, AS ADOPTED BY SECTION 28.04.010, AS AMENDED. Ordinance 5861 of 2019 ; Codee-Text Amendments Summary and Master List. The UDO will guide future land use development in Cary’s neighborhoods, downtown, corridors, and employment areas. It was approved by the City Council in 2007 and now Farmington is in the process of updating it. Click on the links below to view the entire document or a specific chapter. Legal Framework..... 2 … Contact Info. SmartCode is a unified land development ordinance template for planning and urban ... Form-based zoning has been developed over the last twenty years to overcome the problems of sprawl created by use-based codes. Property Info by Address . The City of Greenfield has updated the zoning and subdivision ordinances and the Official Zone Map. The table of contents contains dated references that indicate the date that each section was last updated. The Unified Development Code (UDC) regulates zoning, subdivision, signs, site development, and historic preservation in a single Code with 15 Chapters. The City of Holland’s draft Unified Development Ordinance combines the City’s Zoning, Trees, Streets and Sidewalks, and Subdivision Ordinances into a single regulatory document. The Caddo Parish Unified Development Code was implemented in December 2017. MunicodeNEXT, the industry's leading search application with over 3,300 codes and growing! Unified Development Ordinance . The Unified Development Code (UDC), currently housed in Title 16 of the City's Municipal Code, is the primary regulatory document that the City uses to ensure quality development. Disclaimer: This Code of Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality. Pulaski County Unified Development Ordinance Page 4 of 138 Article 1: Title, Purpose, and General Provisions 1.0 Intent and Applicability This Article provides an introduction to the structure and the legal framework of the Unified Development Ordinance (the UDO). What Does this Project Entail? UDO regulates the use of land throughout the City, including the design of buildings, sites, and new streets. Basics — A Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) is a local policy instrument that combines traditional zoning and subdivision regulations, along with other desired city regulations, such as design guidelines, sign regulations, and floodplain and stormwater management, into one document. Email us with general questions about zoning. The result of this update is the new Unified Development Ordinance, or UDO, and zoning map. Complete UDC Document, … 1 UNIFIED LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE 2 City of NORTH PORT, FLORIDA ... 5 STATE OF FLORIDA 6 Published by Municipal Code Corporation 7 Tallahassee, Florida 2004 8 PREFACE 9 10 This volume constitutes a republication of the general and permanent ordinances 11 of the City of North Port, Florida. Unified Development Code (UDC) Zoning Board of Appeals; Unified Development Code (UDC) The Unified Development Code was most recently updated on January 7, 2021 (Version 87). Section 62.23(7) relating to general land use zoning; 2. Effective – January 2, 2013. Zoning Code Objectives. The new Ordinance, called a Unified Development Ordinance, combines the Greenfield Code of Ordinances Title XV Land Use, Chapter 152 Subdivision Code and Chapter 155 Zoning Code into one document. This includes updating the community’s zoning code, but also has important implications for many other aspects of the code. The UDO combines the zoning and subdivision authority of Pulaski County into one document. You are encouraged to contact Village staff at 847.639.1100 with any questions. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF WICHITA, KANSAS. Ordinance 5874 of 2019; Exhibit A: Figure 16-1; Exhibit B – Figure 16-2; View the March 2019 Unified Development Code Updates. American Legal Publishing Corporation provides these documents for informational … 3167 Main … Allow for flexibility within zoning districts and limit the complexity of zoning districts . Unified Development Code. The Unified Development Code (commonly called the "UDC") is a set of regulations aimed to protect the public health, safety and general welfare. appendix c. sight triangles; approved plant lists, tree canopy calculations; and approved plant lists for stormwater management The Planning and Zoning Commission discussed the proposed changes to the code during its meeting on Dec. 10, just days after the … It contains zoning, site design and subdivision regulations necessary for implementing the vision of the community as reflected in the comprehensive plan. Department Planning and Zoning • Heather Nick, Senior Planner Unified Development Code Acknowledgements. Whenever this document refers to “this Chapter,” it shall mean this UDO. 12 13 In 1989 the City of North Port adopted a revised and updated Comprehensive Plan. On January 3, 2017, Mayor Byron W. Brown signed the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) into law. MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE; HEALTH AND SANITATION ORDINANCE; Home DEPARTMENTS PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCES & REGULATIONS UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE (UDC) UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE. For comparison, the last … The Unified Development Ordinance will: Build neighborhoods while enabling economic and community growth. Refer to the link provided for the Unified Development Code online version. | public_administration |
https://harborvillageflorida.com/drug-news/emergency-treatment-for-opioid-overdose-act-awaits-gov-rick-scotts-signature/ | 2018-05-28T09:47:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794872766.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180528091637-20180528111637-00530.warc.gz | 0.922031 | 401 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__48171803 | en | Emergency Treatment for Opioid Overdose Act Awaits Gov. Rick Scott’s Signature
Florida may join the ranks of states who have a standing order for opiate reversal medications like Naloxone- which has been credited with saving 10,000 victims of overdoses in 2013, according to Saint Peter’s Blog. The CDC reports 44,000 people died from preventable overdoses in 2013. Florida is making an attempt to quell those numbers in the borders of the Sunshine State with Senate Bill 758 and House Bill 751, which has already passed most legal hoops. The new legislation would make Naloxone available to all who sought it without a prescription. The overdose reversal medication is effective against opiate overdoses, heroin overdoses, and prescription medication overdoses.
Upon receiving Rick Scott’s signature Florida will add to 29 states already implementing similar laws for standing orders of overdose reversal medications. As sponsor of the bill, Julio Gonzalez is quoted by the Tampa Tribune, “This legislation will ensure that the life-saving medication. . . is always in the hands of healthcare professionals and emergency personnel so we can begin curbing the overdose death rate in Florida and be a leader in these policy matters,”
Florida is ranked 11th in the nation for harboring untreated patients of addiction who suffer overdose deaths. Naloxone is a non addictive drug with the potential to give people with the disease of addiction a second chance at life. Those revived with overdose reversal medications will hopefully receive a referral to a drug addiction treatment center where they will recover from, and uncover the underlying causes of, addiction.
About the Author
Alexandrea Holder is a South Florida native working toward double Master’s degrees in Psychology and English. She finds the psychological aspects of addiction and mental illness fascinating, as both are prevalent in her family’s history. When not researching and spreading addiction awareness, Alexandrea enjoys sparring, artistic pursuits, and admiring puppies online. | public_administration |
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Coons-cosponsored bill will allow Americans with disabilities to create tax-free savings accounts and gain more financial independencePress Release from Senator Coons:
WASHINGTON – The Senate passed the bipartisan Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act on Tuesday night, making it easier for Americans with disabilities to save for their long-term care. U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) was an original cosponsor of the bill, which was introduced by Senators Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.). The legislation, which has been described as, “the broadest legislation to help the disabled in nearly a quarter-century,” would allow families with children who have disabilities to open up 529-style tax-free savings accounts for them to build wealth and financial independence.
“Americans with disabilities deserve every opportunity to build a brighter future and the financial stability to ensure independence and self-determination,” Senator Coons said. “For too long, families of children with disabilities have faced the choice between federal benefits to help care for their child and saving for their child’s future. When the President signs the ABLE Act into law, families will be able to ensure their children will grow up with the means to provide for themselves while also meeting their current needs. They will no longer need to choose between their family’s present and their child’s future. The fight for the ABLE Act is one I’ve been proud to be a part of. I know many families in Delaware who will benefit from this law, and am proud to have played a small role in something that can make a huge difference in their lives.”
Rick and Amy Kosmalski of Bear, Delaware, are the parents of eight-year-old Kayla, who has Down Syndrome. Rick is also a National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) board member and the President of the 321foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower all individuals with Down Syndrome, their families, and friends in the community through advocacy, education, and support. Senator Coons has met with Rick, Amy, and Kayla several times over the last few years.
“Today is the day our family has been hoping for and working towards for nearly eight years, along with numerous other advocates, parents, and organizations,” Rick Kosmalski said. “Until now, my daughter, Kayla, has not had the right to save for her future or her needs. We often take for granted our rights as citizens and don't realize how something as small as being able to save your own money can make a huge impact in your life and independence. It is our hope that Kayla will pursue any dream that makes her happy in life. With the passing of the ABLE Act, that will now be possible.”
“The focus today should be on abilities, not disabilities,” Mr. Kosmalski said. “The passing of the ABLE Act will further allow individuals with special needs to prove to the world that they are more alike than different.
“Kayla is eight years old and in the third grade at Cedar Lane Elementary School. She loves music (especially Taylor Swift), dancing, swimming, shopping, and just being a typical eight-year-old kid. Knowing that Kayla can save any money she receives for Christmas this year in an ABLE account is the greatest Christmas gift our family could have wished for.”
The ABLE Act passed as part of a larger tax credit extension bill, which the Senate passed on a bipartisan 76-16 vote. The ABLE Act would amend Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Service Code to allow use of tax-free savings accounts for individuals with disabilities. The bill, first introduced in 2006, would ease financial strains faced by individuals with disabilities by making tax-free savings accounts available to cover qualified expenses such as education, housing, medical, and transportation. The bill would supplement, but not supplant, benefits provided through private insurance, the Medicaid program, the Social Security Income (SSI) program, the beneficiary’s employment, and other sources.
The ABLE Act was endorsed by a broad coalition of both national and state organizations, including the Delaware State Council for Persons with Disabilities, Down Syndrome Association of Delaware, Autism Speaks, The Arc, the 321foundation, American Association of People with Disabilities, Easter Seals, National Center for Learning Disabilities, National Down Syndrome Society, and the Special Olympics. | public_administration |
https://geraldinezareian.com/about-the-bays-2/ | 2023-05-28T15:42:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644309.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528150639-20230528180639-00682.warc.gz | 0.968268 | 527 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__272302631 | en | East Coast Bays is a string of small suburbs that form the northernmost part of the contiguous Auckland metropolitan area in New Zealand. The suburbs line the north-east coast of the city along the shore of the Hauraki Gulf and Rangitoto Channel. They stretch from Long Bay in the north to Castor Bay in the south. They include, from north to south, Long Bay, Torbay, Waiake Bay, Browns Bay, Rothesay Bay, Murrays Bay, Mairangi Bay, Campbells Bay and Castor Bay.
The area has been governed by the Auckland Council since the Council’s were merged in 2010. It is represented, along with the Hibiscus Coast to the north, by the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board, one of two boards in the Albany ward of Auckland Region. From 1989 to 2010 it was part of North Shore City, until North Shore City Council was merged into the Auckland Council. Prior to the 1989 local body reforms, the area was a city in its own right, known as the City of East Coast Bays.
There are three main roads that traverse the bays. State Highway 1 is the main traffic and bus route that connects the CBD via the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The East Coast Road runs parallel along the high road, whilst the Beach Road is more scenic and meanders along the coastline.
As expected, the bays slope down towards the sea and most residential properties are built on sloping land. Retaining walls have been developed to create flatter gardens and some terraced areas are evident. Patches of natural parks and trees have been maintained and the beaches are amongst the safest, being protected by the array of islands in the Hauraki Gulf. Rangitoto Island is the most prominent and forms a central feature for Auckland.
The Bays are popular with families and offer a good lifestyle. High decile schools provide education for all age groups and tertiary education is within easy reach. High schools in the area include Long Bay College and Rangitoto College, the largest high school in New Zealand with over 3,000 students between Year 9 and Year 13 of their schooling (‘Form 3 to Form 7’) attending in 2004.
Sports and leisure facilities cater for all age groups. Primary and secondary healthcare is available locally and specialist care is within the region.
It’s not a wonder that most people want to live in the Bays. Community spirit is high and, for those newly-arriving in the country, it must feel like paradise! | public_administration |
https://leahmichele.wordpress.com/category/social-media/ | 2020-08-12T20:59:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738944.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20200812200445-20200812230445-00110.warc.gz | 0.970477 | 961 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__9978916 | en | I’ve been meaning to write a post for a long time about my experiences as an intern with a local law enforcement agency. I could write about how I obtained this internship, how I am the first intern in the public information office at this agency, and what I’ve learned in my six weeks there so far. But the most important part in all of it is how my views have been shaped, and how the passion in me has been ignited.
I wrote a blog post in 2011 about my dream job. The thing about me is that I am pretty indecisive, especially when it comes to a career and what I want to do for the rest of my life. But for some reason, all of the stars are aligning and I found a passion. I want to share some observations about communications and law enforcement.
Please keep in mind that these are my personal opinions and do not reflect the opinions of the law enforcement agency I am interning for.
Here’s the thing about law enforcement and communications: in general, agencies are behind the times.
Think about it.
Our general society spends how much of their time with their smart phone or on the internet? How do most Americans get their news? If you watch the news on TV, what are the most typical stories about?
The short answer is this: our society has become increasingly dependent on instant gratification and consistent updates about what is going on in the world.
But what if the law enforcement agency becomes their own source of information?
In today’s world, I can find out about a critical incident that has occurred through Facebook, because someone that listens to the police scanner is sharing what they’re hearing. From a marketing standpoint, this is how a police department is a brand. You have an image, and how your image is portrayed, well, that’s your brand.
As part of my internship, I did a ride along with an officer last week. It was an epiphany for me, mostly because it reminded me that it isn’t always butterflies and unicorns but rather police officers deal with things on a daily basis that most of us cannot fathom. My ride along was what the officer called “pretty intense”. Long story short, it involved a chase searching for the suspect. By the time I got home at 10pm from my ride along, I already had someone ask me if I heard about the incident. Sure enough, I open Facebook to see this:
In a matter of 15 minutes, these people listening to the scanner are relaying the information they’re hearing. Now, I am not saying there is anything wrong with this. What I am saying is, what if the police department owns this information? What if the police department had a way to officially share the information?
Seattle Police Department is doing just that. They recently instituted something called Tweets by Beat.
They are setting the precedence for law enforcement agencies across the country. How?
By sharing information. By being transparent with their community. By connecting with their community.
Connecting with your community
Police departments, in general, are moving towards community policing. This means they are one with the community. They support partnerships with community members and business owners. Instead of being looked at like the “bad guys”, they are there to help you. They are walking the streets of your community, building relationships and in turn, working to reduce crime. They’re being proactive, instead of reactive.
Something as simple as publishing a weekly police blotter, that provides a review of police calls that were responded to, if a citizen chooses sign up for it. Providing a real-time map of crimes in your neighborhood. Encouraging citizens to utilize an anonymous service to share concerns about things you see happening in your neighborhood. Creating an app that allows citizens to share information with you, so you can better serve them.
The bottom line is this: communication is important.
And on top of that, it is a two-way street. If you want the community to communicate with you, you need to communicate with them. As a law enforcement agency, your duty is to protect and serve.
As I complete my internship with this well-respected law enforcement agency and move towards focusing on a career in law enforcement communications, I realize how important it is for agencies to own their message and be authentic.
I have found a passion in observing, studying and talking about this small, but very important, piece of this field. As I continue on my career path, I hope to turn this passion into something that can help law enforcement agencies understand how important it is to communicate. | public_administration |
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Updates from Henrico Citizen
Updated: 7 hours 9 min ago
Tue, 2013-12-10 18:33
UPDATE: Dec. 10, 6:35 P.M. – Henrico County officials are proposing that the county sell a prominent 93-acre site adjacent to I-95 that it purchased for $6.2 million just two years ago. County Manager John Vithoulkas is recommending the sale of Best Plaza, which sits at the interchange of Parham Road and I-95 in northern Henrico. When the county bought the property in December 2011, officials envisioned it as the future home for many of Henrico's key governmental agencies, which would relocate from the western government center on Parham Road and allow the courts complex to undergo a much-needed expansion there.
Mon, 2013-12-09 13:38
Henrico County officials aren't making any formal requests this year to the county's General Assembly delegation, but informally they're encouraging the Henrico delegation to support an accounting change that could help preserve the county's sterling triple AAA bond rating. The issue involves the pension payments made into the Virginia Retirement System for Henrico teachers by the county and state. The state and each Virginia locality share the funding responsibility for the VRS, which makes retirement payments to eligible former teachers and other retired state and local employees.
Mon, 2013-12-09 09:32
Henrico High School’s Dylan Reissner, a senior in visual arts, received a merit award in the selective National YoungArts competition. Reissner’s unique “wearable art” impressed judges who recognized its use of fashion and color to create memorable visual experiences. The merit award includes a cash prize of $500 along with opportunities to earn additional scholarships and participate in workshops with other winners.
Mon, 2013-12-09 09:21
The Shops at White Oak Village recently made a $2,500 donation to the Chickahominy Family YMCA to help support children at the Y’s Highland Springs Elementary afterschool site for the upcoming winter break. The fully subsidized program provides children in need with access to afterschool programs that foster their academic, physical and social development. “White Oak Village strives to positively impact the lives of local residents who visit the shopping center every day," said Stephanie Bugno, a spokesperson for White Oak Village.
Fri, 2013-12-06 11:19
Each holiday season for the last 40 years, Henrico resident Frank Hudak – also known as “Mr. Christmas” – has been lighting up his home in the West End with thousands of holiday lights. During those years, he also has raised more than $82,600 to support Virginia Home for Boys and Girls (VHBG) through a simple donation box outside his home. What began as a way to recapture the holiday spirit of his youth in Philadelphia helped start a local holiday tradition of lights and giving.
Fri, 2013-12-06 10:58
Varina's long-anticipated new library will step closer to reality Dec. 10, when the Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a plan of development for the facility. Construction of the 42,333-square-foot Varina Area Library, which will be located on Route 5, adjacent to the Pocahontas Parkway, is expected to begin by May and be completed by November 2015. The facility's targeted opening date is March 1, 2016.
Thu, 2013-12-05 21:41
Fifteen Henrico fifth-graders were honored for their essays highlighting historical figures and events at the 11th Annual Historical Awareness Project awards reception, held Nov. 25 at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center. Sponsored by the Historic Preservation Advisory Committee in cooperation with the Henrico Division of Recreation and Parks and Henrico County Public Schools, the project is based on the county’s fifth-grade curriculum and is designed to provide students with an awareness of their local heritage, while encouraging the writers and their families to learn more about their community history.
Wed, 2013-12-04 20:36
The national Council on Accreditation (COA) has presented St. Joseph's Villa with the 2013 Innovative Practices Award, honoring the performance and quality improvement of its Flagler Housing & Homeless Services. Its case study submission about Flagler's multi-year transition to rapid re-housing and resulting outcomes was one of two selected winners in the nation. Flagler expects to serve more than 300 households (approximately 800 individuals) in the Richmond and Tri-Cities areas this year.
Tue, 2013-12-03 12:04
Henrico County officials hope to implement the county's new meals tax by May 1, 2014, pending Board of Supervisors approval of a new ordinance outlining the tax. Voters authorized the tax in a Nov. 5 vote. The Citizen first reported the May 1 date on Nov. 6. The board is expected to receive a proposed ordinance establishing the parameters for what purchases would be taxed and hold a public hearing in the coming weeks.
Tue, 2013-12-03 11:50
The Henrico Too Smart 2 Start Coalition has qualified as a nonprofit charitable organization under the federal tax code, which will help it play a greater role in reducing substance abuse and other risky behaviors among youth. The Henrico Too Smart 2 Start Coalition received its 501(c)(3) designation in July, making the organization eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Mon, 2013-12-02 12:25
Macy's Richmond officially kicked off its sixth annual “Believe” campaign benefiting Make-a-Wish with a launch event at the Short Pump Town Center store Nov. 8. Attended by Make-A-Wish volunteers and Wish Kids with life-threatening illnesses, the event included visits from the Richmond Raiders and Lady Raiders and the opportunity for children to write letters to Santa and drop them into the red Santa Mail letterboxes.
Mon, 2013-12-02 12:05
The Richmond Stake Relief Society, a women’s group from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, made and delivered hundreds of toys, baby hats, blankets and gift bags to St. Mary’s Hospital’s Pediatrics program in November. The group chose St. Mary's because many of its members either had their babies at St. Mary’s or had a child hospitalized there. In all, the donations totaled 860 items, including hand-cut and painted wooden toys, knitted and crocheted baby caps, flannel receiving blankets, quilts and drawstring bags.
Fri, 2013-11-29 09:31
Henrico resident Angelia Shay, an agent with New York Life’s Richmond General Office, has been named president of Women in Insurance & Financial Services (WIFS). WIFS is the preeminent professional organization for women in the financial services industry. As president, she oversees the mission of this organization of 1,000 members and 24 local chapters. Shay joined New York Life in 1994 and in 2007 was named the Agent of the Year by New York Life’s Richmond General Office – the first woman in the Richmond General Office of New York Life to receive this sales achievement award.
Fri, 2013-11-29 00:04
In the basement of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden year-round, veteran volunteers work amongst tables of dried flowers, acorns, forms, leaves and other natural fixtures to prepare for the Dominion GardenFest of Lights, an annual event that combines the beauty of nature with lighting throughout the Garden. The winter celebration is a team and community effort, with more than 200 volunteers from all across Virginia who coordinate and work closely with staff members, especially horticulturist and leader of the Dominion GardenFest of Lights team Shannon Smith and Operations Coordinator Justin Brown.
Thu, 2013-11-28 22:16
Four Henrico County Public Schools teachers earned R.E.B. Awards for Teaching Excellence, which serve to identify, recognize, and promote excellence in classroom teaching in area public schools. The teachers are: Helen Archer of Tuckahoe Elementary School, Amanda Hall of Fairfield Middle School, Merle James of Echo Lake Elementary School and Heather White of Jackson Davis Elementary School.
Thu, 2013-11-28 22:03
Deep Run High School's FIRST Robotics Team 1086 Blue Cheese hosted an FLL (FIRST Lego League) tournament as well as a Jr. FLLExpo Nov. 2. The event featured 18 FLL teams and five Jr. FLL teams from Henrico and surrounding counties, totaling more than 200 participants. In addition to the competitions, WRIC meteorologist Matt DiNardo spoke about meteorology and natural disasters, and Lynn Norris, the director of the Center for Information Technology at Deep Run, spoke about the importance of science and technology education in schools.
Thu, 2013-11-28 21:40
Henrico County received a 2013 Go Green Award from the Virginia Association of Counties (VACo) for demonstrating a commitment to environmentally friendly practices and sustainability in government operations. VACo honored Henrico and six other counties Nov. 10, during the association’s 79th annual conference in Bath County. Henrico also earned awards under the Go Green Virginia program in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012.
Thu, 2013-11-28 21:32
BB&T Insurance Services and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company recently awarded an $8,000 grant to the Henrico Division of Fire to fund fire prevention materials and nozzles to help improve community and firefighter safety. The grant will fund the purchase of two new oscillating nozzles, which allow firefighters to apply a large supply of water where needed, without the need to continually operate the nozzles. The division also will use the funds to purchase printed fire prevention materials to be distributed at events throughout the community.
Thu, 2013-11-28 21:20
Welcome to the Citizen's first edition of Currents. The idea for this column grew out of the six-part series on streams that appeared in the Citizen from February to September of this year. It seemed that the more I researched Henrico streams, and the more I learned about challenges facing local waterways – and the ways that citizens, volunteers, groups and government agencies are working to restore and enhance the health of those waterways – the more I realized that it's impossible to provide adequate coverage of such a topic, even in a lengthy series.
Thu, 2013-11-28 21:08
Henrico County Public Schools' Human Resources department will host a job fair on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at the Virginia Employment Commission Resource Workforce Center, 121 Cedar Fork Road, Henrico 23223. The event will take place in two sessions: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. In addition to candidates for full-time and substitute bus driver positions, HCPS is seeking applicants for substitute positions as custodians and cafeteria assistants. | public_administration |
https://apimagesblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/program-helps-atlanta-police-officers-buy-homes-in-the-city/ | 2022-01-28T21:45:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320306346.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128212503-20220129002503-00385.warc.gz | 0.964525 | 983 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__14946812 | en | A new program helps Atlanta police officers achieve the dream of home ownership while at the same time aiming to increase police visibility and improve engagement between officers and the community.
Officer Michael Costello, 28, is set to move this week into the first house renovated as part of the Atlanta Police Foundation’s Secure Neighborhoods initiative. The house, which was run-down and vacant and contributed to blight in the Edgewood neighborhood, has been completely redone and will now contribute to the area’s safety, said foundation vice president of programs Marlon Trone.
The foundation is working with partners, including homebuilders, banks, government agencies and nonprofit groups, to acquire and build homes in city neighborhoods. Officers who buy homes through the program are eligible for down payment and equity incentives, as well as monthly cash stipends they get for their active participation in the neighborhoods where they live.
The neighborhoods are selected using several criteria, including their need and probability for successful stabilization, the availability of vacant and foreclosed homes, and the presence of community members willing to work with the program.
Costello, who was hired in 2011 and became a sworn officer in May 2012, has moved from one rented apartment to another. Ready to put down some roots and stop moving, he beat out about 20 other officers who applied to live in the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home with dark hardwood floors and a big back deck.
“It’s really providing me a pathway to homeownership that I otherwise wouldn’t have,” he said.
The program requires an officer to stay in the home for at least three years, but Costello said he expects to stay put longer than that.
The foundation hopes helping officers buy a nice home in the city will help decrease the attrition that sometimes comes when officers buy a home in the suburbs and then decide they want to work closer to home. More than half of Atlanta’s police officers live outside the city, according to the foundation.
Costello is currently assigned to the street crimes unit, which operates in high-crime areas, and won’t be on duty in his new neighborhood, where most of the reported problems are property crimes, he said. But he looks forward to engaging with his neighbors.
In exchange for a cash payment of $300 a month, he’s agreed to attend various neighborhood meetings and be a visible presence in the area. He plans to start soon after moving in Wednesday by knocking on doors, getting to know who lives where and learn about his new neighbors’ biggest concerns.
“I’m a personable guy. I like to meet people,” he said. “I’m going to get to meet all the neighbors, ingrain myself in the community, start some projects and just improve the quality of life over here.”
He’s there to bridge the often wide communication gap between residents and police, not to patrol the neighborhood or personally crack down on crime, Trone said.
“We’re not under any impression that he’s going to be kicking down his neighbors’ doors,” Trone said. “First and foremost, him being here is a deterrent for criminals who would be passing through.”
The police foundation is also currently building homes for police in the English Avenue area, which has a higher rate of crime, and officers who move in there will get extra financial incentives. The first five homes built there are clustered together for officer safety, and the foundation hopes to have about 20 police homes strategically positioned in that area in the next several years, Trone said.
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https://www.hemingwaycluster.com/association/hca-board-and-board-meetings/ | 2023-09-24T08:09:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506623.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924055210-20230924085210-00438.warc.gz | 0.887323 | 129 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__80546216 | en | Our Homeowners Association Board
- President – Lisa Lopez
- Vice President – Maria Zlotnick
- Vice President – Phyllis Miller Palombi
- Secretary – Kellen Leister
- Treasurer – Richard Eckhardt
Association Board Meetings
The Hemingway Cluster Association Board usually holds Board meetings on the second Tuesday of each month (with the exception of November). All residents are welcome. If you would like to attend a Board meeting, please email [email protected] and the Board will respond with the date, location, and agenda of the next Board meeting. | public_administration |
http://vitalproservices.com/new-directions-for-veterans/ | 2018-09-22T13:27:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267158429.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20180922123228-20180922143628-00167.warc.gz | 0.938733 | 665 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__58720492 | en | Did you know that the unemployment rate for young veterans is nearly twice that for non-veterans of the same age? http://crug-glas.co.uk/archives/tag/aa Vital Professional Services takes pride in continuing our see url Giving Back initiative in 2016. This month, we join the dedicated professional team at go New Directions for Veterans ( NDVets) and their rapidly growing, visionary organization. If you enjoy helping others and you are looking for more than just a job, contact Vital Professional Services to join or contribute to the NDVets family.
Their life-changing, often life-saving work, improves the lives of veterans who have so nobly served our nation. NDVets wants individuals who can use their skills and commitment to advance their mission to improve the lives of veterans. As a member of the team, you will reap benefits well beyond a paycheck.
New Directions for Veterans opened its doors in 1992, from one rented house that initially served only a handful of Vietnam veterans. Today, the agency brings the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, public partners, and private funders like Vital together to provide more than 1,000 veterans each year with housing, employment, and support services.
In 2013, NDVets began delivering services to 147 veterans living in permanent supportive housing. New Directions Sepulveda was their first permanent supportive housing project, developed in partnership with A Community of Friends and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The El Monte Veterans Village, in partnership with Mercy Housing, is now open with 40 apartments for veterans.
More recently, the Guy Gabaldon Apartments, a partnership with East LA Community Corporation, opened in the fall of 2014 serving 32 senior veterans. In the fall of 2015, NDVets opened a 44-unit affordable housing property in Glendale, Calif. The Veteran Village of Glendale illustrates a valuable partnership with Thomas Safran & Associates. More developments providing permanent supportive housing, health services, and an improved quality of life for veterans are forthcoming.
NDVets’ residential facilities provide transitional housing, bridge housing, and many other services. Veterans Opportunity Center East offers transitional housing and comprehensive support services for homeless veterans. These services include case management, substance abuse support and other support groups, mental health services, workforce development, and free legal assistance. Veterans Opportunity Center West provides up to 50 veterans with a distinguished dual-diagnosis health service. Accelerated Re-housing Center (ARC) offers formerly homeless veterans with a safe place to stay while they are securing new homes.
NDVets also recognizes that veteran women often face particular additional challenges, and their New Directions Oasis for Veteran Women serves them across two separate facilities. Mitchell House provides transitional housing and comprehensive services to as many as six veteran women. Keaveney House provides transitional housing for up to eight veteran women actively employed and/or going to school, while transiting toward independent living.
We hope you will join Vital Professional Services in our commitment to Giving Back. Contact us directly to learn how your organization can join this important initiative for a noble, national, and patriotic cause. For more information about New Directions for Veterans, call (310) 914-4045, or visit www.NDVets.org. | public_administration |
https://www.buddyins.com/webinar/wa-registration/ | 2021-08-05T14:59:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046155925.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805130514-20210805160514-00453.warc.gz | 0.887389 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__42491747 | en | Washington Trust Act: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Thursday, August 5th, 2021 at 10am PT
Washington state is implementing a payroll tax to fund long term care. There is a one-time opt-out opportunity available now. Join BuddyIns CEO Marc Glickman and Account Manager Andy Wayt for an important discussion for those who work in Washington. Get your questions answered live during the Q&A portion of the webinar.
The details of the Washington State Trust Act (aka WA Cares Fund)
How to get the best value in the long term care marketplace
Help you decide whether or not to opt out of the payroll tax
Account Manager, BuddyIns; Long term care expert
CEO of BuddyIns; Actuary; Long term care expert | public_administration |
https://housingfirstnederland.nl/kennisbank/upskilling-professionals-to-help-end-homelessness-introducing-the-new-housing-first-diploma-in-the-netherlands/ | 2024-04-21T16:59:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817790.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421163736-20240421193736-00859.warc.gz | 0.964083 | 1,267 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__153273819 | en | Upskilling professionals to help end homelessness: introducing the new Housing First diploma in the Netherlands
6 april 2023
In January 2023, we launched the first cohort of a new Housing First diploma course for professionals, based at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The diploma offers an intensive, carefully constructed, and practice-oriented program of five teaching days spread over four months. The curriculum is co-developed by Housing First Nederland, Utrecht University for applied sciences, and various guest lecturers, who share their expertise in the field of Housing First and everything that comes with it.
This course is intended for a wide range of professionals engaged in ending homelessness. Our aim is to bring together a group of people with diverse backgrounds who are committed to this shared task. People do this from various roles and organizations, such as: housing corporations, care organizations, central government, municipalities, and interest groups.
The course includes an introduction to Housing First, in which we discuss the history of its development and the model. We pay attention to the scientific basis of Housing First and global development trends, as well as the steps involved in implementation, monitoring of quality, and how public support can be created. We address the methodical side of providing support to Housing First clients and reflect on how continuous learning and innovation can take place.
The program is packed with guest lecturers from the field who teach from their professional, experiential, or scientific knowledge about Housing First. This knowledge can then be directly translated into the local context of the students and applied to their daily practice.
With each cohort of the course, we are committed to making sure that two places are available free of charge for experts by experience. We not only believe it is important to offer them opportunities, but that their insights also enrich the learning process of the group.
Supporting the national strategy to combat homelessness.
The demand from the field for training and for combating conceptual confusion around Housing First has been very high for some time now. Training courses have been offered here and there, especially on the methodical side of the support work, but a thorough course covering the many facets of Housing First from both an operational and a strategic perspective was not yet available in the Netherlands. Moreover, the focus so far has mainly been on training social workers, while Housing First must also increasingly include housing corporations and municipalities on our side as equal partners to achieve systemic change. There has been increasing interest from these parties and a clear need for more know-how. All stakeholders have a crucial role to play in the process and should be equally at the forefront of making Housing First a reality.
Furthermore, on 5th December, a new national strategy for combating homelessness was introduced in the Netherlands, taking elements of Housing First as a starting point. The new approach will require changes in culture and thinking about homelessness. Prejudices and stigma affect all people, including those who are working with people (at risk of) experiencing homelessness. This requires a change of mentality from government to citizen: a structural and cultural shift in governance and prevailing attitudes towards homelessness. It means changing from a system that manages homelessness to a system that strives to eliminate it.
Knowledge building and quality improvement are indispensable for the success of this long-term strategy. Our course is designed to strengthen the development of Housing First at national, regional, and local levels. We are confident that this initiative will bring more implementation power to municipalities, housing corporations, and healthcare providers.
What have we learned so far?
The first cohort of the diploma is currently in progress. We are very pleased that we have a well-balanced group of participants, among which all stakeholder perspectives are represented. The group includes, but is not limited to: employees from housing associations and municipalities, care providers, and experts with practical experience. Learning from each other’s experience has already proven to be an effective element of the course. We’re seeing in real-time how it leads to a better understanding of each other’s practice and a higher degree of connection. The varied input from specialists on various Housing First themes is also highly appreciated. If anything, as educators, the challenge is that there is so much to tell our cohort about Housing First that we could actually turn it into a year-round course!
It’s also wonderful to hear how people are already using what they have learned so far to make improvements to their practice, even after just a few lessons! For example, an employee from a housing corporation said that he has already started to offer rental contracts in a Housing First client’s own name, even though he had to overcome a lot of resistance within his own organization. He dared to do it because he now not only believed in it but, through the course, he has gained the confidence and the evidence-based arguments to substantiate it.
Even if people believe in Housing First as an idea, being equipped with this knowledge can make all the difference in persuading others to put those beliefs into practice, and hearing examples like this – which directly result from the course content – only further underlines the value of professional development courses on Housing First within the homeless, social, and public policy sectors.
About the author:
Melanie Schmit is Co-founder and President of Housing First Nederland, Program Manager of LIMOR and a Housing First Europe Hub certified trainer.
Since 2014, Melanie has been involved locally, nationally and internationally in the Housing First movement and the start-up of several practices for adults and youth in the country. Melanie knows the work inside out, as a support worker, as a manager, and as a pioneer in the implementation and development of Housing First in the Netherlands. In addition, she has worked as a coach and trainer. Over the years, she has been able to translate these experiences into what Housing First can bring and needs at different levels.
Follow Melanie on social media:
LinkedIn: Melanie Schmit – Voorzitter Housing First Nederland | Programmamanager Housing First bij LIMOR
Interested to learn more about the diploma program?
Find out more on the Housing First Nederland website here
Or contact: [email protected] | public_administration |
http://www.epojobs.de/index.php/37943-key-expert-4-senior-communication-and-process-management-exper | 2017-08-19T16:35:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105700.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170819162833-20170819182833-00296.warc.gz | 0.883418 | 897 | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__71072816 | en | Key Expert 4 – Senior Communication and Process Management Expert – No.0705
Date of issue: 04-08-2017
Duty station: Cairo
Duty region: Egypt
Duration: 30 months project duration / 250 WDs
Status: Proposal Stage
Closing date: 15-09-2017
CES Consulting Engineers Salzgitter GmbH is an independent consulting engineering company with worldwide experience based in Braunschweig, Germany. CES offers solutions to complex multidisciplinary engineering tasks for all civil engineering and related sectors. CES renders services ranging from preliminary investigations to construction supervision and cost controlling, training of the clients' staff, advisory services in the operation and maintenance of installations, as well as the organization and strengthening of public authorities and institutions. CES works mainly in the field of development cooperation and implements infrastructure projects for national high-end clients (ministries and line authorities) funded by international donors.
The objective of the project is to support the ongoing reform process of the Water Sector through assisting Egypt to achieve its National Water Resources Plan 2017-2037 targets, and the overall sustainable development plan 2030 (SDP 2030). While developing local participatory approaches and income generating activities at local level the specific objective is to improve the management and the use of water resources by improving operational efficiencies of concerned stakeholders and beneficiaries.
- Strengthening the institutional sustainability of the MWRI through the development of Water Accounting Unit (WAU) and through capacity strengthening of modelling expertise.
- Reinforcing the institutional framework of the Water sector especially dealing with the role and functioning of MWRI which implies strengthening the institutional and regulatory environment, improving the financial capacity of institutions to accompany investments and defining and contributing to the separation of the role of MWRI as planning entity and service provider.
- Contributing to the dissemination of the Governorate Water Resources plans mainly via enhancing technical capacities at central/local level; while identifying the role of the MWRI in relation to supervise/oversee the implementation at central level and the required revised institutional framework.
- Reinforcing awareness of the positive impacts and benefits of Water efficiency and also the reuse of treated wastewater/drainage resources.
- Establishing and implementing a Capacity Development Program aiming at building capacities in MWRI at the middle management level in Project Management and in operating and maintaining self-sustainable water management system in Egypt.
- Preparing and implementing an integrated financial diagnosis for the assessment and reform of the MWRI and defining a road-map to improve its financial performance.
- Improve the technical capacities in fields of financial planning, physical planning and following up the investments.
Qualification and Skills Requirements:
- University degree in Institutional planning, communication or a related and relevant field, preferably at Master's level.
- Proven experience in reporting and proven ability in working with governmental and public sector entities through at least one programme funded by the EU or an international organization.
- He/she shall be proficient in English.
- Knowledge of Arabic would be an additional
- at least 10 years of experience in working in Communication and/or Process Management in affiliated fields.
- At least 5 years of experience in developing of communication and marketing campaigns; experience in the water sector is an asset.
- Experience with at least one programme funded by the EU or an international organization.
- Experience in an advisory role to senior public officials is an asset.
- Solid experience in capacity building and evaluation techniques, applications and dissemination is an asset.
- A proven experience at least two projects in the last 10 years (2007 onwards) in preparing awareness campaigns and implementing capacity building, including theory of change and contribution analysis.
- Proven Working Experience of at least 3 years in planning and implementing marketing campaigns in different Media for public sector institutions.
- Experience in at least one programme funded by the EU or an international organization in the last 10 years (2007 onwards) involving support to governments in reforming the water or other relevant sector will be an asset.
- Knowledge of the regional context, previous experience in North Africa and in particular in Egypt will be an asset.
- Proven working experience in communication and marketing activities and campaigns for donor-funded projects is an asset.
Please indicate the job reference “Key Expert 4 – Senior Communication and Process Management Expert – No.0705” in the subject line.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. | public_administration |
https://sbssa.com.au/the-end-of-10000-cash-transactions/ | 2022-05-19T14:27:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662529538.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519141152-20220519171152-00066.warc.gz | 0.940075 | 349 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__279676158 | en | The end of $10,000 + cash transactions?
You may have read about a proposal to ban cash transactions in excess of $10,000. Well, that is a step closer to becoming law as the Parliament is now considering it (the Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019).
If the Bill is passed by the Parliament, it will be a criminal offence for all individuals, companies, partnerships, trusts and other entities to make or accept cash payments (including gifts and loans) of $10,000 or more. Why $10,000? Because it is consistent with the reporting threshold under the anti-money laundering/counter terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regime.
A series of payments totalling $10,000 or more will be caught by the new rules if the payments are for the same supply or part of a single gift or loan. An example would be the purchase of a car by instalments. Regular payments under $10,000 between the same parties will be acceptable where distinct things are supplied.
The new laws will apply to foreign currency as well as Australian currency.
Note! If a partnership breaks the law, each partner can be prosecuted. If a trust breaks the law, the trustee (or each trustee if more than one) can be prosecuted.
What are the exceptions?
Draft rules released by the Government specify a number of exceptions. These will include:
- personal or private transactions unless involving real property
- digital currency transactions
- payments that are subject to reporting obligations under the AML/CTF regime
- exceptional transactions where no alternative method of payment could reasonably be used. ■
Ref: TaxWise Business November 2019 | public_administration |
https://northside.yesprep.org/about-us | 2021-02-27T00:09:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178358033.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20210226234926-20210227024926-00229.warc.gz | 0.944644 | 431 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__1216137 | en | Passion, Resilience, Integrity, Discipline, and Empathy, the Northside PRIDE are laser-focused on college-readiness for every student. With an emphasis on public speaking as a unique hallmark of our program, we are dedicated to developing academic and social skills within our students that propel them into positions of leadership in Houston.
Founded In: 2011
Grades Served: 6-12
Mascot: The Pride
Mission: The Northside Pride are laser-focused on college-readiness for every student. We are dedicated to developing academic and social skills within our students that propel into positions of leadership in Houston.
Core Values: Community, Agent of Change, Lead Service, Display Honesty, Life-long learners
About YES Prep Public Schools, Inc.
Since 1995, YES Prep Public Schools has redefined what is possible in public education. We are a system of high-performing public charter schools proving that students from underserved communities can achieve at the highest academic levels. Our exceptional results demonstrate that better outcomes are not only possible, but also probable, when school systems build a culture of high expectations, and create effective support systems to ensure that student achievement is at the forefront of every decision made.
Our Charter School Status
Charter schools are public schools intended as champions for education innovation. Charter schools are free from some of the regulations and red tape of traditional public schools.
While we are a public school, some of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools do not apply to us. We do not have contracts for teachers, we are not required to provide duty free lunches to our teachers, and we can set our own academic calendar and hours of operation, providing more learning time for our students and subject to the Texas Education Agency.
In Texas, charter schools receive state funding, but must raise funds privately to account for resources not funded by the government.
Along with this freedom comes a heightened sense of expectations for our staff and our students. Our mission is only possible if we hold ourselves, each other, and each of our students to the highest standards of performance and behavior. | public_administration |
https://www.bytescrum.com/cmd/ | 2024-04-17T08:57:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00102.warc.gz | 0.94407 | 746 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__200615346 | en | CMD is a group of Medical Doctors certified by the Department of Health, and are passionate about promoting the benefits of medical cannabis, and helping eligible patients obtain their medical cannabis treatments.
The web application developed aims to revolutionize the medical evaluation process by providing a user-friendly and efficient platform. This case study showcases the successful implementation of the application and its impact on improving patient experiences and healthcare outcomes. The development was driven by the need to address the limitations of manual paperwork, communication delays, and potential errors in the conventional evaluation process.
Traditional medical evaluations often involve cumbersome paperwork, which can lead to inefficiencies, delays, and errors. Communication between patients, doctors, and administrators may be challenging, resulting in a fragmented evaluation process. To overcome these issues, a modernized digital solution was needed to streamline and automate evaluations, improving overall efficiency and patient satisfaction.
The primary objectives of the web application include:
The target users of the application are:
The web application offers several key features and functionalities, including:
The web application was developed using a modern technology stack, including Nest, React, Docker, and Postgres. The Nest framework was leveraged to build a robust backend infrastructure, ensuring scalability and maintainability. React was used to create an intuitive and user-friendly frontend interface, enhancing the overall user experience. Docker was employed for containerization, simplifying deployment and ensuring consistency across different environments. Postgres database was utilized to securely store and manage data with reliability and efficiency. Thorough testing was conducted throughout the development process to ensure functionality, security, and performance.
During the development and deployment phases, several challenges were encountered. These challenges included integrating multiple systems, ensuring data security and privacy, and achieving seamless communication among users. To overcome these challenges, close collaboration with stakeholders and healthcare professionals was crucial. Regular feedback loops, extensive testing, and continuous improvements helped address the challenges and ensure a successful implementation.
The web application demonstrated significant positive results and outcomes, including:
The impact and effectiveness of the web application were measured through user feedback, data analysis, and performance metrics. Valuable insights were gained from user feedback, data analysis, and performance metrics. User satisfaction surveys and testimonials indicated a positive response to the user-friendly interface, streamlined process, and improved communication. Data analysis showcased a reduction in evaluation time, improved assignment efficiency, and increased productivity.
Based on the outcomes and measurements, several recommendations for future improvements and enhancements can be made:
Furthermore, conducting training sessions and workshops for users to familiarize themselves with the web application's features and functionalities would promote adoption and maximize its benefits. Collaborating with healthcare professionals and administrators to refine the evaluation workflows based on their expertise and insights would also contribute to ongoing enhancements.
In conclusion, the development of the user-friendly web application for medical evaluations using Nest, React, Docker, and Postgres has successfully transformed the traditional evaluation process. Through improved efficiency, streamlined communication, and enhanced collaboration, the application has had a positive impact on patient experiences and healthcare outcomes. The measured results and user feedback validate the effectiveness of the application in meeting its objectives.
The case study emphasizes the importance of user-centric design, thorough testing, and continuous improvement in the development process. It also highlights the significance of collaborative efforts, stakeholder engagement, and the integration of advanced technologies in driving innovation in the healthcare industry.
Moving forward, the web application holds great potential for scalability, further advancements, and wider adoption within the healthcare sector. By leveraging the lessons learned and implementing the recommendations, the application can continue to revolutionize medical evaluations, improve patient care, and contribute to the overall advancement of the healthcare industry. | public_administration |
https://www.gaffneysolicitors.ie/2016/04/06/employment-law-compliance-act-2008/ | 2023-10-03T21:02:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511220.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003192425-20231003222425-00455.warc.gz | 0.908728 | 447 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__36325280 | en | Call us now:
EMPLOYMENT LAW COMPLIANCE ACT 2008
The Employment Compliance Act 2008 (“the Act”) has a number of functions and has far-reaching consequences for rogue employers.
Amongst other things, the Act:-
- Establishes the National Employment Rights Authority (“NERA”) on a statutory basis;
- Provides Labour Inspectorate with greater powers, to include, allowing the Director of NERA to take evidence on oath, ensuring labour inspectors have increased access to employers’ premises and to documents held therein such as personnel records and employment permits;
- Allows NERA to prosecute summary offences under the Act;
- Empowers NERA Labour Inspectors to prosecute offences and to conduct investigations with other agencies including Revenue Commissioners, Social Welfare inspectors and An Garda Síochána;
- Provides increased penalties for breaches of employment law of up to €5,000 and/or 12 months’ imprisonment for summary offences and €250,000 and/or 3 years’ imprisonment for indictable offences;
- Makes it an offence for employers to falsify, conceal or destroy any relevant employment records so as to obstruct an investigation by NERA.
- Protects “whistleblowers” in the event of breaches of employment law being reported in good faith;
- Allows NERA to impose on the spot fines and can seek High Court Orders to enforce compliance.
- Obliges employers to retain employment records for a minimum of three years, and for a period of two years after an employee leaves.
- Obliges employers to furnish an employee with a reference detailing the duration of anemployee’s employment and a brief description of the employee’s duties during such employment. It further obliges employers to return any items of personal information on the employer’s premises within 14 days of an employee leaving employment.
- Requires employers to display clearly-worded notices in a prominent position in the workplace advising employees of their rights under employment legislation, how to seek redress and how to contact the NERA for information. This notice must be in a language which the employees can understand. | public_administration |
https://www.techtransactionstoday.com/ | 2018-04-27T08:03:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524127095762.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20180427075937-20180427095937-00525.warc.gz | 0.951814 | 539 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__25106273 | en | On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, No. 16-712, affirming the constitutionality of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO) inter partes review proceedings (IPR). The Court had granted certiorari on the following two issues: (1) whether IPRs violate Article III by having the PTO adjudicate the validity of issued patents; and (2) whether IPRs violate the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds recently signed a new bill into law requiring commercial health insurers in the Hawkeye State to cover health care services provided via telehealth to the same extent those services are covered via in-person care. The law, passed under HF 2305, takes effect January 1, 2019 and applies to all policies delivered, issued, or reissued in Iowa after that date. Iowa telemedicine providers, entrepreneurs, and patients will soon enjoy telehealth insurance coverage, joining the national majority of states with similar laws.
To build upon my previous articles about security threats posed by vendors, today we focus on a very specific and frequently overlooked element of vendor risk mitigation: vendor personnel working within customer facilities and using customer systems.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) just published a new report on OIG’s review of Medicare payments for telehealth services. The objective of the OIG review was to determine whether or not CMS paid practitioners for telehealth services that met Medicare requirements. The report concluded that, of the sampled claims reviewed by OIG, 31% did not meet the Medicare conditions for payment for telehealth services. Extrapolating the data, OIG estimated that Medicare could have saved approximately $3.7 million during its audit period if practitioners had provided telehealth services in accordance with Medicare requirements.
Just two months ago, we wrote about how Autonomous Vehicles and Ride Sharing Will Reshape Our Buildings, Our Cities, and Our Lives. We explained that “[w]hile current developments require parking space to accommodate commuters, the future might make these spaces obsolete.” Chicago is experiencing that on a grand scale with the loss of surface parking lots, a staple of the city, especially in the business center, the Loop, and the areas into which that business center has expanded, River North, River West, West Loop, South Loop, Gold Coast, etc. (Chicago loves to carve as many marketable neighborhood names as possible into a small area). | public_administration |
http://www.narharkurundkar.in/trust/ | 2020-03-29T11:34:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370494331.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20200329105248-20200329135248-00442.warc.gz | 0.896555 | 453 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__95728933 | en | Narhar Kurundkar Pratishthan (Narhar Kurundkar Trust) was established in the year 2010 under the provision of Bombay Public Trust Act 1950 with registration number 1562/2010. The settlor of this trust is Justice Shree. Narendra Chapalgaonkar(Ret.) with eleven prominent citizens from Maharashtra. The trustees include writers, social activists, IAS officers.
One of the objectives of the trust is to create a think tank, which will serve as a resource center for contemporary analyst, social activist and politicians in India. (The detailed document of objectives of Trust can be made available on request). To meet this objective, trustees decided to engage in establishing an institute for higher studies and research which will conduct activities and programs at the local, national and international level.
The Trustees have formed joint venture with Nanded Education Society (NES) with a memorandum of understanding to establish Narhar Kurundkar Advanced Studies And Research Center (NKASRC). Institute has already started functioning in a building provided by NES and will shift to new building which is under construction. NES has allocated 1.5 acres of land in the Peoples College Campus for this purpose. Government of Maharashtra is constructing the building, which will be a memorial of late Prof. Narhar Kurundkar. NKASRC will provide a unique and all inclusive platform to scholars and citizens to conduct advanced studies and research in the area of humanities and Sociological Studies
|Mrs. Shyamal Patki||President|
|Shri. Datta Bhagat||Vice President|
|Shri. Vishwas Kurundkar||Secretary|
|Shri. Shrinivas Pande||Treasurer|
|Shri. Deepnath Patki||Member|
|Shri. Radheshyam Moppalwar||Member|
|Shri. Bhujang Wadikar||Member|
|Shri. Laxman Sangewar||Member|
|Shri. Madhukar Rahegaonkar||Member|
|Shri. Ajay Dandekar||Member|
|Dr. Venkatesh Kabde||Member - (Chairmen, NES)| | public_administration |
http://www.fair-play.org.au/volunteer | 2019-10-24T04:24:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987841291.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20191024040131-20191024063631-00482.warc.gz | 0.926187 | 496 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__151131246 | en | Become a Fair Play Volunteer
The Fair Players are specially trained volunteers who are on site at the Mardi Gras Party to share legal and safety information with party-goers, monitor and document the operations of the NSW Police Force and provide support to people who have been searched or questioned by police.
To become a volunteer, please read the information and fill in the application form below.
There are two kinds of Fair Players; Community Contact volunteers and Monitoring volunteers.
Community Contact volunteers:
Approach party-goers at events/parties to distribute information about Fair Play
Offer support to party-goers after police interactions
Staff the Fair Play stall - taking reports of incidents from party-goers
Collate data/video footage
Film police activities and police interactions with party-goers
Work as a team
Support camera operator
Provide instructions to camera operator
What we are looking for in all Fair Play volunteers:
A calm, patient demeanour with strong interpersonal skills
Respect for the initiative and the experiences of LGBTIQ communities
An understanding of the roles of police officers and relationships with the community
An understanding of the sensitivities of the project
An ability to take direction
An ability to communicate well
A willingness to be a witness in potential legal proceedings
Fair Play volunteers (Fair Players) will be on site at the post parade Mardi Gras Party to provide information to party-goers, monitor and document police activities and provide support to those being searched or questioned by police. These roles will suit motivated and calm persons who are happy to work within a sensitive working environment and with a dedicated and professional team. Fair Players will also be invited to help promote Fair Play at the Mardi Gras Fair Day.
Fair Play will be at the Mardi Gras Party from 8.30pm until around 1.30am. Fair Play activities will end when the police operation ends. Volunteering at the main Mardi Gras Party means you'll receive free entrance to the party.
Fair Play is an LGBTIQ community initiative focussing on legal rights and keeping safe during Mardi Gras. Fair Play reflects a commitment between LGBTIQ communities and the NSW Police Force to work together in a transparent and collaborative way. Fair Play is a partnership between the Inner City Legal Centre, ACON and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Volunteer applications close in early February ahead of Mardi Gras. | public_administration |
https://www.judgehettinger.com/about-the-court | 2020-10-21T16:55:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107876768.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20201021151342-20201021181342-00389.warc.gz | 0.916553 | 291 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__122385373 | en | The Moon Valley Justice Court is one of twenty-six Justice Courts in Maricopa County. Its jurisdiction spans from Glendale to Union Hills and from 35th Avenue to 7th Street. A Justice of the Peace presides over each Justice Court. The current Justice of the Peace in Moon Valley is Judge Andrew Hettinger. The Moon Valley Justice Court is a limited jurisdiction court, hearing protective orders, civil cases where the amount in controversy is $10,000 or less, small claims, eviction actions, criminal misdemeanors and civil traffic cases.
One of the excellent initiatives available through the Maricopa County Justice Courts is the Maricopa County Regional Homeless Court. This innovative Court helps individuals resolve victimless misdemeanor offenses through completing community restitution (community service) and demonstrating a positive commitment to end their homelessness with the help of various non-profit organizations. In July of 2019, Judge Hettinger was honored to preside over the Maricopa County Regional Homeless Court docket. Find out more about this great program here.
On average, Moon Valley receives and adjudicates approximately 1,000 cases per month. Judge Hettinger recognizes and credits the amazing Moon Valley court personnel who make the Court successful and ensure justice is served.
The Courthouse is located in the Northeast Regional Center at 18380 N 40th Street in Phoenix, near 40th Street and Union Hills.
Learn more about Maricopa County Justice Courts here. | public_administration |
https://www.mhanet.org/Shared_Content/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=191119 | 2020-07-11T18:43:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655934052.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711161442-20200711191442-00061.warc.gz | 0.950566 | 979 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__10758680 | en | EMTALA Update 2019
The Most Cited Deficiencies by CMS for Hospitals
Friday, November 22, 2019
AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for 7.5 contact hours.
EMTALA is a hot topic and should now be on the radar screen for every hospital. There have been a recent increased number of deficiencies and increased CMS and OIG activity. Would you know what to do if a CMS surveyor walked into your hospital today to investigate an EMTALA complaint? Most hospitals were unprepared. Did you know that the EMTALA penalties have more than doubled plus a cost of living so it is almost $105,000 per violation for hospitals over 100 beds? A recent article found that 30% of US hospitals have violated EMTALA in the last decade. Violations were most likely to occur in the southeast region and with hospitals with fewer than 100 beds. CMS has also made a change in that some EMTALA investigations will occur 2 days after notification.
Do you know when are you required to report a potential EMTALA violation? Don’t be caught off guard. CMS issued a recent deficiency memo showing that over 4,050 hospitals received deficiencies for failure to comply with the federal EMTALA law. Most hospitals were unprepared. This makes it the most frequent area of noncompliance. Common deficiencies will be discussed.
This program will also discuss a recent case against a South Carolina hospital which was the largest EMTALA settlement of 1.2 million dollars. It is anticipated that healthcare will see larger EMTALA fines and more activity because of the higher fines and the OIG final changes. These changes are not in the CMS CoPs and will be discussed.
It will also discuss the Quality Improvement Organization process which will now be done by the two BFCC QIOs. This program will discuss the CMS memos including three CMS survey memos on Ebola and EMTALA.
Every hospital that has an emergency department and accepts Medicare and Medicaid patients must follow the federal law and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation Interpretive Guidelines on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Hospitals without emergency departments must comply with EMTALA if they have specialized capabilities. EMTALA can also impact obstetrical patients and behavioral health patients.
This program will include the regulations and interpretive guidelines. It will include all 12 sections and an expanded section for on-call physicians and the shared and community care plan process.
Hospitals will need to ensure their policies, procedures, and training is adequate to ensure compliance with EMTALA. The hospital must know how to do a medical screening exam, how to stabilize a patient and what constitutes an emergency medical condition. Transfers must be compliant with these requirements.
This all day program will include discussion of a case that has created an enormous expansion of hospital and practitioner liability under federal law. The case, Moses v. Providence Hospital and Medical Centers, Inc., No. 07-2111 (6th Cir. April 2009), overruled the CMS regulation that EMTALA obligations ends when the hospital admits the patient in good faith. Those states in the 6th Circuit (Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Michigan) must now follow this case as precedent. Sometimes the result may be different if the patient files a lawsuit as opposed to filing a complaint with CMS. This case illustrates the importance of understanding the role that case law has on the outcome of EMTALA litigation. Patients can complain to CMS and request an investigation or they have the option of going and directly filing a lawsuit.
Failure to comply and follow the federal EMTALA for all hospitals, including critical access hospitals, could result in loss of Medicare and Medicaid payments. Money fines can be assessed against hospitals and physicians who negligently violate the EMTALA law. There has been increased activity in the area of EMTALA.
The federal EMTALA law and the accompanying regulations are complex. This program is structured to make the requirements understandable with the liberal use of examples.
Objectives for morning session or part 1:
• Describe that the hospital must maintenance a central log
• Discuss the hospital's requirement to maintain a list of the specific names of physicians who are on call to evaluate emergency department patients
• Recall that CMS has requirements on what must be in the EMTALA sign
• Discuss that EMTALA is the most frequent cited deficiency for hospitals
Objectives for afternoon session (part 2):
• Describe the hospital's requirements regarding a minor who is brought to the ED by the babysitter for a medical screening exam
• Discuss when the hospital's must complete a certification of false labor | public_administration |
https://newrynursery.co.uk/coronovirus-update.html | 2022-01-23T08:58:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304217.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20220123081226-20220123111226-00478.warc.gz | 0.949958 | 380 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__148280516 | en | As a precautionary measure we would like to share with you the Welsh Government guidance provided to us regarding the Corona Virus or COVID-19 illness. Click here for the Guidance to educational settings about COVID-19.
However, advice is also provided and frequently updated on the NHS website: www.nhs.uk
Our Policy Summary
- Parents and carers (and all adults) arriving at the nursery need to use the antibacterial hand sanitizer which is in reception
- Parents or carers should not come to the nursery to drop off, or collect, their child if they are unwell. If someone else is sent to collect a child the parent or carer must let the nursery know and use the child’s password. This is a requirement of our safeguarding policy.
- If the Parent/carer, child or family member has recently visited one of the high risk area’s highlighted by the government or come into contact with suspected or diagnosed coronavirus please could you inform the Nursery Manager at your earliest convenience.
- A parent or carer should not send a child to nursery if they are unwell, If a child is unwell at nursery we would contact the parent or carer to pick them up at their earliest convenience.
- As per our Nursery Contract If it is in our reasonable opinion, necessary or in the interests of the child to do so, we may close the nursery even though our Business Interruption Insurance will not cover us for the closure due to Coronavirus. In these circumstances, we will charge you for the time the nursery is closed.
Our staff will also be carrying out regular cleaning throughout the nurseries using Dettol products. These temporary procedures have been introduced to protect the health of all the children, parents and staff.
Thank you for your co-operation. | public_administration |
https://www.comunesanmichele.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/2483 | 2024-03-01T19:58:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475701.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301193300-20240301223300-00138.warc.gz | 0.902856 | 412 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__182237350 | en | GiraLagune is a nature-historical cycle path along the network of navigable canals called Litoranea Veneta, which starts from the Punta Sabbioni Lighthouse and ends at the Bibione Lighthouse. Along the route, which connects the lagoons in the area, you will cross the agricultural landscape reclaimed in the first half of the 20th century.
This project complements and builds on the activities carried out as part of the VeGAL Local Action Group’s 2007-13 Rural Development Programme, which saw the municipalities in the area putting into practice a local promotion initiative revolving around five themes (bicycle tourism, food & wine, the environment, waterways, and culture). As part of VeGAL’s “Points, Surfaces and Lines in Eastern Veneto” 2014-20 Local Development Programme (LDP), the municipalities agreed on a series of measures to champion the routes (running along the coast and from the coast to inland areas), the landscape and the rural heritage, in response to growing demand for “slow”, “cultural” and “seasonless” tourism. The initiative falls under the PC01 “Routes” key project in the LDP, which aims to highlight the area’s core qualities or “focal points” on the routes included in the area covered by the LDP: GiraLagune (along the Veneto coastal road and the Eurovelo-Adriatic route) and GiraTagliamento, GiraLemene and GiraLivenza (along the respective rivers). The idea is for them to drive/attract tourism, encouraging their use and establishing a positive environment for the creation and development of services and businesses that generate new employment opportunities.
Departure: Punta Sabbioni
Arrival: 103 km
Type of surface: 75% asphalt, 25% unpaved
Type of route: two-day excursion | public_administration |
http://www.tauaft.org/ | 2014-07-24T08:25:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997888216.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025808-00166-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.931477 | 466 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__226617014 | en | As part of the West Michigan Federation of College Educators, we represent roughly 1,500 teachers in the Kalamazoo area. To ensure that our elected officials share our values of support for higher education and support for collective bargaining rights, we sent questionnaires to several candidates for local elected office this year. We asked the following questions:
1) In 2001, Michigan appropriated roughly $6,700 per student to higher education, by 2012 that number dwindled to $3,600 per student. Michigan should return to 2001 funding levels as soon as possible, to ensure that every student in Michigan has access to affordable, high quality higher education with a wide variety of course offerings, small class sizes and well-qualified, well-compensated instructors. Do you agree or disagree?
2) All employees have the right to collectively bargain for wages, working conditions, health care and other benefits, including enhanced job security and equitable treatment for all higher education faculty, including part-time instructors and graduate teaching assistants. Do you agree or disagree?
3) The collective bargaining rights of any employee should not be abridged by local, state or national law, nor should anyone benefit from the provisions of a labor union contract without paying a fair share cost for the administration of that contract. Do you agree or disagree?
After reviewing the responses at an open meeting on June 5, our Political Education Committee made recommendations to the WMFCE executive board and two weeks ago we voted to endorse the following candidates:
State Senate (20th District): Sean McCann
State Representative (60th District): David Buskirk & Jon Hoadley (both endorsed by AFT-Michigan)
State Representative (61st District): John Fisher
Kalamazoo County Commission (#1): Vicki Devould Buchanan-Cohn
Kalamazoo County Commission (#2): Kevin Wordelman
Kalamazoo County Commission (#3): John Taylor
Kalamazoo County Commission (#11): Jamie Jager
We hope if you live in any of the districts listed above that you will consider supporting these candidates. Thank you for your consideration and for your support. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at [email protected].
Yours in solidarity,
President, Teaching Assistants Union | public_administration |
https://berkshirerecord.net/eagle-mill-project-awarded-400000-in-historic-tax-funds/ | 2021-11-27T15:00:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127133237-20211127163237-00609.warc.gz | 0.955939 | 310 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__125239789 | en | LEE — Developers have cleared one more hurdle in the estimated $60 million redevelopment of the Eagle Mill complex after securing $400,000 of historic rehabilitation tax credit funds.
Under contract since 2012 and acquired in 2017, Eagle Mill Redevelopment LLC has had its sights set on restoring the mill back to a prominent place in the community, said Jeff Cohen, principal developer of the project.
“This gives us tremendous capability and credibility,” said Cohen to a crowd that had gathered to hear the developer’s announcement.
Among those gathered for the presentation were U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield; state Sen. Adam Hinds, D-Pittsfield; and state Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli, D-Lenox, as well as local select and planning board members.
Receiving the tax credits was a milestone for the project and would not be possible without the assistance of Neal and his staff, said Cohen.
“Massachusetts historic tax credits are essential for the economic feasibility of the project and because of Congressman Neal’s facilitation of the project, we will be able to deliver affordable housing, market rate housing, a new hotel, a joyous community-orientated food hall, office and retail space, and hundreds of new jobs to the Town of Lee,” he said.
For the rest of the story, subscribe to the Record at https://bit.ly/2UgbssN | public_administration |
http://www.polymerohio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=1%3Alatest-news&id=261%3Asolar-coming-to-wyandot-county&Itemid=61 | 2013-05-19T19:06:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957723 | 1,333 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__210754224 | en | The Ohio State University Extension
service is deeply involved in a renewable energy project bringing solar energy resources to Wyandot County, Ohio. With a jump-start from Ohio Senate Bill 221, which set out the requirements for solar generation, American Electric Power (AEP) issued a request for proposals to build a solar generation facility. What is really striking is that the planned facility, when fully functional, will feed approximately 10.08 MW to AEP for distribution on the power grid. Furthermore, it will be the largest solar generation facility in the Midwest and one of the largest in the US. At capacity, the facility will literally prevent tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the air because solar is clean, green power. Further, approximately 100 construction jobs will be tied to the project. The solar panels, themselves, will come from First Solar, Inc. in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Eric Romich, OSU Extension agent and head of community development for Wyandot County, is now serving as director of the Wyandot County Economic Development Office
, which is mobilizing an effort on many levels to make solar power a reality for the area. “We had several companies initially contact us to gauge the level of community support that might be available for such a project,” says Romich, “and since then, myself and others have been working with the County Commissioners, Township Trustees, school board, and others to measure that support, gather opinions, offer information, determine potential impact, discuss long-term effects, etc.”
Wyandot Solar LLC, has moved from exploratory discussions to the planning and implementation stage as they finalized a 25-year lease agreement with Wyandot County, Romich reports. By forming Wyandot Solar, LLC, to hold the paper on the project, the relationship among county commissioners, AEP, and Juwi coalesced. “We approached the relationship among these entities as a partnership, right from the beginning,” says Romich. “It was important to us locally because it’s a 25-year commitment, and we want to be very sure that we have done our research and this does not turn into a 25-year headache.”
To date, the project is slated to occupy a slightly more than 84 acres that will support at least 160,000 solar collection panels. The completion date is targeted for the third quarter of 2010. A pre-bid meeting for building the facility was held in August, 2009, and the site can be staged in September, after the corn and beans currently growing there have been harvested. That said, construction could begin as soon as October, 2009.
Many aspects of the project are getting special attention. For example, County Commissioner, Steve Seitz, himself a certified volunteer naturalist, got involved in this 80 to 90-acre solar field by suggesting that site planners work with the OSU Extension to provide an undergrowth that would support wild life. That led to the involvement of Extension agents Chris Brunis and Marnie Titchenell, who is a wildlife program specialist. They worked up a recommendation for a seed mix that Juwi is presently evaluating. “What we might do is use a few acres of the site to test seed mixes allowing us to optimize a undergrowth product for future projects,” says Romich. “We want to demonstrate how effectively we can make this project work in Ohio. That could be a strong incentive for similar projects to pop up in other places.”
Juwi Solar has a strong presence in Europe and has made Germany a top producer of solar energy. “If you look at the amount of daily sunlight in Germany (not exactly known as a sunny place) and compare it to Ohio, I think we have a significant solar resource for the generation of power here in Ohio,” says Romich.
“One of the biggest challenges to making such a renewable energy project work is related to taxing, and the need for an enterprise zone agreement to be established,” says Romich. As part of the enterprise zone agreement there will be a direct compensation agreement with the school system. In addition, 3 to 4 KW solar generation systems are being designed for all three high schools in Wyandot County. Juwi has already provided an in-depth curriculum for Upper Sandusky and the other high school sites, so that power and learning will evolve together in a hands-on learning experience.
Other counties wanting to develop their own sustainable energy are interested in the project, regardless of whether their plans include solar, biomass, wind, or other renewable projects because much of what is learned-by -doing in Wyandot County might be useful to their efforts in the future.
Looking to the next steps, Romich is already working towards a company attraction effort to bring businesses that make solar industry parts to the Wyandot County area. “Solar has the potential to grow 40 percent annually over the next decade,” he says. “With solar being one of the Ohio Department of Development’s target industries, we hope this will be a huge step towards diversifying our local economy and an opportunity for the state to capitalize on the growth of solar in Ohio and elsewhere.”
Ohio State University Extension brings the knowledge of the university to your door. We fulfill the land-grant mission of Ohio State University by interpreting knowledge and research developed by the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State and other land-grant universities, so that Ohioans can use the scientifically based information to better their lives, businesses and communities.
juwi solar has built over 750 solar projects for a total installed capacity of 100MWs. These projects include grid-tied systems operating in Germany, Spain, Italy, and Africa. juwi solar offers a multitude of solutions to implement large scale solar projects in North America. This expertise includes turnkey solutions for solar projects: integrating and managing the process from the initial development and design through construction and operations; and juwi solar provides an on-time, on-budget and low-cost solar generating facility.
Wyandot Solar LLC. is a subsidiary company of Juwi Solar, and will own and operate the solar generation facility located in Wyandot County, and has entered into a long-term lease agreement for the use of the land owned by the County . Wyandot Solar LLC and AEP have entered into a power purchase agreement. (AEP to buy power from solar facility to distribute to their customers). | public_administration |
https://birdvetch.open.uaf.edu/5-reporting-invasive-plants-and-identification-help/ | 2023-12-04T16:19:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100531.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204151108-20231204181108-00585.warc.gz | 0.885195 | 999 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__224187120 | en | Currently there are three ways to easily report invasive plant occurrences and/or request assistance with identification. We will discuss each of these reporting methods so that you can choose which is most appropriate for your purposes. In all cases the same basic information is needed: Detailed location description that includes items such as the mile post, and significant landmarks such as road signs, utility poles etc., latitude and longitude also help but aren’t necessary in all situations; Digital photos of the plant that include flower or fruit, stem, and leaves; What species you think it might be.
Reporting the location of suspected invasive plant species, and other suspected invasive species is of utmost importance. If a priority species is new to an area, and is managed early it is more likely to be eradicated from the area than if it is well established. Invasive species managers call this Early Detection and Rapid Response.
You can call this number to report any type of invasive species. Calling this number may beis best used when you don’t have access to the internet, The phone number directly calls the statewide invasive species program coordinator with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G). The ADF&G coordinator will pass the information along to an appropriate invasive plant manager.
www.alaskainvasives.org or the mobile application
The UAF CES hosts a web form to report and ask questions about invasive plants, insects, and plant diseases. This web form is encouraged to be used for general inquiries of identification, to query CES faculty and staff about control, and to report the location of priority species. Messages sent through this web portal are routed to CES personnel who forward the information along to local offices so they can contact you to provide assistance as needed. When a priority species is reported CES contacts the appropriate land manager to initiate control work.
CES has a mobile application, Alaska Weeds ID, that works offline and serves two purposes. First, it has an invasive plant identification guide. Second, it has a geo referenced reporting function that can be used in place of the web form.
Submission through the web or app benefit from providing good location descriptions, and good pictures. Location descriptions should include items such as the nearest community, road name and milepost, and nearby landmarks such as light posts, parking lots etc.. Take pictures of plant parts such as leaves, flowers, and fruits. Please provide your contact information and any other pertinent information you have about the site and infestation.
The Alaska Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse has a system set up for land managers to contribute location information to their database of non-native plant occurrences in Alaska. The data is updated once annually which makes it not the best way to alert land managers of new priority species, or to get general questions regarding identification or control answered. However, AKEPIC is an excellent archive of species locations for use in planning and research.
Location data contributed to AKEPIC is assumed to be identified correctly when submitted, and the submitted data must follow strict guidelines for inclusion in the database. Required information for non-native plants included in the AKEPIC database include:
Site code (alpha numeric code unique to the site e.g. CES2015-1)
Study type (exhaustive, highest priority, or single species study)
Area surveyed in acres
Latitude and Longitude (decimal degrees, NAD83)
Collection method (GPS, Topographic Map, Aerial photo)
Plant species code
Canopy cover %
Herbarium collection information
There are other fields to fill out that are optional. Links to more information on submitting data to AKEPIC including detailed instructions, field datasheets, and a batch data upload form can be found at the main website (http://aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/botany/akepic/).
Klebesadel, L. J. 1980. “Birdvetch: Forage Crop, Ground Cover, Ornamental or Weed?” Agroborealis 12(1):46-49.
Nolen, Andrew. 2002. Vetch infestations in Alaska, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Plant Materials Center, and Department of Transportation. Available from www.plants.alaska.gov.
Seefeldt, S. S., J. S. Conn, B. E. Jackson and S. D. Sparrow. 2007. “Response of Seedling Bird Vetch (Vicia cracca) to Six Herbicides.” Weed Technology 21: 692-694.
Wagner, Diane. 2017. The role of nitrogen fixation and climbing in competitive interactions between bird vetch and native plants. Alaska Invasive Species Workshop, October 24, 2017. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Biology and Wildlife, Institute of Arctic Biology. | public_administration |
http://millroadproperty.com/aerial-photography/ | 2020-05-28T21:26:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347400101.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20200528201823-20200528231823-00295.warc.gz | 0.92422 | 636 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__51378158 | en | This property is located next to a site that Brown County intends to develop into the “South Landfill and Resource Recovery Park" in the year 2023.
Here is what the Brown County Site will look like. The red lines on the diagram below show the 1142 Mill Road's property boarder and the yellow lines are the high voltage power lines.
Based on an agreement that was negotiated by the Quarles and Brady Law Firm (on behalf of the Town of Holland), there are 16 landowners that are entitled to receive compensation because they own property that is directly bordering the County site. Here is a letter from the attorney that explains the benefits to the new landowners of the Mill Road Property (you):
Quarles and Brady Letter
As you will see in the letter on page 2 of this letter, (in red below), these rights for compensation will be transferred to you, the new property owner.
Here is the PowerPoint presentation from Real Estate Dynamics explaining the way compensation was determined for each of the landowners. The last page with the financial information has been copies into an Excel spreadsheet so that the annual future income can be projected.
As the spreadsheet shows, after the 7 factor process was used, the amount of money reserved for the Mill Road Property is a 2.95% share of what the town will collect each year in tipping fees. This income will begin when the landfill begins accepting waste, projected opening is 2023.
Given the 2.95% the property share of the total, and given a known total landfill capacity, an annual fill rate, and a 2014 estimated $2.00/ton value (established by Foth in their Master Plan), the Mill Road Property will generate $7,071 per year, and $84,846 over the 12 year anticipated life of the Brown County landfill site. As the CPI Index continues to go up the annual compensation you will receive will also go up. The Siting Agreement spells out how the CPI index is used to calculated the price per ton on pages 61 and 62.
The Master Plan document that was done by Foth in 2015 is the source for the assumptions used to calculate the estimated annual income. All information should be independently verified.
In the spreadsheet, the yellow highlighted area represents the percentage this landowner will receive. To determine the annual amount and the total amount of income over the expected 12 year life of the landfill, you can change the price per ton in the blue outlined box (currently set to $2.00) to estimate how a CPI Index change would increase the amount of money you would receive by being the owner of the Mill Road Property. To make income projections for the future based on changes to the CPI Index, you will need to download the excel spreadsheet, then you can change the $2.00 ton price to see the impact on your income.
Foth Master Plan Info:
Brown County Schedule:
Questions about the Brown County Site can be directed to:
Dean R. Haen MBA, CPM
Director, Brown County Port & Resource Recovery Department
2561 S. Broadway St
Green Bay, WI 54304 | public_administration |
https://safety2go.ca/product/short-service-new-employee-program/ | 2024-02-21T09:38:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473401.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221070402-20240221100402-00373.warc.gz | 0.910047 | 152 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__156791524 | en | This Short Service Employee (SSE) Program provides guidelines for management, supervisors and employees for employees with less than six months experience in their current role or new to location to ensure they are identified, supervised, trained, and managed to prevent injury to themselves or others, property damage, or environmental harm.
This Short Service Employee (SSE) Program is designed to pass Industry Standards, COR, SECOR, Complyworks, Avetta and ISNetworld ® RAVS ® requirements for Short Service Employee (SSE) Program – Canada – Best Practices
Required section of COR/SECOR Safety Program
This program includes the following forms:
NOTE: The material in this document does not take precedence over applicable government legislation which all employees must follow. | public_administration |
http://www.dylanfernandes.com/education | 2019-10-22T22:09:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987824701.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022205851-20191022233351-00218.warc.gz | 0.969028 | 359 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__65882702 | en | Quality Public Education from Pre-K through College
Education is the foundation of a democratic society. It is the most powerful tool in lifting people out of poverty, expanding opportunity and preparing people from all backgrounds to live up to their full potential.
I am the product of our public school system, having graduated from Falmouth High School and the head of my committee, Brian Switzer, is a local school teacher. I come at this issue as someone who wants to support all of our children AND our teachers.
But that means getting serious about funding. State aid to our schools has been level funded for years – even as our towns have struggled with increasing costs. With fixed costs like healthcare and retirement rising, there is little money available for important innovations like universal pre-K and full day kindergarten all of this have been shown to improve education outcomes.
We need to get serious about funding our schools.
As State Representative I would:
Increase funding for public school from pre-K to higher education so that every child can get a truly free public education. Period.
Invest in some of the innovations that have worked at charter schools – longer school days, homework support, smaller class sizes – we can’t just say it works – and then not pay for it.
Fight to lower the cost of public college. It is a failure of our system that it costs over $100,000 for in-state students to get a degree from UMass Amherst.
I know that this will all take money – and it’s about time we paid for the things we really care about. That’s why I support the millionaire's tax which increases the tax rate on income over one million dollars and that money goes directly to funding public education and transportation. | public_administration |
http://anzbms-ifmrs.org/speakers/show/219 | 2017-10-22T04:29:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825141.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022041437-20171022061437-00510.warc.gz | 0.957149 | 171 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__100898739 | en | Paul Mitchell has spent the last 15 years working on programs to improve fragility fracture care and prevention throughout the world. Paul has published extensively on implementation of Fracture Liaison Services and was an author of the 2012 IOF World Osteoporosis Day Report on the ‘Capture the Fracture’ Campaign. Prior to emigrating from the UK to New Zealand in 2011, Paul served as an advisor to the Department of Health in England to develop policy and financial incentives to improve care and reduce costs. Paul has since worked with the Ministry of Health and Accident Compensation Corporation in New Zealand to facilitate implementation of Fracture Liaison Services in all of New Zealand’s District Health Boards, and establishment of the ANZ Hip Fracture Registry. Paul is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Osteoporosis New Zealand. | public_administration |
https://bitvore.com/2021/09/bitvore-announces-ga-muni-esg-dataset/ | 2023-09-21T10:00:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233505362.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921073711-20230921103711-00316.warc.gz | 0.880898 | 704 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__7457727 | en | Bitvore Announces Availability of Cellenus® ESG Dataset for the Municipal Bond Market
Irvine, CA – September 14, 2021 – Bitvore, the leading provider of AI-driven intelligence for third-party risk management, today announced availability of a new Cellenus Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) dataset targeting the municipal bond market.
ESG refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and societal impact of municipal bond debt issuances. These criteria help to better determine the future financial performance of issuers in terms of return and risk. Bitvore’s continuously updated ESG topics are derived from over 60K quality unstructured data sources (including news, press releases, EMMA filings and more), and identify what nearly 50k issuers are doing regarding ESG transparency.
“We’re excited to announce our new Bitvore Cellenus ESG Dataset for the municipal bond market,” said Elizabeth Pritchard, CEO, Bitvore. “It is fast becoming a requirement for investors to evaluate the financials of a muni offering together with the sustainability impact. Our new ESG insights will allow municipal bond analysts to get the full picture of the value of a bond.”
The Cellenus Muni ESG dataset is derived from more than 60K unique unstructured data sources, including both publicly available and licensed subscription sources. Using machine learning models and NLP, Bitvore derives 34 unique ESG Muni topics, allowing customers to quickly identify specific ESG topics of interest such as GHG emissions, Diversity & Inclusion, Climate Change, Cybersecurity and more. In addition to the continuously updated ESG topics, Bitvore allows existing customers to effortlessly request ESG topics be included into daily surveillance alerts. Bitvore’s surveillance alerts assist in mapping out any potential ESG risk that may be found in a portfolio of municipal bonds or across a sector.
Bitvore’s Cellenus platform provides continuous, AI-powered analysis of unstructured data sources, linking the right obligor to specific ESG events or topics and providing early warning of any potential ESG violations. It also offers the capability to monitor specific topics across the entirety of the municipal bond market. For example, monitoring the expanding drought across the western United States or monitoring which municipalities are meeting goals around recycling or net-zero emissions. The Cellenus Muni ESG dataset may also aid in complying with future regulatory requirements by surfacing relevant ESG related topics and mapping the content back to a relevant obligor for transparency purposes.
Bitvore Cellenus datasets are accessible via API, file downloads and full research applications.
Bitvore provides unprecedented third-party risk discovery data from unstructured data. Our products are deployed in over seventy of the world’s largest financial institutions, allowing them to make faster and more effective decisions so they outperform the competition. Our flagship product, Bitvore Cellenus is a groundbreaking AI-powered platform that delivers leading indicators of business and ESG risk for companies, industries, markets and municipal obligors. Consumable through file downloads, a comprehensive API and research user interfaces, Bitvore Cellenus provides customers with the “crystal ball” needed to discover emerging risk before it bites. To learn more, visit www.bitvore.com. | public_administration |
https://www.elangham.com/2014/07/11/why-the-west-coast-is-staying-open/ | 2024-03-04T11:58:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476442.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304101406-20240304131406-00221.warc.gz | 0.95389 | 522 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__154471217 | en | Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles has reached tentative agreement with Teamster to avoid possible port disruption. PMA will send on-site staff to all Southern California terminals to watch and measure any abnormal events.
The ILWU master contract was officially extended until this Friday morning 8a.m. PST. Both parties have agreed to take a 72-hour break from negotiations on a new coast-wide contract while the ILWU attends to an unrelated negotiation in the Pacific Northwest.
In 2002, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s contracts were gapped for nearly a month, resulting in a 10-day shutdown of 29 ports along the West Coast. Ports only reopened after former President Bush invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to save the $1 billion in fees the U.S. citizens were paying for each day the ports were closed.
Why are the ports staying open in 2014? Why haven’t the ILWU and Pacific Maritime Association reached an agreement? Keep reading to learn more about the West Coast shutout.
Today, a strike would cost the U.S. more than $2 billion each day, over twice as much as in 2002. Uneducated citizens ogle over the protection and opportunities of a union job that pays $25 to $40 an hour. So, the heightened press that comes with a strike could undercut the ILWU’s bargaining position because of the high demand for those jobs.
Mexico, Canada and Gulf ports have expanded their staffing and hours to accommodate the congestion foreseen with the ILWU contract negotiations. This puts pressure on the West Coast ports to stay open because after changing routes, fewer retailers are likely to return their supply chains to an unreliable port.
The 29 ports in question are responsible for moving 12.5 percent of the U.S.’s gross domestic product each year, a 50 percent increase from 2002. They also handle over 70 percent of imports from Asia. A prolonged dispute between the ILWU and PMA could result in ripple effects in the U.S. economy that are too big to ignore.
To stay ahead of the game, the National Retail Federation still suggests keeping your contention plans at the ready in the case of a disruption. There is too much uncertainty surrounding the matter to feel at ease just yet, and a good contention plan should keep your supply chain moving smoothly.
Please let us know if we can help. Contact our international team by email [email protected] or get help by calling 855-214-2844. | public_administration |
https://makrodigitaltelevision.com/menendez-statement-on-historic-first-nomination-of-latina-to-serve-on-federal-reserve-board-of-governors/ | 2024-03-02T01:04:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475711.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301225031-20240302015031-00791.warc.gz | 0.950861 | 306 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__113439021 | en | JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) issued the following statement on the nomination of Adriana Kugler as the first Hispanic to ever serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in its 109-year history:
“For years, I have been a fierce advocate for greater diversity and inclusion in every industry and across the federal government — including at the Federal Reserve. I have fought to ensure that institutions like the Federal Reserve better reflect America with the goal of effectuating policies to encourage broad based economic growth for all communities. By elevating Philip Jefferson to serve as Vice Chair, re-nominating Lisa Cook to the Board of Governors, and nominating Adriana Kugler as the first Hispanic to ever serve on the Board of Governors, President Biden is signaling that the hopes and dreams of Black and Latino Americans are central to the promise of America. Simply put, we are witnessing history unfold in real time.
“With today’s announcement, we are ushering in a new chapter at the Federal Reserve, which for 109 years has never had Latinos or Latinas in the upper echelons of its leadership. We are finally giving Latinos, all 62 million of us who call this country home, a seat at the table where the most consequential decisions on monetary policy are made, and I for one will make it my personal mission to help ensure swift confirmations for Jefferson, Cook, and Kugler.” | public_administration |
http://entfkent.org/ | 2020-04-07T17:09:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371803248.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20200407152449-20200407182949-00253.warc.gz | 0.681327 | 427 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__212570102 | en | Visit helpkent.org for Kent County Food Access Sites
Visite helpkent.org/food para ver los sitios en el Condado de Kent donde se puede obtener comida sin costo.
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The Kent County Essential Needs Task Force (ENTF) was formed in 1982 as a response to the struggles facing Kent County residents in meeting their basic needs. The ENTF focuses on system change with an emphasis on collective impact and the interconnectedness of all systems. The committees of the ENTF are an evolving reflection of those basic needs that the community has deemed essential to the success of its citizens. Those committees, as they exist today, are: Grand Rapids Area Coalition to End Homelessness, Energy Efficiency, Food and Nutrition Coalition, Economic and Workforce Development, and Transportation. Each of these committees works to ensure that the vision, mission, and goals of the ENTF are being carried out through their efforts. | public_administration |
https://audit.gov.mv/webpage.aspx?pageID=37 | 2024-04-13T23:26:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00048.warc.gz | 0.924957 | 739 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__124580343 | en | The Auditor General (AG) is required to submit audit reports on the financial statements of all the Accountable Government Agencies to the Accountable Officers (AO) by 31st May of every year, pursuant to section 36 (a) of the Law on Public Finance (Law No. 3/2006). Section 35 (a) of the law also stipulates that the AO of the AGAs to submit their financial statements to the AG for audit by 31st March every year. The AG is also required to submit the audit report on the consolidated financial statements of the State by 14th June of every year, pursuant to section 39 of the Law on Public Finances (Law No. 3/2006).
The objective of a financial statement audit is to express an opinion on whether the financial statements give a true and fair view of the financial performance of the audited organization for the financial year and of its financial position as at the end of the financial year. AGO has four departments carrying out financial statement audits. AGO carries out financial statement audit of the Whole of Government Accounts and of ministries and other Accountable Government Agencies (AGAs) AGO also audits the financial statements of donor-funded projects carried-out by AGAs. Pursuant to the Regulation for Audits and Accountability of State Owned Enterprises, AGO reviews the external audits.
Financial audits are carriedout in accordance with the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs)
Compliance audit deals with the degree to which the audited entity follows rules, laws and regulation, policies, established codes, or agreed upon terms and conditions, etc. Compliance audits carried-out by AGO mainly focus on (but not limited to) the compliance of the entities to the Public Finance Act and Public Finance Regulation. The reports on the compliance audits highlight the issues identified and the recommendations to the issues.
Special audit involves detailed examination of issues related to serious allegation of fraud, corruption, wastage, misappropriation of assets or mismanagement of public resources, which are beyond the scope of financial statements audit, performance audit or compliance audit. The findings of special audits are often referred with evidence collected to the Anti-Corruption Commission or the Maldives Police Services either for further investigations or prosecution.
Performance Auditing is an independent, objective, and reliable examination of whether government undertakings, systems, operations, programs, activities, or organizations are operating in accordance with the principles of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness and whether there is room for improvement. In addition to promoting the 3Es, performance audit addresses accountability and transparency meaning that the potential scope of a performance audit may be wide and may be focused on themes such as on economic and social outcomes, environmental and sustainability outcomes, implementation of SDGs, effective procurement, coordination across government, health, education, and infrastructure.
Performance Audit is one of the three main types of public-sector audits defined in the International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI). It is distinct from the other of types of audits in that it is a direct reporting engagement where the Auditor General would select the subject matter and criteria and measures or evaluates the subject matter against the criteria, considering risk and materiality and would form recommendations for the improvement of systems, processes, and for the better management of public resources.
Information Systems Audit
AGO conducts Information Systems (IS) audits of the entities under the discretionary power of AG. The audits mainly focus to evaluate evidence to determine whether a computer system saferguards assets, maintains data integrity, allows organizational goals to be achieved effectively and uses resources efficiently. | public_administration |
https://www.readysetcare.com/resources/articles/medicare-enrollment-penalties | 2023-06-03T05:41:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649105.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603032950-20230603062950-00090.warc.gz | 0.936371 | 1,851 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__74139120 | en | Medicare Part B & Part D Enrollment Penalties to be Aware of
Those turning 65 are eligible for Medicare Coverage, this is called your Initial Enrollment Period. This period lasts seven months, starting 3 months before your 65th birthday, and 3 months after the month you turn 65.
Your coverage start date depends on the month you signed up, and coverage always starts on the first of the month.
If you do not enroll in Medicare Part A or Hospital Insurance when you turn 65 there is a 10 percent penalty that will be applied to the premium, if you pay a monthly premium for your Medicare Part A.
Most people qualify for premium-free Part A coverage however those that did not pay Medicare taxes will have to pay a monthly premium for coverage.
For each year you go without coverage, starting the first month you become eligible for Medicare, you will be charged a 10% penalty fee.
In this article, we’ll provide a list of questions and answers that will help guide you through Medicare B and Medicare Part D penalty charges. With these tips, you’ll have a better understanding of what to expect with Medicare enrollment.
Medicare Part B:
If you do not sign up for Medicare on time you will have to pay a 10% surcharge on Medicare Part B premiums.
The longer you go without paying your Medicare Part B coverage the penalty will continue to increase. To prevent having to pay a penalty it is important you sign up for Medicare when you’re first eligible.
1. What will happen when I leave my employer after turning 65 years old?
You will have the opportunity to enroll during the Special Enrollment Period and you get 8 months during SEP to enroll when you leave your job after age 65.
By signing up during SEP you will not have to pay Medicare Part B premium surcharges.
You will also be eligible to sign up for Medicare Part B if you were once covered under your spouse’s employer-provided group health insurance coverage.
2. How can I avoid the Medicare Part B penalty?
Enroll in Medicare Part B coverage during your Initial Enrollment Period (IEP) or if it applies to you during your Special Enrollment Period (SEP).
As a reminder: The longer you wait to sign up for Part B coverage, the more the penalty continues to increase.
3. How do I pay the Medicare Part B penalty?
Any late enrollment penalties that you receive will be added to your monthly Part B premium for as long as you remain in the program.
For example, if you signed up five years after your deadline, you’d always pay 50 percent more for your Part B coverage than if you’d sign up on time.
4. When does the Medicare Part B penalty not apply?
If you miss your initial enrollment deadline but sign up during the next General Enrollment Period, the penalty will not apply if less than a 12-month period.
Coverage goes into effect on July 1st when you enroll during the General Enrollment Period.
For example, if your Initial Enrollment Period ends on November 30th and you do not enroll until the General Enrollment Period, you will have an eight-month period before your coverage becomes effective on July 1st. Part B penalties will not apply.
5. If I am still working do I have to sign up for Medicare Part B?
No, as long as you have creditable healthcare through your employer you will not have to enroll in Medicare Part B, nor face a penalty.
6. I’m on Medicaid and didn’t sign up for Medicare Part B, will I be penalized?
If you are on Medicaid, no need to worry about paying penalties because your state will cover those costs.
If you delayed your Medicare Part B enrollment because of other creditable coverage, you can avoid the penalty by signing up during the Special Enrollment Period.
Enrolling during the Special Enrollment Period means you are not liable for late penalties.
7. Can I get the penalty waived?
If you received bad advice from the federal government regarding your Medicare plan and find yourself without Part B coverage.
Social Security may be able to waive your Part B penalty and enroll you into Part B or do both things. This works if you would have otherwise had to wait to enroll in the General Enrollment Period.
You may also be able to have your Part B enrollment effective date retroactive.
It’s important to specify to Social Security what you want to do when you make your request.
8. Can I appeal a Medicare penalty?
It’s important to document as much information as possible about when someone from the government told you not to take Part B.
Include the date and time of your conversation or phone call, and the person you spoke with. Once you gather all of your information you can submit your equitable relief request to your local Social Security office.
Contact Social Security at 1-800-772-1213 or check www.ssa.gov to find the mailing address of your local Social Security office.
9. What happens if I don't pay enough Medicare payroll taxes?
If you don’t sign up for Part B coverage because you thought you hadn’t paid enough Medicare payroll taxes to “qualify”, be aware that earning 40 credits through paying those taxes only ensures that, after age 65 you don’t pay monthly premiums for Medicare Part A (hospital coverage).
The number of years you’d have had to pay Medicare taxes is 10 years.
Medicare Part D:
10. Will I have to pay a Medicare Part D penalty if I don’t enroll in insurance coverage?
Generally, you will not have to pay a Medicare Part D penalty if you have creditable drug coverage (coverage that’s similar in value to Medicare Part D) or if you qualify for Extra Help.
If you don’t join a Medicare drug plan when you first sign up for Medicare, you will pay an extra 1% for each month (12% a year), or go 63 days or more without creditable drug coverage.
Keep in mind you may pay a higher premium for Medicare Part D depending on your income. After signing up for a Medicare drug plan, the plan will tell you if you have to pay a penalty and what your premium will be each month.
11. How is the Medicare Part D penalty calculated?
There are two factors determined in the calculation of the Medicare Part D penalty:
The number of months you went without proper medication coverage before enrolling in Part D.
The amount of Medicare’s current “national base beneficiary premium.
Medicare calculates this amount using a complex formula derived from the average amount insurance companies expect to spend on their plans in a given year.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) then uses that information to calculate the late enrollment penalty.
12. What if I already have a Medicare Part D Prescription Drug coverage plan?
If your current Medicare Part D plan is considered “creditable” stick with it. Your plan is considered “creditable coverage” if it pays out as much as Medicare plans do.
Creditable coverage can be through a current or former employer, retiree coverage, or labor union group health plan.
The following entities also offer creditable coverage:
Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) Program
TRICARE (Military Health Benefits)
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA)
Indian Health Service
13. What happens when my employer-based creditable coverage comes to an end, do I have to pay a penalty?
If your employer plan comes to an end or you drop your Medicare Part D plan after the initial enrollment window closes, you can avoid the late enrollment penalty.
When your employer coverage ends, you enter a 63-day special enrollment period and during that time you can sign up for a Medicare Part D plan and avoid a late enrollment penalty.
What to Keep in Mind about Medicare Enrollment
Enrolling in Medicare and being faced with a penalty can be a daunting experience. It is important to enroll during your Initial Enrollment Period once you become eligible on your 65th birthday and make necessary changes if need be.
To avoid Medicare penalties, Open Enrollment starts on October 15th and through December 7th.
This time period is the perfect time to make changes to your current Original Medicare plan, enroll in Medigap, enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan, or enroll in various parts of Medicare.
For further information, and eligibility, process your Medicare enrollment visit medicare.gov or by phone at 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227), TTY users can call 1-877-486-2048. | public_administration |
https://www.bettersorting.be/en/blog/a-new-measuring-methodology-to-calculate-recycling-figures | 2024-02-21T05:41:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00552.warc.gz | 0.944402 | 775 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__42840787 | en | In 2021, Fost Plus recycled 89.9% of the household packaging put on the market by its members. These figures were calculated on the basis of a new and more stringent measuring methodology. We explain why this is an improvement and where the discrepancy originates.
The background: towards a level playing field in Europe
The European Union Circular Economy Package provides a strict legal framework to reduce waste and introduces an ambitious long-term plan to encourage recycling. As part of this, the 2018 Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive introduced a new methodology to calculate recycling percentages. The aim is to ensure a level playing field so that the results of the various European member states are calculated in the same way and can be properly compared with one another. The different member states have to report to Europe using the new measuring methodology for the first time by the end of June 2022 at the latest. These reports relate to the results for the year 2020.
The Interregional Packaging Commission (IRPC) is therefore reporting the Belgian packaging recycling figures for the year 2020 to Europe using the new computation point. Both Fost Plus for household packaging and Valipac for industrial packaging apply the new measuring methodology.
How is the recycling percentage calculated?
In concrete terms, from now on recycling will be calculated at a later point in the chain. Whereas the recycled quantities were previously measured upon leaving the sorting centres, this is now done when the recycling actually takes place. The calculation point therefore lies at the recycling companies, after any impurities and unsuitable substances have been removed from the sorted materials in the recycling centres.
It is important to understand that the calculation point is a hypothetical point in the recycling chain. We calculate this point on the basis of analyses of the material sent for recycling. A great deal of research has been carried out for this purpose in the past few years. A reliable methodology has been developed and approved by the IRPC.
So Belgium calculates the recycling figures for household packaging fully in line with the European directive and adopting the same principles as the other European member states.
The impact on achieving the recycling targets
The new measuring methodology has an impact on the recycling figures of all European member states – including Belgium. However, the results for 2021 show that here, the effect for most materials remains limited. Belgian bales of packaging materials have attained very high degrees of purity for many years. There are three reasons for this:
- The simple, uniform sorting message for the public minimises the risk of sorting errors.
- The door-to-door collection system makes it easy for everyone to participate, so that as much packaging as possible is sent for recycling.
- Centralised chain management has enabled us to invest in high-tech sorting centres which can separate the contents of the PMD bags into at least 14 different, pure material flows.
For plastic, for example, we note another rise in the recycling percentage. At 52% for 2021, we are way ahead of the European target of 50% by 2025. Even though not all the intermunicipal companies have been using the New Blue Bag for a full year!
Dual reporting for Belgium
In addition to the European recycling targets that apply for all the member states, the Interregional Cooperation Agreement also sets specific targets. Belgium goes further than Europe here, for example by calling for 50% recycling for plastic packaging in 2020 – which we achieved.
In the coming years, Fost Plus will report to the IRPC using both the old and the new calculation method. The IRPC will determine which calculation method will eventually be used to check the results against the legal goals of the Belgian Interregional Cooperation Agreement in the new conditions of accreditation, which will come into force as of 2024.
For more information about our recycling figures, read our 2021 activity report here. | public_administration |
https://ksp.noesis.dev/everything-you-need-to-know-about-delhi-ncr-nursery-admissions-2023-24/ | 2024-04-24T06:38:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819067.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424045636-20240424075636-00868.warc.gz | 0.951777 | 460 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__118929226 | en | Getting admission for your child into a good school is not easy, in today’s world. Especially for nursery admissions. From being familiar with the dates, the procedure and the entire process of running from pillar to post – December to March is indeed a tough time for all parents.
Delhi-NCR Parents- if you are looking for updates on the nursery admission process this year- you will find them all here- bookmark this article and remember to share it with a parent who will need this. A handy guide always helps parents breathe better in this chaos!
The Directorate of Education (DoE) has released dates & guidelines bringing respite for anxious parents who have been waiting.
According to a notification issued by the Directorate of Education (DoE), the process of nursery admissions will begin on December 1, 2022, in nearly 1800+ private schools across the national capital. The application window is scheduled to close on December 23rd, 2022.
Each school shall display the aforesaid admission schedule on its notice board and website. Further, each school shall ensure that application forms for admission are made available to all applicants till the last date of submission.
Most schools are putting out the forms online; some will also sell forms at their premises for the convenience of parents.
Key Dates To Remember For The Admission Process
November 28th: Schools to upload criteria on the website
December 1: Forms to be released on school websites, the registration process begins
December 23: Last date of submission of forms
January 6: Uploading details of children who applied under Open Seats
January 13: Schools will upload marks given to each candidate on their website.
January 20: Display of the first list of selected candidates along with marks
January 21-30: Resolution of queries from parents under the first list
February 06: Second list of selected candidates
February 08-14: Resolution of queries from parents under the second list
March 1: Subsequent list (if any)
March 17: Admission closed
Here is also a list of the essential documents that are normally needed when applying to schools. Keeping these ready would be a good idea. But please do verify what each school requires – it could be different.
Wishing everyone the best of luck with the admissions! | public_administration |
https://campa.haryanaforest.gov.in/under-interest-accrued-activities/ | 2024-03-01T08:07:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475203.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301062009-20240301092009-00141.warc.gz | 0.936916 | 585 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__125250946 | en | Under Interest Accrued Activities
Fund.—The interest accrued on monies in the State Fund shall be used in the following manner:—
- not less than sixty per cent. of the interest transferred to the State Fund and further accrued on the amount available in the State Fund referred to in sub-rule (1) shall be spent on activities for the purpose of conservation and development of forest and wildlife namely:-
- to offset the incremental cost of compensatory afforestation and penal compensatory afforestation at the increased wage rates;
- to offset the incremental cost of catchment area treatment plan at the increased wage rates;
- to offset the incremental cost of wildlife management plan at the increased wage rates;
- for disbursement of sitting fees and allowances to nominated members of the State Authority;
- activities referred to in sub-rules (2) and (3) of rule 5;
- not more than forty per cent. of the interest transferred to the State Fund and further accrued on the amount available in the State Fund shall be spent for the non-recurring and recurring expenditure of the State Authority, namely:—
- management of office establishment;
- office equipment including computers and peripherals and its maintenance for the State Authority;
- hiring of staff cars for the use of the officers and officials of the State Authority;
- hiring of buildings on lease for the office establishment and residences of the offices of State Authority;
- other contingencies for management of the State Authority, with the approval of the steering committee of the State Authority;
- any other activity for management of the forests and wildlife not referred to in sub-rules (2) and (3) with the prior approval of the steering committee of the State Authority and included in the annual plan of operation.
Explanation.—Under no circumstances mixing of the interest accrued on the monies in the State Fund and money received for NPV and CA shall not be allowed with any other State budget either for capital or spill over works and the works undertaken under this rule shall be on standalone basis and there shall not be any duplication of permitted works under different components.
Functions and Powers of Executive Committee and Steering Committee are given in CAF Rules, 2018.
Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA), Haryana was constituted by Government of Haryana vide Notification No. 5330-ft-4-6/511 dated 14-10-2010.
The money received from User Agencies seeking use of Forest Land for non-forestry purpose under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 were transferred to Central Fund managed and operated by Adhoc CAMPA. The Adhoc CAMPA released some of money to the State CAMPA for undertaking activities relating to Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Conservation of Forest and Wildlife in the State. | public_administration |
https://www.createbetterhealthkane.org/2017/06/apply-for-wic.html | 2023-03-27T19:12:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948684.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327185741-20230327215741-00294.warc.gz | 0.901789 | 384 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__189263077 | en | WHAT IS WIC- WIC provides supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children under the age of 5.
WHAT FOODS ARE PROVIDED- The foods provided through the WIC Program are designed to supplement participants’ diets with specific nutrients. WIC authorized foods include infant cereal, baby foods, iron-fortified adult cereal, fruits and vegetables, vitamin C-rich fruit or vegetable juice, eggs, milk, cheese, yogurt, soy-based beverages, tofu, peanut butter, dried and canned beans/peas, canned fish, whole wheat bread and other whole-grain options. For infants of women who do not fully breastfeed, WIC provides iron-fortified infant formula. Special infant formulas and medical foods may also be provided if medically indicated.
OTHER BENEFITS- Program benefits include more than food. Participants have access to a number of resources, including health screening, nutrition and breastfeeding counseling, immunization screening and referral, substance abuse referral, and more.
HOW TO USE BENEFITS- The Utah WIC program provides vouchers that participants use at authorized food stores. A wide variety of State and local stores cooperate in providing the food and health care benefits, and 46,000 merchants nationwide accept WIC vouchers.
Curious if your eligible? Try this WIC pre-screening tool HERE.
ELIGABLE? WHAT TO DO NEXT- Those who are interested in applying for benefits should contact their State agency to request information on where to schedule an appointment. Applicants will be advised on what to bring to the appointment in order to verify eligibility.
Kanab WIC office located in the Southwest Public Health Department:
445 N Main St, Kanab, UT 84741
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https://papertyari.com/current-affairs/current-affairs-quiz-october-24th-2020/ | 2023-12-11T07:04:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103558.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211045204-20231211075204-00528.warc.gz | 0.934289 | 817 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__79386672 | en | Here is the Current affairs quiz October 24th 2020 for RBI/NABARD/SEBI in the quiz series. This quiz series is also useful for IBPS/SBI PO, Railway recruitment, LIC AAO and clerical exams. The questions covers current affairs, static financial knowledge and other important topics which can be asked in competitive exams. Answers are given at the end of the quiz.
Q1. Who has been roped in as brand ambassador by beauty accessories brand, Vega?
Ace Indian cricketer and Captain of Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma has been signed up by India’s leading beauty accessories brand, Vega, for its men’s personal grooming electronics range under the ‘Vega Men’ brand
Q2. Name the country that has become 190th member of IMF?
Andorra (officially the Principality of Andorra) has joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 16 October 2020, to become its 190th member.
Q3. Name the head of NITI Aayog panel for reforms in urban planning education?
The 14-member advisory committee, headed by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar, will review the urban planning education system in India and examine the availability, demand and supply of qualified urban planners in the country
Q4. Name the country that has recently assumed the Chairmanship of the Governing Body of ILO?
After 35 years, India assumed the Chairmanship of the Governing Body of ILO. Labour Secretary Apurva Chandra has been elected as the Chairperson of the Governing Body of the ILO for the period October 2020-June 2021
Q5. United Nations Day is observed annually on _______
24 October has been celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948
Q6. Name the bank that has entered into a tie-up with Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM)?
State-owned Bank of Baroda (BoB) has announced a tie up with Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) to enable finance options for the automaker”s customers and dealers
Q7. Who has partnered with Atlantis to Expand Digital First Program in India?
Mastercard has entered into a partnership with Atlantis to expand the Digital First Program in India. The partnership aims to provide the users of Mastercard, a technology solution that enables them to enjoy a best-in-class digital banking experience.
Q8. Name the district that has bagged top position in successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)?
Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district has bagged top position among 30 districts of the country in successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
Q9. World Development Information Day is observed annually on _______
World Development Information Day is celebrated annually on October 24th. The day focuses on improving the dissemination of information and mobilizing public opinion, especially among young people
Q10. World Polio Day is observed annually on ______
World Polio Day (October 24) provides an opportunity to highlight global efforts toward a polio-free world and honor the tireless contributions of those on the frontlines in the fight to eradicate polio from every corner of the globe
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https://westernwaterarchives.org/ | 2024-04-16T13:19:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817095.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416124708-20240416154708-00655.warc.gz | 0.904565 | 505 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__34025189 | en | The Digitizing Southern California Water Resources project, also known as the CLIRWater project, is a collaborative digitization and preservation project. The project aims to digitize and democratize Southern California’s water history to pave new avenues for research. Archival collections from seven partner institutions are now available in a central location. These collections originate from a variety of sources, such as federal, state and local governments, water companies, local agencies, engineers and other individuals involved in water resources development in the Southern California region.
The collaboration forms a regional network of Southern California private and public institutions that demonstrates our commitment to leveraging our individual strengths (collections, subject knowledge, and professional expertise) and technical infrastructures towards the open proliferation of water heritage collections.
- Unearth a critical mass of 19th- and 20th-century primary source documentation on the development, management, and exploitation of Southern California and western United States (U.S.) water.
- Facilitate digital, scholarly, and academic activities that are conducted or enhanced through the use of digital technology.
- Open the door for new scholarship on water and the environment in Southern California and the western United States.
This project is supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Grant administration is provided by the Office of Foundation Relations and Strategic Initiatives at Pomona College.
Vacation land - Owens Valley High Sierra
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power tourism publication encourages tourists and fishermen to visit the Owens Valley. Pamphlet lists ways to reach Owens Valley and cities in the area with hotel accommodations. Pamphlet also includes photographs and a map with the Los Angeles Aqueduct highlighted in red. Publication issued in July 1928.View on ContentDM
Water from the Colorado River: we need it let's go and get it!
A pamphlet printed July 20, 1931 for distribution in water bills regarding the Colorado River Aqueduct and the ways Southern California would use the water.View on ContentDM
World-famous engineers present Colorado River aqueduct report
A press release printed December 17, 1930 for distribution to 54 Southern California daily papers and a selected list of 46 Southern California weekly papers. The press release provides information about the engineers involved in the Colorado River Aqueduct.View on ContentDM | public_administration |
https://katmango.com/blogs/news/europe-and-the-existential-challenge-of-post-covid-recovery | 2024-02-24T06:43:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474523.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224044749-20240224074749-00366.warc.gz | 0.95707 | 2,340 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__92815703 | en | By Douglas A. Rediker, Giovanna De Maio
As the COVID-19 health crisis appears to be slowly passing its most critical phase, European leaders and finance ministers are increasingly focused on questions of how to pay for the crisis and restart the economies of the eurozone and of the European Union once the storm has passed.
Despite serious initial hesitations, the European Central Bank (ECB) has shown aggressive creativity in leading the immediate crisis response. Nevertheless, disagreement has emerged over the most suitable instruments to address the post-crisis economic recovery, with some countries pushing for the issuance of so called “corona-bonds,” a proposed Eurobond that would provide liquidity to countries whose economies are most in need of post-pandemic support, while mutualizing risk across all eurozone members.
Earlier this month, Eurogroup finance ministers agreed to a series of measures intended to help countries address the crisis and begin to recover, but failed to agree on long-term economic recovery tools. Instead, they punted the matter to country leaders, seeking their political decisions at the April 23 European Council meeting. Crucially, the question over the fate of any shared debt instrument remains unresolved.
The devastating impact of COVID-19 now threatens to reawaken the unfinished business of euro crisis that had already left behind deep social inequalities and animosities between EU member states over the imposition of austerity policies. Such animosities ultimately led populist and nationalists gain momentum and political strength. Now, the potential failure to come together in the face of a pandemic that disproportionately affects some countries more than others threatens to undermine the quest for shared long-term prosperity and the future of European integration, unity, and economic cohesion.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR
Under the leadership of Christine Lagarde, the ECB adopted a “no-limits” policy, building upon the “whatever it takes” policy of her predecessor, Mario Draghi. This time, the ECB established a new 750 billion euro Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program (PEPP), allowing the ECB to purchase massive amounts of private and public sector securities to ensure that weaker countries’ costs of borrowing remain low and stable. The European Commission also triggered the “general escape clause” in the European Treaty, allowing individual governments to increase emergency spending without regard to limits imposed by the Stability and Growth Pact. But those initiatives, though crucial, effectively allow countries to borrow and spend more on their own, potentially adding to their individual country debt burdens, without providing a sustainable option for recovery in the longer term.
To be fair, the Eurogroup did agree on recommending a series of constructive measures to be discussed and potentially approved by the European Council this week. These include increasing funding for European Investment Bank (EIB) to support small and medium enterprises across the EU and granting loans on favorable terms from the EU to individual countries aimed at protecting employment. Lastly, they proposed creating a Pandemic Crisis Support instrument within the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
Proposing recourse to the ESM was a particularly heated issue before and during the Eurogroup meeting, as the ESM is a 500 billion euro crisis-response institution created during the euro crisis to collectively address macro-economic distress through providing loans linked to specific conditionality. The ESM was structured so as to reassure more fiscally conservative (mostly northern) European countries that their finances would be protected against the risk of moral hazard. So, recourse to the ESM in response to COVID-19 carries the stigma of being forced to come hat-in-hand to the ESM. As the impact of COVID-19 had nothing to do with bad economic policy choices, but rather reflects the exogenous nature of an economic shock caused by a global pandemic, countries like Italy appeared to reject the use of ESM out of principle (and politics).
The ESM has one principal advantage: It already exists and has access to funding backed by all eurozone governments. Supporters argued that there should be no stigma, given that the only conditionality would be to use these funds to support domestic financing of direct and indirect healthcare, as well as cure- and prevention-related costs due to the COVID-19 crisis. However, countries’ access to the facility would be limited to 2% of their 2019 GDP, roughly 70 billion euros in the aggregate for Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. Those amounts could help confront the immediate needs of the health emergency, but are far from sufficient to support the long-term economic recovery needs, where vast amounts of money will be needed outside of the healthcare domain. To put it in perspective, the U.S. Congress has already appropriated roughly 15% of U.S. GDP to COVID-19, with expectations of trillions more. The 2% limit of the ESM facility can hardly be expected to address the response and recovery needs of countries hard hit by the virus.
COVID-19 first appeared in Europe in Italy, where it ravaged the north of the country before others could fully appreciate the threat it posed as it then spread across the continent. However, its economic impact across Europe has been asymmetric, impacting some countries, like Italy and Spain, harder than others both in terms of human and economic losses.
Because a pandemic represents a classic “exogenous shock,” for which no European country could be legitimately blamed, the crisis seemed to many the perfect opportunity to resurrect the idea of a “Eurobond”: a means by which those countries in the euro area with greater debt burdens and higher borrowing costs would benefit from the borrowing power of the group as a whole.
Countries seen as weaker borrowers would benefit from the lower borrowing costs of the stronger ones, and, if appropriately structured, the individual debts of any one country would not increase, as the borrower would be the collective whole. That would mutualize risk on the European level, allowing countries to borrow money at a very low rate and not increasing the debt-to-GDP ratios of countries like Italy, where debt loads are already seen as a concern to investors.
The concept of Eurobonds had been previously raised in the aftermath of the financial crisis, and was considered by the European Council at various crisis meetings as a means to further European integration through advancing plans for a deeper fiscal and banking union. But the more “virtuous” countries of northern Europe opposed those proposals — they argued against sharing risk with perceived less virtuous countries with already higher debt stock than contemplated by strict EU fiscal rules.
Now, given that the spread of the virus cannot be fairly blamed on any individual EU country, the issue of Eurobonds (called “corona-bonds” to make it clear why they would be needed) has reopened the earlier divide. This time, supporters of this common debt instrument include Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, and, crucially, France (which has always played the role of a pivot state, balancing its political and economic stance between northern and southern Europe). In opposition are countries like Germany, Austria, Finland, and, most stridently, the Netherlands. This opposition rests on both deeply entrenched ideological and political opposition to any risk-sharing instrument, and continued reliance on existing institutions and instruments — including, in particular, the ESM, where the inter-governmental structure of its governance allows countries to exercise more direct oversight of how funds would be spent.
What seems on its face to be a dispute over financing instruments and fiscal advantages is actually a far deeper reflection on the costs and benefits of EU or euro area membership itself, and ultimately the future of European integration.
A FRENCH-LED MIDDLE GROUND
The corona-bond proposal continues to be rejected by enough countries that its prospects appear poor. Still, the concept of risk-sharing is not entirely dead. The Eurogroup has tentatively recommended consideration of a French-designed “Recovery Fund” that could provide significant financial support for future economic recovery of the most affected member states in a size commensurate with the extraordinary costs of the current crisis. Yet, the crucial question around how to structure and finance this Recovery Fund remains open, as it is still connected to the same internal rigidities that have plagued the internal European debate all along. The initial capital of the Recovery Fund could be funded through the EU budget, a once every seven years process that is slated for approval later this year. But that would only be the initial capital, with the intention that it could be leveraged by the EU itself by borrowing in the capital markets on the back of the implicit guarantee of all EU member states. It would effectively be a “European bond” (issued by the EU itself), and not a “Eurobond” (which would require the explicit guarantee of individual member states).
The issue now rests back with European leaders, as the Eurogroup bounced the issue back to the European Council seeking guidance from European leaders “on the legal and practical aspects of such a fund, including its relation to the EU budget, its sources of financing and on innovative financial instruments.” A lot is on the line, as European leaders need to decide if they will let the moment pass, or recognize the existential nature of the current crisis for the future of Europe.
This crisis presents Europe with a particularly stark set of choices about its future direction.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR EUROPE?
Failure to make progress on a more collective, bolder vision for European economic recovery could undermine the internal and external credibility of the EU and support from its member states and citizens. EU countries already appear to be recovering at different speeds from the crisis. But the EU’s single market only works if all countries are able to both buy and sell goods and services across borders. If less well-off countries are left to suffer their own economic fates, richer economies will not be insulated from the consequences, as they would see a contraction in the demand for their exports. Further, internal fragmentation could weaken EU negotiating power with other countries, and worryingly, the countries that have been most hard-hit may find their internal allegiances weakened, and could turn to third countries, like China, to pursue desperately needed economic opportunities and foreign direct investments to help restart their economic engines.
Europe’s response to the COVID-19 crisis will involve the immediate costs of human life, health, and economic activity. But it will also involve political costs, pitting the collective and domestic credibility of its response against populist and nationalist forces seeking to capitalize on the opportunity to demonstrate that EU solidarity is far less than what was believed. Currently these forces are seeking to amplify the divide between EU member states, in part by highlighting long-standing fissures through accusation and the dissemination of partisan information.
Europe’s future success will be determined by whether it assures economic prosperity across Europe, allowing the benefits of EU and euro membership to easily outweigh the costs. Europe always seems to find temporary solutions to crises, but this crisis presents Europe with a particularly stark set of choices about its future direction. If European leaders can find a collective means to agree on a long-term and comprehensive approach to helping all member states emerge stronger from this crisis, Europe will thrive. If not, the idea of “Europe” will continue to decline in the eyes of individual Europeans, with or without the involvement of nationalists or populists at all. | public_administration |
https://hsn-horeca.nl/nieuws/hsn-courses-postponed-due-to-coronavirus/ | 2020-07-04T01:39:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655883961.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704011041-20200704041041-00350.warc.gz | 0.97363 | 319 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__59397938 | en | The government has just announced in a press conference that all schools, sports clubs and food and beverage companies will be closed immediately to fight the spreading of the corona virus. Naturally, HSN takes her responsibility: public health and the prevention of the corona virus from spreading are also our top priority!
HSN does everything it can to fulfill its role as a training company as good as possible during this special period. Every effort is made to resume the courses as soon as possible. This of course strongly depends on the further developments concerning the corona virus and the policy of the RIVM. The aim is to reschedule all courses to be moved within this course year.
All courses scheduled from March 16 to April 6 will be postponed. Students whose courses have expired will be notified again when the course will take place. They do not have to register for that course again. HSN makes every effort to maintain the range of courses on offer, so that students have sufficient opportunity to comply with their legal obligations.
No additional costs will be charged to our relations / students for all courses scheduled in the period from March 16 to April 6 and have to be planned on another date. This applies to all HSN courses in the mentioned period.
As soon as there are new developments or additional information, this will be published on our website.
For more information about the delevopments of the Corona virus: https://www.rivm.nl/en/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/questions-and-answers | public_administration |
https://amazingthailand.cz/newest-unesco-world-heritage-site-the-ancient-town-of-si-thep/ | 2023-12-11T06:03:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103558.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211045204-20231211075204-00341.warc.gz | 0.913378 | 356 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__53676037 | en | On behalf of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to the Department of Fine Arts for the inscription of the “Ancient Town of Si Thep” on the UNESCO World Heritage List. I commend and applaud all the officials, academics, personnel and especially the workers who have worked tirelessly to help earn this honour for Thai culture and heritage.
The TAT is proud that “Ancient Town of Si Thep” is the 7th World Heritage site in Thailand, the others being (1) Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns; (2) Historic City of Ayutthaya; (3) Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries; (4) Ban Chiang Archaeological Site; (5) Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex; and (6) Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex.
I would like to echo the words of Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in saying that this inscription brings great pride to the Thai people. It enhances international awareness on the values and significance of the Ancient Town of Si Thep as cultural World Heritage site. The inscription also signifies the beginning of cooperation and collective actions to conserve, restore, and protect this invaluable site to be a learning centre and the treasure not only for people all over the world, but also for the future generations globally.
It is my hope and vision that such cooperation and collective actions for the cause of conservation and preservation will become a nationwide effort adopted by all products and services offered by the Thai Travel & Tourism industry as we strive to implement the Sustainable Tourism Goals (STGs) in the new era.
Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) | public_administration |
http://www.royalnews.com.ng/2018/12/05/senate-approves-buharis-n338bn-debt-payment-to-2-states-contractors/ | 2018-12-15T01:43:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826686.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215014028-20181215040028-00255.warc.gz | 0.952228 | 1,085 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__264823898 | en | By Olugbenga Salami
Senate has approved the payment of N338.9 billion local debts owed by the federal government through a promissory note programme and bond issuance on Wednesday.
The figure consists of N102 billion as refund for federal projects executed by Delta and Taraba States; N43.5 billion for debts owed five contractors, and N193 billion as outstanding Export Expansion Grant, EEG claims by 269 companies.
A breakdown of the figure shows that Delta State share of the N102 billion refund is N67.9 billion, while Taraba State will get the balance of N34.3 billion.
Also, of the N43.5 billion contract liabilities, Setraco will get N37.4 billion, Bouygues -N4.6 billion, Simida S and I. International company -N346 million, Hamadala Homes and Agency Ltd -N346 million and LEJMEJ Nigeria Ltd -N960 million.
The Senate approval followed the submission and presentation of the report of its adhoc committee chaired by Senator Francis Alimikhena, APC-Edo Northwhich worked on the executive request.
Presenting the report, Alimikhena said the committee was furnished by justifiable details of all claims submitted by representatives of Delta and Taraba States, beneficiaries of the EEG scheme and the contractors.
The details, according to him, include the Federal Government’s approval through its Ministry of Works for the highway projects executed by the two states.
Others are contract agreements between the state governments and the contractors that handled the projects, and evidence of payments to the contractors.
Also received by the committee, Alimikhena added, were certificates of project completion and evidence of part payments made by various MDAs to the five contractors, among others.
The senator said after exhaustive deliberations on the submissions and presentations, the committee found that the federal highways constructed by the states were in deplorable conditions before the intervention.
He said beneficiaries of the EEG scheme had not been paid since 2007 up to the compilation period in 2016/2017.
“The backlog in disbursement of the EEG claims seriously affected the liquidity strength of most of the companies which has resulted in difficulty of loan repayment and meeting employees obligations.
“Contractors that appeared before the committee justified their claims by presenting all supporting documents including evidence of part payments received”, he said
The committee, therefore, recommended that the president’s request be granted for the settlement of the debts.
Some senators, in their contributions supported the motion for approval of the recommendations.
However, Senator Barnabas Gemade urged the committee to request for evidence of the income earned by the country from the exports claimed to have been promoted by the benefiting companies.
“I believe the item on the exports expansion grant should be reconsidered by the committee because we don’t even know how much income a company asking for N7 billion for exports promoted has brought to the nation.
“We know there is a huge amount of funds around this EEG, and we should not push things unnecessarily”, he said.
But his argument fell on deaf ears as the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who presided at the sitting, put the recommendations to a voice vote and it was approved.
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http://nipmucyouthsoftball.com/News/Id/47582 | 2020-01-25T03:00:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250628549.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20200125011232-20200125040232-00125.warc.gz | 0.937825 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__31369820 | en | Hi NYS Families,
We hope that you all have had a great spring and summer of softball! Each year, the NYS Board manages a year-round softball program for about 130 girls. We organize and run seasons in the spring, summer, and fall. We also organize training clinics in the winter. Managing this program includes developing training programs for the girls, teaching coaches, scheduling & maintaining fields, coordinating schedules with other towns, distributing equipment, ordering uniforms, running the concession stand, raising money, and ensuring we are following the latest safety standards.
Making this all work requires the commitment of the volunteer members of our Board. As we prepare for the 2019-2020 season, we are in need of new volunteers for the Board. Available positions include:
- Fundraising Coordinator.
- Summer & Fall Softball Coordinator.
We could also use help with most other positions, even if it is in an assistant/shadowing role.
Please contact our President, Trevor Calvey ([email protected]) if you would like to volunteer or if you have any questions. Elections for the 2019-2020 season Board positions will be held at our 9/19 meeting (7:00 PM @ Pinz in Milford).
Thank you very much!
The NYS Board | public_administration |
https://www.feadship.nl/news/chinese-government-trade-mission-visits-two-feadship-yards | 2024-02-21T13:22:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00766.warc.gz | 0.967834 | 539 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__197042226 | en | Feadship recently welcomed two high-level Chinese delegations to our Aalsmeer and Amsterdam yards. The senior local government officials and other key representatives from the provinces of Hainan and Zhuhai were on a factfinding mission as the superyacht industry continues to expand in China.
The importance of the close connections between Feadship and China was emphasised during these two keynote meetings, with Feadship having led the way in introducing premium motoryachts to the country. Blue Sky was the first superyacht to be built by a Western shipyard for a client in mainland China in 2013. Several other Feadships have been delivered to owners in this vast country since then.
Presentation and tour
The two visits to Aalsmeer and Amsterdam took place in November and December, where the delegates were met as guests of honour by various Feadship directors. Our dedicated representative for China and the wider Asia region, Rock Wang, made an introductory presentation that ranged from our long history to the latest launches. The visitors also enjoyed seeing the latest Feadship movie and a tour of the facilities, with lots of opportunities to ask questions and increase their expertise.
The Chinese delegates were keen to invite Feadship to visit Hainan and Zhuhai, both of which have a growing maritime industry. The central government plans to make Hainan Island a free trade zone and yachting one of the focuses of its future development. Zhuhai is directly connected to Hong Kong via a new 55-kilometre bridge and home to lots of industries and new buildings.
“The feedback from our guests was overwhelmingly positive,” says Rock. “They all recognise that Feadship is No.1 in the industry and are very impressed that we only build fully custom yachts. The high standards of the yard facilities in terms of issues such as cleanliness and temperature control were of particular interest, as was the fact that the average Feadship worker has 20 years of experience with the company.”
The guests from Hainan provincial government included Deputy Division Chief in the Division of Port Administration, Deputy Secretary-General, Chief Section Member in the Five General Offices, Division Chief in the Frontier Inspection Office, Chief Section Member in the Division of Port Administration and Chief Section Member in the Division of Port Administration).
The delegates from Zhuhai included the Vice Mayor, Director Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Deputy Director Zhuhai Transport Bureau, Administrative Director Zhuhai Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Chairman Advanced Fiber Resources and Director, Pantum – Zhuhai Seine Technology Co. | public_administration |
https://agiprojects.com.au/portfolio_page/townsville-ring-road-section-4/ | 2024-04-14T00:59:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00499.warc.gz | 0.937639 | 394 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__119051584 | en | Townsville Ring Road Stage 4 – The final stage of the Townsville Ring Road is an 11.5km section that will connect the existing Ring Road at Kalynda Chase with the northern suburbs of Townsville. The project will provide four lanes of motorway standard highway improving travel times, flood immunity and congestion.
The project includes construction of a four lane median divide motorway crossing the Bohle plains – with new bridges over Saunders Creek and Stony Creek as well as road overpasses at Shaw Rd off ramp, Dalrymple Road extension and Geaney lane. The project scope includes:
- Construction of two lanes each way with provision for a future four lane upgrade
- Design and construction of bridges over Stony Creeks to improve flood immunity.
- Construction of new motorway overpasses to improve safety and ramp accessibility
- Construction of pedestrian and cycle facilities.
- Construction of intersections to link with Dalrymple Rd, Mount Low Parkway and Veales Rd.
- Installation of new street lighting
- Construction of noise walls
- Construction of drainage and subsurface drainage
- Construction of ancillary works, including safety barriers and new kerbs
- Revegetation and landscaping of exposed new works and of areas disturbed by construction activities.
With major works commencing in the first quarter of 2015, the project was originally expected to be completed by mid- 2017. As a result of exceptional planning and execution of the works by Seymour Whyte, an excellent working relationship with the client and a drier than expected wet season, the project is now 6 months ahead of schedule and will be completed in January 2017.
This has been achieved despite substantial delays to the precast supply. In total delivery dates for deck units and girders were approx. 200 days late. This necessitated constant scheduling and resourcing adjustments to mitigate the delays. | public_administration |
https://juicejusticeandcorgis.com/2021/03/29/ab-1509/ | 2021-04-12T13:35:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038067400.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20210412113508-20210412143508-00379.warc.gz | 0.939306 | 481 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__1105101 | en | Over the next few weeks i’m going to do my best to post updates about amazing pending legislation right now. Today is AB1509 . If passed, this bill reduces 10/20/25yr gun enhancements to 1/2/3 years. Wait what?! and it’s retroactive. and retroactivity isn’t just a hearing for a judge to exercise discretion to say no. it’s like retroactive retroactive. bye gun enhancement CTS retroactive. 🤞🙏following this one closely.
In its beauty:
AB 1509, as introduced, Lee.
Existing law imposes various sentence enhancements, consisting of additional and consecutive terms of imprisonment, including, among others, enhancements for being armed with a firearm during the commission of a felony, being armed with a firearm during the commission of a street gang crime, as defined, being armed with ammunition designed to penetrate armor during the commission of a felony, furnishing a firearm to another for the purpose of aiding, abetting, or enabling that person to commit a felony, using a firearm during the commission of a felony, and the infliction of great bodily injury on any other person during the commission of a felony. This bill would repeal those enhancements and make conforming changes.
Existing law imposes a sentence enhancement in the state prison of 10 years for personally using a firearm in the commission of specified felonies, 20 years for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm in the commission of those felonies, and 25 years to life for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm and causing great bodily injury or death to any other person during the commission of those felonies.This bill would reduce those enhancements to 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively.
Existing law imposes a sentence enhancement of 5, 6, or 10 years in the state prison for, with intent to inflict great bodily injury or death, discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle in the commission of a felony and inflicting great bodily injury or death in the commission of a felony.This bill would reduce that enhancement to 1, 2, or 3 years in the state prison.
This bill would additionally authorize a person serving a term for those provisions as they read on or before December 31, 2021, to petition the court for a recall of sentence and to request resentencing in accordance with these changes. | public_administration |
http://tristarmulticopters.com/industries/law-enforcement/ | 2021-09-18T02:27:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056120.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20210918002951-20210918032951-00506.warc.gz | 0.925864 | 218 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__239538113 | en | A bird’s-eye view of chaotic emergency situations allows police officers to better plan their response, keeping officers and members of the public safer than ever before.
Flying 75 minutes, TriStar drones can hover longer and cover more ground than any other drone on the market to provide life-saving actionable aerial intelligence.
See deeper into the crowd than ever before. Aerial views allow Police to follow suspects into a mass without putting civilians at risk. A drone’s live feed can also help locate people who might need assistance in the crowd and cannot call out for help.
Active Shooter Control:
Send video of active shooter tracking directly to the monitoring device of a member of the intervention team.
Surveillance During an Investigation:
Gain an additional viewpoint for scouting areas that might be difficult or dangerous to access without being seen.
Crime Scene/Traffic Collision Reconstruction:
An aerial view helps officers to quickly create a control plan when dealing with a crime scene or vehicle accidents. It also allows them to get footage from the scene before any changes occur. | public_administration |
https://govotezoe.com/priorities | 2023-06-01T21:35:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648209.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601211701-20230602001701-00400.warc.gz | 0.92192 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__253163962 | en | Social isolation due to COVID exacerbated an existing crisis in mental health. I’ll fight to invest in mental health services, hold health insurance companies accountable for not covering adequate care, and ensure access for youth, adults and seniors.
Young people are suffering from the disruption of their education. I’ll prioritize social-emotional health and vocational technical education. I’ll fight for universal childcare and a curriculum that includes the arts, civics, and financial literacy.
We need to invest in women-owned local businesses and expand access for women to good-paying trade and tech jobs. I’ll secure grants for small businesses, and cut unnecessary government regulations that harm entrepreneurs.
We need to improve police-community relations, focus on crime prevention, and create a safe community for everyone. We need to rein in health care costs, including prescription drug prices.
We need stable rent and affordable homeownership, and to transition unhoused individuals to supportive housing. I’ll secure funds to curb senior property tax increases and provide quality affordable long-term and in-home care.
Our community is at extreme risk of flooding. We need to keep the Merrimack River clean, hold polluters accountable, and electrify our buildings. I’ll work to make LRTA bus service fare-free and expand hours and frequency to save money and create good-paying jobs. | public_administration |
http://co.gregg.tx.us/beer-liquor-permits | 2017-04-24T23:13:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119995.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00166-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.929592 | 260 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__87458093 | en | The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) requires alcoholic beverage manufacturers, distributors, retailers, etc. to apply for licenses and permits before they may operate in the State of Texas. TABC is required to charge a license fee and surcharge for each place of business that manufactures, imports or sells beer.
These fees were previously collected at the County Tax Assessor's office in which the licensed premises were located. Due to recent changes passed by the 83rd Legislature (SB 1035), TABC will now collect these fees and surcharges. Effective February 1, 2014, all renewal fees and surcharges for the State should be submitted to the commission.
The fees shown on the application are State of Texas fees only. You will also be required to pay Gregg County fees for these licenses and permits. After the State issues a new license or does a renewal of an existing license or permit, a statement will be mailed by Gregg County for the County fees. These statements are due upon receipt.
Your best resource when applying for a new license or permit is your local TABC office.
Local TABC offices can be found on the TABC website: (http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/contact_us/local_field_office.asp). | public_administration |
https://www.ease.gr/events/ekdiloseis-43.htm?lang=el&path=875819448 | 2022-12-02T20:10:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710916.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202183117-20221202213117-00347.warc.gz | 0.958725 | 241 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__4267783 | en | Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Earn your leadership every day.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
John J Pershing
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. | public_administration |
https://www.kiww.org/fairContents.do?FAIRMENU_IDX=6429&hl=ENG | 2019-05-24T18:05:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257699.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524164533-20190524190533-00130.warc.gz | 0.889819 | 481 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__68162993 | en | 11th Water Business Forum
The Water Business Forum (WBF) is particularly designed for providing a unique multi-stakeholder platform of all relevant authorities including governments, public and private sectors. Exploring practical solutions of the world's most pressing water challenges, WBF creates a window of new business opportunities to achieve sustainable development and management of water, foster public-private dialogues as well as catalyze win-win partnerships and alliances in the water sector.
Water-related Governments, Local authorities, Public and Private sectors, Academia, International Organizations, Multilateral Development Banks(MDBs), etc.
|Host||Ministry of Environment|
|Organizer||Korea Water Forum|
|Participants||About 150 participants from water-related governments, local authorities, public and Private sectors, academia, MDBs, etc.|
1. To offer networking opportunities of the key decision makers in the global
2. To share up-to-date information of cutting-edge technologies, business
and financing opportunities
3. To foster partnerships across the global, regional, national and local levels
KIWW2017 Previous Outcome
The 8th Water Business Forum was convened by the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Water Forum. The two-day forum brought together numerous government officials from ministries in the area of water, finance and development cooperation, 10 public and private sectors, 5 Multilateral Development Banks(MDBs) as well as other international organizations. Sharing the information on upcoming and ongoing projects from over 20 countries, the forum provided strong impetus for cooperation in international business, project implementation and sustainability in water development and management. It provided a solid platform for business opportunities of (1)Water Supply and Sewerage, (2)Water Resources Planning, (3)Hydropower and Desalination (4)Integrated Water Resource Management, (5) MDB Project.
KIWW2016 Previous Outcome
The 5th Water Business Forum was held with the overall theme ‘Water Partnership for Sustainable Development’. The two-day forum brought together a large number of 52delegates from 18 countries including Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Etc. A salient feature of the forum was there engagements on desalination and smart water management, which created a solid platform for sustainable partnership between Korea and other countries. | public_administration |
http://woodburyheritage.org/woodbury-street-name-history/8/ | 2018-06-20T12:55:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863519.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620124346-20180620144346-00366.warc.gz | 0.878026 | 260 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__185017739 | en | City of Woodbury Street Naming Policy
1. Street names must not duplicate or be similar to existing street names.
2. Street names within developments should maintain a common theme, i.e. names of states, flowers, presidents, etc.
3. East and West streets must be roads. North and South streets must be drives. Meandering streets may be Boulevard, Curve, Lane, Trail, Way, etc.
4. Streets with the same name must be continuous from beginning to end. Exceptions to this rule may be made when roads are planned to be continuous as future development occurs.
5. Streets that extend more than one-half of a circle must be given two street names. (To allow for proper addressing)
6. Cul de sac names will be the same as the street from which it is extended with a typical cul de sac name extension. Typical cul de sac name extensions are Alcove, Bay, Circle, Court, Draw, Echo, Place, Plaza, Ridge, and View, Consecutive cul de sacs will have name extensions in alphabetical order beginning at the most northerly or westerly cul de sac.
7. With the exception of cul de sacs, duplicate street names with different extensions are not allowed. | public_administration |
https://outdooreconomy.org/speaker/amy-allison-2/ | 2021-04-19T16:25:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038887646.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210419142428-20210419172428-00439.warc.gz | 0.95004 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__146735480 | en | Director, NC Outdoor Recreation Industry Office
Amy Allison is the Director of North Carolina’s Outdoor Recreation Industry Office, a division of the Economic Development Partnership of NC (EDPNC). Allison is responsible for growing and supporting the outdoor recreation economy at the state level through collaboration with existing outdoor businesses, local governments, and communities who rely on a richly diverse outdoor recreation landscape. The office advocates for conservation and stewardship, education and workforce training, economic development, and public health and wellness, to ensure the state’s strategic growth as a place where outdoor businesses and recreation communities can thrive. Before joining EDPNC, Allison was the marketing director for Eagles Nest Outfitters (ENO) in Asheville, NC. Allison is a co-founder of the Outdoor Gear Builders of WNC and is on the advisory council of the Growing Outdoors Partnership, which includes more than a dozen nonprofits, businesses, academic institutions, and government agencies working to expand the outdoor industry across 25 counties in Western North Carolina. | public_administration |
https://shipitzero.org/l-a-city-council-adopts-shipping-resolution/ | 2024-04-15T07:33:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816942.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415045222-20240415075222-00159.warc.gz | 0.913423 | 536 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__145647394 | en | LOS ANGELES — Today, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to adopt Councilmember Nithya Raman’s resolution (Council File 21-0002-S175) calling on Los Angeles’ top maritime importers to commit to making all port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex, which includes the Port of Los Angeles, on 100% zero-emissions ships by 2030. The resolution also requires support for legislation or administrative action to rapidly decarbonize the maritime shipping industry and to create zero-emission shipping corridors along the California coast, the West Coast of the United States, and across the trans-Pacific trade route.
The international shipping industry’s pollution is on the rise and is expected to comprise 17% of global carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 without urgent action. As home to the largest port in the nation, Los Angeles receives 40% of all containerized cargo imports to the United States coming through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, making the surrounding communities – which are primarily communities of color – particularly vulnerable to harmful pollutants. Los Angeles and Long Beach port-adjacent communities experience up to eight years lower life expectancy than the Los Angeles County average and the highest risk of cancer regionally.
“The unseen consequences of allowing the shipping industry to continue operating as is, should give us all pause,” said Councilmember Raman. “Communities living near ports are suffering from higher rates of childhood asthma, cancer, and more. In fact, ship pollution contributes to an estimated 1,300 premature deaths annually in Los Angeles and Long Beach alone. These numbers are simply unacceptable, and this resolution is a first step towards acknowledging that we must do everything in our power to create healthy, breathable port communities.”
“For months now, over 100 fossil-fueled cargo container ships have been idling off the shores of the San Pedro Bay Ports, polluting the communities of San Pedro, Wilmington, and West Long Beach with elevated levels of cancer-causing air pollution,” said Dawny’all Heydari, Ship It Zero Campaign Lead, Pacific Environment. “By calling for 100% zero-emissions shipping at the Port of Los Angeles this decade, Los Angeles City Council is taking a historic stand for the health, dignity, and longevity of Angelenos who live near ports. Now, Walmart, Target, Amazon, IKEA, and other top import polluters must respond with plans to immediately decarbonize their maritime shipping at the Port of Los Angeles.”
Los Angeles is the first city in the U.S. to adopt such a resolution. | public_administration |
https://sunbugsolar.com/homeowners/costs-benefits/smart | 2023-02-03T19:30:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500074.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203185547-20230203215547-00714.warc.gz | 0.921109 | 420 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__227033122 | en | The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER), manages the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) Program which offers an additional compensation for solar energy production on top of electricity savings.
The SMART program promotes solar in the commonwealth through a per-kilowatt-hour (kWh) solar compensation rate for solar system owners. The rate of compensation is determined by several factors, and is paid directly from the utility to the system owner. Residential-scale systems (systems under 25 kW AC capacity) participate for 10 years from system installation, and receive the highest compensation rates within the SMART program.
SMART is a declining block program with separate compensation rates for customers in each of the three investor-owned utilities — Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil. A system owner's 10 year compensation rate is set at the time of installation based upon the utility and the current program block.
Municipal utilities participate in SMART in a different way. Homeowners served by a municipal utility, such as residents of Wellesley or Westfield, get their SMART compensation up-front at time of installation in the form of a one-time rebate. Rebate levels vary depending on the utility.
In the initial blocks of SMART, rates vary from about $.10 per kWh to almost $.15 per kWh in the under 25 kW, residential-scale size category. Rates for low income utility customers are slightly higher.
A well-sited residential 5 kilowatt (5 kW) PV system will generate approximately 6,000 kilowatt hours annually in MA. In Eversource East, that homeowner will save approximately $1400 a year in electricity costs, and earn another $900 a year in SMART compensation. Combined with federal and state tax credits, the utility saving and SMART compensation deliver 6 to 8 year paybacks for many homeowners.
To learn more about solar for your home, contact us to request a free solar assessment.
Eastern MA 617-500-3938
Western MA 413-884-1000 | public_administration |
https://www.meridian.coop/sedcs-2018-national-cyber-security-awareness-month-ncsam-social-media-kit-for-utilities/ | 2024-03-04T08:53:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476432.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304065639-20240304095639-00242.warc.gz | 0.951312 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__90975297 | en | National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) is observed every October with the goal of making the cyber world a safer place for everyone. We’re all responsible for the safety and integrity of the internet, and we’ve made a pledge to help educate others about safe browsing practices and cyber awareness in general.
Each year our CRI Team puts together a Social Media Kit to help utilities promote cybersecurity to their customers and members through social media channels. We craft suggested posts and create attention-grabbing graphics for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn for each week in October. We also create an original educational (and entertaining!) video to share each week.
The Social Media Kit is available to every utility free of charge, because we believe that cybersecurity really is “Our Shared Responsibility.”
We’d love to share the Kit with you. If you or someone at your utility would like a copy of the Social Media Kit, including all of the posts, graphics, and videos, please let us know through our Contact page.
Preview the video for Week 4 – October 22-26:
Preview the video for Week 3 – October 15-19:
Preview the video for Week 2 – October 8-12:
Preview the video for Week 1 – October 1-5:
If you or someone at your utility would like a copy of the Social Media Kit, including all of the posts, graphics, and videos, please let us know through our Contact page. | public_administration |
https://19thcircuitcourt.state.il.us/1421/Mortgage-Foreclosure-Mediation-Program | 2021-12-09T13:02:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964364169.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20211209122503-20211209152503-00538.warc.gz | 0.952845 | 225 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__124402125 | en | The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Lake County is pleased to announce FREE housing counseling and mediation services. You may be able to save your home!
Help Save Your Home
If you are a homeowner of residential real estate and a mortgage foreclosure case was filed against you on or after December 2, 2013, you may be eligible to participate. If you are a homeowner who missed deadlines or whose case was filed before December 2, 2013, you may ask a judge to refer you to our program if you meet certain criteria.
To participate, you must call 847-377-3552 within 42 days of receiving a summons and complaint to discuss eligibility and to schedule a housing counseling appointment.
In mediation, a neutral, court-appointed mediator will facilitate discussion to help you and your lender reach a meaningful solution. These free services are offered by the Lake County Courts with support from Resolution Systems Institute, a nonprofit organization. Housing counseling services are provided by the following nonprofit, HUD-certified agencies: the Affordable Housing Corporation of Lake County, Catholic Charities Lake County, and Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Northern Illinois. | public_administration |
https://marcoansaldo.com/draghi-calling-erdogan-dictator-to-go-down-as-historic-remark-veteran-italian-journalist-ahval/ | 2023-12-11T13:00:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679511159.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211112008-20231211142008-00681.warc.gz | 0.976964 | 442 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__52675645 | en | Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a “dictator” during a press conference on Thursday “will be remembered as a historic remark”, said Marco Ansaldo, a veteran journalist from the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
The Italian premier said out loud what many politicians in Europe and elsewhere think, according to Ansaldo.
Draghi said Erdoğan was among “these dictators, which we however need to cooperate with”, in response to a question on the treatment of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen earlier in the week during a meeting with the Turkish president.
Von der Leyen was seated at a sofa, as was Turkey’s foreign minister, while European Council President Charles Michel sat with Erdoğan in a separate group of chairs as the leaders spoke to the press after a meeting in the Turkish capital, positioning the male leaders above her in terms of protocol.
Ansaldo, staff correspondent at La Repubblica, told Ahval editor-in-chief Yavuz Baydar in a podcast that Draghi calling Erdoğan a dictator was as shocking to Italy as it was for Turkey.
The Italian Foreign Ministry didn’t know such comments would be made beforehand, Ansaldo said, and now they will likely issue a retraction for Draghi in response to Turkish fury.
Turkey’s Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun condemned Draghi’s remarks, and said they had been over the Italian premier’s head. Altun also urged Draghi, pointing out that he was not elected to his current seat, to “look into Italian history” to find dictators.
The situation isn’t all bad for Draghi, who was brought in as prime minister in February to bring Italy out of the crisis exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, Ansaldo said. Far from it, the appointed leader of Italy had garnered much praise since the press conference, for expressing what people were thinking, according to the journalist.
The incident will likely not turn into a full-scale crisis between the two countries, Ansaldo said. | public_administration |
https://dynamicservicedog.com/consultation-new-2-2/ | 2023-09-28T11:45:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510387.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928095004-20230928125004-00851.warc.gz | 0.965723 | 184 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__261077870 | en | The federal statute, the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), mandates access to dogs in all public places— including schools and business avenues. The ADA secures entrance for all services that a person with a disability uses to help that person broaden his or her independence. The ADA is clear that the premises must allow the service animals to enter and have sufficient access to the facility, but the facilities are not responsible for the handling of the dog. The service animal must be under handler supervision. The trainer, in most situations, is the person that the dog was trained to support. In certain circumstances, the handler is the parent or guardian who has been qualified to teach the dog and use it to help alleviate aspects of the child’s condition, usually for children under the age of 14. Having a service dog requires keeping the dog leashed and harnessed and making sure that its conduct is acceptable for all public settings. | public_administration |
https://www.bostonindicators.org/reports/report-website-pages/covid_indicators-x2/2021/april/latinx_impact | 2022-05-28T14:53:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663016853.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220528123744-20220528153744-00417.warc.gz | 0.959547 | 2,747 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__19583535 | en | Trevor Mattos, Boston Indicators
Bansari Kamdar, Phillip Granberry and Fabian Torres-Ardila, The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
May 10, 2021
This article appeared in a recent issue of the MassBenchmarks Journal, a publication of the University of Massachusetts in cooperation with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Back before the COVID-19 crisis hit and the economy was relatively strong in the aggregate, Massachusetts’ Latinx population—a diverse and growing community that makes valuable economic and cultural contributions—had the lowest incomes and lowest homeownership rate among racial/ethnic groups in Massachusetts.i Latinx working-age adults tended to have lower levels of educational attainment and were more likely to have limited English language proficiency. These, in part, contributed to higher levels of unemployment and food insecurity before the pandemic.1 Then the COVID crisis hit in March of 2020, serving to compound many of these pre-existing challenges, as Latinx workers were more likely to work in restaurant and hospitality jobs that faced severe layoffs and greater exposure to the virus. To make matters worse, cities with large Latinx populations also experienced higher rates of COVID-19 transmission.2
While both state and federal lawmakers took wide-ranging action to aid struggling families early in the pandemic, policy interventions did not offer a panacea. Latinx families with undocumented workers, for example, were most likely to be ineligible for government supports. In what follows, we explore the disproportionate social and economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Latinx population and model one specific policy approach to help foster a more equitable economic recovery—a guaranteed income for Massachusetts. As many struggle to buy groceries, pay rent, or afford other necessities, there is no perfect policy solution. But one promising strategy to bolster economic security in tough times is to give families direct cash assistance. This approach is well suited to the COVID crisis, where other social supports haven’t been enough, and to meeting the needs of the Latinx population, which has been hit especially hard. Cash assistance also treats recipients with dignity and offers flexibility by empowering them to choose for themselves how to allocate their resources.
While unemployment jumped for all racial and ethnic groups during the pandemic, it increased most among Latinx workers. Massachusetts had record low unemployment at the start of 2020, but the virus spread quickly, leading Governor Charlie Baker to declare a state of emergency on March 10, 2020. Restrictions on businesses that were critical to slow the spread of the virus led to many layoffs and an overall unemployment rate of 15.7 percent in the second quarter—at the time, among the highest in the country. For Latinx workers, many of whom work in hospitality and food services jobs vulnerable to the new restrictions on businesses, the unemployment rate spiked to an estimated 27.9 percent.ii
In response to high rates of unemployment, the U.S. Congress took measures to provide aid to struggling households. Government assistance was initially robust but lapsed for several months, and it did not reach everyone in need. Provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act enacted in March 2020 extended unemployment benefits, expanded eligibility and increased weekly payouts significantly.3 However, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, which added an extra $600 to weekly payments, expired in July 2020. Later supplements to unemployment assistance took time to come and were less generous. What’s more, undocumented workers, including those who pay taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, were ineligible to receive any assistance. With the majority of Massachusetts’ estimated 215,000 undocumented immigrants being of Latin American or Caribbean origins, Latinx workers were most likely to have lost jobs and not qualified for any form of government relief.4
The pandemic posed challenges for everyone’s mental health, especially those in Latinx communities in the aftermath of the first rise in COVID-19 cases. Before the pandemic, members of Massachusetts’ Latinx population were less likely to report their mental health struggles than White respondents, according to findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.5 But the virus and the economic crisis multiplied the share of the entire population coping with depression and anxiety and disproportionately impacted Latinx communities.iii
In the face of increased need for mental health services, the state government, at times in conjunction with the federal government, took important steps to boost capacity and access to services. These actions increased telehealth services’ availability by providing temporary emergency licenses to out-of-state clinicians and mandating commercial insurers to cover telehealth services.6 The state also instituted changes to prevent the termination of Medicaid coverage during the national emergency.
Food insecurity doubled overall in Massachusetts during the pandemic, with Latinx and Black households having struggled the most. Even before the pandemic, nearly one in four Latinx households displayed low or very low food security—three times the state average and more than double the rate of other racial groups.iv With the onset of the pandemic, all racial/ethnic groups experienced sharp upticks in food insecurity, but rates for White and Asian households were roughly half those of Black and Latinx households.
In response to the rapid rise in food insecurity following the first COVID-19 surge in early 2020, the government implemented new policies that helped some but did not reach everyone. Among the new policies were Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) and increased flexibility in SNAP (and higher SNAP benefits for most, but not all),v WIC, and school nutrition programs. Massachusetts was one of the first states to launch a P-EBT program, a federal program that reduces food hardship among low-income families with children by providing a voucher to compensate for school meals missed during remote learning. But some Latinx households—especially mixed status and immigrant households—may have endured higher rates of food insecurity as a result of being ineligible (an estimated 132,000 undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts from Latin America or the Caribbean7 are ineligible for government assistance) or hesitant to access SNAP or other supports due to the potential risk to their immigration status.vi
Housing instability increased most for Latinx and Black households after COVID first spiked in Massachusetts, and eviction filings increased as protections and income supports began to phase out. Before the pandemic, almost one in three Latinx households was paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing, a common threshold for being considered “housing cost burdened.” Alongside Black households, the Latinx population had the highest housing cost burden in Massachusetts preceding the crisis. Then, the subsequent jobs and income losses caused by the pandemic made it much more difficult for many families to pay for housing. During the early months of the pandemic, Latinx and Black households were roughly two times more likely than White or Asian households to have missed the previous month’s rent or mortgage payment.
With the risk of an eviction crisis on the horizon, the Massachusetts state legislature created special protections for households struggling to pay for housing, but they expired too soon. Relatively early in the pandemic, the state enacted one of the most comprehensive eviction bans; alongside pausing all eviction-related court proceedings, the state stopped late fees, and negative credit reporting. When the moratorium expired in October 2020, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) instituted a national eviction moratorium until December 31, 2020. However, an important difference in the policies is that the CDC rule allowed landlords to initiate eviction filings (but just not actually evict tenants until 2021). Preliminary evidence revealed that shortly after the expiration of state protections, eviction filings began to increase.8
While there’s no assessment data to date on the direct academic impacts of the pandemic, surveys of families with school-aged children showed some troubling trends.9,10 Taken together they suggest real concern about the quality of academic and socio-emotional supports that many students received in 2020, especially since so many Massachusetts students are attending school either fully or partially online. Here are some key takeaways from the surveysvii:
Even though Congress passed important legislation to aid in the recovery, the depth of the economic fallout from the pandemic makes it likely that the effects of the crisis will outlast federal interventions, especially in less advantaged communities. As this would only serve to deepen the economic inequality that predated COVID-19, we in Massachusetts ought to consider ambitious policy strategies that can make a difference for struggling families. Here we focus on one specific policy idea that would simultaneously help Massachusetts residents weather the current economic downturn and have greater economic security in the years ahead: A Guaranteed Income for Massachusetts.11 It would be available to all low- and moderate-income families, but because Latinx families are more likely to be lower-income, a policy like this would direct a proportionately larger share of resources to them. The principle behind a guaranteed income is that in higher-income places like Massachusetts, we should at least be able to ensure that everyone can attain a basic standard of living. One of the best ways to do so is through direct cash assistance because it is flexible and allows families to choose for themselves how best to allocate their resources. Versions of this idea have emerged in various forms across the country, including Chelsea, Massachusetts, which introduced an ambitious new program in November 2020.12 Implementing a guaranteed income program on a larger scale could do a lot to help drive an inclusive recovery from the current crisis and recalibrate our economy going forward.
One approach to building a guaranteed income program in Massachusetts is to enhance the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) so that it covers more families and delivers larger cash benefits. The current EITC is a refundable tax credit given to low- and moderate-income working families, and it is recognized as an effective anti-poverty program. Even still, its current structure is modest and leaves many families out. The state’s credit complements the federal credit, currently matching 30 percent of the federal credit.ix The EITC’s structure (represented by the graph below) works to increase benefit levels along with household income up to a maximum credit range, which then phases back down as households approach around $50,000 in annual income, depending on household size. So households with no income receive no EITC; those with very low incomes receive next to nothing; and households with moderate incomes also receive very little. By implementing a suite of five reforms to the state EITC, we could make it so that every family earning up to $70,000 receives a minimum of $1,200 per year, and often much more. Support for this approach seems to be growing, as evidenced by a new EITC overhaul bill State Senator Jamie Eldridge filed in January 2021, which mirrors many of the provisions we outline below.13
Here are five reforms that if implemented together would help move the state EITC toward creating a minimum guaranteed income for Massachusetts:
The overhauled EITC would create a minimum guaranteed income and increase economic security across Massachusetts. It would double the number of recipients and double the average dollar amount distributed to recipients. Low-income households would receive more than half of all cash assistance directed through the credit and a plurality of recipients would be people of color. Note that while taking these key steps to reform the state EITC would provide critical, regular cash support to many, it still only goes part way to providing a truly guaranteed minimum standard of living for all. A transformation of that scale would likely require federal leadership, but these local reforms could inspire nationwide uptake of the idea, and get Massachusetts out in front of the problem.
The reformed credit would be well targeted to benefit Latinx and Black households in particular since they tend to have lower incomes than other racial groups in Massachusetts. For example, the Latinx share of the state population is 12 percent, but this group would make up 20 percent of recipients. By contrast, 71 percent of Massachusetts residents identify as non-Latinx White, but they tend to have higher incomes and so a relatively smaller share would benefit from the reformed EITC.
Of course, the reforms would require additional state revenues—about $1 billion more per year. How we raise the revenue to fund the expanded EITC could either reinforce our objective of greater economic and racial equity or work against it. This is because state and local taxes in Massachusetts currently place a greater tax burden on lower-income individuals and households. It is crucial to fund EITC expansions by raising progressive revenues to avoid reinforcing the existing regressive tax structure.
Three primary avenues ensure that new revenues are raised from those with the greatest means: 1) personal income taxes, 2) wealth taxes, 3) corporate taxes. While raising the $1 billion needed to fund expansions to the state EITC seems like a tall order, it is important to keep it in perspective. The state currently affords corporations more than $1 billion each year in special business tax breaks (e.g., tax breaks for mutual funds). The question is not whether we have the resources to create more economic security for lower-income families in Massachusetts; it is whether we have the political will and resolve to do so. With the complex social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, a guaranteed income for Massachusetts could be an important part of an inclusive recovery strategy and a rebalancing of the economy in the years to come. | public_administration |
https://mutual-mediation.co.uk/family-law/ | 2021-09-19T02:18:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056656.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20210919005057-20210919035057-00560.warc.gz | 0.935137 | 376 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__233355075 | en | Under section 10(1) of the Children and Families Act 2014, it is now a requirement for a person to attend a MIAM before making certain kinds of applications to obtain a court order. The person who would be the respondent to the application is expected to attend the MIAM. The court has a general power to adjourn proceedings in order for non-court dispute resolution to be attempted, including attendance at a MIAM to consider family mediation and other options.
The effect of the MIAM requirement and accompanying Rules is that a person who wishes to make certain kinds of applications to the court must first attend a MIAM unless a ‘MIAM exemption’ or a ‘mediator’s exemption’ applies.
When making certain kinds of applications, an applicant must therefore provide on the application form, or on a separate form, one of the following –
- confirmation from a mediator that she or he has attended a MIAM;
- confirmation from a mediator that a ‘mediator’s exemption’ applies; or
- a claim that a MIAM exemption applies. An applicant who claims an exemption from the MIAM requirement is not required to attach any supporting evidence with their application, but should bring any supporting evidence to the first hearing.
If an applicant claims a MIAM exemption, the court will issue proceedings but will inquire into the exemption claimed, either at the stage at which the case is allocated or at the first hearing. At the first hearing, the court may review any supporting evidence in order to ensure that the MIAM exemption was validly claimed. As set out in more detail below, if a MIAM exemption has not been validly claimed, the court may direct the applicant or the parties to attend a MIAM, and may adjourn proceedings for that purpose.
More information can be found here. | public_administration |
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Most hospitals have staff and consultants who screen indigent patients for Medicaid eligibility, a process that appears fairly straight-forward. If the patient meets income/asset and disability threshold requirements the Medicaid application is filed, and once approved, the hospital may bill Medicaid for services.
However, many people, especially in non-expansion Medicaid states, are not eligible for this program unless they first qualify for SSI (Supplemental Security Income). For Social Security to award this benefit, the patient must demonstrate limited income and resources as well as a finding of severe disability. In some circumstances, the associated Medicaid can be retro-active for up to three months prior to the month of application. What seemed straight forward may become complex given the many variables.
Alternatives Exist – SSDI
HRS specialists know disabled patients with a significant work history, but who exceed the poverty guidelines for SSI, may qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) also known as “Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Benefits”. This federal program has
• the same complex disability requirements as SSI, but has no income or assets thresholds.
• Rather than assets, past work history and payroll taxes are evaluated.
• Benefits start five months after the date the patient could no longer work (which can be retro-active) and
• Medicare starts 24 months after the first SSDI benefit check.
In some states a number of SSDI beneficiaries also qualify for Medicaid.
The Keys to a Successful Disability Advocacy Program
1. Early and comprehensive identification of uninsured, disabled patients who demonstrate a “severe” medical condition which Social Security will determine to preclude “substantial gainful employment”. Additionally, the condition must be expected to last at least 12 months or result in death.
2. Accurate and complete case management of the disability claim through all necessary stages of the adjudication. HRS intervention entails:
a) Provision of short training sessions for hospital case management staff to facilitate their referral of appropriate cases.
b) Use HRS Clinical Data Analytics to screen a daily feed of all self-pay patients. Using certain clinical data, the software will identify patients with potential disability.
c) Onsite Disability Case Managers personally screen those computer selected individuals and initiate the disability process.
d) Offsite Disability Managers follow up with appropriate patients who have already been discharged.
e) Patients actively being worked for Medicaid by Eligibility Services will be screened out
f) HRS staff assists viable candidates with accurate completion of all forms and interviews with SSA.
g) Our staff submits all necessary medical evidence to Social Security
h) As Appointed Representative our staff advocates on patient’s behalf in all subsequent writings, appeals and hearings
i) We track all cases and report monthly to the facility to provide data for prompt billing of Medicaid and Medicare.
Professionals provide valuable interface throughout these many steps working toward a positive outcome that otherwise may not occur.
Transform Bad Debt to Medicaid & Medicare Payments, Increase DSH and Reduce Readmissions.
Hospitals benefit from Disability Advocacy enrollment in several ways:
• where the hospital once collected pennies on the dollar for Bad Debt, they may now bill Medicaid and eventually Medicare for services
• incremental “Eligible Days” enhance DSH math, increasing DSH payments or possibly meeting the DSH and/or 340B thresholds
• reducing re-admissions, lowering ACA penalties
• increased physician reimbursement
• complimenting existing community service initiatives
Patients Afforded Meaningful Health Coverage and Income
The low-income uninsured can be heavy users of hospital services. Unable to afford preventative care and medications, these patients tend not to fill prescriptions they can’t afford, may fail to follow medical regimes, and ultimately find themselves back in the ER…over and over again.
But once enrolled in SSI/SSDI and provided coverage, these patients begin to find their footing, and become healthier relying on the primary care physician and not the
hospital ER as a last resort. While the process can exceed over 600 days if the case requires a hearing, most successful SSI disability applicants begin receiving their retro-active payments within 4 to 6 months at the full Federal Benefit Rate (currently
$750. A month)
Candidates Are Not Charged for Services and Client Fees Are Contingent Upon Net Gain by the Provider.
Lawyers typically charge up to $6,000 for preparing disability applications, consulting and representation at hearings/challenges to the application. HRS charges the candidate no fee of any kind, with no upfront cost to provider. Hospital Fees for HRS Disability Advocacy services are based upon increased Medicare/Medicaid payments plus increased DSH or LIP. All this with little or no disruption to on-going hospital operations.
Ask Us for Your Network/Hospital SSI/SSDI Revenue Projections.
We are readily available to meet with your management team to discuss the program in more detail. Our Disability Advocacy enrollment experience provides performance metrics enabling us to forecast revenue for your organization. Financial templates, with an experiential foundation, reflect incremental Medicaid and Medicare revenue by Year 3, based on 2017 Cost Reports for ACA Medicaid Non-Expansion States. Projections can include ratio of incremental Disability Revenue to DRG.
Orientation toward Action
Given recent experiences, our process is well defined
• 1 week with Technology specialists
• HRS Case Workers in Place
• Coordinate with Screeners
• HRS CRM tracks pipeline
• 3 to 6 months begin billing CMS
For more information, contact us: [email protected] | public_administration |
https://internupdate.co.za/457 | 2022-05-27T11:58:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662647086.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220527112418-20220527142418-00557.warc.gz | 0.878871 | 1,410 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__165518323 | en | (SAQA) South African Qualifications Authority Profile
The South African Qualifications Authority, or simply shortened to SAQA, is a national establishment that is responsible for overseeing the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). Based in Pretoria, SAQA is an education management body that commits themselves to the development of young society. This is done by ensuring that there is a concrete set of policies that educational institutes abide to. SAQA conducts several activities to strengthen the NQF, such as researching current educational trends, providing advisory services, as well as registering and verifying qualifications. Through their efforts, SAQA is able to create an integrated system that promotes the potential of South Africa’s current and future learners.
About (SAQA) South African Qualifications Authority Internships 2021-2022
The South African Qualifications Authority is offering internship programme for dedicated individuals who wish to experience the national Education Management Industry. Conducted in the area of Preotria, the SAQA Internships takes place over the course of 12 months. Throughout the entire period, selected interns are able to experience a real-time working environment and understand what it takes to properly establish the country’s National Qualifications Framework. If you would like to be a part of an establishment that plays a crucial role in the national development of youths, this opportunity is the right choice for you.
The SAQA Internships are offered specifically for unemployed graduates. Upon successful appointment as an intern, participants will be entitled to an annual stiped that ranges from R40 000-R60 000 each year. In addition, candidates must be pursuing any one of these mentioned study courses below:
- Finance and Administration (Diploma/Degree in Accounting and/or Finance (NQF level 6 or 7))
- Information Management (Diploma/Degree in Information Management and/ or
- Communications (NQF level 6 or 7))
- Evaluation of Foreign Qualifications (Office Administration) (Degree in
- Information Management, Communications (NQF level 7))
- Advocacy, Communication and Support (Degree in Information Management, ICT Media or related fields (NQF level 7))
- Public Admin (Diploma/Degree in Public Administration (NQF Level 6 or 7))
- Knowledge Management (Degree in knowledge management or information management (NQF level 7))
- Marketing Communication (Degree in Communication, Marketing, Public Relations (NQF Level 7))
- IT Support (Degree in Information Management, ICT Media and related fields (NQF level 7))
- Verifications (Degree in Information Management or equivalent (NQF Level 7))
- National Learners Record Database (Degree in Information Management and / or Computer Science and / or Statistics (NQF Level 7))
- Business Admin (Degree in Humanities (Business Administration) (NQF level 7))
- Evaluation of Foreign Qualifications (Verification) (Degree in Communication, Marketing, Public Relations (NQF 7))
- Supply Chain Management (Diploma/ Degree in Supply Chain Management and/or Logistics/ Public Administration/ Finance (NQF level 6 or 7))
- IT (Degree in Information Technology (NQF Level 7))
- Junior Technician (Diploma/Degree Information Technology (NQF Level 6 or 7))
- Office Administrator (Degree in Business Administration (NQF level 7))
- Marketing/PR (Diploma/Degree in Communication, Marketing and/ or Public Relations (NQF level 6 or 7))
- Cash Book (Degree in Accounting/Finance (NQF level 7))
- Registration and Recognition
- Education (Degree in Humanities (e.g. Education, Language (NQF level 7))
- Human Resource (Degree in Human Resource Management (NQF level 7))
- Communications (Degree (NQF level 7 or 8) Must have the ability to write well in English)
- Evaluation of Foreign Qualifications (Contact Centre) (Degree in Education, Social Sciences(NQF 7))
- Data Analysis (Degree in Information Management and/or Statistics (NQF level 7))
- Statistics (Degree in Information Management and/or Statistics (NQF level 7))
- Research (Masters Degree in Education or related field (NQF level 9 ))
- Administration (Diploma/Degree in an area of administration (NQF Level 6 or 7).)
(SAQA) South African Qualifications Authority Internship Requirements
In order to apply for the SAQA Internships, candidates must fulfill the eligibility criteria of programme they are applying for. Each internship position has differing qualifications that must be met. All of these requirements must be met if you wish to guarantee a level of success with your application procedure.
Additionally, lease be kindly informed that SAQA will be offering preference towards individuals originating from different backgrounds. Equal opportunities are typically provided towards candidates from several races, disabilities, and genders. If you consider yourself to be from any one of these designated groups, you are more than welcome to register for the SAQA Internships.
How to Apply (SAQA) South African Qualifications Authority Internship 2021-2022
Interested in the Education Management Industry? It is now time to register for the SAQA Internships. First off, all candidates must access the Official SAQA E-Recruitment Portal. Once you have reached the page, you will need to see whether your desired internship is accepting applications at the moment or not. This is due to the fact that the availability status of each opportunity differs from one time to another. If it is available right now, you can directly register for the programme on the same website. However, if it is closed for now, do not get discouraged. You can simply come back any time in the future to check out for new opening updates.
(SAQA) South African Qualifications Authority Contact Details
1067 Arcadia Street, Hatfield
Postnet Suite 248
Private Bag X06
Phone: +27 86 011 1673
Facsimile: +27 12 431 5147
E-mail: [email protected]
Reference: (SAQA) South African Qualifications Authority; Author: Larxsati; Editor: Melisa; Image: saqa.org.za. | public_administration |
https://culvercrestna.org/category/meetings/ | 2018-08-17T20:52:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221212910.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817202237-20180817222237-00030.warc.gz | 0.884953 | 947 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__200914203 | en | The next General Meeting of the Culver Crest Neighborhood Association will be at 7pm at the El Rincon Elementary Cafetorium. Agenda items include:
- Neighborhood Watch / CCPD – Lt. Troy Dunlap
- West Los Angeles College
- Oil Fields – Amanda Parsons, Sentinel Peak Ombudsperson
- Coyotes – CC Animal Control Officer Corolla Fleeger and Lt. Troy Dunlap to present on latest coyote threats
- Road Repaving Status
- General Issues
Note that another meeting is taking place in the cafetorium that is scheduled to end right before our meeting.
CCNA General Meeting
Tuesday June 12, 2018, 7pm
El Rincon Elementary Cafetorium
The Culver Crest Neighborhood Association is pleased to announce its 2018 Culver City Council Candidates Forum. All four candidates running for the two available City Council seats will be participating.
Culver Crest Neighborhood Association Candidates Forum
Wednesday February 21, 2018 @ 7:00pm
El Rincon Elementary School Cafetorium
11177 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90230
Multiple questions will be asked of all four candidates in this forum and each candidate will have a fixed amount of time to respond. We will be asking questions relating to issues that are important to residents of Culver City and Culver Crest, including issues on oil fields, West Los Angeles College, Traffic, Development, Schools, City Government, LAX, and other issues relating to the quality of life here in Culver Crest.
If you have a question for the candidates, either leave a reply to this post or send your question to [email protected]. We will also take into consideration questions submitted at the start of the event.
The Culver Crest Neighborhood Association will host its next general meeting on Tuesday December 5, 2017, at the El Rincon Elementary Cafetorium, beginning at 6:30 pm. Agenda is as follows:
- CCNA Board Elections – 5 positions expiring – Mike Doyle
- Culver City Police Department / Neighborhood Watch
- Oil fields update / EIR (Environmental Impact Report) update
- Cannabis / Marijuana Legalization status
- Disaster Resilience / Emergency Prepareness / CERT
- Development in Culver City / Mansionization / Building Freeze on Culver Crest
- Golden State Water update
- LAX overflight
- Resident’s Open Items / Comments
On Tuesday evening, October 24th, from 6:30 PM – 8 PM at El Rincon Elementary School, Culver City is holding a community meeting to provide an overview of proposed regulations to allow 30 new oil wells with potential for hydraulic fracturing within Culver City.
Legal notification of the EIR can be found here.
More information on the project, public meetings, and updates can be found here. This page also includes a link to the Inglewood Oil Field Draft Environmental Impact Report that will be discussed at Tuesday night’s meeting. Tuesday night’s meeting will also explain the process for providing feedback on these documents.
There will be a general meeting of the Culver Crest Neighborhood Association tonight, Tuesday April 25, 6:30pm, at the El Rincon Elementary cafetorium. Agenda items include:
- Neighborhood watch, Culver City Police Department
- Golden State Water repiping update
- Oil fields update
- LAX overflight
- Mail delivery issues
- West L.A. College
- Mansionization & Building on Culver Crest
- Disaster Resilience
[Minutes of this meeting]
The Culver Crest Neighborhood Association will be holding its next general meeting on Wednesday November 16, 2016, starting at 6:30pm at the El Rincon Elementary School cafetorium. Agenda includes:
- Updates from CCPD
- Golden State Water repiping plan and progresss
- Street resurfacing
- The CCNA has 4 positions open this year (we alternate between 4 and 5 openings per year). Please send all nominations to Rich Kissel ([email protected])
- Updates about the Oil Fields, West Los Angeles College
The Culver Crest Neighborhood Association will be hosting a City Council Candidates Forum at El Rincon Elementary School on Thursday, March 10 at 7pm. All seven candidates will be speaking. Bring your questions and be prepared to vote on April 12!
There will be an update by Lt. Agaiby, CCPD on the Council adopted policy dealing with Coyotes, and to adress the community on progress with traffic enforcement at our troubled intersections. | public_administration |
http://coxcastle.com.prod.tenrec.com/practice-areas/land-use-and-natural-resources/wetlands-and-endangered-species | 2021-06-25T06:48:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487622113.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20210625054501-20210625084501-00304.warc.gz | 0.919447 | 207 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__90280480 | en | We are leaders in the field of wetlands and endangered species law and regulation. We assist residential and commercial developers, renewable energy companies, agricultural enterprises, mining companies, mitigation bankers, and water districts with some of the most challenging projects in California. Our expertise includes habitat conservation planning, Section 7 consultations, alternatives analyses under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, jurisdictional determinations, negotiation of conservation easements, the establishment of conservation banks and in-lieu fee programs, negotiation of safe harbor agreements, and the defense of actions brought under the Endangered Species Act. We are also experts in all relevant companion statutes, including the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, National Environmental Policy act (NEPA), Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), Sections 1602 and 2081 of the California Fish and Game Code, and Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. Our contacts with the regulatory agencies are excellent, and we are known throughout California as pragmatic advisors who can achieve a successful result. | public_administration |
http://pcrllp.com/evan-johnson.html | 2018-10-20T04:06:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512504.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20181020034552-20181020060052-00263.warc.gz | 0.850905 | 568 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__170969205 | en | - Co-counsel for Texas gas distribution utility rate case proceeding before the Railroad Commission of Texas
- Co-counsel for Texas electric transmission utility in certificate of convenience and necessity proceedings before the Public Utility Commission of Texas
- Co-counsel for Texas electric utilities in energy efficiency cost recovery factor, fuel factor and fuel reconciliation proceedings before the Public Utility Commission of Texas
- Co-counsel for Texas electric and gas utilities in various customer complaint, tariff modification, and abandonment proceedings before the Public Utility Commission of Texas and Railroad Commission of Texas
Professional and Legal Affiliations
- State Bar of Texas Pro Bono College 2015, 2016, 2017
- Austin Bar Association
- Austin Young Lawyers Association
• The University of Houston Law Center 2008, J.D.
• The University of Texas at Austin 2002, M.A.
• The University of Texas at Austin 1999, Bachelor of Arts with Honors
Publications and Presentations
- Regulation of Water Utilities at the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Texas Water Utilities Association, 2015
- PHMSA Regulations of Pipeline Integrity and AC Interference, Texas Utility Lawyers Annual Meeting, 2015
- Depreciation Issues in Contested Proceeding Before Texas Regulatory Agencies, Society of Depreciation Professionals, 2015
- 2013 Public Utility Commission and Legislative Update, Texas Utility Lawyers Annual Meeting, 2013
- Evidence and Procedure Developments at SOAH and the Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas Utility Lawyers Annual Meeting, 2012
- Ex Parte Communications, State Bar of Texas Advanced Administrative Law, 2011
- Clarifying Ex Parte Communications, State Bar of Texas Advanced Administrative Law Seminar, 2011
- A Reconsideration of Ethics Opinion 587 Regarding Ex Parte Communications in Administrative Proceedings – Texas Tech Administrative Law Review, 2010
- A Comparative Analysis of the Railroad Commission of Texas’ and the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s Authority to Regulate Gas-cap Production – Houston Law Review, 2008
Community Service and Civic Associations
All Saints Episcopal Day School
- Board of Trustees, 2015 – Present
Extend-a-Care for Kids
- Board of Directors, 2009 – Present
Long Way Home, Inc.
- Treasurer, 2009 – Present
- Board of Directors, 2005 – Present
- Volunteer Legal Services
- Texas Adoption Day
Mr. Johnson represents electric, gas, and water utilities in complex regulatory proceedings before the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Railroad Commission of Texas. His experience includes serving as lead or co-counsel in rate cases, applications for certification of convenience and necessity, fuel factor and fuel reconciliation proceedings, rulemaking projects, energy efficiency cost recovery proceedings, renewable energy matters, and customer complaints, as well as various other regulatory enforcement proceedings. | public_administration |
https://lowerkeysappraisal.com/FHAApproved | 2023-12-10T13:33:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102469.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210123756-20231210153756-00234.warc.gz | 0.965508 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__271298628 | en | Lower Keys Appraisal
The FHA publishes a list of approved appraisers for each state - Lower Keys Appraisal is on the roster of approved appraisers for FL. If you have an FHA-insured loan, be sure to hire Lower Keys Appraisal, as we are approved and qualified to handle FHA reports. A certain amount of the regular training our staff at Lower Keys Appraisal receives deals exclusively with understanding the FHA's documentation and their rules and procedures.
Contact us today if you need to get an appraisal done on an FHA-insured loan.
If your house loan is FHA approved, that means that it has been secured by the Federal Housing Administration, which is a branch of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The FHA does not provide funds to borrowers, rather, it provides lenders with protection by offering mortgage insurance in case the borrower does not pay his or her financial obligations. Low-income and moderate-income borrowers benefit from an FHA-secured loan; the purpose of the Federal Housing Administration is to help credit-worthy consumers to meet expectations and necessities for lending agencies that they otherwise would not.
Typically, a buyer has to pay less of a down payment on an FHA-insured loan, while the rates remain standard market rates. FHA loan programs are extremely beneficial to those consumers with less accumulated cash. | public_administration |
http://www.africancapitalcities.org/page3.html | 2018-06-23T17:25:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865145.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623171526-20180623191526-00137.warc.gz | 0.936409 | 982 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__8928521 | en | Welcoming address: City of Tshwane Executive Mayor Solly Msimanga
Keynote: Lindiwe Mazibuko
Councillors in Conversation: ACCSF mayoral panel discussions Who better to discuss the salient issues of sustainable city development than those charged with leading African city dwellers into a prosperous and sustainable future – the mayors themselves? At ACCSF the mayors of Africa’s capital cities speak candidly about the hard choices, tough decisions, and spectacular successes that most directly impact the management of their cities and the livelihood of their citizens.
The call for responsive and responsible leadership has echoed at all levels around the world, from the World Economic Forum to the ACCSF. Sustainable development is simply impossible without leaders who understand what people want and act to benefit society as a whole.
• What do leadership and responsibility really mean in such a complex world?
• What does responsible leadership look like in a 'post-truth' paradigm?
• What leadership challenges do the mayors of ACCSF have in common?
• How can African capital cities encourage each other to do better?
Financing and bankability
Sustainable development projects always have to be funded – there’s no getting around that. Projects have to be bankable to attract funding, which means project developers and funders have to speak the same language. At the same time, there is more than one type of project banker.
• Which have been some of the most bankable projects in African capital cities of late?
• Infrastructure tenders and corruption all too often go hand in hand: what is the solution?
• Which funding models (World Bank, IMF, China) are the most appropriate for the needs of African capital cities?
City planning and Climate Change
What is the purpose of a city? Every administration has an implicit philosophy that speakers in varying proportions to the interests of citizens and private business. Some cities will lay down the red carpet for developers and expect the masses to be content with what trickles down to them. Other cities will have an inclusive approach that gets citizens involved in the planning and development process. To complicate matters further, climate change has disrupted “business as usual” so that leaders have to fundamentally reconsider how to chart the waters of the future.
• Investor-friendly or pro-poor – is it really either/or?
• Is climate change forcing cities to switch from linear to circular economic thinking?
• What are the short-, medium- and long-term challenges posed by climate change?
• What do Africa’s capital cities need to start investing in now to surmount these challenges?
Water and Sanitation
Universal access to safe water and dignified sanitation is widely identified as the most basic precondition for a decent life and fundamental to public health, yet water and sanitation infrastructure remains sorely underdeveloped in many cities throughout Africa. It is up to Africa’s mayors to ensure that their citizens can be assured of this basic right – by revolutionizing the way cities supply water.
• What are the most fundamental challenges in providing water and sanitation? • How has climate change exacerbated these?
• What are the most economical, agile, out-of-the-box solutions to these problems?
• To what extent can the private sector step in to assist?
Energy is about a lot more than switching the lights on. Reliable energy supply is also a gender issue: “In rural and peri-urban areas, women and girls are mainly responsible for procuring and using cooking fuels; they are disproportionately affected by the negative effects of limited access to energy.” Of course, large scale, capital intensive technology projects are also necessary to power the formal sectors of the economy, including cash crops and mechanized production.
• How can Africa’s capital cities secure their energy futures without falling back on fossil fuels? • What are the smartest interventions to light up ordinary people’s lives?
• How can the cities of oil-dependent countries wean themselves from the black gold?
• What are the most innovative power-generating projects devised by African capital cities themselves?
Transport infrastructure is the backbone of the economy and a key enabler for other infrastructure projects such as energy, communications, water and sanitation. Transport is also linked in important ways to urban health and social well-being. However, bringing transport projects to fruition requires meeting the needs of many stakeholders.
• What models of transport infrastructure development have proved the most useful in Africa’s capital cities – in terms of social welfare and productivitiy?
• Which transport infrastructure models are most easily implemented and climate resilient?
• What are the expectations of the African Integrated High Speed Railway Network project?
• What impact is the Single African Air Transport Market expected to have? | public_administration |
https://northumberland-ld.org.uk/en/page/northumberland-county-council?display=Accessible | 2021-12-09T00:11:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363641.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20211209000407-20211209030407-00277.warc.gz | 0.935488 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__195365456 | en | |Jeff Reid is the leader of the Liberal Democrat Group on Northumberland County Council and represents Plessey ward in Blyth. Jeff was the Leader of the County Council between 2008 and 2013.|
|Lesley Rickerby represents South Blyth on Northumberland County Councli.|
|Alan Sharp, a former Tynedale District Councillor, has represented Haydon & Hadrian ward on Northumberland County Council since 2008.|
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https://www.sezonforjudge.com/media/ | 2021-07-28T22:11:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153803.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210728220634-20210729010634-00169.warc.gz | 0.970046 | 1,097 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__264746247 | en | November 24, 2013
Magistrate and Court Administrator Marianne Sezon has announced that she has taken out candidacy petitions from the Ashtabula County Board of Elections to seek the Democratic Party’s nomination to run in 2014 for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas – General Division. Ms. Sezon is running for the open seat to be vacated by Judge Ronald W. Vettel, who after 36 years, will be retiring from the bench on December 31, 2014. The upcoming election in November of 2014 will determine Judge Vettel’s successor, to take the judicial bench on January 1, 2015. The Primary election date is May 6, 2014.
Ms. Sezon is uniquely qualified to become Judge based on her Legal, Administrative, and Business experience both in the private sector and in the public sector, through her work within the Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas. Over a span of more than 16 years, Ms. Sezon has held positions within the Court including Staff Attorney, Magistrate, and Court Administrator. During her tenure, she has assisted the Court in making its rulings of over 4,000 cases in a wide variety of practice areas including personal injury, real estate, foreclosure, domestic relations, worker’s compensation, professional torts, administrative appeals, product liability and criminal law. From her years of “hands on” court perspective experience, Marianne has familiarity with the multitude of legal issues the Common Pleas Court faces on its docket.
Marianne’s experience also includes participation in Judge Mackey’s Drug Court that was recently recognized, and provided special funding, for its innovative approach in providing alternative sentences to low-end drug offenders who show promise for leading a drug free life. The 2014 judicial elections will also see the retirement of Judge Mackey, after 25 years on the bench, and Marianne’s experience within the Court will help to see that the management of this program continues seamlessly.
In 2010, Marianne was appointed as Court Administrator along with her continued duties as Magistrate. Therefore, in addition to her legal experience within the Court, Marianne has firsthand experience in managing the $2 million dollar budget of the Court of Common Pleas, as well as supervision of a Court staff of 35 employees in several departments including bailiffs, Court reporters, paralegals, staff attorneys, jury commissioners, mediators, probation officers, and Court security. “While an important part of a Judge’s job is obviously to decide cases,” says Marianne, “ask a current or former Judge about one of the most difficult aspects of the job, and they will note the Administration of the Court.” Marianne has performed these administrative tasks within the very Court that she is seeking to become Judge, and is Certified by the National Center for State Courts as a Court Manager.
In reaching this point in her life, and seeking to continue to serve the Citizens of Ashtabula County as a candidate for Judge on the Court of Common Pleas – General Division, Marianne recognizes the hard work and sacrifices of friends, co-workers, teachers, and other members of our community who have helped her as she has advanced in her career. Above all, she recognizes that she owes much gratitude to her family that has owned and operated Eddie’s Grill, for 63 years. To anyone who has ever enjoyed spending a summer day at Eddie’s Grill, Marianne has been a familiar fixture at this establishment starting with cleaning trays and tables, to later experiences with advice on legal and business matters within this family-run business. Throughout, Marianne has learned the importance of hard work, self discipline and customer service. “There is an old saying,” says Marianne, “to the effect that a variety of experiences helps to create the law. I will use all of my experiences to fairly and impartially conduct the business of the Court.”
Marianne is a lifelong resident of Ashtabula County, residing with her husband, Richard Dana, in Austinburg. She is actively involved in her community serving in the following capacities: Former President of the Ashtabula County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board; Current Trustee of the Ashtabula County District Library Board; 2012 Graduate of LEADERship Ashtabula County, currently serving on the LEADERship Board of Directors; Former Treasurer and current member of the University Hospitals Community Christmas Card Committee that provides life-saving equipment to UH Geneva Medical Center; appointment to the Kent State Ashtabula Advisory Council effective January 2014, and active member on a number of Committees within the Ashtabula County Bar Association, as well as numerous community service organizations. In 2012, the Ashtabula County Chamber of Commerce Recognized Marianne as one of the “Top 5 Under 45 Professionals”. In 2011, Ashtabula County Living Magazine listed Marianne in its inaugural issue of “Most Interesting Persons of Ashtabula County.” In 2006, she received an award from the Ohio State Bar Association for Community Service for an Attorney Under 40. Marianne holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Akron School of Law, as well as a M.Ed. and B.A., Cum Laude, from John Carroll University. | public_administration |
https://travellingcam.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/nagoya-castle-museum-pieces/ | 2017-04-26T04:08:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121153.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00225-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.978743 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__103329403 | en | At the beginning of the Meiji era, the Army Ministry administered the castle, and the Nagoya Detached Garrison and barracks were [dispersed] on the castle grounds. Transferred to the Imperial Household Ministry in 1893, the castle became the Nagoya Imperial Villa. In 1930, after the abolition of the Imperial Villa, the castle was brought under the administration of the City of Nagoya and was opened to the public in February of the following year.
In May 1945, due to the air raids on Nagoya during World War II, buildings such as the main and small donjons, ad the Hommaru Palace were burnt down. Fortunately, three towers, three gates, and 1,047 paintings on the sliding doors and walls of the palace survived the fire and have been designated as important national cultural assets. In 1959, the main and small donjons, and the main gate were practically restored to their original forms. — from the entrance billboard of Nagoya Castle | public_administration |
http://www.odysseypublications.com/publicationsPublication.php?publicationID=00027 | 2022-08-09T01:19:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00010.warc.gz | 0.939911 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__2358067 | en | An Illustrated History of the Fire Department of the City of New York
Since the earliest years of city history, New York?s firefighters have put their lives on the line to protect its citizens from fire. Written by experts on Fire Department history, this book documents the evolution of city firefighting from the earliest bucket brigades through to the post 911 Department, largely through the collection of the Museum.
Along the way, it documents the organizational improvements and political changes that have made city firefighting significantly more effective. This book tells the tale of the greatest fires that threatened New York, including the Great Fire of 1835 and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. It includes the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and looks beyond from the perspective of the months following that traumatic day when hundreds of New York?s Bravest tragically lost their lives.
+ Illustrated throughout by full-color photographs of fire fighting equipment, memorabilia and notable fires, mostly taken from the remarkable collection of the NYC Fire Museum and generously supplemented with unique additional material from private collections as well as from the FDNY Photo Unit | public_administration |
https://www.ecofarmingdaily.com/farm-management/urban-farming-laws-and-land-access/ | 2023-09-25T00:07:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00033.warc.gz | 0.920859 | 1,511 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__242188748 | en | By Leah Penniman
Excerpt from the book Farming While Black
For a few years our illegal chickens flew under the radar of the city. Albany, New York had an ordinance that disallowed chickens and other livestock under the belief that they were “incompatible with urban life.” There was an exception for educational nonprofits, but no flexibility for residents trying to raise food for survival. We collaborated with three other neighbors with adjoining backyards to take down our fences and build a collaborative food landscape. All combined, there were two chicken coops, a goat pen, vegetable gardens, and mulberry trees. Our young children could roam far without ever having to cross a street. Unfortunately, code enforcement caught on and evicted the chickens. Many neighbors took the fight to city hall. After nine months of organizing, activists convinced the city council to allow backyard chickens in 2011. Sadly, the mayor vetoed the vote and the chickens could not return.
In many cities these nuisance ordinances were created to specifically target immigrants and people of color who were more likely to be preserving agrarian practices. Whether you decide to abide by the law, skirt the law, or challenge the law, it is helpful to understand what restrictions apply to urban agriculture in your area. Before you invest substantial resources into your plot of earth, investigate the following questions:
- Zoning. Does the zoning of the land permit agriculture? What “public nuisance” laws exist in your city? Are there “right to farm” laws in your county?
- Greenhouses and high tunnels. Is a building permit required for greenhouses? Is there a size limitation? Note that some states categorize greenhouses as permanent structures and high tunnels as temporary structures, influencing how they are taxed.
- Animal housing. Is animal agriculture permitted? Is a building permit required for chicken coops and other animal housing? How far away must animals live from residential buildings or property lines?
- Rooftop and wall gardens. What building code requirements exist for a rooftop garden? Do roof- top gardens require permits? Is a permit required to grow plants on the exterior wall of a building?
- Food safety. Is it legal to sell processed food out of your home kitchen per a “cottage food law”? If not, determine whether a commercial kitchen is available to rent. Learn more about food safety law from the Urban Agricultural Legal Resource Library, a project of the Sustainable Economies Law Center.
Should you decide to advocate for changes in zoning or ordinances that are more favorable to urban agriculture, it helps to look at best practices in other cities. For example, Cleveland, Ohio, has an Urban Garden District Zoning ordinance that gives community gardens additional protection from being sold and converted to other uses. Seattle, Richmond, Portland, Oakland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Baltimore also have useful policy templates for promoting urban agriculture.7 In advocating for policy change, try to get your hands on any community food assessments that can provide data to support the need to uplift urban agriculture. Engage with the local food policy council to find allies for your cause.
Lack of accessible and affordable land can be one of the greatest constraints to urban farming. Empty lots, utility rights-of-way, private backyards, parks, institutional land (schools, hospitals, churches, prisons, universities, senior homes), and rooftops are all examples of vacant land that might be reclaimed for agricultural use. When you encounter vacant land with agricultural potential, take note of the address of the adjacent parcels and take that information to the local tax assessor or department of finance. Ask to see the tax map and property records to determine the parcel number, and research the site’s ownership history. You can then contact the most recent owner to discuss license, lease, or sale of the property. Alternatively, many cities have passed legislation to allow citizen-controlled land banks and land trusts to manage vacant land. If your city has a land bank, approach them directly to determine what properties are available, their land-use history, zoning designation, and any public programs that provide incentives for their purchase. The national nonprofit Trust for Public Land also stewards urban lots that can be used for agriculture.
If you are unable to buy property outright, you will need to enter into a lease or other contractual agreement to guarantee access to the land. The Urban Agricultural Legal Resource Library outlines important elements of land-use agreements for both public and private land and sample land-use agreements. Your land-use agreement should include the following provisions, at minimum:
Provisions of Land-Use Agreement
- Land. Specifications of size and location.
- Rent. Cost to tenant.
- Use of land. Specification of permitted uses and prohibited uses (sales, tree removal, fires, and the like).
- Term. Duration of lease, options for lease renewal, and expected tenure of project on land.
- Building and improvements. Clarification of building types prohibited and permitted (carports, storage, temporary shelters, and so on) and improvements (fencing, garden beds, landscaping).
- Right of entry. For example, restrictions to farm employees, contract workers, volunteers.
- Hours of use. Days and times of activities, clarification of overnight stay.
- Noise. Expected decibels of noise pollution created.
- Animals. Use of animals and restrictions thereof.
- Expected traffic. Estimated number of trips to the site and number of people expected on a plot at any given time.
- Growing practices. Farmers’ use of tools/machinery and use of pesticides, fertilizer, fungicides, and so on. (On the city’s end, this could be a selection criterion—for example, projects growing organically could rank higher than projects proposing to use these chemicals.)
- Environmental impacts. Management of runoff and water pollution.
- Water usage. Agreement on source, use, and payment.
- Routine maintenance. Specifies responsibilities of landowner and farmer in maintenance of plot’s appearance and preventing hazards.
- Subleasing policy. Permitted/prohibited and where liability for subtenant lies.
- Garden produce. Clarification of ownership of produce from the land and whether sales are permitted.
- Compost. Agreement on use and location of compost pile and perhaps use of landowner’s acceptable yard and kitchen wastes.
- Payment. Type and amount of payment; can be monetary or in-kind through share of crops.
- Liability. Two-way release of liability; each party gives indemnity to the other over specific scenarios and legal responsibilities for their respective uses of the land.
This article is an is from Leah Penniman’s book Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (Chelsea Green Publishing, November 2018) and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. The author is a Black Kreyol farmer and founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a people-of-color led project that works to dismantle racism in the food system. She is the recipient of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award. Find out more about Leah’s work at www.soulfirefarm.org and follow her @soulfirefarm on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. | public_administration |
http://welfare.ecjc.info/speaker/viviane-teitelbaum/ | 2024-04-16T01:54:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817036.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416000407-20240416030407-00857.warc.gz | 0.965397 | 300 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__188069614 | en | Viviane Teitelbaum is a member of the Belgian Parliament since 2004.
She is active in social and health affairs, environment, gender equality and the fight against racism, antisemitism, homophobia…
As former Deputy to the Mayor in the municipality of Ixelles, she was in charge of urban planning, public cleaning. In charge of finances she has implemented the first gender budgeting in a Belgian municipality.
Active and recognized feminist, she is the past President of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) elected in that position from 2012 to 2016 and of the French Council of Women in Belgium that she chaired from 2010 to 2018. She is currently the cofounder and chair of the Observatory of Violence Against Women.
On the issues of violence against women Viviane worked on domestic violence, trafficking in human beings, prostitution, excisions, rape, and economic violence (poverty, homeless women, single parent family headed by women, wage and pension inequalities). On the international level she worked in solidarity with women facing religious and cultural radicalism. She also worked on abortion right and participated in numerous symposiums and round tables of experts.
She is a writer who has published ten books and is co-author of different collective publications and books. She holds a licence in Journalism from ULB (Brussels) and a master’s degree in International Relations, from the University of Southern California (USA). | public_administration |
http://www.usforestcapital.com/about-us/ | 2024-02-22T23:51:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473871.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222225655-20240223015655-00222.warc.gz | 0.961121 | 423 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__145941404 | en | Tom Tuchmann, President
Trained as a professional forester, Tom provides US Forest Capital’s range of advisory services and coordinates the efforts of our strategic partners who offer specialized expertise on a project basis.
During his 30–year career in business, conservation and public policy, Tom has helped conserve tens of millions of acres of public and private forestland. In the last 10 years alone, his work has helped clients close fee and ecosystem service transactions valued at $300 million. Tom regularly assists clients in strategically resolving a range of complex land management, governance and public policy challenges and has created new financial tools that help individuals and organizations capitalize large-scale natural resource acquisitions.
Prior to founding US Forest Capital, Tom was Western Director and Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. During his tenure, he successfully directed negotiations and the implementation of the $480 million Headwaters Forest Agreement. He also was charged with designing and managing a Presidential Forum that resulted in the $50 million conservation management plan for Lake Tahoe.
In his capacity as a public servant, Tom also served as the Director of the U.S. Office of Forestry and Economic Development where he was responsible for developing and implementing the President’s 24-million-acre Northwest Forest Plan and the associated $1.2 billion economic assistance program.
Tom also served as Professional Staff for the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture where he drafted the Forest Legacy Program on behalf of the Chairman, among other landmark legislation, and was Policy Director for Society of American Foresters.
Tom graduated with forestry degrees from Northern Arizona University and Pennsylvania State University and has served as Adjunct Professor at the Lewis and Clark School of Law. Tom speaks regularly on an array of natural resource topics and currently serves in board positions with Sustainable Northwest, Northern Arizona University’s School of Forestry Advisory Board, and Kenyon College’s Parent Advisory Council.
US Forest Capital partners with premier forest management and financial firms that are local to our clients so that we may assure the best knowledge and experience are applied to a project. | public_administration |
http://trinityhumanservices.nyc/donate/ | 2022-01-26T23:36:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305006.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126222652-20220127012652-00108.warc.gz | 0.849308 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__132818066 | en | Trinity Human Services Corporation is currently only accepting donations from New York residents. Please check back for updates to our policy.
Trinity Human Services Corporation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization under the regulations of the Internal Revenue Service. All contributions to Trinity Human Services Corporation are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.
For a copy of our organization’s most recent financial report: A copy of our most recently filed financial report is available from the Charities Registry on the New York State Attorney General’s website (www.charitiesnys.com) or, upon request, by contacting the New York State Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005, or Trinity Human Services Corporation, 153A Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11206. You also may obtain information on charitable organizations from the New York State Office of the Attorney General at www.charitiesnys.com or (212) 416-8401. | public_administration |
https://www.entv.dz/government-meeting-discussions-on-public-works-digitization-statistics-housing-and-mujahideen-sectors/ | 2022-10-05T08:45:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337595.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005073953-20221005103953-00695.warc.gz | 0.931011 | 652 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__221443759 | en | The Prime Minister, Mr. Aïmene Benabderrahmane, chaired, on Wednesday, a government meeting devoted to the sectors of Public Works, Digitization and Statistics as well as Housing, Urbanism and Towns, says a press release from the Prime Minister’s office:
“The Prime Minister, Mr. Aïmene Benabderrahmane, chaired, on Wednesday 20 April 2022, a Government meeting held at the Government Palace.
At its weekly meeting, the government discussed the following items:
In the Public Works sector:
A draft executive decree was presented, establishing the public utility of the operation relating to the construction of two tunnels in Chéraga, province of Algiers.
This project concerns the construction of two 2×2 lane hoppers on the RN 41 national road:
A first hopper at the Sidi Hassen roundabout near the former Souk El-Fellah in Chéraga.
A second hopper at the intersection (roundabout) of the RN 41 with the CW 111 leading to Ain Benian.
It is part of the road programme aimed at modernising the local network and increasing the capacity to cope with the ever-increasing traffic flows.
With regard to the preparations for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the regaining of national independence:
The Government heard a communication presented by the Minister of Moudjahidine and Rightful Claimants on the state of progress of the preparations for the launching of the festivities and events planned for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the recovery of national sovereignty, which will start on 5 July 2022 and will last until 5 July 2023.
In Digitalization and Statistics sectors:
A presentation was made by the Minister of Digitisation and Statistics on the establishment of a platform for sharing administrative documents.
This is part of the implementation of the roadmap of the sector in charge of digitalisation, relating to the development of “e-government” and the acceleration of the digitalisation of the administration.
This platform will also facilitate government work by significantly reducing the use of paper in the exchange of information and documents between central administrations.
In Housing, Urban Planning and the City sector:
The Minister of Housing, Urban Planning and Urban Affairs presented a communication on the evaluation of the housing policy.
In this context, the presentation highlighted the significant efforts made by the State to ensure citizens’ access to housing, particularly for the underprivileged, with the realization of nearly 3 million units, all segments combined during the period 2010-2021, or an annual average of 270,000 units.
These achievements required the mobilisation of nearly DA 5,000 billion from the State budget, i.e. an annual average of DA 456 billion, including more than DA 2,500 billion for social housing (i.e. 51%) and DA 1,326.97 billion for the hire-purchase segment (AADL).
An evaluation of public housing policy has been undertaken and has made it possible to formulate proposals for reforms able to remedy the main shortcomings that have marked the system of financing and construction of housing”. | public_administration |
https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/6/marijuana-bill-eliminates-obstacle-keeping-veteran/ | 2019-02-23T14:45:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249504746.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223142639-20190223164639-00097.warc.gz | 0.955182 | 550 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__137875285 | en | Democrats have proposed legislation that would let the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recommend marijuana to patients receiving treatment in states that have legalized the plant for medicinal purposes, eliminating obstacles caused by its status as a federally controlled substance.
Introduced by Sens. Bill Nelson of Florida and Brian Schatz of Hawaii, the bill would allow “veterans to use, possess or transport medical marijuana and to discuss the use of medical marijuana with a physician of the Department of Veterans Affairs as authorized by State law,” according to a copy of its language released Wednesday.
“Federal law prohibits VA doctors from prescribing or recommending medical marijuana to veterans,” Mr. Nelson said in a statement. “This legislation will allow veterans in Florida and elsewhere the same access to legitimately prescribed medication, just as any other patient in those 31 states would have.”
While most states in the country have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes or recreational purposes, the plant is considered a Schedule 1 substance under federal law, effectively prohibiting VA physicians from even discussing its potential health benefits with veterans seeking treatment through the government.
In addition to letting VA physicians recommend medical marijuana to veterans, the proposed Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act would direct the VA to research its impact and any potentially reduction of opioid abuse among veterans.
Opioids account for about 63 percent of all drug deaths in the U.S., and previous research found that veterans are twice as likely to die from an accident opioid overdose than non-veterans, according to the bill’s sponsors.
Marijuana proponents have argued that its benefits offer a non-lethal alternative to opioids, and states that have legalized the plant for medical purposes have subsequently experienced a drop in annual fatal opioid overdoses by nearly 25 percent, lawmakers said in support of the bill.
“VA has not taken a position on the bill,” VA press secretary Curt Cashour told The Washington Times on Thursday. “Marijuana is illegal under federal law, and until federal law changes, VA is not able to prescribe it.”
Justin Strekal, political director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), issued a statement applauding the proposal.
“The Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act would provide crucial medical and civil protections for the men and women who put their lives on the line to serve this country,” Mr. Strekal said. “It is unconscionable that these brave individuals who protect our nation’s freedoms would be treated as criminals when they return home just for treating their medical ailments with a safe and effective option.”
Copyright © 2019 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission. | public_administration |
https://www.njcan2020.org/2020/09/new-jersey-voters-urged-to-turn-the-page-and-end-the-prohibition-on-adult-use-cannabis-this-november/ | 2021-10-21T08:42:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585382.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20211021071407-20211021101407-00046.warc.gz | 0.938994 | 712 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__120248345 | en | The campaign to legalize adult-use cannabis is launching a new initiative this week to encourage New Jersey voters to “Turn the Page” on the state’s cannabis prohibition by voting “yes” on Public Question 1, likely to appear on the back of many voters’ ballots.
For the first time, every New Jersey voter will be receiving a ballot in the mail to ensure they can safely cast their vote in 2020, and it is vital that they understand how to do so effectively. The NJ CAN campaign is reminding voters to “Turn the Page” on their ballot to vote for fairness in the state’s marijuana laws, as well as foster job growth and create equity for new entrepreneurs in the state’s growing cannabis industry.
“As progressives, we need to remind everyone to ‘turn the page’ to pursue an initiative that will greatly impact communities across New Jersey,” said Imani Oakley, from the Progressive Democrats of New Jersey. “This is about leveling the playing field for all New Jerseyans. A regulated cannabis industry delivers economic opportunities for marginalized communities, new jobs for residents, and much-needed tax revenue for the state when it needs it the most.”
Although studies show both use cannabis at similar rates, Black New Jerseyans are 3.5 times more likely than their White counterparts to be arrested for cannabis possession. Our current cannabis laws are ruining lives. A criminal record marks someone for life and makes it harder to get a job, an apartment, a credit card, and even to visit their own children.
“The issue of fairness in our cannabis laws and addressing social justice aren’t just issues important to college students,” said Meagan Warner, former president of the College Democrats of New Jersey. “They’re issues that are important to all our families in the state. We can apply equity in the application of our marijuana laws, but also foster new opportunities for people of color in the cannabis industry.”
Adult-use cannabis legalization is the first of the public questions on November’s ballot, but organizers want to emphasize to voters that they will likely need to “turn the page” on their ballot and vote “yes” to decide the election because the question will likely appear on the back of many voters’ ballots.
According to a recent poll of likely voters from Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3), 72% of state voters believe that cannabis should be taxed, regulated, and legalized for adults, and nearly three-quarters also support ending the collateral consequences of cannabis arrests. The coalition will be utilizing educational materials, mailers, and digital content to educate New Jersey voters on voting-by-mail and to remind them to turn the page on their ballot to address fairness in the state’s cannabis laws.
For more information, visit NJ CAN’s Voter Central where you can register to vote or check your registration, find your polling place, and learn more about voting-by-mail.
About NJ CAN 2020
NJ CAN 2020 represents a coalition of New Jersey voters committed to creating fairness in the administration of the state’s marijuana laws and cannabis industry. We want to end the prohibition on marijuana in New Jersey and foster a regulated cannabis market that encourages inclusion for entrepreneurs across the state and creates good jobs and a new taxing authority for local governments when they need it most. | public_administration |
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