She's the executive director of NYC & Company's permanent host committee, a title that suggests someone who will be passing canapés to the members of the delegating committees, which, you better believe, Ms. Reidy is not.
Delegates, committee members, bloggers and guests begin heading downtown around 9am.
The council's rules committee voted 6 to 2 last month against recommending that the executive board and the delegates' committee embrace direct elections for executive director.
But Mr. Rosenthal and his allies say they hope to persuade the executive board and the delegates' committee to overrule the rules committee.
That would change in Maryland under a bill heard yesterday in a House of Delegates committee that would require the state's 54 acute-care hospitals to collect data on hospital-acquired infections and publish an annual report by 2006.
To do that, we need more young people sitting on the delegate selection committees.
Instead, those cuts were assigned dollar values, with the work of actually making what Mr. Cuomo called "difficult choices" delegated to committees, including the Medicaid group, whose recommendations will be inserted into Mr. Cuomo's budget this week.
The county council was the general governing board of the administrative county; it was a large body, with 50 to 100 popularly elected members, and much of its basic administrative work was delegated to committees.
The Republican primary calendar is the one to watch, and the party's sexily-named temporary delegate selection committee is said to be recommending that no contests be held prior to 1 February, and that only Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina be allowed to hold their primaries and caucuses before the start of March.
Considerable decision-making authority over a number of domains, including the highly sensitive distribution of ADHA funds, was delegated to committees composed of different cadres of staff.
