Sentence examples for abolish community from inspiring English sources

"When you start to abolish community rating it's a very slippery slope," she said.

They abolish community redevelopment agencies and seize their $1.7 billion in tax increments with one measure and then pass another bill giving cities the choice of keeping their agencies alive but with only a trickle of dollars.

It was right at that time that Gov. Jerry Brown dropped his bombshell: Faced with a monumental budget deficit, he wanted to abolish community redevelopment agencies across the state so the property tax revenues that funded them would come to the state — revenues that cities were using to fund public works projects and economic development.

When the mayor abolished community school boards, it was Mr. Walcott who set out to convince angry parents that the move was not meant to shut them out.

The two elements being abolished – community care grants and crisis loans – help the country's neediest people deal with emergencies or traumatic life events, such as a family member being unexpectedly taken into hospital, homelessness or escaping a violent relationship.

Twenty months after Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature abolished community redevelopment agencies statewide, local officials have gone through all the stages of grief — from horror to anger to confusion.

While Mr. Ferrer talked about health, Public Advocate Mark Green said it was time to abolish the community school board system.

Mr. Levy would not comment on the recommendation to abolish the community school boards, but he warned that all of the report's recommendations were preliminary.

In the seven months since Mr. Bloomberg gained control of the city's school system, his administration has pursued an array of changes, including creating a single reading and math curriculum, abolishing community school boards, and selling off the longtime administrative headquarters at 110 Livingston Street in Brooklyn, which had come to symbolize decades of dysfunction.

Right now the bill is being held hostage with a lot of other budget-related measures, like abolishing community redevelopment agencies, because the legislative leadership and Gov. Jerry Brown and state Controller John Chiang are engaged in a Democratic Party civil war.

Coupled with this the government abolished the community health councils, the local public watchdog which could appeal directly to the secretary of state for health and had rights of entry to all health services.