Sentence examples for groups of council from inspiring English sources

From Mr. Miller's perspective, the fact that groups of council members have been publicly advocating measures like new taxes or changes to the city's lead-paint law is all to the good.

Under "devolution on demand", powers are devolved to councils or groups of councils.

They want groups of councils to be able to bid for public service reform deals that let them opt out of national regulations and give them control over service areas traditionally managed by central government.

It neatly chimes with this government's English devolution agenda – namely giving more freedom and flexibility to groups of councils that reorganise and agree to pool some functions in new combined authorities.

He announced the creation of 26 new or extended enterprise zones, £12bn for a local growth fund, and reiterated his pledge to devolve power over business rates to local authorities and offer new powers to groups of councils in exchange for an elected mayor.

The Centre for Public Scrutiny (a body which I chair, and which is funded by the Local Government Association to provide independent advice to local authorities on governance-related issues) has recently suggested that groups of councils forming themselves into combined authorities for the purpose of devolution should develop a governance framework.

A group of council members is already at work on a similar agenda.

With elections only six months away, a group of council members who are being forced to leave office because of the term limits law tried to overturn it.

That's precisely what we asked a group of council leaders, MPs and health professionals as they gathered about a round table at a recent event we organised.

At the same time, a group of council members introduced a bill to define and ban racial profiling, at the behest of Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president and one of Mr. Vallone's Democratic mayoral rivals.

People can also submit questions on subjects like marketing, publicity and technology, and each month a group of council members will answer 30 to 40 of them in business publications like The Wall Street Journal and American Express Open Forum, and on dozens of small business Web sites.