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Press Release – Metlink Metlink supports Māori Warden’s kaupapa by providing free public transport for on-duty Wardens, enabling them to move around the region with ease as they undertake crime prevention. On-duty Māori wardens wearing a uniform are welcome to travel free on all Metlink bus and rail services while carrying out their duties. Metlink General Manager Scott Gallacher says Metlink recognises Māori Wardens as an important thread in the fabric of Wellington, promoting a safer r...

Friday, 14 May 2021, 1:32 pm Metlink supports Māori Warden’s kaupapa by providing free public transport for on-duty Wardens, enabling them to move around the region with ease as they undertake crime prevention. On-duty Māori wardens wearing a uniform are welcome to travel for free on all Metlink bus and rail services while carrying out their duties. Metlink General Manager Scott Gallacher says Metlink recognises Māori Wardens as an important thread in the fabric of Wellington, promoting a...

$7,565,586 The above listed local governments must request disbursement through the federal government’s online portal available here. Other smaller South Carolina cities and towns, generally with populations of less than 50,000, will likewise receive an allocation from the Fiscal Recovery Funds. Current plans call for the federal government to release an additional $435,125,080 to the State of South Carolina for disbursement to the cities and towns. More information on those indirect allocat...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Its coming. From all outward signs, it appears that the Biden Administration may be planning to use the "American Jobs Plan" - otherwise known as the proposed infrastructure plan - to expand the Davis Bacon Act ("DBA") and require the use of prevailing wages on all projects funded by any infrastructure bill ultimately passed by Congress. The Davis Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. §§ 3141-3148), require...

Many Prince George’s County lawmakers won’t support a Pimlico deal in the General Assembly unless they get what they want for the Bowie Race Track — and based on public testimony at a meeting Saturday, that is some public ownership and keeping the property as open space.

manich@leaderherald.com JOHNSTOWN — Submission of a $300,000 final New York state application for a new round of a Fulton County Microenterprise Grant Program was approved March 8 by the Fulton County Board of Supervisors. Board action followed a public hearing, in which no one spoke at the County Office Building. The application to operate the program had been recommended by the board’s Economic Development and Environment Committee. Board Chairman Jack Callery was authorized to submit the...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Marietta City Council was briefed Monday on the impacts of the recently passed American Rescue Plan from the federal government. They were told that the funds from the rescue plan are strictly to be used for infrastructure projects, but the Times cannot corroborate that specific restriction based on the act language that has been signed into law. In a keyword search within the act’s language, infrastructure appears nine times explicitly, predominately identifying ...

Anne Arundel County officials estimate the county will receive more than $112 million as part of a sweeping pandemic relief package signed by President Joe Biden Thursday that includes hundreds of billions in aid to state and local governments. Annapolis is expected to receive $6 million.

Lawrence Smith/Stuff A lawyer representing whanau who have had dealings with Oranga Tamariki has said the government department should be replaced with a Maori authority focussing on prevention. There is no other way to stop tamariki Māori being disproportionately taken into state care than to disestablish Oranga Tamariki, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told during closing submissions for the urgent inquiry into the child protection agency. The inquiry started in July last year after Oranga T...

There is no other way to stop tamariki Māori being disproportionately taken into state care than to disestablish Oranga Tamariki, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told during closing submissions for the urgent inquiry into the child protection agency. The inquiry started in July last year after Oranga Tamariki came under fire for the systemic removal of tamariki and pēpi Māori. The purpose of the hearing has been to find out why there has been such a consistent disparity of tamariki Māori bei...