He boasted about more competitive salaries and these embarked on the town halls hoping to convince residents to support his tax increase and encourage their Council Members to do the same. All while there was a more than 35year tax cap in place in prince georges. Then he changed the proposal, some would say in the 11th hour, requesting 65 million in additional funding pretty much cutting his initial request in half. In the end, the council all but ignored bakers request and approved a 4 property tax increase that generates 34 million. That additional funding will be used for teacher pensions that the state has now passed do you know to the county. But it offers no new programs or increased salary for teachers. That budget is now back in the hands of the county executive and he has the power of line item veto. He has until june 16th to make any changes. This morning were hoping to get more insight into the county executives reasons behind that tax proposal, where it all went wrong for h
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Developed to stop ebola is now being used in the fight against zika. And they have chosen a new flag design, and now New Zealanders are voting on whether to ditch their old one. It is gets worse by the day, and as european leaders struggle to deal with what is a crisis on their borders, the desperation appears to be growing, among the refugees stranded at the Greek Macedonia border. Hundreds had blocked an International Railway line, laying down on the tracks, and in one case stopping a Freight Train from traveling south into greece. These people are extremely young, as you can see. The adults protesting about macedonias border restrictions, which have left more than 25,000 stranded in greece, and only 500 refugees were allowed into macedonia in the 24 hours into turz morning. All night, all night, baby crying. Cant sleep. All night crying. All night. Yes. All of the babies cry all the time. Really we are tired. Very tired. I feel miserable. I feel miserable. I am absolutely depressed.
The current signal failed to provide communication known as effective communication. The walk, dont walk signals dont satisfactory that criteria. We have seen son of the signals which are the visual signs of pedestrians and the rapid ticking noises or other tactile indicators that are used at those crosswalks. The sf mta has a problem by which a member of a public can request at a location. That is prioritized what is called a safety and access tool. There are many variables that an evaluator must look at recommended an installation as well as what type of aps should be installed. Those could include push about the button devices and rapidtext and vibrator tones. Once the person has requested aps, mta will provide that person with the following information. A preliminary prioritization score and preliminary test for the intersection and other that were requested and whether or not any work is being planned at that intersection and whether any aps will be installed within the next three
Those improvements. Just in terms of the bond itself, as i mentioned there is a bond on the ballot in november, proposition a. The majority of the funding goes to vechlts investments and making Muni Services more reliable and more accessible and safer for people to access. Because much of the investment makes changes to the rightofway to protect muni to allow muni to move without having to move in and out of traffic, it also allows for changes on the street that make it safer for people to board muni and also make it safer for pedestrians in that area. Things like the bus boarding, the pieces of the sidewalk that kind of bulb out for Safety Improvement and reliability improvement. The other funding in this bond would go towards achieving the citys goal of vision zero which is a goal to reduce traffic fatalities to 0 by 2024 and really would put the majority of funding into Pedestrian Safety types of improvements. The bond itself does include a number of accessibility improvements. Ther