Philadelphia recently continued to show gaps in public oversight. Amid calls for the police commissioner to resign, the city’s growing murder crisis is already up 46 percent from last year’s record-setting rate.
At the same time, a scandal surfaced that showed the mayor and City Council entrusted the roll out of COVID vaccines to a 22-year-old huckster with no health-care background. Furthermore, a report paid for by the City Controller’s office showed how the city failed to prepare for a constant barrage of unlawful protests following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. When looking at these latest examples of ethical mismanagement in a city with America’s fourth-highest tax burden, citizens are left wondering why the city doesn’t have an effective watchdog.
The Killeen City Council is looking for the right person to fill the District 3 seat which became vacant after the passing of Councilman Jim Kilpatrick.
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The Idaho Falls City Council unanimously approved the architectural design contract for the cityâs new police station Thursday night.
The contract with the Florida-based Architects Design Group is for $2.52 million. It will be paid for out of the same $30 million in certificates of participation that will fund the construction of the station.
Police operations are currently spread between eight different locations, with the main station being in space downtown the city rents from Bonneville County. City officials have been discussing building a new station for years and got serious about it last year when a citizensâ committee recommended it, buying the former Idaho Falls Livestock Auction property on Northgate Mile for a location and hiring architects to design a new station. Council members approved the stationâs funding two weeks ago.