3 the richland 3 Penny Tax Program just released its annual report and. In it. Details on where millions of tax dollars have gone since the program started. News 19s loren thomas explains what the county hopes to get done this year. 3 Richland County residents should be prepared to see more construction like here on greene street as the Penny Program plans to do even more work on roads in the county this year. We just finished the year so we thought it would be a good idea of whats been accomplished and give the citizens an idea of what they n see go to construction this year. Richland county transportation director rob perry says 31 Million Dollars went toward Construction Projects around the county last year. This year youre going to see more resurfacing, sidewalks, bikeways and our first real projects going into construction. According to the penny report. 127 Million Dollars in sales tax has been collected since the programs start in 2013. Were projecting another 110 million to con
3 Richland County residents can expect to see more year. According to a new annual report by the Richland County Penny Program they are expecting to complete more than a dozen Major Projects this year. Since the start of the program, 127 Million Dollars in sales tax has been collected to fund multiple projects around the county. Rob perry, director of transportation in the county, says 31 million went to construction last year. 3 were projecting another 110 million to construction by the end of 2016. So for 736 million in projects, getting 140 plus million to construction is really going to be a huge delivery to the citizens. This year youre going to see more resurfacing, sidewalks, bikeways and our first real projects going into construction. The greene street phase one innovista project downtown is expected to be completed in a couple months. 3 3 a bill that would increase surveillance on refugees from war torn countries settling in of a senate committee. The bill looks to do three t
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Here from europe, italys president says hell call new elections if the Prime Minister cant dissolve the current political crisis. Golden dawns second in command is taken to court. More than a week now since the nairobi Shopping Mall and the spotlight is on the kenyan government and warnings it may have ignored. Al jazeera obtained a copy of a leaked Intelligence Report saying that security agencies were alerted about an attack on the Westgate Mall about a year ago. We take up that story from the kenyan capital. That was shot by the kepian red cross, showing scenes of confusion during the Westgate Mall siege. A number of victims are treated. Some of the dead had to be left goodnight. More than a week later kenyans learnt that the government may have known about an attack here. The intelligence document given to al jazeera and leaked to kenyan media contains situation reports dating back to september last year when it was warned the somali armed Group Alshabab was planning an attack on t