The staff from the planting determine and the City Attorney are making sure that we are meeting the legal requirements. This is a memorandum of agreement to reimburse staff for their participation here. The funding for this was approved in july of 2013. Were doing now to seek the authority to contract directly with the Planning Department for this work. The other set of action items is about the professional services contract. Were seeking two actions here. One is to assign the contract from the Jacob Engineering Group to a sub consultant on the team. Circle point. The work has progressed and the focus of the process has shifted to the environmental documentation. Circle point is the central and most Important Team member for this, for delivering this work. So it is just a much more efficient from the standpoint of delivering the products and invoicing administratively for the tral authority to Transportation Authority to have a direct relationship with circle point and also an increas
The Chelan County PUD wants a portion of the planned Confluence Parkway to have higher fencing, and another section of the roadway to be designated as a quiet
Gov. Mike DeWine, lawmakers look to police reform bill: Capitol Letter
Rotunda Rumblings
Police action: In the wake of Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction and the Columbus police shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, Republican state lawmakers (with Gov. Mike DeWine’s support) are preparing to introduce a police-reform bill that would create a police licensing board, increase training requirements, require independent investigations of police shootings, and set up state use-of-force and disciplinary action databases. But as Jeremy Pelzer reports, no Democrats or lawmakers of color were consulted about the bill.
Thank you, next: The Ohio House voted Wednesday to approve a two-year, $74.7 billion budget bill, sending the bill to the state Senate. As Andrew Tobias reports, Senate President Matt Huffman expressed skepticism over the amount of spending in the bill, including the school funding overhaul that it contains. “It’s easier to make decisions that can be catastrophic