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City Council’s Ad Hoc City Hall Committee met Tuesday and honed in on two final options to remain at the current City Hall or to renovate office space the city owns at Trade and Transit Centre I or II.
“I think we are making progress to the point of completion for the committee,” said Councilman Adam Yoder, its chairman.
Short of a funding plan, which is estimated to be $4 million to $5 million for either option, the committee has narrowed its intent to either make a decision on staying at City Hall or moving the administrative offices to one of the transit buildings, with the exception of the Williamsport Bureau of Police.
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Voters wait in line at the Old Lycoming Township fire hall on Tuesday morning.
Nov. 3 Election Day was expected to shatter expectations, as record-breaking number of votes were likely to stand in lines to cast ballots at their polling stations, according to Forrest Lehman, director of Lycoming County Voter Services.
Nov. 5 Lycoming County Voter Services personnel kept their noses to the grindstone working through the sometimes maddening process of this post-election. “We are continuing to make progress,” Voter Services Director Forrest Lehman said.
Nov. 10 Veterans Memorial Park wouldn’t have evolved without the kind donations and support of thousands of people over the years, according to local veterans who have overseen its development over the past quarter century. “It’s what put the park here,” said Howard Wilt, a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War and chairman of the Veterans Memorial Park Commission.
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Mayor Derek Slaughter says he is prepared to use $450,000 of an $850,000 City Hall renovation account to lower the cost on city taxpayers in his proposed $29 million 2021 budget.
But an executive at the Center for Independent Living, 24 E. Third St., an agency advocating on behalf of the disabled, said she wonders if removal of half of that account might mean further delayed accessibility upgrades to City Hall.
“Access to City Hall is a civil right for Williamsport city residents with disabilities and we would hope that should be a priority for the administration and council,” said Misty Dion, the CEO of the Center for Independent Living-Roads to Freedom upon learning about Slaughter’s intention.