A month for Family Healthcare coverage. Bart wants to raise that to 132 a month with a 3 increase per year. But if workers decide not to take the bart plan and instead go on the ground their spouse or partners plans, bart still gives you 100. And that would go up to 350 a month under barts offer. Then there are the paid holidays and sick time buy backs. Bart workers birthdays are paid holidays, one of 13 paid holidays they get each year, plus their vacation. They also get 12 sick days a year. If you dont get sick, you can bank up to 250 unused sick days about 50 weeks worth and cash them out when you leave. Last few days we have been kind of trying to grind it out. Reporter still, the question of whether the unions will call a strike remains up in the air. Were going to do everything we can to avert a strike. That doesnt mean were not ready for a strike. That doesnt mean were not able to pull off a work action. We dont want to. Were going to stay here and go through this process with a
Later this year, the city of Cedar Rapids will unleash its first neighborhood dog park in the Oak Hill Jackson neighborhood near the New Bohemia District. Another dog park is in the works on part of the old Jones Golf Course.