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A day after Mayor Joe Hogsett announced a $3.3 million proposal for crime reduction, the Indianapolis police union voted to declare the city as one in crisis.
Local Fraternal order of Police President Rick Snyder said members also agree there is a crisis of confidence in city leaders to effectively address the soaring violence. As of Thursday, the city reported 98 criminal homicides. That s up from 69 for the same period last year. Those who are sworn to protect this city want the residents of Indianapolis and Central Indiana to know that this latest mayor s announcement does nothing, nothing to address the urgency of the matter at hand, Snyder said of the unanimous membership vote.
The weight of the pandemic hung over critical decisions about how to spend money Wednesday.Both Cincinnati and Hamilton County leaders dealt with the big money matters separately and in starkly different ways.At City Hall, lawmakers split in a 5-4 vote in favor of a $29 million spending plan that left some Council Democrats lamenting a missed opportunity. They wanted more spent on youth jobs, child care and getting people in the restaurant industry and other businesses back to work. I do believe that this is a historic, you know, once in a generation opportunity, said Councilman Greg Landsman before the vote.He told his council colleagues the lack of affordable child care is the number one reason people are not back on the job. He and Jan Michele Kearney wanted to utilize $5 million of the American Recovery Plan dollars for child care.Republican Steve Goodin was on the winning side, looking to hold the line for that at $1 million. Traditionally, funding child care isn t the
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County Council OKs Hazard pay for grocery workers. Here s why they likely won t get it
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 3 hrs ago Josephine Peterson, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
May 5 Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier on Tuesday night shot down a narrowly passed County Council ordinance that would have given hazard pay to grocery store workers.
Council Democrats passed the ordinance along party lines in a 4-3 vote. It would have given grocery store workers in unincorporated Pierce County a $4 per hour raise to compensate them for being essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill would have applied to grocery stores more than 10,000 square feet in size and stores over 85,000 square feet in size with 10,000 square feet or more of their sales floor area dedicated to groceries. Council staff estimated there are 18 to 20 grocery stores in unincorporated county that would have been affected by the ordinance.
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