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During last year s protests and riots against racial injustice and police use of force, helicopter became a dirty word for the Columbus Division of Police.
Hundreds of residents and some city officials began criticizing the cost, noise, intrusiveness and military feel of the city s helicopter fleet, with some protesters saying it should be eliminated as part of review of all division spending.
Despite that, a divided Columbus City Council on Monday approved a nearly $900,000 maintenance contract for the division s five helicopters for another year. The council voted 4-2, with President Shannon Hardin absent, to extend the maintenance contract with Helicopter Minit-Men, Inc.
The city of Columbus wants to give its Community Relations Commission which investigates and helps prosecute discrimination against individuals in employment, housing and public accommodations the ability to directly levy fines of up to $5,000 to violators.
The change, which is spelled out in an ordinance scheduled to be discussed and voted on by the Columbus City Council on Monday evening, would also expand the definition of sex as a protected class to include decisions relating to the use . of products or services for contraception, sterilization, fertility treatment, pregnancy or its termination, hormone therapy including that which alters gender expression or affirms gender identity, or medical treatments that affirm gender identity.
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