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VIENNA Vienna City Council met Thursday to discuss potential police department raises, as well as upcoming plans for their term involving major projects and ordinances.
Vienna Police Chief Mike Pifer approached council for the consideration of a raise for officers from $18 to $20 an hour.
“I don’t want the city of Vienna Police Department to become a training ground,” Pifer said. “Our police department does an excellent job in my opinion, I think it’s deserving.”
The pay raise, which will be considered by council at the next meeting, would reflect a desire to maintain retention of officers and bring Vienna up to date with the pay grade of other cities in West Virginia.
SCDPH is running vaccination clinics in its building and in drive-thrus seven days per week. In December the first high-risk priority groups, health care personnel, all hospital staff and anyone working or residing in long-term care facilities were encouraged to participate in vaccine clinics. They are designated group 1a. Sangamon County announced people aged 65 and older and frontline essential workers like firefighters, grocery workers and educators could begin scheduling immunization appointments on Jan. 18. They are in what s deemed group 1b. But vaccination appointments in Sangamon County are full through Feb. 1. For those belonging to groups 1a or 1b looking to receive the vaccine, updates can be found on the Sangamon County Dept. of Public Health website or the county s Facebook page. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are given in two doses, the first being administered 21 days apart and the latter 28.
voted no - vaccinate the elderly before politicians.
Vaccinate my grandma that is 90 and living in a retirement community. We have moved to phase 1B in our area and a teenage worker at the grocery store is eligible for the vaccine, but most people over the 75 age limit can’t get it.
Absolutely. Staff as well. It’s ridiculous to ask Staff to put their health on the line during long work days. Pritzker needs to act now.
There are people who have actually shown up to work every single day of this pandemic who do not qualify for vaccination yet. Lawmakers didn’t even bother to try to do their jobs for an entire year and now they want to get vaccinated first before people who have been working and at risk every single day? How tone deaf are these people? If working was so important to them then why didn’t they pass remote legislating policy so they could work during a pandemic? If returning to work safely was important to them, why aren’t they in their communities ensuring th
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VIENNA Vienna City Council met on Thursday to discuss business pertaining to the appointment of councilmember Jim Leach to the Vienna Utility Board, the sale of eligible city property and the status of the city’s camera system, as well as the future of how council plans to address community feedback.
The meeting began with public forum comments pertaining to hopes for issues the newly elected council will address, ranging from flooding, the police fee and animal control to the ordinance that failed in the last council to include public comments in meeting minutes.
Vienna citizen Greg Frazier also posed concerns to the proposed appointment of councilmember Jim Leach to the Vienna Utility Board.
In a guest column published in the Press-Citizen on Wednesday, Leach wrote that the president s behavior since November s election has been "blatantly authoritarian."