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GATLINBURG â The city approved amendments to engineering services for the West Prong Force Main improvement project and its wastewater treatment plant expansion recently.
The increase in costs include an amendment to the West Prong Force Main improvement project for an additional $31,500 for additional construction administration and construction observation services costs associated with the project. C2RL Inc. is providing those services for the city.
âThis is for a project we presented and you approved last meeting,â Utility Manager Dale Phelps said.
While the project is over budget, it is city officials understanding the remaining funds will come from the American Rescue Plan funds received in 2021 for utility infrastructure projects.
Jon Manley: Coronavirus updates: Vaccine clinic planned in Seattle; testing program in Pierce County schools shows promise
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 1/22/2021 Jon Manley, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Jan. 22 The Washington state Department of Health reported 2,223 new cases of COVID-19 and 125 deaths Thursday. The high number of new deaths is due to a Jan. 14-20 data processing backlog, DOH said.
Pierce County reported 304 cases Thursday and nine new deaths. Pierce County has a total of 373 deaths likely caused by COVID-19 as of Thursday, according to the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
Statewide totals from the illness caused by the coronavirus are 296,087 cases and 4,065 deaths. Those numbers are up from 293,864 cases Wednesday and 3,940 deaths Tuesday. The case total includes 12,899 cases listed as probable. DOH revises previous case and death counts daily.
December 11, 2020
In her new book, Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way, University of Rochester professor Mical Raz argues that Biased viewpoints regarding race, class, and gender played a powerful role shaping perceptions of child abuse. (Getty Images)
A shift starting in the late 1960s has targeted poor families with unnecessary investigations and child removals at the expense of services, argues Mical Raz.
Black children are removed from their families at much greater rates than any other race or ethnicity in this country. At the same time the sheer number of all child abuse investigations in the US is staggering: experts estimate that by age 18 one out of three children has been the subject of a child protective services investigation. Yet, many of these investigations and removals are unjustified and stem from a misguided policy shift that began in the late 1960s, says