Is it time to put APD s police horses out to pasture? (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
When it was first conceived last summer, the City-Community Reimagining Public Safety Task Force was expected to deliver its final report in March, the middle of the city s budget year. This would allow the panel s recommendations to be followed by amendments to
this year s budget that would ideally add up to the $150 million or so that City Council, and particularly its left wing, wanted to reallocate from the Austin Police Department
this year to show that it heard and felt the swelling pain and outrage of a city that had taken to the streets with unprecedented vigor to demand that Austin s relationship with its police force change
Crews busily worked Friday to ready the Bank of Springfield Center for the Spring Lawn and Garden Sale.
Just like the blooming flowers and new outdoor equipment rolled on the display floor, the 30th annual event represents an emergence it is the first major show held at the center since the COVID-19 pandemic began last year.
“I guess it’s like riding a bike, you don’t forget how to do it, we are just glad to have people back in the building,” said BOS Center General Manager Brian Oaks. “It does feel like the light at the end of the tunnel for us. We’re still 95% down from what we would normally have.”
The Illinois House spent $187,000 to rent out Springfield s downtown convention center last week due to fears about conducting business at the Capitol during the coronavirus pandemic, according to documents disclosed to The Associated Press.
Lawmakers in the House have now spent a total of about $330,000 in taxpayer money to rent the center for less than two weeks during the pandemic because officials decided the House chamber does not allow sufficient distance between legislators to avoid transmission of the virus.
The House jammed months of work into last week at the convention center and anticipates 56 more days of legislative action between Feb. 2 and May 31. Considering it ll likely be months before most people receive a COVID-19 vaccine, continuing the arrangement with the Bank of Springfield Center would be costly.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) The Illinois House spent $187,000 to rent out Springfield’s downtown convention center last week due to fears about conducting business at the Capitol during the coronavirus pandemic, according to documents disclosed to The Associated Press.
FILE – In this Monday, January 11, 2021, file photo, Illinois lawmakers gather on the floor of the Bank of Springfield Center for the lame-duck session of the Illinois House during the COVID-19 pandemic in Springfield, Ill. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP, File)
Lawmakers in the House have now spent a total of about $330,000 in taxpayer money to rent the center for less than two weeks during the pandemic because officials decided the House chamber does not allow sufficient distance between legislators to avoid transmission of the virus.