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Fifth Ward Common Council member, Laura Lewis, was appointed to the position of Acting Mayor by former Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick at the start of 2022 and was recently elected ....
As the multi-hour public comment period came to a close during the Nov. 2 Ithaca Common Council meeting, the City of Ithaca’s former Director of Sustainability, Luis Aguirre Torres, confronted ....
Only a small fraction of cities have taken advantage of federal emergency funding to house people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report on Grist.org. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been directed to reimburse cities for costs under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the report says. The reimbursement program is available through a 1988 law called the Stafford Act, with no cap on how much can be reimbursed. But to date, Grist found through Freedom of Information Act requests to the federal government, only 23 jurisdictions have applied for reimbursement, totaling about $600 million in requests. According to the report, only three of the cities in the top ten for rates of homelessness applied for reimbursement, according to the report. And among the cities that have not sought funding are New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., all three of which have more than 90 people experiencing homelessnes ....
The City of Ithaca has hired a new sustainability director who will advance the city s Green New Deal. Luis Aguirre Torres will be at the helm leading the initiative and will join the city s Department of Planning and Development in less than three weeks. Torres brings over 15 years of domestic and international experience working with government, non-profit and business sectors in green technology, policy development and implementation, emissions reduction, green entrepreneurship, and related issues, stated a press release from the City of Ithaca. In 2012 he was recognized by President Barack Obama as a “Champion of Change: Connecting the Americas” for his work in promoting the development and adoption of clean technology and sustainable business practices in Latin America. ....