{"id":12578,"date":"2022-11-29T09:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2022-11-29T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:50:22","slug":"councilmember-byers-hosts-community-forum-on-thursday-dec-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/councilmember-byers-hosts-community-forum-on-thursday-dec-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilmember Byers Hosts Community Forum on Thursday, Dec. 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yakima City Councilmember Patricia Byers will host a community forum this Thursday, December 1<sup>st<\/sup>. It will be 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at Chuck Austin Place, 1630 South 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue, in the facility\u2019s Flex Room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe forum will provide an opportunity for community members to ask questions and provide feedback,\u201d said Byers. \u201cIt will give people a chance to bring up issues and to learn more about what the Council and the City are working on now and what kinds of things should be focused on moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Light refreshments will be served during the forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Byers expects public safety, traffic, road construction, economic development and other issues to be raised during the forum. In addition to Byers, City staff members will be at the forum to address questions that might come up and to provide information on specific City projects and policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Byers represents District 3 on the Yakima City Council. She was elected to City Council in November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be the second community forum hosted by a Yakima City Council member in the past two months. Councilmember Matt Brown (District 6) held a forum at the Harman Center on September 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThursday\u2019s forum will be yet another opportunity to connect with community members,\u201d said Byers. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/council\/\">City Council &#8211; City of Yakima, Washington (yakimawa.gov)<\/a> for more about the Yakima City Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-761bef6d-e1c1-4c71-9714-3260c2cb82e5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Councilmember-Byers-Community-Forum-News-Release.pdf\">Councilmember-Byers-Community-Forum-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Councilmember-Byers-Community-Forum-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-761bef6d-e1c1-4c71-9714-3260c2cb82e5\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Forum-Byers-12-1-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Forum-Byers-12-1-22-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12580\" width=\"644\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Forum-Byers-12-1-22-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Forum-Byers-12-1-22-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Forum-Byers-12-1-22-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Forum-Byers-12-1-22-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Forum-Byers-12-1-22-2048x1536.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakima City Councilmember Patricia Byers will host a community forum this Thursday, December 1st. It will be 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at Chuck Austin Place, 1630 South 16th Avenue, in the facility\u2019s Flex Room. \u201cThe forum will provide an opportunity for community members to ask questions and provide feedback,\u201d said Byers. \u201cIt will give<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12581,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions\/12581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}