{"id":15892,"date":"2025-12-03T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=15892"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:18:34","slug":"review-of-dec-2nd-2025-yakima-city-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/review-of-dec-2nd-2025-yakima-city-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Dec. 2nd, 2025, Yakima City Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Yakima City Council held a regular meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actions during the Dec. 2<sup>nd<\/sup> regular meeting agenda included:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Removing the following from the agenda:<br>&#8211; Ordinance imposing a one-tenth of one percent local sales and use tax to fund criminal justice purposes<br>&#8211; Ordinance imposing a Council-directed increase in Water and Wastewater tax rates to fund Council specific programs and amending YMC 7.64.020<br>&#8211; Ordinance imposing a Council-directed increase in the Stormwater tax rate to fund Council directed programs and amending YMC 7.64.040<br>&#8211; Ordinance imposing a Council-directed increase in Refuse tax rate to fund Council directed programs and amending YMC 7.64.030&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keeping the Harman Center open in 2026&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Funding Washington Fruit Community Center through June 2026, including after-school programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keeping Yakima Fire Department Station 92 open and seeking $1.8 million in YFD operational reductions without station closures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adopting the 2026 Mid-Biennial Budget&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the following to watch on-demand Y-PAC coverage of the meeting \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/videos.yakimawa.gov\/internetchannel\/show\/14484?channel=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">videos.yakimawa.gov\/internetchannel\/show\/14484?channel=2<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dec. 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Yakima City Council meeting airs on Yakima Public Affairs Channel (Y-PAC), Charter Spectrum channel 194, beginning at 7:00 pm today, Wednesday, Dec. 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council meetings can also be viewed on the City of Yakima YouTube channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/CityofYakimaWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City of Yakima \u2013 YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City Council\u2019s next meeting is a regular meeting on Tuesday, December 9<sup>th<\/sup>, at 5:30 pm in Yakima City Hall Council Chambers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-740b0e3e-5237-43f9-aff5-929fd5b66430\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Dec-2-2025-Council-Meeting-Review-News-Release.pdf\">Dec 2, 2025 Council Meeting Review &#8211; News Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Dec-2-2025-Council-Meeting-Review-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-740b0e3e-5237-43f9-aff5-929fd5b66430\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council held a regular meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd.&nbsp; Actions during the Dec. 2nd regular meeting agenda included:&nbsp; Click the following to watch on-demand Y-PAC coverage of the meeting \u2013&nbsp;videos.yakimawa.gov\/internetchannel\/show\/14484?channel=2&nbsp; The Dec. 2nd Yakima City Council meeting airs on Yakima Public Affairs Channel (Y-PAC), Charter Spectrum channel 194, beginning at 7:00 pm<\/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-15892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892","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=15892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15897,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions\/15897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}