{"id":5425,"date":"2018-02-01T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:06:10","slug":"city-council-hold-first-bond-meeting-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/city-council-hold-first-bond-meeting-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council to Hold First Bond Meeting for Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council will begin discussions on bond funding for the Yakima Central Plaza project during a study session from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, February 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The study session will take place in the Council Chambers at Yakima City Hall, 129 North 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Street. It comes a little more than a month after the volunteer Downtown Plaza Committee presented the Council with a check for more than $9.6 million in private donations for the plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council in July 2016 committed $3 million in funds towards the $11.9 million project and has so far spent about $1.2 million on design, environmental review, utility relocation, and other preliminary work.<\/p>\n<p>The February 5<sup>th<\/sup> study session is a step towards funding the City&#8217;s portion of the plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the plaza is to stimulate new business development and jobs, as well as provide a gathering and event space.<\/p>\n<p>The Yakima City Council study session will be aired live at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, February 5<sup>th<\/sup> on Y-PAC, Charter Cable channel 194.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will also be streamed live at 9:30 a.m. on February 5<sup>th<\/sup> on the City of Yakima website &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Bond-Meeting-for-Plaza-News-Release.pdf\">Bond Meeting for Plaza &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council will begin discussions on bond funding for the Yakima Central Plaza project during a study session from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, February 5th. The study session will take place in the Council Chambers at Yakima City Hall, 129 North 2nd Street. It comes a little more than a<\/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":[260,50,93,8],"class_list":["post-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bonding","tag-study-session","tag-yakima-central-plaza","tag-yakima-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425","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=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}