{"id":5558,"date":"2018-02-22T16:53:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:53:55","slug":"neighborhood-forums-continue-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/neighborhood-forums-continue-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood Forums to Continue This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council continued its series of neighborhood forums last night, Wednesday, February 21<sup>st<\/sup>. The forum was at McClure Elementary School gymnasium and was hosted by Yakima City Councilmember Carmen Mend\u00e9z.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate the public taking time to participate in these neighborhood forums,&#8221; said Mend\u00e9z. &#8220;Their comments help the City Council understand concerns about public safety issues. The community&#8217;s input about potential solutions to those issues is vital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mend\u00e9z is also hosting a second forum tonight, Thursday, February 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, at 6:00 pm at Lewis &amp; Clark Middle School gymnasium, 1114 Pierce Street. The forum will be in English with Spanish-language translation provided.<\/p>\n<p>Other forums planned over the span of a week include a neighborhood forum this Saturday, February 24<sup>th<\/sup>, at 1:00 pm at Franklin Middle School, 410 S. 19<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue. Councilmember Kay Funk will host the forum, which will be in English with Spanish-language translation.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s series of forums concludes Tuesday, February 27<sup>th<\/sup>, when Councilmember Dulce Gutierrez will host a neighborhood forum at Washington Middle School, 510 S. 9<sup>th<\/sup> Street. The forum will begin at 6:00 pm. It will be conducted in Spanish, with English-language translation provided.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council announced plans last year for several neighborhood forums to be held throughout Yakima in order to gather feedback from community members as part of developing a long-term strategy addressing public safety issues.<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood forums this month will bring the overall total of forums to eight, including three last fall and one last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Additional forums are currently being planned.\u00a0They include one on Wednesday, March 7<sup>th<\/sup>, at 6:00 pm at Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 North 48<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue. It will be hosted by Yakima City Council members Holly Cousens and Brad Hill. It will be conducted in English with Spanish-language translation provided.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the neighborhood forum tonight, Thursday, February 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, at Lewis &amp; Clark Middle School, contact Yakima City Councilmember Carmen Mend\u00e9z at 823-7040.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Neighborhood-Forums-Continue-News-Release.pdf\">Neighborhood Forums Continue &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima City Council continued its series of neighborhood forums last night, Wednesday, February 21st. The forum was at McClure Elementary School gymnasium and was hosted by Yakima City Councilmember Carmen Mend\u00e9z. &#8220;We appreciate the public taking time to participate in these neighborhood forums,&#8221; said Mend\u00e9z. &#8220;Their comments help the City Council understand concerns about<\/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-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","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=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}