The Yakima City Council held a regular business meeting yesterday, Tuesday, October 17^th.

Action by the Council on October 17^th included:

• Agreeing to continue discussion about the Community Integration and Ethics & Equal Rights Exploratory Committees at the next regular business meeting on November 7^th.
• Approving temporary emergency cold weather shelters in the city of Yakima and allowing a faith-based shelter to operate during this time.
• Agreeing to lease City-owned property to Transform Yakima Together.
• Receiving the 2016 Yakima Police Department annual report.

Follow this link to watch Y-PAC coverage of the October 17^th Yakima City Council meeting – http://bit.ly/2xP21Jk

Yakima City Council meetings air live on Charter Cable Channel 194 and the October 17^th meeting will be replayed at 7:00 pm tonight, October 18^th. The meeting will be shown again at 9:00 am on the following Saturday and Sunday, October 21^st and 22^nd, and is also available on the City of Yakima website – http://www.yakimawa.gov/.

The Council’s next meeting will be a budget Study Session at 9:00 am tomorrow, Thursday, October 19^th in Council Chambers at Yakima City Hall, 129 North Second Street.

City Council October 17th Business Meeting Review – News Release