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I'm city council member Amber Waldron with

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a recap of our last city council
meeting the council considered

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a several items on the agenda related to
the November elections the council did

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weigh in and express support for state
initiative fourteen sixty four as well as

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state initiative seven thirty five. The
council also weighed in and expressed

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support first of all can transits proposition
one proposition one would increase

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transit service throughout Spokane County
by about twenty five percent over the

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next ten years rather than one would fund

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a series of twenty five projects in the
leaning forward plan for more information

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you can go to Sta Moving Forward dot com
The proposal would be an increase in sales

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tax and parts of the plan would also be
funded by increased ridership fares and

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grants. The main action item tonight on
the council's agenda was considering preg

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Michael as

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a new police chief as you know the council's
role is to confirm appointments by the

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mayor of Chief department
heads of the city and this is

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a very important point so councils take

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a lot of time to hear input from the
community and to participate in this the

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police chief search the decision of the
council was to confirm Mr Michael as our

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next chief and we look forward to working
with him on implementing twenty first

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century policing policies and we also
afford to working with him to rebuild the

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trust in our police department that's what
our citizens deserve and we know we will

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get there if we have

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a good citizen participation and input as
we move forward if you're ever interested

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in watching the full video from any of our
counsel means they are always available

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on the DIMIA zero site for the spoken city
council you can find that on our website

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and next week's meeting will be
October seventeenth six P.M.

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At city council chambers see that.