Puyallup city leaders are discussing whether to move the Police Department into the four-year-old City Hall.
If true, the charges are ugly: a police officer cashing in on the deaths of four colleagues and feathering his nest with shiny toys. Skeeter Timothy Manos, 34, was charged Wednesday with 10 federal counts of wire fraud, involving the theft of at least $151,000 from a charitable fund intended for the families of four Lakewood officers slain in 2009.
Puyallup City Hall is home to an art gallery, a Subway restaurant, a yogurt shop and roughly 60 city workers.
Four Lakewood city employees will be handed pink slips today as officials work to close a budget shortfall of slightly more than $1 million.
Mired in a fiscal swamp of their own making, Tacoma City Council members recoiled Tuesday from the prospect of cutting all city funding for local events such as the Daffodil Festival, Ethnic Fest and neighborhood farmers markets.
Big-box stores and other large retail development would face a new set of hurdles before being allowed in Tacoma, under proposed rules presented Tuesday to the City Council.
Residents and officials debated Tuesday whether it would be fair for Pierce County to charge all residents the same tax rate to create and operate a new flood-control zone district.
As expected, Tacoma’s City Council accepted $1.6 million of concessions Tuesday from the city’s fire union aimed to help spare 44 firefighters from a first round of layoffs amid an ongoing budget crisis.
Last summer, after nine years of delays and false starts, it finally looked as if the City of Tacoma might be close to building parking garages to replace at least some of the Tacoma Dome parking lost to the LeMay-America’s Car Museum.
During this month’s snow and ice storm, Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy decided to pay about 2,000 county workers their normal pay for the two days she ordered them not to report to work.
The City Council unanimously approved a new contract with Tacoma’s police union Tuesday and accepted a package of concessions aimed to help spare more than 50 officers from a first wave of layoffs amid a city budget crisis.
Thousands of trees lost limbs or toppled during this week’s storm, leaving a major clean-up problem on roads, in parks and on private property throughout the South Sound.
Tacoma’s police union has agreed to delay about $1.2 million in cost-of-living pay raises and to waive other expected payments in 2012 to help spare 54 officers from layoffs.
City and labor officials are keeping mum for now about the details of concessions offered by Tacoma’s police union this week as a way to avoid at least 56 police layoffs the city proposed to deal with its budget crisis.
When the project was put into motion, there were no budget problems in the City of Tacoma. There were no threats of layoffs of police officers and fire fighters. No plans to dissolve four engine companies, to close two fire stations, to reduce service in two others.
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