Today's meeting of the Richland School Board has been changed to 7 p.m.
The board will discuss real estate, following a 6 p.m. closed-door meeting on a real estate issue. The meeting is at the district office, 615 Snow Ave.
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HAPO, Windermere form enrichment foundation
HAPO, Windermere form enrichment foundation
HAPO Community Credit Union and Windermere Real Estate Tri-Cities have formed the HAPO /Windermere Tri-Cities Community Enrichment Foundation.
Dave Schulz, president and CEO of HAPO, Dave Retter, owner and managing broker of Windermere, and key people from both businesses will sit on the foundation board. Their plan is to make donations to organizations in the Tri-Cities, which will increase the educational and health of the community.
The foundation's first donation was $50,000 toward Columbia Basin College's new planetarium project.
KID to record calls from irate customers
KID to record calls from irate customers
The Kennewick Irrigation District board is starting 2012 by forming a citizen-based planning committee, a new practice of recording calls from irate customers and it hopes to start charging for election recounts.
Tuesday's board meeting also saw Gene Huffman chosen as board president and Patrick McGuire as vice president.
Chuck Freeman, district secretary-manager, said recording phone calls would be useful for training, for assessing employees' performance and for documenting unfriendly callers who "could present threats to KID staff or business."
AGENDAS: Mid-Columbia public meeting schedule
AGENDAS: Mid-Columbia public meeting schedule
Here is a listing of the agendas this week for Mid-Columbia public agencies:
Tuesday
* Benton County Commission: canceled.
Grace Clinic plans move, expanded services
Grace Clinic plans move, expanded services
KENNEWICK -- Grace Clinic could soon be moving and expanding its health care offerings for low-income and uninsured Tri-Citians.
The Benton Franklin Health Board on Wednesday in a 5-1 vote gave preliminary approval to a $1-per-year lease for the clinic in the health district's old building on Canal Street in Kennewick.
Board member Leo Bowman voted no, expressing concerns about the looming possibility of budget cuts passed down from the state.
Kennewick schools set levy requests
Kennewick schools set levy requests
The Kennewick School District will be asking voters to raise their current property tax rate Feb. 14 to stave off severe cuts in classrooms in the face of declining state budgets.
The school board Wednesday unanimously adopted the recommendations of district staff for an operations levy of $22 million in 2013 and $23.4 million in 2014.
School districts only set levy amounts, not rates. According to current estimates for the total assessed value of all real estate within district boundaries, the tax rate in 2013 would be $3.38 per $1,000 of assessed property value, or $338 for a $100,000 home.
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