Posts Tagged ‘Viola Richardson’

Snyder High School Students and Teachers Complete Mural Project at MLK HUB

By Jon Whiten • Aug 24th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

Clockwise from top left: Students Fatoumata Camara, Olivia Green, Simone Inmann and Calvin Laforte; teacher Kimberly Wiseman

There’s a new splash of color at the MLK HUB shopping center, as a mural project undertaken by students and teachers from Snyder High School was unveiled earlier this month. The project was conceived by Robert Antonicello, the [...]



BOE Report: Epps Contract Controversy is Far from Over

By Suzanne Wulach • Jul 29th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

Despite the Board of Education’s (BOE) June 22 6-2-1 vote in favor of negotiating a new contract with superintendent Charles Epps, tensions at the board’s public meeting last night suggest that the contract controversy is far from over.



Council Report: Temporary Budget Approved, Bank of America Boycott and More

By Shane Smith • Jul 2nd, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

Thursday’s City Council meeting, the first of the 2011 fiscal year, also marked the beginning of the council’s summer hours, when caucuses and meetings are held at 10 am. It was a regular meeting of the council although there was no caucus and it didn’t take place at the usual time. About a dozen people, most of them city employees, were present to observe the proceedings as the council considered four resolutions; no ordinances were considered.



Council Report: DPW/JCIA Bonding Approved, Embankment Deal Moves Forward and More

By Shane Smith • Jun 25th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

Wednesday’s City Council meeting, the last evening meeting before the daytime summer schedule sets in, was long on both content and comment. Clocking in at around two and a half hours, the meeting saw several members of the public on hand to address the council on issues ranging from significant bond ordinances to the problems faced by the city’s homeless. The full council was present to consider seven first reading ordinances, three second reads and 39 resolutions.



Council Report: Police and Fire Contracts Rejected, JC1TV Do-Over and More

By Shane Smith • Apr 16th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

Although the municipal budget has been at the center of much council brouhaha lately, the hottest issue at this week’s meeting was the council’s consideration of the labor contracts with the city’s police and fire unions. A brief flareup between former mayor Gerry McCann and Ward E councilman Steven Fulop, perennial rivals, added to the atmosphere of tension in the room.



Council Report: Budget Brouhaha Continues, Elections Move Denied and More

By Shane Smith • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

Although this Wednesday’s council meeting was not as packed as the last two were, a relatively large crowd of about 200 were present in council chambers for at least part of the five-hour proceeding as the council considered nine first-read ordinances, 13 second reads and 27 resolutions.



Tuesday Morning News Roundup

By Jon Whiten • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Blog

- Full-Time Council? Ward F councilwoman Viola Richardson is introducing an ordinance to make City Council jobs full-time, and another to increase the maximum salary for council members from $22,500 to $90,000 and for council president from $24,500 to $100,000. Both would begin July 1, 2013, and are meeting resistance from the administration.
- Re-introducing Bills: [...]



Council Report: Fever-Pitch Budget Fracas, Tramz Hotel Dustup and Much More

By Shane Smith • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

The proposed municipal budget was once again the star of the show at Wednesday’s council meeting, drawing a rowdy crowd of 500 or so to the council chambers — dozens of whom spoke out in protest of what is likely to turn out to be a hefty tax hike. But there was plenty more going on as well.



Council (Mini)Report: Incinerator Authority Appointment Gets Heated and More

By Shane Smith • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

After last week’s snowpocalypse canceled a City Council meeting for the first time since 1996, a special meeting was arranged for Wednesday evening to handle time-sensitive business that needed to be addressed before the next regularly scheduled meeting on Feb. 24. The thin agenda made for the shortest council meeting in recent memory, clocking in at a mere 29 minutes. There was no public hearing portion of the meeting, and only about 15 community members were in attendance.



Council Report: Budget Brouhaha and More

By Shane Smith • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

Anger, disbelief and high drama were in the air at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, which lasted a bit less than four hours and provided a forum for hundreds of community members to raise a hue and cry over the proposed municipal budget that was introduced at the Jan. 13 council meeting — a budget that includes a 25 percent property tax increase.

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