{"id":16687,"date":"2008-11-05T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/town-hall-meeting-for-kent-residents-is-saturday\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:15:37","slug":"town-hall-meeting-for-kent-residents-is-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/town-hall-meeting-for-kent-residents-is-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Town hall meeting for Kent residents is Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can tell the Kent City Council what they think about crime, traffic or any other issue at a town hall meeting 9 a.m. Saturday at the Kent Station branch of Green River Community College, Room 238, 417 Ramsay Way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These meetings provide an opportunity for residents to come and speak to us in a very casual setting about their concerns, suggestions and hopes for our city,&#8221; Council President Debbie Raplee said in a press release. &#8220;Most of the time, our interactions at Council meetings are very formal, with limitations on time and subject matter. Council members see these meetings as a way to expand our outreach and increase residents participation in local government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A moderator will lead the discussion. The meeting will run 9 to 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two dozen residents attended the Council&#8217;s first town hall meeting Oct. 14 at Kent Fire Station No. 73 on the West Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can tell the Kent City Council what they think about crime, traffic or any other issue at a town hall meeting 9 a.m. Saturday at the Kent Station branch of Green River Community College, Room 238, 417 Ramsay Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16687"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}