{"id":16925,"date":"2015-07-29T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-city-council-seeks-pro-con-statements-about-potential-fireworks-ban\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:50:34","slug":"kent-city-council-seeks-pro-con-statements-about-potential-fireworks-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-council-seeks-pro-con-statements-about-potential-fireworks-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent City Council seeks pro, con statements about potential fireworks ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>People are wanted to serve on the pro and con committees to prepare written arguments in support and in opposition to a city of Kent fireworks ban, which will be included in the King County Elections local voters&#8217; pamphlet for Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent City Council voted unanimously at a Tuesday meeting to refer an advisory proposition to voters on the Nov. 3 general election ballot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Applications to the city are due by 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3. Apply online at <a title=\"ban\" href=\"http:\/\/kentwa.gov\/ProCon\/\" target=\"_self\">Kentwa.gov\/ProCon<\/a>. For more information, contact city clerk Ronald Moore at 253-856-5728 or rmoore@kentwa.gov.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The council will appoint up to three people to each committee at its meeting at 5 p.m. on Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Each committee\u2019s statement must be no more than 200 words and be submitted to King County Elections no later than 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 13. Any rebuttal statements are due by Aug. 17. There is a limit of three members, but committees may seek advice of any number of people to assist in developing the statements.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The question on the ballot will read:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Shall the sale, possession and discharge of consumer fireworks be prohibited in the city of Kent?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Voters will check either yes or no.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are wanted to serve on the pro and con committees to prepare written arguments in support and in opposition to a city of Kent fireworks ban, which will be included in the King County Elections local voters&#8217; pamphlet for Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":16926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16925"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}