{"id":26213,"date":"2017-01-31T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-council-annual-retreat-on-feb-4\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:45:00","slug":"kent-city-council-annual-retreat-on-feb-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-council-annual-retreat-on-feb-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent City Council annual retreat on Feb. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council will discuss the funding of parks; possible legalization of recreational marijuana sales and processing; homelessness; strengthening communications; and other issues at its annual retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are welcome to attend the retreat from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Green River College campus at Kent Station, 417 Ramsay Way. The council does not take public testimony at the planning meeting. The council will not vote on any measures.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-member council will discuss whether it has a consensus for a new direction on marijuana policy. The council passed a ban in 2014 on recreational marijuana businesses in the city even though state law allows the businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The council also will talk about the long-term funding of parks and whether it can agree on a potential source of revenue, including possibly the business and occupation tax.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics include tenant protections; how to address homelessness; how to tell the city&rsquo;s story better to the public; and improving internal communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council will discuss the funding of parks; possible legalization of recreational marijuana sales and processing; homelessness; strengthening communications; and other issues at its annual retreat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":26214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26213","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\/26213"}],"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=26213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26213"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}