{"id":34336,"date":"2018-05-02T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-sets-budget-talks-for-may-17\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T21:33:49","slug":"kent-mayor-sets-budget-talks-for-may-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-sets-budget-talks-for-may-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent mayor sets budget talks for May 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Mayor Dana Ralph has rescheduled her third and final city budget roadshow discussion to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 17, at the Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St.<\/p>\n<p>The event had been set for Thursday, May 3, but a scheduling conflict caused the change.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph and Finance Director Aaron BeMiller will host the community meeting to discuss the financial challenges of the city. Residents will hear a short presentation by BeMiller and then can participate in a question and answer session with Ralph and BeMiller about the budget and the city&rsquo;s spending priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph had previous budget talks last month on the West Hill and East Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can make comments about the budget online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentwa.gov\/government\/budget-finance\/budget-feedback\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\">KentWA.gov\/budgetfeedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event rescheduled from May 3 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":34337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34336","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\/34336"}],"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=34336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34336"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}