{"id":5510,"date":"2011-01-12T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-mayor-cooke-to-deliver-state-of-the-city-address-feb-2\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T21:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T04:20:43","slug":"kent-mayor-cooke-to-deliver-state-of-the-city-address-feb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-mayor-cooke-to-deliver-state-of-the-city-address-feb-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Mayor Cooke to deliver State of the City address Feb. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke will deliver her annual State of the City address at 11:30 a.m Feb. 2 at the Kent Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s address will focus on issues pertinent to the business community including economic development, transportation and the local economy, according to a city of Kent media release.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected Cooke also will cover highlights and accomplishments from last year as well as key issues on the city\u2019s agenda moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very happy to again host this event for our members and the city overall,\u201d said Andrea Keikkala, executive director of the Kent Chamber. \u201cAnd you don\u2019t have to be a member of the Chamber to attend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cost is $30 per person, which includes lunch. The cost for Chamber members is $25. To register, visit www.kentchamber.com or send an e-mail to info@kentchamber.com or call 253-854-1770.<\/p>\n<p>For those unable to attend, the address will be taped for later viewing on Comcast Channel 21 and www.kenttv21.com.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke will deliver a second, more wide-ranging State of the City speech at the 7 p.m. March 15 meeting of the City Council at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke will deliver her annual State of the City address at 11:30 a.m Feb. 2 at the Kent Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":5511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5510","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\/5510"}],"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=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}