{"id":5610,"date":"2010-12-20T19:26:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-hires-state-lobbyist-for-66k-per-year\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:05:33","slug":"kent-hires-state-lobbyist-for-66k-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-hires-state-lobbyist-for-66k-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent hires state lobbyist for $66K per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council has approved a $66,000 per year contract with Doug Levy to serve as a state lobbyist for the city in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Levy has received an annual consulting services agreement from the city each year since 2000. The Council approved the contract Dec. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Levy&#8217;s services for the city include meeting with Kent legislators prior to each session; identifying key issues; monitor and report legislation of concern during each session; and assist with pursuit of funding for city projects at the state and federal level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council has approved a $66,000 per year contract with Doug Levy to serve as a state lobbyist for the city in 2011.<br \/>\nLevy has received an annual consulting services agreement from the city each year since 2000. The Council approved the contract Dec. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"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-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610"}],"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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}