{"id":8617,"date":"2008-09-14T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/have-your-say-hearings-on-kent-city-plans-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:35:29","slug":"have-your-say-hearings-on-kent-city-plans-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/have-your-say-hearings-on-kent-city-plans-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your say: Hearings on Kent city plans Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council has scheduled public hearings for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Council chambers to take comment on the city\u2019s 2009 budget issues and the 2009-2014 Capital Improvement Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Council Chambers are located at Kent City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are invited to comment about what they would like to see in the 2009 budget. The city finance department prepares a preliminary budget balancing final revenue forecasts with expenditures before the mayor sends a proposed budget to the Council. Mayor Suzette Cooke is slated to present her budget on Oct. 7 to the Council.<\/p>\n<p>The city conducts public hearings on its annual budget in September, October and, finally, November, before the document sees final action.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Tuesday residents can comment on the Capital Improvement Plan, which includes numerous projects for streets, utilities and parks.<\/p>\n<p>A balanced Capital Plan with updated priorities and available revenue will be incorporated into the annual budget.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call the City of Kent Finance Department at 253-856-5264 or go to www.ci.kent.wa.us\/<\/p>\n<p>financebudget\/index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent City Council has scheduled public hearings for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Council chambers to take comment on the city\u2019s 2009 budget issues and the 2009-2014 Capital Improvement Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"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-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617"}],"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=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}