Clark County to use taxes to lobby against voters.
C-Tran snubs voters December 11 who said No to funding Light Rail and BRT in the General Election. The C-Tran Board voted to rush ahead on the CRC Light Rail Tolling project and BRT anyway.
As part of the general effort to restructure and expand parks and recreation services that has been underway since February of 2010, city staff is considering introducing an initiative to form a Vancouver Metropolitan Park District (MPD). First enacted into Washington State law in 1907, MPD’s are governmental entities created ...
Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation plans to cut 17 full-time positions and 500 recreational programs in an effort to address a projected $1.2 million budget shortfall this year. Pete Mayer, director of Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation (VCPR), delivered the somber news Monday to a full house of spectators during a late ...
The C-Tran board wants to make it perfectly clear that a sales tax measure it hopes to bring to voters this November to support high capacity transit in Clark County will not be a referendum on light rail. However, unless the board comes up with a back-up funding plan, a ...
After nearly two hours of debate Monday, the Vancouver City Council unanimously approved a controversial ban on all tobacco use in public parks, effective Jan. 9, 2012. The decision was part of the council’s approval of comprehensive changes to the Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation codes, which include bans on the ...
Puffing on a cigarette or not cleaning up after Fido in a city park could lead to steeper penalties if the Vancouver City Council approves proposed updates to the city’s municipal park code. On Nov. 28, the council reviewed a number of park code revisions recommended by Vancouver-Clark Parks and ...
The Vancouver Police Department will have to “rethink, redesign, and retool” in order to best use its limited resources, said Police Chief Clifford Cook during an hour-long update before the Vancouver City Council on Aug. 15. Cook listed many of the significant cutbacks the department has had to make since ...
The future of Vancouver’s downtown parking system was the focus of Monday’s City Council workshop during which council members discussed the importance of maintaining on-street parking for visitors and business patrons. The council heard from the Parking Services Department to gain perspective on the city’s parking situation and to look ...
Vancouver’s City Council stepped into the batter’s box last night to hear its first formal presentation by Short Season LLC, a California company which hopes to move forward with plans to relocate the Yakima Bears minor league baseball team to Vancouver. The presentation was an overview of a proposal to ...
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