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6 • December 2012
Company Ballet will be performing during Millwood’s sixth annual Christmas Tree Lighting at 6 p.m. Dec. 7. Santa will be on hand to start the countdown to lighting the tree on the Inland Empire Paper Company’s front lawn, 3320 N. Argonne Road. The festivities include music, caroling, hot chocolate and cookies. For more information, call Shirene Young at 924-1911, ext. 309.
The City Council is scheduled to vote on recommendations made by Spokane Valley’s Lodging Tax Advisory Committee in December. The committee is tasked with helping the city determine how to spend hotel-motel taxes, and the process has turned controversial in year’s past as organizations such as Valleyfest and the Spokane Valley Heritage Museum were passed over in favor of recipients the committee judges to do a better job of creating overnight stays in the city — thereby replenishing the fund. Neither Valleyfest nor the museum was recommended again this year.
A 1 percent property tax increase and an EMS levy were adopted by Rockford’s Town Council. A budget workshop was also held for council members to discuss measures to generate revenue and cut costs for the town.
Reporting at the Oct. 25 Freeman School Board meeting, Nutrition Services Supervisor Raeann Ducar stated two goals for her department are to strive to be cost neutral and to submit USDA spreadsheets for menus to be certified that they comply with the new meal pattern requirements. Such certification would generate six cents more per meal in reimbursements. She reported she has been successful in narrowing the gap between revenues and expenses, cutting it in half from last year.
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