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WFHB Local News – August 12th, 2024
This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, August 12th, 2024.
Later in the program, local journalist Dave Askins of the B Square Bulletin provides an editorial on a recent appropriation ordinance from the city council. More in the bottom half of tonight’s program.
That’s Katie Hopkins from Thriving Connections, a program helping local people build bridges out of poverty. She’s looking for some supportive allies for the latest crew of program participants. Find out how to sign up later in the show on a new episode of Activate!
But first, your daily headlines:
Bloomington City Council
The Bloomington City Council met for its regular session on August 7th. During the meeting, Mayor Kerry Thomson touched on encampments and service provider recommendations for unhoused individuals. The mayor’s report comes after the city released a new housing action plan conducted by Heading Home of South Central Indiana. The action plan is a 20-page report providing a strategy for addressing street homelessness in the community. Mayor Thomson began by explaining the city’s defense of recent closures of encampments in Bloomington.
Then, Mayor Thomson provided background on the new housing action plan addressing the increase of street homelessness in the community.
The housing action plan has ten recommendations in an effort to combat the prevalence of street homeless in Bloomington. Mayor Thomson walked through these recommendations.
The mayor says the plan was conducted by local organizations and services providers using the “housing first” approach, which prioritizes providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, this approach says that people need basic necessities like food and a place to live before attending to anything less critical like getting a job, budgeting properly or attending to substance abuse issues.
Council Member Isak Asare asked whether steps from the housing action plan would be included in the city’s budget for next year.
During public comment, a local resident pushed back against the city’s planned evictions of homeless encampments using “public safety concerns” as justification for the removal of those encampments.
The city council is slated to meet for its next regular session at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 21st.
Monroe County Election Board
The Election Board held a special session on August 8th to take action on the candidate Randy Cassidy’s letter of resignation from the County Commissioner District 2 campaign. On July 30th, 2024 Democratic Chair David Henry submitted a challenge to their candidacy on the grounds that Cassidy did not meet the residency requirements.
County Attorney Molly-Turner King explained that following the Election Board meeting on August 1st, they received a stipulation of facts that was submitted by Democratic Party Chair David Henry, Candidate in question Randy Cassidy, and Cassidy’s Legal Counsel, Allison Weber.
The board voted unanimously to accept the stipulation of facts, uphold the Democratic Chair David Henry’s challenge of candidacy, and remove Randy Cassidy from the ballot.
The Election Board will meet for its next regular meeting on Thursday, September 5th.
Feature Report:
Up next, local journalist Dave Askins of the B Square Bulletin provides an editorial on a recent appropriation ordinance from the city council that dealt with three topics. For more on the “all or nothing” ordinance, we turn to Dave Askins.
Katie Hopkins knows firsthand the power of allyship in building bridges out of poverty. Back when it was called “Circles,” Katie was a participant in a local program that puts people struggling with poverty into supportive relationships. Now it is called “Thriving Connections,” and Katie is a coordinating volunteer paying it forward by helping others going through the program find THEIR allies. She’s here to ask YOU to join their crew on a new episode of Activate!, coming your way right now on the WFHB Local News.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Kade Young and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, in partnership with Cats – Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Dave Askins.
Activate is produced by Chad Carrothers and Michelle Moss.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, August 12th, 2024.
Later in the program, local journalist Dave Askins of the B Square Bulletin provides an editorial on a recent appropriation ordinance from the city council. More in the bottom half of tonight’s program.
That’s Katie Hopkins from Thriving Connections, a program helping local people build bridges out of poverty. She’s looking for some supportive allies for the latest crew of program participants. Find out how to sign up later in the show on a new episode of Activate!
But first, your daily headlines:
Bloomington City Council
The Bloomington City Council met for its regular session on August 7th. During the meeting, Mayor Kerry Thomson touched on encampments and service provider recommendations for unhoused individuals. The mayor’s report comes after the city released a new housing action plan conducted by Heading Home of South Central Indiana. The action plan is a 20-page report providing a strategy for addressing street homelessness in the community. Mayor Thomson began by explaining the city’s defense of recent closures of encampments in Bloomington.
Then, Mayor Thomson provided background on the new housing action plan addressing the increase of street homelessness in the community.
The housing action plan has ten recommendations in an effort to combat the prevalence of street homeless in Bloomington. Mayor Thomson walked through these recommendations.
The mayor says the plan was conducted by local organizations and services providers using the “housing first” approach, which prioritizes providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, this approach says that people need basic necessities like food and a place to live before attending to anything less critical like getting a job, budgeting properly or attending to substance abuse issues.
Council Member Isak Asare asked whether steps from the housing action plan would be included in the city’s budget for next year.
During public comment, a local resident pushed back against the city’s planned evictions of homeless encampments using “public safety concerns” as justification for the removal of those encampments.
The city council is slated to meet for its next regular session at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 21st.
Monroe County Election Board
The Election Board held a special session on August 8th to take action on the candidate Randy Cassidy’s letter of resignation from the County Commissioner District 2 campaign. On July 30th, 2024 Democratic Chair David Henry submitted a challenge to their candidacy on the grounds that Cassidy did not meet the residency requirements.
County Attorney Molly-Turner King explained that following the Election Board meeting on August 1st, they received a stipulation of facts that was submitted by Democratic Party Chair David Henry, Candidate in question Randy Cassidy, and Cassidy’s Legal Counsel, Allison Weber.
The board voted unanimously to accept the stipulation of facts, uphold the Democratic Chair David Henry’s challenge of candidacy, and remove Randy Cassidy from the ballot.
The Election Board will meet for its next regular meeting on Thursday, September 5th.
Feature Report:
Up next, local journalist Dave Askins of the B Square Bulletin provides an editorial on a recent appropriation ordinance from the city council that dealt with three topics. For more on the “all or nothing” ordinance, we turn to Dave Askins.
Katie Hopkins knows firsthand the power of allyship in building bridges out of poverty. Back when it was called “Circles,” Katie was a participant in a local program that puts people struggling with poverty into supportive relationships. Now it is called “Thriving Connections,” and Katie is a coordinating volunteer paying it forward by helping others going through the program find THEIR allies. She’s here to ask YOU to join their crew on a new episode of Activate!, coming your way right now on the WFHB Local News.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Kade Young and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, in partnership with Cats – Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Dave Askins.
Activate is produced by Chad Carrothers and Michelle Moss.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
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