Posts Tagged ‘tompkins county legislature’
Tompkins County Legislature Passes Reimagining Plan with some Amendments
Access the full meeting here.
Read MoreCounty Administrator, Jason Molino, Talks One Year of COVID-19
Jason Molino, Tompkins County’s Administrator, released a letter to the community to mark a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect life in Tompkins County. He sat down with WRFI News Director Jimmy Jordan to talk about that letter
Read MoreWRFI and Ithaca Voice reporters talk about the Reimagining Public Safety Draft Report and Townhall
The City of Ithaca and Tompkins County legislator held a joint town hall on February, 25th to field questions from the public on the draft report. WRFI News Director, Jimmy Jordan, speaks with Anna Lamb, and Matt Butler of the Ithaca Voice about that meeting, parts of the report, the public’s questions, and the challenges…
Read MoreShawna Black talks Tompkins County Health — Why Merge Departments?
Shawna Black is a Tompkins county Legislator and chair of it’s Health and Human Services Committee. An important change may be coming to how Tompkins County organizes its health departments. There’s a recommendation to merge the county Departments of Public Health and Mental Health . Shawna Black was on the task force that made this…
Read MoreHow to Manage the County’s Forests? [AUDIO]
Tompkins County has a looming question. There over 550 acres of county owned forest in the towns of Newfield and Caroline, but about 300 acres of this have an abnormal ecology for the area. They’re filled with red pine trees planted back in the 1930s and these trees are beginning to fail and fall over.…
Read MoreTruthSayers News Interview with Mike Koplinka-Loehr [AUDIO]
06/13/17: Josh Brokaw of TruthSayers News interviews Mike Koplinka-Loehr, who’s running for county legislature against Mike Sigler in Lansing’s 6th district. This is the first in a series of interviews of Tompkins County Legislature candidates. [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/wrficommunityradionews/061317-truthsayers-mike-koplinka-loehr-interview-josh-brokaw/ width=100% height=60 hide_cover=1 mini=1 light=1]
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