Prineville officer attack sheds light on funding problems
NewsChannel 21 #39;s Kandra Kent found out why a Prineville police officer responded to a call alone that left him fighting for his life.
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When developer Sam Dunn came before the Marthas Vineyard Commission last year seeking permission to build his bowling alley in Oak Bluffs, one key selling point was the plan to build a nitrogen-removing septic system. The plan was considered environmentally responsible because it would protect the town harbor and Sunset Lake. Yet less than a year later, Mr. Dunn changed direction on his septic plans, applying to the Oak Bluffs wastewater commission for permission to connect to the town sewer system. After heated debate last week, a divided sewer commission agreed in a two-to-one vote to grant Mr. Dunns request despite the fact that the Uncas avenue site where the bowling alley, restaurant and entertainment center are in the final stages of construction, was not an approved area for town sewer expansion.
The advantage for Mr. Dunn is obvious: connecting to the sewer system will cost him about twenty-five thousand dollars compared to building a state-of-the art septic system at more than two hundred thousand dollars.
But the benefit to the town is much more murky. The town sewer commission, making an exception to its own rules, effectively traded away capacity at the plant that could have been used for other projects to satisfy a single business interest.
One of those projects involves an emerging plan to protect the Lagoon Pond by connecting private homes near the pond to the town wastewater plant. Spanning the towns Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven, the Lagoon is the most severely compromised pond on the Island due to nitrogen from residential septic systems. This year both towns have joined forces on an initiative expected to create a special overlay planning district to keep more nitrogen from entering the pond. Sewering is a primary objective of the initiative.
Placed in that context, the action by the Oak Bluffs wastewater commission last week seems especially short-sighted. Last night the Marthas Vineyard Commission was expected to follow the recommendation of its land use planning subcommittee and agree to the change in the septic plan without a public hearing. This is especially ironic given the fact that the commission itself is embarking on a major planning initiative to protect the Islands saltwater ponds from further degradation due to nitrogen.
The Vineyards clean environment is a major attraction for summer tourism and second homeowners who are the backbone of our economy. If Island towns cannot take a firm stand to protect their ponds, in the future we could be bowling alone.
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Kiryas Joel adopts Draft Environmental Impact Statement for annexation; report gives no indication of growth
Published Mar 26, 2015 at 3:08 pm (Updated Mar 26, 2015)
By Bob Quinn KIRYAS JOEL The Village of Kiryas Joel has adopted the final scope of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DGEIS) for the annexation of 507 acres from the unincorporated section of the Town of Monroe into the Village.
Now that the Final Scope has been adopted," village officials said in a press released issued by the Albany-based Corning Place Communications firm, the next step in the SEQRA process is for the Villages consultants to prepare the DGEIS for consideration by the Village Board as SEQRA lead agency. A subsequent public hearing on the DGEIS will be scheduled once it is accepted by the lead agency. The accepted DGEIS and subsequent SEQRA documents will continue to be shared publicly on the website.
No word on developmentThe scope does not indicate what would - or could - happen if the land is annexed from the town into the village. Theres no mention of housing, schools or roads.
Those questions are asked as part of a 13-page Full Environmental Assessment Form: Part 1 - Project and Setting.
Under the section labelled "Proposed and Potential Development," the following questions are posed. Each is followed by a box to mark Yes and another to mark No.
Does the project include new residential uses?
No. Does the proposed action include construction or other activities that will result in the impoundment of any liquids, such as creation of a water supply, reservoir, pond, lake, waste lagoon or storage?
No. Will the propose action use, or create a new demand for water?
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UK Provinces continue to overshadow
HotStats UK Chain Hotels Market Review February 2015
Hotels in the UK Provinces continued to post positive year-on-year movements across all key performance indicators in February, with the largest increase recorded in gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR). Once again, this growth outshined London's results which showed a general decline with average room rate (ARR) being the only exception, according to the latest data from HotStats.
The North East was among the best performing regions and contributed to the positive bottom-line performance of the Provinces by registering a 20.7% increase in GOPPAR. A combined surge in occupancy of 2.6 percentage points and 5.6% in ARR resulted in an uplift in revenue per available room (RevPAR) of an impressive 9.3% to 53.28. With non-rooms revenues also climbing, total revenue per available room (TRevPAR) rose by 6.4% to 93.74, compared to the same period last year.
This increase in revenue performance was further enhanced by effective payroll management and efficient operating cost control, with departmental operating profit per available room (DOPPAR) surging by 9.6% to 49.13. Although overheads per available room rose by 2.7%, profit conversion went up to 22.0% from 19.4% delivering this impressive GOPPAR growth.
RevPAR rises, profits drop in Heathrow hotels
In February, Heathrow hotels demonstrated once again that RevPAR alone can be a misleading indicator of hotel health with a rise of 1.5%, as TRevPAR and GOPPAR levels fell by 0.5% and 0.6% respectively, according to the latest data from HotStats.
A surge in demand of 0.9 percentage points with a 0.3% increase in ARR delivered the RevPAR growth. In addition, travel agency commission per occupied room reduced by 4.3% to 4.72. However, a general decrease in non-rooms revenue per available room from food (-6.0%) and beverage (-0.2%) led TRevPAR levels to decline to 82.84 (-0.5%). While hoteliers managed to marginally lessen payroll costs, a 1.0% increase in overheads per available room further impacted the GOPPAR decline of 0.6% to 24.55, representing a gross profit conversion of 29.6% for the month.
Manchester performs
Manchester hotels recorded a strong February with TRevPAR and GOPPAR levels rising by 12.9% and 30.3% respectively, according to the latest data from HotStats.
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Yvette Cormier claims she suffered emotional damage after sharing a gym locker room with a trans woman who entered briefly to hang up her coat.
Carlotta Sklodowska (left); Yvette Cormier
Yvette Cormier, the Midland, Mich., resident who received national attention after her Planet Fitness membership was revoked following repeated complaints about seeing at trans woman in the women's locker room, is suing the fitness chain, reportsThe Saginaw News.
Claiming, among other assertions, that she experienced emotional harm, damage to her reputation, invasion of privacy, and breach of contract, Cormier is seeking more than $25,000 in retribution in Midland County Circuit Court. Her suit relates to the March 4 cancellation of her gym membership, a decision the Planet Fitness Midland location's management made in line with its "no judgment" nondiscrimination policy which includes allowing gym-goers to use the locker room that accords with their "sincere, self-reported gender."
Cormier, 48, says she was unaware of this policy when she spotted someone she thought was a "man" local transgender woman Carlotta Sklodowska in the women's locker room February 28. After being informed by her gym's staffas well as the Planet Fitness national headquarters that the woman in question had not violated any policies, Cormier returned to the gym the for four consecutive days to "warn" other cisgender (nontrans) women that trans women were allowed to share the women's facilities. On the fourth day, Cormier was told by staff that, due to her behavior, she no longer had a membership.
Planet Fitness's decision made headlines nationally, prompting Sklodowskato come forward to The Saginaw News to clarify that she meant no harm. "I'm not actually a member. I was there was a guest of my friends," she said, adding that she had asked whether she could use the women's locker room prior to entering and had only used the facilities to hanging up her coat and purse. The gym's policy would still have protected her had she used the locker rooms to change clothing.
Responding to Planet Fitness's claim that her behavior had been "inappropriate and disruptive to other members, [in] violation of the membership agreement," Cormier told the media she acted of concern for her own safety and that of other cisgender women and children a claim she repeats in her lawsuit.
"I feel [the policy] is kind of one-sided. I feel I am the one who is being punished," she explained to theNews,noting that she wished the policy had been made explicit to her when she signed up for a gym membership. She later added to CNN, "I didn't go out to specifically bash a transgender person that day. I was taken aback by the situation. This is about me and how I felt unsafe. I should feel safe in there."
Cormier's safety claims draw on imagery often decried by trans advocates as inflammatory and baseless: that of predatory trans women who enter public women's facilities to threaten others' safety or privacy. In reality, however, trans people far more often face serious safety issues in public bathrooms and locker rooms and are more likely than their cisgender peers to be harassed or physically attacked in gender-segregated facilities.
Cormier's lawsuit was filed by Kallman Legal Group the same week the the Michigan Civil Rights Commission endorsed model legislation for statewide nondiscrimination protections that would include sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, notes Zack Ford atThinkProgress. The commission had already begun urging legislators in November to add sexual orientation to Michigan's Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act a move the House considered in December (in addition to a bill that would add gender identity protections as well), but ultimately failed to pass, according to ThinkProgress. Cormier's lawyers state in a press release that her case "further illustrates the potential harm caused by adding the proposed new categories of sexual orientation/gender identity" to the Civil Rights Act.
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A new restaurant is opening this summer in Detroit's First National Building.
Central Kitchen + Bar is slated to start serving in July.
The opening was announced Thursday by local entrepreneurs Dennis Archer, Jr. and Christopher Brochert with partner and general manager, Ken Karam, and the restaurant is expected to bring approximately 50 new jobs to citys central business district.
We could not be more excited to help breathe life back into this space and open our doors in the heart of the city, said Archer, Jr. We have incredible partners from Bedrock to our design and culinary teams with a shared commitment to growing the citys food scene in a way that is inclusive and accessible to every kind of diner.
The design plans to include nearly 130 seats, 24 of which will be patio seating with views of Cadillac Square and Campus Martius Park.
Construction began on March 16 and will continue until the opening in July.
The restaurant is currently accepting applications for bartenders, servers, hosts, kitchen staff and management-level positions.
For more information on Central or employment opportunities, please visit http://www.centraldetroit.com.
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