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A group of urban planners and architects will descend upon Rio Vista over four days next month to examine the Delta hamlet's resources and challenges and provide growth, planning, transportation and economic development guidance for the future.

The upcoming visit makes Rio Vista the first East Bay city to receive help from the American Institute of Architect's Communities by Design program based in Washington, D.C. As one of a few cities nationwide selected for the Regional Urban Design Assistance Team project this year, Rio Vista will host the team of land use experts, transportation planners, urban designers, planning directors, historic preservationists, architects and economic development resources from Feb. 27 to March 3.

"We would like to see Highway 12 upgraded. Our waterfront needs development and our downtown needs revitalization. They will put together an achievable project for Rio Vista" RioVision Steering Committee member MaryEllen Lamothe said. "It benefits everybody. There is no place to go but up and forward. It has been stagnant for awhile."

Since community input is an integral part of the process and this is a grass-roots effort, Rio Vista residents are encouraged to attend a Feb. 28 town hall meeting at 6 p.m. in the D.H. White School auditorium. Residents will be asked for their honest feedback on the future development of their community, according to RioVision Steering Committee leader Dave Falk.

"Members of the community who haven't been involved in the past are getting involved," he said. "We need a broad range of citizens to give input on what should be done."

Lamothe noted that this visit cost between $35,000 and $40,000 for the team's trip expenses, but the community has been supportive with the donation of meals and lodging for the team members. All of the team members are working pro-bono on this intensive study.

"The community has really rallied around it," Lamothe said. "So many people are so supportive."

The team of planners and architects will focus their efforts on the primary concerns of Rio Vista and work in a downtown work space. Architectural students from Sacramento's Cosumnes River College will help by producing detailed plans of the project findings.

"It is not going to require a lot of city resources. It is going to use a lot of community resources," Falk said. "There is a follow-up plan and they come back and monitor us in the next year. They aren't just going to do this and walk away as planners. They are going to help implement it and be part of the solution."

Falk added that some of the suggested changes may take place in a few years, while others may take more than 20 years to come to fruition. Funding sources will be identified and could include federal grants and redevelopment funding.

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Special visitors next month to impact Rio Vista's future

A group of urban planners and architects will descend upon Rio Vista over four days next month to examine the Delta hamlet's resources and challenges and provide growth, planning, transportation and economic development guidance for the future.

The upcoming visit makes Rio Vista the first city in the region to receive help from the American Institute of Architect's Communities by Design program based in Washington, D.C. As one of a few cities nationwide selected for the Regional Urban Design Assistance Team project this year, Rio Vista will host the team of land use experts, transportation planners, urban designers, planning directors, historic preservationists, architects and economic development resources from Feb. 27 to March 3.

"We would like to see Highway 12 upgraded. Our waterfront needs development and our downtown needs revitalization. They will put together an achievable project for Rio Vista," RioVision Steering Committee member MaryEllen Lamothe said. "It benefits everybody. There is no place to go but up and forward. It has been stagnant for awhile."

Since community input is an integral part of the process and this is a grass-roots effort, Rio Vista residents are encouraged to attend a Feb. 28 town hall meeting at 6 p.m. in the D.H. White School auditorium. Residents will be asked for their honest feedback on the future development of their community, according to RioVision Steering Committee leader Dave Falk.

"Members of the community who haven't been involved in the past are getting involved," he said. "We need a broad range of citizens to give input on what should be done."

Lamothe noted that this visit cost between $35,000 and $40,000 for the team's trip expenses, but the community has been supportive with the donation of meals and lodging for the team members. All of the team members are working pro-bono on this intensive study.

"The community has really rallied around it," Lamothe said. "So many people are so supportive."

The team of planners and architects will focus their efforts on the primary concerns of Rio Vista and work in a downtown work space. Architectural students from Sacramento's Cosumnes River College will help by producing detailed plans of the project findings.

"It is not going to require a lot of city resources. It is going to use a lot of community resources," Falk said. "There is a follow-up plan and they come back and monitor us in the next year. They aren't just going to do this and walk away as planners. They are going to help implement it and be part of the solution."

Falk added that some of the suggested changes may take place in a few years, while others may take more than 20 years to come to fruition. Funding sources will be identified and could include federal grants and redevelopment funding.

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Rio Vista to get urban planning guidance

by HEATHER KOVAR / KVUE News and Photojournalist DENNIS THOMAS

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Posted on January 27, 2014 at 6:30 PM

AUSTIN -- When the Frost Bank building opened 10 years ago, it was the tallest building in downtown Austin with 33 floors. Now, the Frost Bank is surrounded by buildings, as well as cranes, signifying buildings under construction.

"[Construction is] everywhere. If its not one day, its the next. A new road. You have to cross the road. [There are] detours," said downtown resident Michael Guerra.

Seven months ago, a lot was excavated that will soon become the Colorado Towers.

The 29-story office and retail space is set to open in November.

"Its exciting to me to see the city in change, said downtown worker Alan Hendrickson.

KVUE got a tour of the new JW Marriott Austin on Monday. It will have 34 floors and is set to open March 1, 2015 and will be the citys largest hotel. Its already booked for that month's South by Southwest festival.

Jay Spurr is the director of sales and marketing for the new hotel.

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By | Paul Kunert 28th January 2014 22:21 Cabinet Office extends CITHS, suppliers claim

The Crown Commercial Service that oversees how the UK public sector buys stuff has apparently granted an eight-month stay of execution to the Commodity IT Hardware & Software (CITHS) framework, through which Blighty's technology supply deals are brokered.

According to its original tender published in the Official Journal of the European Union where all public-sector business has to be touted CITHS was launched on 1 March, 2010, as a three-and-a-half-year legal agreement with an option to extend it by six months.

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS), a professional buying group acting on behalf of the Cabinet Office, organises the framework and triggered the six-month extension late last summer because its successor, the IT Products, Associated Software and Services (IT PASS) framework, was not ready to go live. And as the CITHS expiry date looms, IT PASS has yet to reach its tendering stage.

Multiple suppliers contacted by El Chan told us that CCS has pushed the shutdown of CITHS to October to accommodate its dilly dallying.

"CCS has applied for and been granted an extraordinary extension," said a well-placed IT distribution channel source. "This is the first time I can remember this [type of extension] happening."

IT PASS was due to be in place by September, but a Prior Information Notice (PIN) was only issued last month, along with PINs for two associated frameworks. A PIN is simply a warning that a contract, or similar, is about to be advertised.

Suppliers accepted into the IT PASS system, via a tendering process, will be able to bid on UK public-sector tech contracts valued between 4bn to 6bn over its lifetime; the scheme was due to be up and running by mid-March slap bang in the middle of the busy public-sector year-end.

But one company reckons negative feedback on the timing encouraged CCS to postpone its launch to April Fool's Day yes, really meaning that without the CITHS extension, there would have been no official vehicle for public-sector buyers to flush year-end budgets.

Further slippage on the timing of the IT PASS tendering stage is, of course, not impossible, and lest we forget CCS has form in this respect. Contracts are not expected to be awarded until the summer.

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As Ukraine's political classes began horse trading for a new prime minister, speculation focussed on an activist chocolate billionaire dubbed by one commentator as "a cross between Willy Wonka and Che Guevara".

Petro Poroshenko, an MP and former cabinet minister known as the "Chocolate King" for his confectionary empire, commands widespread respect amongst the public on Independence Square but is also seen as a man whom embattled Viktor Yanukovych could do business with.

A staunch advocate of European integration, Mr Poroshenko is regularly seen handing out chocolate on Independence Square and at the occupied trade union building where the opposition has established its headquarters.

But he also has experience of working with both sides of Ukraine's political divide, having served as foreign minister under former president Viktor Yushchenko and then-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and more recently as trade and economic development minister for Mr Yanukovych.

The 48-year-old has not publicly addressed whether he would be interested in the job.

But in conversations with protesters on Independence Square, Mr Poroshenko's name often comes up as a candidate who would be preferable to any of the three official opposition leaders - if only because his estimated $1.6 billion fortune means he would have no need to enrich himself through corruption.

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Prime minister John Key has expressed his preference to change the NZ flag to the silver fern.

Prime Minister John Key has floated the possibility of having a referendum to change New Zealand's flag.

He has confirmed the Government was considering putting the issue to the vote, and would discuss with Cabinet the possibility of holding a referendum.

While technically it was as simple as changing the legislation governing the flag, Key believed it should be voted on by New Zealanders.

"It's constitutional in my view, and constitutional matters have to be taken to the people," he said.

"So in principle, it'd have to be part of a referendum just like it was for MMP.

"Probably what we'll do is have a discussion with our senior ministers and say is there any appetite to progress that. If the answer is 'no' at this point then we'll park it up."

The prime minister said the public was "50/50" on the idea of a new flag.

"And I think it depends when you do it. If you asked the question right after the [rugby] World Cup, it might have been closer to 60/40 in favour."

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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has announced lawsuits against two Ohio home improvement contractors accused of failing to deliver promised services to consumers.

The lawsuits charge Michael Combs of Fairfield, who did business as Granite Designs, and Michael Evilsizer of Westerville, and his business Buckeye Exteriors, with violations of Ohios consumer laws.

Consumers gave these contractors thousands of dollars for work that was not performed as promised, DeWine said. We try to resolve the issues out of court, but when months go by with no resolution for consumers, we must move forward.

Granite Designs, which is no longer in business, offered granite installation services to consumers in Southwest Ohio. Six consumers filed complaints saying they paid an average of about $3,000 for work that was not completed as promised. The Attorney Generals lawsuit, filed in the Butler County Common Pleas Court, charges Combs with failure to deliver, performing shoddy work, and violating the Home Solicitation Sales Act by failing to give consumers proper notice of their right to cancel.

Buckeye Exteriors specializes in home window replacement, vinyl siding, and roofing. The Attorney Generals Office currently is aware of six unresolved complaints from consumers who said they paid between $950 and $10,000 for construction work that was not delivered as promised. The Attorney Generals lawsuit, filed in the Franklin County Common Pleas Court, charges the business and its owner with failure to deliver, performing shoddy work, and violating the Repairs and Services Rule.

In the lawsuits, the Attorney General seeks restitution for consumers, an injunction to stop further violations, and civil penalties.

Consumers can help protect themselves by taking the following steps:

Check contractors reputations with the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Better Business Bureau. Get written estimates from several contractors before making a final decision. Get all promises in writing. Make sure the written contract includes the start date and end date and an itemized list of all costs and services. Be wary if the contract requires a large down payment, such as half of the total cost, or requires that you sign over an insurance check. Keep in mind that door-to-door sales contractors are required to give you a three-day right to cancel and cannot begin the work until the three-day period ends.

Consumers who believe they have been treated unfairly should contact the Ohio Attorney Generals Office at (800) 282-0515 or http://www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov.

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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has announced lawsuits against two Ohio home improvement contractors accused of failing to deliver promised services to consumers.

The lawsuits charge Michael Combs of Fairfield and Michael Evilsizer of Westerville with violations of Ohio's consumer laws.

The lawsuits state Combs did business with Granite Designs and Evilsizer did business with Buckeye Exteriors.

"Consumers gave these contractors thousands of dollars for work that was not performed as promised," Attorney General DeWine said in a press release. "We try to resolve the issues out of court, but when months go by with no resolution for consumers, we must move forward."

Granite Designs, which is no longer in business, offered granite installation services to consumers in Southwest Ohio. Six consumers filed complaints saying they paid an average of about $3 thousand for work that was not completed as promised.

The Attorney General's lawsuit, filed in the Butler County Common Pleas Court, charges Combs with failure to deliver, performing shoddy work and violating the Home Solicitation Sales Act by failing to give consumers proper notice of their right to cancel.

Buckeye Exteriors specializes in home window replacement, vinyl siding, and roofing. The Attorney General's Office currently is aware of six unresolved complaints from consumers who said they paid between $950 and $10 thousand for construction work that was not delivered as promised.

The lawsuit, filed in the Franklin County Common Pleas Court, charges the business and its owner with failure to deliver, performing shoddy work and violating the Repairs and Services Rule.

The lawsuits seek restitution for consumers, an injunction to stop further violations and civil penalties.

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Lawsuit seeks restitution from 2 Ohio contractors

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