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American Paving has low bid for Fulton Mall/cars project at $23.05 million. That's $3M more than Mayor's hope. More money or less project?

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Council Pres Baines, Council's Brand introduce School Liaison Act. City Hall & schools to work as team.

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Council welcomes Kochi Sister City Delegation. City gives visitors a watercolor painting of -- City Hall!

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As Yogi might have said, this trash debate is like déjà vu all over again. Who can forget Sunset/city fight of 2001? That smell never left.

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Council apparently wants to invest one vendor's $500,000 bonus offer in derivatives for 10 years to get huge returns, for ratepayers' joy.

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Council in no mood to take lowest greenwaste bid. Council relishes chance to study stacks of papers. Council's 2nd jobs will take a beating

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2 vendors in war for 10 year greenwaste contract. This could cost ratepayers $2 million over 10 years-- a subsidy? Where is better biz act?

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Soria not happy - council didn't get every document from all trash proposals. Then she says of the contract. Are they typically this long?

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We're in middle of debate on stacking of tires by businesses. Council's Olivier concerned that rival biz use code laws to annoy each other.

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Code enforcement's Estabrooke says his crews pick up 36,000 discarded tires a year.

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Parks' Mollinedo says county health dept threatened to shut down city's wading pools because they have no filtration system.

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Council's Soria says her trip to Spain to study high-speed rail was "a great learning experience." Says all of America will appreciate HSR.

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Granite Park's old soccer fields. Weed abatement, where are you?

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Council's Brand says GP had lots of ideas over the years, but they all wanted lots of taxpayer money.

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Terance Frazier joked that City Hall's love for the proposal made him wonder if he had done something wrong

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Mayor Swearengin calls the Frazier-Cox proposal for GP a deal too good to turn down.

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Here's Granite Park now.

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Here's what Granite Park might look like.

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Mayor Swearengin tells Rotary of game plan for next 15 months. Key takeaway: Blackstone Avenue progress, more than Fulton Mall, is pivotal.