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The Wenatchee City Council is electing to add it's annual 1% increase option to residents' property taxes after a 6-1 vote to approve the boost. State law allows for cities to increase their property tax levies by up to 1% annually without a vote of the people ...

The Wenatchee School District will again have two School Resource Officers (SRO) patrolling its halls next year after the Wenatchee City Council unanimously agreed to a deal Thursday night. Chief Steve Crown told the council the agreement is substantially the same from last year, but there is added language regarding training and the recent law enforcement legislation ...

The Wenatchee City Council voted 6-to-1 Thursday to approve TW Clark Construction as the contractor for City Hall's renovation after submitting a winning bid of just over $8.6 million. The bid was almost $2 million better than when the city rejected all its bids in 2020, although the overall project will still be about $2 ...

The Wenatchee City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to enact a one-tenth of one percent sales tax within the city limits for a low-barrier emergency homeless shelter and other services. Council member Ruth Esparza expressed a concern that, if Seattle's homeless budget exploded from $47 million in 2015 to $1 billion currently with little benefit, perhaps the problem is more of a mental heal

The City of Wenatchee's City Hall remodeling project will go back out to bid after six months of waiting for construction prices to fall. The project previously went out to bid in August and resulted in bids roughly $3 million more than what was expected ...

The Wenatchee City Council recently voted to adopt an ordinance doubling the room per day rate that local lodging businesses pay for tourism promotion. Mayor Frank Kuntz said the tourism promotion area, or TPA, was established in 2006 and has never increased from its initial charge of $1 per night ...

The City of Wenatchee strengthened it's Nuisance Code after a unanimous vote by the city council last week. City Attorney Steve Smith said they recently used the nuisance code on a case involving homeless encampments on Worthen Street. Smith said, "One of the things we need to do is clarify the definition of a chronic nuisance, and then also make it real clear that a first violation of our ch

The Wenatchee City Council voted unanimously Thursday evening to officially amend a contract with the Department of Commerce for $519,750 in additional CARES Act funds. Governor Jay Inslee announced the added allocation in late August, and Thursday's vote makes the move official ...

The city of Wenatchee has created a subcommittee to examine their noise ordinance and then determine if it needs to be updated. Community Development Director Glen DeVries told city council Thursday that the group would be made up of council members, planning commission staff, the police chief, the city attorney and executive services director along with community development staff ...

The Wenatchee City Council voted to reject all bids for the remodel of City Hall on Thursday. Facilities Manager Elisa Webb spoke at the meeting and said that the closest possibly acceptable bid was about $3.5 million more than they expected ...