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Spokane council approves refinancing authority, updates truck routes and ‘ban the address’ hiring rule
Summary
At its Oct. 12 meeting, the Spokane City Council passed an emergency ordinance allowing the administration to refinance bonds if interest rates fall, finalized a long-delayed truck routes update and approved a ‘ban the address’ ordinance to let applicants omit addresses during initial hiring steps, Councilwoman Kitty Klitzke said.
Councilwoman Kitty Klitzke, Spokane City Council member for District 3, said the council on Oct. 12 passed several administrative and equity measures, including an emergency ordinance that lets city administrators refinance certain bonds should interest rates decline.
"We passed an emergency ordinance to give our administration the ability to refinance some of our bonds to take advantage of any dips in interest rates that may be coming," Klitzke said.
The council also completed an update to municipal truck routes, the first such update in more than a decade. "That's been over a decade since we've done that, so there's been a lot of changes, and we look…
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