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Colfax council grants Rainbow Music a 12‑month lease extension after packed public pleas
Summary
After a packed public-comment period urging leniency for a 40‑year downtown music school, Colfax City Council voted unanimously to extend Rainbow Music’s lease for 12 months, then convert to month‑to‑month with 90‑day notice for either party; council also agreed to continue negotiations and building inspections during that time.
More than a dozen residents, students and longtime patrons urged the Colfax City Council on Tuesday to give Rainbow Music more time after the city told proprietors Rob and Christine Bonner their rail‑car studio lease would end Nov. 1.
Rob Bonner told the council the notice was abrupt: “We were supposed to be out by November 1,” he said, describing the emotional and logistical difficulty of packing 40 years of instruments and materials on short notice. Students and parents testified to the school’s value: a Colfax high‑school sophomore said, “Rainbow music is the only place in Colfax to learn an instrument,” and…
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