This week, the City of Chelan is distributing blue recycle bins to city residents…
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That’s Chelan City Administrator, Mike Jackson…
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If you live within the City limits of Chelan, you should receive a recycling bin by the end of the week – if for some reason you don’t get one- contact Chelan City Hall.
Recycle bin pick up will be every other week on the same day as your usual garbage pickup.
If you did not receive a schedule in the mail, again, contact City Hall. That phone number is 682-8017.
Chelan Mayor, Mike Cooney, is hoping for a huge turnout for Friday’s City-Wide Clean Up Day…
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Mayor Cooney says this Friday’s City wide clean up is not intended for shrubs and tree trimmings. The city is hosting two free brush dump weekends at the Recycle Center in May.
Those dates are Friday May 11 and Saturday, 12 as well as the following weekend, Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19.
A curious and passionate group of citizens attended this week’s City of Chelan affordable housing forum held at the Mayor’s coffee shop in downtown Chelan.
During that forum, they heard from July Bruner, an affordable hosing consultant, hired by the City of Chelan…
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Chelan Mayor, Mike Cooney, says it’s not the city’s intent to lead the affordable housing effort, but rather to facilitate it…
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Mayor Cooney says, if you are interested in participating in the process, contact Chelan City Hall at 682-4037.
By no means, is this a local or regional problem- there are housing shortages across the country.
According to a new report from the the Pew Charitable Trust, high rents are threatening families’ financial security and putting home ownership out of reach for many.
The analysis says that since the Great Recession, the number of households paying more than 30% of their pre tax income in rent has risen exponentially and continues to grow.
Erin Courrier, is the Director of the Pew Security and Mobility Project. She says 43 million Americans now rent their homes- a number that has been growing in recent years…
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Courrier says that in 2015, 38% of all renter households were Rent Burdened- an increase of about 19% since 2001.
The data also shows that almost half of households headed by someone aged 65 or older are rent burdened and more than 20% of them pay half or more of their income in rent…
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The report says policy makers should consider ways to make renting a home more affordable for the 17 million rent burdened families across the country.
Thus far, the only local organization that seems to be making a dent in the affordable home shortage is Chelan Valley Habitat for Humanity- having placed 18 families in affordable homes.
On Wednesday, for the second time in as many weeks, a burglary was discovered at the Chelan Municipal Golf Course…
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That’s Sergeant Chris Foreman with the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office…
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Sergeant Foreman says any evidence found from the ditched U-haul truck will compliment the video evidence recorded during the burglary…
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We’ve also posted those photos on our website- kozi.com and on our KOZI Facebook Page.
If you recognize the pair- you are asked to call the non-emergency number for RiverCom Dispatch: 663-9911.
Sergeant Foreman says detectives believe there are three involved in the burglary – the two caught on video, and a third who may have been driving the U-haul truck, or a city truck taken during the burglary…
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City of Chelan Public Works crews are scrambling to make repairs to a water main in
downtown Chelan. About 6 am this morning water was discovered bubbling out of
several underground vaults in the alley between Woodin Ave and Riverwalk Park.
Business’s on the south side of the 100 block of Woodin Ave. from BC Mcdonalds east
to SwimWorld are without water this morning… no estimated time for repairs.
If you’ve noticed an uptick in law enforcement activity in the Chelan area over the last year or so, you’re not mistaken, according to the presentation from the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office at Tuesday night’s Chelan City Council meeting. City Administrator Mike Jackson says the numbers in 2018 were up:
The City contracts with the Sheriff’s office for law enforcement services; it provides deptuies focused in the city of Chelan; that, according to Chelan City Adminstrator Mike Jackson, is different from the city having its own police force, or contracting with the sheriff’s office to provide the city with a department.
Since it is Valentine’s Day, let’s show a little love for those folks who you don’t see, but are working hard keeping the roads around here drivable. Chelan Mayor Mike Cooney made mention of it at Tuesday night’s City Council Meeting:
the Mayor says there’s been much improvement in the plowing operation in the last couple of years:
At the Council meeting, Cooney recognized each member; he did so again yesterday on KOZI:
Chelan City Council will meet in special session beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday April 6 in Council Chambers at E Johnson Avenue in Chelan.
The purpose of this Strategic Planning Retreat is to discuss:
Legislative Update
City Hall and Public Works Workspace Study
Chelan County Sheriff’s Office Report
1% Sales Tax for Affordable Housing
2020 Capital Project Priorities,
Brainstorming Session
No action will be taken. Please note, the retreat is for Council members and public input will only be taken up on Council’s approval.
With the conversation for more and affordable housing growing louder, Campbell’s Resort is looking to build a 24-unit apartment complex on the edge of downtown Chelan. Plans for the 1.12 acre site located along Okanogan Avenue, just south of the Woodin Avenue Bridge, call for four buildings with two parking variations, outlined in an application filed with the city of Chelan on October 23 .
The project name is listed as Campbell’s Apartments, as shown in records with the Department of Ecology. Barring any issues, and if the project is approved, construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2020.
A Notice of Application was sent to neighbors in the area on November 21 by the city of Chelan, who will take public comment until December. A hearing date has not yet been set for the project.
