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The city council on Monday approved a 30 miles per hour speed limit on Freedom Parkway from McClugage Road east 1,200 feet, and a 40 mph speed limit from that point to North Cummings Lane.
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The city of Washington and the Washington Fire Department have a new three-year contract.
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The Washington City Council should begin calling a banquet room at Five Points Washington home starting Nov. 4.
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Washington Mayor Gary Manier says the conclusions of several major projects are on the way.
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Jim Snider voluntarily stepped down as city administrator before his contract expired April 30, 2025. The Washington City Council approved Snider's separation agreement and accepted the low base bid of $2,337,400 for construction of a police evidence storage building from Peoria-based P.J. Hoerr.
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While the council was advised the city isn't legally liable for expenditures the Historical Society has incurred because of the variance and project construction, council members decided unanimously to step in and try to cool the temperature of a heated dispute.
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"The median is business unfriendly," City Council member Brian Butler said at Monday's council meeting.
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The city budgeted $300,000 for the new program in its 2024-25 fiscal year that began May 1.
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Washington Central School District students will have a safe place to walk along Eagle Avenue to and from the street's intersection with U.S. Business Route 24 in Washington when they return to school in August.
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The city council voted 5-3 Monday to reject a request by city staff to add $600,000 to the line item for the building from reserves and unused pandemic relief funds in the city's 2024-25 fiscal year budget to cover the cost of construction and $119,000 that is owed to Dewberry Architects.