By Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee
- Editor’s note: With state and local governments facing lay-offs, service-cuts, and a halt to projects, why has the Yelm city council and city residents not been provided any information and a plan for how city hall will handle “Financial Doomsday?”
- Last week, Yelm posted an opening for a Utility Clerk,
- Yet should the city freeze hiring to conserve cash?
- Why is Yelm preparing on a business-as-usual basis amidst a budget crisis?
- Scroll down to “LATEST UPDATES”
RESOURCES
+ Resources for Yelm Residents & Community Members Impacted by COVID-19
+ Here’s why you may want to consider ditching disposable gloves on your trip to the grocery store.
+ From No Kid Hungry.org: The food finder is at www.nokidhungry.org/help. We encourage you to pass word of it to anyone who might need help right now. Just this week, a national Food Finder map was unveiled where parents and caregivers of hungry kids can find free meals near them. The map contains tens of thousands of locations where free food is available to those who need it.
+ “Rather Than Waste Products Once Bound for Food Service Industry, Wilcox Family Farms Donates 600,000 Servings of Eggs to Food Banks, Organizations.”
+ People are using their 3D printers to make PPE for frontline workers
+ ‘Arts Watch’ and other fun go on
LATEST UPDATES
“Financial doomsday: State, local governments face layoffs, service cuts, projects derailed“ – “The coronavirus crisis “will be even worse than the Great Recession by a factor of at least two,” one mayor said.” Where is Yelm’s COVID-10 plan with a large revenue loss?
Reuter’s reporter’s notebook: “I Went to Sunday’s Anti-Lockdown Rally in Olympia and We Are So Fucked“
Gov. Inslee stands ground on stay-at-home order – as House Republican Leader Rep. J.T. Wilcox (R-Yelm) expressed disappointment
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