Tag: Mayor Jorge O. Elorza
Elorza creates 13-member Municipal Reparations Commission
PROVIDENCE – Exactly what constitutes racial reparations - and who should receive them -has been the looming question since Mayor Jorge O. Elorza announced...
Providence City Council backs pension obligation bond
PROVIDENCE – A pitch to borrow more than $500 million to funnel into the city’s pension system now rests with state lawmakers, after receiving...
GA bill on Providence pension bond introduced ahead of City Council...
PROVIDENCE - A proposal to borrow more than $500 million to fix the city’s beleaguered pension system is gaining traction among city and state...
Providence committee backs $515M pension obligation bond
PROVIDENCE - A committee of city lawmakers threw their weight behind a proposal to borrow up to $515 million to shore up the city’s...
Providence group recommends borrowing $500M to address pension crisis
PROVIDENCE - Mayor Jorge O. Elorza’s contested pension obligation bond idea has resurfaced, but at a lower amount and with more protections that could...
Elorza gives new February deadline for unvaccinated city workers to get...
PROVIDENCE - After previously defending his Jan. 14 deadline for city workers to get vaccinated or else risk losing their jobs, Mayor Jorge O....
Elorza highlights next steps on $2.6M in youth jobs, mentorship, nonviolence...
PROVIDENCE – The city is not wasting time putting the money behind new youth nonviolence, mentorship and job programs to work.
Mayor Jorge O. Elorza...
Providence council seeks to block mass police firings ahead of vaccine...
PROVIDENCE – The looming deadline for Providence workers to get vaccinated has become the latest source of sparring between city lawmakers, who disagree over...
Providence council president calls for independent auditor on ARPA spending
PROVIDENCE – Doling out hundreds of millions of dollars of federal relief funds, revising the rules that govern the city and setting new boundaries...
Elorza outlines spending plan for $124M in city ARPA funds
PROVIDENCE – On the heels of the General Assembly’s approval to spend an initial tranche of federal stimulus dollars, the capital city is following...
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