Souza pushes urban renewal reform

Kootenai County legislators held a town hall meeting Saturday morning to inform their constituents on the latest issues facing facing lawmakers in Boise this year. Community members gathered at St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church in Post Falls while Kootenai County legislators discussed some of the issues they have been working on during the first three weeks of the session. Sen. Mary Souza, R-Coeur d’Alene and Rep. Kathy Sims, R-Coeur d’Alene, both sit on the legislature’s Interim Committee on Urban Renewal. Sims said the committee worked all year to create a 27-page bill that will soon be introduced into the legislature. “It is very wordy,” Sims said. “But some of the things it does do is give more authority back to the cities”/ Mary Malone , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.