LIVE COVERAGE, 5:30 p.m.: Cedar Rapids council talks city manager, Paramount, more

Reporters Rick Smith and Mark Geary will be providing live coverage of tonight's Cedar Rapids City Council meeting, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Among the items on tonight's agenda:

• Accepting the resignation of city manager Jim Prosser, and discussing the process to find his replacement;
• Hearing an update from flood recovery director Greg Eyerly about the rehabilitation of the Paramount Theatre;
• Approval of the hiring of the city's new fire chief, Stephen Reid of Washington, D.C.
• Selling $17 million in city bonds to help pay for a new $50 million Event Center.

Follow the live blog below, starting at 5:30 p.m.