Tag: Budget and Economic Development
While it’s been wonderful to be in New York and focused on being a grandmother, I find I’m already itching to get home and back to the office. Now that budget is almost wrapped up, we can get back to Committee work. In fact, PaN has a special meeting on Tuesday, November 20th. We have [...]
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Posted: November 15th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Art and Culture, Budget and Economic Development
I'm pleased that the Council created a human services package to enhance care for our community’s most vulnerable members.
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Posted: November 14th, 2012 under Councilmember Licata.
Tags: Budget and Economic Development, Human Services and Health
At the upcoming special November 20, 11 a.m. Parks and Neighborhoods Committee meeting, we will discuss proposed legislation – a council bill and a resolution – that address the Sand Point Overlay. While the legislation is specific to Subarea C (see map), Building 9 will be discussed because it falls within this area. Building 9’s [...]
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Posted: November 8th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Budget and Economic Development, Environment, Housing, Parks
I believe the City of Seattle must do more to support arts capital projects. We provide a fraction of what the County and State provide. In 2011, the county funded over $900K in arts-related capital projects and the state over $2M. Seattle generates the bulk of such funding requests throughout our region. The $150K the [...]
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Posted: November 5th, 2012 under Councilmember Licata.
Tags: Budget, Budget and Economic Development
As you may know, with the changing of the leaves comes the City Council review of the Mayor’s proposed budget, and we are well into it now. We have heard the Department Presentations, and we are currently in the stage of “Issue Identification.” (Download a PDF of the budget review schedule.) In Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), at [...]
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Posted: October 26th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Budget, Budget and Economic Development, Parks
This week is National Save for Retirement Week. If you’re like many people, thinking about retirement makes you a little anxious; like you’ve fallen way behind in class homework and the test is tomorrow. Worse, some of you reading this may be out of work with no income to carve up into “spend now” and [...]
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Posted: October 24th, 2012 under Councilmember Clark.
Tags: Budget and Economic Development
Let me state the obvious — Council’s 8-week review of the city’s proposed budget is a busy time. The city’s budget is about $4B. The General Subfund is roughly $950M. City Council is presented the proposed budget in late September, in this case September 24th to be exact, and we spend the next seven or [...]
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Posted: October 23rd, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Art and Culture, Budget and Economic Development, Parks
The Mayor recently appointed Randy Engstrom to lead the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs (OACA) as its interim director. The Office’s previous director, Vincent Kitch, resigned recently after 18 months on the job. Kitch was selected as a result of a national search. The Mayor decided this time to hire locally. Some may [...]
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Posted: October 22nd, 2012 under Councilmember Licata.
Tags: Budget and Economic Development
Returning to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce’s Regional Conference at Suncadia this past week was bittersweet for me. It was here, at this time last year, that we lost a dear friend, Senator Scott White. I was so proud that the Chamber established The Senator Scott White Regional Leadership Award, this year awarded to Rep. [...]
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Posted: October 22nd, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Budget and Economic Development, Development and Sustainability, Seattle for WA, transportation
Early last spring I first heard murmurs about legislation regarding campaign finance reform. I’ll admit, initially, I didn’t know what to make of it. Campaign finance reform means different things to different people and I wasn’t sure what problem we were trying to solve. After speaking to my colleague, Mike O’Brien, I learned what he wanted [...]
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Posted: October 15th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Budget and Economic Development
