Tag: Parks
Parks & Neighborhoods: Committee recap and Year in Review
Yesterday’s Parks and Neighborhoods committee meeting was short, sweet, and efficient. We passed all the legislation before us out of committee and on to full council. The first item of business was a piece of yearly legislation that transfers money into the 2008 Parks Levy Fund from King County Conservation Futures Levy proceeds. First passed in 1989, [...] [Full Post]
Posted: December 7th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Parks
Staffing Cultural Development & Volunteer Park
Included in the 2013-2014 City budget my colleagues and I finalized today are two staffing issues I fought for. [Full Post]
Posted: November 19th, 2012 under Councilmember Licata.
Tags: Parks
7 outstanding Parks volunteers: The Denny Awards
It’s time once again to celebrate the winners of the Denny Awards, Seattle Parks and Recreation’s annual awards for outstanding volunteer stewardship. In the words of the very fine press release from Parks: The winners are a cross-section of Seattle’s most tenacious, creative and hard-working volunteers who donate precious time and energy to improving Seattle’s [...] [Full Post]
Posted: November 16th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Parks
Toward the long-awaited renovation of Building 9
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 [...] [Full Post]
Posted: November 8th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Budget and Economic Development, Environment, Housing, Parks
Do you want to know more about the Bicycle Master Plan?
I would like to invite you to attend one of three Bicycle Master Plan update public meetings in November. The meetings will be from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at various locations in the Seattle area. If you cannot make it in person there will also be a Lunch and Learn online meeting November 15th. You can register here on the [...] [Full Post]
Posted: October 31st, 2012 under Councilmember Rasmussen.
Tags: bicycling, Parks, transportation
Parks issues now under discussion during City Council budget review
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 [...] [Full Post]
Posted: October 26th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Budget, Budget and Economic Development, Parks
A SLI maneuver: Navigating the City budget for parks and arts
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 [...] [Full Post]
Posted: October 23rd, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Art and Culture, Budget and Economic Development, Parks
Introducing a piece of the Lake-to-Bay Loop
Last Friday I heard from SDOT that people would be able to walk across the West Thomas Street overpass by the end of the day. I haven’t had the experience of making that walk yet, but that doesn’t dampen my enthusiasm about the project’s completion. I’m so glad it’s open. The West Thomas Street Overpass [...] [Full Post]
Posted: October 17th, 2012 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: Development and Sustainability, Parks, Seattle Center, transportation
Belltown Community Center Finally
On a cheerful, sunny Friday evening this September, the Belltown Community Center opened its doors at 415 Bell Street. It was great to see several hundred residents touring the rooms, enjoying music in the alley behind the Center and food donated by Belltown restaurants, and finally feeling the love of City government for one [...] [Full Post]
Posted: October 16th, 2012 under Councilmember Conlin.
Tags: Parks
See It, Send It… Do something
The recent launch of the See It, Send It campaign by the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau Street Scene Task Force has generated a new run of debate over Seattle’s attitudes and responses to disorder Downtown. “Disorder” takes many forms depending upon your threshold. So far the campaign has forwarded eight (as of this afternoon) [...] [Full Post]
Posted: October 11th, 2012 under Councilmember Clark.
Tags: Parks