First, the Sierra Club and Real Change are considering a city initiative to stop the deep bore tunnel from being built unless certain conditions are met. Under the name Move Seattle Smarter, they are trying to craft an initiative that would protect Seattle taxpayers from any potential cost overruns before construction could begin. They would need to collect about 25,000 signatures to assure placing the initiative on the ballot in late summer or fall of next year, although it still could face a legal challenge for overreaching the intended authority granted to citizens through the initiative process.
Month: November 2010
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November 30, 2010January 6, 2023Councilmember Godden
Last of the Northwest School goes to “the gods’ private Blue Moon”
Artist William (Bill) Cumming – a survivor of TB and other ails – faced death many times in his 93 years, but finally surrendered to heart failure on November 22. Cumming didn’t go quietly into that good night. He was perhaps more vigorous in his final years than he was in his teens when he joined the Northwest School during a stint with the National Youth Administration, one of the federal art projects of Depression years.
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November 23, 2010January 6, 2023News Releases
Angel
Last Friday afternoon the Clark office slipped out of City Hall and over to the Seattle Animal Shelter (2061 15th Ave. W. in the Interbay neighborhood just a mile south of the Ballard Bridge, 386-PETS, www.seattle.gov/animalshelter) for a couple of hours of volunteering. We’ve volunteered as a team a couple of times before both as [...]
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November 12, 2010January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
UP #302 City Budget
This year the City's economy was still deep in recession and as a result we had to reduce this year's $900 million budget by $15 million before the year was over. In addition, we faced a $67 million budget shortfall for 2011. And just last week we received additional bad news: with the passage of State Initiative 1107 and the continued decline in property sales we had to take another $5.8 million dollar reduction from the Mayor's proposed 2011-2 budget.
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November 3, 2010January 6, 2023Councilmember Rasmussen
REGIONAL UNITY ON METRO CRISIS
When I was growing up on the Eastside, my father commuted to Seattle every day for work. If our car was in the shop he had to catch the Greyhound at the bus stop in Eastgate. There was no local or regional transit service available to him. Today, Metro busses carry 112 million riders a [...]