Applications to the Neighborhood Projects Fund (NPF) are due on February 1, 2012. I would like to take a moment to strongly encourage neighborhood leaders to apply. This fund provides a great opportunity to tackle projects that create community, and to promote all kinds of projects, including things like neighborhood greenways. The NPF can be [...]
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December 6, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Taxpayers Can be Proud of our 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy
The 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy –thanks to our generous and inspired voters –provided $146 million for parks and green space acquisitions, park improvements, trails, p-patch improvements, shoreline street-end access improvements and urban forestry work. Last week in committee, our Acting Superintendent Christopher Williams gave us an update on how that work has been progressing. [...]
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November 30, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Celebrating 20 Years: Mountains to Sound Greenway
I’ll never forget the day that my friend, Jim Ellis, described a “little project” he was working on called the Mountains to Sound Greenway. The decade was the mid-90’s. Jim, of course, was the hero who has been credited for cleaning up Lake Washington, creating Metro, bringing us a major convention center and so much [...]
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November 21, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
YES — It’s Time to Ban Plastic Bags
I must confess. In 2009, at the Stranger/WA Bus Candidate Survivor event, I stood in a corner almost by myself against the then- proposed plastic bag fee. Though as a sailor I had seen first-hand the debris in our oceans and was aware of adverse affects plastic bags have on the environment, I just didn’t [...]
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November 18, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Time Out to Appreciate Great Work
I want to take a moment to recognize and thank some dedicated people in the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department and elsewhere in our city who make Seattle’s Park system work. These folks won Seattle Management Association (SMA) Excellence in Management awards last week: Park Rangers, led by Brock Milliern, for Management in the Field; [...]
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November 15, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
OK, But Really, About That Leaf-blower Noise
Yesterday I wrote about how it’s a bad idea to dump leaves in the street. Since then, I confirmed blowing leaves into the street is not only a bad idea, it’s a violation of the Seattle Municipal Code. (See: SMC 15.46.030: Deposits in street or gutter. It is unlawful to wash or sweep or otherwise deposit [...]
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November 14, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Ahhhh, the Sounds of Fall: The Relaxing Gas-powered Leaf Blowers!
As I walked to work in the sunshine last Thursday, I noticed something I’ve seen too many times downtown lately – private clean-up crews out with noisy gas powered blowers blowing leaves off of their sidewalks directly into the street. Property owners may think they are doing the right thing by cleaning off their sidewalks, but [...]
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November 14, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Rasmussen
City Inside/Out: November Council Edition
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Councilmembers Sally Bagshaw, Tom Rasmussen, and Mike O'Brien sit down with host Brian Callanan for a lively discussion of City issues.
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November 6, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Thoughts about my friend, Scott White.
Thoughts about my friend, Scott White. Smart. Kind. Collegial. Those are three of the first adjectives that come to mind when I think of my dear friend Scott White. Scott and I worked together at King County. He became chief of staff of the King County Council when I was Chief Civil Deputy for Norm [...]
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November 3, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Homeless families can use what you don’t
Winter is rolling in, with its dark nights and blasts of Arctic air. It’s the time of year when my worry increases for those on our streets with no warm home to welcome them. This year, as I’ve done for over a decade, I’m focusing my personal efforts to give women and homeless families a [...]