Category: Councilmember Bagshaw

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. [...]

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 [...]

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; [...]

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 [...]