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Seattle City Councilmembers will be available tomorrow morning, at 11:30 a.m., to discuss the likely 2012 budget balancing package. This media availability will take place immediately following the 9:30 a.m. Budget Committee meeting at which time final votes on green sheets and statements of legislative intent will be taken.
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s that time of year again when we’re making appointments and reappointments to the Seattle Board of Park Commissioners. As Chair of the City Council Parks and Seattle Center Committee, I just wanted to share my philosophy the Board. I’ll be posting this on my web site in some more formal location soon, but I [...]
Last year’s HR 1217, a state bill designed to make it easier for Washington cities to lower speed limits on non-arterial roadways, received bipartisan support in the House and passed unanimously – unanimously! – thanks to Shoreline’s Representative Cindy Ryu’s leadership. Alas, it stalled in the Senate. This year, Rep. Ryu is again leading the [...]
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October 24 is National Food Day, a day to celebrate and support a healthy, sustainable, and accessible food system. In recognition of the occasion, a rare joint proclamation was issued today by the King County Council and Executive and the Seattle City Council and Mayor in support of the national Food Day campaign and many local events occurring in the region.
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The Seattle City Council and Mayor McGinn completed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) that will help protect the City's interests on the SR 520 bridge replacement project. This MOU, unanimously passed as Council Bill 117303, expresses the intention of the City of Seattle and the State of Washington to work collaboratively.
I was sitting in a budget meeting the other day listening to the burble of acronyms cross my colleague’s lips—BIPs, BUGs, and SLIs—and I remembered how alienating that alphabet soup was to me the first time I plunged into it. So I thought I’d write up a little guide to the ABCs of City of [...]
This week I posted a question on Facebook, asking people what the latest protest was that they’d attended. I heard about the May Day March, the Rally for Sanity, and Occupy Wall Street. But unsurprisingly, the protest on everyone’s mind right now is #Occupy Seattle. I’ve had requests to comment on #Occupy from Facebook friends [...]
Earlier this week, I posted a question on Facebook, asking people what they wanted to see if the Mayor’s budget. Responses ranged from more neighborhood policing to no more road diets to a sustainable funding plan for parks. On Monday, Mayor McGinn unveiled his proposed 2012 budget. The Mayor’s proposed budget includes some major parks [...]