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December 15, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases

Seattle’s Red Barn Ranch

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Did you know that the City of Seattle owns a 40 acre farm southeast of Auburn?  I didn’t until a few weeks ago – and last month I toured the property and discovered what an imaginative asset this can be for Seattle. My Local Food Action Initiative (LFAI) is designed to encourage Seattle to increase [...]

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December 13, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases

Sleep in a bit – COBE starts at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday

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Usually the Council’s Committee on the Built Environment (COBE) meetings begin at 9 a.m. or 9:30 a.m.  Tomorrow’s meeting, one of the more anticipated of the year, will begin instead at 10:30 a.m. due to cascading series of errors with the agenda release. We usually post the agenda several days in advance (and far in [...]

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December 13, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases

Carbon Neutral Blog Post 15: It’s Technically Possible

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In my last post, I noted that the Council had adopted the Carbon Neutral Goal with some confidence that it is attainable, and that part of the basis for that conclusion was the findings in the report we commissioned from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).  SEI was tasked with creating a scenario for achieving Carbon [...]

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December 12, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Burgess, News Releases

Seattle and DOC partner to reduce violations by offenders supervised in the community

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In a briefing before the Seattle City Council this morning, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) released the preliminary results of a pilot program for offenders who are supervised in Seattle. Launched in February, 2011, the research-based program shows that swift and certain, but modest, sanctions are more effective in reducing drug use, crime and days spent in jail for violations of release conditions.