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Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess, Chair of the Public Safety and Education Committee, released the following statement tonight on the passage of the Families and Education Levy:
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November 9, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Rasmussen, News Releases
Seattle City Councilmember Rasmussen’s statement on rejection of Prop. 1’s proposed vehicle license fee
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Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, Chair of the Seattle Transportation Benefit District, released the following statement on the voter rejection of Seattle's Prop. 1, relating to the propose $60 vehicle license fee:
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November 8, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Reconsidering the Grand Canyon State
Learning that the National League of Cities will hold the fall “Congress of Cities” meeting later this week in Phoenix (meeting sites are selected four years in advance) has prompted me to think about what I’ve learned in the almost year and a half since I pushed forward a resolution calling for the City of [...]
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November 7, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Harrell, News Releases
Money and energy saving LED streetlight installations continue under budget and ahead of schedule
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In late September of this year, Seattle City Light began installing LED streetlights on residential streets from North 65th Street in Seattle all the way to the northern boundary of City Light's service territory in Shoreline. The latest round of installations brings the total of installed LED streetlights to 18,000.
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November 7, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Let’s Make the Duwamish River the Center for a Sustainable City
Cities thrive when they integrate the vitality of urban life with their natural surroundings. That’s why so many of us live here and wouldn’t trade our access to Puget Sound, the Olympics, and Mount Rainier for anything. But at the heart of Seattle is a waterway that we turn our back on: the Duwamish River [...]
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November 4, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember O'Brien, News Releases
Councilmember O’Brien and family participate in National Bank Transfer Day
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Councilmember Mike O'Brien and his family will participate in National Bank Transfer Day and he encourages other city residents to do the same. The O’Brien family joins more than 650,000 Americans in transferring their bank accounts to local banks or credit unions.
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November 3, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Arborist sought for Seattle’s Urban Forestry Commission
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The Seattle City Council is looking for a new Urban Forestry Commission (UFC) member to fill the Arborist role in Position # 5. The term would start December 1, 2011 and extend through December 1, 2014.
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November 3, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Extending Light Rail South of the Airport
On Monday, October 31, Sound Transit submitted its application for a federal TIGER grant to construct light rail from Sea-Tac Airport to S. 200th Street, a critical move that begins the process of extending light rail to the south. This extension was included in the Sound Transit 2 ballot measure in 2008, but the recession [...]
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November 3, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Land use in service of economic recovery
In my last blog, I talked about some of the goals I had in mind when I re-upped for two more years as chair of the Committee on the Built Environment, a term that is coming to an end this December. I wanted to look back on some of those goals and reflect on how [...]
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November 2, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
City and State Agreement on SR 520
On Monday, October 24, the Seattle City Council approved legislation authorizing Mayor McGinn to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) that will protect the City’s interests on the SR 520 bridge replacement project. The City Council initiated this agreement to follow up on our comment letters to [...]