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In May 2011, the Seattle City Council adopted Resolution 31292, setting out a work plan to help homeless people who may not be served by the shelter system. One of the action items addressed in the resolution was clarification of faith-based community shelter support in church buildings, parking lots, or land leased to churches.
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Today the Seattle City Council unanimously passed Resolution 31312 putting the City on a path toward reducing Seattle's net green house gas emissions level to zero by 2050. The Council action sets preliminary emissions targets for Seattle in three sectors: transportation, building energy and waste. The resolution is the culmination of a year-long process guided by community input and informed by in-depth technical analysis and includes some of the most aggressive emissions targets among cities in the world.
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With the 2012 budget process in full swing, the Seattle City Council invites members of the community to participate in the first public hearing tomorrow night in City Council Chambers.
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Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin and Councilmember Nick Licata today announced a media availability following Monday's Full Council meeting. All items on the agenda are up for discussion including resolutions regarding the City of Seattle's Climate Action Plan and Sustainable Buildings and Sites, as well as legislation to allow transitional encampments for homeless individuals at religious facilities.
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Seattle City Councilmembers Sally J. Clark and Sally Bagshaw will hold a conversation hour in the University District at The Continental, Saturday, October 1, 9:30 - 11 a.m. The coffee chat is open to all. The Councilmembers hope to listen and speak with Seattleites about local issues.
Much of the work on climate change has focused on making major policy or systems level changes that will have dramatic impacts on carbon emissions. Critical as it is to change emissions systems, create new technologies, develop energy efficient buildings, or provide better travel options and renewable energy systems, most such big ideas require people [...]
Local food initiatives continue to flourish in both the public and private sectors!
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This month marks the one-year anniversary for the Regional Food Policy Council (RFPC), our unique approach to developing a coordinated strategy to promote public policy supporting local, healthy food in our region. The RFPC is organized under the Puget Sound Regional Council (the four-county planning group for the Seattle metropolitan area), and includes some 30 representatives of government, business, labor, farm, and public interest groups.
After twenty years of research, planning, litigation, and finally construction, the new sockeye hatchery on the Cedar River finally opened this month. Wait, we are celebrating a salmon hatchery? Aren’t hatcheries one of the villains of the salmon story? Yes, hatcheries have been one of the ‘4H’ identified factors of salmon decline, along with habitat [...]
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The City Council voted unanimously on Monday to approve the Great Student Initiative (Resolution 31328). Legislated by Councilmember Bruce Harrell, the Great Student Initiative will serve as a model for the nation in bringing together and maximizing public-private partnerships to help students and families acquire broadband Internet access and technology skills training.
Lately archeologists working for WSDOT have been excavating West of First Ave. between S. Holgate and S. King streets. That part of the city has seen so many people, from the Duwamish peoples who have been there for thousands of years, to the hucksters and merchants and “seamstresses” who thrived on business from gold-rushers on [...]