The winning bid for renovating Building 30 at Magnuson Park came in below City estimates, saving about $392,000.
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January 15, 2013January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Take action for parks on Martin Luther King Jr. Day/Day of Service
I would like to highly recommend that on January 21, you consider spending a day ON (instead of taking a day off) volunteering with the Green Seattle Partnership. Here’s a calendar of events taking place around the city over the entire MLK Day weekend. Last year on this occasion I participated in Green Seattle Partnership’s [...]
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January 2, 2013January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
A sunny and auspicious welcome to 2013
On the first day of 2013, I joined many neighbors and Seattle visitors by taking a long walk in the glorious sunshine along Myrtle Edwards Park. I got there on the new Thomas Street Bridge from Uptown and I am happy to say, it was packed! I loved seeing all the people out in regular [...]
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December 11, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Queen Anne Bowl Playfields parking and Initiative 42
Yesterday Council voted to approve legislation (Ordinance 117669) that swapped a parcel of parks-owned land for a strip of land owned by Aegis on Queen Anne, to ensure that Parks could continue to provide parking for the Queen Anne Bowl Playfields. The current parking area is not actually owned by Parks. Parks made a deal [...]
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December 7, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Parks & Neighborhoods: Committee recap and Year in Review
Yesterday’s Parks and Neighborhoods committee meeting was short, sweet, and efficient. We passed all the legislation before us out of committee and on to full council. The first item of business was a piece of yearly legislation that transfers money into the 2008 Parks Levy Fund from King County Conservation Futures Levy proceeds. First passed in 1989, [...]
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November 19, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
Staffing Cultural Development & Volunteer Park
Included in the 2013-2014 City budget my colleagues and I finalized today are two staffing issues I fought for.
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November 16, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
7 outstanding Parks volunteers: The Denny Awards
It’s time once again to celebrate the winners of the Denny Awards, Seattle Parks and Recreation’s annual awards for outstanding volunteer stewardship. In the words of the very fine press release from Parks: The winners are a cross-section of Seattle’s most tenacious, creative and hard-working volunteers who donate precious time and energy to improving Seattle’s [...]
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November 8, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Toward the long-awaited renovation of Building 9
At the upcoming special November 20, 11 a.m. Parks and Neighborhoods Committee meeting, we will discuss proposed legislation – a council bill and a resolution – that address the Sand Point Overlay. While the legislation is specific to Subarea C (see map), Building 9 will be discussed because it falls within this area. Building 9’s [...]
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October 31, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Rasmussen
Do you want to know more about the Bicycle Master Plan?
I would like to invite you to attend one of three Bicycle Master Plan update public meetings in November. The meetings will be from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at various locations in the Seattle area. If you cannot make it in person there will also be a Lunch and Learn online meeting November 15th. You can register here on the [...]
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October 26, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Parks issues now under discussion during City Council budget review
As you may know, with the changing of the leaves comes the City Council review of the Mayor’s proposed budget, and we are well into it now. We have heard the Department Presentations, and we are currently in the stage of “Issue Identification.” (Download a PDF of the budget review schedule.) In Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), at [...]