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Public Service Announcements Last Week Monday: Destination Des Moines. Planning their summer and fall events, which sounds like a lot of fun after the past year. Tuesday: South County Transportation Board (SCATBd). Thursday: Municipal Facilities Meeting (Agenda) There was a discussion of the Marina Redevelopment and and update on the passenger ferry. Thursday: Economic Development
... continue reading.This is the second half of our response to the April 15th State Of The City presentation. Part 1 discussed our objections to the way it was carried out. Here we’ll talk about some specific policy differences. For those of you short on time, you can follow along with this presentation packet. As noted last
... continue reading.Public Service Announcements This Week Monday: Destination Des Moines. Planning their summer and fall events, which sounds like a lot of fun after the past year. Tuesday: South County Transportation Board (SCATBd) No public agenda at deadline. Thursday: Municipal Facilities Meeting (Agenda) There will be a discussion of the Marina Redevelopment (with questions from the
... continue reading.To the residents of the City Of Des Moines and to our colleagues on the City Council, This letter is what would be called in State, Federal government, the Minority Report–the response from the party not in power to the April 15th State Of The City presentation. A minority report has become customary with the
... continue reading.As some of you know, the web site (actually my ISP) was attacked by on Sunday causing yet another late, late Weekly Update. Apologies. This issue is seriously rushed so if you see any more typos than usual, please let me know. Public Service Announcements This Week Monday: I attended the King County International Airport
... continue reading.I’ve used the word ‘defensive’ a bit lately with regard to the administration and my colleagues. This started about the time Meg Tapucol-Provo published her resignation letter from the Police Diversity Committee. What I’ve tried to explain is that her experience on that committee was not isolated. She was simply reflecting on what is the
... continue reading.On March 24th, the City Of Des Moines posted on its web site the following: The City Council did not receive notification of this via official email. But, whatever, probably an oversight. So, being someone who is concerned about water quality issues in Des Moines and given the fact that I am a member of
... continue reading.HAPPY EASTER! My absolutely fave day of the year. Nice weather. Almost a third of Americans vaccinated. And several big projects on the agenda for Des Moines this year. I hope you feel the sense of hopefulness that I do for the coming year. But for cryin’ out loud… Before we get going, I feel
... continue reading.The Future Agendas Report is the most important City document that most people have no idea even exists. It acts as sort of a calendar as to what/when things will be discussed at various upcoming public meetings. For example, if you have an interest in a certain project (eg. when are they redoing the Redondo
... continue reading.The King County Water District 54 reservoir, located on 11th Avenue between City Hall and the Police Department, is almost unique in Washington State. It is one of only three remaining well-water sources and is un-chlorinated. One ‘feature’ of the water is that it tends to contain high levels of manganese–a benign metal that naturally
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