City Council, Position #2
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This Week: SAMP kick-off. Big Study Session: Budget presentation. City Manager selection! Last Week: Police Chief meet and greet. City Manager Meet and Greets! City Manager private Q&A in Executive Session...
Just got back from watching the community meeting.
I want to thank my colleagues for, the Waterland Blog’s Scott Schaefer for recording, our staff who were so welcoming to the four applicants, and the 60+ residents who attended, including several previous councilmembers (and two mayors!)
But sixty people is not nearly enough! So please watch this video and please keep looking at the City Manager Applicant Bios and send me your comments!
Each of the applicants seemed to understand Des Moines pretty well. And each seemed to address most of the key issues I hear about from residents. Each took questions from the public, people filled out comment cards, and all the feedback I heard was very thoughtful.
Girlfriend, this may come as something of a surprise, but a lot of the time, I do not feel all that great about the work I’m doing. However, I walked out of that Beach Park Auditorium and I can honestly say that regardless of who gets the job, I will feel good about it.
Which is all that matters, of course. 😀
But considering that this is, by far, the single most important decision the Council makes, I hope you also will be pleased.
Next step? Tomorrow night, we will have a marathon four hour Executive Session to interview each applicant in private. Then another ES on September 3 to de-brief. And then another public meeting later in the month to make a decision. One step at a time. 🙂
But after a nine year… er… month… process may finally to be coming to an end.
This Week: Police Chief Meet and Greet! City Manager Meet and Greet! Last Week: Flood district taxes. Duwamish air quality study....
6:30pm Tuesday, August 27, Beach Park Auditorium
Please attend and meet the four finalists for our next City Manager. 6:30pm August 27, 2024 at the Des Moines Beach Park Auditorium.
Directions: 22030 Dock Ave S, Des Moines, WA 98198.
Parking will be free. If the immediate spaces are filled, you can park in the Marina North Parking Lot.
Questions? Comments? You know where to find me (206) 878-0578 🙂
--Future Agendas: Ferry consultant renewal. --Free steering locks. Free trees --New SR-509 web site info for 200th and Des Moines Creek Trail! --Troubling news from SCORE jail --History: How to pronounce Des Moines! :D --This Week: More Flood District meetings. Duwamish Community listening session --Last Week: Port Meeting Q2 financial reports. Rotary Club hosts Key to Change music studio presentation! ...
Since we recently hired a communications director, I was reminded of a bit of PR the City did on its original (1996) web site, where they felt it necessary to finally put to rest the burning issue of the day. How to pronounce the name of the City!
I’m not trying to sound snippy. It’s striking to me how fervently many of my predecessors felt about getting this right.
And also, there’s something genuinely charming about the dawn of the Interwebs. There was this notion back then that one could settle this sort of thing simply by putting a recording on the web site. 😀
The correct way is, of course: Deh Moinz. 😀 That’s what Google, Siri and basically every navigation system on the planet will tell you. And woe unto anyone who argues with our machine overlords.
A bajillion recycled city names got butchered on their way across the ocean. It’s part of the rich tapestry of America. Vive la différence!
YMMV, of course.
