JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
Non-partisan. Independent.
Next City Council Meeting is April 24, 2025
Working hard to support local businesses!
An advocate for airport issues!
By The Seattle Times editorial board Raiding the state’s rainy day fund. Adding novel taxes that could push money and jobs to other states. Passing billions of dollars in negotiated pay increases to state workers while legislators debate service cuts to the most vulnerable Washingtonians and within the state’s public schools. These are the plans
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By Shauna Sowersby Seattle Times staff reporter OLYMPIA — It’s budget season in Olympia, and Washington lawmakers, now equipped with proposals from both chambers, will spend the next few weeks negotiating what should be included or cut in the budget for the next two years. A daunting task in normal years, this session adds an extra
... continue reading.Friends. Usually I don’t bother you more than once a week. But this is time-sensitive. Please click this link and sign in ‘Con’ for SB5798 if you do NOT want your property taxes raised automatically beyond 1%. Do it by Monday. https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Senate?selectedCommittee=456&selectedMeeting=33213 Background You probably have not heard this. There is a big push in
... continue reading.When we talk about ‘the Marina’, we’re really discussing two things: a core business serving boaters since 1970, and the larger public space that business makes possible – including our Beach Park, Fishing Pier and every other waterfront amenity both now and into the future. I want to address some important questions about that waterfront
... continue reading.I’m starting this article, like my Marina Timeline, to help me (and hopefully you) understand the enormity of the task of upgrading the core functions of the Marina. This is all Marina Floor. No Steps, no Beach Park, no 223rd Streets, no Midway, no Redondo, no nothing. Discussion I’ll begin by putting this in the
... continue reading.Normally, I wait until Sunday to post a Weekly Update, but I wanted to share this article as a ‘taster’ of what you can find in every week. Whether you agree with my points of view or not, I think you’ll find they contain lots of useful information. At our last city council meeting, there
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At our August 2 City Council meeting, we received a police department update which showed that response times are actually improving! And yet, we're warned that the officer/resident ratio is low. But that begs an important question......
At the 25 July 2024 City Council meeting, the City put up a slide contradicting some of my concerns over the 2006 Lid Lift. I told staff months ago that when the previous (2006) levy lid lift passed that it had led to more police in the first year, but that police staffing had dropped
... continue reading.Normally, I do not bother people more than once a week. However, after hearing from a bajillion residents, I have two significant concerns about the accuracy of the tax levy lid lift pamphlet you’ve all received from the City which I’d like to call to your attention. First Concern: the graphic The bar chart indicates
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This initiative failed