JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
Follow up: I pulled the item and the vote for the increase was 5-2 in favour. On this week’s Agenda, in the Consent Agenda, will be an item to give the City Manager a 5% increase. My initial reactions upon reading this weeks’ package were: Such an item should never be in the Consent Agenda, which
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This is Page 21 from Ferry Demonstration Project Scoping and Reconnaissance Report dated 08/31/2021. To my knowledge this has not been brought to the Council or any Committee. It does not appear on the City web site until Friday, December 2, 2022.It predicts that a six month ferry program will lose between $997,000 and $1,450,000. But
... continue reading.There is currently no vehicle for electronic public comment. Some may want to argue that point (and why wouldn’t we, in an era when people can’t seem to agree on much of anything.) But my definition of “public comment” is… “Communications meant to address the City Council as a body and where both the person
... continue reading.As of this writing , there is no longer any way to send a public comment in writing, even though, until Friday, there were still multiple hyperlinks on the City web site to a non-existent Comment Form. (The ones I monitor have now been removed.) I have written to my colleagues that we need to
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This was done with Google Earth Pro (GEP.) GEP is very rudimentary and I have the drawing skills of an 8-year old. But GEP does allow one to draw boxes to scale. So all the ‘buildings’ are about 35ft high (the zoned limit.) I actually started this project to see if the September 27 Skylab
... continue reading.There has been a lot of concern recently concerning Marina Redevelopment and the master sums up my feelings about the situation. Plus, listening to a great song always helps calms me down when I’m upset about things like this. 🙂 If, like me, you are not happy with things, below you will find: Policy Solutions
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A 'private' community presentation by the Mayor to the DMMA membership. I include a transcript, which the DMMA objected to but whatever, because the Mayor revealed a number of items that should have been part of the September 27 public meeting. Must read....
Boy, is it ever. 😀 I wrote in my Weekly Update that the Futures Report was useless and I demonstrated this by posting a page from yesterday (11/06/2022.) And below are pages from the version updated 1today. And what I learned, today, is this: The Ferry Update that was scheduled for November 17 has been
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