Public Service Announcements This Week Monday: Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. The EPA has unveiled a new series of Community Grants that are available to airport communities. Several local organisations have expressed interest and I’m trying to meet with all of them to make sure we’re not overlapping or working at cross purposes. My goal
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Every week I provide an update on what I’m doing, public service announcements, ways to get involved, info on the City and what the City is planning!
Weekly Update: 03/06/2022
2 Comments on Weekly Update: 03/06/2022Public Service Announcements This Week Monday: Meeting with Beacon Hill Community Council, Maria Batayola Tuesday: Port of Seattle Commission Meeting (Agenda) Wednesday: Puget Sound Clean Air Agencyo. The EPA has unveiled a new series of Community Grants that are available to airport communities. Several local organisations have expressed interest and I’m trying to meet with
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Leave a comment on Weekly Update: 02/13/2022Public Service Announcements This Week Sunday: I met with Noemie Maxwell to have a ‘Tree Tour’ of Des Moines. Her immediate efforts involve saving North SeaTac Park from development by the Port of Seattle. But she is working with other activists to come up with ideas to improve tree cover all around the airport. I
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6 Comments on Weekly Update: 02/06/2022Public Service Announcements This Week Tuesday: Port of Seattle Commission Meeting. The Commission will be considering its Local and Regional Policy Agenda for the year, which includes sound insulation. I will be testifying in support of the Port funding an Update or ‘second chance’ program, modeled on the Replacement Initiative program that has been working
... continue reading.Weekly Update: 01/30/2022
2 Comments on Weekly Update: 01/30/2022Public Service Announcements Next Week Tuesday: SMART (Southside Seattle Chamber Of Commerce) I haven’t attended these in a while, but I try to check in to see what SSCOC has going on with Des Moines. My peers in Tukwila and SeaTac speak glowingly of SSCOC. It’s been sort of an ongoing chicken and egg thing.
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Leave a comment on Weekly Update: 01/23/2022Public Service Announcements This Week Tuesday: Port Commission (Agenda) One highlight is a discussion of the WSDOT SR-509 property along 216th that the City Of Des Moines has handed off to the Port for expansion of the Business Park. Thursday: Association Of Washington Cities Action Days. About 100 years ago before COVID, this was a
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Leave a comment on Weekly Update: 01/16/2022Public Service Announcements This Week Monday: Destination Des Moines meeting. The group is welcoming a new board member and setting it’s agenda for the year. The hope is that 2022 will (finally) be a return to Wine! Fireworks! You know… normal. 🙂 Wednesday: Reach Out Des Moines. The group’s long-time facilitator Cynthia Ricks-Maccotan will be
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7 Comments on Weekly Update: 01/03/2022Public Service Announcements This Week Tuesday: Port Of Seattle Commission Meeting (Agenda) This marks the debut of two new Commissioners: Hamdi Mohamed and Toshiko Hasegawa. They represent many firsts, including the first women of colour. Ms. Mohamed is also the first Commissioner from SeaTac. Both have shown a strong interest in issues of equity in
... continue reading.Year In Review
Time is a flexible thing. You can watch a thousand sci-fi movies and still that whole ‘relativity’ thing makes no sense. But if you got nothing else out of this pandemic, now you know what it might be like in a space ship approaching the speed of light: where one year can feel like an
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2 Comments on Weekly Update: 12/12/2021Public Service Announcements This Week Tuesday: Port Of Seattle Commission Meeting (Agenda) Thursday: City Council Meeting (Agenda) Friday: South King County Housing and Homelessness Partners (SKHHP) Executive Board (Agenda) City Manager Pay Increase The City Manager is asking for a step increase from †M49D, which is $224k plus various benefits to M49E $235k, plus benis;
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