This Week
Tuesday: 12:00PM Port of Seattle Commission Meeting (Agenda)
Wednesday: 5:30PM Protect Poverty Bay event on Water Quality Highline MAST Redondo.
Last Week
Monday: I testified at the Senate Ways and Means Committee hearing on SB5199, a bill to provide funding for Local Journalism co-sponsored by our own Senator Karen Keiser. Tune in here.
You can read more on the issue here.
As some of you know, developing an ongoing reporting beat here has been a passion of mine for quite some time. We haven’t had anything like that now for about a decade and without context, even the most well-informed voters struggle to understand what’s really going on. The more I do whatever -this- is, the more I’m coming to believe that a good (emphasis on the ‘good’) reporter would be -the- single biggest improvement to local government that could ever happen.
Tuesday: Des Moines Marina Association Meeting (harbormasters report) Apparently, the design for L, M and N docks is almost complete. I’m a bit concerned that there is not yet any talk about the boat hoist.
Wednesday: Meeting with several groups on Des Moines Memorial Drive and SR509. There has always been a strong historical connection between ‘the Highline Communities’.
But for some reason, the various historical groups (the Des Moines Historical Society, Hillgrove Cemetery along 200th, Des Moines Memorial Drive Preservation Assocation, and the Highline Heritage Museum) have never synced up as they could/should have. As annoying as SR509 is, it creates some opportunities for all these groups to work together with the Lake To Sound Trail, which will provide a physical connection between all these areas.
Thursday: Auditor Exit Interview (Report) The State gave us a clean report except for an accounting issue with ARPA funding.
Again thanks for all the information . What can we as citizens do to get the payment for the dock repair moved to a payment beginning. ? how can we help save money for this community ? Kaylene
That’s such a great question. I think the public can best help by encouraging CMs and especially candidates to consider the -entire- City. We spend so much time/energy on the Marina–it’s become a ritual for electeds and candidates to hanging out at the Quarterdeck and Farmers Market. Or maybe Midway Park once a year. 😀 I put that parks map in the article to show how -concentrated- all the parks are. They’re all clustered in just a few places. That’s simply unfair to moms with young kids. You shouldn’t have to always -drive- to a park. But you can never build them if you spend all your time/money into the waterfront.