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Welcome and thank you for visiting my Seattle City Council website
It is an honor and privilege to represent you. Seattle is a great City, with a wonderfully diverse population that is passionately committed to making Seattle a better place. I welcome your input not only on policy ideas, but my website and Council communications in general.
Let’s make 2009 the year when Seattle rose to the crisis and moved forward into a better future. Thanks again for visiting, and please stay in touch.
Sincerely,
Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council President
IMPORTANT ISSUES:
COUNCIL APPROVES VIADUCT TUNNEL AGREEMENT
On Monday, October 19, the City Council voted unanimously to move forward on Alaskan Way Viaduct deep bored tunnel and seawall replacement projects. This allows the projects to benefit from the current favorable environment for bidding construction contracts.
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FIRE STATION 20 RESOLVED
On Monday, October 19, the City Council voted unanimously to relocate Fire Station 20 to 15th Avenue West and West Armour Street, ending a four-year conflict over the location for a new West Queen Anne fire station. The initial proposal for the new station contemplated rebuilding the station on its existing site, and expanding that site by taking three single family homes.
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FIRST HILL STREETCAR AUTHORIZED TO PROCEED
On Monday, October 5, the Council unanimously adopted Council Bill 116636, authorizing an agreement with Sound Transit for implementation of the First Hill Streetcar Connector Project. The agreement commits Sound Transit to fully fund construction and operation of the streetcar, as approved by the voters as part of the Sound Transit ballot measure in November, 2008, and outlines how the City will proceed with construction of the streetcar with the goal of bringing it into operation as soon as possible. The route up Jackson Street to 12th Avenue is fairly clear, but there are different possibilities for serving First Hill on the way to the Capitol Hill light rail station.
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NEW STEPS TOWARDS OPEN GOVERNMENT
On Monday, October 5, the Seattle City Council passed Resolution 31162 outlining a set of Council decisions recommended by the Special Committee on Open Government, which I Chair, that support open and transparent government while also increasing public engagement. The vote was 8 to 1 (Councilmember McIver voting no).
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CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL PROCESS BEGINS
The Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee will begin work on Children’s Hospital’s proposed Major Institution Master Plan on Wednesday, November 18, at 9 AM. The Major Institutions ‘quasi judicial’ process is part of the state’s land use regulations and places the Council in an unusual role.
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QUOTE
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."
-- Raymond Williams
DEEP THOUGHT:
"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
-- Abraham Lincoln
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