This Saturday, January 28 Sea-Tac Airport will launch the Sea-Tac Music Initiative, showcasing local music and musicians at Sea-Tac Airport. The kickoff features live music from 3-7 p.m. at the Gina Marie Lindsey Arrival Hall, at the south end of the baggage claim area. This new initiative produced is produced in collaboration with the Seattle [...]
[More]It’s a full day today starting with my attendance at Councilmember Conlin’s PLUS (Planning, Land Use, and Sustainability) Committee and in the afternoon chairing my HHSHC (Housing, Human Services, Health, and Culture Committee) meeting.
[More]On Wednesday, Jan. 25th, 2012 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm, new Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot will conduct his first free community concert with the Symphony on the main floor at City Hall.
[More]As I mentioned in UP 317, as of Monday night (and this morning) the agenda for tomorrow’s COBE meeting, was not yet available for public review. Our Council rules state that: “All reasonable effort will be made to provide the preliminary agenda online and in hard copy at least two business days prior to the meeting.” Further, the Open Public Meetings Act requires notice of a Council meeting 24 hours in advance. The concerns I raised this morning about proper notice identified this legal requirement and now has necessitated a last minute change in the meeting start time.
[More]In response to columnist’s Danny Westneat’s Seattle Times article ( Nov 29, 2011) about excessive towing fees ($800 in the example he writes about) charged to tow cars off private property, my office contacted the City Attorney’s Office to determine how the City could stop this practice. While it is reasonable to charge people who park on private property when they aren’t authorized to, they shouldn’t have to pay whatever charge the towing company decides, no matter how high the rate.
[More]On November 14th, the Seattle City Council passed Resolution 31337 which recognized the national grassroots citizen effort being made through the Occupy Movement in seeking solutions for economically distressed Americans at the federal and local levels. I introduced this resolution because the growing imbalance in our nation’s wealth demands the attention of the nation’s elected representatives.
[More]Today I placed Resolution 31330 on the Council’s referral calendar to create a Seattle Transportation Implementation Review Panel (STIRP) which will oversee spending of funds raised by the vehicle license fee, should voters approve Proposition 1. A vote on Resolution 31330 is planned for Monday, October 24.
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Councilmembers Nick Licata and Bruce Harrell along with Council President Richard Conlin sit down with host Brian Callanan for a lively discussion of City issues.
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Check out the film Glacial Balance, which was screened during my Sept. 28th City Council committee meeting. The film, by Ethan Steinman, is a documentary on the Andean glaciers and the lives of those who depend on them for survival. Although those glaciers are far away, they portend climate changes Seattle cannot escape.
On August 16, Seattle voters approved Referendum 1 by 58%. Although the vote was technically about the City Council’s decision making process, it was widely interpreted as a referendum on the tunnel project itself.
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