November 12th, 2004
Each budget season I try to provide a quick synopsis of how the Council has altered the City Budget as the Mayor presented it to us. In this Urban Politics, I’ve borrowed generously from our staff’s summary. In a few places I’ve added some commentary or abbreviated the material, but overall I’m presenting information as our staff has summarized it. I believe it provides a fair summary the changes the Council made to the new City Budget.
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Posted: November 12th, 2004 under
Budget and Economic Development.
Tags:
Bookmobile Progarm,
city budget,
Department of Transportation,
Homeless Programs,
Human Services,
Non-Profits,
Public Advocacy,
Seattle City Parks,
Seattle Public Library,
Teen Parent Program,
UP
November 24th, 2002
Last Monday the City Council unanimously passed the City’s 2003-2004 Budget after having to reduce our expenditures by over $60 million. We received the Mayor’s proposed budget on September twenty-third and by state law we have to pass a balanced budget by December first.
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Posted: November 24th, 2002 under
Arts and Culture,
Budget and Economic Development,
Housing,
Human Services and Health,
Neighborhoods,
Public Safety,
UP.
Tags:
Car Recovery Clinic,
city budget,
Community Health Clinics,
Homeless Programs,
North Helpline Food Bank,
Seattle Arts Commission,
Seattle Fire Department,
SHARE,
SPD,
UP
October 11th, 2001
On Thursday, October 18th, at noon in the Plymouth Congregational Church (6th and University Ave) bring a brown bag lunch and an open mind to consider how the City might take a new approach to helping those who are homeless.
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May 13th, 1999
For those of you who want to track issues that I have been writing about in Urban Politics, we now have a UP subject index posted on the web. There’s a link to it here. All of the past issues of UP are listed with the exception of UP #1, which probably less than 200 people received. This was my first attempt (in September 1996) at communicating with citizens through the internet and it may not even labeled as UP Issue #1. It dealt the City’s transfer of the Freeway Park Garage to the Washington State Convention Center. If anyone has a copy of it, please let me know. I’d like to add it to our index. Thank you.
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Posted: May 13th, 1999 under
Budget and Economic Development,
Government,
Housing,
Parks,
Planning and Land Use,
UP.
Tags:
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Homeless Programs,
Land Use Code,
low-income housing,
Opera House,
Parks,
Parks Enhanced Code Enforcement Ordinance,
Rental Housing Inspection Program (RHIP),
Seattle Center/ Community Center Levy,
Seattle Parks and Recreation,
UP