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Now we build a budget
With the vote tallies for the state-wide initiatives clear we can now get down to building the final 2011 City of Seattle budget. The Mayor delivered his budget proposal Sept. 27, but it wasn’t until...
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Start your budget engines
Mayor Mike McGinn delivers his proposal for a 2012 City budget Monday thus kicking off the two month budget review season (which just happens to coincide with baseball playoff season, an important fact...
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Bill Walton, Dave Twardzik, Maurice Lucas, Bob Gross and…
When I was 11 I had the 1976-77 Portland Trail Blazers team photo taped to my bedroom door. If I had that photo still I could have checked it to recall the fifth starter of that world championship...
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Career pathways to skip the skills mismatch
We had two great presentations in the Council’s Economic Resiliency & Regional Relations Committee yesterday on current job trends and the better coordination under way in the Seattle area to prep...
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Ocean Beauty – a big fish story
When you think of the types of business sectors we have in Seattle it’s easy to mentally jump to jets, coffee and software. But when you think about an icon for the Northwest, few would challenge the...
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Mid-point check-in
Somehow we got into July and I’m not sure how that happened. At the top of this year the Council went through our annual agenda priorities exercise which yielded this 2012 Action Agenda and I thought,...
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Budget thoughts.
How best to turn Seattle’s always-limited resources into efficient services over the next two years? That’s the question my Council colleagues and I deal with this fall as we examine the 2013-2014...
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National Save for Retirement Week
This week is National Save for Retirement Week. If you’re like many people, thinking about retirement makes you a little anxious; like you’ve fallen way behind in class homework and the test is...
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Blessing of the Fleet – happy and safe fishing
Every year at the start of the commercial fishing season Ballard First Lutheran Church holds a ceremonial Blessing of the Fleet at Fisherman’s Terminal. This is a great opportunity to recognize the...
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Good morning from the Paris Airshow.
Good morning from the Paris Airshow. The Trade Development Alliance/Seattle Chamber delegation spent the day here today checking out the displays and visiting vendors who do or should do business in...
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‘Spoke too soon
Last week I sent out an e-newsletter in which I profiled some great small business stories. These were stories of the City helping to solve small but significant problems experienced by small...
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2014 Budget Review Wrap Up
Thank you to everyone who shared thoughts about budget priorities this fall. At its best the City budget is a reflection of our priorities and, often, our compromises with each other as we determine...
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Seattle is raising its minimum wage
Over the past several months of minimum wage debate I’ve been told to adopt $15 now “because the rent won’t wait.” I’ve been told raising the minimum wage will cost jobs. In meetings I’ve heard...
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Field trips during 2015 budget review
Councilmembers have been locked in 2015 city budget review for the past few weeks on our way to a final vote the Monday before Thanksgiving. It’s a little difficult to schedule other work during this...
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Budget 2015
We’re just about to end our work adopting a City budget for 2015. Each year we go through hours of review and discussion about available revenue, efficiency, effectiveness and values. This year’s...
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Visiting YouthBuild.
Guest post by LaTonya Brown, Legislative Aide Sally and I visited YouthBuild, a nationally recognized pre-apprentice construction training program housed at the Georgetown campus of South Seattle...
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