June 2022

Information from King County Local Services

King County's Department of Community and Human Services and Department of Local Services are partnering with community advisory group members to host a second virtual community meeting on Tuesday, June 21st, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., to discuss specific follow up items: Community Preference implementation and metrics and evaluation ideas from the Skyway-West Hill and North Highline Anti-displacement Strategies Report. This report analyzed potential anti-displacement strategies for the Skyway-West Hill and North Highline communities and, after an extensive community process, recommended ten actions.

Information from King County Local Services

As the July 4th holiday approaches, Local Services reminds residents that the use and sale of consumer fireworks are not allowed in unincorporated King County.

Information from King County Council

Traffic enforcement by the King County Sheriff’s Office has had a fragmented approach in the past few years, with a lack of a coherent overall strategy and insufficient data collection to analyze effectiveness, a new report from the King County Auditor’s Office found.

Always great plants! Always great fun! Always for a great cause…keeping pets and people together!

Hot Item For Father’s Day:    Organic Tomato Plants! We heard dad’s love to grow tomato plants!

Information from Seattle Police Department

#2022-148649/Southwest Precinct/Second Watch

On 6-11-22 at approximately 2pm, officers were searching for a suspect wanted for armed carjacking and eluding police.

Officers located the man mowing his lawn outside of his home and took him into custody.

Police booked him into jail.

Information from the City of Burien

The City of Burien is launching the Burien Community Connectors program, working with trusted leaders from Burien’s diverse communities to connect more people to civic planning processes. The program is based on the trusted advocate model which honors the ability and knowledge of leaders from a wide spectrum of cultural, ethnic, and racial identities and experiences, including immigrant and refugee communities, as experts on what their community needs to thrive.

Community Connectors will advise City staff on current engagement practices as well as help the City involve the community in updating the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Plan, Comprehensive Plan, and Transportation Master Plan. They will also work with City departments to improve community feedback loops.

The release of the timeframe for the reopening of the West Seattle Bridge came as a relief to some on June 9 and upset many others who had been figuring on a July opening based on SDOT's "mid-year" assurances. The week of Sept 12 can't come soon enough for a peninsula that has endured both the pandemic and the loss of its major transportation artery at the same time. In fact West Seattle is the only community in the world with that dubious distinction.

But once it's completely restored, the business of paying for it takes the top place on the agenda.

SDOT plans to spend $166.9 million on bridge projects in 2022. $102 million of that is work on the West Seattle bridge. But that's not the full price tag and does not include the low bridge or the remediation efforts called Reconnect West Seattle that have attempted to improve and mitigate impacts on alternative routes and neighborhoods during the closure.