In response to the letter in the July 26 Highline Times, “Why is Area Y still getting Burien newsletter,” our answer is , residents in Area Y are NOT receiving the newsletter, or at least they shouldn’t be.

The City stopped sending newsletters to the proposed annexation area after the measure failed at the polls last November. If anyone in Area Y still received the newsletter, it was an addressing mistake and not intentional. We’re certainly not still paying to send newsletters there; our lower post-annexation payments for newsletter postage reflect this.

The mailing of the newsletter will no longer be an issue in September when the City begins electronic distribution. Previously, all households and businesses in the City automatically received the newsletter in the mail. The upcoming fall 2013 edition will be available through email or on the City website. We will continue to send a printed version to those who are on our mailing list.

Please sign up for an electronic or printed version on the City website (www.burienwa.gov), call City Hall at (206) 241-4647, or send us a message with your mailing address to: City of Burien newsletter, 400 SW 152nd St., Ste. 300, Burien WA 98166.

Steve Botkin
Public Information Officer
City of Burien