Following Mayor Mike McGinn's inauguration Jan. 4, a reception was held at City Hall's Bertha Knight Landes room and spilled out into the second floor lobby. Councilmembers Richard Conlin, Sally Bagshaw, Nick Licata, and Mike O’Brien, and Peter Holmes, City Attorney greeted guests along with the new mayor. Pictured, Julia Field of the Undriver Licensing program discusses car congestion with the mayor.
Following the inauguration of Mayor Mike McGinn, City Attorney Pete Holmes, and Councilmembers Richard Conlin, Sally Bagshaw, Nick Licata, and Mike O’Brien, a reception was held on the second floor of City Hall.
The West Seattle Herald asked the new mayor about Roger Patten's floating bridge proposal we reported on here:
http://www.westseattleherald.com/2009/12/21/news/burien-architect-respo…
He expressed interest in the article and has heard of Patten but said, "The bridge proposal has never really caught on with any of the departments at state or city level to look at this so it doesn't really seem like an option. But I'll take another look at the newspaper article."
The new mayor said things were moving forward fast and that he was excited to start his new job.
"We pulled pulled the team in yesterday, Sunday. It's nice to have the official full day of work. We put out some executive orders today focusing on how to deal with the $40 million deficit next year. This is after deep cuts, so we have some hard work to do ahead. It's good to start working with the councilmembers, agency folks, with the mayor's office team.
"Today's speech was really the first time I made a significant speech since the election. We did the town halls and spoke to the public then, so I wanted make sure that we spoke about the right things and demonstrated that we were getting down to work early on the tough issues. We have another big speech on Saturday about moving our agenda forward."
