Community News & Updates

Christmas Tree Recycling

January 2nd and 3rd 10am to 2pm

Give your live undecorated Christmas tree a second chance by recycling it. 

At Henry Jackson Park, Baseball field parking lot

Hosted by Boy Scouts of America Troop 114

Questions- call 425-220-6470 or e-mail

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If you cannot drop off the tree, call and arrange a time for pick up.

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Meeting with the Mayor notes

November 10, 2020

We covered many topics:

• Budget- some reductions are things we cannot do anyway due to COVID such as Senior Center and July 4th Parade.  Next steps with the budget are City Council meetings on 11/18 and 11/25.  

  • Reducing transit​

  • Reducing Arts & Culture 

  • Parks- adding an additional person back to care for our numerous Parks

  • Matching grants will be available for neighborhoods.

  • Libraries will reduce to 6 days a week.

• Districts- In 2021, there will be 5 City Council positions to fill- one from each new District.  The 2 At-large positions are up in 2 years.

• COVID- case counts continue to rise

• Homelessness

  • The COET (community Outreach and enforcement team) continue to link homeless people to services​.

  • County is re-locating those housed at Carnegie to increase the capacity.

  • The city is looking at bringing in Pallet shelters.  These would be managed.  Information about pallet shelters can be found here.

• Public Safety is #1 concern

  • Investing in training of officers​

  • we received a grant to outfit patrol officers with body cameras

  • Looking at linking people to services instead of sending to jail where they are often just released back on to the street.

  • Project ABLE- this promotes officers speaking up and intervening to prevent  police officer​ misconduct.