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Mayor’s Town Hall at Nathan Hale, 11/1

Next Tuesday, the Mayor is holding a “town hall” at Nathan Hale High School. The agenda is:

5:30-6:30 Meet and Greet: City Departments and local community organizations have information tables, answer questions and offer volunteer opportunities 6:30-6:40 Youth performance 6:40-8:00 Open question and answer session with the Mayor

See the flyer for the event for [...]

Determining Seattle’s Transportation Future

Speaking of transit, there is a transit meeting coming up this week which I will be attending. I’ve got another meeting on Monday and our Pinehurst Community meeting is on Thursday (26th) so I hope to see some of you in Fremont on the 24th.

No matter what your priorities are, this is a good [...]

Update on City Efforts to Support Homeless Community

Here’s the latest on the use of the old Fire Station 39. The news release just came from the city this morning:

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and City Councilmembers Nick Licata and Mike O’Brien today announced two new steps in the City’s efforts to better support those living without permanent shelter in Seattle:

Future use [...]

Hubbard Homestead Park Opens 4/23 with Egg Hunt

Our new park, Hubbard Homestead Park, will open on Saturday, April 23rd! However, construction on the skate park portion of the park will continue into the summer.

The Mayor will be present for the opening celebration:

If you’re looking for a spring egg hunt, join Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Northgate community for [...]

Mayor McGinn Northgate Visit This Weekend

The mayor sent out an invite for the surrounding neighborhoods to join him in Northgate this Saturday for a Q&A and neighborhood visit.

As part of the Engage Seattle initiative this year, in order to ensure that as many people as possible who live, work, or play in Seattle are able to voice their concerns [...]

Temporary Use of Former Fire Station #39

Ed Pottharst emailed this out to many people in Lake City and Renee forwarded it to our list but I wanted to make sure as many people got to see it as possible.

November 15, 2010

Dear Lake City residents,

I am writing to let you know that the [...]

Walk Bike Ride: Community Meetings

June 21st, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the Northgate Community Center. There are four upcoming Walk Bike Ride community meetings including one in our neighborhood. This will be a good time to share the priorities for our neighborhood. For example, would more sidewalks make it easier to get to the bus? It might be [...]

Mayor Anounces Walk Bike Ride

I’m a bit slow here but the information on the mayor’s Walk, Bike, Ride proposal has gone out.  And while it deals with the whole city obviously, this is something that could have a tremendous impact on some of the local priorities like sidewalks.

Seattle Channel to live-stream public budget hearing

Today the office of Mayor Mike McGinn announced that the Seattle Channel will live-stream to the Internet tonight’s Mayor-Council public budget hearing.

The Mayor’s Office and the Seattle Channel have worked together to launch this new effort toward better government transparency.    Embedding the video online will enable a far wider segment of Seattle residents to [...]

Thank You Everybody!

I really want to thank everybody who emailed me or commented on the latest sidewalk post. I haven’t responded to as many as I’d like yet but I have read everything. Obviously it’s an important issue to a lot of people but it’s amazing to see that much energy despite how slow the process has [...]