| Apr ’08 |
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| 7:00 pm |
Tonight at 7pm, come to Cafe Rozella’s Friday FREE Film Night and not only see see “‘Round Midnight” for no cover, but also dig the sounds of Victor Puentes, who plays jazz for an hour starting at 7pm.
Usually the movie starts at 7pm, but tonight Rozella owner Ricardo is throwing live jazz into the mix, with the film starting at 8pm, so it should be a lively evening.
Did we mention that it’s FREE? As in…NO COVER?
From IMDB:
“In ‘Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the 1950’s New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer to play in Paris, where, like many other black American musicians at the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity that is not based upon the color of his skin. A Parisian man who is obsessed with Turner’s music befriends him and attempts to save Turner from himself. Although for Dale the damage is already done, his poignant relationship with the man and his young daughter re-kindles his spirit and his music as the end draws near.”
Here’s the trailer:
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Found on seattle-tacoma craigslist > seattle > lost & found yesterday:
FERRET FOUND! (West Seattle Burien White Center)
Ferret found – 112th and 21st ave sw. yesterday.
We kept it overnight and are taking it to the Kent Animal shelter today.
Someone please get their animal back before it ends up sleepin’ wit’ da fishes in Kent!
BURIEN – The accused gunman who shot an retired Boeing employee and Navy veteran on his doorstep Sunday faced a judge Monday who assigned a $250,000 bail.
Investigators believe Steven E. Tuimaseve shot Frank Curtis at point-blank range after Curtis refused to let him use the phone when he showed up at his doorstep at 2 a.m. Sunday.
Investigators said Curtis, 78, was asleep when he heard someone knocking at the door at his home in the 200 block of SW 116th Street in the Top Hat neighborhood between White Center and Burien.
Answering the door, he saw a man he didn’t recognize standing there, asking to use the phone.
The victim refused to let the man inside because he didn’t know him and because he appeared to be intoxicated. Tuimaseve then allegedly shot Curtis through the glass door, hitting him in the shoulder.
Curtis was hospitalized with shoulder injuries and powder burns to his face. He is expected to recover.
Members of the victim’s family were awakened by the shot and called police. The gunman was arrested a short while later about a block away.
Sean Winchester, a friend of the victim, said the victim did not know the gunman, and the only apparent motive was that he was upset over the victim’s refusal to let him use a phone.
Even so, the victim’s son Sean Curtis said he saw the warning signs long before the shooting took place.
He said Tuimaseve spent a lot of time at the family’s next-door neighbor’s home and was part of a group that brought “noise and garbage” to the neighborhood.
Sean said he never spoke to Tuimaseve, but said he’s had several run-ins with others who frequented his neighbor’s house.
“The conversations have always been confrontational. I was confronted by several males who shouted out racist comments at me. Everything is our fault,” he wrote in an email to KOMO 4 News.
Sean said the neighbor’s home is notorious for hosting wild parties with “…loud music to the point where knick-knacks in our house vibrate on the shelves, drug use (the smell of marijuana can be smelled to the point where we have to shut our windows).”
Sean said he has been reporting the trash issue to environmental health officials and the noise disturbances to the police, but a permanent solution has yet to be found.
Tuimaseve, 25, is a convicted felon who was placed on active supervision by the state Department of Corrections after being released from jail about a year ago. His record includes several felony convictions, including assault, attempted robbery and domestic violence.
Winchester described the victim as a “good man,” a 20-year veteran of the Navy and retired Boeing machinist who “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
“When things got bad for me, when the economy tanked, they took care of me for a while, and now I’m here doing what I can for the family,” he said.
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WHITE CENTER – A Top Hat-area man in his 70s was shot at point-blank range by a man who showed up at his doorstep at 2 a.m. Sunday and demanded to use the phone.
The incident took place in the 200 block of SW 116th Street between White Center and Burien, officials said.
The victim, a retired Boeing employee and Navy veteran, was hospitalized with shoulder injuries and powder burns to his face, and is expected to recover. The suspect was arrested a short while later about a block away from the scene of the shooting.
Sean Winchester, a friend of the victim and his family, said he learned the details of what happened from family members.
He said the victim, who is in his 70s, was asleep when he heard someone knocking at the door. Answering the door, he saw a man he didn’t recognize standing there, asking to use the phone. The victim refused to let the man inside because he didn’t know him and because he appeared to be intoxicated.
“At that point, the individual pulled out a gun and shot (the victim) in the shoulder,” Winchester said. He said the bullet shattered the glass in the door before hitting the victim.
Members of the victim’s family, who also had been asleep, were awakened by the shot and called police. The gunman was arrested a short while later about a block away.
Winchester said the victim didn’t know the gunman, and the only apparent motive was that he was upset over the victim’s refusal to let him use a phone.
“Some drunk individual apparently picked the wrong house … and decided to shoot somebody at 2 in the morning,” he said.
Winchester said the suspect may have been at an “alcohol and marijuana” party in the neighborhood earlier in the day.
He said the victim was a “good man,” a 20-year veteran of the Navy and retired Boeing machinist who “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
“When things got bad for me, when the economy tanked, they took care of me for a while, and now I’m here doing what I can for the family,” he said.
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As we reported late last week, yesterday was the day that the White Center Park was be re-dedicated as Steve Cox Memorial Park, in memory of the late Deputy Steve Cox, a true community leader who inspired many with his dedication and hard work in the community.
Here is a Flickr slideshow from the event:
| Apr ’08 |
| 4 |
| 7:00 pm |
Tonight at 7pm, come to Cafe Rozella’s Friday FREE Film Night and see “The Motorcycle Diaries,” a biographical film about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist revolutionary “Che” Guevara.
Did we mention that it’s FREE? As in…NO COVER?
From IMDB:
“The Motorcycle Diaries” is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures that he and his best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
The Motorcycle Diaries is an adaptation of a journal written by Guevara when he was 23 years old. He and his friend, Alberto Granado are typical college students who, seeking fun and adventure before graduation, decide to travel across Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela in order to do their medical residency at a leper colony.
Beginning as a buddy/road movie in which Ernesto and Alberto are looking for chicks, fun and adventure before they must grow up and have a more serious life. As is said in the film itself, it’s about “two lives running parallel for a while.” The two best friends start off with the same goals and aspirations, but by the time the film is over, it’s clear what each man’s destiny has become.
Here’s the trailer:
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BURIEN – A fire fully engulfed, and apparently destroyed most of a two-story home in the 11900 block of First Ave South today around 3pm.
Video from the scene shows heavy smoke billowing from the home as firefighters sprayed water from the outside.
One corner of the house was involved in flames and vinyl siding had melted from the home’s exterior.
Firefighters reported that a primary and secondary search of the home showed it to be all clear.
There is no immediate word of injuries or a cause.
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| Apr ’08 |
| 5 |
| 11:30 am |
This Saturday, April 5th, White Center Park will be re-dedicated as Steve Cox Memorial Park, in memory of the late Deputy Steve Cox, a true community leader who inspired many with his dedication and hard work in the community.
Naming this park in his honor is a fitting tribute for the officer who was shot and killed while investigating an assault outside a White Center home back in December 2006.
His murder stunned the community, who revered Cox as a Superman, a larger-than-life prosecutor-turned deputy.
News video:
The park will include:
- Area: 12 acres
- Hours: Dawn to dusk
- Amenities: White Center Community Center, Mel Olson Stadium, children’s play area with play structures, tennis courts, picnic tables and barbecues, picnic shelter, baseball fields, racquetball courts, restrooms.
- Rentals: For information on renting facilities, please call 206-205-5275.
More info here.
Just found out the the Burien City Council is holding a “special meeting” this coming Monday, March 31st at 7pm, at the Educational Resource & Administrative Center (ERAC), Board Room, 15675 Ambaum Blvd. SW:
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| Mar ’08 |
| 14 |
| 7:00 pm |
Tonight at 7pm, come to Cafe Rozella’s Friday FREE Film Night and see Spike Lee’s great documentary on Hurricane Katrina’s effect on New Orleans and its people, “When The Levees Broke.”
Did we mention that it’s FREE? As in…NO COVER?
From the HBO website:
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005.
Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort.
Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world.
The result is WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS.
The film is structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina’s catastrophic passage through New Orleans.
Sneak peak of Part One of the film:
Spike Lee introduces the film in New Orleans in 2006:
WHITE CENTER – A team of gas thieves is stealing fuel from B-Town area gas stations.
Images of the thieves, who have been helping themselves to hundreds of gallons of gas, have been captured by surveillance cameras (see left) – but the bad guys have still eluded police.
They fill up blue barrels in the back of a pickup truck, often when gas stations are closed.
They struck at one SeaTac Shell station.
“It’s just unbelievable, it really is,” said Lynelle Martin, who works behind the counter.
In the weeks since the story first broke, King County Sheriff’s detectives have developed new leads on the suspects and uncovered more bulk fuel thefts.
They now know of at least four Shell stations in the South Seattle area that have been hit and have lost up to 800 gallons at a time. Some have been targeted more than once.
Shell manager Tom Nguyen says the thieves had a key to open his pump and they expertly switched it on and filled up on $3.80 premium gas. Worse yet, they paid him several visits.
“It’s happened totally four times… over a month or so,” he said.
Sheriff’s detectives believe the man pumping gas seen on surveillance video is known as “D.” Another suspect’s name is “Steve.” They have a photo of a 6-foot Asian man with a frizzy pony tail.
And the truck often used is a red Nissan Titan.
Investigators aren’t sure what the men are doing with the fuel, but customers aren’t surprised that criminals are cashing in on record-high gas prices.
While some people think these guys are sticking it to “big oil,” it’s mostly small business owners who are hurt.
One gas station owner lost $3,000. He says that’s almost a month of gas profits for him.
Sheriff’s detectives are asking anyone with information about these thefts to call 911 or King County detectives at 206-296-3320.
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| Mar ’08 |
| 7 |
| 7:00 pm |
White Center’s Cafe Rozella is hosting another Free Friday Night Movie this Friday at 7pm.
This week’s flick is Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, a 2005 documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a study of one of the largest business scandals in American history.
The film examines the collapse of the Enron Corporation, which resulted in criminal trials for several of the company’s top executives; it also shows the involvement of the Enron traders in the California electricity crisis.
Interviews are conducted with former executives, stock analysts, reporters and the former Governor of
The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 78th Academy Awards.
As an analysis of corruption in corporations the film gives a realistic look at corporate culture and the inherent problems within. The movie presents two mechanisms for motivating a vastly immoral and profit-driven corporate culture; namely the vitality curve and the Milgram experiment.
The vitality curve is an idea of constant competition in the work place. Individuals are driven to out-perform each other wherever possible because the employees doing worst in a particular field will be fired. Enron constantly hired new staff because even with record profits it was firing people for making less than 1000 times what they were being paid. The atmosphere of the work place caused people to not only disregard the law, but also to act competitively in breaking the law.
The film features actual voice clips from Enron employees discussing the transfer of electricity from the state of
The Milgram experiment was conducted to see how long an individual can take an order before they question that order. The test was set up so that a person is told that an individual will be shocked with electricity every time they push a button. The person is told to raise the voltage and push the button over and over until the person pushing the button decides to stop on moral grounds. On average a person would die three times over with the number of times the button was pushed.
With a goal derived from the pursuit of profit, Enron employees were constantly told to break laws or perform acts that could be considered immoral. Few Enron employees ever came forward to report the corruption. The factor that inevitably led to people coming forward was a “sinking ship” feeling, resulting in some of the Enron executives selling their shares while telling employees to keep their shares.
Here’s a trailer for the film:
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Nearly $12 million dollars will soon flow into White Center for schools, courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the public-private partnership Thrive by Five.
The long-awaited investment was announced Wednesdday.
The Gates Foundation alone will spend $9 million this year — $7 million on a new early learning center and another $2 million on services. The initiative is one of the newest and biggest anti-poverty programs to hit the Seattle area in recent years, based on the idea of narrowing the skills gap between kindergartners from low-income and higher-income families.
Other programs have certainly tackled early learning, but the pilot project is striking for its ambition in such a small area. It will offer families support from the time a mother learns she is pregnant to the final step before kindergarten.
“It is kind of like we are a little fishbowl experiment,” said Jeri Finch, director of the Learning Way School and Day Care in White Center. “What we do will impact education for the whole state.”
That’s because White Center is one of only two neighborhoods that will initially receive millions of dollars under the initiative. The idea is to build two models — the other will be in Yakima — for educating infants, toddlers, preschoolers and prekindergarten students in the rest of the state.
After trailing much of the country in early learning programs, the state has been trying to catch up in recent years, and Wednesday’s announcement represents the most dramatic step of that effort to improve the state’s care and education of its youngest children.
For example, less than two years ago, Gov. Chris Gregoire created the Department of Early Learning and this year she asked the Legislature for $2 million to support Wednesday’s initiative.
With all of this new money and attention, Washington now sits among the more progressive states, according to Libby Doggett, executive director of Washington, D.C.-based Pre-K Now.
“I think people are excited, but there is also some caution,” Doggett added, suggesting the state needs to improve its overall standards for early learning.
Another question is how much money will be consumed by administration and how much will go directly to help families.
Wednesday’s announcement is actually the result of more than a year of meetings among neighborhood groups, providers, nurses, public officials and staff from Thrive by Five and the Gates Foundation.
Later this year, construction crews plan to break ground on the 30,000-square-foot Greenbridge Early Learning Center, which will have two Head Start programs, parenting classrooms, teacher-training rooms, play groups, community dinners and English classes.The center is slated to open next year.
The initiative, though, will also spend money reaching out to families in their homes, paying for prenatal care, doulas who speak Somali, Spanish, Mandarin and Vietnamese to help with childbirth and for home visits by nurses and teachers. “They tell us what will best support them, and we want to give them a menu of choices, not a one size fits all,” said John Bancroft, who oversees the development of the new learning site.
The money won’t stop flowing after this year. Overall, the Gates Foundation has committed to spending $90 million on early education in Washington state over 10 years, and some of that money is sure to land in White Center.
Separately, Thrive by Five plans to use federal and state money, private donations and parenting fees to pay for its future work, with a goal of creating a self-sustaining model for children from infancy to age 5 similar to the existing K-12 school network.
In White Center, though, the greatest need may be the most simple: more spots at quality child care centers.
For example, the founders of the Learning Way School recently bought a neighboring house in the hopes of meeting growing demand. All this new grant money will help the school with staff training, and perhaps support more slots to move families off the waiting list.
In 2008, the initiative will create 32 new slots for babies and toddlers, though at the new learning hub, not at private providers.
“I think it is going to allow some of us a little breathing room” financially, the school’s director Finch said.
In the last few years, research has piled up confirming that preschool and early education matter. Studies have linked top quality child care to lower incarceration rates, higher home ownership and lower drug use.
Basically, the research argues that $1 invested in child care now saves society more than $1 later in that child’s life.
“We know that the first five years are critically important in shaping the rest of the life of this child,” said Graciela Italiano-Thomas, head of Thrive by Five.
Now the hard work begins: building a $13 million center, spreading support to a community that is home to more than 30 languages, getting the 3,000 kids from newborns to 5-year-olds in White Center ready for kindergarten, and proving what works.
Program planners already have asked one critical group what works.
“It is the first time anyone asked our opinion,” said Finch, who has worked in child care for the last quarter century.
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Interesting and educational 6-1/2-minute Youth Media Institute documentary from 2006 about B-Town’s potential annexation area, the diverse community of White Center (you know, that neighborhood to the north with the great hardware store? The one you drive through quickly to get to West Seattle…?):
Do you have a strong opinion on the possible annexation to Burien?
Wanna get something off your chest to the people who have a say on it?
Well, here’s your chance:
Tonight (Wed. Feb. 20th) at 5pm the Burien City Council will be holding a Special Meeting to discuss the Potential Annexation Area at Burien City Hall, 15811 Ambaum Blvd SW.
The next regularly scheduled meeting will be a Study Session on Monday, Feb. 25, at 7pm at the Educational Resource & Administrative Center (ERAC), 15675 Ambaum Blvd. SW.
The City of Burien strives to provide alternate communication opportunities. Please contact the City Clerk’s office, 206/248-5517, 24 hours prior to the meeting, for assistance.
| Feb ’08 |
| 15 |
| 7:00 pm |
Courtesy Ricardo Guarnero of White Center’s Cafe Rozella:
Cafe Rozella Presents the Celebrated Documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car” for FREE this Friday night (2/15) at 7pm!
BYO popcorn or munch on Rozella’s tasty tamales, quesadillas, and sweets.
MOVIE INFO:
It begins with a solemn funeral…for a car. By the end of Chris Paine’s lively and informative documentary, the idea doesn’t seem quite so strange. As narrator Martin Sheen notes, “They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline.” Paine proceeds to show how this unique vehicle came into being and why General Motors ended up reclaiming its once-prized creation less than a decade later. He begins 100 years ago with the original electric car. By the 1920s, the internal-combustion engine had rendered it obsolete. By the 1980s, however, car companies started exploring alternative energy sources, like solar power. This, in turn, led to the late, great battery-powered EV1. Throughout, Paine deftly translates hard science and complex politics, such as California’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate, into lay person’s terms (director Alex Gibney, Oscar-nominated for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, served as consulting producer).
And everyone gets the chance to have their say: engineers, politicians, protesters, and petroleum spokespeople–even celebrity drivers, like Peter Horton, Alexandra Paul, and a wild man beard-sporting Mel Gibson. But the most persuasive participant is former Saturn employee Chelsea Sexton. Promoting the benefits of the EV1 was more than a job to her, and she continues to lobby for more environmentally friendly options. Sexton provides the small ray of hope Paine’s film so desperately needs. Who Killed the Electric Car? is, otherwise, a tremendously sobering experience. –Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Brought to you by the White Center Arts Alliance.
And Mark your Calendar for Richard Hugo Night – February 28th at 7 p.m.
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 15th at 7pm
WHERE: Cafe Rozella, 9434 Delridge Way SW, Seattle, WA 98106 • (206) 763-5805
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| 7:00 pm |
From Engaged: Politics, Poetics & Miscellany:
Spanglish Potluck at Cafe Rozella:
una noche de palabras y música
an evening of words & musicwith Wendy Call and Maria de Lourdes Victoria
with music by Charanga Danzón, led by Irene MitriCo-sponsored by Hedgebrook & Supported by 4Culture
part of Hedgebrook’s Women Authoring Change seriesWednesday, January 30, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Café Rozella
9434 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, Washington 98106
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From the City of Burien website:
The United Way of King County is offering free, quality tax preparation and electronic filing for residents from IRS-certified, multilingual volunteers.
No income limits and no appointment necessary.
Avoid paying high and unnecessary fees or taking rapid refund loans from commercial preparers.
You may be eligible for a larger refund by claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.
Save some of your refund. Bring in your bank account information and have your refund directly deposited.
We can help you apply for an Individual Taxpayer Identification number (ITIN).
We only prepare basic individual tax returns.
We do not prepare business taxes, or returns that include sale of property or stock or rental income.
For more information, dial 2-1-1 or 1-877-211-9274, or go to unitedwayofkingcounty.org/taxcampaign
DATES/LOCATIONS:
January 15 – April 15, 2008
BURIEN:
ACORN of King County Prosperity Center
134 SW 153rd Street, Suite D, 98166
Thursdays 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturdays 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WHITE CENTER:
Salvation Army Community Center
9050 16th Ave. SW, 98106
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturdays 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
White Center Assembly
10237 16th Avenue SW, 98146
Thursdays 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturdays 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
For more information and full details, download this PDF.
The City of Seattle might abandon a long-running effort to stretch Seattle’s southern borders to include White Center and surrounding residential communities.
The City Council plans to vote on whether to pull the plug on Mayor Greg Nickels’ hopes for the city to annex an unincorporated area dubbed North Highline. Nickels acknowledges that the move would drain city coffers. But he has insisted it is the “right thing to do.”
If the council reverses its 2006 endorsement of the concept, the city of Burien will be free to pursue its efforts to annex the area.
More than 32,000 people live in North Highline, which is bordered by Seattle to the north, Burien to the south, and SeaTac and Tukwila to the east. It’s a relatively impoverished and ethnically diverse area.
Except for White Center, it is largely residential.
Nickels’ office says serving that community would cost Seattle $5 million a year, plus $6 million in one-time transitional costs.
Other municipalities get a tax break from the state when they annex unincorporated urban areas. But the Legislature specifically excluded cities as large as Seattle. City lobbyists have unsuccessfully pushed lawmakers to broaden the tax break.
Some on the council do not think the city should take on another community to serve, especially without that tax break. Some say Seattle still is not adequately serving neighborhoods it annexed decades ago, such as North Seattle communities that lack sidewalks and other infrastructure.
“Just look at South Park and Georgetown, who were annexed exactly 100 years ago, and by and large ignored until quite recently,” said Councilwoman Jan Drago at a recent council committee meeting.
Today, “this administration is paying attention to South Park and Georgetown. But I have no hope that if we were to annex North Highline that we would meet their expectations of service.
“We need to fulfill our promises and commitment to the current residents of Seattle before we consider taking on new citizens.”
Earlier this month, a council committee recommended that the full council remove annexation consideration from Seattle’s official long-term land-use strategy, known as the comprehensive plan.
In terms of annexation negotiations with Burien and the county, such a move would mean “we don’t have a seat at the table,” said Kenny Pittman, a senior policy analyst for Nickels.
Both Burien and Seattle designated the 6-square-mile area a “potential annexation area” about one year ago. (Tukwila and SeaTac have also designated small portions of the area.)
Last year, Burien and Seattle officials agreed to mediation over their dueling designations, but it has not happened.
Any final annexation decision will be made by North Highline voters.
Meanwhile, the Mayor’s Office has not given up on persuading the Legislature to amend the tax break to include Seattle. But that would be a much more difficult pitch to sell should the council remove potential annexation from the city’s comprehensive plan, said Pittman, who has been working on the annexation proposal since 2003.
“It just basically undermines that effort,” Pittman said. “The ‘potential annexation area’ designation shows the Legislature that we’re serious.”
Monday’s council meeting is the last of the year for Seattle — and the agenda is packed.sc
Council members are expected to pass measures that aim to block office and retail development in Seattle’s industrial neighborhoods.
The council also plans to vote to approve the sale of a block across from City Hall to a private developer that plans to build condos, office space, as well as city-owned retail and civic square facilities.
The annexation question is among a number of proposed changes to the comprehensive plan, which the council updates annually.
The Urban Planning and Development Committee recommended that the council endorse specific goals for the city’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Nickels’ office had objected, saying one of the targets was based on politics, not science.
The committee approved goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2024, compared with 1990 levels, and 80 percent by 2050.
“There is an urgency to this that we are becoming increasingly aware of,” said Councilman Peter Steinbrueck, who chairs the committee. “This is an aggressive, but important, goal to set.”
Nickels’ spokesman Marty McOmber said the 2024 goal is “just basically a guess.”
By contrast, McOmber said, the 2050 long-term target reflects a threshold accepted by the climate science community as the amount “we need to get to in order to avoid the most damaging impact” of global warming.
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