to the Seattle City Council’s conflict of interest rules has former District 3 representative Kshama Sawant and her socialist supporters back in City Hall and Council President Sara Nelson on the defensive over
The Seattle City Council’s governance, accountability, and economic development committee approved the new ordinance earlier this month. The response from drivers who spoke at previous council meetings over the past several months is mixed. Some want the city to keep the existing pay sta...
Council ordinances are subject to veto by the mayor, which may be overridden by a two-thirds majority vote. Seattle has municipal courts, to which misdemeanour crimes are referred, and houses district and superior courts that are integrated with the judicial system of the state of Washington. ...
As the city slowly but surely works towarda new 20-year growth planthat is hoped to spread development across the city more equitably, theSeattle City Councilbegan debate this week on legislation to change the way infrastructure improvement costs are shared with developers. ...
Seattle City Council Position No. 9:Sara Nelson Seattle School District No 4:Vivian Song Maritz Seattle School District No 5:Michelle Sarju Seattle School District No 7:Brandon Hersey ___ The best choice for Seattle’s next Mayor is evident in the policy positions the two...
In December of 2006, the Seattle City Council formalized an agreement to purchase the station from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway for $1. Later revised to $10, the deal was signed on March 8, 2008. The purchase freed up funds for further restoration, and the city devised a four...
Since its incorporation as a city in 1869, Seattle has been governed under a succession of charters. Under the most recent one (1946), the city is governed by amayor, who is elected to a four-year term, and a nine-member city council, whose members are elected to four-year terms thr...
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In Seattle, Amazon has spent over a million dollars trying to get pro-business candidates elected to the city council. ByEmma Coleman October 22, 2019 Trying to Stop ‘Swatting,’ a City Creates a Registry to Flag False 911 Calls Seattle police created the first online registry that asks res...
Seattle City Council Position No. 9:Sara Nelson Seattle School District No 4:Vivian Song Maritz Seattle School District No 5:Michelle Sarju Seattle School District No 7:Brandon Hersey ___ The best choice for Seattle’s next Mayor is evident in the policy positions the two...