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Drew Holloway performs with his band Recess Monkey during the second of four Covington Summer Concert series shows July 26 at Real Life Church. Recess Monkey is a trio of Seattle-area teachers who make kid-friendly music. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.

Kickin’ ItRecess Style

BY KATHERINE SMITH

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One thing all three of the Black Diamond mayoral candidates have in common is that they are running for the good of the city.

Th e position of mayor in Black Diamond is slated as a part-time position but oft en demands a

full-time level of attention and time, but it’s love for the city and a desire to help the commu-

nity that mayoral candidates Rebecca

Olness, Keith Watson, and Dave Gordon have said inspires them to pursue city leadership.

Th is weekend marks the fi nal days of campaigning before the primary election Aug. 6 where the top two vote-getters will advance to the November general election.

Mayoral primary in home stretch

BY KRIS HILL

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David Lucavish and Joseph Cimaomo, Jr. are both focusing on parks and roads in their bid for the same seat on Covington City Council.

Both men are interested in seeing the city make strides in developing its park system as well as on improv-ing the city’s transportation infrastructure.

Lucavish, the incum-bent who was appointed in 2008 to fi nish out a term, ran unopposed for the seat in 2009.

“I feel that I haven’t fi nished what I want to do,” Lucavish said. “I think the City Council is better with a lot of diverse ideas and I think I have just a little bit of a

Council candidates share vision for city

BY ROSS COYLE

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A school project by a pair of Kentwood High students earned them a surprise invitation to Microsoft ’s Worldwide Partner Conference in July.

Zachary Nawar, 18, and Evan Brossard, 17, and their teacher, Shannon Henderson were invited to participate in the conference which is a networking platform for Microsoft ’s global business

partners and draws more than 14,000 people.

Nawar and Brossard’s game took center stage at the Public Sector display, which showcases the soft ware giant’s contributions to nonprofi ts, education and other public sector entities. Th e game, Defend Your City, was developed using Microsoft ’s XNA develop-ment tools which the company provided for Kentwood’s com-puter science program.

Defend Your City plays similar to Missile Command of the 1980s. Gamers play cooperatively to defend three cities from fall-ing meteors with modernized graphics and upgrades available for destroying certain asteroids. It pinged on Microsoft ’s radar aft er winning the Best in Show award at Kent School District’s VisFest.

Originally game design wasn’t even in Nawar’s future and he considered joining the Marine Corps out of high school.

“Every kid wants to grow up to make video games and this is just some closet fantasy that I had,” Nawar said.

Kentwood students catch attention of Microsoft

Kentwood students Zachary Nawar and Evan Brossard show off their game, Defend Your City, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in July. Courtesy photo

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City Council.”Cimaomo, is running for Covington City Council for

the second time after losing a bid against Marlla Mhoon in 2011.

Lucavish moved to Covington in 1997. Cimaomo, who is originally from California, moved with his family to Kent in 1992 then into the Covington area in 1999.

Both work in retail. Lucavish owns a computer shop which he started in 1997. In March he moved the business into Covington from Kent. Cimaomo is a manager at Big Lots!

There are, however, differences between the candidates.Lucavish is running for second full term because he

feels he has more to get done. In 2008 when he was first appointed to the council he was concerned about the fact there weren’t sidewalks on both sides of 164th Avenue

Southeast from Kent-Kangley to Kentwood High School. There still aren’t sidewalks and he would like to see that street become safer for pedestrians.

“I think we need to keep on that to make sure that in the future that’s on the agenda,” Lucavish said.

While he is pleased with the progress made on Coving-ton Community Park, Lucavish would like to see more done there, and a move to get more done at Jenkins Creek Park.

“I’d like to see (CCP) finished and start looking who we can partner with in getting the Jenkins Creek Park to get that started because it’s so run down and things in there are happening that you probably you don’t even want to know about,” Lucavish said. “Part of it is getting people to use it and in order to get people to use it, it’s got to be functional.

I’m really excited about Covington (Community) Park but that Jenkins Creek Park, because it’s downtown and because it’s so close to the hospital, it’s going to be our next

focus.”Lucavish noted that since he moved to Covington he

has spent a considerable amount of time connecting with various community organizations as well as learning about how the city works. He began attending City Council meetings regularly in 2000, chaired the city’s Economic De-velopment Council for several years, served on the Puget Sound Regional Council and is on a couple of Kent School District committees.

“I think I have a real feel as to what’s going on,” Lucavish said. “I feel I’m pretty connected.”

Meanwhile Cimaomo, who graduated from Kentwood High in 2004, became interested in local politics more recently.

“I saw a bunch of things that I felt were lacking in Covington and I thought the way to change that was to get involved,” Cimaomo said. “I was the kind of person to reach for the stars and why not run for City Council.”

Though he was not successful two years ago, Cimaomo said, he learned a great deal from the experience.

“I didn’t get out there and knock on as many doors as I should have, I didn’t talk to as many people as I should have,” Cimaomo said. “I feel like I know how to do it cor-rectly this time.”

Cimaomo is particularly concerned about the lack of park space as well as how Covington Community Park and the Covington Aquatic Center are marketed to potential customers.

A pair of other issues are particularly important, Ci-maomo said: public safety and roads.

“We only have 13 officers and at some points during the day we only have one patrolling and to me, that’s very bad,” Cimaomo said. “Our roads are in desperate need of overlay and we just keep postponing it.”

Cimaomo was one of the members of the city’s budget priorities advisory committee which spent nine months going over the budget.

“We looked for ways we could scrimp and save to hire more police officers,” Cimaomo said. “I still have all that budget paperwork and I still look through it every once in a while to bring in another officer. I just keep throwing out ideas.”

One of the ideas which came from the BPAC process was the transportation benefit district. In November voters will have the opportunity to approve a 0.2 percent sales tax increase which could generate a significant amount of revenue if approved.

“There are parts of that I like and parts that I don’t,” Cimaomo said. “If that doesn’t pass there are other areas we could look at, again digging deep in the budget and getting

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ADULT VACCINATIONSMany adults believe that the days of shots and booster shots

are as far behind them as riding bikes all day long in the summer. While most grown people can’t afford the luxury of a two-month long summer vacation, adults still do need to pay attention to their vaccinations. The diseases that vaccines prevent have not gone away. Illnesses like flu, chicken pox or shingles, and hepatitis B can leave otherwise healthy people bedridden for weeks or even months. Some diseases that are preventable by vaccines are even life threatening. It’s a good idea to talk to your health care provider about a vaccination schedule and what vaccines may be needed. Then take the necessary steps to stay healthy.

With adulthood comes responsibility, including the need to protect ourselves and our loved ones. The fact is that immunity from childhood vaccines can wear off and you may be at risk for new and different diseases. Factors such as your age, lifestyle, health conditions, locations of travel, and previous immunizations determine the specific immunizations you will need.

To schedule an appointment, please call Southlake Clinic at (253) 395-1972. Our primary care providers are part of a multi-specialty physician network and are also available on Saturdays. Our multi-specialty group has a clinic in Covington at 27005 168th Place SE.

NEW PLAY TO OPEN IN MAPLE VALLEY

“Guess Who’s Coming to the Wedding” is opening at the

Maple Valley Creative Arts Center on Aug. 15 and running

through Aug. 24.

The show is a new drama by local playwright, Ed Corrigan.

This is Corrigan’s third play to be presented by the Creative Arts

Center.

“Guess Who’s Coming to the Wedding is a timeless love story about two young people’s pow-

erful love bringing together two very different families,” Corrigan

said. “It is about how their beautiful love overcomes life’s

drama, conflict and tragedy.”

Performance dates are Aug. 15-17 and Aug. 22-24. Performance

times are 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 7 p.m.

Tickets are on sale at www.maplevalleyarts.com and are

available at door.

The show is rated PG 13.

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Covington doesn’t have enough money to fix its streets and in four years the reserves to support road projects will be gone.

This is why the city will ask voters in November to approve a transportation benefit district to generate revenue through a sales tax increase of 0.2 percent — from 8.6 percent to 8.8 per-cent — to fill the coffers of its street fund. If approved, explained City Manager Derek Matheson in presen-tation to Covington Rotary July 26, it could generate as much as $750,000 a year.

At this point, Matheson said, the street fund is ex-pected to be short $56,000 this year. He explained in his presentation — which was intended to provide in-formation and not advocate one way or the other, he said in a disclaimer at the start — that the recession, higher gas prices, inflation

and statewide ballot mea-sures reduced the cash flow into the city’s street fund.

“We do not pave streets anymore unless we get grants,” Matheson said. “We’re fortunate we got a couple this year. We do very little asphalt patching or crack sealing.”

Other road improvement projects that are smaller scale aren’t done unless the city receives grants for which there were no federal or state matching funds.

Matheson noted that the city’s general fund, which is also tight, subsidizes the street fund at $250,000 a year. A significant chunk of the city’s annual $9 million budget, about $3 million, goes to Covington’s police contract with the King County Sheriff ’s Office. Because money is shifted regularly from the general fund to the street fund to cover road maintenance programs Covington has not been able to add to its

police force despite the fact it has fewer officers on average than other contract cities in the county.

“We’ve had no new police officers since 2008 even though we’ve had signifi-cant residential and retail growth since then,” Mathe-son said. “Faced with this situation, we have a couple options. We can cut expens-es or increase revenues.”

Covington staff has done both by reducing benefits, eliminating merit pay, of-fering lower cost insurance plans while renegotiating contracts for services with other entities. In an effort to find other approaches, Matheson said, the city put together in 2012 its budget priorities advisory com-mittee.

“BPAC’s original expecta-tion was it was going to go into the city’s budget and slash out the waste,” Mathe-son said.

During the course of nine months, however, the BPAC

found no fat to trim. At the end of the process, one of the core recommendations to come from the com-mittee was to put the TBD concept to voters.

Covington’s City Council members preside as the TBD Board. A TBD has a different taxing authority than cities do under state law, Matheson said. There are 281 cities in the state, he said, and 56 of them have TBDs. Of those, 14 put the sales tax increase on the ballot. The rest, like neighboring Maple Valley, chose to increase vehicle license fees. A city with a TBD can add up to $100 to the vehicle license fee, and up to $20 without voter approval.

Covington chose the sales tax, Matheson said, because it seemed clear vot-ers do not like the vehicle license fee or increases to it.

The other advantage of the sales tax increase, if ap-proved, is that it would be

paid by anyone who spends money in Covington. The burden, therefore, would not be borne entirely by residents of the city which is appealing because it is a hub in the region for shop-ping and eating out.

It would expire in 10 years, Matheson said, and if the TBD Board wished to renew the tax that can be done once.

If the sales tax increase is approved in November, then the city would no longer need to subsidize the street fund from the gen-eral fund, and that money could then cover the cost of another police officer as well as increasing the hours of the code enforcement officer from half-time to three-quarters time.Reach Assistant Edi-tor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.

Transportation benefit district explainedCity Manager Derek Matheson presents information about sales tax ballot measure to Covington Rotary

GREATER MAPLE VALLEY UNINCORPORATED AREA COUNCIL TO HOLD MONTHLY MEETINGThe Greater Maple Val-ley Unincorporated Area

Council will hold its monthly meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 5 at the Maple Valley Fire Station located at the corner of Southeast 231st Street and state Route 169.FIREFIGHTERS CONTAIN

BRUSH FIREFire crews worked hard to contain and extinguish a fast moving brush fire in the 30400 block of 148 Ave. Southeast on July 24. At 4:41 p.m. a passersby reported the brush fire just south of Southeast 304

Street. The fire grew to ap-proximately one acre before fire crews from District 44, Valley Regional Fire Author-ity, and Kent Fire Regional Fire Authority stopped the spread of flames through the light brush, tall grasses, and stumps. There were no structures in the direct path

of the fire.The fire had the potential to grow much larger to the south and west.Four fire engines, two brush trucks, four chief officers, and two water tenders re-sponded to the fire with ap-proximately 25 personnel.

Community News and Notes


Clark Davis does more than provide insurance at his American Family offi ce in Four Corners — he also pulls our community together in his constant eff orts to help others.

Th e fi rst week of June Clark invited me to at-tend an event for a non-profi t he supports called Grief Makeover. He explained this new program is just getting launched and is designed to help people going through the grieving process. Th e concept is similar to ABC’s Extreme Makeover series. However, one of the biggest diff erences is the support that Grief Makeover will provide to the families that they help. Th is will be ongoing to help each family through the diff erent stages and events they encounter as they move through the grieving process.

Th e fi rst family they are helping is a military widow with two children — a newborn and 3-year-old. Mandi’s husband Wade died in Afghanistan before he even found out his wife was having a little boy. Grief Makeover provide Mandi not only with the stuff you need for a newborn and toddler but all the items needed to get through a typical day. Th ey are also hoping they can help Mandi with the one thing she says she still needs the most: a little color back in her life.

“I used to be a happy person, but with the loss of my husband, my world seems to be a darker place, and I’m not sure how to bring the color back,” she said.

At the end of August, Mandi and her children will receive their makeover. If you would like to participate in bringing the color back in their lives you are welcome to drop donations off at Clark’s offi ce or contact Jennifer Westby, founder of Grief Makeover, at [email protected].

Th ere are also opportunities available for businesses who would like to be part of the non-profi t’s support network. Th is is part of the ongo-ing assistance they provide to families.

I will attend the makeover event where they will also fi lm their fi rst of many documenta-ries. I will then share with our community how much your support impacted each of the family members. On a side note, they do need more

businesses to help with the documentaries.Huge thank you to Clark and those of you

in the community who have already support Mandi’s family in her Grief Makeover!

For more information or to submit a family for a grief makeover please visit www.griefmake-over.com

Donation Drop Off s:Clark Davis, American Family offi ce24040 Se Kent Kangley Rd Unit E100Maple Valley 98038

Megan Sheridan can be reached at 253-223-1593 or [email protected].

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Keith Watson best candidate for Black Diamond mayor

As the former 26-year mayor of Black Dia-mond, I put my support 100 percent behind Keith Watson. Th ere are many things a mayor has to deal with and Keith has shown an exam-palory ability to handle many diff erent prob-lems.

As Planning Commission Chair, President of the (Black Diamond Historical) Museum, Presi-dent of the Black Diamond Community Center, Commander of the Submarine Vets, one term, he has had to deal with many diff erent situations and problems, which he is able to do with much wisdom and the ability to show no prejudice, but will listen to both sides of a problem and fi nd the best solution.

As your former Mayor I know what a mayor has to deal with and Keith has demonstrated the quality and ability to be able to serve with much wisdom. I serve under him at the Black Diamond Museum and the Black Diamond Community Center so my knowledge of him is fi rst hand.

How Mr. Gordon thinks he can run our city and work full time shows me he does not have a true grasp as to what it takes to run a city.

When I fi rst became mayor it was possible to work and manage the city, but we were only 1,200 people with not much going on as far as building and development. Today a mayor should be at City Hall at least part time to keep up with everything and keep in close contact with the city administrator. Th e staff we have at City Hall are very qualifi ed people, which Keith realizes and would continue to use them.

Our comprehensive plan covers all aspects of development, i.e. schools, streets, etc. Keith is the mayor who will work with YarrowBay and make sure they follow the comp plan so we have the kind of development that is good for Black Diamond..

As former Mayor, I can say without reserve that Keith Watson stands way out and above the other candidates and would ask that the people of Black Diamond make him our next mayor.

Howard BottsBlack Diamond

Olness must be re-electedOur current mayor, Rebecca Olness must be

re-elected. Her statement on her signs says it all.

“For our city’s future.”Contrast that to another that says, “Save our

town.” From What? A negative “circle the wag-ons, save us from (perceived) disaster” negative way of thinking. Stick our head in a hole, go back to the old ways?

Our city will grow, but only as the economy allows. Homes built have to be sold. Th is will take 20 years.

Someone mentioned small town charm. Th ere isn’t a lot of charm on Highway 169. We’re a wide spot in the road. It could be and we could have an attractive town square as growth develops. But we need to start now. Re-elect Mayor Olness and look ahead. Our city’s future depends on it.

Paul Braeger and Judi AuveBlack Diamond

Dave Gordon not the answerDave Gordon is not the answer in the Black

Diamond mayoral race. He has a startling lack of knowledge about where the city is with the

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velopment process, about the history of the process, or about the city finances. He does not seem to be familiar with the state and county laws regarding growth.

His plan for dealing with the development seems to be more research, more analysis, and more review. I guess Dave was not involved in the years of planning, the hours of hearings, the hundreds of people providing testimony, and the appeals. The job of the next mayor is holding Yar-rowBay to the requirements of the development agreement, and going forward.

I don’t know what chamber candidate forum a previous letter writer went to, but I did not experience the bias she claimed. I thought the audience was balanced, the ques-tions fair, and the time equal. Mr. Gordon seemed in an attack mode, short on details, and not well prepared.

Dave Gordon is not the answer for Black Diamond. Send Olness and Watson on to the general election

Tom MulvihillBlack Diamond

Vote for Keith WatsonI personally want to say that my proverbial hat goes off

for all of those that have served, wanting to and currently serving the city of Black Diamond or any political position for that matter. Offering up unlimited amounts of time and energy can be quite the sacrifice at times, especially consid-ering the current political condition of Black Diamond.

I want to take a minute and offer up my influence in earning your vote for Keith Watson. As my family and I have lived in Black Diamond since 2003, we have always and like so many others, enjoyed that small town feel. After having the opportunity to get further involved on a handful of occasions we then had the opportunity to meet the el-ders of the town that have not only lived here for dozens of

years but have passionately served Black Diamond for just as many, and all of it without seeking to be in the limelight or wanting the recognition so to speak. I consider these people to be the backbone of our community. Keith Wat-son is one of them — his roots go deep in Black Diamond and I easily consider him one of the elders who has the city’s best interest at heart, this is why I would encourage your vote for Keith as our next mayor.

When it comes to the position of the mayor, we want someone that has experience but more importantly the discernment and intuition in helping the government body make the right decisions as to the growth of Black Diamond. Keith has already proved himself as the people’s advocate, go spend some time with him and you’ll have a chance to see the scars of servitude on his hands.

You want a wise mayor, right? Wisdom comes through experience, again, I would encourage your vote for Keith Watson as our next mayor.

William SaasBlack Diamond

What makes Covington different?I don’t profess to know all the answers but I couldn’t help

but think about it when reading the article on planning under way for the Hawk Property in Covington. The very thing that a small faction of residents in Black Diamond have been fighting, even to the extent of lawsuits and an attempt to change the city’s form of government, a total development plan for 210 acres before a shovel is lifted, is getting residents and staff of Covington excited about plan-ning the future growth of their city.

The urban growth areas designated by the county for growth will grow by law.

Mayor Olness has ridden a wild horse in trying to keep the city solvent through a process that no one can change

or delay and has always been so polite and civil in council meetings with heated public input that I have on several occasions had to shake my head in wonder at her compo-sure and calm spirit.

I think all candidates for mayor and for council have come to their senses and know that growth is inevitable and mandated by law and they are now running on who can best manage it.

I say Mayor Olness has earned her stripes and deserves another term. I have already cast my vote and ask that you consider voting for Mayor Olness as well.

Meanwhile, I still wonder why residents in Black Dia-mond who know growth has to come to their little village as the region’s population grows would not be excited for this opportunity to plan what that new city will look like in entirety.

Harvey Senecal Black Diamond

Rebuttal in orderThe mayor and her chair of the Planning Commis-

sion are trying to make you believe that they were legally required to support YarrowBay and that it is a done deal. Anyone who has followed the still pending court case, or has attended the hearings over the past few years knows otherwise.

Also, a rebuttal is in order as to a recent letter to the editor by Anna Mason (July 26). She indicated that Dave Gordon and myself were misquoting Keith Watson’s agenda. Mr. Watson’s own quotes in the newspaper and at the forum speak for themselves.

Bill McDermandBlack Diamond

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rid of a couple pet projects.”Lucavish also wants to

see more work done on roads.

“It’s already in our 20 year plan, widening Kent-Kangley (east of Wax Road), so traffic on the weekend and at rush hour isn’t so bad,” Lucavish said. “We’ve got it planned but it costs money, too. The (TBD) is really designed more for upkeep and fixing the streets we already have, which have been been fail-ing, and we’re not the only

ones with that problem. All the cities in this area, budgets have been tight, and that’s one of the things that goes by the wayside. The (TBD) could really help out if it passes.”

Economic development is important to both candi-dates, too.

Lucavish pointed to his experience as a busi-ness owner as well as his service with the Covington Chamber of Commerce and CEDC.

“I’m really interested in making Covington a place

where we can work and play,” Lucavish said.

Cimaomo explained that he thinks the city can do a better job of market-ing itself to attract new businesses here in order to increase revenue stream to city services.

Ultimately, Lucavish said, he believes his unique per-spective and his willingness to do his homework as well as his connections through-out the community are why voters should return him for a second term.

“I think common sense is not too common and I think I look at things in a way where I ask, ‘Is this real or not,’” Lucavish said. I don’t have any agenda. I’m going to look at what’s best for the city … and make sure the information I’m getting is apropos and it’s a sound decision.”

Cimaomo, who is married and raising his 6-year-old son with his wife in Covington, said he wants residents to know he’s learned not just from

his past campaign but from the history of politics in America and will use that knowledge if he is elected.

“The other thing I would like people to know is that I’m a family man, I want to work hard for my family and provide for them … and ensuring that I’m work-ing for them and the city of Covington,” Cimaomo said. “I will work for their families and make sure their families are well taken

care of.”

Reach Assistant Edi-tor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054. To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.

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BOARD MEETING Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees,

Finance Facilities & Audit Com- mittee will be held on Tuesday, August 13 at 10:00 a.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, Renton WA. Regular meetings of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trus- tees, Finance Facilities and Audit

Committee will continue to be held on the 3rd Monday of each month at 2:30 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, unless changed by public notice.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra Sward

Executive Assistant to the Board of Trustees

Published in the Kent, Renton,Covington/Maple Valley/BlackDiamond on August 2, 2013 andAugust 9, 2013. #838249.

PUBLIC NOTICES

CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES

CITY OF COVINGTON, WASHINGTON

PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON A CLEARING AND GRADING ORDINANCE IN THE

COVINGTON MUNICIPAL CODE (CMC) CHAPTER 14.60 AND AMENDMENTS TO THE STATE

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT (SEPA) CATEGORICAL THRESHOLDS FOR DEVELOPMENT

THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013 – 6:30 PM

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Covington Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on the proposed clearing and grading ordinance in the CMC and amendments to the SEPA categorical thresholds at its regular Planning Commission Meeting on Thursday, August 15, 2013, at 6:30 p.m., to be held in the Council Chambers at Covington City Hall, 16720 SE 271st Street, Covington, Washington.

The purpose of the Public Hearing is to receive comments regarding implementing a new clearing and grading ordinance in the CMC and amendments to the SEPA categorical threshold exemptions. Questions may be directed to Salina Lyons, Principal Planner: (253) 480-2442 or [email protected].

All persons desiring to comment may do so in writing to the Planning Commission Clerk, 16720 SE 271st Street, Suite 100, Covington, WA 98042 or by appearing at the Public Hearing.

Agenda information will be posted the Friday prior to the above meeting at Covington City Hall and on the City’s web site: www.covingtonwa.gov.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION

Application Name & File No: Red Canoe Credit Union Commercial Site Development Application, LU13-0015/0005

Primary Contact: Patrick Kirby Momentum 1520 4th Ave, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98101 206-787-8078

Application Submitted: June 27, 2013

Date of Complete Application: July 18, 2013

Notice of Application: August 2, 2013

Project Location: The subject property is located at the corner of SE 270th St and SE Wax Rd, Parcel Nos. 3780400010, -0020 and -0130, and is situated in Section 26, Township 22N and Range 5E in the City of Covington, King County, WA.

Project Description: The Developer is proposing to construct a 3,000 sq. ft. bank and associated site improvements on 0.53 acres in the Downtown Mixed Commercial (MC) zone. Water service will be provided by Covington Water District and sewer service will be provided by Soos Creek Water and Sewer District. Emergency services will be provided by the City of Covington and the Kent Fire Department, Regional Fire Authority. The site contains no environmentally critical areas.

Comprehensive Plan/Zoning Designation: Downtown Zone, Mixed Commercial (MC) district. Consistency with Applicable City Plans and Regulations: This proposal will be reviewed for compliance with all applicable City of Covington ordinances; including Title 18-Zoning, Title 12-Design and Construction Standards, Title 14-SEPA Environmental Review, Title 13-Surface Water regulations, and applicable design requirements.

Other known permits not included in this Application: Engineering Phase Review, Clearing and Grading Permit, Building Permit (compliance with the International Building, Fire, Mechanical and Plumbing Codes); Certificates of Water and Sewer Availability; applicable Right-of-Way Permits from the City; issuance of other permits required by separate jurisdictions (i.e. Qwest, Puget Sound Energy, etc.); and any other permits as deemed necessary.

Comment Period: August 2, 2013 – August 23, 2013This is a Type 2 Application in accordance with CMC 14.30.040, whereas the City of Covington Community Development Director issues the final decision for the applications, which is appealable to the Hearing Examiner. To make written comments, please mail, email or hand-deliver specific comments to City Hall, Community Development Department, 16720 SE 271st Street, Covington, WA 98042, no later than August 23, 2013. Please contact Permit Services at 253-480-2400, or via email at [email protected] should you have any questions or comments pertaining to this proposal.

Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on August 2, 2013. #838096.

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The candidates participated in a forum on July 16 where they had the chance to state their opinions on various issues, mostly concerning the Master Planned Develop-ments of YarrowBay, which would call for the building of over 6,000 homes as well as commercial development, and community unity.

As a follow-up to the forum The Reporter sat down one-on-one with candidates to ask some follow-up questions related to candidates statements at the forum.

INCUMBENT COMMITTED TO COMMUNICATIONSeveral questions at the forum revolved around Black

Diamond’s financial situation and the budgetary process. Comments were made about Olness’ leadership of the budget process and whether or not state law was followed by passing a balanced budget in 2012.

At the forum it was stated that the city did have a bal-anced budget by the deadline at the end of December. Questions however remained about Olness’ involvement.

“Yes, it is my job to produce a balanced budget and this council in particular has been very critical,” Olness said in an interview.

According to Olness, the budget process begins in July for the following year. The first steps involve the mayor meeting with the finance director and city manager and sending out a budget call letter asking department heads for their proposed budget for the following year. Each department head then submits a first round department budget to the mayor who then directs where cuts need to be made.

On Oct. 12 of last year Olness sent a letter to council titled “2013 Preliminary Budget-General Fund” outlin-

ing the preliminary budget for 2013 including revenue, expenditures and cost cutting measures that had already been applied to the budget. The initial budget shortfall was $734,700 and through reductions that was reduced to $248,783.

“That was the very first time council was involved,” Ol-ness said.

She went on to explain that council had said they wanted to have more input and defended the presentation to coun-cil of the preliminary budget as giving council members the chance to give input.

“I am seeking council input on how to proceed further,” Olness wrote in the Oct. 12 letter.

At the end of the letter Olness noted that balancing work was continuing and more details would be given to council at a work study that was to be held on Oct. 18 and also noted that council member’s input would be included in future drafts of the budget.

Olness said that the budget was balanced well in advance of the December deadline.

“The budget absolutely has to be balanced and I have never not had a balanced budget,” Olness said. “I’ve also never had a budget that we didn’t have some reserves. I never use reserves, which was done a lot before.”

Olness noted that she has been able to decrease expendi-tures and has actually increased reserves in both 2012 and 2013. Olness said that she believes it will be possible for the city to survive financially for two to three more years until revenue increases due to growth.

Responding to questions about her relationship with council, Olness said that she is committed to continuing to try to work with council members.

“Council and I have to work together,” Olness said. “Yes,

there is a separation of power and that’s the basis of gov-ernment, but this council has been very difficult to work with. I have reached out to them. Only one or two of them will ever answer an email, several of them don’t answer emails.”

Olness said that council members have refused to meet with her.

“I think that this council, the new council, had an agenda when they came in,” Olness said. “They really don’t know what I think a lot of the times, because they won’t discuss things with me, but they think they disagree so they don’t want to (discuss things).”

Olness said that understanding the separate roles of council and the mayor is important. She explained that Council is tasked with formulating and adopting policies and the mayor is then in charge of implementing those policies.

In relation to City Hall, Olness denied accusations that the environment at City Hall is hostile.

“That is absolutely not true,” Olness said. “City Hall is a great place and there is absolutely no problems whatsoever between me and staff.”

CANDIDATE FOCUSES ON TRANSPARENCY, COMMUNICATIONAt the forum, candidate Keith Watson spoke about do-

ing a better job and making a difference. When asked to expand on those comments Watson spoke about his ideas for addressing the city’s funding problems and community involvement.

“Well, first of all we have a funding problem in the city, and we’ve had it for over 50 years,” Watson said. “We don’t have a lot of businesses here. We do have over 300 busi-nesses in town, but a lot of them are home-based so there’s no tax revenue from those folks to speak of.”

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Watson said he would be looking for ideas on how to attract businesses and people to the city.

In addition, Watson said he would focus on increasing communica-tion between the city and residents.

“The communication between the city and the community is really lack-ing,” Watson said.

Watson cited the city newsletter, which has moved to online-only, as one way he feels the com-munication could be better.

“And there are other ways to communicate with the citizens, social networks — and there’s quite a bit that I could do in that respect. Citizens need to know what’s going on.”

Public meetings and the chance for the public to comment at meetings as well as having an open-

door policy at City Hall can work, Watson said, but he would also like to see more town meetings.

“We’ve had town meet-ings and it’s mainly been slanted one direction, basi-cally,” Watson said. “I think it needs to be — instead of name calling — it needs to be: let’s have an idea meeting. Not a meeting where you blame every-body. Enough of that. You can’t do anything about the past, but let’s talk about the future.”

Another goal Watson said he would focus on would be creating transpar-ency in City Hall and re-building community trust.

“I don’t think they (the current government) are open and transparent,” Wat-son said. “Everybody has an agenda of some kind, but if you’re against growth, state you’re against growth. If you’re pro growth at least let people know, if you’re for regulated growth that’s completely different then those other two.”

Watson said that trans-parency and honesty lend themselves to open debate

about issues.“Right now it’s just not

happening and it has really hurt our city,” Watson said.

Transparency and com-munication lends itself to trust, Watson said.

“I think that’s probably one of our biggest prob-lems, trust in government,” Watson said. “They (indi-viduals and those in gov-ernment) are afraid to let out what they feel because they’ll get blasted by either this side or that side which is normal, I guess, but that’s where it starts.”

Watson said that he thinks the majority of Black Diamond residents fall somewhere in the middle of being for or against growth and that transparency, com-munication and objectivity can go a long way toward rebuilding community trust.

“People can get along even if they disagree,” Wat-son said.

Editor’s note: Dave Gor-don was unavailable to answer follow-up ques-tions to the forum.

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Nawar, who graduated in June, plans to attend Digipen Institute of Technology in Red-mond to focus on game design. Nawar is looking forward to attending the small, private institution because it should connect him with like-minded individuals.

“I’m looking forward to meeting people who are like me, who like video games and like creating them, who have a passion for them and motivation and enthusiasm,” Nawar said.

Nawar got his start in programming when he worked on custom scenario maps for the strategy game Warcraft 3. Th e game’s editor program allows players to create their own scenarios with custom maps, units and executable scripts. He gradually moved from pro-graming in the game editors to coding and said that the best way to learn is to simply jump in and see what you can do.

“When someone asks me to teach them how to program I say ‘No, I can’t teach you, you have to teach yourself,’” Nawar said. “It’s not something you can learn and take a test for, you have to want to learn how to program.”

Brossard started by reading up on java coding from University of Washington lecture notes. He was awarded a scholarship to attend a summer workshop at Digipen. He hopes to go to the school in the future. He feels he would do better with Digipen’s smaller class

size. “I feel like the environment is better there,” Brossard said. “(Students are) more like a

family there instead of UW, where it’s so large and you’re not as close to everybody.”Henderson took up teaching computer science seven years ago. She believes that com-

puter and technology literacy are essential skills students can learn to prepare them for the future—whether it’s updating Facebook, Twitter, or Wordpress or programming games to be played on XBox’s arcade or uploaded to the popular digital distribution service Steam.

Henderson currently teaches three diff erent computer science classes at Kentwood — the fi rst is an introduction to programming. Th e following semester students can take a class to learn game programming using XNA and Visual Studio. Following this, Hender-son off ers an advanced class for students to work on their own projects, putting the skills they have to the test.

“It’s around kids on a daily basis,” she said. “Every part of their life right now is aff ected by technology.”

Reach Ross Coyle at [email protected]. To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.

FIRE MARSHAL CALLS FOR BURN BAN IN KING COUNTYAs hot and dry weather conditions continue the outdoor fi re danger has increased.

In response King County is issuing a fi re safety burn ban in unincorporated areas of the County eff ective July 29.

This is a Phase 1 burn ban and applies to all outdoor burning except for small recreational fi res in established fi re pits at approved camp grounds or private property with the owner’s permission. Recreational fi res must:

· Be built in a metal or concrete fi re pit, such as those typically found in designated campgrounds; and not be

used as debris disposal.

· Grow no larger than three feet in diameter.

· Be located in a clear spot free from any vegetation for at least 10 feet in a horizontal direction, including at least 25 feet away from any structure and allow 20-foot vertical clearance from overhanging branches.

· Be attended at all times by an alert individual and equipment capable of extinguishing the fi re.

This fi re safety burn is also in eff ect for the City of Maple Valley. This ban remains in eff ect until further notice.

For more information, visit http://www.kingcounty.gov/property/Fire-Marshal/BurnBanInfo.aspx

COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM FALL CLASS REGISTRATION OPENRegistration is open for Maple Valley’s Community Emergency Response Team disaster preparedness and response training beginning Sept. 4.

The CERT program is designed to cre-ate awareness in citizens and teach critical skills for assessing a disaster situation,

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Don’t move trees this week. August is not a good month to transplant trees and large shrubs, start a new lawn or forget to water your potted plants. August is a usually a dry month so take note of what plants are looking good and resis-tant to drought in your landscape. Use a sprinkler instead of hand watering shrubs or lawns that need water with the goal of get-ting at least one inch of wa-ter each week down to the roots. You can also decide to let your lawn go golden or dormant this month. Be secure with the knowledge that the autumn rains will soon return to green up a summer dormant lawn soon.

Q. I have a salvia plant called Hot Lips that the

humming-birds love. It was covered with blooms early in the summer but is no longer flowering as much.

Should I fertilize or prune it to get more blossoms? Also does salvia overwinter like a perennial? J.M., Kent

A. Winter could be the kiss of death to your Hot Lips salvia unless you grow it in a container that can be moved close to the house and under the eaves in the winter. Some salvias will also overwinter in a rockery or raised bed. This heatlov-ing member of the sage family can be convinced to keep on blooming into the fall season if you prune it

back by at least one-third now and pamper it a bit with some fertilizer made for flowering plants. There is a price for this encore performance however. Tender plants like Hot Lips salvia are less cold tolerant if you prune them back and encourage a late summer surge of new growth. One more hot tip about Hot Lips. You can place the cut stems or pruning crumbs of salvia into a vase of water on the patio and the hum-ming birds will continue to visit. But be warned. The cut stems will droop and wilt quickly when first placed in water. Give them a few hours to absorb the moisture however and Hot Lips Salvia should perk right up and enjoy a long vase life.

Q. I thought everyone could grow zucchini. However in my garden the

squash are huge, shaped weird and have no flavor. My fault or bad seeds? E.C., Tacoma

A. Don’t blame the seeds. Sounds like a drinking problem here and you are the enabler. Zucchini and other squash use more water when they are young and setting buds but later in the summer they perform better if kept on the dry side once the squash forms. Tasteless, water-filled pro-duce is often the result of a sprinkler or drip system used too often. Cut back on the water to just one inch once a week. To measure the amount your sprinkler or rainfall is giving your garden place an empty tuna can near the plants and measure the amount of water that collects. A ruler placed into the bottom of the can will show when the water reaches the one inch

mark. Soil that is high in organic matter can hold water like a sponge and needs much less water in the summer than sandy or lean soils.

Q. I have some great looking dahlias but we are hosting a wedding in our garden at the end of August and I don’t want these dahl-ias to be done blooming. If I prune back one third from the top of the dahlia plants now will that insure that they will have flowers in late August? T.T., Olympia

A. Don’t be getting too snippy with your dahlias now. Just remove all the spent blossoms and con-tinue to harvest the blooms as soon as they open. Dead-heading will encourage the plants to keep flowering until the first hard frost. Al-though trimming the tops off of dahlia plants can en-courage more buds to form,

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Auburn resident Criss Vefik has been a member of the Lake Wilderness Arboretum Foundation’s Board for 10 years.

A commercial account manager for a local insurance company, Vefik likes growing tomatoes in her spare time, which is sparse these days due to her work schedule. She also enjoys being involved with Arboretum activi-ties.

Do you have a favorite Arboretum event?Yes, the annual plant sales. I love seeing all of the plants and visiting with the vendors.

What’s your favorite Arboretum garden?The Legacy Garden, because of the history of past volunteers Loie Bene-dict and Marjorie Baird. It’s not only beautiful but preserves plants they each propagated.

What do you think is the Arboretum’s biggest contribution to the

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Dallas Glenn traveled all over the country

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Glenn, who grew up in Covington and gradu-ated from Kentwood High, is a member of Pro Stock driver Ja-son Line’s mechani-cal crew. For the past eight months Glenn spent a good por-tion of his time rid-ing in the cab of the tractor trailer which hauls Line’s race car, parts and equipment from one race

to the next on the 24-race Mello Yello Championship Drag Racing Series.

“It’s been real good,” Glenn said. “I’ve defi nitely gotten to see a lot of the country. I’ve been learning a lot, trying to pay attention and learn everything, get-ting the hang of everything. It’s defi nitely diff erent. I’ve basically been living in a hotel.”

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While he works in the pits thrashing with the

rest of the crew on the car which can cover a quarter-mile on the drag strip in less than six seconds and hit 200 MPH on the speedom-eter, Glenn said he real-ized how fortunate he is to have this job as he watches people wait patiently in line to get 30 seconds of time

with their favorite drivers at an event that comes to their town just once a year.

And while the drivers are serious about what they do, Glenn said, he had the chance to to see the humor-ous side of their personali-ties.

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Pro Stock driver Jason Line perches in the door frame of his NHRA Pro Stock car as it is weighed after a run at a race earlier this season. Covington native Dallas Glenn is on Line’s crew. Courtesy photo

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“It’s definitely a fun group of guys to work with,” Glenn said. “It’s definitely been a good experience so far.”

Line, who spoke to the Reporter by phone from the team’s shop in Moores-ville, N.C., said Glenn is an unusual hiring choice.

“He’s very young,” Line said. “Normally we don’t hire people that young. He’s very enthusiastic and is very mechanically minded and has had no problem adapting to the things we ask him to do. He certainly brings some enthusiasm to it because he is young.”

By young Line means Glenn is in his early 20s. Because he is the new guy and so youthful, Line said, Glenn gets picked on often by the rest of the team but handles it well.

And when things aren’t going as well as Line would hope during races — the two-time Pro Stock champion has won just one event this season, Houston in April — he said Glenn’s passion for the sport can help. Especially at the end of a tough day like Line had in Sonoma this past week-end where he left just a little late in a close race and went out in the first round, losing

to eventual event champion Vincent Nobile.

“It helps at the end of the day,” Line said. “I certainly enjoy that part of it. It’s a good thing. After doing this for a while you sometimes lose a little bit of that enthusiasm. He is definitely a good reminder of why I started doing it (nine years ago) and why we all started doing it. He’s a good guy and certainly enthusiastic about doing his job … and that makes it more fun for everybody.”

Coming into this race, the final event in the three-event chunk of the season known as the Western Swing due to stops in Denver, Sonoma and Seattle — though it’s at Pacific Raceways, a track closer to Covington, Auburn and Kent than its urban sibling on Puget Sound — Line said there were some kinks to work out on the car.

Line dropped into sixth place in the Pro Stock standings after Sonoma and the primary goal, as always, is to win the Northwest Nationals. It’s critical both in the short-term and the long-term as there are four events before the Count-down to the Championship begins Labor Day weekend in Indianapolis. With that

the points reset and during the course of the next six events drivers in the top 10 are racing for every point from qualifying to speed re-cords to event wins because no one is running away with the season champion-ship at that point.

But, winning won’t come easily this weekend, Line said.

“Right now we’re not really good enough to win consistently, so we need to get better,” Line said. “We need to get more consis-tent. We need to find a little bit more speed before the Countdown starts. This year, it could be in our favor, the Countdown format.”

Glenn said that there are some distinct advantages to the drag strip at Pacific Raceways as well as some elements to compensate for while Line explained that each track on the circuit has its own unique personality.

“They especially like the air here,” Glenn said of the drivers and crew members who have raced here many times. “Being close to sea level … it’s nice and cool. You can run pretty fast here. We seem to run pretty good at sea level tracks.”

Line said with it being

the end of a three-race swing far from the team’s home base, they’re ready to race here then head home and start diagnosing the car’s issues in order to fix them.

“I don’t know that it’s any different than anywhere else,” Line said. “Problems will show up. But, it’s a good place for us to go. It’s far enough away there aren’t any distractions.”

Line added there is defi-nitely a plan for this race.

As for Glenn, there are plans for him, too. Both long term in racing and short term as the team’s de facto tour guide in Seattle.

“He definitely has a future,” Line said. “There’s no question. He’s a bright guy. He has the two most important things in my mind, which are desire and ambition. A lot of folks have the desire and not the ambition. I think he’ll be able to do whatever he wants to do.”

Glenn is ready, in the meantime, to offer up his suggestions on where to eat and what to see. He’s also willing to offer up his perspective on Pacific Race-ways, but, only if he thinks the crew wants to hear it. He knows they have reams

of notes on the place.So, he plans to just focus

on working hard and hav-ing good restaurant sugges-tions.

“One thing that is kind of cool about coming to Seat-tle is we get to see all those different things and eat at all these different places (all

over the country),” Glenn said. “Now I get to be the expert. It will be cool.”

Line, however, is looking forward to meeting all the sportsman drivers Glenn has raced against.

“They tell me stories,” Line said. “So, I’ll pick up some more dirt.”

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As the thundering nitromethane powered cars of the National Hot Rod Association prepare to descend on Pacific Raceways, just a five minute drive from my office in down-town Covington, I am reflective on my

own history with the Northwest Nationals.This year will mark the 10th time I will

cover the event. In late July 2004 I reluc-tantly left my home in Maple Valley on a steamy Saturday morning — it was in the 90s all weekend — to go see what this drag racing thing was all about.

See, I got a call the day before from some woman from the East Coast who worked in public relations for the sponsor of some

funny car driver, a guy named Ron Capps who just last year would not only remem-ber me but call me a wuss. But, I’ll come back to that.

This phone call was an invitation out to the track, interview the driver, his crew chief, all kinds of access to the whole opera-tion during race weekend. I was all, “Eh, I don’t know. Let me ask my editor and I’ll let you know.” Then I talked to my editor and

he suggested I write it from the perspective of someone who had no idea about motor sports. And that’s precisely what I did.

I spent about 45 minutes interviewing Capps in the trailer in his pit. I told him I knew nothing about his sport. So, he explained it to me. Then he suggested I go to the starting line during a nitro session to

Plenty of thrills in the stands thanks to the nitro of the NHRA

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That day in mind-melting heat I experienced the visceral thrill of NHRA drag racing, the bone-rattling, organ-shaking feeling internally when a pair of 7,000 horsepower, nitro-fueled funny cars roar down the quarter mile drag strip while the smell of what is essentially jet fuel burns the nose and flecks of tire rubber stick to your clothes. I was hooked.

Since then the Northwest Nationals, which draws tens of thousands of spectators from all over the Northwestern U.S. and Canada, has been a favorite event to cover.

During the past couple years I accepted the invitation to go to the pre-race press conference at the Space Needle.

A year ago I was sitting at a table in a banquet room at the top of the famous Seattle icon, inhaling lunch and talk-ing with another journalist about his camera setup when Capps sat down next to me. Before long I was disclosing the freakout I had last year when I got into the passenger seat of an instructional super gas car at Pacific Raceways.

And Capps, who has been drag racing professionally for close to 20 years, called me a wuss. I tweeted later about that moment and Capps responded that he just couldn’t resist.

As we talked I reminded him I interviewed him in 2004 and he remembered me. Or, more precisely, he remember I didn’t know a thing about the sport when I interviewed.

Yet, here I am, thinking about that moment and how conversations with him have bookended in a sense my experiences covering the NHRA Northwest Nationals. During the course of the past nine years I have interviewed many different drivers. And of all the professional sports

people I have met — and that includes Andre Agassi, Tim Lincecum, Tony Stewart, Nate Burleson, just to name a few — during my journalism career, NHRA drivers are my favorite to interview. There is none of that sense of entitle-ment you encounter even with elite Division I athletes or marquee professional players. They are not cynical of you or your questions. They invite you into their sport with open arms. It is pretty fantastic.

I feel lucky I didn’t turn down the opportunity in 2004 to interview Capps or all the other opportunities to connect with the drivers, to go to the track, make new friends, share it with old friends and find a new passion.

It’s the perfect example of why we should all try to get out of our comfort zone once in a while.

But, that’s enough sentimental mush. I need to dig up some sunscreen and some ear plugs. There’s a race this weekend and I want to go get my bones rattled.

Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.

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Home sales in Covington jumped in May, resulting in the highest number of sales since December of 2007.

In May, 16 new homes and 25 existing homes sold bringing in a total of $50,955 in Real Estate Excise Tax — a one-time tax when a home is sold

that goes to the city. Those numbers don’t include commercial properties or apartments.

“Last year we had a pretty good year but we had a big commercial sale,” said Rob Hendrickson, finance director for the city of Covington.

Hendrickson explained that while sales of com-

mercial properties, such as last year’s, give a big boost the excise tax total, they aren’t sales that happen very often.

“The base is a lot more solid (this year),” Hen-drickson said. “We’re about even (with) last year, even without the commercial (sales).”

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son, the city primarily uses the funds collected through the Real Estate Excise Tax to pay the city’s debt from the 2007 transportation bonds.

“When they went out for the bond we anticipated the REET would cover the bond,” Hendrickson said.

When home sales slowed in 2008 that meant the city was bringing in less in Real Estate Excise Tax.

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hit we’ve been struggling with that revenue stream.”

Hendrickson explained that the city used other extra funds to cover the difference when the Real Estate Excise Tax numbers weren’t high enough to completely cover the debt from the transportation bonds. Hendrickson the city never had to make cuts to cover the bonds, but as a result of shifting funds couldn’t afford to do anything extra, either.

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