No City Council Coverage This Week
Most of our fine City Councilmembers are in Washington DC this week for the National League of Cities conference and to meet with our local congressional representatives in Washington. A few may still be in town, but there is no quorum. Today’s meetings are cancelled. Most of this week’s committee meetings are cancelled. Everything will be back to normal next week.
If you were talking Tacoma with our representatives in DC, or with anybody else that would listen, what would you be talking about?
Filed under: General, City-Council
7 comments
C crenshaw sepulveda March 16, 2010
We might be having trouble getting our act together on streetcars but it seems that our council has no problem finding the gravy train for their junkets.
E Erik B. March 16, 2010
They need to come back with the rest of the money needed to build Tacoma’s streetcars!
J Jesse March 16, 2010
I’d be talking about commerce, streets, green energy jobs, and streetcars.
T Tim Smith March 17, 2010
I would be hitting them hard to provide funding for social services deeply impacted by the Northwest Detention Center. This facility, owned by GEO Group Inc and operated under contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement was “sold” to the City of Tacoma as a low-impact facility requiring nothing from the local community. With the deep involvement of both Rep Norm Dicks and Adam Smith in the selection of the site, they should call their markers and demand support for the local community as we deal with the impact of soon to be 1,575 souls. With over 20% being released back to their lives in our communities and with on average 5 family members affected by the administrative detentionif they are not released, the strain on already strained services should get some relief.
K K. Malone March 17, 2010
The last comment about our NW Detention Center… Just realized that Tacoma has the opportunity to do something our nation hasn’t done before… We could issue a formal apology immediately to all unjustly incarcerated, oh, I mean “detained”, residence of the facility as soon as they are released! Instead of waiting some fifty or so years, or never, we could jump on the chance to be first… Because if we think that we will not be saying, “What the hell was that about, what were we (they) thinking?!?” in regards to our most recent xenophobic antics I believe we have learned nothing from our history. (I mean as a nation and as a city with enough past examples of intense discrimination to personally pull from.) Do I hear reconciliation?
A Andrew March 17, 2010
It is hard to get federal money for streetcars when the city manager is only applying for PARKING GARAGES out of Federal TRANSIT Administration dollars.
L Lynette March 18, 2010
I would talk about the fact that four of our six middle schools are on the lowest performing schools list in the state.
There are alternatives for education for our children. 40 states have charter school laws BUT NOT WASHINGTON STATE.
Although the Washington Legislature passed a charter school law in March 2004, labor unions and other charter school opponents persuaded a majority of voters to overturn the law in a referendum that was decided in the November 2004 election. As a result, bringing the CHOICE of charter public schools to WA will require the passage of new legislation authorizing charter schools, either by the Legislature or, through the initiative process, by the People.
There are also private and parochial school options for children and parents who don’t want to wait to find out their fates.