You have a say on the qualities and characteristics you want Highline’s next superintendent to possess.  What qualities and characteristics should our next leader have?

Voice your opinion at Next Tuesday’s Community Meeting.

Where: White Center Heights Elementary
Address: 10015 - 6th Avenue SW
Seattle, Wa 98146
Date: September 27, 2011
Time: 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

For more information refer to the Highline Public School’s website.

Courtesy of City Council Office:

There will be a Special meeting of the Seattle City Council Regional Development and Sustainability Committee on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. The agenda is attached and copied below.

The agenda is also available online:
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/meetingrecords/2011/regional20110318agenda.pdf

Call to Order

1.   Chair’s Report
(5 minutes)

2.   Public Comment
(10 minutes)

3.   RES. 31282
Adopting guiding principles and economic development actions and strategies for strengthening and growing the City of Seattle’s economy and creating jobs.
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE VOTE (20 MINUTES)
Presenters: Steve Johnson, Office of Economic Development; Traci Ratzliff, Council Central Staff

4.  RES. 31283
Potential Annexation of North Highline - Calling for the annexation, by election, of contiguous unincorporated territory to the City of Seattle, referenced as the North Highline Annexation Area, and generally lying in an area south of the corporate boundaries of Seattle, west of the corporate boundaries of Tukwila (but not including unincorporated territory lying along the western bank of the Duwamish River and north of S Director Street or a line extended eastward from the eastern terminus of S Director Street), north of the corporate boundaries of Burien, and east of Seola Beach Drive and 30th Avenue SW.
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE VOTE (30 minutes)
Presenters: Doug Carey, City Budget Office; Kenny Pittman, Office of Intergovernmental Relations; Christa Valles, Council Central Staff

5.  Industrial Development District Update
BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION (20 minutes)
Presenters: Roque Deherrera, Office of Economic Development; Steve Johnson, Office of Economic Development

6.  Duwamish River Corridor Master Agreement (Bluefield) - Public Outreach and Design Response for Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) Sites 1, 2, and 3
BRIEFING AND DISCUSSION (15 minutes)
Presenters: John Layzer, Seattle Department of Transportation; Meg Moorehead, Council Central Staff

7.  C.B. 117126
Relating to the Natural Resource Trustees; authorizing an agreement with the Natural Resource Trustees for the assignment of a Restrictive Covenant setting out conditions under which the City of Seattle will guarantee the preservation of habitat to be created on City-owned property by Bluefield Holdings and authorizing the jurisdictional department to sign such a covenant when conceptual approval for the project is issued; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE VOTE (5 minutes)
Presenters: Judith Noble, Seattle Public Utilities; Meg Moorehead, Council Central Staff
Supporting Documents: Seattle Public Utilities

Adjournment

Last week, “Seattle Sketcher” Gabi Campanario was in White Center (see his sketches here and here). Above is a photo by Gabi as he works on his sketch of Darren - thanks Darren for the free leftover Caramelo Frap this morning!

The Seattle Times recently covered White Center’s Greenbridge neighborhood and highlighted local businesses such as Dubsea Coffee. Read the entire article here.

The educational Levy’s voting results  from this week’s special election are out, with 31% of voters reporting to the polls. Our partners at the Highline School District tell us how happy they are with the results.

“We are grateful to Highline voters for their remarkable show of support for their local schools,” says Catherine Carbone Rogers, Highline Public Schools director of Communication and Community Development. “The election results show that this community really values education and wants to invest in our children and schools.”

Below are the results as of February 9:

HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 401

31.64% voters reported

Proposition No. 1 Replacement of Expiring Educational Programs and Operation Levy

Source: King County Elections

More great news related to White Center continues in this article from The Seattle Times. Here is an excerpt:

ROGER TUCKER is in a booth at a White Center community summit, looking for votes. Not for himself, but for what color scheme people would like to see on an apartment complex going up nearby.

With a small dot, he records each person’s preference and asks them all why they chose what they did.

He’s especially impressed with the woman who likes the version where big sections of the buildings are dominated by different colors. If she lived there, she says, that would help her direct friends to her apartment. That’s a good thought, Tucker says, that no one else raised.

Most architects wouldn’t spend three hours on a Saturday talking paint with the public, but for Environmental Works, where Tucker is executive director, it’s part of the mission.

Read the rest of the article here, and make sure to check out the photos, the 5th one featuring our previous White Center CDA parent ambassadors, Patricia and Elisa!

There’s a lot of excitement with food lovers in our area about Zippy’s Burgers moving to White Center. Check out the coverage on KING 5/MSNBC by clicking here!

THANK YOU to the 20+ volunteers (White Center residents and business owners, students and community partners) who showed up this morning to volunteer for the annual One Night Count of the homeless. We will connect this work to Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day in Olympia on Monday, February 14.

For more information on the One Night Count, please visit:

http://www.homelessinfo.org/one_night_count/

Check out our Twitter page and Facebook page to see similar updates for this event.

Subject: Powerful Neighborhoods Program Expanding to Southern Suburbs
For Immediate Release:
12/22/2010 8:56:00 AM For More Information Contact:
Scott Thomsen (206) 386-4233

Participants Get Free Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Installed

SEATTLE - Seattle City Light will expand its Powerful Neighborhoods program to install free compact fluorescent light bulbs in the areas of Burien, White Center, North Highlands, SeaTac Tukwila and Skyway served by Seattle City Light starting Jan. 3.

Powerful Neighborhoods started in South Seattle in April as a pilot program designed to reach out door-to-door to seniors, non-English speaking households, low-income residents and other customers who might not have participated in energy conservation programs.

“We want to remove any barriers that have kept people from taking steps to increase the energy efficiency of their homes so they can reduce their energy consumption and save money,” Interim Energy Conservation Director Glenn Atwood said.

Response from customers has been overwhelmingly positive with more than 96 percent of those who completed a satisfaction survey saying that they would definitely recommend the program to their neighbors and friends. According to one recent participant, “The representatives were courteous, considerate and very time efficient.”

In 2010, installers worked with more than 7,000 families to install nearly 140,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs. The energy savings adds up to more than 24 million kilowatt-hours and will save customers roughly $2.2 million over the lifetime of the bulbs. That’s about $60 a year for the average household.

Seattle City Light is working with Ecos Consulting , Cascadia Consulting, the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS), and Working Green to hire and train installers, schedule home visits, and deliver and install the products.

All installers have undergone background checks and drug-screening. Installers fluent in Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Amharic, Cantonese and other languages will be available to visit homes where those languages are primarily spoken. All staff will carry Seattle City Light identification.

Installers canvass neighborhoods door-to-door. If an interested resident is home, they install the energy efficient light bulbs and provide low-flow shower heads and faucet aerators or schedule a more convenient time to visit. If the resident is not home, installers leave a notice regarding how to contact the program to arrange a visit.

To qualify, a resident must live in a single-family home or 2-to-4-unit apartment or condo. To make an appointment, call 206-449-1132 or send an email to SCL_install@seattle.gov.

Seattle City Light is the 10th largest public electric utility in the United States. It has some of the lowest cost customer rates of any urban utility, providing reliable, renewable and environmentally responsible power to nearly 1 million Seattle area residents. City Light has been greenhouse gas neutral since 2005, the first electric utility in the nation to achieve that distinction.

POWERFUL NEIGHBORHOODS (click on link for more information)