Monday July 27th, 6 – 9 PM at Mount Zion Baptist Church, 19th & Madison. Meet all the candidates for Mayor, City Council and the local School Board seat. We’ll deal with each race in turn. Schedule below.

Details at http://tinyurl.com/cap-cd-forum

Who asks the questions? Well, you provide the questions! The longer (1 minute answer per question per candidate) questions are the ones you submit when you arrive. [OK, to keep things on-time the moderator reads the questions]

The lightning round questions (all candidates write a word or two and hold it up) will be from the ones you submit online: http://tinyurl.com/lightning-round

• 6:00 Greetings: Pastor Williams. Introduction
• 6:10 School Board Position 5 – Cullen, Helmstetter, Bass, Smith-Blum
• 6:35 Council Position 2 – Conlin, Ginsberg
• 6:50 Council Position 6 – Kaplan, Licata, Israel 
• 7:10 Council Position 4 – Bagshaw, Tobin, Carver, Plants, Bloom 
• 7:35 Council Position 8 – O’Brien, Williams, Forch, Miller, Royer, Rosencrantz 
• 8:05 Mayor – McGinn, Donaldson, Nickels, Mallahan, Garrett, Drago, Campbell, Sigler
• 9:00. Thanks. Disband, clean-up.

 2) Return to the church hall at Mount Zion Baptist Church at 6 PM on Monday July 27th for our Capitol Hill/ Central District Election Forum. Our school district’s school board candidates, and ALL the candidates for City Council and Mayor will be there.

 All the details (and flyers to download and share) are at: http://tinyurl.com/cap-cd-forum

 The candidates will be answering the questions that YOU submit on postcards when you arrive (12 words or fewer, get thinking).

 There will also be a lightning round for each race, with the candidates all simultaneously writing 1 or 2 word answers to display to you.

 You may submit your lightning round questions at http://tinyurl.com/lightning-round

Thanks

Andrew Taylor, [email protected]

posted on behalf of Seattle Neighborhood Group. See Scott’s report on the proposal.

Greetings EPCPC,

Please find attached “Community Dialogue Questions” regarding the Seattle Drug Market Initiative.  Completed questionnaires may be sent to [email protected].    Your input concerning this initiative is greatly appreciated.

[NOTE: PDF version of questionnaire attached. Contact Sita for a Word version to edit and return to them.]

— Sita DeGiulio DasEast Program Coordinator Seattle Neighborhood Group 206.323.9666 (Main Line)206.322.9330 (Direct Line)[email protected]

Last Thursday, July 16th, we held a joint African American Advisory Council and East Precinct Crime Prevention Coalition meeting at Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center.

Robert Hood, Chief of the Public and Community Safety Division of the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, Tienney Milnor, East Precinct City Attorney Liaison, and East Precinct Captain Paul McDonagh presented information related to the Drug Market Initiative (DMI).

A new approach to reducing street level drug dealing in our community, DMI is a collaborative effort between the Seattle Police Department, the Seattle City Attorney’s Office and the community. 

As the community’s participation is a critical component of DMI, attendees gathered in small groups to discuss ideas that would support the effectiveness and success of the DMI initiative, resulting in outstanding strategies.

Therefore, we are are holding a follow-up meeting to continue to develop these strategies and identify methods of actual implementation:

Thursday, July 23, 2009

 

@ Seattle Neighborhood Group

6:30PM – 8PM

1810 E. Yesler Way

 

Seattle WA 98122

I look forward to seeing all of you there!

Thank you in advance for your support! 

Stephanie Tschida, Chair

East precinct Crime Prevention Coalition

KING 5 brings you news (OK, anecdotal evidence) that you really don’t want to hear.

Maybe enough people can chime in to give us a sense of whether they think car prowls are really going up, or whether it’s too low on our list of concerns to be worth considering. Scott mashed the official crime trends recently.

BTW: simple, cheap car theft device.

Don’t forget to register to vote! July 18 is the deadline for registering online http://www.kingcounty.gov/elections/registration.aspx

Or you can register up until Monday, August 3 in person at the King County Elections Office. http://www.kingcounty.gov/elections/aboutus/directions.aspx

Central Area & Capitol Hill Election Forum: 6 – 9 PM Monday July 27th @ Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 19th & Madison.

Notes: 1) Want to follow the links? Download the PDF version and paste them into your browser.

2) if you miss the School Board on the 20th, they will will be part of the Monday, July 27th Central Area and Capitol Hill Candidate Forum at Mt. Zion.

KING 5 Story from June, stumbled upon via the usual circuitous path of “the internets”.

11:35 AM PDT on Tuesday, June 26, 2007

 By KATHERINE SATHER / KING5.com

As far as Lottie Cross is concerned, there is no Central District in Seattle anymore.

Gentrification has changed the character of the historically African American neighborhood.

“It’s phasing out,” she said.

But as condos sprout up on street corners and new white, middle class families move in, some say an integral part of the community has been victimized. Black businesses struggle even as new wealth enters their neighborhood.

………(read the rest)

Interesting article in Crosscut.

Excerpt:

Those ideas for adaptive reuse of the old schoolhouse are exactly the wrong kind of uses for the building, says local property owner Ron Rubin. He urges the city to “resist the temptation to turn [Mann] into low-income housing or drug counseling” or any use that’s not financially “sustainable,” but instead focus on a commercial venture that will “make it an anchor in the neighborhood” akin to the Wallingford Center, another former school turned into retail space. Rubin has a vested interest in the neighborhood; he owns a 12-unit apartment building across the street from Nova and a series of garages nearby that he wants to convert to micro-businesses. Though he’s personally not interested in purchasing the building, he believes “the minute it’s closed, it should go up for sale.” There’s no doubt in his mind that an empty Mann building will attract “trash, vandalism, graffiti, drug dealing, and prostitution.”

“As the landlord, I think the school district has an obligation to the community. My fear is that they are not going to uphold their responsibility as a property owner and there is going to be a blight. It could easily sit vacant for two-three years.” He continues, “The city spent 10 years and $115 million on the Garfield project, yet there is nothing in that neighborhood that encourages pedestrianism or discourages drug-dealing. They should protect the investment they made in Garfield and the community at large. All the pieces fit together.”

City Neighborhood Council

invites you to

The City Council Candidates’ Forum

Thursday, June 18^th, 2009

5:00 pm- 7:00 pm

Bertha Knight Landes Room, City Hall

600 4th Avenue, Seattle, 98124

 The filing deadline has passed and the races are crowded!

Knowing this is an important year in city politics, the CNC is proud to host this event.

 This is your chance to learn more about the candidates that want a seat on City Council.

This is your chance to find out more about their qualifications.

And, most importantly, this is your chance to let your priorities be known.

 Light refreshments will be available.

 Four City Council Seats. 16 Candidates. One Forum. And You!

 The City Neighborhood Council (CNC) is a citizen-led advisory group, comprised of elected members from each of the city’s 13 neighborhoods. In simple terms, we are the neighborhoods!

(planning underway for a Capitol Hill/Central Area Candidate Forum: School Board, Council, Mayor. Probably Sat. July 25th 9 – noon @ Mt. Zion, but stay tuned for details.  Contact [email protected] to volunteer)

From Crosscut:

Historic Seattle, the non-profit, public development authority that saves historic buildings and gives them life with new uses, has purchased the landmark Washington Hall for $1.5 million from the Sons of Haiti masonic organization.

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