Contents Council Adopts 2023/24 Budget Together We End Gun Violence Symposium East Marginal Way Project Update OPCD One Seattle Plan Update Council Adopts 2023/24 Budget On Monday, the City Council adopted the 2023 budget and endorsed the 2024 budget. I am grateful to Budget Chair Mosqueda for her work in developing this balancing package, which […]

Contents Budget Update Public Safety: The Budget Reality vs. Rhetoric Ingraham Students Rally Public Safety Civil Service Commission Adopts Community Service Preference Points Redistricting Commission Adopts New Council District Boundaries Budget Update On Monday, the Budget Chair presented her initial Balancing Package for the 2023/24 budget. The Budget Chair’s balancing package incorporates some of the […]

Contents The Alex Clardy Edition This Week in the Budget City’s Covid Civil Emergency to End Public Comment Extended for New Alki Elementary School Seattle’s 2023 Minimum Wage Increase Tour With Vigor and Long Live the Kings Office Hours The Alex Clardy Edition I am writing to let you, constituents of District 1 and other […]

West Seattle Bridge Update The most recent update for the West Seattle Bridge is that the third pour of the specialized concrete is completed. This is the concrete needed to anchor and guide the post-tensioning steel cables that strengthen the concrete in the bridge structure and prevent cracking. I’ll be sure to include an update […]

West Seattle Bridge Update Concrete work began on the West Seattle Bridge on Tuesday morning.  The first pours were for expansion joints on the bridge deck, as part of the major maintenance work on the bridge. SDOT’s statement notes: “Following the expansion joint concrete pours, we’ll then pour concrete inside the bridge for the improved […]

West Seattle Bridge / Concrete Mixer Driver Strike, Chelan 5-Way Intersection As the concrete driver strike remains unresolved, many of you have written in response to my articles about this, with different ideas of how the City might find creative ways to address the strike so we do not impact the goal for the West […]

West Seattle Bridge Timeline and Concrete I have been concerned that the failure of concrete companies to fairly address the workers’ rights issues of Teamsters, Local 174, 300 striking concrete mixer drivers and concrete plant workers, and resolve the strike could eventually impact the timeline for re-opening the West Seattle Bridge.  The strike to demand […]