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For park information and directions: http://www.everettwa.org/default.aspx?ID=550 Things are moving forward on the Jackson Park Trail design project: 1. We are ready to contract with the City of Seattle on the grant that we were awarded. The grant (along with matching donations and your volunteer time) will pay to hire a design consultant to hold community outreach sessions and develop a design for Jackson Park Trail. 2. We are ready to convene committees for the project and welcome you to join us as a member:
3. Before we can publish the request for proposal for the design firm, we need to have all matching funds on hand so that we can show that we can pay the consultant. If you have pledged to donate to the project (and if you did not pledge before and wish you had!), now is the time to send in your donation. Donations should be written to “Seattle Parks Foundation” with Jackson Park Trail written in the memo field. Contributions are deductible for tax purposes. You can mail your check to: Leslie Martin We are looking forward to working with all of you on this project and to seeing the plan for Jackson Park Trail! If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know. Lake City Chamber of Commerce Community Chat Lake City Development Council Lake City Task Force on Homelessness Northgate Chamber of Commerce Networking Luncheon North Seattle Service Providers Northgate Park Groundbreaking Questions: Paul Fischburg, 684-8395, paul.fischburg@seattle.gov Brown Bag Meeting on Metro Service Cuts Seattle City Council’s Transportation Committee will convene a special noontime session of the Transportation Committee. The format is designed to engage decision-makers and stakeholders in a frank conversation about looming Metro budget shortfalls and what they may mean to Seattle transit riders. The discussion will include members of the city’s Transportation Committee, King County Council Chair Dow Constantine, Metro General Manger Kevin Desmond, as well representatives from the Downtown Seattle Association, Transportation Choices Coalition and city neighborhoods. Acting King County Executive Kurt Triplett is also invited. The format will include a presentation of proposed changes in service by Metro transit and a discussion by the panel participants, followed by audience questions. Council meetings are cablecast live on Seattle Channel 21 and Webcast live on the City Council’s website at www.seattle.gov/council. Copies of legislation, archives of previous meetings, and news releases are available on www.seattle.gov/council. On Sunday, I noticed a small sore on Jasper’s back. Monday, the sore looked worse. I decided to take him in to the vet “just to be safe.” I expected some hot spot ointment etc — but Dr Raja took one look at him and said they needed to do surgery immediately. (Oh and just by the way, I have the MOST AWESOME VETS, Dr Sodhi and Dr Raja – who practice Ayervedic, homeopathic and acupuncture modalities as well as traditional veterinary medicine). An hour later, I returned to pick up…..  FrankenCat!
When I got home we locked the cat door so that FrankenCat would stay indoors for 10 days while he healed up.
Well. Jasper didn’t like the cone very much. In fact, he didn’t like the cone at all. He tried and tried to get it off. He did not like being locked in the house. He was very unhappy. We didn’t get much sleep.
Deep in the night, he somehow unlatched the cat door and got himself outside with his cone on. I’ve never heard of a cat unlocking a cat door, have you? He was missing for 24 hours; vulnerable to infection, crow attacks or raccoon and coyote encounters. I put up flyers all over the neighborhood, and handed them out at the block party that evening. I learned that many of my neighbors know my cat, even though some of us don’t know each other. One of my neighbors told me he’d seen the flyer on a telephone pole and had driven around the neighborhood looking for Jasper. That made me feel really good! Around 10 pm Jasper came home: stitches, cone and drain tube intact. What a relief! When it is time for his medication, we take the cone off. Which he LOVES. So now he’s decided that he likes getting his medicine. We leave the cone off for a while, but if he begins licking his stitches, we tell him, “no!” and he stops. We’re hoping to work up to longer periods of conelessness. Of course, he doesn’t get any unsupervised coneless time whatsoever! This morning he used his clever paws to help me get ready for work: Recently, Councilmembers Burgess and Conlin and Mayor Nickels proposed repealing the “Head Tax” (aka “Employee Hours Tax”). This tax costs businesses, on average, only $91 for an entire year and only taxes employees who drive by themselves to work. Some have suggested it should be called a “Wheel tax” or “SOV tax” instead. This funding, which adds up to $4.6 million dollars a year, helps pay for much-needed improvements to bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and other street improvements in neighborhoods across Seattle. These improvements make it safer for our children to walk to school and in their neighborhood. They help our seniors to continue to be mobile. They also ensure the health of our business districts and other community places. Our Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plans are underfunded and would benefit from this funding as well. Please help us keep these funds! What you can do: –After you’ve sent your email, please let us know you’ve contacted elected officials by emailing us at: dontloseyourheadtax@gmail.com. –Are you on Facebook? Join the Facebook Group “Don’t Lose your Head Tax”. Councilmember contacts: Contact the Mayor: Seattle Parks and Recreation staff yesterday reported the presence of a man, aged approximately 40, with a slender build and around 5’7″, walking through the Northgate neighborhoods and asking residents for donations for a Parks day camp. Parks and Recreation does not solicit. Anyone encountering a person asking for funds on behalf of Seattle Parks and Recreation should call 9-1-1. “Head Tax” Brownbag Lunch Please join Great City as we discuss the recently proposed repeal of the “head tax” with City Councilmember Tim Burgess, Rebecca Deehr, and Renee Staton. The “head tax”, or “Employee Hours Tax”, is an annual $25 tax levied on employees who commute to work in single occupancy vehicles. Originally included as part of the funding structure for the Bridging the Gap program in 2006, City Council will be considering a repeal of the tax in the fall. Join us as we discuss how the tax works, what it funds, and what alternatives to funding are being proposed to replace it. Great City’s brownbag lunch forum series is generously hosted by GGLO. |
 
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