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BY DENNIS BOX
Th e fi rst couple of votes for the 2012 Kent City Council Tuesday night turned into a contentious, legal maze over medical marijua-na – welcome to the council.
With new members Dana Ralph and Bill Boyce taking their positions on the dais, the council again considered zoning regulation for medical marijuana collective gardens and extending the moratorium on all medical marijuana operations.
Th e zoning measure failed 4-3 with Boyce, Ralph, Les Th omas and Deborah Ranniger voting no.
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Kaylee Elliot, 4, admires fl owers at the Tahoma National Cemetery during Memorial Day. Sandy Metzger and her dog Skylee, top, compete in the Big Air Wave June 18 at Kent Station. Cora Goff ,3, dances at the Casper Babypants concert July 20 at the Town Square Plaza. The Kent Little League All Stars win the District 10 championship July 15. CHARLES CORTES AND DENNIS BOX, Kent Reporter
Looking at 2011
BY STEVE HUNTER
Construction isn’t scheduled to start in down-town Kent until at least the end of 2012 on a proposed fi ve-story, mixed-use development with as many as 164 apartments.
Even though the Seattle developer demolished the half-built parking garage in October to make room for the new apartment complex and 3,700-square feet of retail space at the corner of West Smith Street and Fourth Avenue, construction remains at least a year away. Th e development is known as the city center project.
“Our goal is to start construction within a year,” said Brad Reisinger, project manager for Goodman Real Estate, Inc., in a phone interview last week. “By
next year (at this time), hopefully, we would have broken ground.”
Reisinger wanted to emphasize that the project hasn’t stalled, unlike the previous developer who ran out of money in 2007 aft er constructing a half-built parking garage as part of a proposed hotel, condo-miniums and retail space development.
“We knocked down the garage a year ahead of when of when we would typically do that,” Reis-inger said. “Typically, we would not have done the demolition until we were ready to start building. But this deal was diff erent because it was a priority of the city to get rid of an eyesore and knock down the garage.”
Th e Kent City Council in September approved a
Downtown Kent project a year down the road
Construction to build a fi ve-story apartment complex with retail space in downtown Kent is scheduled to start near the end of 2012. File Graphic[ more PROJECT page 3 ]
[ more ISSUES page 12 ]
Medical marijuana issues considered
BY DENNIS BOX
Th e Kent City Council unani-mously voted Dennis Higgins as council president at its Tuesday meeting.
Following the ceremony and welcoming of new council members Bill Boyce and Dana Ralph, the council picked Higgins as president for the next two years. Councilwoman Jamie Perry was the previous president.
Higgins stated at the meeting he would be an, “honest broker with my colleagues, with the administration and the public. I promise to ask questions, some-times a lot. I will listen carefully
Higgins to serve as City Council president
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Six-month moratorium passes and zoning ordinance fails again
Dennis Higgins
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The Kent Downtown Partnership has been busy creating new energy for historical downtown Kent with a new logo and website. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing you have always done and expecting a different result, so KDP is changing things up a bit to get new results.
KDP WEBSITEThe Kent Downtown
Partnership recently launched a new website, www.downtownkentwa.com, designed to promote
and support restaurants, retail businesses, events, and recreational activities in downtown Kent.
The new website, designed by Applied Imagination Media, a KDP member, is the down-town’s go-to website for the public to learn about anything and everything taking place in downtown Kent.
The home page is colorful and exciting and includes links to local news stories, events and businesses.
The calendar page pro-
vides an updated monthly calendar. Visit the calen-dar page to sign up for an automatic notification of sales and events.
The news section features blog posts that highlight events happen-ing downtown, along with stories about local busi-nesses and owners.
The about page pro-vides information about KDP and its dedication to serving and promoting the downtown Kent business community. This page will also provide details about membership, etc.
KDP invites you to create a link from your website to www.down-townkent.com. Encourage your customers to check out the site.
For feedback visit www.downtownkentwa.com and share your thoughts via contact page of the site.
NEW LOGOTo coincide with the
launch of the new website, KDP recently unveiled a new logo. The logo was designed by BDP Design, a KDP member. The logo includes bright and color-ful symbols that represent the wonderful attributes of downtown Kent.
The font is simple and easy to read, sizing is appropriate for all social media and looks good in color or black and white. People will remember the KDP message and the colors are bright and energetic.
The colors are similar to both the National Trust for Historic Preservation Main Street logo uses as well as the city of Kent logo, since KDP works in tandem with these organi-zations.
The tree represents a natural welcoming envi-ronment; transit bus/train is in the heart of down-
town and close to current and future residences and businesses. It could also be considered the Sounder train.
KDP’s designer included a commercial building (the downtown business-es), a residential building (living downtown which is a BIG part of “future”), a tree (green/welcoming/nature) and a transit train (easy access to transporta-tion within downtown) to better describe downtown Kent’s assets.
KDP is the base for col-laborative efforts of resi-
dents, businesses, visitors to downtown Kent. This will always remain relevant as part of KDP’s mission.
Beneath these symbols, is the Kent Downtown Partnership, the base for the collaborative efforts of downtown businesses, agencies, and citizen-based community organizations—all dedicated to increasing investment in downtown Kent, business recruitment and retention, residential and retail development, improved parks and green spaces and a better quality of life.
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Olympic ice-skating champions Ilia Kulik and Ekaterina Gordeeva and cur-rent World champion Miki Ando will join Grammy Award winning artists Kenny G and Gladys Knight at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
They are all part of the “Pandora Unfor-
gettable Moments of Love on Ice” show that features skaters performing to love-inspired music.
The show is part of the NBC Skating Series and will be presented by The Joint Center at Renton’s Valley Medical Center. NBC will tape the event to be televised on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Ticket prices are $125, $100, $69.50, $59.50 and $39.50. The $125 ticket includes an on-ice, post-event reception. The $100 ticket includes a pre-show dinner.
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BY STEVE HUNTER
The plan for just 35 public parking spaces in downtown Kent’s proposed mixed-use city center development has raised a few questions around City Hall.
Many of those questions from residents end up falling to Ben Wolters, city economic and community development director.
City officials announced last fall that Good-man Real Estate Inc., of Seattle plans to build a five-story, mixed-use complex to include about 164 apartments and 3,500 square feet of retail space with 35 public parking spaces. Construc-tion is expected to start by the end of 2012.
“There continue to be questions about the availability of parking downtown,” Wolters said during a phone interview last week. “The chal-lenge is when there is a change in a mix of busi-nesses, parking is always an issue. Overall, park-
ing in the downtown core is enough for the immediate term.”
Goodman demolished a half-built parking garage in October to make room for the apartments and retail space. Originally slated to be a 355-stall parking garage for a hotel, condo-miniums and retail space, work on the project stopped in May 2007 when the prior developer’s lender terminated the construction loan. Nearly 70 spots were to be designated for public parking in the so-called Project Springboard, although some brochures about the proposal listed as many 200 public parking spots.
“The difference is the needs and kind of devel-opment changed,” Wolters said. “They (Project Springboard) had a lot of parking because of a hotel and office project. This one’s there’s no hotel. It’s a much smaller footprint. The retail has shrunk from about 6,000 square feet with
Springboard to 3,500 or less.”Public parking has been available
at the site since the 1960s when it was known as the municipal lot. In fact, the City Council approved a Local Improvement District in the late 1960s where property owners paid for ap-proximately 360 off-street parking stalls.
“That LID is finished, it’s paid out a long time ago,” Wolters said. “It didn’t require the land to be held solely for parking. The city met all the obligations
under the LID a long time ago.”Wolters said the new apartment complex is
proposed to include 160 parking spaces for the 164 apartments. He said the number is allowed under downtown zoning because of the availability of transit as well as residents who could walk to nearby jobs.
“There are a few renters who choose not to have a car,” he said.
City project plans 35 public parking spaces“There continue to be questions about the availability of parking downtown. The challenge is when there is a change in a mix of business, parking is always an issue.” Ben Wolters
lease/option agreement for the city-owned property with Goodman Real Estate.
The two-year lease provides Goodman an option to purchase the city center property at any time during the term of the lease. For consideration of the lease, Goodman agreed to demolish the existing parking structure and pay $100,000 to the city.
According to city officials, upon exercising its option to purchase, Goodman will pay the city an ad-ditional $802,000 in two install-ments; the first being approximately $540,000 at closing and the balance, which is contingent upon project success, would be paid at a point after the project is built and fully leased.
Ben Wolter, city economic and community development direc-tor, said city officials plan to have a preliminary permit meeting with Goodman in the first quarter of this
year.“New construction can typically
take 90 days to 120 days to permit but it could go slower or faster,” Wolters said. “We’re ready to move the (building) permit expedi-tiously.”
Wolters said the permit for the project must go through the city’s downtown design review process before it is approved by city staff.
“We know so much about the project, we don’t anticipate any problems if the plans conform to what they have proposed so far,” Wolters said.
Reisinger said Goodman has a preliminary concept but now is developing conceptual plans with details about the layout and how in-dividual apartment units will look.
Goodman, and its architect Stu-dio Meng Strazzara of Seattle, plan to build much of the retail space near the corner of West Smith Street and Fourth Avenue and extend the space along Smith Street east from Fourth Avenue. The retail
will feature small, boutique-like shops.
“It is a major corner,” Reisinger said.
The developer plans to build one-and two-bedroom apartments to be rented at an affordable price.
“They will be affordable to the mass population,” Reisinger said. “They will not be what we call luxury.”
Goodman likes the prospect of the Kent site to attract downtown renters.
“You’ve got Kent Station, the ShoWare Center, city and county offices,” Reisinger said. “I think it’s a great site. Sound Transit is adjacent. I think it has a lot of potential.”
Reisinger added he expects peo-ple to start looking for new places to live when costs go up elsewhere in the Seattle area.
“People will be looking at areas like Kent when Seattle and Bellevue get too expensive,” he said. “People are looking at outlying areas like Kent.”
Goodman has developed other projects between Seattle and Lyn-nwood and built the Signature Pointe Apartments in 1989 in Kent along the Green River.
“This is our first more urban project in Kent,” Reisinger said. “People want to live downtown now and what it offers. There is less concern with size and space. People are more interested in convenience to transit, retail, entertainment or work.”
Goodman Real Estate was selected as the developer of the site following a competitive process and review by a city panel that included Mayor Suzette Cooke, City Council members, a representative of the Kent Downtown Partnership and city staff.
Reach Steve Hunter at [email protected] or 253-872-6600 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to www.kentreporter.com.
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Kent artist Cheryl Renee Long will offer watercolor classes starting Jan. 10 in Maple Valley and Black Diamond.
The classes are targeted for beginners, intermediates or anyone who wants a refresher course. The five-
week classes run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Cedar Grange in Maple Valley.
The evening course is from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday at the Black Diamond Community Center.
The cost is $140 for the five classes and 15 hours of instruction. Class size is limited to 12 students.
For more information and to register, call Long at 425-623-5511 or email her at [email protected]. To view work by Long, go to www.CherylRLong.com.
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A lack of customers caused owner Pat Ensign to close Pat’s Bar and Grill Jan. 1 in downtown Kent aft er 4 1/2 years.
“Bottom line is we did not have enough people in the seats,” Ensign said during a phone interview Tuesday. “Th e weekend crowds were not enough to cover for the rest of the week.”
Pat’s Bar, 114 Railroad Ave. N., had a farewell party from 1-4 p.m. Dec. 31. Th e bar featured live music each weekend, occasionally brought in Seattle-area comedians for comedy nights and off ered inexpensive prices on Taco Tuesday.
“I thought we did a very good job of bring-ing in local music and comedians for people to enjoy,” Ensign said. “We tried to make it a good meeting place. We just didn’t get enough people to sustain it.”
Ensign announced the closing on the website www.patsbar.com.
“Patty (Ensign) and I want to thank all of our patrons and friends for their support over the past 4 1/2 years,” Ensign wrote on the website. “It’s been a lot of fun and we’ve had a chance to meet a lot of great people.”
Ensign opened the bar in June 2007 aft er 32 years in the commercial insurance business. He told the Kent Reporter in a 2009 feature story that he picked the downtown location because of the then-proposed ShoWare Center, which opened in January 2009, as well as a proposed condominium, hotel and parking garage at the corner of Fourth Avenue and West Smith Street. Th at development fell through and a half-built parking garage sat empty on the corner for four years.
“Th e development never happened and
the ShoWare had its own troubles,” Ensign said about the city-owned arena that has lost money three straight years. “We had our share of customers from the ShoWare but Kent Station (restaurants and bars) received the majority of patrons from the ShoWare.”
Ensign said a struggling economy didn’t help either.
“We did not make enough to cover expenses,” he said.
Ensign said he was unsure at this point what he will do next.
“I’ll get through this transition and fi gure it out,” he said.
Th e Kent Downtown Partnership announced the closing of Pat’s in its newsletter.
“KDP would like to wish Pat and Patty all the best in the future,” the newsletter read. “You will be missed!”
Pat’s Bar and Grill closes in downtown Kent
Pat Ensign, owner of Pat’s Bar and Grill, poses at his bar prior to New Year’s Eve 2009. Ensign decided to close the bar Jan. 1 because of a lack of business. CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter
Kent industrial property in the last two years.Terreno Realty Corp. of San Francisco has purchased 169,000 square
feet of industrial property in the Kent Valley for approximately $15 mil-lion.
Th e property consists of two multi-tenant industrial buildings. Th e property is currently 85 percent leased to six tenants. Terreno announced the Dec. 30 acquisition in a Jan. 3 media release.
Th e buildings are fewer than 5 miles from Sea-Tac Airport and acces-sible via the West Valley Highway and 64th Avenue South.
Terreno is an acquirer, owner and operator of industrial real estate located in six major coastal U.S. markets in Los Angeles; Northern New Jersey/New York City; the San Francisco Bay Area; the Seattle area; Mi-ami; and Washington, D.C./Baltimore.
Th e company also bought 138,000 square feet of industrial property in Kent in 2010 for approximately $8.3 million. Th at building is 100 percent
leased to one tenant.For more information, go to www.terreno.com.
sion to operate Kent’s ShoWare Center.Th e Kent City Council approved the contract extension at its Dec. 13
meeting. Th e current three-year contract expires at the end of 2011. Th e new contract expires Dec. 31, 2014.
SMG manages the day-to-day operations of the arena, including event booking, the budget, vendor selection, public relations and marketing, and event staffi ng. Th e company also has the food and beverage contract for the city-owned arena. Th at separate contract will now be combined into the three-year operating contract.
Th e initial city contract with SMG included a two-year extension. But city staff recommended that the council give SMG a three-year extension.
Kent will pay SMG a fee of $130,000 per year for its services, according to city contracts.
Th e city also continues to repay a $700,000 loan from SMG as part of the initial food and beverage contract.
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STATE MINIMUM WAGE GOES UP
Washington’s minimum wage went up to $9.04 per hour
beginning Jan. 1.Workers who are 14 or 15 years
old may be paid 85 percent of the adult minimum wage or
$7.68 per hour.The 2011 minimum wage was
$8.67.
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The new year has started and there are a few items I would like to write about in this fi rst column as 2012 engines rev up.
None are worthy of a column on its own, so I will just string some notes together about issues I am interested in or would like to fi gure out.
COUNCIL ELECTIONSTh e fi rst council meet-
ings of the year can be quite intriguing depending on the city. Th e obligatory swearing in of candidates freshly elected is a nice picture, but the more in-teresting story can be the choosing of council presidents for strong-mayor systems or mayors for council-manager forms of government.
In the council-manager form the mayor is chosen by the council.
Maple Valley is a council-manager system as is Covington. Black Diamond, Kent and Tukwila are strong-mayor systems and the council will choose a council president, mayor pro tempore or deputy mayor. It is basically the same position with a diff erent name.
Maple Valley is usually the most fun to follow because there are plenty of back-room gymnas-tics going on prior to a mayor being selected. Th e choice tells us a great deal about the group dynamics of the council.
Th is season in Maple Valley, Councilman Bill Allison won by a 5-2 vote replacing former Mayor Noel Gerken. Th e deputy mayor posi-tion went to Victoria Laise Jonas on a 4-3 split decision.
My bet is Covington will again choose Mar-garet Harto as the mayor for a third two-year term. I am pretty sure God couldn’t beat her for the job.
Black Diamond’s City Council is the very interesting with three new members swept into offi ce on what appears to be a wave of voters voicing their opposition to the YarrowBay devel-opments. In my years of reporting I have oft en seen that voters presumptions about a candidate and the reality of governing hit head on very quickly once the chair is fi lled.
On Tuesday Kent elected Councilman Dennis Higgins unanimously to the council president position. I am sure there was some backyard croquet before the decision was made, but noth-
ing nearly as entertaining as Maple Valley.I guess there can only be one Maple Valley.
A BRAINY BUSINESS IDEAHere is a quirky business venture I heard
about just before Christmas. It is currently my top business idea for 2012.
Initially it made absolutely no sense to me. Aft er thinking about it and observing certain behavior around the offi ce I decided this may be the real salami.
A couple of weeks ago our newest reporter, Sarah Kehoe, told me about this ShoeDazzle thing. It’s like a book-of-the-month for shoes.
Now when I was a kid I lived for the Book-of-the-Month club. My grandma got me started on it and I still have some of the books, which explains why I had mainly imaginary friends.
Apparently, through ShoeDazzle, a woman can get three or four pairs of shoes to try each month and if they keep them it costs a certain amount or they send them back.
Seriously, is this brainy or what.I mentioned this to my daughter and you
would think Moses came down from the moun-tain all full of light, carrying tablets and shoe boxes.
I asked Sarah if men were doing this and I got the look. (Men know exactly what I mean.)
Apparently only women understand the need to have 700 pairs of shoes.
I admit that I hate buying shoes, I hate spend-ing money on them, I even hate looking down and thinking about shoes.
But this business idea is a stroke of twisted genius and I wish I had thought of it.
I hear God looks down occasionally and asks
Peter, “Are those things really shoes? How come no one ever tells me about these things?”
ShoeDazzle – I bet it will make a million bucks for someone.
TO IRON OR NOT TO IRONHere is something I cannot fi gure out, and I
need help. You know all that permanent press stuff sold in stores – shirts and pants and what-ever.
I take that particular advertising claim at its word. Permanent press means forget the ironing.
I know this woman who thinks you still have to iron permanent press things. In fact, she had a closet built just for her ironing board.
When she started talking about the ironing board I tried to make an intelligent comment and I suddenly got this silence.
I quickly gathered myself and began lying. I said I had an ironing board... oh yeah and an iron.
I tried to explain to her that wrinkles on per-manent press will fall out aft er you wear them for a while. Or if they don’t fall out, aft er an hour or so the new wrinkles cover up the old ones and it doesn’t matter anymore. It’s a mathemati-cal cancellation equation, like a positive and a negative.
I heard something about me being nuts and a pig.
I am male so I didn’t know what else to say. I ran out of lies so I began whining.
I would like to understand this ironing phenomena in the new year. Are we supposed to iron things that say permanent press or not? Th is seems a lot harder and more relevant than property taxes and council elections.
To iron or not to iron… that is the question.
● Q U O T E O F T H E W E E K : ”Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.” Barry Switzer
Reflections for the new year
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Th e National Transportation Safety Board has taken a tough, but necessary, stand on texting, emailing or chatting while driving a vehicle. Th e board wants it outlawed.
Good.Th e unanimous recommendation
from the fi ve-member board would ap-ply even to hands-free devices, a much stricter rule than any current state law.
Again, good.
Despite the popularity of such devices, there’s no way a person can give full concentration to driving and still pay attention to a making a telephone call, emailing or sending a text.
As NTSB chairwoman Deborah Hersman rightly noted, “No email, no text, no update, no call is worth a human life.”
And people have died while trying to do both. One deadly crash in Missouri involved a 19-year-old teen driving a pickup who sent or received 11 text messages within 11 minutes.
Th e pickup was traveling at 55 mph when it plowed into the back of a tractor truck that had slowed for highway con-struction. Th e pickup was then rear-ended by a school bus, and a second
school bus rammed into the back of the fi rst bus.
Th e pickup driver and a 15-year-old student on one of the buses were killed. Th irty-eight other people were injured.
Our state is one of 35 and the District of Columbia that bans texting while driving, and, along with eight other states and Washington, D.C., that ban hand-held cellphone use.
Th at seems like a step on the right direction, but you only have to look around at our streets to see driver aft er driver fl aunting the law. And most, if not all of them, are clearly paying more attention to their cellphone calls and text mes-sages than they are to their driving.
And, yes, the police do write tickets – lots of them – for these off enses – but it’s clear that it isn’t stopping this dangerous practice.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves: It is inconceivable
Ban cellphones use while driving
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A big Christmas thanks to the three city council members who (in a 3-3 Dec. 13 vote) gave an early
present to all the gang-bangers and street dealers of Kent by driving seriously ill citizens into their under-ground world.
Also a big thanks from the big drug companies who love to charge these patients $300 a day for pills
that many say don’t work or work as well as medical marijuana.
An equally big thanks for nothing from Kent citizens with “legal” state medical marijuana cards battling MS (multiple sclerosis), AIDS, Lou Gehrig’s disease, shingles, glaucoma, cancer and severe arthritis.
If Kent is a big city com-pare us with the way big cit-ies around us are handling this issue.
To the three city coun-cil members who voted down gardens in Kent I say, where is your compas-
sion, where is your courage and where is your leader-ship? Your votes to severely limit access to sick people comes across as small town paranoia, small-minded mistrust and heartlessness for your sick citizens.
Gregory Worthing Kent
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Higgins first action in his new position was to name the chairs and members on the council committees.
The Public Works Committee chair will be Elizabeth Albertson with Higgins and Ralph as members.
Deborah Ranniger was named chair of the Parks and Human Services committee and the other members are Albertson and Ralph.
The Economic and Community Development Commit-tee chair will be Perry and the members are Ranniger and Boyce.
The Public Safety Committee chair will be Boyce with Councilman Les Thomas and Ralph serving as members.
Thomas will be chair of the Operations Committee with members Higgins and Perry.
The Regional Fire Authority Board members from the council will be Higgins, Thomas and Boyce.
The council president position is chosen by a vote of the council every two years. The duties of the council president include setting the meeting agendas in coordination with the mayor.
Boyce reportedly is the first African-American to serve on the Kent City Council. A check of the records back to 1975 indicate Boyce to be the first African-American elected. The city and The Reporter will continue to research the issue.
Boyce served on the Kent School Board prior to winning the seat in November by beating incumbent Debbie Raplee.
Reach Dennis Box at [email protected] or 253-872-6600 ext. 5050.To comment on this story go to www.kentreporter.com.
BY STEVE HUNTER
The Kent City Council renewed federal and state
lobbyist contracts for 2012 at its final meeting of 2011.
The council agreed at its Dec. 13 meeting with a staff recommendation to renew
a federal lobbyist contract with Van Ness Feldman at an amount not to exceed $90,000. Van Ness Feldman is a law firm with offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Kent’s contract with Van Ness Feldman requires the law firm to represent
the city at the federal level with an emphasis on the
Washington state Con-gressional delegation.
The costs for the federal lobbyist are paid for out of the budgets of the
Economic Develop-ment and Public Works
departments.Kent also renewed its
annual contract with state lobbyist Doug Levy, owner of Outcomes by Levy, at an annual amount not to exceed $66,000.
Levy lobbies on behalf of the city’s legislative agenda. Levy has worked as Kent’s lobbyist since 1999 and also
contracts with several other cities for work in Olympia.
The costs for the state lobbyist are paid for out of the city’s utility fund and the general fund.Reach Steve Hunter at [email protected] or 253-872-6600 ext. 5052.
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BY SARAH KEHOE
Kent Phoenix Academy appeared on a Washington state list of “persistently lowest-achieving schools” because of a low gradua-tion rate.
A total of 57 schools from 38 districts ap-
peared on the Office of the Superintendent of Public Information’s list released on Dec.19. The OSPI shows KPA’s 2009-2010 on-time graduation rate as 39.8 percent.
Each school is placed into one of two tiers and then is categorized based on achievement or gradu-ation rate.
The process of identify-ing the schools began in 2010, with the introduc-tion of the federal School Improvement Grants.
That year, the 47 named schools were given a chance to apply for grants ranging from $50,000 to $2 million. As a state, Washington received $17 million.
For the 2012-2013 school year, however, no additional federal school improvement grants to support newly identified schools/districts are avail-able.
“State law requires us to put out this list,” said Randy Dorn, superinten-dent of public instruction. “But that law was also based on the assumption that schools would receive more funding in order to improve. To me, it’s completely unfair to call out these schools without giving them additional resources, but that is the world we live in now.”
Dorn explained that, of the 57 schools, only four have fewer than 50 percent of students receiving free or reduced-price lunches.
“These schools are deal-ing with very challenging populations,” Dorn said. “I know we’re in the middle of an economic crisis, but the past three years the Legislature has chiseled away at basic education resources. Those schools, and all schools, need ad-ditional resources.”
Schools on the list are identified using a variety
of factors, such as the school’s average state test scores in reading and math from 2009 to 2011, the school’s graduation rates and whether the school has met the federal Adequate Yearly Progress requirements.
The Kent School Dis-trict staff called the list “misleading with negative connotations.”
“We are actually very proud of Kent Phoenix and all the students and staff there have accom-plished over the years,” said Chris Loftis, executive director of communica-tions. “In fact, I can think of only three words to re-spond to KPA being listed as a persistently lowest-achieving school, wrong, wrong and wrong.”
Loftis credits the acad-emy’s low graduation rate to the fact that the school traditionally takes on students in need of help. “This is an alarmingly low number until you consider that the non-traditional instructional approach that KPA was founded on was to reach out to students that are credit deficient and invite
them back into a system that cares more about their success in the future than the problems of their past,” Loftis said. “KPA develops individualized education plans for each student’s unique needs. The approach is phenom-enally successful.”
Loftis pointed out that in a soon-to-be released Washington School Ac-countability Index, Kent Phoenix moved from the “fair” category it received in the 2009 to 2010 school year to the “good” category for 2010 to 2011, in regards to educational performance.
This is the first time a school in the Kent district has been named on the list for low achievement, according to Lofits.
Reach Sarah Kehoe at [email protected] or 253-872-6600 ext. 5056.To comment on this story go to www.kentreporter.com.
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BY ERICK WALKER
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It wasn’t too long ago when chants of “Rudy, Rudy” came spill-ing out of the French Field bleach-ers during Kentwood High football games.
Fans wanted to see the diminutive kid, who was given the nickname for his likeness in stature and drive to Daniel “Rudy” Ruetigger, a Notre Dame football player made fa-mous by the 1993 movie of the same name.
Th ey wanted to see Jar-rett Tomalin.
It has been nearly six years since Tomalin, a 2005 graduate, has heard those chants. His drive to succeed and his passion for athlet-ics, however, have not changed. And though locally Tomalin is oft en referred to by his nickname, he also has picked up another label in the past year — Band-Aid.
Th e alias has little to do with Tomalin’s multiple-sport success at Kentwood, and everything to do with his ability to juggle multiple tasks and responsibilities at a single time. From 6 to 10 a.m. in the morning on 106.1 KISS FM, Tomalin was an on-air personal-ity and assistant producer for the
Jackie & Bender show. Tomalin’s job involved camera work, gather-ing stories, marketing and fi lling in wherever there is a need.
Th e nickname “Band-Aid” stemmed from Tomalin’s willing-ness to fi ll in anywhere needed.
“When I stepped in, somebody had left and I told Bender that I’d do anything, just give me a chance,” recalled Tomalin, who has also done on-air work and promotions for KUBE and KJR AM among
other radio outlets. “He told me it was nothing permanent and that I was just healing a wound until they hired someone.”
Few wrestlers during the past decade of the state tournament have de-livered a more improbable run on the year’s biggest stage. For those who love
underdogs, Tomalin’s three-week burst that ended in a second-place fi nish at state proved unforgettable.
“It was unbelievable,” Kentwood coach Ken Sroka said of Tomalin, who was competing at 125 pounds. “I remember talking to Jarrett be-fore the postseason about fi guring out his style. He was full of energy, strong, and compact. He was a brawler.”
A brawler who never had quali-fi ed for state tournament before. A kid who, for all his talent, desire and drive, was the third-best wres-tler that year in his weight class — and that was just in the South Puget Sound League North Division.
State? Tomalin?
Th e kid known as “Rudy” be-lieved.
“I remember in the fi ft h grade seeing the walk at the Tacoma Dome,” remembered Tomalin, noting the march of champions that is an annual event before the title round at the Mat Classic. “I remem-ber seeing (Luke) Hetherington, (Stephen) Folden, Chris Smith. I was like, ‘I have to make this.’ “
ODDS WERE AGAINST HIMTomalin was a long shot at
best in 2005 — the undersized
125-pound kid whose motor never stopped. From football to wrestling to baseball and rugby, Tomalin made room for all of it during high school. Yet, Mat Classic tradition-ally is a place where the year-round wrestlers thrive, and the seasonal competitors are weeded out on the fi rst day.
Th e Kentwood kid, however, wouldn’t be weeded out.
Aft er winning his opening match at regionals, Tomalin fell to a star
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High school basketball fans will get the chance to check out two boys and girls tournaments
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The Valley Medical Center Showcase on Martin Luther
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Jarrett Tomalin, left, waits as former Cascade High star Jonny Gilbertson prepares to start in a 2005 125-pound state semifi nal match which Tomalin won. File photo
“I remember in the fi fth grade seeing the walk at the Tacoma Dome....I was like, ‘I have to make this.’” Jarrett Tomalin
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Sports news and notesfrom Cascade High of Everett’s, Jonny Gil-bertson, 14-8. Gilbertson, who improved to 36-0, was by all accounts a favorite to win the state title.
“I realized at the time that he was just another guy,” said Tomalin, who barely es-caped the regional tournament, earning the fourth and final seed to state. “At that point, win or lose, I wanted to make sure nobody ever wanted to wrestle me again.”
Sroka hasn’t forgotten that turning point.“I vividly remember the look on Jonny’s
face after that match,” Sroka said. “He didn’t want anything to do with Jarrett at the end of that match.”
The chances of the two meeting up again, however, remained slim. To do so, Tomalin would have to pull consecutive upsets in the first two rounds of the state tournament against higher-seeded opponents. All Gilb-ertson had to do was what was expected of the weight class’ top-ranked wrestler: win.
Gilbertson held up his end of the bargain, cruising into the state semis to improve to 40-0 for the season.
Tomalin, on the other hand, scrapped and fought his way to a 9-8 decision in the opener to improve to 27-12. He then had to come back from a six-point deficit in the quarterfinals to upend Ferris High’s Taylor Yonago, the weight class’ fourth-ranked wrestler in the state.
A year after watching the state tourna-ment from the sidelines, Tomalin found himself in the semifinals.
THEY MEET AGAINThe rematch with Gilbertson proved
to be the pinnacle of Tomalin’s wrestling career, an indelible moment that Sroka also considers among his coaching highlights. Tied 4-4 with a minute remaining in the final round, Tomalin recorded a takedown,
then hung on for an improbable 7-5 win.It was Gilbertson’s first loss of the year.“It hurts bad,” Gilbertson told the Everett
Herald that day. “I didn’t wrestle that good of a match. (Tomalin) came at me with nothing to lose, and I had everything to lose.”
As the match wore on, Sroka could feel the momentum shift.
“(Jarrett) just kept going and going and going,” Sroka said. “(Gilbertson) couldn’t handle the pace or the physicalness of the match. It was like (Gilbertson) was in a war and he didn’t like it. It was great, little Jarrett Tomalin with a heart as big as the Dome goes out there and beats him. I was floored. All three of the guys he beat at the state tournament had more experience, wrestled better during the year.
“He put it all together at the right time.”Tomalin’s rise ended with a 3-0 loss
to Central Valley’s Lucas Chesher in the championship match.
But that hardly took away from Tomalin’s state run.
“I had been a stress ball all year, so it was such an accomplishment for me,” he said. “It was about waking up before school and going running. About not having the food I wanted just so I could make sure I was ready to go.
“I was not the most skilled wrestler,” Tomalin said. “I didn’t have the most tech-nique and, really, I wasn’t supposed to be in the state finals.”
“But conditioning- and strength-wise, I could not be beat.”ºº
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Elizabeth Albertson, Jamie Perry and Council President Dennis Higgins voted in favor of allowing zoning for medical mari-juana collective gardens.
An emergency ordi-nance was considered that would have extended the current moratorium for six months without a gap when the previous six-month moratorium lapsed Th ursday, Jan. 5.
Th e emergency measure needed a fi ve-vote super majority, which failed with Albertson, Perry and Hig-gins voting no.
Th e council fi nally decided on a 4-3 vote to put a new six-month moratorium in place that takes eff ect fi ve days aft er it is published by the city. It is expected there will be a gap of about one week between the new mea-sure taking eff ect and the lapsing of the previous moratorium.
Boyce, Ralph, Th omas and Ranniger voted for the new moratorium.
Th e zoning measure also failed to pass when the previous council consid-ered it Dec. 12. Th e zoning regulation had passed out of the Economic and Community Development Committee on a 2-1 vote with Perry and Albertson voting yes and Ranniger
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the issue that came to the surface in December were much the same Tuesday.
“I have kids and I don’t recommend to them they go out and smoke marijuana,” Higgins said. “I do think we have an obligation, however, as a city of 118,000 people, to the people that live in our city that legitimately need access to medical mari-juana…. I think we need to behave like a big city and we need to estab-lish rules around this.”
On the other side of the aisle, Th omas disagreed.
“Until the federal government changes this to a legal substance, I still consider this an illegal substance,” Th omas said.
Th omas drew a parallel stating “Prostitu-tion is illegal. We all know that. So are we going to zone it up on Highway
99 as a zone that can allow that to happen? I don’t think so. Until marijuana is made a legal drug we shouldn’t zone something that is illegal.”
Albertson supported the zoning and stated, “When I raised my right hand I vowed to do what was right for the citizens of the community and what they are asking me to do. What they have asked me to do is create an access point for those people who un-der state law have a letter from their doctor that states they have a medical condition that allows them to use medi-cal cannabis for the treat-ment of that condition.”
Perry said she wanted to “dispel the idea we are suddenly trying to make legal something that is illegal. Th at’s not what we are doing and this is not akin to pros-titution. Th e state has not said pros-titution is legal. Th ey have said collective gardens are. We have to deal with that reality.”
Ralph said, “I believe the city is not in a posi-tion or should not take positions to zone anything that is illegal under federal
law. Once federal law is clarifi ed and makes this substance legal, at that point I believe we have a responsibility to zone for it…. At this point in time it is against the law and I stood up there tonight and raised my right hand and promised to uphold the constitution of the state and the laws of the federal government.”
During the discus-sion of the moratorium, Albertson and Perry both stated they would not sup-port another moratorium if there was no direction from the council members on the zoning ordinance.
Th e temperature of the discussion raised consid-erably as Albertson said if the members were voting against the zoning because of the federal law the members were essentially “banning it (medical mari-juana) totally,” and that was a “cop out.”
She continued stating, “I would be embarrassed to stand between people and their doctor’s recom-mendation that they use medical cannabis for their illness. Th is to me is an is-sue of humanity and to do anything less is heartless.”
Ralph countered stating, “I respectfully have to take exception to the fact that this makes me heartless. I am not standing between anyone and their medicine that they and their doctor choose them to have. I just do not believe the city is in a position to zone for something that is against the law.”
Ralph said she would support the extenuation of the moratorium to give the current council time to consider the issue.
One of the issues outlined by the staff was without a moratorium or zoning in place, collective gardens could open in most areas of the city.
Philip Dawdy, who worked with the Washing-ton Cannabis Association during the 2011 legisla-tive session, said he was concerned about the gap between the new morato-rium taking eff ect and the end of the measure passed in July.
“It is entirely possible someone could open (a medical marijuana facil-ity),” Dawdy said. “I am concerned about the gap. You never can tell what will happen. We want this to be easy, smooth and orderly, not random and disorderly.”
Dawdy said legisla-tion on medical mari-juana is being drawn up in Olympia that will likely be considered during the 2012 session.
A bill was passed during the 2011 session, but Gov. Chris Gregoire vetoed 36 of 58 sections, leaving a confusing legal landscape for cities to navigate.
Reach Dennis Box [email protected] or 253-872-6600 ext. 5050.To comment on this story go to www.kentreporter.com.
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Les Thomas
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The first week of January means it is time to make some promises to your garden. These resolu-tions mean less work and more beauty so mark your calendars now so each month you’ll hold yourself accountable:
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Time to bust slime. Tiny baby slugs are hatching this month and feed-ing on the first shoots of new spring growth.MARCH
Win the weed wars. Cool season weeds like shot weed and oxalis are beginning to flower and if you let them go to seed you’ll have billions of weeds popping up all summer. If your weedy colonies are too thick to pull by hand, smother the young weeds with
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Improve your soil because this is the month hungry young plants are
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MAY: Make this the year you don’t plant warm-season plants like tomatoes and petunias too soon. Cool nights plunge heat-lovers into a depression they never outgrow. It is not just a frost that upsets heat-loving coleus, marigolds and cucumbers, but even a nighttime drop to 45 degrees will send them into a downward spiral. You can plant cool season crops and plants that go into containers.
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In the Superior Court of the State of Washington for the
County of King City of Kent, Plaintiff, vs.
ALINA O. LEYVA and J. AR- MANDO LEYVA, husband and wife; MELINA HARRIS and JOHN DOE HARRIS, husband and wife; JOSEPH H. TRAN and JANE DOE TRAN, husband and wife; MATTHEW CHRISTO- PHER HALLER and JANE DOE HALLER, husband and wife; MELANIE S. MOSSHART and JOHN DOE MOSSHART, hus- band and wife; THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CER- TIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORT- GAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2005-01, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFI- CATES, SERIES 2005-01; ISI- DRO FIGUEROA and MARINA FIGUEROA, husband and wife; CANDACE A. DEBUSE and JOHN DOE DEBUSE, husband and wife; AURORA LOAN SERVICE LLC, a Delaware lim- ited liability company; SMALL AND BIG PROPERTIES SOLU- TION L.L.C., a Washington lim- ited liability company,Defendant.
No. 11-2-39167-1 KNTThe State of Washington to the
said defendant, Small and Big Properties Solution L.L.C.:
You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within six- ty days after the 30th day of De- cember, 2011, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff City of Kent, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned at- torneys for plaintiff City of Kent, at its office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the de- mand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of
said court. This action is regard- ing the foreclosure of real prop- erty local improvement district assessments. David A. Galazin, Assistant City Attorney, City of Kent,Plaintiff’s Attorney.220 4th Avenue South Kent, King County, Washington.Published in the Kent Reporter on December 30, 2011, January 6, 13, 20, 27 and February 3, 2012. #566189
ASSESSMENT INSTALLMENT NOTICELOCAL IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT #359CITY OF KENT
Construction of roadway improvements, sanitary sewer improvements, water main im- provements and a storm water detention pond, as provided by Ordinance No. 3808. Notice is hereby given that the third (3rd) installment of the assessment levied for the above named improvement, comprising Local Improvement District No. 359 under Ordinance 3897, is now due and payable and unless payment is made on or before January 14, 2012, said install- ment will be delinquent, will have a penalty of nine point sev- en five (9.75) percent added, and the collection of such delinquent installment will be enforced in the manner prescribed by law. Dated this 14th day of Decem- ber, 2011. R. J. Nachlinger Finance Director City of Kent, Washington Published in the Kent Reporter December 30, 2011 and January 6, 2012. #558819.
Superior Court of Washington County of King
In re: Levi James Gloster Gloria Jean Johnson Sydney Dennis Johnson Petitioner,
and John Doe Respondent.
No. 11-3-07898-5KntSummons by Publication
(SMPB) To the Respondent: John Doe, the petitioner has started an ac- tion in the above court request- ing: custody of the children listed in paragraph 1.3 of the Nonpa- rental Custody Petition. You must respond to this summons by serving a copy of your written response on the per- son signing this summons and by filing the original with the clerk of the court. If you do not serve your written response within 60 days after the date of the first publicaton of this summons (60 days after the 9th day of Decem- ber, 2011), the court may enter an order of default against you, and the court may, without fur- ther notice to you, enter a decree and approve or provide for other relief requested in this summons. In the case of a dissolution, the court will not enter the final de- cree until at least 90 days after service and filing. If you serve a notice of appearance on the un- dersigned person, you are enti- tled to notice before an order of default or a decree may be entered. Your written response to the summons and petition must be on form: WPF CU 01.0300, Response to Nonparental Custo- dy Proceeding. Information about how to get this form may be obtained by contacting the clerk of the court, by contacting the Administrative Office of the Courts at (360)705-5328, or from the Inter- net at the Washington State Courts homepage: http:/www.courts.wa.gov/forms If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time. One method of serving a copy of your response on the petitioner is to send it by certified mail with return receipt requested. This summons is issued pursuant to RCW 4.28.100 and
Superior Court Civil Rule 4.1 of the State of Washington.Dated: 11/28/11Petitioner Gloria Jean JohnsonFile Original of your Response with the Clerk of the Court at:Regional Justice Center401 - 4th Ave N. Rm 2CKent , WA 98032Serve a Copy of your Response on: Petitioner Gloria Jean JohnsonP.O. Box 552 Ravensdale, WA 98051 Published in Kent Reporter on December 9, 16, 23, 30, 2011; January 6, 13, 2012. #554059.
CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF ORDINANCES
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
The following is a summary of ordinances adopted by the Kent City Council on January 3, 2012:
ORDINANCE NO. 4027 AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City ofKent, Washington, adopting andreenacting a six-month morato-riumwithin the city of Kent onthe establishment, location,operationl licensing, maintenanceor continuation of medical mari-juana collective gardens ordispensaries, asserted to be au-thorized or actually authorizedunder Chapter 69.51A RevisedCode of Washington, or anyother laws of the state of Wash- ington. Effective Date: January 11, 2012 Each ordinance will take effect30 days from the date of passage,unless subjected to referendumor vetoed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted. A copy of the complete text of any ordinancewill be mailed upon request tothe City Clerk. Brenda Jacober, CMC, City Clerk Published in the Kent Reporteron January 6, 2012. #569739.
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...obituaries
Janet Louise McCloskeyJanet Louise McCloskey, 69, was shown mercy from a short but strong fi ght with lung
cancer when she passed away on December 20, 2011 at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, Idaho.
Janet is survived by her husband Jim, her son Mike McCloskey of Ellensburg, her
daughter Karen (Bret) Corgatelli of Moscow, her two precious grandsons, two sisters and
numerous other beloved family and friends. She is preceded in death by her mother and father.
A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday January 14, 2012 at 11:00 am at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Kent, WA. A luncheon reception will follow in the Parish Social Hall.
Arrangements are under the direction of Short’s Funeral Chapel, Moscow, and online condolences may be sent to www.
shortsfuneralchapel.com. 569469
Velda BrownVelda Brown was born June 30, 1916 in
Walla Walla, WA. She died December 13, 2011 in Kent, WA.
She is survived by her daughter, Pat White; and her five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her brother, Maynard Wooton; sister, Faye Eddy; husband, Clifford and her daughter Beverly Scott.
Velda was a secretary for the Kent School District. She liked to square dance, grow flowers, garden and sew. She loved Jesus and is now in heaven with Him.
There will be a memorial service at Living Faith Foursquare Church 22600 116th Ave SE, Kent, January 20 at 10:00AM.
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Chester AnglemyerChester Anglemyer passed away
December 19, 2011.Chet was born in Humboldt
Saskatchwan Canada on March 7, 1921. He was the 11th child of 13 and was the last to go. Chet came to Renton with his parents at the age of 9. Chet worked at Boeing and 33 years for the phone company. Chet retired on January 28, 1982.
He married Ruth Lievense on January 22, 1944. They had two sons Don and Dick. Don passed away April 30, 1999 at the age of 51.
Chet is survived by his wife Ruth and son Dick Anglemyer of Enumclaw, 4 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Private interment is planned at Greenwood Cemetery in Renton, WA. There will be no memorial service.
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Children's Sunday School ........ 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.Adult Christian Education .........9:00 to 10:00 a.m.Worship Service ......................................... 10:30 a.m.Children's Worship ................................... 10:45 a.m.Youth Group ........................... noon to 1:00 p.m.Monday Morning Prayers ..... 7:00 to 8:00 a.m.
Carol Kirkpatrick, Pastor569148
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BY STEVE HUNTER
A Kent mobile home park will receive about $1.53 million from the King County Housing Finance Program to renovate the park and preserve afford-able housing for low-in-come homeowners.
Bonel Mabile Manor, 24415 64th Ave. S., has
107 units. Sixty units are affordable to households with incomes at or below 50 percent of the Area Median Income; 26 units are for households at or below 80 percent of the AMI and the rest of the units are unrestricted, according to a King County media release.
The funds for Bonel Mobile Manor are part of $10.6 million awarded by
King County in December to help create and preserve more than 600 units of affordable housing.
“The community was purchased and is pre-served, avoiding any future closure or sale of the community,” said Greg Blount, executive director of Seattle-based Manufac-tured Housing Commu-nity Preservationists, in an email. “Closure of manu-factured housing commu-nities such as Bonel always cause tragic displacement and loss of equity for most of the homeowners that live in them.”
The Manufactured Housing Community Preservationists is a Wash-ington nonprofit corpora-tion that purchases, reno-vates, and operates mobile home/manufactured housing communities as affordable housing.
Blount said the infra-structure and main build-ing are being renovated at the park. The main build-ing includes community offices, laundry, restroom, a community room and an apartment.
The water and storm drainage systems already have been replaced.
County awards funds for mobile home park
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