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LETTERS | Kirkland residents sound o� on local politics [4-6]
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Above, Kirkland resident Marek Skoczylas takes photos while in Puget Sound. Below, a photo of a crab he took during a dive. MAREK SKOCZYLAS, Contributed photos
BY TJ MARTINELL
Kirkland resident Marek Skoczylas doesn’t just have fish stories from his time spent scuba diving in the Puget Sound - he’s got the photos to prove it.
Among his encounters with sea creatures and
other marine life was with a Stellar sea lion, whose only predators are killer whales and sharks, that harassed him 90 feet under the water off Possession Point Park on Whidbey Island, an encounter which Skoczylas also documented with his camera.
In recent years, his marine adventures were endangered not by hostile sea creatures or treacherous currents but by poor vision. Howev-
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Local candidates question each other during Chamber forumBY TJ MARTINELL
A forum hosted by the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce dur-
ing its monthly luncheon o� ered candidates running for the Kirkland City Coun-cil and King County Coun-cil a chance to emphasize
their stances concerning current problems facing the city and how they diverged from their opponents.
� e incumbents, consist-ing of Kirkland Council-members Toby Nixon, Dave Asher, Shelley Kloba and King County Councilmem-ber Jane Hague, touted their
accomplishments during their most recent term but also uncompleted projects or priorities that they seek to � nish. On top of answer-ing questions dealing with transportation, neighbor-hood growth and the city of Kirkland’s Proposition 1 measure for the funding
of the Aquatic and Recre-ational Community (ARC) center, candidates also had the opportunity to question their opponent concerning either their experience or their past decisions.
Nixon, a former state legislator and 22-year Kirk-land resident, is running unopposed, remarking that “I hope that means every-body thinks I’m doing a
good job,” he said. His focus in the next two years will be on improving public safety by plugging in gaps in service and improving the business climate. Addition-ally, he said he will work to improve city services in neighborhoods annexed by the city in 2011.
“� ere’s still a lot of work to do to making that annexation successful,” he
said. Asher, a retired Army
lieutenant colonel, op-posed by challenger Martin Morgan, also pointed to current long-term challeng-es related to public safety, particularly the level of � re service in the annexation areas, which he said are not up to standards.
“It’s not going to be easy,
Prop. 1, taxes and transportation spark lively debate
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LWSD being sued for alleged bullying incidents at Kirkland elementary schoolBY TJ MARTINELL
� e family of a for-mer Kirkland elemen-tary student is suing the Lake Washington School District, claiming it gave their their son the cold shoulder a� er he was alleg-edly subjected to repeated bullying, including one incident in which classmate created a false Instagram account in his name with pornographic images. � e lawsuit, � led in September 2014, seeks reparations in “an amount to be proven at trial,” along with the cost of attorney fees.
� e lawsuit, which also names two school district o� cials and the family of a former female student as defendants, alleges that the district failed to follow proper procedure a� er the boy was subjected to physical bullying and cyber-bullying between 2013-2014 while attending Mark Twain Elementary. According to the lawsuit, the � rst incident occurred in the spring of 2013 when roughly half a dozen stu-dents punched and kicked him on the playground
a� er falsely accusing him of pushing a female student to the ground, who he was actually trying to help up.
When the boy’s father spoke with school o� cials about the incident, he was allegedly told that the school would investigate the matter and punish the students responsible. However, the lawsuit claims that neither the boy nor the parents heard anything further.
� e second incident oc-curred in May 2014 when a female student at Mark Twain Elementary allegedly created a fake Instagram account in his name and posted pornographic im-ages on it. As a result, the lawsuit alleges, the boy was subjected to ridicule and teasing at school, with at least one student’s parents telling them to stay away from him. � e boy � nally complained about it to his mother, who brought it to the attention of school o� -cials. In response, however, the lawsuit alleges that a� er discovering the account, the school o� cials called the police, who arrived at the
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Student had to move to another district
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A consumer finance site has named Kirkland among the
top 20 cities in the state to start a business and seventh for the number of busi-nesses per residents.
As part of its study, NerdWallet analyzed 126 communities in Washing-ton with populations of at least 5,000 residents, while excluding cities with fewer than 500 businesses. A city’s overall score was based on a combination of the city’s business climate and the local economy’s health, us-ing statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Own-ers. The statistics included
a city’s unemployment rate, the median average income, the percentage of businesses with paid employees and the average annual revenue per business.
According to the study, Kirkland has a 5.2 percent unemployment rate and the average businesses revenue at $1.3 million. Nearly a third (30.98 percent) of the businesses had paid em-ployees. According to the study’s analyst, Jon Todd, the higher the percentage of businesses with employees, the higher they scored.
“Companies that hire workers rather than sole proprietors is considered healthier,” he said.
However, the study did not analyze the type of businesses that did well in the respective cities or overall. Earlier this year, NerdWallet ranked Kirk-land sixth among millen-nial-job seekers, mainly due to the growing number of tech companies such as Google. In July, the finance site also ranked Kirkland at 91 out of 463 in a study that examined the best small cities in the country to start a business.
Other Eastside cities ranked highly in the study, with Redmond ranked first, Woodinville second, Issaquah fifth and Bellevue eighth. Kirkland ranked much higher - seventh overall - when it came to the number of businesses compared to the city’s population. According to the study, the city of 75,835
had 8,021 businesses, with an average of 17 businesses per 100 people. As part of the study, NerdWallet placed a high emphasis on the business per population ratio, making it 20 percent of the score. The percent-age of businesses with paid employees contributed to 25 percent of the overall score.
Todd said the study found suburbs located near major metropolitan areas, such as Seattle, tended to score higher, especially when the cities’ residents had higher average median incomes and lower unemployment rates, which translates into greater purchasing power in the local economy. Median incomes contributed to 10 percent of the score, while unemployment rates con-tributed to 15 percent.
Kirkland Chamber of Commerce Director Bruce Wynn said that while the business atmosphere is friendly in the city, few spaces offer the kind of waterfront view overlook-ing Lake Washington like Kirkland, where Internet domain registrar GoDad-dy’s recently moved and has leased several office floors.
“You can’t beat the beauty factor,” he said.
In fact, much of what inspires people to start businesses in the city is the appealing local atmosphere, according to Kirkland-based Eastside Business Association Executive Director Mario Morales.
Kirkland named one of the best cities to start a business
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point where even though he still wears contacts or glasses, he is able to func-tion without them.
Originally from Po-land, Skoczylas said he always had a passion for documenting underwater environments, going to nearby rivers as a child with whatever camera he could find. He eventually moved to Australia, then to the United States in 2000, and has citizenship in all three countries. He originally worked in the telecommunications industry for 20 years, which left little time for him to pursue his hobby. He would occasionally take photographs while snorkeling and diving with point-and-click cameras. Despite the simplicity of the cameras he used, he recalled he was still able to get good photos, though he even-tually bought a digital camera in 2007. However, it would be years before he would actually use it following his decision to retire, roughly three years ago.
Skoczylas turned from snorkeling to scuba div-ing, which he compared to switching from riding a mountain bike to driv-ing a Cadillac. No longer
worried about holdinghis breath, or controlling his exhaling while trying to take a photo, he also didn’t have to be as con-cerned about people on the surface except when diving and resur-facing. Diving throughout Puget Sound, Skoczylas posts his photos and observations of his adventures on sites like the Northwest Dive Club. Among his photographs are various species of eels, starfish, crabs, even cormorants diving underwater. He also noted the vast kalei-doscope of colors found
below the Skoczylas surface.
“This is one of the most diverse ecosystems and most beautiful,” he remarked. “There’s so many exciting things.”
Despite diving during the day, he said he’s also able to photograph nocturnal sea ani-
mals, like octopus, because sunlight is
unable to reach the lower depths of the Sound, even though about 50-60 feet down Skoczylas said the water clears up.
Along the way he’s had a few close calls, chief amongst them the
encounter with the Stel-lar sea lion, which he described as a humbling experience. Although it didn’t attack him physically, the sea lion bounced around him and stirred up silt, indicat-ing a hostility that was unsettling coming from nine-foot long crea-ture between 700-1,200 pounds that had not only better peripheral vision than he, but as a marine animal could easily out maneuver him in the wa-ter if it decided to attack - though it never did.
What made the encounter particularly problematic, he said, was
that it occurred shortly after he began scuba diving and that he is not very knowledgable about sea lions. Rather than look away, he looked the sea lion in the face, kept his strobe lights on, and had a hard time control-ling his breathing and air bubbles, all of which provoke such sea lions.
“The great thing is I’ve lived to tell the tale,” he said.
Fortunately, most of his encounters with animals, such as the spiny dog-fish shark, have been far more amicable, particu-larly harbor seals whose behavior he scribed as akin to puppies.
Skoczylas also dis-covered the dangers of scuba diving at places like Deception Pass. Although the pass offers some of the most colorful scen-ery for scuba divers, the changing currents make it dangerous for divers.
As for his poor vision, Skoczylas said he had been struggling with that since youth when he first started wearing glasses, then contacts. In 1999, he said he underwent surgery for his eyes. Years
later, even as the retina in his right eye repaired, he noticed his left eye was losing vision again, an issue that plagued him as he began scuba diving though he said the water’s magnification made it easier for him to see. With 20/200 vision in the left eye, which made
him legally blind in that eye, his corrective lens only improved it to 20/80. Still, after repeated failed solutions, he said that Thomas Gillette, Seattle-based eye doctor, was
able to fix his vision after removing a cataract in his eye. Now, he has 20/40 vision without glasses or contact lenses.
“The doctor gave me new life,” he said.
With his newly-im-proved vision, Skoczylas said he has used it as inspiration for others who have endured similar struggles or obstacles standing in the way of their pursuits or passions.
A sample of his photos can be found online at http://www.nwdi-veclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=22845.
A Stellar sea lion Kirkland photographer Marek Skoczylas encountered during a dive o� of Whidbey Island. MAREK SKOCZYLAS, Contributed photos
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“This is one of the most diverse ecosystems and most beautiful. There’s so many exciting things.”
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� is is an open letter concerning the Lake Wash-ington School Board District 1 position, Jackie Pen-dergrass re-election, to the Seattle Times Editorial Board for their opinion piece published on Sept. 7.
� e piece concerning her opponent being the better choice was somewhat � awed and lacking complete research in making its opinion.
1. � e article indicated that the district and the board did not push information out well enough. When a school district is putting out a levy bond for a vote � e Washington State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) rules do not allow them to put out this type of information to inform the voters so they will not be swayed unduly. In the case of the levies the Seattle Times put forth little if any infor-mation too late and too little for it to have any e� ect on the levy votes.
2. � ere was a vicious, blatantly untrue no cam-paign put forth by some of the 45 District Republi-cans and a few other local citizens saying that there was no need for larger capacity. Because the voters did not approve the levy, the district is now in the present overcrowding situation.
3. Jackie Pendergrass’s opponent unfortunately has not been attending any of the school board meetings, school budget meetings and has no real knowledge of what is going on in the district, unlike the majority of the past board members before they became board members. It has been mentioned that a new lawyer is running to use the position as
a stepping stone to a political future, having lost his last bid for another local political election.
� e Lake Washington School District is one of the best, if not the best, in the state. It has been very well run and � scally responsible. � e members of the board have for decades worked hard to help guide this district to be the best it can be for the people who it is for, the children who attend it to get a � rst rate education. Each member has sacri� ced hundreds of hours of time, sweat and e� ort for no pay. None of them are using it as a stepping stone to politics, but to make sure it is the best it can be for the children. Jackie Pendergrass is a shining ex-ample of a sel� ess school board member spending years of time studying, learning about and help-ing to develop a great school district and working together with the community to develop the district to the high level of quality it has reached today.
So to the Seattle Times Editorial Board, get it right and help strait information about the levy get out next time. Support the best candidate Jackie Pendergrass and help the voters to realize how serious the needs of the district are. � is is a district that actually works well together and with their teachers and the majority of the parents unlike the Seattle school district that you poke and push and has been unstable for more than a decade. � e local newspaper, the Kirkland Reporter, has better, more informative and researched articles. Matthew P Bernard, Kirkland
Vote yes on Prop. 1 to build the ARC
As a former member of Finn Hill Park and Recreation District Board of Commissioners and the King County Park Levy Taskforce, I have seen many di� erent ways to fund our parks and I have concluded that Proposition 1 is the right thing to do for Kirkland.
� ere are all sorts of arguments the opponents of Prop. 1 make. � e most prevalent is that there are no checks and balances. � is simply isn’t true.
Park districts aren’t new to Kirkland. For many years O.O. Denny Park on Lake Washington was run by the Finn Hill Park and Recreation District.
During the existence of the park district, O.O. Denny went from a poorly managed facility to the gem that it is today. As elected commissioners, we didn’t run wild. We knew who we were accountable to and we knew that if we didn’t do our job we were out of o� ce. Our biggest challenge during my ser-vice on the board was deciding what to do with the budget surplus we had run for many years before the district closed its doors and the park was turned over to the city.
� ere are checks and balances with Prop 1. It’s called an election. City council decisions regarding the park district will be scrutinized by the voters for years to come.
Parks are paid for by an ever shrinking discre-tionary portion of local government budgets. If Kirkland is to keep the level of service we have become accustomed to at our local parks then we have to come up with unique and di� erent ways to fund them.
We do not want to become King County and constantly be con-
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In Olympia legislators are fond of quoting an old homily to justify seemingly contradictory positions… “Consistency is the hobgoblin of
small minds.” I am no exception although I try hard to be.
I have spent a large part of my time in the legislature trying to reduce the number of junior taxing districts in Washington. We have more than 1,700 such districts from � re districts (probably a reasonable example) to library districts, cemetery districts, mosquito districts, ferry districts, � ood control districts, and metropolitan park districts, the subject of this editorial.
I have opposed these districts because I believe they have added an unneces-sary level of government that should be provided by local city and county councils. � ey require an ad-ditional set of elected o� cials who o� en become entrenched and only view political reality through the very narrow prism of their own self interest. � ey do not have to consider the com-peting demands city councils must address such as balancing the need for roads, libraries, human services, water and sewer systems, � re and police services, and parks.
Unfortunately taxpayers � nd themselves caught in the middle paying for it all and that is why I think we should have fewer such districts.
� at said, enter my inconsistency… I believe Kirkland’s Proposition 1 to create a Metropolitan Park District is actually a good idea. I believe it makes sense because it addresses the major concern I have with separately elected districts. Prop. 1 would create a taxing district with the Kirkland City Council acting as the elected commissioners as opposed to a set of separately
elected o� cials, thereby assuring that taxing decisions will be made in light of the all the other demands the council must meet. I have looked at hundreds of other taxing districts and this model has been shown to work elsewhere around the state.
� en there is the enormous cost saving to taxpayers by forming a district versus using the traditional bond method of � nancing advocated by the opponents of Prop 1. It appears that at least $20 million in land acquisition would be avoided. I for one do not want my city spending $20 million to buy land before we even know if the voters would approve the spending plan. Prop. 1 avoids this. � en there is the possibility of partnering with neighboring jurisdictions like Redmond, Bellevue and the Lake Washington School District. Traditional bond funding e� ec-tively removes this as a viable option.
Opponents of Prop. 1 like to say “No blank check.” Well, Prop. 1 gives the city council no more “blank check” authority than voters give them for funding � re and police, environmental stewardship, roads and parks (by the way, the envy of every other city in the region). I will con-tinue to oppose the proliferation of junior taxing districts because they are generally a � awed system of governance, except when they are not. And Prop. 1 is not.
Please join me in support of a well thought out approach to asking the citizens of Kirkland if they would support an Aquatic and Recreational Center in a city renowned for answering the call to action from its residents in a � scally prudent way.
Larry Springer is a former Kirkland mayor and representative from the 45th District in Olympia.
MPD is the exception to the taxing district rule
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cerned about the mainte-nance and upkeep of the ARC. The park district pro-vides the appropriate funding to ensure that it is managed the right way for many years into the future.
I am for lower taxes, but I’m for smarter government, too. Sometimes it makes good sense to prioritize the latter over the former.
Kirkland residents deserve this facility. Vote yes on Proposition 1.Mathew Pruitt, Kirkland
Proposition 1 - Halloween tricks
As we enter the Halloween season, I have come to the conclusion that Proposition 1 is full of tricks. The facts - trick 1: Proposition 1, the formation of a Metropolitan Park District (MPD) provides up to a 50 percent increase in city of Kirkland tax levy rate (75 cents per $1,000 of taxable property value) in addition to the current city levy rate of $1.50 per $1,000 of taxable value. Don’t be misled by the advocates of this proposition that the start rate will be 25 cents per $1,000 of taxable value, as the costs of acquiring property and constructing the ARC [Aquatics, Recreation and Community center] building are unknown. MPD’s are a regressive form of taxation.
Trick 2: The proponents of Proposition 1 advertise that the operating costs of the ARC will be covered by user fees. The ARC will be costly to operate: City employ-ees will be covered under increasingly expensive labor agreements in addition to the high cost of maintaining swimming pools and exercise equipment. The experts cite that ARC user fees do not cover operating costs. The MPD allows for funding of ARC operating costs in the event user fees don’t cover costs. Who pays for any deficiency? All property owners and the majority of
residences will not use the ARC. Is it fair taxation policy to subsidize users?
Trick 3: What started out as a swimming pool replacement for the Juanita High School pool has turned into a large and costly ARC disguised and funded under a MPD. Under Proposi-tion 1, taxation and project control is vested in the MPD Board of Park Commission-ers (city council members). The Commissioners set the MPD annual tax levy rate and have full control over future park and recreation decisions all paid by property owners without a vote. Don’t be misled by the proponent’s statements that voters will have advisory authority over tax levy rate increase as the MPD grants full authority to the park commissioners.
I would submit that the proposed MPD is not in the best interest of property owners and is not fair public policy. Read or search under the web RCW 35.61 Metro-politan Park District.
Halloween is best celebrat-ed with a treat. Proposition 1 deserves a no vote.Doug Sollitt, Kirkland
Unfair rent increase by Tiberio and Londo
I was just notified by Tiberio and Londo Construc-tion, landlords, on Sept. 21, of a $200 a month increase in my rent.
I have been here at this address for five years, never missed a payment and never have been late with a pay-ment. My rent will increase to $1,700 a month on Nov. 1.
I am a senior, 73, and disabled. Nevertheless, I have taken very good care of this property in spite of the land-lord’s reluctance to do some repairs in the past. Is there no respect at all now for anyone? Compassion should be in this conversation somewhere also.Corene Dumas, Kirkland
Support King County Prop. 1
Our guiding vision at Friends of Youth is that very youth should have every op-portunity to succeed. Despite our daily efforts to achieve that vision, too many of our children still don’t get the opportunities they need to succeed in life. That’s why we are supporting the Best Starts for Kids Levy, King County Proposition 1.
The Best Starts for Kids levy gives our community a new opportunity to achieve our vision. The levy will provide funding for preven-tion and early interven-tion programs designed to increase the number of King County children and youth who reach adulthood healthy and ready to contribute to the region’s prosperity.
More than half of the revenue from this levy would be invested in strategies fo-cused on children under age five and pregnant women. At Friends of Youth, we see firsthand the importance of early intervention for young mothers and their children. With more than 44 units of housing dedicated to homeless young mothers and families parenting small children we know that new parents need help to find stable housing, finish the education and training that will set them on a path to self-sufficiency, while simul-taneously nurturing the next generation. The levy will help to ensure that the resources, support and training those young parents need are there when they are needed--a modest investment today that will yield a lifelong ben-efit for their children.
The evidence is clear - the earlier we invest in a child, the greater the return for
both the child’s development and our society.
Please join us in investing in our youth and their future by voting “yes” on King County Proposition 1.Terry Pottmeyer, President of Friends of Youth
MPD is the most cost effective, flexible tool to deliver the ARC
As the November election for the Aquatic, Recreation and Community Center (ARC) approaches, some have asked why the Council chose to create a Metropoli-tan Park District (MPD) to build the ARC rather than a “traditional” bond. The answer is that the MPD is the most cost effective and flex-ible tool to deliver the ARC that the Kirkland community has requested from us.
In the fall of 2013 the City Council did not have an ARC ballot measure as a priority. Then the Lake Washington School District informed the community it would not be replacing the Juanita Aquatic Center and might close the city’s only indoor pool as early as 2017. Hundreds of residents showed up over the course of several Council meetings and asked the City Council to find a solution.
The Council responded decisively but responsibly. While an ARC has been requested by many residents since 2001, the Council wanted to be sure that the entire community shared this vision and saw it as a priority.
Over the past two years the Council has invested $500,000 to evaluate poten-tial public and private sites, identify preliminary cost esti-mates and identify potential programmatic elements
through the Park Board and extensive public outreach. Since the fall of 2013 the ARC has been reviewed by the Park Board seventeen times, the city has conducted three statistically valid sur-veys regarding the ARC, held eighteen workshops, pre-sented at nine neighborhood meetings, received thousands of responses to two virtual open houses, twice mailed information about the ARC to all households in Kirkland and the ARC has been a major topic at twelve Council meetings.
The conclusions of this extensive outreach and analysis were both exciting and confounding. The public overwhelmingly supported a first class combined aquatic, recreation and community center to serve children and seniors, residents and busi-nesses. But the majority did not want to see current Kirk-land parks lost to hosting the facility. Many called for partnerships with neighbor-ing cities, school districts, and non-profits. The Council agreed and reached out to many organizations and held joint Council meetings with both Redmond and Bellevue about building a regional ARC together. Not surpris-ingly, potential partners all want Kirkland voters to weigh in before making any commitments.
A “traditional” bond is an
expensive and risky way to meet the community desire for an ARC on private land. A bond measure would require that the city own the property for the ARC and have an accurate estimate of the total costs. The seven to nine acres of private land for the ARC will cost up to $20 million dollars. The ARC design costs could range as high as another $5 million. The City Council could not responsibly spend such stag-gering sums prior to know-ing if the public really wanted the ARC. While acquired land might be resold, mil-lions in design costs would be lost if the public voted no. And if the public voted yes, there would be no financial incentive for partners to con-tribute to a facility that has already been approved.
Therefore the Council set-tled on the MPD as the most cost effective and flexible way to finance the ARC. The MPD avoids the need to risk millions of dollars of upfront costs. If the MPD passes, the city can acquire land and find public and private partners to lower the overall cost. MPD funds can be spent on joint facilities with Redmond or Bellevue which could save Kirkland taxpayers tens of millions prior to setting the initial levy rate.
Opponents have said “We want the ARC, just not by
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an MPD because future Councils can raise the MPD rates without a vote.” This is true. But Kirkland has a strong history of Councils that listen to residents and serve the public interest. If future Councils violate that trust, voters can and should replace them. If you truly want an ARC, vote yes in November. This is the first chance voters have been given in 15 years. No one can say when a vote on the ARC will come again. Future Councils will face the same financing challenges we did. It is hard to imagine they will reach different conclusions. This Council prides itself on strong financial management. We have earned a AAA credit rating. We have received awards from both the Wash-ington Coalition for Open Government and the State Auditor for our accountabil-ity and transparency. We have been thorough and thought-ful in our work. We are proposing an MPD to save taxpayers money and provide them a choice. It is time to call the question. We have presented an MPD to fund an ARC for the community, shaped by the community. We urge you to vote yes.Kirkland Mayor Amy Walen and Councilman Toby Nixon
The false pursuit of perfection
Too often in this country good ideas and projects are dismissed because some as-pect of their implementation is not perfect. Irrespective of your political bent, I am sure you can think of examples: campaign financing, health care, social security reform… the list goes on. But nothing that results from a political system built upon compro-mise is likely to be perfect. The “perfection argument” is used both intentionally and inadvertently; but the results are the same – endlessly stalling progress on an issue or project.
Once again we are faced with a choice: build a sorely needed indoor pool and multi-purpose facility in Kirkland, or dismiss the notion because the financ-ing vehicle is not perfect.
The reasons to build the ARC [Aquatics, Recreation and Community center] are many: swimming is a necessary skill for children to learn and there is not enough public pool time to meet that need, physical exercise is important to all of us and there are insufficient public facilities available for the vast majority of our citizens (including our seniors), many among us cannot afford ac-cess to a health club and need low cost facilities of this kind, and there is a dearth of public swimming facilities for local schools and swim teams, to name a few.
And once again the best argument against what is widely acknowledged as a desperately needed facility is that the financing mechanism (the Metropolitan Park Dis-trict) for the ARC is not the preferred option. Ironically, the city selected the MPD as the most conservative vehicle for funding the project. Using a more conventional bond measure would have required the city council to spend untold dollars to design the ARC and procure the land to build it, all without a vote of its citizens in favor of it. The MPD, though not perfect, at least put the measure before its citizens before the city spent substantial money on it. And the argument that once the measure is voted in - its forever - is patently false un-less we lose our right to vote against members of the city council along with a vote for the MPD. Lets face it: if we do not vote for the ARC this time, it will not be built and once again we will have fallen victim to a false pursuit of perfection.
This country and this state were built on the notion that ideas built upon compro-mise can result in a better way of life for the citizenry. Somewhere along the line, the pursuit of perfection has sidetracked our ability to get things done. Don’t let this be one of those times. Let’s vote yes for the ARC and establish a legacy for future genera-tions of Kirklanders to enjoy.Curt Blake, Kirkland
I will vote no on the ARC/MPD
I will vote no on the ARC/
MPD. I will do so for several reasons:
1. It goes well beyond what we need. What we need is a pool to replace the one we apparently will lose when the Juanita Pool closes. We don’t need more meeting rooms, exercise rooms or a fitness center. The fitness center need has been well met by private clubs in the area. There have been no presenta-tions showing that there is a need for meeting rooms, fitness club space or the other things thrown into this measure to get more votes. Unless, of course, you already intend to close the North Kirkland Community Center for some undisclosed reason.
2. The proponents are labeling people who have opinions contrary to theirs. They are throwing around words like “fear-mongering.” It has been my experience when people can’t debate the merits of an issue without name calling or personal attacks, they are frequently on the wrong side of the issue.
3. The proponents have hauled out “sacred cows” to make their case and accused all those against the measure of being against our children. I think a reasonable look at swimming usage is that people other than swim team members want to do it in the summer. Maybe we should research pool visit frequency during fall, winter and spring by non-swim team members. I would think it would be sig-nificantly less than summer visits. Logically, when school is going and sports teams and other activities, non-swim team visits fall.
And, we already have a summer pool - Peter Kirk Pool. It is not heated, and not so convenient to some residents. Maybe we should make one centrally located pool with a retractable roof, and heat the water and get to what we can all agree to. But, if the Juanita Pool is not self-supporting even after the closure of the Northshore Pool and the St. Edwards Pool, why would we think a new, more expensive one would do better?
4. I think the School District and City should be partnering on the issue of teaching all kids to swim.
5. If this were a bond issue
just for a pool, I think there would be significantly more support for the pool, and if it were going to be paid off ear-lier, and the liability retired, I think there would be more support.
6. So, why can’t the City see a way to build a pool, and then come back with additions to the building or complex if they were war-ranted?
7. At least one councilper-son uses the words “fear-mongering” about citizen skepticism and questioning the protections we would be giving up in voting for an MPD. Well, since Juanita was annexed, our taxes went up, while we were told they would be less. We’ve seen the Parks Department and other City Departments continue to grow both in personnel and budget. That doesn’t meet many citizens’ expecta-tions of good government. So, councilman, you’re asking us to trust you with less oversight and controls than we currently have. You’re ask-ing us also to trust the next 30 years of Councilpersons. Given that time period, I’d rather have a bond issue on a regular basis to consider than a blank check for an aquatic “Taj Mahal,” and whatever else the Parks Department can conjure up. For an example, look at how much they spent for consultants on the Edith Moulton Park project.
8. Other MPDs were writ-ten for just a pool and do not have all the language about whatever else the Park Dis-trict might want to do with-out approval in the future. Why not word the measure in such a way that we could have more assurance for the future costs and control?Roger Stone, Kirkland
Kloba cares about community
As Kirkland residents for 10 years, we have met many people who care deeply about all this community offers. Shelley Kloba is one such person.
Shelley Kloba impresses us as accessible, approachable and an active listener. She is responsive to requests for community improvements.
Shelley values protecting
and improving the quality of life in Kirkland, working cooperatively toward trans-portation solutions, afford-able housing, environmental stewardship and public safety.
As a city council member, Shelley holds steady to her values, taking strong stances on vital issues. One example is the conscientious way she addressed citizens’ requests for a plastic bag ban. Shelley thoroughly weighed multiple options and extensive data for each potential solution, only supporting the ban once she became convinced by a thorough assessment.
Thank you, Shelley for caring, listening, leading, vol-unteering and being a strong advocate for Kirkland. We support Shelley Kloba.Nora Carlson and Lora Hein, Kirkland
Voting for Carlson for school board
Next month’s school board election is critical for the future of quality education here. My vote in District 2 is Chris Carlson, who is the incumbent. Why? I’m voting for Chris Carlson, who is a cancer researcher and a dad of three, because has been persistent and committed to improving LWSD [Lake Washington School District] schools – from develop-ing the STEM high school to overall improvements in math, science and tech instruction and more.
By voting for Chris Carl-son for school board, I want Rob Tepper to make good on his promise to use his communication, advocacy and business skills to get the bond passed and improve schools for our kids.
Rob Tepper is right when he said that our communi-ties need more communica-tion about the bond levy. More needs to be done to rally everyone around great schools and great kids. LWSD has as many students as WSU, and is growing. State law demands that communities pay for school buildings and equipment through local donations or property taxes. We have more jobs and more houses, therefore, we have more
kids. More kids means we need more schools.
However, if Rob Tep-per were elected to the school board, he would be extremely limited in com-municating about the bond levy. State law prohibits school board members from using their public office, school newsletters, websites, meetings or school facili-ties to promote or oppose a bond levy – or any voter measure. Board members are limited to simply answering questions or relaying information about district needs and bond im-pacts. Any bond advocacy has to be done as a private citizen and on private time.
These laws make it nearly impossible for school board members or district leaders to communicate enough with parents and the com-munity on issues as vital as the bond.
Therefore, if you want Rob Tepper to pass the bond and build schools to relieve overcrowding, equip kids with technology and better accommodate special needs students, cast your vote for Chris Carlson for school board. With Carlson on the board and Tepper in the community, I think we have a winning combination. Kendra Rosencrans, Kirkland
Chris Carlson is responsive and accessible
Thank you for your de-tailed article about the school board race and for interview-ing all 4 candidates. It was very informative.
I would like to comment on statements made by can-didate Rob Tepper about the accessibility of his opponent, incumbent Chris Carlson, to constituents. My experience with Chris is exactly the op-posite. I contacted Chris early in his first term on the board to get his help and advice for how our parent group should approach the District and board to advocate for students with reading dif-ficulties. Judi Radloff, Kirkland
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it’s not going to be cheap,” he said, “but we have to make the response times where it’s going to be there at the right time for you when you need it, or your neighbor, or your family member needs.”
He also stated that more invest-ments will need to be made in trans-portation due to the additional burden put on local roads by new drivers.
“We had some pretty good roads here about six or seven years ago, when no one was working,” he said. “� at’s not the economy we want, but it’s the transportation sys-tem that we have.”
His solution, he said, is to appeal to outside sources for � nancial support, citing the city’s suc-cessful lobbying to get a $75 million in-terchange project added to the state legislature budget.
“I’m looking for opium,” he said. “I’m looking for other people’s money… We’re going to need a lot of other people’s money to make this transportation system work.”
Kloba, a former education advocate who was appointed to the council in 2013, said her focus will be on maintaining a “responsi-ble and responsive budget,” as well as o� ering more a� ordable housing and pro-viding environmen-tal protections.
“I am so lucky to get to do this job,” she said. “It is at my core, I desire to help people.”
Hague, who represents Position No. 6 on the King County Council and is the cochair of the Eastside Rail Corridor Regional Advisory Council, reiterated some of what she considers to be the county council’s best recent accomplishments, such as being able to preserve roughly half a million hours of bus service a� er a previous county Prop. 1 failed in 2014 and balancing the 2008 budget without raising taxes, though her “no new taxes” claim was contested by challenger and Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci. Hague also discussed her involvement in Kirkland issues, such as working to
preserve the 40-acre Juanita Woodlands Park, which was initially planned for development.
“I believe we personally have to maintain oppor-tunities for children and families,” she said. “In terms
of my values, I’ve always said that government should be understandable, accessible and ac-countable.”
District 6 repre-sents the Eastside cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Redmond,
Medina, Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Beaux Arts, Woodin-ville and Yarrow Point.
On the challenger side, Morgan, a small-business owner who has run for Kirkland City Council several times, stated that he is running because he doesn’t feel the city listens to the neighborhoods,
particularly when it comes to their respective com-prehensive plans. He also called the city a “retribu-
tion system” that retaliated against him a� er he lodged complaints about the construction of a building near his house.
“� ey claim to listen to you,” he said. “But nothing ever happens.”
He also said he would serve as an advocate for the small business community.
“I want to be here to be their voice,” he said.
When asked, along with the rest of the candidates, about whether he’d support freezing taxes or prioritizing the existing budget, he stated he would put a freeze on any new taxes and reduce the size of
government if possible. Morgan also cited the
lack of progress on the new � re station, which has been a discussion on Finn Hill
for nearly a decade, before it was incorporated into the city.
“I don’t under-stand how it doesn’t get done,” he said.
Jason Chinchilla, a Kingsgate resident and challenger to
Kloba for Position No. 2, also touted himself as an advocate for small busi-nesses.
“I understand what small businesses have to go through on a daily basis,” he said.
Chinchilla, a political science major at Bellevue College, also vowed to oppose any prop-erty tax increase while eliminating existing head tax on employees in order to encourage more business growth.
“� e problem with raising taxes is that eventually they run out of other people’s money,” he said. “I am unapologetically pro-family, pro-small business, pro-neighborhoods and pro-Kirkland.”
Chinchilla also brought up Kirkland’s plastic bag ban, a major issue in his campaign, which he has criticized Kloba for sup-porting. When given the chance to ask her a ques-tion, he raised the issue of whether or not it re� ected on her ability to listen to residents. According to a city-conducted survey, 70 percent of residents expressed opposition to a plastic bag ban.
“� e issue at hand isn’t whether paper or plastic is better,” Chinchilla said. “� e issue at hand, folks, is trust. When you vote for someone… you give them your trust, and the least that you can expect is for that elected o� cial to [keep that trust]. I believe it is up to city government to make bigger decisions like where do cable lines go or telecommunications, and not micromanage your shopping preferences.”
In response, Kloba defended her vote on the matter and strongly denied making decisions without listening to residents. She o� ered a recent council decision not to consider removing roads barriers on Finn Hill as a possible solu-tion to reducing � re and medical response times, in response to resident concerns, as proof of her willingness to listen.
During her questioning of Chinchilla, Kloba asked how he would balance the city budget while reducing property taxes. Chinchilla suggested looking to the private sector for possible solutions to transportation issues and insisted that residents he speaks with complain about the nega-tive e� ect of high property taxes.
“I believe that time and time again the American people have proven that when there is a need they will respond,” he said.
On transportation, Lake Hills neighborhood resident Balducci advo-cated that the Eastside cities create a regional vision
in order to best solve the tra� c congestion and ac-
cessibility to future transit areas.
“What we really need is to get down to brass tacks on what are we going to do,” she said.
She also argued in favor of better connectivity from Kirkland to down-
town Bellevue and Bellevue College. Like Hague, who is running on the platform of being an independent
candidate, Balducci stated her past work on the Bel-levue City Council with Deputy Mayor Kevin Wallace proves her ability to work with others of di� ering viewpoints and still accomplish desired goals.
Additionally, she defended her performance as the director of King County’s Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention (DADJ) when Hague brought up
accusations of a “party atmosphere,” along with
claims of sexual harassment. While acknowledging incidents occurred in the jail, she said no lawsuit was ever � led against them and no money was paid, and they were able to save $2 mil-lion for the county
by reducing the number of people in isolation cells from 100 to 10 per day.
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When questioning Hague about her claim of not raising taxes, she pointed out King County increases taxes every year and has a flood control district and ferry district. Hague clarified that she said she hadn’t raised any new taxes and defended the cre-ation of the flood control dis-trict as a necessary response to concerns over the Howard A. Hanson Dam.
On Kirkland’s Prop. 1, which would create a metro-politan park district to fund the ARC, Asher and Kloba voiced their support for the MPD, while Nixon stated he supported the council giving the community the chance to vote for themselves on the matter. Morgan came out against it, saying that resi-dents shouldn’t give the city a “blank check,” while Chin-chilla expressed concerns over many uncertainties he sees in the park district.
According to the Public Disclosure Commission’s website, Kloba has raised roughly $17,000 and spent just under $10,000, while Chinchilla has managed to raise $3,700 and has spent nearly all of it. Asher has raised nearly $9,000, but spent only $800 so far. Morgan has not reported any money raised or spent. Hague has raised about $300,000 and spent $136,000, while Balducci has raised $142,000 and spent $73,000.
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Local hospital appoints two community members to committees
EvergreenHealth is pleased to announce the recent appointment of two community members to its volunteer board committees, which work collaboratively with the EvergreenHealth Board of Commissioners to guide organizational decisions in keeping with the health system’s mission and vision.
Todd Banks, long-time president of Kenmore Air, has joined the Construc-tion & Planning Commit-tee, and certified treasury professional Beth Fleury assumes a role on the Audit and Finance Committee.
“It’s a great privilege to work alongside these com-munity leaders who each bring a wealth of experi-
ence and business insight to their respective commit-tees, which will help serve EvergreenHealth’s mission to advance the health of our greater community,” said Al DeYoung, chair of EvergreenHealth’s Board of Commissioners. “We are proud to welcome them to our organization.”
Banks is an active mem-ber of Bothell’s North-shore community and has invested time volunteering for the Rotary Club of Woodinville and Kenmore Economic Development Committee. He has served on the Northshore School Board and attended the University of Oregon.
Fleury is the manager of cash and investments for Alaska Airlines, and has held various other banking positions at well-known Se-attle companies including Eddie Bauer and Chris-tiana Bank. She attended
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The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be represen-tative of all police calls originating in Kirk-land, which average about 1,000 per week.
Between Oct. 2-8, there were traffic inci-dents, traffic accidents, three DUIs, general traffic incidents, 33 alarm calls, abandoned vehicles, 11 burglaries, 18 civil incidents, six animal calls, seven incidents of domestic violence, two reported arsons, 15 distur-bances, seven assaults and 27 incidents involving at least one arrest.
Oct. 8Assault: 3:53 p.m., 14400 block of 124th AVE NE. A 42-year-old man was arrested for assault after he spat on a 69-year-old man’s face following road rage near the Kingsgate Safeway prior to the assault. The suspect was positively identified after a field show.
Oct. 6Assault: 11:35 p.m., 10800 block of 113th CT NE. A 54-year-old drunk woman was arrested for assault when she pushed her 79-year-old mother down to the ground after arguing over financial issues.
Oct. 5 Assault: 3:15 p.m., 10200 block of NE 132nd ST. A 48-year-old male patient at Fairfax Hospital bit and spit on three male healthcare workers.
Oct. 4Assault: 7 p.m., 300 block of 19th AVE. A 48-year-old drunk man was arrested for two counts of assault after he pushed his 57-year-old wife and 33-year-old
step-daughter during a fight. The man also grabbed his wife’s neck and wrists, causing bruising. The stepdaughter was helping her mother when the man pushed her to the ground. After being arrested the suspect was found to have a blood alcohol level of .244.
Urinating in public: 7:16 p.m., 2100 block of Market Street. A 15-year-old girl was arrested for a minor in possession of alcohol and urinating in public.
Possessing stolen property: 12:01 a.m., 100 block of Kirkland Ave. A 35-year-old man was arrested after he tried to pay his $42 bill at Tiki Joe’s using a debit card he had stolen from another man in the bar. The suspect was then booked and released.
Oct. 3Malicious mischief: 10:30 p.m., 11000 block of 105th AVE NE. A 45-year-old man was arrested after his girlfriend reported that he had assaulted her in
front of their nine-year-old daughter. The man
also broke several items before leaving the residence and reportedly threatened her before the police arrived. The woman
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out of the house since he has threatened her with
them in the past.
Trespass: 3:30 a.m., 10000 block of NE 67th ST. A 20-year-old man was
arrested after he was found prowling a vehicle.
Warrant: 1:13 a.m., 13400 block of
124TH AVE NE. A 30-year-old man was arrested on his felony warrant for assault from Seattle after an officer recognized him at the bus stop. The suspect was transported to a warrant meet at Clyde Hill with Seattle police.
Oct. 2Warrant: 11:22 a.m., 11000 block of 124th AVE NE. A 27-year-old man and a woman were contacted in a AMPM parking lot. The man had a needle and burnt spoon on his lap in the driver’s seat of the car. He provided a signed consent to search the vehicle, where the police discovered heroin and meth. The man then gave a signed post Miranda confession to the narcotics agent before being released and charged through investigation.
Assault: 7:19 p.m., 12000 block of NE 128th ST. A 64-year-old man was taken into custody for assault after groping a nurse at EvergreenHealth.
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Police Blotter
BY TJ MARTINELL
A 31-year-old Kirk-land massage therapist was found guilty of indecent liberties after being accused of sexu-ally assaulting 26-year-old woman late last year.
Benjamin Adam Fesler of Lynnwood pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months work release and is required to register as a sex of-fender. He was initially charged by the King County Prosecutor’s Office with second degree rape of a pa-tient on Oct. 23, 2014 during a scheduled full-body massage at the Kirkland Massage Envy. Incident liberties is a class B felony.
Fesler had no prior criminal history.
“Massage Envy Spa and our Kirk-land franchisee were horrified to learn of
these allegations, and we sympathize with the guest involved,” said Massage Envy spokesperson Karen Sung in a statement to the Reporter. “We have a zero tolerance policy against inappro-priate conduct. Each franchisee, including the Kirkland owner, is required to conduct criminal background and reference checks prior to hiring and are instructed that all licensed massage therapists must com-plete training prior to employment, which specifically covers our zero tolerance policy on inappropriate con-duct; all of which was completed correctly in this case. In addition, the Kirkland owner notified local law en-forcement immediately upon learning of the allegations and has co-operated fully during their investigation.”
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A recent trade mission by the state to Korea and Japan gave
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Associate Provost of International Studies Dr. Autumn Witt accompa-nied Gov. Jay Inslee and others on a nine-day visit to Korea and Japan last month. As part of the trade mission during the � rst week of September, the delegation visited cit-ies such as Seoul, Kobe, Nagoya, and Tokyo to promote Washington products and services, such as information technology, agriculture, and aerospace. In Seoul, Witt represented the university at o� cial receptions at alongside NU alumni, EunYoung Shin, an intern at the US Embassy.
“I was really impressed with the structure of the en-tire trip, because there were so many opportunities to highlight many Washington industries and projects,” she said. “It seems like they had very active Chambers of Commerce in both places that were incredibly well-connected with the local business community. Be-cause they were established, and because we came as a strong group, I think they were able to showcase the
strength of Washington state as a whole.”
Witt also met with Korean and Japanese uni-versities to discuss higher education opportunities and studies abroad. � is summer, NU hosted 200 international students from China, Korea, Mexico and Kazakhstan.
“� ey all see education as a way to build relationships and ties between countries,” she said. “It really showed through these types of exchanges we can build o� of our partnership and relationships.”
In particular, Witt learned that Japanese universities have stopped funding the humanities and social sciences, which o� ers NU an opportunity to cater to foreign students looking for study abroad programs. In order to accommodate the Japanese school system,
Kirkland’s Northwest University given opportunity to promote international studies with Gov.
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programs would be fit into a one-three month study board.
“For their students to get that valuable educa-tion, having an interna-tional university that can provide that content is really vital,” she said. “I learned that in Japan it’s very important the studies fit within their existing school structure and not be extra. It has to take place within their school year.”
She also promoted the short-term International Business English pro-fessional development programs offered through the Center for English Language Education and the College of Business.
“I think that our strength comes through the professional develop-ment that we do,” she said. “It’s wonderful for students to study abroad and see new parts of the world and see themselves as global citizens.”
One of the fundamental aspects of international business, she said, is effec-tive communication.
“I think that when you start doing more international business it’s important for all parties to clearly communicate
and understand the busi-ness English expectations of all parties,” she said. “Some great ideas may fall by the wayside simply be-cause they don’t have the English language skills. It’s (business English) a language specifically for business deals or decid-ing what is the etiquette for you to write in emails between a team.”
One of the purposes of teaching specifically business English, she said, is to help foster commu-nication without suffering from misunderstandings due to cultural differences or differences in language structure. For example, in Korea and Japan there is an inherent hierarchy in the language in which the style of speech is impact-ed significantly based on social class, gender, age, and other variables.
One way to remedy this, she said, is by teach-ing business English students how groups can
build rapport through social interactions.
“I would ask as I was networking…are your teams all from one country, or do you col-laborate?” she said. “Most collaborate in developing and testing. What kind of problems come up? As I would collect these difficulties, I’d ask ‘What’s the underlying language struggle that we could help your team with?’”
While in Kobe, the trade delegation was joined by a friendship delegation led by State Sen. Karen Fraser as part of a celebration of Wash-ington’s relationship with its sister state, Hyogo. Governor Inslee planted a tree at the Hyogo House, echoing the 50 year com-memorative tree planting in Olympia Aug 19, 2013 with the Hyogo Governor Ido’s delegation.
The Intercultural Busi-ness professional develop-ment series teaches Inter-cultural Communication Strategies and Applied Business English.
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[ STUDIES from page 10]Kirkland school has two National Merit semi� nalists
Two students from Prov-idence Classical Christian School in Kirkland have been named semi� nalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
� e seniors come from a class of 12 and will compete this spring for their share of the 7,400 National Merit Scholarships worth approximately $32 million. Seniors Daniel Jekel, whose brother won a National Merit Scholarship in 2011, and Wesley Su have both attended Providence since kindergarten.
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Providence graduates over the past 12 years have been recognized in the nation-wide contest. � is number includes two National Merit winners, two � nal-ists, two semi� nalists and 12 Commended scholars. Providence is a small school of approximately 200 with senior classes that range from 3-15 students.
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Wynn said part of Kirkland’s success attract-ing businesses has been collaboration by the city
and the existing business community through the Chamber.
“There’s a lot of support mechanism in Kirkland, whether it’s through the Chamber telling a story and getting a spotlight to the economic develop-ment and having business roundtables,” he said. “You have the CEO of the largest corporations and businesses in Kirkland networking.”
He cited the Chamber’s efforts, along with other institutions in the com-munity, to encourage entrepreneurialism. The
chamber hosts monthly business luncheons, as well as the Kirkland Startup Weekend Makers Edition, where participants attempt to create a company from concept to the final pitch to potential investors within a weekend.
“I think we’re now being seen as the busi-ness roundtable, that the Chamber is kind of a connector of CEOs of the same caliber,” Wynn said. “We do startup weekends to broadcast to the wider community if you have a startup we’re going to help nurture it, (we’re) going to
try to get you funding to launch it and really have your back.”
“We have more venture capitalists helping out,” he added. “Whether it be through crowd-funding or any type of financial backing. We do these startup weekends to invite the people who have the means to financially sup-port a startup company, and some of them actually do something about that. They tend to hide in the shad-ows because they know everybody wants them.”
He said the com-munity has also helped struggling companies get back up on their feet by giving them opportuni-ties to meet with potential clients and customers.
Morales said Kirkland also benefits from two different types of people who spend their money in the city; tourists and the residents themselves. This provides the businesses, such as restaurants, with a larger customer base needed to survive over a long period of time.
“When dealing with the businesses in Kirkland, the people who come are expecting high quality
and high level customer service,” Morales said. “Ba-sically we’re spoiled. We expect that and we receive that. Businesses that don’t, won’t survive.”
The one detractor from business startups in Kirkland is the booming real estate market, which translates into higher renting prices, according to Morales, though for certain types of businesses
there are enough pa-trons to make up for
the pricey location. “That can be
a little hard on business,” he said.
“But the businesses that survive here, the
restaurants and art galler-ies in the downtown, this is where people come.
The NerdWallet study, however, didn’t place as much of an emphasis on the real estate market, with the median annual hous-ing costs contributing to 10 percent of a city’s score, with a lower median cost contributing to a higher score.
Northwest Univer-sity has recently opened a business incubator space for a combination of small businesses and entrepre-neurs. The 425 Collective, located at 6710 108th Ave.
NE, the co-working space appeals to smaller busi-nesses that need area to work in but either don’t have the money to afford a bigger office in the city, or only require a certain amount of space. These small offices are wrapped around the outside of the collective, with the middle featuring individual desks for entrepreneurs.
“A lot of businesses opening up these days are basically smaller business-es that are home based, because rental properties peak pretty high,” he said. “But you’re getting more of the individual and small business folks, so it doesn’t have to be a brick and mortar.”
Local developers are also constructing afford-able apartments, such as Arete at 450 Central Way. Developed by Natural and Built Environments, the apartments are priced at around $795 a month for people making under a certain income.
To learn more about the NerdWallet study, go to www.nerdwallet.com/blog/small-business/best-places-start-business-washington-2015/.
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Special to the Reporter
Just off 100th Avenue in the Juanita neigh-borhood of Kirkland
sits the little green Juanita Community Club, home of the vibrant square dancing club called Sa-mena Squares.
Samena Squares is a member-run, non-profit square dancing club that is active in the com-munity, provides lessons on Thursdays and hosts dances on the second and fourth Fridays of the month.
The members of Samena Squares create a lively and welcom-ing atmosphere at every dance they host, whether at Thursday night lessons for new dancers or Friday night events centered around fun themes. Everyone is greeted at the door with a smile and a name tag and no one is left on the outskirts once the music begins.
“The exercise, the stress release, the friendli-ness of the group – we never thought we would make so many new friends,” Mary Pygott said at this year’s first day of lessons.
Mary and her husband Cal Pygott went through the 24 weeks of lessons last year and are now club mem-bers who attend to help add to the fun atmo-sphere for new students.
Because the club makes sure current members attend every lesson, new students are able to pick
up the calls and dance the first time they attend.
“We liked the liveliness of the music and the fact that it isn’t just country western,” Pygott said.
She noted that they have danced to the “Mis-sion Impossible” theme,
Credence Clearwater Revival and even
some hip hop songs.
“We immediate-ly felt welcomed,”
said Sherry Gray, who is now the presi-
dent of the club after six years of membership.
“Where can you find 100 people laughing and dancing, and there’s no alcohol involved?” she added with a laugh.
Susan Morris is the caller instructor for all
the lessons during the course of the winter and spring.
Her goal is for every student to be able to understand and respond to any caller who comes to the club. Morris said that every club has its own personality and this one is very friendly and
encouraging. On the first and third
Fridays of the month, the club goes “caravan-ning,” a term that refers to traveling to another hall to square dance. A few times a year, Samena Squares also caravans to halls across the state. Late last month, they traveled
to Winthrop, stayed in a hotel and met with other clubs in the area to dance in a giant barn.
Samena Squares doesn’t just provide a fun atmosphere for square dancing, they also pride themselves on being a positive influence in the community. Members participate in a Toys for Tots drive every year around Christmastime. In August, the club hosted a parking lot sale which donated $1,200 to Hope-link for school supplies. Last year they hosted a “Pajama Dance,” where 90 pairs of pajamas were donated to a local Sleep Country for foster kids. This event is scheduled to repeat on Feb. 26, 2016.
Everyone is invited, whether single or a cou-ple, and the first lesson is free. It is $150 to sign up for 24 weeks of les-sons from 7- 9 p.m. every Thursday evening.
To become a mem-ber, the fee is $75 a year, which includes admission to all the dances at the hall. It is usually $7 per dance to go to another club’s hall.
“It’s one place where you have to focus on the danc-ing,” Morris said. “You can’t worry about the bills that aren’t paid, the laun-dry that’s not done, what’s happening at work. It’s like a little vacation.”
For further informa-tion about lessons and Samena Squares, visit the website at http://www.samenasquares.org/home.
Square dancing club mixes hip hop, charity and pajamas
Samena Squares members square dance during a recent event at the Juanita Community Club in Kirkland. KAYLA ROBERTS, Special to the Reporter
KIRKLANDCLUBS
City honored for Biennial Budget process
� e city of Kirkland has again received the “Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance O� cers Association (GFOA), the fourteenth time the city has received the award. � e Award rec-ognizes Kirkland’s 2015-2016 budget adoption process, the City’s budget practices and its high-quality Budget document, all of which are coordi-nated by the City’s Finance and Administration Department. � e GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Pre-sentation Awards Program is the only national awards program in governmental budgeting.
“Our Biennial Budget articulates the trade-o� s necessary to provide the service levels our residents and businesses expect within the � nancial re-sources available and is an extremely vital document,” said Doreen Marchione, Chair, Finance and Ad-ministration Committee and City Council Member. “� e GFOA award recog-nizes Kirkland’s commit-ment to e� ective govern-mental budgeting.”
In order to receive the GFOA Distinguished Budget Presentation Award, Kirkland had to satisfy nationally recog-nized standards for e� ec-tive budget presentation. Its budget was assessed as to its e� ectiveness as a policy document, � nancial plan, operations guide and communications device.
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The boy’s mother was later contacted and told her son was being interviewed by police, the lawsuit con-tinues. She arrived at the school, where the school official accused her son of creating the account and that he must have forgotten about it. The school official allegedly said they believed it to be his because it had his name, photos of him and his friends, and “a lot of kids think it’s his,” accord-ing to a June 2014 letter sent to Superintendent Traci Pierce.
“Did it ever occur to [the school official] that if [the plaintiff] had created the nasty Instagram, he would be the last to complain about being teased, much less cry to his mom about it, and would instead have simply taken the site down?” the letter continues.
The mother allegedly later told her son, as in-structed by school officials and police, that he wouldn’t get in “big trouble” if he addmitted to creating the account, but if he didn’t his father might “because he’s an adult and he set up your Instagram.” At one point, the lawsuit alleges, the boy was willing to admit to it because “I don’t want my dad to go to jail.”
The boy’s family were able to convince school officials they had not cre-ated the account after they provided the school with their cell phones, computer and iPad. The next day, the school official informed them that they had discov-ered a female student had used her parents’ computer to create the account, along with a photo from the boy’s actual Instagram account. She then allegedly down-loaded the porn to the account and told other kids it was the boy’s.
“This was, no two ways about it, a premeditated and vicious strain of cyber-bullying,” the June 2014 letter states. “The fact that it was perpetrated by an 11-year-old girl does not change that.”
While the female student was eventually suspended for a week, according to the lawsuit, the school officials took no steps to clear up the matter with the other students, and they allegedly told the boy’s family not to tell anyone what had hap-pened or who had created the fake account, saying
“suspension is enough punishment for her.”
As a result, the lawsuit al-leges, the boy was subjected to continual harassment, while the suspended stu-dent texted other classmates from home accusing him of being responsible for her suspension. He also alleg-edly never received an apol-ogy from the school official who accused him of lying about the fake account.
The girl allegedly later told the boy that she had done it because he had pushed her on the bus the first week of school, but the boy’s attorney wrote this was not possible, as he was driven to school by his par-ents for the first six weeks.
The lawsuit accuses the girl’s parents of being “grossly negligent” for al-lowing their daughter to use their computer and email to create the fake Instagram account and then continued access to her cell phone after she was suspended to “disseminate lies about the plaintiff that subjected him to further harassment and humiliation” to the point where the family finally moved out of the school district. The lawsuit also ac-cuses the school officials of failing to record either inci-dent via a district incident reporting form and provide copies to the boy’s parents as per the district’s Harass-ment Intimidation and Bullying Policy (HIB). It also alleges that the district failed to provide the family in writing an explanation of the process to file for an
appeal of the investigation’s findings, with one school official insisting the parents not retain a lawyer because “we have already consulted with the school district’s attorney.”
The officials also alleg-edly failed to take “reason-able measures to ensure that no further incidents of intimidation or bullying occur,” nor did they pro-vide the boy or his family any counseling or support services.
“Consequently, many students and their par-ents still believe that [the plaintiff] is some kind of ‘pervert,’ a false and damag-ing reputation that is sure to follow him wherever he goes, including his next schools,” the lawsuit reads.
Specifically, the law-suit accuses the school officials of a breach of statutory duty under RCW.28A.300.285 by “failing to implement a safety plan to insure that the bullying would stop, and failing to provide [the plaintiff] with counseling and other support services to remedy the short and long term adverse effects of bullying, causing him and his parents severe emo-tional distress.”
When asked for com-ment on the allegations, LWSD Spokesperson Kath-ryn Reith said the district is declining to comment due to advice of legal counsel as well as out of a need to respect the privacy rights of the students involved.
“The Lake Washington
School District is commit-ted to providing all students with a positive and safe en-vironment in which to learn and to grow as individuals,” she wrote in an email state-ment. “To provide such an environment, the district has put in place policies and programs that work to prevent harassment, intimi-dation and bullying. The District emphasizes safety and support for all students through programs such as Kelso’s Choice, Steps to Respect, the Safe School Ambassadors, and other anti-bullying programs. Other initiatives offered by the district promote kind-ness and mutual respect in our schools. In addition, the district has in place staff and student policies that promote effective handling of student concerns, includ-ing situations that occur outside of school but cause disruption at school.”
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Welcome to DolcettoConstruction is well under way at our Chateau Bothell Landing Campus, with our newest building, Dolcetto. Construction on Dolcetto is expected to be completed in early 2016.
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� e USTA’s Women’s Pro Circuit $50,000 Kirkland Classic is taking place at the Central Park Tennis Club in Kirkland this week.
Ben Franklin Elementa-ry’s kindergarten class came for a visit on Oct. 5.
Kari Ferrin’s kindergar-ten class visited and got to watch some of the action, which lasted through Oct. 11.
Councilwoman Shelley Kloba announces three co� ee chats
Kirkland City Coun-cilmember Shelley Kloba announces three upcoming co� ee chats. Residents are invited to stop by to meet her, share their thoughts, and ask questions about the city. In an e� ort to connect with people outside of the traditional door knocking method, residents are in-
vited to drop in during the following times and loca-tions: Noon to 2 p.m., Oct. 17 - Urban Co� ee Lounge, located at Slater 216 Loca-tion, 12348 NE 115th PL in Kirkland; 10 a.m. to noon on Oct. 18 - Kitanda, located at 12700 NE 124th St No. 2 in Kirkland; and from 3:30-5 p.m. on Oct. 25 - Ca� e Rococo, located at 136 Park Lane in Kirkland.
“I have found that it is really important to know what is on the minds of our residents and hear their input,” Kloba said. “But of-ten, people are reluctant to answer the door when they are at home enjoying some family time.”
Kloba has been a Kirk-land City Councilmember since April, 2013. She is running for reelection to
position 2 in the general election on Nov. 3. To learn more, visit www.kloba-forcouncil.com.
City of Kirkland honored for Healthy Kirkland Initiative
� e city of Kirkland was recognized by Alliant Em-ployee Bene� ts for its inno-vative approach to employee health and bene� ts during the council meeting on Oct. 6. � e city’s program is called “Healthy Kirkland Initiative” and the award is the “Alliant 2015 Award for Innovation in Health and Productivity.”
Alliant presented the award to the council mem-bers during the meeting.
Ben Franklin Elementary students visit with tennis players at the Central Park Tennis Club. CONTRIBUTED
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