Today/tonight: Highland Park, Sustainable WS, city/county councils

First, tonight’s West Seattle highlights:

HIGHLAND PARK ACTION COMMITTEE: One week earlier than usual because of Memorial Day, HPAC meets at 7 pm at the Highland Park Improvement Club, after a 6:30 pm potluck dinner. Agenda includes reps from Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Green Seattle Partnership and the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition.

SUSTAINABLE WEST SEATTLE: Two weeks after the well-attended, sun-splashed Sustainable West Seattle Festival, SWS invites all to its monthly meeting at Camp Long Lodge, 7 pm, with Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association founder and former executive director Paul Fischburg as guest speaker, discussing “Volunteerism, Community and Leadership.”

Also of note, today’s county/city council toplines:

KING COUNTY COUNCIL: Today’s big agenda item is appointing an interim King County Executive to serve till a new permanent one is elected in November. Last week, a “blue-ribbon panel” recommended two finalists, Charles Royer and Kurt Triplett; this morning, the council’s Committee of the Whole will interview them and the other 2 candidates, former County Councilmembers Louise Miller and Steve Hammond, starting at 9 am (agenda here). The council then is expected to make the official appointment in its 11 am meeting (agenda here). Both meetings are scheduled to be shown live online.

SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL: During the morning “briefing” session (agenda here), councilmembers are scheduled to hear an update on the city’s tree audit, around 10:15 am. During the afternoon session, a long list of items (agenda here) includes a proposed 10-year lease extension for land north of the West Seattle (Westcrest) Reservoir that’s used by the federal government for air-traffic control communications. The council meetings will be live online here.

2 Replies to "Today/tonight: Highland Park, Sustainable WS, city/county councils "

  • Pete May 18, 2009 (7:55 am)

    Paul is back at DNDA? What happened to Derek? I thought Paul left DNDA a couple of years ago and was working for the Mayor now.

  • WSB May 18, 2009 (9:47 am)

    I intended to type “founder” instead of “leader” since that’s how Sustainable WS’s agenda identified him. fixing … Derek is of course very much still with DNDA and in fact figured into another story we posted overnight, from the West Seattle/Fauntleroy YMCA board’s Community Panel discussion on Friday – TR

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