Christie Malchow, now Mayor of Sammamish.
Tom Hornish, now deputy mayor of Sammamish.
Christie Malchow and Tom Hornish were voted to be mayor and deputy mayor by their fellow council members tonight, at the first meeting of the meeting of the new year.
The votes were unanimous.
Malchow, who was deputy mayor for a portion of last year, will serve for two years. Hornish will serve one year. (The deputy position is a one-year term.)
Both are in the middle of their first two-year term.
Four new members of the Sammamish City Council are sworn in tonight. The mayor for 
the next two years and deputy mayor for the next year will also be selected.
This new Council has a plethora of thorny issues facing it this year. Many of them come with hefty price tags that could mean a need to raise new taxes, despite universal opposition to any in a county where tax fatigue has set in.
Top issues
Except for the declared No. 1 priority, traffic, there’s no attempt to prioritize these issues; they are listed in alphabetical order.
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