Daily Archives: July 8, 2019

Reject power play to dissolve committees

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By Scott Hamilton

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The Sammamish City Council tomorrow will take up a motion to dissolve its

Council Member Tom Hornish

committees, where a lot of spade work is done on issues, and adopt a Committee of the Whole (COW) process instead.

This move should be rejected. It’s been tried before. The council ultimately returned to the committee system. This city council should not repeat the mistake of the past.

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No resolution yet, but progress in Tamarack stormwater damage

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No resolution was forthcoming from the Sammamish City Council on the Tamarack subdivision stormwater drainage issues, but some progress toward one seems to be happening.

The principal sticking point remains how much of a multi-million dollar stormwater control solutions would be for public benefit and how much would be for private (Tamarack) benefit.

State law prohibits using public money for private benefit.

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