By Scott Hamilton
Commentary
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.
By Miki Mullor
Editor
By Scott Hamilton
Commentary
If residents wonder why the Sammamish City Council is mired in acrimony, one need look no farther than the June 18 meeting.
Council Member Pam Stuart
Jason Ritchie
Sammamish Council Member Jason Ritchie isn’t wrong when he cites frustration about the divisions in the city council.
Nor is he wrong when he fingers members of the majority of the council for their contributions to the split.
But Ritchie needs to look in the mirror and accept responsibility for his own actions.
By Scott Hamilton
After nearly a decade and a half of little, the Sammamish City Council may finally be ready to address serious storm water drainage issues in the 
Tamarack subdivision on the city’s west side.
The issue is on the council’s agenda tomorrow night.
Tamarack has been subject to increasingly damaging storm water runoff as development uphill from the subdivision, which is sited on a downhill slope off Thompson Hill Road, flows through the neighborhood.
Sammamish City Council Position 6 candidate Rituja Indapure jump to an early and big lead in fund raising, according to reports filed through Wednesday with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission.
Indapure raised nearly $18,300 from 87 contributions. Fifty-six percent of 
the contributors come from within Sammamish.
Karen McKnight, candidate for Position 2 opposing incumbent Christie Malchow, is a distance second fund raiser, with $3,641 listed in her PDC filing.
Malchow is fourth at $1,910. Kent Treen, running for Position 4, is third, with $2,100 in contributions.
The others haven’t reported raising any money yet.
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