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City Council candidates vow no tax hike but endorse new spending anyway
All eight candidates for Sammamish City Council vowed last night that they would not raise taxes, but nonetheless most of them endorsed a host of new spending programs.
A few expressed fiscal caution about new programs and only one called out endorsement of new debt bonds for road infrastructures as “not free.”
This was perhaps the highlight of the only forum for all eight Council candidates for the Nov. 7 election. Eight people are running for four positions. Ballots are mailed to voters Oct. 18.
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City Council Candidates Forum Monday 6pm
The only candidates forum for the Nov. 7 Sammamish City Council election will be Monday, Sept. 25, at City Hall. Details may be found here. Ballots are mailed to voters Oct. 18.
The forum runs from 6pm-8:30pm. Sammamish Comment will be at the forum and provide coverage either that evening or the next day.
The City will tape the forum for broadcast within a few days on Comcast Channel 21 and the City’s website/YouTube channel.
Four Council positions are up for election: 1, 3, 5 and 7. For the first time since 1999, there are no incumbents for these positions. The candidates are (in the order they appear on the ballot):
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Primary precinct voting analysis for Sammamish
The precinct analysis of the August 1 primary in Sammamish yielded few surprises, but it 
gives the City its first look at how the Greater Klahanie area votes.
Klahanie was annexed into Sammamish in January 2015, but the City Council executed the annexation in two basic steps: the legal one, in January, but the “political” annexation came too late for the area to vote in the November 2015 City Council elections.
City officials said there was just too much to do to accomplish the political annexation sooner. Critics believed some officials didn’t want Klahanie voting in what was anticipated to be a close election for some candidates.
Regardless, the residents voted this time—though not in great numbers.
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Primary results certified for November City Council election
King County Elections today certified the results of the Aug. 1 primary, in which three of the four seats for Sammamish City Council were on the ballot.
The fourth seat only had two candidates and were not subject to the primary.
The winners are as Sammamish Comment projected on primary night. The final results are below.
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