Here are the projected winners of today’s election. Details to come shortly.
Sammamish City Council:
King County District 3:
Kathy Lambert
45th Legislative District:
Manka Dhingra
The Tax Day of Reckoning for Sammamish has arrived.
The City Council tonight may decide whether to adopt a 1% property tax hike, something Councils have avoided for the past eight years.
It could even decide to recapture the eight years of deferrals, or an 8% increase in property taxes, but this is unlikely.
Council Member Don Gerend also suggested the possibility of a utility tax during a study session last night.
Council Member Kathy Huckabay suggested a Transportation Benefit District tax dedicated only to road projects.
The long-awaited “crossover point” when deficit spending occurs for the Sammamish city budget—in recent years 
projected to be early next decade—may be here now.
The City Council takes up the budget tonight and a comparison of revised figures by Council Candidate Mark Baughman shows proposed expenditures exceed projected revenues by $4m.
As the Sammamish City Council looks at alternatives for traffic concurrency policies to
SE 228th in Sammamish, off-rush hour. Seattle Times photo via Google images.
cope with development and growth, Members should revisit a May 2006 statement by the then-City Manager who said concurrency can be used to limit growth.
That statement, in the City Newsletter by Ben Yazici, stands in stark contrast to statements this summer by his successor, Lyman Howard, Vic Saleman, a traffic engineer consultant, and the City staff, that this isn’t strictly true.
The Council has a study session tonight beginning at 5:30pm at City Hall that includes a focus on concurrency options.
Sammamish is seeking applicants to appoint to four commissions. The deadline to file an 
application is Dec. 15.
The commissions are:
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