The Sahalee (and Timberline) Candidate forum was 2:21 hours long.
The next question is “What is different between you and your opponent”. The first bite-size clip features Christie Malchow and Karen McKnight, who are running for seat 2:
https://youtu.be/fnE2aticAdg
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The Sahalee (and Timberline) Candidate forum was 2:21 hours long.
The next question is “What is different between you and your opponent”. The first bite-size clip features Rituja Indapure and Ken Gamblin, who are running for seat 6.
Copyright (c) 2025 The Sammamish Comment
The Sahalee (and Timberline) Candidate forum was 2:21 hours long. This is the first of 
series of short clips each featuring one question and the candidates’ responses.
We plan to provide the entire event in “bite size” clips.
The first clip is below.
By Miki Mullor
Editor
The Growth Management Hearing Board (GMBH) has continued (postponed) Don Gerend’s lawsuit to invalidate the new concurrency rules enacted by the majority of City Council.
Continue readingAug. 26, 2019: The Klahanie area annexation to Sammamish in 2015 caused road projects in the legacy parts of the city to be delayed, despite promises from then-Mayor Tom Vance and then-City Manager Ben Yazici there would be no adverse impacts.
Then-Mayor Tom Vance and then-City Manager promised no ill affects on legacy Sammamish from Klahanie annexation.
Acting public works director Cheryl Paston confirmed at the City Council’s Aug. 20 meeting what Sammamish Comment feared and reported in 2015: the Klahanie annexation would divert money from key projects to fulfill a Christmas list of promises made by Vance, Yazici, council members Don Gerend and Ramiro Valderrama to entice Klahanie residents to vote to annex to Sammamish.
As the current city council debates over projects listings on the Transportation Improvement Plan—notably the Sahalee Way project—the 2015 council led by Vance and Yazici’s administration manipulated the TIP then to claim sharply reduced costs for a major Klahanie road project while simultaneously shifting monies from other road projects in legacy Sammamish.
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