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City Council leadership to be named at Jan. 5 meeting

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Christie Malchow

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Ramiro Valderrama

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Tom Hornish

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Don Gerend

The mayor and deputy mayor for the Sammamish City Council will be named tomorrow night at the first City Council meeting of the New Year.

Two new Council members will be sworn in.

The leadership roles have come down to Don Gerend, who has been on the Council since the first one was elected in 1999, and Ramiro Valderrama, who was reelected to his second term in November. It’s unclear who will be selected for a two year term as mayor and a one-year term as deputy mayor. The positions are selected by a vote of the seven member council, and not the public in a general election. This is due to Sammamish being a City Manager form of government with what’s called a weak mayor system.

The newcomers to the Council are Christie Malchow and Tom Hornish.

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Citizens for Sammamish meets in different location tonight

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Harry Shedd, chairman of Citizens for Sammamish.

Citizens for Sammamish holds its first meeting of the year tonight at a new location due to construction at its usual meeting place. CSF will meet at the Bellwood Center.

From the website:

We will meet at Bellewood (Residential Living), 3710 Providence Point Dr. SE, Issaquah, WA. at 7 PM. The Fire Station is not available (construction). You will be guided from the front entrance.

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Will “process” cost Sammamish taxpayers ~$7m?

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  • Refuse, recycling, yard waste contract to be awarded
  • Waste Management (WM) claims its bid is $6m-$7m lower over seven years than Republic Services
  • The City Council was prepared to award contract to Republic Dec. 1
  • WM obtained injunction blocking action; court lifted injunction Dec. 22
  • Council to consider contract as early as Jan. 5 meeting
  • WM appeals to Council to overrule Staff recommendation
  • Sammamish taxpayers pay the bill
  • Full story below the page break

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Handing over the environmental baton in Sammamish

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Nancy Whitten ends 12 years on the Sammamish City Council as its leading environmentalist.

With the year-end Sammamish City Council meeting last night, the end of an era comes with it.

Nancy Whitten ends 12 years on the Council. With her departure comes the loss of the Council’s most aggressive, consistent advocate for the environment. Others on the Council can legitimately lay claim to environmental credentials, but it’s Whitten and her lawyerly approach to documents who so often spotted loopholes, reversals and inconsistencies in ordinances and, more recently, in the rewrite of the City’s Comprehensive Plan.

Who’s going to be the leading environmentalist on the Council now that she is gone?

The answer may surprise you. It’s Bob Keller.

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Thanks and respect owed to Whitten, Vance as their terms wind down

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Two City Council Members will be leaving office on Dec. 31. Regardless of politics surrounding each,

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regardless of differences over policies and demeanor, each deserves the thanks of Sammamish residents for their willingness to step up and provide public service. Too few people are willing to do so.

Nancy Whitten decided to retire after three terms on the Council. She is unquestionably the leading environmentalist on the Council, and her interest in this arena predates her service on the Council and incorporation of Sammamish.

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