The County Council votes to take over City Hall Park, the City Council votes to set an end-date for hazard pay for grocery workers, and more.
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Kevin Schofield is a freelance writer and the founder of Seattle City Council Insight, a web site providing independent news and analysis of the Seattle City Council.
After graduating from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he worked for Microsoft Corporation for 26 years. That culminated in a term as Chief Operations Officer for Microsoft Research, the division of the company focused on advancing the state of the art in computing. Upon leaving Microsoft in 2014 he decided to embrace his love of writing.
Kevin volunteers at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, where he also serves on the Board of Directors. He is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.
Beyond writing, his personal passions are his twin daughters, photography, cooking, and playing the guitar. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Tuesday news roundup
Mayor-elect Harrell announced his first cabinet appointments, and more.
Continue readingNotes from Monday’s Council meetings
Today was the last Council Briefing and full City Council meeting for the year — and also the last ones for Council President Gonzalez to chair. This afternoon’s meeting had forty agenda items, and went nearly four hours as the Council wrapped up its work for the year.
Continue readingMonday news roundup
A very quiet start to the Council’s last week before its December recess — though be prepared for a little bit of white stuff falling this week.
Continue readingThis week in Council Chamber: the wrap-up
It’s the last week of Council meetings for the year. Expect a long Monday afternoon meeting as the Council pushes its final bills out the door.
Continue readingCouncil and City Attorney-elect get off to a rocky start, with diversion programs center stage
This week the relationship between the City Council and City Attorney-elect Ann Davison started out on the wrong foot, as the Council rushed a bill through to address its fears that Davison won’t embrace pre-filing diversion programs.
Continue readingFriday news roundup
More on the Sawant recall election, plus a smattering of other topics.
Continue readingThursday news roundup
Get ready for another big weather system headed our way tomorrow. Here’s the news.
Continue readingCouncil votes out of committee some changes to its operating rules
Following up last week’s discussion of some proposed changes to the City Council’s rules and operating procedures, this afternoon in a four-hour marathon session the Council’s governance committee deliberated on fifteen additional amendments and advanced the new rules on to the full Council for final adoption next Monday. It was a mixed bag: some minor technical amendments, three substantial changes (with two IOUs for future work), and a handful of failed attempts to address well-known annoyances.
Continue readingWednesday news roundup
There’s a fair amount of news this morning, but the Sawant recall election dominates the headlines as we wait for more definitive results.
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