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VOL. 16, NO. 38
MIRROR
F E D E R A L WAY
DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING
OPINION | ROEGNER: Q&A: Views on Weyerhaeuser, PACC, mayor and more [4]
CITY | Mayor announces new city clerk [2] POLICE | Man shot twice in Federal Way; police searching for suspect [15]
Sports | TJ quarterback FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 | 75¢ succeeds at Idaho State [12]
Council authorizes $221,000 for Public Health Center
Planning Commission recommends ban on pot businesses FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Federal Way Planning Commission met on Wednesday to hear city staff recommendation on whether marijuana-related businesses should be allowed in certain zones. Senior Planner Janet Shull presented to the commission that marijuana retail businesses be allowed in the Community Business and Commercial Enterprise zoning districts, while marijuana processing and production facilities only set up shop in the Commercial Enterprise zones. In all cases, marijuanarelated businesses would be subject to state separation requirements that specify marijuana-related businesses be located at least 1,000 feet from sensitive land uses, which include daycares, schools, playgrounds, parks, recreation facilities, public transit centers, libraries or game arcades. City officials said no one spoke at the public hearing but a citizen submitted a letter on behalf of a marijuana retail license applicant. The letter encouraged the commission to approve the proposed regulations. However, the commission voted 5:1 to ban all recreational marijuana businesses in Federal Way. The Mirror will update this report in a future newspaper edition as more information becomes available.
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FORUM | Can Ferguson happen here? County leaders, residents sound off on race, law enforcement [16]
BY RAECHEL DAWSON rdawson@fedwaymirror.com
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Fitness FUNdamentals
Tina Pomeromtz, 25, (left) works out on a recent Wednesday during the Fitness FUNdamentals class at the Federal Way Community Center. The class is part of the city of Federal Way’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services department’s Inclusion Programs, which provide an opportunity for people with and without disabilities to participate together. For the full story, see page 10. CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, the Mirror
he Federal Way City Council received a standing ovation at Tuesday’s council meeting after they unanimously voted to spend $221,000 toward the Federal Way Public Health Center’s operating costs for 2015. Seattle-King County Public Health officials announced back in spring that four health clinics, Federal Way and Auburn centers included, could close in 2015 because of a lack of state and federal funding. The funding gap to keep the Federal Way clinic open is about $1.5 million in
the county’s biennial budget, or $750,000 a year. Council voted on the one-time expenditure — which will cover 30 percent of the operating costs to keep the Federal Way center open another year — with a tentative deal that King County will cover the remaining 70 percent, pending labor agreements, said Mayor Jim Ferrell earlier this week. Several community members, said to be nurses in Public Health, attended the meeting and thanked the Council for their efforts. Hanna Welander said [ more HEALTH, page 8 ]
Former school board member sentenced for stealing tires truck tires from Portlandbased GCR Tires in 2011. Moore was ordered to Former Federal Way serve the first 90 days in school board member prison and Tony Moore the second was sentenced “He’s a good person 90 days nonto six months and because what consecuof prison time tively before with five years came out in trial Dec. 1, 2015. probation for was he’s a good He will be each count on ordered to Tuesday at the person, he could not pay restituMultnomah have done this but tion at a County hearwe know from the later Courthouse ing. in Portland, The trial that he in fact Oregon. GCR Tire’s Moore was did do this.” manager adfound guilty Dennis Shen dressed the of seven court before counts of Moore was felony theft sentenced, stating he sufon April 18 after a grand fered from the crime that jury determined he stole occurred on his business. $150,000 worth of semi“This act, the crime that BY RAECHEL DAWSON
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I believe occurred, caused me so much mental and physical pain,” the manager said. He said he had a good working relationship with Moore but felt he was personally attacked during the trial, as he said accusations were falsely made against him. Dennis Shen, the Multnomah County deputy district attorney, recommended Judge Thomas M. Ryan give Moore 76 months of prison time with 60 months of formal probation. Shen said that it shouldn’t be ignored that because Moore was a seemingly good person, that he did not commit the crimes. “When I look back on
Former Federal Way Public Schools board president Tony Moore hugs his wife after an Oregon judge sentenced him to six months in prison, at the Multnomah County Courthouse on Tuesday. GREG ALLMAIN, the Mirror the trial … it seems like the underlying crux of the defense … is he’s a good person and somehow because of that, he deserves preferential treatment,” Shen said. “He’s a good
person and because what came out in trial was he’s a good person, he could not have done this but we know from the trial that he in fact did do this.” [ more TIRES, page 3 ]
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