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Keeping the greens watered is important, but it’s being cut back on other areas of the course.
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MARYSVILLE – Tulalip Tribal Chairman Mel Sheldon, among other things, talked about the sales taxes the tribes send to Olympia each year, without getting any back, June 26 at a business breakfast. Each year, through sales taxes at Quil Ceda Village, the tribe generates up to $50 million, he said. None comes back to offset costs of running the business park. That is why the tribes has filed a suit against the state and Snohomish County to get some of that money back.
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MARYSVILLE – Green is still good when it comes to golf courses, but it’s also OK to be brown. Cedarcrest Golf Course in Marysville is finally in the green when it comes to making money. The management company Premier Golf Centers took over the course in March and quickly has turned the city course around financially. But it’s also OK for a course to be brown. “Brown is the new green,” Premier director of operations Matt Amundsen said at the City Council meeting June 22. That was even evident at the U.S. Open last weekend. Water is expensive, so con-
serving it and having some brown areas is acceptable in golf now. “We have the fastest greens in Snohomish County – and true,” said Shane Day, the new pro at Cedarcrest who spent 11 years as the assistant pro at Legion in Everett. Premier has done many things besides cutting back on watering to turn the course around. It has a central booking area online, so if a nearby course such as Legion doesn’t have a tee time someone wants, they can come here. Because they manage 13 Puget Sound courses, Premier can buy in bulk and even share
Mel Sheldon He also talked about how the tribes have given more than $63 million to charities, police, courts, homeless shelters, food programs, theater groups, other tribes and more through its Community Charitable Donations program. “We are honored to share SEE TRIBE, PAGE 2
MARYSVILLE – Imagine a waterfront and downtown with condominium and apartment buildings up to eight stories high. On the first floor would be small shops and boutiques; a brewery; some other pubs; restaurants, one maybe even being high end. Never happen here? Think again. Some were saying that in Everett just a decade ago, and now it has many. About two dozen people listened to consultant Alan Steinbeck talk about development at a public meeting at City Hall June 25. City officials were to meet June 26 all day to discuss the future of downtown and ways to develop it.
Steinbeck said this type of development is good for the environment because people can live near where they play, reducing air pollution by cutting back on driving. “It improves quality of life,” he said. City Administrative Officer Gloria Hirashima said the city has received $400,000 in grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and $200,000 from the Department of Ecology as a distressed community to clean up the waterfront and downtown. Public Works has received $2 million for other projects. “We’ve got some cool projects in the works. It just takes a lot of time,” Hirashima said. A lot already has been done. Police and code enforcement
have reduced crime in the area 80 percent, she said. The Spray Park has brought families to Comeford Park. A new store and bank have cleaned up 4th and State. Third Street has been rebuilt with a historic look. And the city has leased the Opera House to try to bring in more arts. “It’s a well-rounded approach” for different interests downtown, Hirashima said. But “when’s it gonna happen? We see everything, and we want to fix it. We sound like whiners because we want it to happen faster.” Steinbeck said it likely won’t happen faster. It takes time. But getting a project SEE PLAN, PAGE 2
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