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Routine refunds add up to $180,000
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The impact of volunteers on police programs
BY GREG ALLMAIN
tra volunteers on board, the effectiveness of the camera system would increase beVolunteers raise the efyond what it’s already been fectiveness of several comable to do. munity programs through “The more operators the Federal Way Police we have, the less officers Department. we need to have out in the The department is lookfield, monitoring someing to add volunteers to thing,” Norman said. “It is its current 52-member a tough job. You’re in a team, helping with room, with a comanything from monitor. And QUALITY OF puter monitoring surveilyou can currently lance cameras and look at 36 different recording fingercameras, and you prints to recovering can look at multiple abandoned shopping cameras at the same time. carts and moving police If it’s one of those times decoy cars. where there’s nothing going on, they’re basically just SafeCity doing a cyber patrol.” SafeCity involves 36 cam“It’s a phenomenal eras throughout Federal resource to have, and unWay that monitor various fortunately, it’s underused,” areas of the city. Norman added. The program needs Fingerprints volunteers to operate the cameras and review footage The fingerprinting from the command center program is an excellent located in police headquarresource for community ters at City Hall. members to utilize, said FWPD commander Laurie Jackson, Federal Chris Norman said with ex[ more VOLUNTEER, page 10 ] BY GREG ALLMAIN
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Approximately 180 Federal Way residents and businesses received checks from the city in September, with amounts ranging from about $34 to more than $23,000. In total, Federal Way paid out approximately $188,000 in September, as part of a routine process for property mitigation projects that were unable to be completed by the city within a five-year time frame. Chris Carrel, spokesman for the city, said this is something that happens about once or twice a year, and is prompted mostly by the fact that the city itself often ends up being short of funding for these mitigation projects. “We collect transportation impact mitigation fees on a regular basis, and refund fees on a regular basis,” Carrel said. “The refunds happen one to two times a year, typically. We’re allowed to collect the fees for projects that are part of the city’s six-year Transportation Improvement Plan. If a project doesn’t go forward…there’s not enough money to fund the project, or any other reason, we have to refund the fees from the parties we collect [ more REFUND, page 10 ]
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OPINION | Roegner: Miloscia’s candidacy for auditor opens local political doors [4] Johnson: Laughing at blonde jokes [4]
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See a special tribute to Federal Way area veterans on page 11 in today’s Mirror. This Saturday is the annual “Honoring Our Own” event at Todd Beamer High School. Read the details on page 3. Pictured: Ken Crisp holds a photo from his World War II service days. Crisp lives at Village Green Retirement Campus, home to several veterans. ANDY HOBBS, The Mirror
Veterans Day: Special section inside
Sand sculpting championship seeks new location Organizer says event will return to FW in 2012 BY ANDY HOBBS editor@federalwaymirror.com
The annual sand sculpting championship is expected to return in 2012, likely at a new location in Federal Way. Nearly 11,000 people attended the 2011 Sand Sculpting Tour of Champions, which ran Aug. 18 to Sept. 5 at the former Toys ‘R’ Us parking lot on 20th Avenue South. As the city moves forward on plans for a performing arts and civic center at that site, organizers are searching for a permanent home.
“The idea is to keep it in the downtown core,” said John Hatcher, organizer and head of a nine-member Federal Way Community Council board. “We need to build on that window and make it one of our premier summer events. It’s kind of in a nice place on the calendar.” The World Championship of Sand Sculpting came to Federal Way in 2010 after spending nearly 20 years in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. Although this summer’s weather was more reliable, [ more SAND, page 10 ]
This year’s first place winner in the doubles competition at the Federal Way sand sculpting event was “A Beautiful Malady” by Susanne Ruseler and Fergus Mulvany. MIRROR FILE PHOTO