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Hospital district parliamentarian resigns over direction board taking on UW alliance BY DEAN A. RADFORD
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The former Renton District Court judge hired to bring some civility to the meetings of the Public Hospital District No. 1 Commission has resigned as commission parliamentarian. Robert McBeth was hired in October 2010, at a time when the two factions on the board were at “each other’s throats” and the meetings were becoming “uncivil,” as he described the
board relationships. “I was able to bring some order,” McBeth said Tuesday. His role was not to engage in debate, he said. McBeth’s tenure as board parliamentarian also included the several months that the five commissioners reviewed and then approved on a 3-2
vote a strategic alliance between Valley Medical Center and UW Medicine. The 3-2 vote reflected the two “factions,” the then-majority, Don Jacobson, Carolyn Parnell and Sue Bowman, and the minority vote, Dr. Aaron Heide and Anthony Hemstad. That majority changed following the November general election, when Jacobson was replaced by Dr. Paul Joos, who is now the presi[ more PARLIAMENTARIAN page 7 ]
Robert McBeth has resigned as parliamentarian for the hospital district board. File
Redevelopment of Sunset Terrace gets key approval BY DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
Terrell Dorsey, founder of Unleash the Brilliance, explains the importance of staying in school to students at a truancy prevention workshop in Renton recently. CHARLES CORTES, Renton Reporter
Bringing truant kids back to school BY TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
There was a time when Terrell Dorsey was too cool for school. He had personal issues coming up in school that he says changed the
adult quality of his life. Those issues led to his incarceration. “The point is that if you don’t protect your high school years, once you become an adult you’re not going to land any place safe,” Dorsey said. Now he is the founder of the group Unleash the Brilliance, which does presentations at truancy workshops offered by the King County Prosecutor’s Office. Dorsey and three youth, who have overcome or are working on their
issues around truancy, were in Renton recently for a regional workshop. Truancy workshops are really programs of drop-out prevention, said Dan Satterberg, King County prosecuting attorney, in an interview. “We know that in the state prison system that three out of four inmates in our prison system were high-school dropouts,” he said. “Seventy-five percent, that’s a really telling statistic [ more TRUANCY page 8]
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The Renton Housing Authority has received a key federal approval that will move forward the massive redevelopment of its Sunset Terrace public housing complex in the Highlands. The approval by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allows the housing authority to tear down four of the Sunset Terrace’s 26 buildings. It’s the first phase of a redevelopment that could take up to 10 years to complete. The area around Sunset Terrace on Sunset Boulevard centered on Harrington Avenue will look much differently than it does today, with new retail, hundreds of new market-rate apartments and a new library in a pedestrian-friendly environment. Replaced will be the 100 units of housing in the 26 buildings on the seven-acre campus, which for more than 50 years have served their purpose as low-income housing. Infrastructure, such as water, gas and sewer lines, is showing its age, said Mark Gropper, the housing authority’s executive director. The units themselves are “not particularly well-constructed,” he said. It’s not unusual to have to cut in half the box spring of a queen-sized bed, then reassemble it in a bedroom.