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737 sales in billions at show BY DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
Three days into the 2012 Farnborough Airshow outside London, the Boeing Co. sold billions of dollars worth of Rentonbuilt 737s. And on Tuesday the 737 program general manager announced more progress on the design of the 737 MAX that significantly extends the plane’s range. “We continue to make steady progress toward our development goals,” said Beverly Wyse, vice president and general manager of the 737 program. “We are able to firm up our maximum takeoff weight projections, which allow us to confirm that the 737 MAX will fly farther and offer more revenue potential than its predeces-
GE Capital Aviation Services, the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of General Electric, has committed to purchase 100 737s, in a deal worth about $9 billion at list prices. Boeing sor and its future competitor.” The 737 MAX will extend the NextGeneration 737 range advantage. The 737
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Fireworks lit up the night sky over Lake Washington on the Fourth of July as Renton marked a safe and fun holiday. For more on the Fourth, please see page 9. BRUCE HUDSON, For the
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Proposition 1 on Aug. 7 ballot Renton residents will decide on Aug. 7 where to locate the downtown Renton library. The choices are the existing library over the Cedar River or a new one at the Piazza in downtown Renton. The King County Elections Division will mail ballots on Wednesday, July 18. The return envelopes must be postmarked no later than Aug. 7. For election information online, visit kingcounty.gov.
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KCLS letter challenged At least three complaints have been filed with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission about a letter the King County Library System has sent to Renton residents explaining the results of a new study that outlines what needs to be done to upgrade the existing library over the Cedar River. Page 3 Letter writers weigh in Opinions are flowing about the better location for a downtown Renton library. Page 6
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today the Renton Reporter begins a series of articles on the Aug. 7 vote to decide the location of a new downtown library. Today’s article is designed to bring everyone up to speed on the issue. There is a timeline on page 7. BY TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
An issue once thought settled is now before Renton voters again: the location of a downtown library. To say the least, this matter has struck a chord and divided the community. The idea of relocating the downtown library from its scenic perch over the Cedar River is unimaginable to some who’ve voiced their opinions at City Hall or signed their support on an initiative to stop the move to the Piazza. Conversely, it has been touted by some City of Renton officials and business owners as a way to revitalize the business district and
Supporters of keeping the downtown library over the Cedar River made their feelings known about voting on the issue outside City Hall prior to a Renton City Council meeting in April. DEAN A. RADFORD, Renton Reporter heart of the city. Looking at the timeline of events inside today’s Renton Reporter it may appear jarring as to how the city wound up here, with an Aug. 7 election vote to determine the site of the downtown library.
This is after the City Council had already put into motion plans to relocate the downtown library to a site west of the Piazza. After all, in 2008 a Renton Library Master Plan recommended that Renton’s library system stay independent, while still uphold-
ing a borrowing agreement with KCLS. Contrast that to February 2010, when the city held an election for voters to decide whether the city should annex to KCLS and turn over their beloved libraries to the system. What perpetuated the change in direction? The answer, in summary, was that the library issue had reached a crossroad where Renton residents had to decide between annexing to KCLS or passing a levy to upgrade its library services. The city of Renton could no longer afford its libraries. The vote was close – just a 53vote difference – and ultimately Renton annexed into KCLS. That move attracted attention later as critics said it was not clear that KCLS would build new libraries, at Renton’s expense, for the Highlands and downtown branches. As the City Council voted to issue $18 million bonds to pay [ more LIBRARY page 8 ]
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Renate Beedon filed a complaint Tuesday with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission against the King County Library System, claiming the library system over-stepped its bounds by mailing a letter about the upcoming Aug. 7 library vote. The Public Disclosure Commission has received two similar complaints about this issue, said Lori Anderson, a PDC spokeswoman. “We are in the process of deciding whether to investigate,” she said, which will take a week to two weeks. “Public agencies can inform their constituents about ballot measures, but it has to be done in a balanced way without supporting or opposing the measure,” she said. Beedon and her husband Dave became upset after talking with some friends and neighbors about a letter they received from KCLS about Proposition 1 that asks voters to decide where a new downtown library should be located. “She and I both feel that he (Bill Ptacek, KCLS director) has no business telling Renton voters about
this in advance of an election,” said Dave Beedon. Both of the Beedons felt the letter was an unfair attempt by KCLS to influence voters into choosing the site west of the Piazza for the new downtown library. The letter sent out by KCLS gave background information on the downtown Renton library renovation and ballot measure to select a site location. In it, KCLS defines the interlocal agreement between KCLS and the City of Renton. It informs readers that the City of Renton has already spent nearly $1 million on the property acquisition and design since selecting the site west of the Piazza. The letter goes on to detail why it is more expensive, and more complicated to build the library at the site over the Cedar River. “The letter from KCLS in my opinion was wrongfully paid by public money,” said Renate Beedon. The letter went to about 43,000 households in Renton and cost $6,800 total for mail preparation and postage. KCLS gives letter recipients a summary of the situation stating, “Site selection and construction
costs remain the responsibility of the City of Renton,” wrote Bill Ptacek, KCLS director. “We understand that the increased cost for construction at the site over the Cedar River is in excess of the City’s budgeted amount.” Julie Brand, a KCLS spokesperson, Julie Brand maintains the system has not “taken a position on the ballot measure and has only distributed information that is relevant to building a library to KCLS standards.” The letter was reviewed by KCLS’ attorneys to ensure compliance with Public Disclosure Commission guidelines, according to Brand. Brand quotes Public Disclosure guidelines to say “It is not only the right, but the responsibility of local government to inform the general public of the operational and maintenance issues facing issues. This includes informing the community of the needs of the agency that the community may not realize exist. Local governments may expend funds for this purpose provided that the preparation and distribution of information is not for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election.” She uses that explanation in
an email to say that it is KCLS’s responsibility to distribute factual information that is relevant to the operation of the library system. Dave Beedon called the letter “at least in poor taste, a waste of money and maybe even illegal.” He found it interesting that Ptacek mentioned the costs involved in renovating the downtown library considering the fact that he is a government employee and, in Dave’s opinion, shouldn’t be concerned with how much it would cost to renovate the library at its current location. Rosemary Quesenberry of Renton also received the letter and decided to file a complaint with the Public Disclosure Commission on Tuesday. “I feel that as strapped as the budget is, this probably isn’t the best way to spend our dollars,” she said. Quesenberry found fault in KCLS hiring Miller-Hull Architects, the firm already working on the project, to do an “in-depth investigation of potential construction scheduling and cost considerations,” the letter reads.
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Letters to editor What’s the best site for the library? The one over the Cedar River Regardless if the library moves or not, taxpayers will pay for refurbishing the building over the Cedar River. Note the allotted $20 Million total budget in the Big 5 expenditure statement (http://scr.bi/HeMUmI). Cost will be more or less a wash. So the question depends not on will the move save money or not, or develop business downtown, or appease KCLS. The voting question remains: Which location do voters believe best suited for a library? Cedar River or the Piazza? For me, it makes better sense for a learning environment to overlap with parks and play especially for youth, families, and senior adults. The only caveat being voter choice (1) and questions of access (2). Now that voters can finally contribute their two cents thanks to the petition group, I encourage full disclosure on part of the city, including a response to KCLS spending tax dollars to fund a campaign mailer. On KCLS I recommend making positions elected instead of appointed. That agency lacks oversight. As for the city, I appreciate and will vote for city officials who respect voter choice and be transparent in how they opt to influence either campaign.
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Key question: Can we trust city officials to repurpose existing downtown library? We recently received a letter from the King County Library System (KCLS) regarding the Cedar River ballot measure, Proposition 1, that the citizens of Renton will be voting on come August 7th. First, I confess, I do not trust anything from King County; my experience has been that the county executives are more self-serving than community serving. Consequently, I find myself wondering why the KCLS is getting involved in a city matter, other than their opposition of the proposed renovation of a unique building that is an integral part of the historic Renton Downtown. I also confess, that until I received the KCLS letter and did some research, I did not know the source of the Cedar River Library ballot proposal. Thanks to www.rentonreporter.com, I am now aware that the proposal is the work of a group of Renton citizens who oppose the City of Renton’s plan to repurpose the Cedar River Library building to serve as an environmental interpretive center. Proposition 1 appears on the surface to be about whether we want to preserve an historic
building as a library in the presence of a flowing body of water and the inherent risk of flooding, or do we want a brand new building in the Piazza, that presumably also stands in an historic floodplain, at less expense and greater convenience. According to KCLS and their Miller-Hull study, the cost for the Cedar River Library building renovation will be approximately one-third greater than the estimates of the City of Renton. Again, having experienced opposing estimates, I do not necessarily trust King County. The KCLS also “promises” that the permitting process will be much more challenging than expected by the City of Renton. The real question before the citizens of Renton appears to be: do we as its citizens trust the city executives to ensure that the proposed repurposing of the Cedar River library building to an environmental intrepretive center will be and remain a viable educational resource that is lively and active for our children and future citizens. The unique siting of the Cedar River library should not be wasted. If the proposed environmental interpretive center is little more than a warehousing of an elderly, inconvenient relative, then I would oppose the city’s plans and vote for retaining the Cedar River library and accept the risk of the increased expense. The grand old lady deserves nothing less.
Michael and Vicki Stearns Renton
Let’s not destroy the best thing ever in the city, the library over the river I was quite taken aback with the two Letters to the Editor that appeared in the June 29, 2012, Renton Reporter – amazed with some of the statements that completely overlooked the truth of the positive aspects of our present Cedar River library location. In Mr. Dineen’s letter, he states
that the “new” site (west of the Piazza) would have better parking than our present Cedar River location. Huh? I wonder if Mr. Dineen has gone down and counted the parking spaces at our present library site, as I have. If he had, he would have found 65 parking spaces right next to our present library. Besides these spaces, there’s overflow parking available immediately next door to our library in front of the former Renton City Hall. You can’t beat this convenience no matter how anyone wants to spin the facts. I can’t think of a mother or other child-concerned person wanting to park in the parking garage, if need be, and walking their children two or three blocks to go to the library, when all they have to do, is park next to our current library and walk the short distance to enter the library. Our remodeled library over the Cedar River WILL BE a state-of-the-art edifice and we all will delight in the new updated version of our present library, when it is completed, and code-compliant. It will be worth the wait to save this most wonderful site for our library. Not many people know that the C-span media bus visited Renton in April 2011 – and parked in the parking lot at our Cedar River Library-Renton specifically chosen BECAUSE we have this “only one in the country” library built over a river. Now that’s an accolade for our city that no other can claim. Finally, we who desire the Cedar River Library for the location of our new library, DO want the downtown business core to prosper and thrive. But, giving up the best location for our library is not the way to do it. An arts center has been suggested for the old Big Five site--the creative energy that such an entity would bring to the downtown, would definitely be a draw for people to come to the downtown core, and enjoy something extraordinary and stimulating for Rentonites. But let’s not destroy the best thing we ever had – this gem of the Cedar River Library.
Judy Tabak Renton
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Proposition 1: Where to locate a new downtown library
A library timeline: April 17, 1966-Aug. 7, 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE: Reporter Tracey Compton compiled this timeline to help spell out the history of the three-year effort to build a new library downtown. April 17, 1966: Grand opening of the downtown Renton Library over the Cedar River. November 2008: The Renton Library Master Plan is developed with recommendations to “maintain an independent municipal library with improvements in service levels and facilities through expanded expenditure authority and continuing reciprocal borrowing agreement with the King County Library System (KCLS).”
The library over the Cedar River is much beloved by Renton residents for its scenic perch. renton reporter fILE PHOTO
The former Big 5 site, west of the Piazza, was the location selected and purchased by the City of Renton for the new downtown Renton Library. renton reporter fILE PHOTO
Francine Siverts and Marvin Rosete of the Liberty Park Building Steering Committee brainstorm new uses for the downtown library building. renton reporter fILE PHOTO
Stuart Avery, spokesperson for the Citizens for the Preservation of the Cedar River Library, protests outside of city hall with other supporters. renton reporter fILE PHOTO
July - Sept. 2010: City of Renton staff and consultants evaluate sites.
The group has until March 12 to submit additional signatures.
July 2009: City Council adopts an inter local agreement with KCLS. The inter local agreement clarifies who is going to do what as plans move forward to construct a new downtown library and a new Highlands library. Aug. 3, 2009: City Council votes 6-1 to place annexation to KCLS on the February 2010 ballot. Council member Marcie Palmer cast the lone no vote. January 2010: The voters pamphlet for the February 2010 election is out. The pamphlet states that “Renton would provide two replacement library facilities to be paid for at a future date by City of Renton funds” in explaining what would happen should Renton annex into KCLS. Feb. 9, 2010: Renton residents vote on annexing to the KCLS. Feb. 24, 2010: The special election is certified with 6,395 residents or 50.2 percent voting for annexation and 6,342 residents or 49.7 percent voting against annexation into KCLS. March 2010: KCLS begins providing service in Renton libraries. May 2010: Downtown library hosts an open house to showcase new digital players, audio books, meeting rooms and signs as part of inclusion into KCLS. June 2010: The City of Renton commissions a site feasibility study to analyze alternative locations for the downtown and Highlands branch libraries. The study examined the existing location, the Pavilion building site, the Big 5/Roxy theater building and the former McLendon Hardware site for a downtown library. The Highlands branch study examined the Sunset Terrace site, Sunset and Harrington site, Dalpay site, and the Ribera site.
Oct. - Nov. 2010: City Council receives two briefings in executive session on potential property acquisition. March 21, 2011: City Council approves purchase and sale agreement for the former Big 5 Sporting Goods store site for the new downtown library. The property costs $525,000. May 2, 2011: The City Council chamber is packed as council members weigh whether to issue $18 million in bonds to pay for downtown and Highlands branch construction. June 13, 2011: Big 5 property purchase scheduled to close. June 20, 2011: The City Council votes 4-3 to issue $18 million bonds to pay for the construction of the Highlands and downtown libraries. Council members Terri Briere, Rich Zwicker, Don Persson and King Parker voted to issue the bonds. Greg Taylor, Randy Corman and Marcie Palmer voted against the bonds. July 2011: City enters into a new agreement with KCLS, which obligates
the City of Renton to fund the site acquisition, design, construction and other related costs for both the Highlands and downtown library facilities. July 5, 2011: City seeks residents interested in participating in a Liberty Park Library Building Steering Committee to determine the new use for the downtown library. September 2011: The grassroots effort begins to organize to save the library over the Cedar River. A group calling itself Citizens for the Preservation of the Cedar River Library begins to gather signatures for an initiative to stop the move to the Piazza, the former Big 5 site. Sept. 28, 2011: First meeting of the Liberty Park Building Steering Committee. It would go on to meet in 10, two-hour meetings until March 2012. February 2012: Citizens for the Cedar River Library submit signatures to Bonnie Walton, Renton city clerk, for an initiative to stop the move of the downtown library to the Piazza. March 2, 2012: City clerk notifies citizens group they are short 1,442 signatures to validate the initiative.
March 2012: King County Elections Office validates 6,383 signatures, enough to get the citizens’ initiative before the City Council for them to review and vote on it. March 2012: City Attorney Larry Warren issues a memo to Mayor Denis Law and City Council members where he “opined that the library initiative would require an unconstitutional impairment of the contract with KCLS, and an improper collateral attack on the February annexation election.” April 2, 2012: City Council votes against putting the citizens group initiative on a ballot in a 4-3 vote. Council members Rich Zwicker, Terri Briere, Ed Prince and Don Persson voted against adopting the initiative. Palmer, Corman and Taylor voted for the initiative. April 6, 2012: City Council officials and staff continue to work on options that would give the public some role in selecting the location of a downtown library. The talks continue for about a week. April 16, 2012: Liberty Park Library
Building Steering Committee presents recommendations to the City Council. Building could become an environmental interpretive center. April 16, 2012: Renton City Council votes to put the site selection for the downtown library before residents on the Aug. 7 ballot. The language for the ballot was created by Assistant City Attorney Zanetta Fontes with much deliberation among City Council members. The vote is unanimous. May 2012: The Citizens for the Preservation of the Cedar River Library officially register with the Public Disclosure Commission as the Citizens for the Cedar River Library. Their mission is to promote the “over the Cedar River” location choice on Proposition 1 measure on the Aug. 7 ballot. June 28, 2012: People for the Piazza Park Library hold their kick-off meeting. Their mission is to secure the site west of the Piazza, as the new downtown library location. Aug. 7, 2012: Renton residents will vote between the Piazza site, and the current location over the Cedar River for the new construction of a downtown library.
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validated but not adopted by City Council; but the group’s efforts were rewarded when the council took another look at the issue. Explaining that the public should have a say in where the downtown library is located, the City Council voted unanimously to put the site selection on the Aug. 7 election ballot. In the meantime, the City of Renton has invested $1 million on property acquisition and design work since selecting the site west of the Piazza. KCLS has not stopped work to design the new library at the Piazza.
for construction of the Highlands and downtown libraries, opposition mounted. Each council meeting on the downtown library was increasingly filled with those for and against the relocation of the library over the Cedar River. The grassroots effort, called the Citizens for the Preservation of the Cedar River Library, came to a head when it started collecting signatures for a ballot measure to halt the process. Ultimately, theBTS initiative was 1 Page: N/A 120715_CL_KC ROP Version: PC: Leanne/Lisa R.
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www.rentonreporter.com doesn’t reimburse for expenses until after the first month. My 10-year-old son has a lot of sweat pants and Rose was 3.” I thought that was a sensible idea. Both Lori and her husband work for non-profit organizations. “It doesn’t pay very well but we know we’re doing good.” However, C was a size 16 and D was wearing 5T so they each needed a set of clothes. “And both the girls had issues surrounding food. The very small reimbursement rate provided by the state doesn’t even begin to cover the basic expenses of food and shelter, let alone provide funds for clothing, books, toys, and enrichment activities.” On a limited budget themselves and with very little financial help from the state, the Purs- Lori Church-Pursley, left, has started a ley’s felt overwhelmed. Sibling House in Renton. With her are her Lori and her husband kids, Liam and Rose Pursley, and Carolyn Ossorio, with her children, Ty, Patrick and turned to Lynne and Michael Gaskill, found- Sophie, and Jake the dog. carolyn ossorio ers of the Sibling House in Kirkland. “Lynn and Michael provided us with bunk beds, clothing, and diapers.” After Lori’s family fostered C and D for four months the state located a second cousin willing to take the girls. “Having them and letting them go was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Emotionally and financially.” That experience was the catalyst for the Pursleys to clean out their garage and start a Sibling House Branch in Renton to help other families willing to take siblings instead of splintering families in the foster care system. “There are a lot of foster homes in Tukwila, Renton and Kent. The 98058 area code in Renton is in the top three areas
in this entire region for the largest number of kids removed from homes due to neglect. Through our efforts with this new Sibling House branch in Renton we can provide clothing, food, toys, books and personal care items. The main site in Kirkland has all this plus furniture.” “What happened to the girls?” my 12-year-old daughter Sophie asked? “Foster parents are not supposed to see parents. But we were told to take the girls to the DSHS office in Kent. The girl’s mother was there with the second cousin who would foster the girls somewhere over on the Peninsula. It was heartbreaking; C and D didn’t want to go with them.” The Pursley’s kept in contact with the mother for a while to receive information as to how the girls were doing. But eventually due to a strained relationship lost contact. “Where does this drive to help people come from?” I asked. “Were you ever in foster care?” “My parents were the type of people who would give you the shirt of their backs. They were leaders in the community. I often wonder why I am so drawn to helping people. I guess I’m just touched by how so many kids are growing up in such cruddy circumstances,” Lori said. It was quiet when we got into the car. “That story with those girls was so sad.” Sophie said. “Yes. It is. But we’re going to help collect donations for them and that is something we can do right now to help,” I said. The Pursley’s branch of Sibling House opened this past April. They are actively seeking donations. They can be reached by email at lorichurch22@gmail.com My daughter Sophie’s Girl Scout troop will be collecting donations for Sibling House at the Renton Farmers Market this Tuesday, July 17, from 3-7 p.m. The troop will also be passing out a healthy snack recipe cookbooks for kids printed by PIP Printing in downtown Renton. So stop by make a donation and enjoy a healthy snack made by local girl scouts!
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Fourth time’s the charm Renton’s Aretha Thurmond qualified for her fourth Olympic Games in June By ADAM McFADDEN amcfadden@rentonreporter.com
Another Olympic Trials, another Olympic berth for Renton native Aretha Thurmond. Thurmond qualified for her fourth Olympic games by taking second at the Olympic Trials June 24. “After it was over I felt a little more relieved because this is the world’s hardest team to make,” Thurmond said. “You want to spend the whole year training for the Olympics, but you have to get through the Trials first.” Her throw of 62.23 meters at the trials was short only of Stephanie Brown Trafton’s 65.18 meters. Brown Trafton won the gold medal in Beijing four years ago. “It was good, nice and consistent,” she said. “We had a game plan going in and it was just about going out and executing the technique. This wasn’t my first time.” Even after qualifying for her fourth games, Thurmond isn’t able to sit back and enjoy the moment. There’s still work to be done. “I don’t think it’s really sunk in yet only because I’m still in work mode,” she said. “I need to stay hungry and keep training. I’ll have time to celebrate the Trials after the Olympics.” Thurmond attended Renton High School and won state discus titles in 1992, 1993 and 1994. She also won a shot put title in 1994. She still holds the state meet record in discus. She went on to attend the University of Washington, where she was a four-time All-American, and two-time Pac-10 champion. She set the American Collegiate discus record of 215 feet, three inches in 1998. Thurmond is the 16th U.S. woman to make four Olympics in track and field. She made the
Aretha Thurmond competes in the discus in 2008. errol anderson games in 1996, 2004 and 2008. She missed the Sydney games in 2000 by one spot. She won gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1999 and 2003. Thurmond’s best finish at an Olympics is 19th, in 2004. Thurmond will turn 36 less than two weeks after the Olympics, but she hasn’t made any plans for London to be her last go around. “As long as I can stay competitive, I’ll keep throwing,” she said. “Right now, I’m competitive. I’m not going to put a clock on myself. After the first team, I didn’t know if there would be a
second team. I’m just very blessed and fortunate to be going to a fourth Olympics.” Thurmond lives in Auburn, Ala., where she trains full time. She still stays in contact with her friends and family in the Northwest, calling them her “extended family.” Keith Eager, her coach at Renton High, and his wife made the trip to Oregon to watch Thurmond qualify at the Olympic Trials. The qualifying round of the women’s discus throw is Aug. 3 at 11:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. The final round is Aug. 4 at 11:30 a.m.
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