INSIDE: July thunderstorm leads to new North Tapps gym, Page 3 . . . . Bonney Lake extends moratorium on medical marijuana gardens, Page 4. . . . Bonney Lake in line for multi-million dollar road improvement fund, Page 8. . . . Spartan girls soccer dominates first-week conference play, Page 11. . . . Lit summit Sept. 29, Page 12
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Buckley councilman pleads guilty to child rape
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By Kevin Hanson Senior Writer
Buckley’s Randy Reed now awaits sentencing, having offered a guilty plea last week to charges of firstdegree rape of a child and indecent liberties. Reed, 55, offered the guilty plea Thursday, one day after resigning from his post on the Buckley City Council. He served on the council for the better part of two decades and had recently returned to council and committee meetings; he had been granted a leave of absence after being charged in Pierce County Superior Court. Reed is to be sentenced Oct. 26 as a first-time offender. Prosecutors are recommending a sentence ranging from 10 years, 11 months to life in prison, with all but 12 months suspended. If a judge goes along with the recommendation, Reed would serve his year behind bars in the Pierce County jail, then be at the mercy of the state’s
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More than 675 people turned out for the Ninth annual Beautify Bonney Lake event Saturday, which cleaned up common areas and parks atmore than 22 locations around the city. Left, Pam and Steve Jones plant a tree at Ascent Park in memory of their son Jayson who died in February. Right, members of the Fourth Battalion 160th Airborne regiment helped install a sign at the site of the future Veteran’s Memorial.
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Bonney Lake may add fee to pay for Eastown sewers By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
Though they voted down the Utility Latecomers Agreement with the Eastown landowners, the Bonney Lake City Council is still pursuing new avenues to get sewer lines in the ground to try and spur development. The city is researching a new funding method that would involve
adding additional fees to developers in Eastown on top of the sewer system development charges in an attempt to recoup the investment of paying for the pipes. “What we’re looking at … is imposing a surcharge to accomplish the same thing (as the ULA),” City Administrator Don Morrison said. The issue was discussed recently at the council and in the finance
committee and Morrison said the method appears legal, but there is no precedent in Bonney Lake on how to implement such as There are still some questions, however, as to how the additional charges would work because SDCs are based on equivalency dwelling units and not land size, as the agreement with the landowner corporation was. Under the ULA, the city would
have partnered with the landowner corporation to fund the project and was designed so the city and the investors would recoup their money as developers connected to the system. Morrison said the new method would be similar, without the ini-
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