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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012
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Mayor presents his 2013-14 budget proposal to City Council Samantha Pak spak@redmond-reporter.com
Plenty of pumpkins and bubbles at Dr. Maze’s farm
Left, People stroll through Dr. Maze’s farm last weekend in Redmond to select pumpkins for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Right, farm employee Teresa Grimm enjoys herself while blowing bubbles for the visitors. The farm is located at 15410 N.E. 124th St. People can visit the farmyard to explore the four-acre Chicken Field Maze, take a hayride tour of the farm and mini-mazes and more. For more information, visit www.DrMazesFarm.com. Photos courtesy of Alyse Young
Friends of Youth brings the Landing to Redmond Together Center features full-service drop-in area, overnight emergency shelter Samantha Pak spak@redmond-reporter.com
After about a year of vacancy, the space that formerly housed the food bank at the Together Center, 16225 N.E. 87th St. in Redmond, is once again occupied and providing services for those ng Session! in need. The new tenant is Redmond-based Friends of Youth’s (FOY) full-service drop-in center and overnight emergency shelter, the Landing.
The 2,498-square-foot facility is a daytime drop-in center for homeless youth and young adults, and at night, it turns into a 15-bed overnight emergency shelter for homeless young adults ages 18-24. The Landing is fully staffed by trained professionals who work to help “The people you youth between the touch... (that can be) ages of 15 and 24 end a moment that can their homelessness and change their life.” move to safe and stable Congressman Dave Reichert housing. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday to celebrate the Landing’s opening, but the center has been up and running since Sept. 13.
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During Wednesday’s ceremony, FOY President and CEO Terry Pottmeyer spoke briefly to stress the need of such a facility on the Eastside. She told the full-house crowd that most people she encounters believe their clients cross the bridge from Seattle in seek of services. However, Pottmeyer said the majority of their clients have Eastside zip codes and find themselves on the street as a result of aging out of the foster system, escaping a difficult home life, the down economy or other factors. With the down economy, Pottmeyer said the demographic the Landing serves also faces the worst job market in decades. Some of their clients — they have worked with 2,527 so far this year — also deal [ more landing page 3 ]
City of Redmond Mayor John Marchione presented his proposal for the 2013-14 budget to City Council during Tuesday evening’s study session meeting. The new $581.5 million budget — which includes the city’s operations budget and capital fund — spans two years and is a slight increase from 2011-12, but City of Redmond Finance Director Mike Bailey said a better indicator of how the city is doing financially is to look at the number of city employees. From the 2011-12 budget to 2013-14 budget, the City of Redmond will have one less employee. Bailey said they did a bit of refocusing and after reducing hours for certain positions, employees leaving and one layoff, the city has added four positions and eliminated five. During his presentation to council, Marchione added, “We have reallocated resources from low demand in services to higher demand in services.” In creating the budget, the city used the Budgeting by Priorities (BP) process for the third time. According to the city website, citizen involvement is a large part of the BP process and city services are reconsidered through the prism of what citizens value most. The website states, “the final budget ‘buys’ only those services most valued by the citizens,” or what they consider priorities. Redmond’s six priorities, which were determined by citizens in the initial BP process in 2008, are infrastructure and
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