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Red-light violations at photo enforced spots decline By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Violations at red-light., photoenforced intersections and school zones continue to drop, according to the Auburn Police Department’s latest report card on the
program, “Photosafe Auburn, Third Quarter Report, Jan.-Sept. 2008 through 2012.” “Good, positive results,” Bill Peloza, chairman of the Municipal Services Committee, said Monday after learning about the latest numbers on the program.
The City spends about $180,000 every year to Arizona-based vendor RedFlex Traffic Systems to keep it going and is now spending more money than it’s taking in. The City launched the program on June 30, 2006 at two intersections: Auburn Way South and 4th
Street Southeast; and Auburn Way South and M Street Southeast. It added Harvey Road and 8th Street in December of that year. Today the program also numbers school zone safety cameras for Mt. Baker Middle School and in the school safety zones of Chi-
nook, Dick Scobee, Lea Hill and Arthur Jacobsen elementaries. The data show that over the third quarters of the years 20082012, the percentage of red-light violations, that is, the total [ more VIOLATIONS page 9 ]
City works out details on pet licensing By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
When the Auburn Valley Humane Society opens its shelter on A Street Southeast Jan. 1 and the City’s own animal control officer is on board, King County Animal Control’s service ends for Auburn residents. On that day PetData, the City’s vendor for animal licensing services, begins collecting pet license fees to help cover the cost of shelter operations, per the City’s contract with AVHS. As King County will no longer provide animal control services to Auburn residents after Dec. 31, Jan. 1 is also the day the once-a-year pet licensing fees Auburn residents have paid King County at some point over the last 12 months stop corresponding to a county license.
Brothers and artists Rolf and Peter Goetzinger transformed a 120-foot tall Muckleshoot Tribe water tank into beautiful public art. The tank sits in a wooded area north of State Route 164, in the shadow of Mount Rainier. COURTESY PHOTO
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A TOWERING MURAL FOR THE MASSES By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Water tanks are great things, but let’s face it, as eye candy, mnehh! pfft! and
sometimes even yegg! For the last 15 years, brothers and artists Rolf and Peter Goetzinger have shown the country that this often overlooked part of the American landscape can be made striking, too. The Muckleshoot Tribe’s utility district recently commissioned the brothers to
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paint large fish and the tribe’s logo on a 120-foot-high tank in a patch of woods southeast of SE 392nd street. “We’re very proud of it,” said Peter. The district supplied the original design. By studying the rendering and how it was going to be applied to the tank,
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