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Making sure all can celebrate Thanksgiving BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — The first of the Marysville Community Food Bank’s three days of Thanksgiving meal food distributions saw a slight increase from last year, at the same time that the Food Bank has been impacted by the significant loss of one of its food sources. “We’ve served 85 people within 80 minutes of opening our doors,” Marysville Community Food Bank Director Dell Deierling said on Friday, Nov. 16, at 10:20 a.m. “We’ve got 156 people checked in, less than two hours into our first day of handing out Thanksgiving meals.” Deierling estimated that Nov. 16 would see the Food Bank serve approximately 250 clients, up slightly
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from the 234 clients that it served on the first day of its Thanksgiving meal food distributions last year. With 666 clients served during all three days of last year’s Thanksgiving meal food distributions, Deierling expressed confidence that the Food Bank could serve 720 clients through Monday, Nov. 19, and Tuesday, Nov. 20. At the same time, in spite of a recent $20,000 donation by the Tulalip Tribes, Deierling acknowledged that the Food Bank’s supply and demand trend lines are both “headed in the wrong direction,” between a 2 percent decrease in food donations and a 9 percent increase in the number of client visits compared to this time last year. SEE THANKS , PAGE 2
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Megan Morales shops for a Marysville Community Food Bank client on Nov. 16 and gets them some chicken broth.
Marysville adopts city budget for 2013 BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring, left, and City Council member Michael Stevens review the proposed budget for 2013 before its passage on Nov. 13.
MARYSVILLE — Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring expressed what he described as “cautious optimism,” as the Marysville City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, Nov. 13, to adopt a proposed city budget for 2013, whose slight increase over the previous year’s spending levels will go largely toward the city’s streets. “Our citizens need solid services,” Nehring said on Nov. 13, while crediting city staff and Council members alike with investing several years of prioritized planning into making possible a budget “that allows us to reinvest in our city.” He pointed out that, in recent years, city department
directors have even underspent their budgets. Although Nehring estimated that sales tax revenues have bottomed out, and might even be experiencing a slight uptick, he nonetheless touted the proposed budget as maintaining conservative, disciplined spending levels while also affording modest improvements. “Our reserve is at 10 percent now,” said Nehring, recalling that it had been at 6.5 percent in 2011. “We’re ahead of our goal on that front by two years, but the best thing for us to do is pretend that it’s not even there.” In addition to increasing the subsidy for the operational needs of the SEE BUDGET, PAGE 2
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