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Tacoma City Council to discuss Niagara Bottling agreement, Foss Waterway development
Tacoma Fire: Discarded cigarette sparks minor rooftop apartment building blaze Posted online Weds., July 3 Photos Courtesy Tacoma Fire Department Tacoma fire fighters responded Wednesday morning to a report of a rooftop apartment fire near the city's Stadium District. According to Tacoma Fire Department officials, fire fighters arrived at approximately 8:35 a.m. to find dark smoke billowing from the roof of the fivestory building located in the 300 block of North Tacoma Avenue. Once on the roof, crews discovered a deck made of composite material fully engulfed in flames. Fire fighters extinguished the blaze and confirmed there was no further damage to the roof or the apartments below. None of the occupants needed to be evacuated and there were no injuries to report. The cause of the fire was an improperly discarded cigarette that ignited a foam cushion that dropped down on the decking, according to Tacoma Fire Department officials. The fire caused approximately $875 in damages.
Posted online Fri., July 5 Tacoma City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday at City Hall to discuss an agreement to help develop a major water bottling facility in Pierce County. Last month, Pierce County officials announced Niagara Bottling plans to open a state-of-the-art, 311,000-square-foot facility at Randles Business Park in the Frederickson Industrial Area. This will be Niagara’s first site in the Pacific Northwest, joining 13 others around the country. The new facility will create 36 jobs and the company plans to make a capital investment of approximately $50 million. The facility will serve the company’s customers throughout the region. Groundbreaking is expected this fall and the company is scheduled to be fully operational early next year. During Tacoma City Council's study session July 9, councilmembers will discuss a proposed five-year water supply agreement, which includes a temporary contract water service rate in return for minimum purchase quantities, between Tacoma Water and Niagara Bottling. "In view of Tacoma Water's significant water supply surplus, new water demands like those of Niagara Bottling will provide significant additional revenue at very little additional supply risk," wrote Tacoma Water Division Manager Tony Lindgren in a June 28 memo to councilmembers. "Because of this, Tacoma Water has been working to provide an incentive to Niagara Bottling for choosing to locate in Tacoma's service territory, given that Niagara Bottling has identified a number of viable alternative sites. In order to provide this incentive and retain a cost of service basis for the rates and charges paid by Niagara Bottling for water service, Tacoma Water has developed·a rate that is reduced from the applicable rate as published in the Tacoma Municipal Code. This rate reduction is designed to reflect the value of minimum purchases that Niagara Bottling will be obligated to make during the five-year term of the agreement even if no water is taken by the Company. Niagara Bottling has estimated demands up to one million gallons per day, which would translate into over $800,000 per year of additional non-budgeted water sales revenue in addition to system development charge revenues." City Council's Government Performance and Finance Committee is scheduled to discuss
the issue during its meeting on July 17. Councilmembers are expected to hear the first reading of an ordinance regarding the agreement during its meeting on July 23. Additionally, councilmembers will also discuss two proposed agreements between Foss Waterway Development Authority and the Henry Foss Group related to the development of a 167-unit apartment building to be built at 1933 Dock Street. Councilmembers are scheduled to vote on the agreements during its weekly meeting later that day. Councilmembers will not take public comment during the study session, which will be held on Tues., July 9 at 12 p.m. in Room 16 of Tacoma Municipal Building North, 733 Market St. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast live on TV Tacoma and online at tvtacoma.com. On-demand audio archives are available on the Web within 24 hours of the meeting online at tvtacoma.com.
PCTV airs U.S. Open presentation to Pierce County Council Posted online Fri., July 5 If you missed last week's U.S. Open presentation to Pierce County Council, it can be viewed at various times on PCTV and online any time at piercecountytv.org/index.aspx?NID=346. The one-hour presentation on June 27 featured Danny Sink, the United States Golf Association's (USGA's) on-site championship director, as well as other officials involved with planning for the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in 2015. Over the next week, it will air on Pierce County TV on Fri., July 5 at 11:30 a.m.; Sat., July 6 at 9 p.m.; Sun., July 7 at noon; Mon., July 8 at 5 p.m.; and Tues., July 9 at 8 p.m. The presentation, which will remain on the air for weeks to come, answered common questions about the 2015 U.S. Open, such as why the USGA picked Chambers Bay, when people can register to volunteer, when tickets go on sale, and what traffic impacts will occur in the University Place area. PCTV is available on channel 22 on the Comcast and Click! cable systems, and channel 20 on Rainier Connect. A live stream and archived programs and meetings are available on demand piercecountytv.org. The channel serves Pierce County and the cities of DuPont, Fife, Orting, Puyallup, Sumner and University Place.