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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2013
Vol. CXXIII, No. 240
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Tacoma City Council to discuss District 1 candidate interviews, Jefferson Avenue realignment Tacoma residents will have plenty of opportunities next week to learn more about what's happening in city government. On Tuesday, Tacoma City Council will hold its regular weekly study session and council meeting. Tacoma City Council's Government Performance and Finance Committee will meet on Wednesday and is tentatively scheduled to interview individuals who have applied to serve on the City of Tacoma's Charter Review Committee. Here is a look ahead at some notable meetings, events, and issues on deck next week at Tacoma City Hall. -- Todd Matthews, Editor TACOMA CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1 CANDIDATE INTERVIEWS Tacoma City Council has scheduled a study session Tuesday to interview individuals who have applied for the District 1 position on council. Last month, Tacoma City Councilmember Anders Ibsen announced he had been selected to become an Officer Candidate in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. Councilmember Ibsen will take a leave of absence from his elected post to undergo training beginning next month and lasting throughout the year. At the conclusion of training, Councilmember Ibsen plans to return to Tacoma and resume the rest of his term. Once commissioned as a reservist Second Lieutenant in the Marines, Councilmember Ibsen will continue on as a Tacoma City Council Member for District 1, while also drilling with his Marine Corps unit one weekend per month. State law allows for elected officials to take extended leaves for military service. Tacoma City Council may consider an appointment on Tues., Dec. 17, as an interim replacement for the District 1 seat during Councilmember Ibsen's absence. Also on the agenda, Tacoma City Councilmembers will hear recommendations made by the City of Tacoma's Fiscal Sustainability Task Force. Councilmembers will discuss these issues during a study session, which will be held on Tues., Dec. 17, at 12 p.m. in Tacoma City Council Chambers, Tacoma Municipal Building, 747 Market St., First Floor, in Tacoma. The meeting will be broadcast live on TV Tacoma and online at tvtacoma.com. On-demand archives are available on the Web within 24 hours of the meeting online at tvtacoma.com. A copy of the agenda is available online at cityoftacoma.org. SOUTH 17TH STREET RE-ALIGNMENT AT UW TACOMA Tacoma City Council is scheduled Tuesday to vote on a resolution to authorize the execution of an interagency agreement with the University of Washington Tacoma for the design and construction
of the re-alignment of South 17th Street between will also advertise the project and work directly with Jefferson Avenue, Broadway, and Commerce Street. contractors to complete the project. In turn, the inAccording to City of Tacoma staff, because South terlocal agreement holds the University of Washing17th Street between Pacific Avenue and ton Tacoma solely responsible Broadway is not a through street and, for funding this project. rather, jogs around a landscaped area, The budget for the project is it creates additional vehicle movements $1.25 million. that impact pedestrians within the UniTacoma City Council is schedversity of Washington Tacoma campus. uled to vote on a resolution auUniversity of Washington Tacoma offithorizing the execution of an cials have expressed an interest in reinteragency agreement with the aligning the two segments of South 17th University of Washington TaStreet (pictured above) into a continucoma during its regular weekly ous street through a partnership with meeting on Tues., Dec. 17 at 5 the City of Tacoma. City of Tacoma staff p.m. in Tacoma City Council and University of Washington Tacoma Chambers, Tacoma Municipal staff have met several times to discuss Building, 747 Market St., First different design options and draft an inFloor, in Tacoma. The meeting terlocal agreement that would authorize will be broadcast live on TV TaTACOMA CITY HALL the City of Tacoma to provide project coma and online at tvtacoma. management, project design, construcCopies of the resolution, staff tion management, inspection, and public outreach memo, interagency agreement, and site map are services to support the project. The City of Tacoma available online at cityoftacoma.org.
Northwest ports set goals to further cut diesel emissions by 2015
The Port of Tacoma Commission this week adopted an update to the 2013 Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy, which aims to create an integrated approach to improve air quality and reduce port-related emissions to safeguard public health and the environment while supporting economic growth. The action taken this week means the Port of Tacoma joins ports in Seattle and Metro Vancouver (B.C.) in an effort to cut diesel emissions by 75 percent per ton of cargo moved by 2015 and 80 percent by 2020, from a 2005 baseline. Factoring in projected cargo growth, this is expected to result in overall reductions of 70 percent by 2015 and 75 percent by 2020. The ports also set a goal to reduce greenhouse gases by 10 percent by 2015 and 15 percent by 2020 per ton of cargo moved. According to Port of Tacoma officials, the update was based on the results of the 2011 Puget Sound Maritime Air Emissions Inventory. The inventory found maritime-related air pollution has decreased since 2005, with much of the progress due to significant, voluntary investments of the maritime industry and government agencies in cleaner technol-
ogy, cleaner fuels and more efficient systems of operation. To develop and implement the 2007 strategy and this 2013 strategy update, the three ports partnered with other government agencies in the Puget Sound, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington State Department of Ecology and Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. Ports are a critical part of the Pacific Northwest and North American economy, facilitating the movement of people and goods and supporting living-wage jobs. With their tenants and customers, the three ports use dieselpowered ships, trains, trucks and other equipment to move goods and passengers through the ports to other destinations. The 2013 Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy is a five-year-old partnership among the three ports and five regulatory agencies, along with cooperative relationships with customers, tenants, shipping lines and environmental organizations. The 2013 update commits these groups to work together through 2020. More informatio is available online at portoftacoma.com.