Bothell/Kenmore Reporter, August 01, 2014

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Kenmore gets cameras for livestreaming city council meetings BY SARAH KEHOE skehoe@bothell-reporter.com

Kenmore City Council voted unanimously at the July 21 meeting to install a camera in council chambers so they can livestream meet-

ings for residents. Council voted on a one camera set up with an additional piece of hardware that will allow powerpoints to be streamed also. Cost for one camera is $3,594 and a presentation integration is

$2,900. “I am proud of this decision,” said Nigel Herbig, a councilmember who campaigned on the idea in 2013. “I first became involved in Kenmore politics when I came to a meeting at the new

city hall and realized that we had a state-of-the-art building that was wired for audio and video, yet we didn’t livestream council meetings. That just didn’t seem right in this day and age. Citizens were either forced to come to

city hall to follow the action live (which many can’t), or listen to an audio recording the following day.” Councilmembers believe this decision will make their actions more transparent to the public.

“We owe it to our citizens to make every available effort to be as open and transparent and accessible as possible,” Herbig said. “Livestreaming our meetings is, in 2014, the least we can [ more CAMERAS page 9 ]

Metro to cut five bus routes from Bothell and Kenmore

A solution for an aging icon?

BY MATT PHELPS AND BRANDON MACZ Reporter newspapers

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City could partner with real estate firm, Bastyr to save Saint Edward Seminary The city of Kenmore is working with Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and Daniels Real Estate to preserve, rehabilitate and activate the former Saint Edward Seminary building. For the full story see page 3. SARAH KEHOE, Kenmore Reporter

he King County Council has approved the first 161,000 hours of Metro transit reductions that cuts five bus routes and revises many others serving the Bothell and Kenmore area. The dates for when the service will end varies depending on the route. The vote on July 21 came a week after the council failed to pass legislation detailing plans for moving forward with a potential 550,000 total cuts in Metro service over a long-standing revenue shortfall. Councilmember Rod Dembowski had called for a delay on July 14 to allow the council’s transit committee to review a

revised ordinance that was substantively no different than what had been agreed to the week before. The transit committee passed the legislation to council with unanimous approval July 15. “We should be growing the system,” Dembowski said, pointing to growing transit ridership. “It’s tragic that we’re cutting it.” Another 188,000 service hours are to be cut in February, barring an upward trend in the county’s economic forecast and review by an ad hoc committee that the approved legislation will create. King County Executive Dow Constantine will be a member of that committee. Eastside ridership has increased 144 percent from 2003 to 2013, and is ex[ more BUS page 2 ]

Pregnant Bothell woman sentenced to 3 years for illegal marijuana ring A pregnant Bothell woman is going to federal prison for three years, but not until after she gives birth to her

child in Feb. 13, 2015. Thi Nguyen Tram Bui pled guilty to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana four months before it was legalized in Washington state. Bui and her husband

Keith Ly were charged by the U.S Attorney’s Office with growing marijuana in gardens planted inside three suburban homes in Seattle from 2011 to February 2012. The marijuana

ring was allegedly discovered after Bui was pulled over by law enforcement and police found more than one pound of marijuana in the driver’s seat of her Mercedes and $8,900

cash, according to charging documents. Ly is in trial this week, awaiting his sentence. Bui is in supervised release until imprisonment. Special conditions of her

supervision include Bui must provide the probation officer with access to any requested financial information, she must disclose all assets and liabilities to [ more PRISON page 9 ]

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BY SARAH KEHOE skehoe@bothell-reporter.com


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