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Alexis Hepburn works on a robot at Cavelero Mid High School in Lake Stevens.
Council floats its own budget A “more sustainable and truly balanced” alternative to Snohomish County Executive John Lovick’s spending plan scales back management-level pay hikes and sets aside tax revenue for a future courthouse. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
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Abby Hanson tests and makes adjustments to her group’s robot at Cavelero Mid High School on Nov. 12. In the past two years, three of the school’s robotics teams have competed at international tournaments.
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LAKE STEVENS — After classes, high school junior Jonah Hanson and his friends gather in a room, grab their game controllers and play for hours. They don’t need a television, a couch or a video game system. Instead, Hanson and
more than 60 other students at Cavelero Mid High School meet twice a week to work with robots they designed, programmed and built themselves. As part of C-Bots, the school’s robotics club, teams of students between 8th and 11th grade create robots for local and state competitions. If they do well, they advance to the international VEX Robotics
Competition, put on by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation. Three of Cavelero’s teams have competed at international tournaments in the last two years — the only robotics teams from Snohomish County to do so. “It was so competitive, but such a great
EVERETT — Snohomish County Council chairman Dave Somers unveiled a 2015 budget plan Monday that rolls back some management-level pay hikes and sets aside some taxes for a future courthouse. Somers’ $226 million operating budget reworks spending recommendations that Executive John Lovick made on Sept. 30. “I think this budget is more sustainable and truly balanced,” Somers said. “I think the executive’s approach would have caused us real problems in 2016 and beyond.” The council chairman recommended across-the-board cuts that weren’t in the executive’s proposal. Most departments would take a 1.5 percent hit under Somers’ plan. Budget reductions for the Sheriff’s Office and the jail, however, would be about half that amount. The combined loss for those public safety functions would total about $800,000. Lovick’s budget included no cuts to public safety.
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Marysville’s top cop wants to do more for youth MARYSVILLE — Police Chief Rick Smith wants Marysville officers more involved in the lives of children and teens. It’s something he’d been
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high schools. They also work at the alternative high school and middle and elementary schools when needed. At Marysville Pilchuck, the school resource officer was inside the cafeteria within minutes of the gunfire.
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Smith wants to expand the scope of the program into a youth services unit, similar to units created by the Everett Police Department and Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office in recent years. Before the recession, Marysville
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had four school resource officers, and the police department and the school district split the bill. Marysville police now pay for the two positions. “We needed to ensure we had See YOUTH, Page A4
1964, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called Martin Luther King Jr., “the most notorious liar in the country” for allegedly saying FBI agents had failed to act on the complaints of blacks (Today in History, Page B4). Hoover was also upset King had said red taffeta wasn’t a good look for him. —Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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