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Governor: Put $2.3B more into education

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Gov. Jay Inslee says the state needs to invest $2.3 billion to meet its commitment to students, families and educators.

During a town hall meeting Monday night in Bellevue, Inslee laid out his proposal for the state’s primary and secondary educational

futures.

“We know what what we need to do, we just need to do more of it in more place,” Inslee told the audience, which included satellite locations in Tacoma, Moses Lake and Spokane via a live web broadcast.

According to Inslee, more than half of the proposed investment, $1.3 billion, would be spent meeting the requirements of House Bill

2776, the subject of the McCleary decision, by the second year of the 2015-2017 biennium.

Funding allocations per GOV. JAY INSLEE student in the 2015-16 school year would be increased from $848

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to $1,216, which will allow for, “full implementation of the state’s new learning standards in English, math and science, and support the use of behavior intervention curricula.”

The governor told the Reporter, while it may take time to pass the budget, he’s confident it will get done with the majority, if not all, of SEE EDUCATION, 14

City manager taking new approach with search for police chief

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Top, from left, Louis, 4, Miguel, 5, and Angely, 3, get their picture taken with Santa and Mrs. Claus during Tuesday’s Youth Holiday Party at Bellevue’s Crossroads Community Center where children received gifts appropriate for their age.

City Manager Brad Miyake says he's taking a more targeted approach to finding Bellevue's next police chief, after the city dished out a sizable sum earlier this year only to end up passing on several prospective candidates back in November.

The city paid the Mercer Group more than $21,000 to conduct a nationwide search for a new police chief, following Linda Pillo's retirement in April. Five candidates were selected to go through a series of interviews and meetings with the public and city staff in late October.

"They brought their best candidates forward," Miyake said. "Unfortunately, they just didn't work out for us for a number of reasons, and now we're working with someone who can go deeper for us."

Of the five former candidates, the city tapped Minneapolis Assistant Police Chief Matt Clark to enter the next vetting phase for potential hire, but he pulled his name from consideration.

"He was a top contender and he had pulled out for personal, family reasons," said Emily Christensen, chief communications officer for the city.

The city is now in back-and-forth negotiations with an organizational recruiter that specializes in law enforcement to direct the city to quality police chief candidates rather than conducting another open-application process. That contract is expected to be ratified before the end of the year.

Miyake said more vetting by the recruiter and city staff will be done upfront before making a selection, adding it hasn't been decided yet whether one or several SEE POLICE CHIEF, 14

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Sound Transit to prevent groundwater loss in Mercer Slough

Mitigation to allow entrenched light rail along Bellevue Way

BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER

Sound Transit says it plans to use a gravity-based system to mitigate the environmental impact of its East Link light rail line on Mercer Slough groundwater elevations near Bellevue Way. Trains are expected to start running in Bellevue in 2023, entering the city from I-90 and stopping at a new light rail station where the South Bellevue Park and Ride is currently located. From there, the train will run on an elevated track before dipping into a deep trench along Bellevue Way — in front of the Winters House — before turning east onto 112th Avenue Southeast.

A 2010 technical report identified the potential for the 1,200-1,400 feet of entrenched light rail line to reduce the

groundwater table by 10 feet or more using a retaining wall and drainage plans at that time to separate the track from the slough.

The report outlined several design solutions, each flawed by either requiring additional maintenance and operating costs for the lifespan of East Link, causing a negative impact to the Winters House or adding significant cost to the project.

Don Billen, East Link deputy project director, said Sound Transit is using three measures to keep the light rail line on track and avoid drawing water away from the slough.

The first measure will be ensuring the trench is watertight, and secondly draining the trench into the slough. Drainage pipes on Bellevue Way will be rerouted to run under the trench and continue into the slough, Billen said.

"Even the bottom of our trench is above the flood plain of the slough, so we're able to just rely upon gravity to convey the water," he said. "These are really one-time capital expenditures and they're pretty

modest in cost."

The trench will be lidded and landscaped along the Winters House. Billen said the lidded trench will be part of the same construction package for replacing the South Bellevue Park and Ride with a new transit station and parking garage.

Running its East Link line along Bellevue Way also requires the city to convert 1.06 acres of parkland for transportation usage. Because the parkland was purchased using state outdoor recreation grants, the State Recreation and Conservation Funding Board must approve the conversion, which requires replacing lost acreage with property similar in size and value.

The city proposed replacing the two parcels along Bellevue Way with six acres of wetlands to the northeast, which would allow the Bellefields Loop Trail to connect to the Mercer Slough Education Center.

The funding board tabled its decision in October and won't take the issue up again until April.

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Jordan Fund grants $50K to Inspiration Playground The Jordan Fund has announced a $50,000 grant to the Rotary Club of Bellevue to help build an all-inclusive playground in downtown Bellevue. The fund was founded by Major League Baseball All-Star first base-

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He added Sound Transit will provide that information to the funding board in April.

Geoffrey Bidwell with the Save the Mercer Slough Committee said his group spoke out against the conversion at the funding board meeting in October, providing the board with the 2010 groundwater issue report.

"The board was seriously concerned about what was going on," Bidwell said. "If you can't swap the land there, the implications are serious."

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One arrested, one injured in Monday morning collision

Bellevue Police arrested a 25-year-old Bellevue man for vehicular assault early Monday morning, following a two-vehicle collision along the 15400 block of Lake Hills Boulevard. Drugs or alcohol are believed to have been a factor.

Police responded to Lake Hills Boulevard around 12:31 a.m. where the other driver, a 40-year-old Bellevue man, was transported to Overlake Hospital with serious injuries. “This crash is a reminder that drug and alcohol related collisions remain a threat to our communities. Our officers will be out in force this holiday season looking for impaired drivers," said Bellevue Police Lt. Marcia Harnden in the department news release.

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The suspect’s car was totalled in the collision.

Philbrook House beyond saving Oldest building in Old Bellevue to be demolished

BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER

Lacking any outside efforts to save it, the oldest building in Old Bellevue is slated for demolition to make way for a new two-story office building on Main Street.

The Eastside Heritage Center had called on Bellevue residents in May to help save the Philbrook House, a Victorian-style building constructed on Main Street in the 1890s.

While listed on the city of Bellevue's historic property inventory, the Philbrook House is neither on the Washington Heritage Register nor the National Register of Historic Places.

That's the reason given for demolishing, rather than relocating, the property at 10133 Main St., according to the proposal submitted to the city's Development Services Department by the property's owners, Gordon and Gretchen Raine, of Gordon James Fine Diamonds and the Amcut Diamond Company. A two-story, 1,600-square-foot

office building will be erected in its place, according to the proposal, and be sited behind the diamond shop.

The Philbrook House has been repurposed over the past 120 years, starting as a farmhouse and then a residence for a Civil War veteran before becoming a restaurant in the 1920s, which included serving whalers headquartered in Meydenbauer Bay. In the 1940s it was a plumbing store and then various antique businesses from the '70s to '90s.

Sarah Frederick, collections manager for Eastside Heritage, said saving historic structures is not part of the organization's mission, but representatives had tried to bring the pending demolition to the public's attention during a public hearing back in May. Frederick said a private resident or another organization was needed to spearhead placing the Philbrook House on the state or national registry, but that never happened.

She added the city of Bellevue does not have a historic preservation ordinance.

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Expansion for Alpine Lakes Wilderness benefits all residents

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t’s taken seven years, but it finally looks as if the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area will get a needed and beneficial expansion.

Last week, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate approved legislation to add an additional 22,000 acres of low-elevation lands to the existing wilderness in King County. The last step is President Obama’s signature. It should be an easy decision.

U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, who began pushing for the expansion in 2007, aptly calls the Alpine Lakes Courtesy photo of United States Wilderness Area “truly one Department of Agriculture, Forest Service of the gems of Washington state.” He and U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, of Medina, pushed the legislation in the House. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell also were instrumental in getting the bill over the last legislative hump in the Senate.

The wilderness area was originally designated in 1976 and has become one of the most popular wilderness areas in the country. The additional land will include forests that are home to cougars, black bears, bobcats, elk, deer and cutthroat trout.

The legislation also adds both the Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers as Wild and Scenic. The rivers are home to world-class fishing, kayaking and whitewater rafting.

If you’ve never visited the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, you should. It’s less than an hour’s drive away. And with the expected addition of 22,000 acres, it only will be better.

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Energize Eastside is a project to increase the delivery capacity of the basic electric system serving Eastside communities. The last major capacity increase took place in the 1960s, when the greater Eastside was merely one eighth the size it is today. Growth has been staggering, and credible entities, such as the Puget Sound Regional LEANN Council, project robust KOSTEK growth to continue.

With strong growth comes the need for the infrastructure improvements to sustain and provide for that growth.

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Some wish there was another way to meet the basic electric delivery shortage than building overhead electric transmission facilities, but the in-depth studies show that these facilities remain the only way to efficiently deliver power where it’s needed. Large-scale electric needs across the world are still universally served with wires. Wishing that a new technology will suddenly emerge to meet the increasing needs of Eastside customers is not a responsible approach.

Some have suggested Energize Eastside is driven by corporate profit motives or a desire to serve a broader regional area.

PSE has one motivation for Energize Eastside — meeting its responsibilities to keep reliable electricity flowing to customers on the Eastside. Meeting that responsibility in an area with as much growth as the Eastside has seen — and will see in the near future — is a daunting challenge.

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President Obama, in one of the greatest unconstitutional power grabs in history, is giving amnesty to 5 million illegal aliens. What he didn't say was that this wasn't just about amnesty, but also giving food stamps, medical care, housing and a myriad of other free services not accorded to our own citizens. It is not only unconstitutional but unconscionable.

Also, Obama convened a conference to hear words from on high from his lame duck Attorney General, Eric Holder. What Holder got out of the riots and looting in Ferguson was that the police do too much racial profiling.

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Why wasn't it mentioned that the looting is unacceptable? Not a peep, nothing, nada.

This administration's agenda is the most divisive in the history of the Republic. They appear to want the races at each others throats. It seems that if Obama can get us mad enough at each other then we won't notice how weak and incompetent the White House really is.

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PSE is committed to working with the community throughout all phases of the project development process. The feedback received to date has been invaluable as we take on the difficult task of selecting a route for the new transmission line. Engagement does not stop; the public process continues in 2015 and beyond.

Please visit PSE.com/EnergizeEastside for additional engagement opportunities.

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Employees of Trupanion load trucks with four tons of pet food for the Bellevue-based Seattle Humane Society.

Humane Society gets 4 tons of pet food A Seattle-based medical insurance provider for cats and dogs has stepped in to fill a need not often covered by insurance, food.

In the past three weeks, Trupanion's employees collected nearly four tons of pet food for animals at the Seattle Humane Society.

Kathryn Clappison, public relations specialist for the Seattle Humane Society, said the donation will go a long way to help feeding needs.

The pet food also will help supplement the humane society's pet food bank, a program that helps more than 1,900 pets in local senior centers, low-income housing complexes and homes. Clappison said many times the food bank means the

difference between whether an owner can keep their pets in their homes.

Their donation more than doubles last year's record of 1.5 tons, according to the company's business development manager, Lisa Marcotte.

"These pets need our support and we hope this donation will help Seattle Humane Society care for them until they've found their forever home," Marcotte said.

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Tollner joins Lori Gill & Associates

Paul Tollner has joined Windermere Property Management/Lori Gill & Associates as executive vice president. Lori Gill & Associates, established in 2004, is one of the largest management companies of single family homes in Western Washington, with three offices serving PAUL clients in King, Pierce and TOLLNER Snohomish counties. Tollner joins the company from Epic Asset Management, a 4,000 unit multifamily management company in the Puget

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In 2003, Tollner was co-founder and principal of IntelliSense Corporation, a full service background screening agency assisting firms such as Fed Ex Ground and Group Health Hospitals. In 2006, Tollner sold the firm to Naveen Jain’s Intelius/TalentWise of Bellevue.

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The business sells health and beauty products and provides spa services such as facials, massage, yoga and reiki.

The business is located at 11639 N.E. Eighth St. More information is available at naturepluslove@gmail.com, 425-998-9344 or at www.naturepluslove.com.

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Redbox announced Tuesday it is donating nearly 3,000 Blu-ray and DVD discs to the Fisher House Foundation to provide entertainment for the military and veterans’ families supported by the nonprofit, which offers a network of comfort

homes while loved ones receive medical treatment.

Redbox, one of Bellevuebased Outerwall’s several kiosk ventures, has donated more than 340,000 movie nights and 15,000 DVDs to charity over the past several years.

“At Fisher House Foundation, our goal is to aid in the recov-

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BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER

Whether it’s investor funding, team building, technology support or developing best strategies for business startups, extraSlice CEO Binu Reghunathan says Bellevue’s Smart Space is here to help. extraSlice celebrated the grand opening of its 4,000-square-foot startup facility in Bellevue on Tuesday, which Reghunathan said advances the company’s mission of supporting companies that focus on technology-driven products and solutions.

“What we wanted to provide was a Class A facility for startup companies, so that would give them a similar feeling of working at a world-class office facility,” he said.

“I see a great opportunity for Bellevue and the Eastside area to become a technology hub there.”

Reghunathan said Smart Space offers support services for business startups to grow them faster than they normally would

independently, providing mentoring and workers that can be shared among developing companies within the incubator, with options to snap them up as dedicated employees. Businesses within Smart Space also can be connected with the types of venture capitalists needed to reach funding goals, he said.

With another office in India, Reghunathan said there is opportunity for sharing talent between businesses there and in Bellevue, both areas boasting strong populations of tech talents.

“My mission is to have the Bellevue office as the centerpoint and then we’ll have other places like an office in India … maybe in Singapore and the Middle East,” Reghunathan said of extraSlice’s goals for future growth. “It will take a couple more years to realize that.”

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Bellevue resident and inventor Jim Fabregas has gotten another national publicity boost for his Garden and Tool Caddy — just in time for the holidays.

The product was chosen by David Muir and ABC World News as one of their select gift ideas that is completely made in America. The caddy and its packaging are all manufactured in Tacoma.

The tool caddy was previously mentioned in 2012.

"When we were mentioned on ABC World News’ ‘Made in America’ gift list last time, it gave a huge boost to our small Bellevue company," Fabregas said. "We hired

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That year the post office in Kirkland actually thanked my son for all the business."

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Tillicum’s school social worker ‘connects with everyone’ Sangston wins social worker of the year award for her willingness to go beyond the standards of the job, principal says

BY JOSH STILTS BELLEVUE REPORTER

Piper Sangston doesn’t need much to capture the attention of her students.

With a few kind, respectful words, each picks up their writing instruments, note cards and begins scribbling down the three things they’re thankful for that day.

It’s the way each class starts, a way for them to focus their normally chaotic minds. Sangston’s class at Tillicum Middle School is part of the Cascade program, which offers alternative education for students diagnosed with learning disabilities.

As a counselor, Sangston uses somewhat nontraditional methods with the students, which have consistently provided far

more positive outcomes, according to Tillicum’s Assistant Vice Principal Duke Truong.

Truong said Sangston continually goes above and beyond her job requirements, often “spearheading” student home visits and ensuring they get to class. He said she’s able to break through perceived barriers between faculty and students.

“She’s instantly familiar with them,” Truong said. “She connects with everyone. She truly defines the passion of meeting the needs of students.”

A few weeks ago, the Washington Association of School Social Workers highlighted her efforts with the Distinguished School Social Worker of the Year Award.

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Above, Piper Sangston scoops out frosting onto one of her student’s plates to use as a bonding agent for his candy house. Sangston, a social worker and school counselor in the Bellevue School District, was honored by her colleagues earlier this fall when she was given the Distinguished School Social Worker of the Year award by the Washington Association of School Social Workers. things for them, refamiliarize them with what it feels like to have pride, a sense of strength,” Sangston said.

“I think of social workers as the behind-the-scenes techs of a play. The award is an acknowledgement that my work is important. It’s nice to feel admired.”

Last week, to celebrate the holiday season, Sangston and the class built candy houses. Despite the gooey frosting and seemingly endless amount of high fructose corn syrup and sugar, the

students were gracious with each other.

Abby Howard, a student teacher who worked with Sangston this fall, attributes all of the success to her mentor.

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Sangston provided the student with a heating pad and snack.

Howard said once the student got both of those things no one would believe they were interacting with the same person.

Melody Parker, a fellow Cascade teacher at Tillicum, said Sangston personifies empathy, a constant struggle for the vast majority of Cascade students.

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December 19, 2014 [11] Tillicum students in Piper Sangston’s class made candy houses last week after explaining their families’ holiday traditions.

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kids and the staff,” Parker said.

“She helps them emote through their daily lives. If they’re having an emotional day, she gives them the tools to deal with those emotions properly and handle those situations. I couldn’t do my job effectively without her.”

Sangston said she couldn’t imagine doing anything else and hopes to continue to provide a safe environment for children for years to come.

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Vikings off to sizzling start Bellevue Christian undefeated through first 5 games

BY SHAUN SCOTT BELLEVUE REPORTER

Not having a superstar can be a blessing in disguise for a high school basketball team.

The Bellevue Christian Vikings girls basketball team has put together an undefeated 5-0 record in nonleague play thus far, relying on stingy defense and ball movement to get results on the hardwood.

The strategy served the Vikings well, resulting in a 52-51 victory on the road against Coupeville on Dec. 6. Bellevue Christian thirdyear head coach Mark DeJonge said his team is a resilient group.

"We've had some games where we had to work through some things and have struggled a little bit, but we fought through it. One thing that I really like about our team is that we have a no-quit attitude and the effort is always there.

The girls know that if we play hard all the time that good things are going to happen," DeJonge said.

The Vikings have advanced to the Class 1A Tri-District tournament the past three years, but haven't been able to clinch a berth in the Class 1A state tournament in Yakima. The Vikings advanced to the state tourney in 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

"We had a nice run of state appearances and that's always the goal to see if we can get back there.

I think we can, for sure, and I think we are right there," DeJonge said. "Our team has a good basketball IQ. We pride ourselves on team defense."

Vikings senior starter Shelby Hall said the sky is the limit for her team during the 2014-15 season.

"I'm just really excited to see what this season brings us. Maybe we could even win league. That would be really awesome," Hall said.

DeJonge said it’s easy to be optimistic when each player on the roster is selfless.

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a different player stepping up for us. That is one of the things we pride ourselves on. When other teams are trying to scout us that's probably a good thing because you never know where the big plays are going to come from," DeJonge said. "Everyone on our team knows any night can be their night and they all play an important role in that."

Bellevue Christian junior Emily VandenBrink said no one cares who gets the credit.

"One of our best attributes is that we all mesh together really well and everyone is really positive," VandenBrink said. "That totally affects everything because each of us know that we don't have to take it all by yourself.

We always give each other really good passes. That's what really matters when it comes down to it."

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A coveted coaching award corralled Eastside FC soccer coach lands US Youth Soccer Region IV Award

A 174-mile round trip excursion down the Interstate 5 corridor paid off for the Wolverines wrestling team.

Bellevue earned a respectable fourth-place finish, tallying 98 points at the Centralia Tiger Holiday Classic Invitational wrestling tournament on Dec. 13. Bellevue wrestlers Christian Villani (152) and Alec Palander (285) won tournament titles in their respective weight classes. John Mancuso (182) and Garrett Williams (145) collected third place finishes.

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Eastside FC soccer coach Ryan Dortch, 35, earned the coaches’ US Youth Soccer Region IV Award in November.

coach. He coaches two Eastside FC premier soccer teams and conducts training sessions for aspiring soccer players.

"When I graduated college I knew I didn't want to have a regular job and wanted to coach full time. I feel really lucky to able to do that. It's awesome," he said.

Knowing the X's and O's of the soccer pitch is critical to being a successful coach.

"The sport is always evolving. The technical side and the tactical side of the game are the two areas I emphasize the most," Dortch said.

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Bellevue resident Ryan Dortch has been a soccer guru his entire life.

The 35-year-old 1997 Issaquah High School graduate has coached teams for the Eastside FC Premier Soccer Club for the past 10 years, but began his coaching career while he was a student at Western Washington University in Bellingham in the late 1990s.

"I always loved soccer, but I didn't play in college. I knew coaching was my passion. I started coaching youth soccer and it just went from there," Dortch said.

Dortch's passion for the sport paid dividends as he captured the US Youth Soccer Region IV Award in November.

Region IV is composed of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah and Washington. Dortch, who is one of four regional winners in the United States, is a finalist for the US Youth Soccer National Awards, which takes place in January of 2015 in Philadelphia. Dortch received the Region IV award for his work with the Eastside FC Girls 95 premier soccer team. He coached the same squad for 10 years.

"All of the players on the team are freshmen in college now or are seniors in high school. All of them are going to college or will be going to college and about half of the players are playing college soccer. It's been really amazing to watch them grow up over the years," Dortch said. "I enjoyed helping them grow as not only soccer players, but as people. Coaching the team has been a blessing and I can't wait to see what these young women achieve in the future."

Dortch said he's thrilled his full-time job is as a soccer

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candidates will be chosen this time.

"We're looking for the best fit for Bellevue.

You just don't know until you get out there," Miyake said. "… This is a position … that I am not going to compromise just to get someone in within a certain timeframe."

Christensen added the city has gone out twice to find viable candidates for other positions in the past, including during its city manager, economic development director and planning and community development director searches.

Jim Montgomery has committed to remaining police chief in the interim until a final replacement for Pillo is found. Montgomery was Bellevue police chief for 10 years, retiring in 2007, and was succeeded by Pillo in 2008.

The cost of doing business Mixed into the wash that was the first police chief search are the travel and lodging expenses incurred by bringing several candidates and their spouses to Bellevue from Oct. 22-25.

Three candidates were reimbursed for their

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his recommendations.

“Are we going to continue this excellence or start a slow slide backwards?”

Inslee said of the budget’s passage. “There’s no money flowing through the streets of Olympia at Capitol Hill and these are quantum leaps

we’re proposing with archaic revenue streams, which aren’t keeping pace with the growth of our economy.”

A large portion of the town hall meeting was spent with Inslee detailing various aspects of his proposed education spending, but one topic he continued to go to the well with was the idea of providing mentors for firstand second-year teachers in the school system.

Inslee was expected to

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unveil his proposal to balance the budget Dec. 18, after press time, something he described as “a real financing plan, not based on indebtedness.”

According to Inslee’s staff, class sizes from kindergarten through third grade would be reduced to a maximum of 17 students, a $448.1 million cost paid a year ahead of the deadline. It would also satisfy a portion of the recently passed I-1351.

When asked how voters may react to the governor proposing only funding a

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Raymond Joseph “Ray” Toberman, Jr.

Raymond Joseph “Ray” Toberman, Jr. passed away on December 7, 2014, in Eugene, Oregon. He was 76.

Ray was born on December 19, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois to Raymond and Marie (Krcmarik) Toberman. He attended the University of Montana, and served in the U.S. Army. He married Diane Bowen on April 30, 1966 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

He worked for United Parcel Service for 35 years. Ray enjoyed bowling, golfing, and making things in his shop and he loved travels to Hawaii. He was a member of The Knights of Columbus.

Ray was a longtime resident of Bellevue,WA before moving to Eugene to be closer to family.

Ray is survived by his wife, Diane, of Eugene; daughter, Barbara (and Scott) Sikora of North Beach, MD; daughter, Mary Toberman of Stillwater, MN; daughter, Margaret (and Martin) Hopkins of Eugene; and 8 grandchildren: Ashley, Amber, Rebecca, Emmalyse, Mitchell, Matthew, Madeleine, and Miranda.

On Monday, December 22, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. a visitation will be held at St. Paul Catholic Church in Eugene, OR. The Funeral Mass will be at 10:00 a.m. Burial to follow at Lane Memorial Gardens with a reception following at The Keg Tavern, 4711 W. 11th Ave. Eugene. On Saturday December 27, 2014, a Memorial Reception will be held at St. Madeleine Sophie Catholic Church in Bellevue, WA following the 5:30 p.m. Mass in the Social Hall.

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William RileyWilliam “Billy” LaMont Riley of Bellevue, died Nov. 27, 2014. He was 55.

A celebration of his life will be held 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20 at Flintoft’s Issaquah Funeral Home, 540 E. Sunset Way.

allowed the city to make a concession on lodging, Christensen said.

"These are really long days for the candidates," she said. "(Metz) started on day one at 7:15 a.m. … The interview schedule was pretty extensive."

The city is reviewing how it can offer candidates, who would be part of Bellevue's leadership team, an informal venue to meet and familiarize themselves with other Bellevue leaders, after a meet-and-greet with police chief finalists on Oct. 24 at El Gaucho restaurant turned into a $1,836 dinner tab for 21 people. That food bill was more than what was spent by the Mercer Group on printing brochures and advertising the police chief position, separately.

"It was meant to be more of an open house," Christensen said. "… Had we intended for it to be a dinner, would we have chosen another restaurant? Of course."

She added a similar dinner was held at Maggiano's during the city manager search earlier this year, each attendee costing about $50. Alcohol purchases were separate, and not paid for by the city during both dinner engagements. part of the bill, Inslee’s budget chief David Schumacher told reporters prior to the meeting it was the only realistic solution.

“We cannot fully fund 1351 in the first biennium,” he said. “What we’ve chosen to do is fully fund the K-3 class size … there’s not enough money to fully fund the (estimated) $2 billion.”

Funding for full-day kindergarten would also be implemented statewide in the governor’s proposed education spending budget, increasing enrollment from 44 percent to at least 70 percent.

Currently, children not enrolled in state-funded fullday kindergarten are either attending half-days or their parents are having to pay roughly $3,000 in annual tuition, according to the governor’s senior education policy advisor, Marcie Maxwell.

Inslee also proposed making the state’s largest-ever investment in early learning by spending $156.3 million to create 6,358 new spaces for the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program and establishing a rating program that trains child care providers in effective learning strategies. That investment

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Tuesday’s celebration. Robodub holds two patents for its fastmorphing drone technology, which allow them to reduce their size while airborne. The company plans to commercialize its drones for airsoft and laser tag play by spring 2015.

“We are bringing smart drones to Bellevue,” said Parminder Devsi, Robodub founder and CEO. Councilmember Lynne Robinson praised extraSlice for bringing Smart Space to Bellevue, adding the ability for businesses to access affordable space, mentorship and funding opportunities advances the city’s goals for strong economic development.

“We want people who are entrepreneurial to be here, and we want our children to be entrepreneurial and to stay here,” added Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci.

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is estimated to reach an additional 50,639 children in the state.

He added later, that while education is paramount, giving students the best chance to attain that knowledge is equally important, especially among low-income households.

“If you’re going to expect children to do homework, they need a home to do it in,” the governor said. “At the same time that we have a massive increase in economic growth through Microsoft, Boeing and Amazon, the food bank lines are growing.”

The governor estimated the number of homeless students currently enrolled in the state at more than 30,000, which is why he said money must be spent to help correct that and give them the best possible chance to succeed.

That may also mean changing the ideology of the four-year college currently touted in middle and high schools.

“You can be a success and not go to a four-year college,” he said.

Maxwell said the proposed spending is “strongly supported” by educators, business leaders and politicians on both sides of the aisle, but declined to comment on how

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If the proposed spending is adopted and passed, the state would hire an additional 7,000 elementary educators to meet the reduced class size requirement and spend an estimated $595.6 million in salary increases and pension rates for school employees.

Inslee said he hopes the districts will be able to fill the majority of those positions with talent within Washington state.

Schumacher added that retaining quality teachers is a must for success, which is one of the major reasons why the pay increases were included in the spending plan.

“We need to invest in our teachers and schools,” Schumacher said. “It’s time to pay them what they deserve.”

Under the proposed education spending plan, tuition rates would be frozen for resident undergraduates for both years of the biennium and $100 million would be set aside for Opportunity Scholarship, a public-private partnership designed to address rising tuition and promote potential career opportunities for students.

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airfare to Seattle, as well as departing flights to Orlando for the 2014 International Association of Chiefs of Police conference from Oct. 25-28.

Christensen said the city did not pay for those candidates to return home, and uses set guidelines for determining the lowest roundtrip fare when bringing in candidates for employment discussions, which allowed the candidates to change course for the conference within a certain price range.

"I don't think we knew about (the conference) until we had already put everything in progress of getting set on the city manager's schedule and staff's schedule," Christensen said, adding the timeline for candidate interviews had been set months in advance.

"Certainly if (the candidates' visit) was right in the middle of the conference, we would have rethought it."

She said the city agreed to pay the cost of putting up Seattle Assistant Police Chief Nick Metz in a Bellevue hotel to provide a similar environment to what candidates outside the area had, as well as to accommodate early daily interviews. Metz, who is now a police chief finalist for Aurora, Colo., did not require a per diem for food or travel expenses, which

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Slovak photographers get first show at East Shore church

BY JOSH STILTS BELLEVUE REPORTER

For maybe the first time ever, the works of five photographers from Slovakia are on display in the United States, in a small gallery at the East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue.

The show, “Six Contemporary Slovak Photographers,” a collection of images from five photographers and a husband-and-wife duo, opened last week in the foyer of the church’s administration building.

Co-sponsored by Group f/5.6, a Bellevuebased photography group, and the East Shore Unitarian Church Adult Programs, the show’s images span the time of work from those in Slovakia who lived through and after the occupation of Nazi Germany, the rise of the Soviet Union and the country’s current state of affairs.

“There was a seeding cauldron of interest in experimental photography,” said to Ron Hammond, f/5.6’s chief of stuff. “These are the people who stayed behind (and were born and raised) following the Nazi regime.

Curator David Koronthaly, whose family hails from Slovakia, told the group he could gather together the artist’s work during his then-upcoming 2013 summer trip and the members jumped at the opportunity to be the first to showcase these works, according to Hammond.

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Ron Hammond, chief of staff for photography Group f/5.6, discusses the East Shore Unitarian Church’s newest exhibit. The show runs Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays. through Jan. 29.

“As far as we know, this is the first time these works have ever been shown in the U.S.,” Hammond said. “We’re pretty juiced.

Theses people are well-known in their world, but have never been heard of here.”

Works from the five photographers,

Viola Krupova, Boris Nemeth, Jozef Sedlak, Lubomir Stacho and his wife Monika, and Elva Vlasic, include a myriad of styles and techniques ranging from the political to the surreal. Lubomir, for example, photographed the same store front in Bratislava

for 40 years. He apparently chose that particular location in the country’s capitol, as a statement to showcase the changing political climate of the area throughout the years, Hammond said.

In contrast, Krupova’s work blends Eastern European artists, such as Rene Magritte and his iconic image “The Son of Man,” which depicts a man wearing a bowler hat with a green apple in front of his face, and mixes it with other works and stylized photography to make her own comment on the art.

“The photographers in this show share a common spirit of experimentation — of extending the two-dimensional representation of a static photographic image,” Koronthaly said. “They apply unusual angles, lights, movement, collage, long exposures and subject participation to imbue their work with visual energy and uniqueness.”

The show runs through Jan. 29, 2015.

The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays.

Hammond suggested calling the office for potential Saturday hours. A closing gallery is scheduled for Jan. 28 and one of the artists, Vlasic, is currently slated to attend.

For more information about the gallery, contact Hammond at 425-746-0165.

Josh Stilts: 425-453-4290; jstilts@bellevuereporter.com

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