Auburn Reporter, February 06, 2015

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015

City’s inmate tally declines at SCORE jail

Pacific City Council bans all marijuana business in city BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

The Pacific City Council answered the question of what to do with marijuana business in the city this past week, voting to put the kibosh on recreational and medical pot stores, processors and producers. At its Jan. 26 regular scheduled meeting, the council waded through five separate ordinances, voting to nix the sale of medical marijuana and prohibit any future growing, processing and selling of recreational pot. The council opened up by voting unaniKave mously to extend an interim zoning moratorium on pot businesses. The emergency moratorium makes sure there is no gap between the expiration of the old moratorium and the implementation of Ordinance 2015-1891, which bans any recreational business, and Ordinance 2014-1872, which prohibits medical marijuana dispensaries and collective gardens. The council voted 4-3 on 2015-1891, with Councilmembers John Jones, Clint Steiger, Tren Walker and Katie Garberding all voting to ban recreational pot businesses and Vic Kave, Stacey Oliveira and Josh Putnam [ more PACIFIC page 7 ]

TINKERING Members of Auburn Mountainview’s robotics team, FTC Team 5953 Roarbotics, fine-tune their machine at the state FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics competition last Saturday at the ShoWare Center in Kent. The Auburn team won the Rockwell Collins Innovate Award and now moves on to the West Super-Regional Championship in Oakland, Calif. Story, page 8. SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter

Federal funds boost programs for kids BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

Deep Dive 3, that’s what they call it. At first the phrase strikes the ear like some sort of rescue operation for a troubled sub-

marine, or maybe a salvage operation for a long-submerged pirate ship, laden with booty. Who knows but that at some point before last week, the phrase may have struck King County Executive Dow Constantine’s ear in just that way.

But as Constantine learned very well touring the Auburn School District and various social service agencies on Jan. 29, Deep Dive 3 has a more prosaic meaning – it is in [ more PROGRAM page 7 ]

Tickets: www.auburnwa.gov/arts | 253-931-3043 Tayla Lynn | January 31, 7:30 p.m. | $17/$15 | Auburn Ave. Theater

February Comedy at the Ave | February 13, 7:30 p.m. | $17/$15 | Auburn Ave. Theater A Valentines With Sinatra & Friends | Feb. 14, 7:30 pm | $20/$18 | Auburn Ave. Theater 1203810

Way, SeaTac and Tukwila got together, financed, built and opened the jail Once, the City of Auin the fall of 2011. burn averaged the highest, Here are a handful or second highest number of highlights from the per day of misdemeanant report: inmates housed at By month and the SCORE jail. year, SCORE’S No more – total average daily today the cities population was 621 of Renton and as of December of Federal Way have 2014. While that that honor. number is signifi“Third place is cantly higher than good,” said Auburn it had been in the Deputy Mayor Backus previous two years John Holman. – about 300 in 2012 “Third place is good, in and 525 in 2013 – Backus this situation, yes,” said explained that the jail is acAuburn Mayor Nancy cepting inmates from more Backus. contract cities, and that Backus, Auburn’s repre- generates more revenue for sentative to the multi-city the member cities listed SCORE board, presented above. this and other jail stats at Among the contract Monday night’s regucities are Fife, Lynwood, lar meeting of the City Covington, Marysville, Council. Mercer Island, Milton, On the heels of King Normandy Park, KirkCounty’s announcement land, and Redmond. The in 2009 that it would no Muckleshoot Indian Tribe longer accept inmates and the Port of Seattle are from area jails after 2012, contract agencies. the cities of Auburn, Bur[ more SCORE page 3 ] ien, Des Moines. Federal BY ROBERT WHALE

rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

Lori Schmidt, a pre-K teacher at Neighborhood House in the Burndale Home complex, explains to King County Executive Dow Constantine, far left, what she does, as her assistant, Cayla Dixon, to her right, looks on. ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter


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