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Officials: Statewide drought emergency won’t affect Bellevue BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
Bellevue wants residents to know the Puget Sound Region will not be facing a water shortage this summer, and encourages them to wash their cars, water the lawn and Elementary to be torn down in July for new school. PTSA sponsors open house in June
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shower — they could even take two. “You can do the things you’ve been doing for the past five years,” said Chuck Clarke, CEO for the Cascade Water Alliance, a municipal corporation of which Bellevue is the largest member. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
declared a statewide drought emergency on May 15, after historically low snowpack that is shrinking rivers. The long-term outlook of water scarcity across the state is a $1.2 billion crop loss this year and an early fire season extending to higher elevations, according to
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Washington officials. Clarke said the city of Seattle, which provides Bellevue its water, addressed its concern over low snowpack in February by taking rain into its reservoir, rather than SEE DROUGHT, 9
Council passes park title to former councilmember Bovee out; Zumdieck in BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
budgets fail to adequately fund schools under the guidelines set by Initiative 1351. The law, which was passed in November 2014, was meant to provide additional funding to lower class sizes for all grade levels, increase staffing, supplies and professional wages and benefits. Lowering class sizes and increasing staff have long been a concern for Washington state,
The Bellevue City Council passed the title of a Northtowne park from a sullied historic figure to a former councilmember and neighborhood advocate on Monday. The council decided in March to change Bovee Park, named for the city’s first mayor, Charles Bovee, after being contacted by Kasia Wilk a month earlier. Wilk claimed to be a victim of Bovee’s, the first mayor forced out of town over allegations of child molestation in 1959. Georgia Zumdieck served on the city council from 1992 until the time of her death in 1998, and was one of two public figures from Bellevue’s past recommended by the parks board to replace Bovee last week. Zumdieck was a strong advocate for her Northtowne community, and favored highly in an online survey conducted by the city. Parks board vice president Dallas Evans told the council Monday the board also noted a lack of public spaces named after female figures. “You won’t find hardly anything with any woman’s name on it of significance,” he said. “I can’t think of anything in this city named after a woman leader,” Mayor Claudia Balducci later added.
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Protestors advocating for increased school funding from the state Legislature march down Bellevue Way. The Bellevue protest was one of 60 planned across the state.
District concerned over funding for increased staff, smaller class sizes BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER
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Around 800 educators, parents and students filled Bellevue sidewalks Wednesday, protesting the state Legislature’s stalled budget to fund smaller class sizes and increased school staff. “I grew up in a family of educators, so I know that the work teachers do is important, and it is better done in small class sizes,” said Kelly Bach, who protested
outside Highland Middle School with her children Hailey, 7, and Matt, 9. With the 2014-2015 school year quickly coming to a close and the state Legislature running out of time on a 30-day special session, neither the House nor the Senate have finalized a state budget. Caught in the struggle is increased funding for state schools. Educators statewide say both the proposed House and Senate
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