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Cole Stanger (left) and Maurice Riley (right) celebrate with their fellow graduates of the Tulalip Tribes’ Construction Training Center during a ceremony at the Hibulb Cultural Center on Monday.
Tulalip school’s houses destined for Seattle camp By Chris Winters Herald Writer
TULALIP — On Monday morning in the Hibulb Cultural Center on the Tulalip Reservation, about a dozen students went through a graduation ceremony of their own. They were graduates of the Tulalip Tribes’ Construction Training Center, which trains native students in carpentry, welding, wiring, framing, plumbing and other trades. The program, run by the Tribal Employment Rights Office for two years, follows Edmonds Community College’s construction trades curriculum, and its graduates leave with certifications in First Aid, flagging, and OSHA 10-hour safety cards in addition to qualifying to join various trade unions and their apprenticeship programs. Students typically do a final project, which in the past has included personal decorative items or furniture. This year,
the students took things a step further and built two 120-square-foot houses, which will be donated to the Nickelsville homeless encampment in Seattle. Tulalip chairman Mel Sheldon Jr. called attention to homeless Native Americans living in Seattle camps and on the streets. “I see all our urban Indian homeless and it gets me right here in the heart that we can help them during the day, but at night they have nowhere to go,” Sheldon said. Sheldon congratulated the students and told them they’ll be able to do great things for themselves. “But moreover, you have the opportunity to be able to do something for our community, for other people,” he said. The plan is for the two houses to be donated to the Nickelsville encampment when it locates to the site of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Seattle’s Central District in the fall.
The two houses will be joined by up to 13 more houses expected to be built by other volunteer organizations, such as Sawhorse Revolution and YouthBuild, to create a sturdier and safer environment for Nickelsville residents currently living in tents. “Winter is coming, and we are seeing this as a crisis response,” said Sharon Lee, the executive director of the Low Income Housing Institute, which is working with the church to host Nickelsville. The Institute has 16 case managers and social workers on staff who work to move people living in Nickelsville into morepermanent housing, but the small houses, which will have electricity and heat, will be a step up from tents exposed to the elements. The plans for the mini-village include separate kitchen and toilet buildings connected to plumbing, Lee said.
EVERETT — The head of Economic Alliance Snohomish County is stepping down at the end of July to take a job with an laser-etching company in Mukilteo. Troy McClelland has served as the first and only CEO and president for Economic Alliance, which aims to create jobs and economic vitality in the county and region. “We would have loved to hold onto Troy Troy as long as McClelland we can, but we understand he has a great business opportunity,” said Chris Knapp, Economic Alliance’s chairman of the board of trustees. McClelland, who is also a Port of Everett commissioner, was attending the Paris Air Show this week, representing Economic Alliance, and could not be reached for comment. Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson, who sits on Economic Alliance’s executive board, called the departure a tremendous loss for Snohomish County. McClelland helped bring together people in the county and was a strong partner in convincing Boeing to build the 777X See MCCLELLAND, back page, this section
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Everett School Board considers smaller levy in 2016 EVERETT — The Everett School Board is leaning toward proposing a capital levy in a February 2016 special election and postponing a larger bond ballot measure until 2018. That’s one scenario the board and the district administration are considering. Other options
include putting the bond on the ballot in 2016 and postponing the capital levy until 2018, or putting both on the ballot in 2016. Board members have in mind last year’s two bond-measure failures as they consider the size and timing of future requests. A decision is not expected before November. In February 2014, the district sought voter approval of a $259.4
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million capital projects bond that would have funded new elementary and high schools and modernization projects, among other things. The bond required a 60 percent majority to pass and failed by a little less than 2 percent. The board offered the same issue in an April special election and it failed again by the same margin. The new proposed levy would
come to about $80 million, including $29 million to fund a program that would provide mobile devices to every middleand high-school student in the district. It also would include $22.7 million for maintenance projects for technology and other facilities and equipment. The bond measure under consideration would come to $225.1 million and would include items
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like modernizing North Middle School, Woodside Elementary and the Everett High School cafeteria; construction of a new elementary school in the south end; and building or acquiring more classroom space to accommodate growth and new class-size reduction mandates from the Legislature. See LEVY, Page A2
tolerance” drug policy by using pot while off-duty can’t have his job back (Business Briefly, Page A7). The ruling suggests that while legal weed users in Colorado and Washington need not fear the cops these days, they should be scared spitless of Bethany in Human Resources. — Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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