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BY MEGAN CAMPBELL ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Republic Services will be the city of Sammamish’s sole solid waste provider in 2017.
At the Tuesday regular meeting, the Sammamish City Council unanimously awarded Republic Services the upcoming nine-year contract, which staff say
will save most residents between $1.04 and $9.87 each month. The council was scheduled to award the contract before the new year, but a temporary restraining order delayed council action. A King County Superior Court judge quashed that
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Republic Services caters to the southern portion of the Plateau and Waste Management serves the northern areas. Waste Management, which filed the restraining order Dec. 1, altered city forms to calculate its
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restraining order Dec. 22, freeing the council to award the contract Tuesday. A good thing, too, as the selected service provider would need at least one year to prepare for the 2017-2025 contract, which would unify the city with one solid waste service provider. Currently,
Eagle Scout Lucas Tjom, 17, loads a tree in the back of a truck for the 31st annual Scouts Tree Drive Saturday. For the 31st annual Scouts Tree Drive, an estimated 150-200 Scouts from six troops based in Sammamish — troop 500, 509, 571, 596, 636 and 751 — hauled trees away from Plateau neighborhoods and the Issaquah Highlands, according to Allen Tantillo, the chair for the drive in Sammamish. For more, visit the www.issaquahreporter.com.
Tent City 4 returned to the High Point area east of Issaquah Dec. 28, vacating Lake Sammamish State Park's Hans Jensen campsite after the state Parks and Recreation Commission declined to extend the homeless community's stay through early February. Many of Tent City 4’s residents spent their last day in Hans Jensen setting up camp on Lovegren Road, directly off of Exit 20 on Interstate 90. Tent City 4 previously moved to Lovegren Road in February, after managing organization SHARE/WHEEL failed to convince King County parks officials to let SEE TENT CITY, 3
Issaquah, Sammamish councils elect leadership, swear in new members BY MEGAN CAMPBELL ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
The Issaquah and Sammamish councils elected their leadership and swore in their newest members this week. The Issaquah City Council elected Stacy Goodman as council president and Mary Lou Pauly
as deputy council president by a unanimous show of hands Monday. Both were elected to the City Council in 2013; their terms expire at the end of 2017. Three councilors — Paul Winterstein, Bill Ramos and Jennifer Sutton — were sworn in at the Monday meeting, as well. The Sammamish City Council
unanimously elected Don Gerend as mayor and Ramiro ValderramaAramayo as deputy mayor Tuesday. Gerend, the longest sitting council member, has been on the council since the city incorporated in 1999. He’s been selected as the city’s mayor several times before. Gerend, who will be up for re-election in 2017, will serve as mayor for the
next two years. Valderrama-Aramayo, first elected to the council in 2011, has previously served as deputy mayor. He was re-elected to the council in the November 2015 election. He and the other two elected in November 2015 — Tom Hornish and Christie Malchow — were sworn in at the Tuesday meeting.
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