Snoqualmie Valley Record, July 05, 2019

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Snoqualmie hosts first Big Truck Day

Eastside legislators discuss 2019 Legislative session in Snoqualmie

Big Truck Day showcased the city’s ‘heroes and helpers’ on June 27. By Madison Miller mmiller@soundpublishing.com

The city of Snoqualmie held its inaugural Big Truck Day on June 27 at Centennial Fields Park. Nicole Wiebe, the city’s events coordinator, inspired and led this year’s event. Other cities — including Redmond and Seattle — host a Big Truck Day for its communities. Big Truck Day showcased vehicles that are tough and tactical, fun and flashy, and represent the community’s heroes and helpers. The free event was geared toward children as old as 10. Big Truck Day gives kids the opportunity to explore a variety of vehicles — public service, emergency, utility, and transportation — all in one See TRUCK, Page 3

Legislators talk budget, housing and transportation. By Evan Pappas epappas@soundpublishing.com

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Snoqualmie hosted its first Big Truck Day on June 27.

Snoqualmie OKs citizen survey for YMCA expansion A new pool could come to the YMCA on the Ridge. By Evan Pappas epappas@soundpublishing.com

The Snoqualmie City Council debated the validity of surveys following feedback for the potential expansion of a community center. The council was discussing the community center at Snoqualmie Ridge on June 24. The city of Snoqualmie has proposed a $12.5 million expansion for the YMCA on the Ridge. The city owns the building and proposed the project to meet a growing need in the Valley foraquatics-based recreation.

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The city council approved a memorandum of understand for the firm EMC Research to conduct a survey of citizens featuring several questions regarding the possible community center aquatics facility. The scope of the project will cover 300, 12-minute interviews with a random sample of registered voters in the city. the cost to the city for the survey is $23,200. The public comment at the meeting was uniformly against the survey. Concerns centered around the total sample size of 300 citizens being too small, the possibility of bias influencing the list of citizens to interview and the quality of the questions. In discussion, councilmembers Sean Sundwall and Matt

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Laase also voiced concern regarding the sample size. Laase said he was against the proposal and suggested putting the community center expansion project to registered voters (about 2,000 people) in the general election. “To put the project on the ballot this November is approximately the same cost to do this survey,” Laase added. Councilmember Katherine Ross asked what the justification for interviewing only 300 people was. In response, Councilmember Jim Mayhew said EMC research is a data analytics firm that has worked with the city in the past, and the company decided on a 300-person sample because it produces a 95-percent

With Washington’s legislative session wrapped up, representatives from districts around the Eastside gathered at the Snoqualmie Casino on June 27 to give some insight into the big themes of the session, what was discussed, and what to look for in the future. Hosted by the East King County Chambers of Commerce Legislative Coalition, 12 legislators answered questions See SESSION, Page 3

confidence level with a plus or minus 5-percent margin of error. City administrator Bob Larson also vouched for the validity of EMC Research’s methods, and noted the city has worked with the company twice in previous years. Sundwall added that the survey itself is not a decision, and it is not the only factor the ultimate decision will be based on. The survey also does not preclude the option of bringing the project forward to a vote. Fire chief Mark Correira said EMC Research will design the questions so they are statistically valid. EMC will also not let the city influence the formation or

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