People spoke at a field hearing at Auburn City Hall Wednesday for the U.S. House Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means. U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Auburn, and U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Seattle listened to accounts of the latest efforts in Washington State to prevent and address child sex trafficking
Trek Apartments isn’t the only thing buzz on Auburn’s commercial construction front right now
Police Chief Bob Lee told the Municipal Services Committee Monday afternoon that Auburn’s car-theft stats are in line or below what’s happening in other south-end cities of comparable size, including Kent, Federal Way and Renton
On Feb. 14 2012, the City adopted a 10-percent tax on net receipts from the operations of pull tabs and punchboards, minus what is awarded in cash or merchandise prizes.
Survey queries residents on housing types they want to see here, transportation priorities, the natural and physical environment, parks and recreation, and more.
More than a month after City workers on Jan. 1 painted 16 spots in the lot north of Safeway with the words, “Chase Bank 1 hour customer parking”, the situation there keeps on ginning up bad PR for the City of Auburn.
The City put the $12 million project out to bid four years ago, shelved it when the economy hit the skids and is ready to take it down.
Joe Citizen’s chance to say where King County should build its $80 million southend recycling and transfer station ended Feb. 3.
Auburn native and ardent Seahawks fan Jen Nikolaisen said by phone from Los Angeles that she’d been, surprised, nay, thrilled to learn that the ad, one of two Dannon ads in the can, was set to air during Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Even before the Dannon Oikos Yogurt ad aired on Super Bowl Sunday, it had already gone viral, racking up more than two million likes.
While a Dodge Ram pickup truck sat disabled on the shoulder of Highway 18 in the early morning hours of Jan. 14, its owner, waiting for help to arrive, slept in the front seat.
The levy provides six years of funding to take recommendations made by the 2013 Technology Citizens Ad Hoc Committee and set them in motion. It replaces the 2005 technology levy.
“We did it to help increase pet license sales,” Peloza, chairman of the Municipal Services Committee, said Monday.
As district officials told the school board Monday night, rooms are being painted, cabinets are in the walls in some classrooms, kitchen equipment is in, and there’s even a quarry tile floor down in the kitchen area.
The Trek project calls for 128 market-rate apartments above 12,000 square feet of retail space. The apartments range from 450 to 825 square feet.
During her recent campaign for office, Mayor Nancy Backus said that, if elected mayor, she would make the change
State Attorney General Bob Ferguson says I-502, as drafted and presented to the voters, leaves counties and cities free to regulate or flat out ban pot-selling businesses inside their boundaries
Two years in the making, the wide-ranging plan is meant to address downtown parking needs in the short term, i.e., a year out, and in the long term, 6 to 10 years out, said Planning Manager Elizabeth Chamberlain
“I think the shopping-cart policy we have does help keep the City cleaner than if we didn’t have something in place,” said Bill Peloza, chairman of the Municipal Services Committee. “Then we’d have a real shopping-cart epidemic, like we did before we started this program.”
As Auburn Police Department Honor Guard and Chief Bob Lee stood by to safeguard the orderly transition of power, Mayor-elect Nancy Backus raised her right hand and repeated the oath of office read by City Attorney Dan Heid.