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City of Seattle Proposition 1: Seattle Prop. 1 would enact a six-year levy to raise money to do some much-needed safety maintenance on the Pike Place Market. Pretty much everyone in town supports the levy. With uncharacteristically weird grammar, the Times says, "It's not fun or fancy improvements, but you have to do it."
City of Seattle Proposition 2: This one's about the parks levy, and there's some disagreement as to whether or not this is the right time to ask taxpayers for the $145 million package. The Times says there are some good things about the plan, but "one or two promising proposals are not enough to get voters over the hump of ballot fatigue and overtaxation in trying economic times." The Stranger says Prop. 2 is "totally worth voting for." Mayor Nickels wants to wait until 2010 to ask for this levy, because he and this Seattlest both hate nature/beauty/goodness/children.
And you? What do you think about all of this City of Seattle business? More on both Propositions can be found here. Our poll closes tomorrow at 3 p.m., and be sure to drop a note about your reasoning in the comments.
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First!
I KNEW I wasn't the only Seattlest reader who hates nature/beauty/goodness/children.
i hate nature and children too. i'm all for delaying it a while, we can pay for more parks later. in the mean time we can enjoy the ones we have.
I can't vote against parks, it just seems wrong, even if I do sorta agree with Nickels that it might be the wrong time.
Okay, I know "everyone in town" supports the market levy, and I agree, but there really isn't that much disagreement on the parks levy.
Here's just the organizational and elected officials endorsements for Proposition 2. I know that Seattlest agrees with the Mayor, but these folks don't:
11th District Democrats
34th District Democrats
36th District Democrats
37th District Democrats
43rd District Democrats
46th District Democrats
Abundant Life Christian Fellowship
Allied Arts
American Family Magazine
American Society of Landscape Architects-Washington Chapter
Arboretum Foundation
Ballard News Tribune
Cascade Bicycle Club
Cascade Land Conservancy
Crown Hill Neighborhood Association
Disc NW
Feet First
Friends of Athletic Fields
Friends of Denny Park
Friends of Discovery Park
Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks
Friends of Gas Works Park
Friends of Seattle
Groundswell NW
Jefferson Park Alliance
King County Democrats
Laurelhurst Community Club
Lakewood Seward Park Neighborhood Association
Madrona Community Council
Mapleleaf Community Council
Metropolitan Democratic Club
Northwest Asian Weekly
P-Patch Trust
Seattle Audubon
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Central Little League
Seattle Children’s Play Garden
Seattle Great City Initiative
Seattle Parks Foundation
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Youth Soccer Association
Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center
Seward Park Playground Improvement Foundation (SPPIF)
SCALLOPS
Sierra Club
Sunset Hill Community Association
Sustainable South Seattle
Sustainable Seattle
The Nature Consortium
Thornton Creek Alliance
Trust for Public Land
Urban Sparks
Vulcan Inc.
Wallingford Communtiy Council
Washington Conservation Voters
West Seattle Herald
Woodland Soccer Club
Councilmember Tim Burgess, Queen Anne
Councilmember Richard Conlin
Councilmember Bruce Harrell
Councilmember Nick Licata
Senator Adam Kline
Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles
Senator Ed Murray
Councilmember Tom Rasmussen
Mayor Norm Rice
Mayor Paul Schell
Not all of Seattlest hates parks, Todd. I will vote for parks in Seattle until the cows come home. To their parks. Because they'll be able to graze there peacefully.
Oh, see? Vulcan loves nature too! I'm even more heartless than Vulcan!
We loves the parks! We hates the parks!
Good job Katelyn! Maybe next you'll make a street car that crashes into cows.
A girl's gotta dream, Troy.