• 2018-12-06 15:48

    Des Moines City Council Study Session – December 6, 2018

      Mayor: City Council work study session to order. And will Deputy Mayor Pennington please lead us in the Deputy Mayor Vic Pennington: flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mayor: Thank you. This doesn’t seem like
  • 2018-04-05 16:03

    Des Moines City Council April 5, 2018

    Video begins at Aviation Advisory Committee Discussion Full MeetingTranscript (Link to Aviation Advisory Committee Discussion) Opening and Flag Salute Mayor Pina: April 5th study session of the Des Moines City Council to order and will Deputy Mayor Pennington please lead us in the flag salute. Deputy Mayor Pennington: I pledge allegiance to the flag of
  • 2017-03-03 16:09

    City Council considers future of Wasson property at Des Moines Marina

    https://waterlandblog.com/2017/03/03/city-council-considers-future-of-wasson-property-at-des-moines-marina/ By Jack Mayne When longtime Des Moines Councilmember Donald Wasson died a year ago he left his waterfront property located at the entrance to Beach Park to the city and now City Council and staff are working to figure out whether to continue it as a rental house or making other plans. City Manager Michael
  • 2014-11-06 00:00

    November 06, 2014 Environment Committee Agenda (Tree Pruning, Critical Areas)

    21630 11th Avenue South- Des Moines 98198 :45P- 6:30R 1. Approve minutes of 9-18-2014 meeting 2. Tree Ordinance Staff will provide a discussion of the Substitute Draft Ordinance~ and address questions resulting from the public hearing~ including the following general topics: • Critical Areas • Views • Potential Amendments • Fee~s Attachments 1} City Attorney Memos to Councilmembers 2} Staff PowerPoint Presentation 3} Coppicing Information 4} Relevant City Goals~ Policies~ and Strategies 5} Substitute Draft Ordinance 14-043-A 6} Potential Amendments 7} Fee Table showing range of potential fees Draft MINUTES- ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL COMMITIEE MEETING 9.18.2014 The meeting was called to order @ 5:59 PM, Thursday, September 18, 2014, in the North Conference Room @ 21630 11th Avenue South, Des Moines with the following in attendance: Council Members Dave Kaplan, Chair Melissa Musser Vic Pennington Citizens: Nadya Curtis Jill Tinker Bud Bohlor AGENDA: 1. Approve minutes of 8.21.2014 meeting 2. Project Updates 3. SWM Capital Improvement Budget 4. Budget Discussions City Staff Michael Matthias, Assistant City Manager Dan Brewer, Planning, Building & PW Director Loren Reinhold, SWM Utility Manager Denise Lathrop, Comm Dev Manager Nikole Coleman-Porter, Planner II Peggy Volin, Admin Asst II 5. City Camp Plan Update- Conservation Element 6. Review Final Draft Tree Trim Ordinance MEETING: 1. Approve minutes of the August 21, 2014 meeting: Unanimously passed. 2. Project Updates: Loren Reinhold, SWM Utility Manager, gave a brief overview of all the SWM projects that have been completed so far in 2014 which included the pond fencing, 216th Place…
  • 2008-11-09 01:25

    Jolly Entertainers: The Draper Children’s Home Band (King County)

    By Peter Blecha Posted 11/09/2008 HistoryLink.org Essay 8833 In 1907 Herman M. Draper (1858-1927) and his wife, Annie Draper (1860-1927), founded a privately run orphanage, the Children’s Industrial Home and Training School — initially in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood and later in the nearby town of Des Moines. A gifted music educator, Draper formed an all-children
  • 2008-01-27 12:46

    City of Des Moines withdrawing from regional planning council

    The Des Moines City Council is withdrawing its membership from the Puget Sound Regional Council as of July 1. Following a heated exchange, lawmakers voted 4-3 to withdraw from the organization that deals with transportation planning among other issues in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. Councilman Scott Thomassen, Councilman Dave Kaplan, Councilman Ed Pena and
  • 2007-12-29 02:04

    The year that was in Highline

    LORA LAKE CONTROVERSY. The Lora Lake Apartments near Seatac Airport were a source of controversy and protest this year. In November a compromise was reached allowing 162 vacant units at the Lora Lake Apartments to remain as affordable housing. The King County Housing Authority will purchase the apartments.<br><br><b>Photo by Tim Robinson</b> Sat, 12/29/2007 Highline cities
  • 2005-06-15 00:00

    Port, Des Moines work together on business park plan

    tIe and the city of Des Moines formerly bitter adversaries in the third-runway fight – now are working together and may hire a developer to build a 75-acre business park south of Sea.Tac Airport. Yesterday the port Commission approved the first in a series of agreements that could lead to building the park for indus- trial and other uses. That vote followed a similar one Thursday by the City Council. Both were unanimous. “It is a new dax” said Diane Summerhays, the port’s director of Aviation Community Develop- ment. “It’s a pretty big deal for that city and it’s a huge deal for the relationship” between the port and Des Moines. The J,eite stretches northwest from{he intersection of 24th Ave- nue S6uth and South 216th Street. It was a residential neighborhood until the late 1980s when port offi- cials, who operate Sea-Tac, began buying and removing homes in the flight path as part of a noise mitigation program. Several years later the port and J' / /R city sought to develop a techno[ ogy campus on the property But that proposal noundered in part because the two sides were locked in a protracted legal fight over the port’s plans to build the third runway Last summer. Des Moines and other airport-area cities dropped their lawsuits to block construc- tion of the runway which began an era of cooperation. Now Des Moines and the port plan to hire a consultant to write a conceptual master plan for Des Moines Creek Business…
  • 2004-04-19 00:00

    Resolution No. 3523 – Des Moines Creek Basin Plan Interlocal Agreement V2

    A Port of Seattle resolution authorizing the Chief Executive Officer to execute version two of an Interlocal Agreement with the Cities of Des Moines and SeaTac, Washington State Department of Transportation and King County to fund, construct, operate and maintain capital projects necessary to implement the Des Moines Creek Basin Plan. The projects include construction