Snoqualmie announces new public works director
January 16, 2009
By Michael Rowe
Snoqualmie’s City Council had a light agenda at its first meeting of 2009, but did announce a new public works director.
The council approved travel and living expenses for Dan Marcinko, who is to serve as the city’s new public works director. The city has been without an official public works director since August when former director Kirk Holmes left the city to assume a similar post in Kittitas County. Alan Lobdell has served as interim public works director since August.
Marcinko is expected to start work in March. He is relocating to Snoqualmie from Illinois.
The city will pay Marcinko for travel and living expenses until he is able to move his family from Illinois. Marcinko has three children in elementary school and will not relocate his family until after the end of the school year.
The meeting also saw the promotion of two city employees. Donya Gregson was appointed to be the new finance officer and Eduardo Jany was sworn in as a police captain.
In other business, the council approved ordinances accepting the Snoqualmie Valley School District’s capital facilities plan for 2009 and eliminating school improvement impact fees for the year. The two ordinances are closely related. The school district’s capital facilities plan determines how much in impact fees will be charged for new home construction.
Because of the failure of last year’s $189 million bond issue, the district scaled down its plans for new construction and instead is focusing on improving existing facilities. The district will ask voters to support a $27.5 million bond issue on March 10, 2009.
The lack of new construction projects in the capital facilities plan means that under state law the district can not ask the city to collect impact fees.
Last year, impact fees on new construction were $5,000 per single family home. If the March 2008 bond issue had passed, the impact fees likely would have risen to around $10,000 per single family home.
The council also approved an ordinance reducing the number of members of the library advisory board from seven to five. Councilwoman and newly appointed mayor pro tem for the 2009 council year, Kathi Prewitt, explained that the board needed seven members during the planning and construction of the new library. Now that the library has been built, the board did not need as many members.
The end of the council meeting included a report from Mayor Matt Larson about the recent flooding. Larson told the council that there was damage to the first floor of the planning commission building and that the planning staff was being relocated to other city offices.
In response to questions from the council, interim Public Works Director Lobdell told the council that damage to roads and streets from the flood would probably be around $30,000. He reported that there were numerous road washouts that would need to be repaired.
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CAN YOU BELIEVE THE CITY PLANNERS AND STAFF DID NOT BUILD THE CITY PLANNING COMMISION HIGH ENOUGH TO AVOID FLOODING. WHEN WILL LARSONS TERM BE UP SO WE CAN SEND HIM TO A NEW CAREER? KEEP AN EYE ON THE MAYOR HE IS A GREAT ONE TO RAISE TAXES AND PROMOTE PROJECTS WE DO NOT NEED. NO IS A GOOD WORD TO REMENBER WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR TAXES GOING UP AND YOU HOME VALUE GOING DOOWN.