May 3

Mayor answers questions from Northgate town hall

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Although Mayor Mike McGinn earlier released the questions and answers posed at his town hall-style visit to Northgate and Maple Leaf in March, some of the questions he was unable to answer.


Mayor Mike McGinn visted Thornton Creek Park No. 6 in March.

Now we have the answers. From the Mayor’s Office:

1) How can we respond to business concerns about day laborers looking for work at the corner of 117th and Aurora?
It’s important to understand that the main reason workers are there right now is that employers are stopping to offer them work. That’s unlikely to change in the future, but a lot of issues can be addressed with better communication between local businesses and the workers in question.

Casa Latina, a local non-profit that works to organize and educate Latino day laborers around the city, has generously offered to facilitate a meeting between local businesses and the laborers themselves to help each side better understand the other’s needs. Please contact Sol Villarreal in my office at sol.villarreal@seattle.gov or 206-427-3062 if you’re interested in participating in such a meeting.

2) Will there be cuts to the school lunch program next year?
No. The state consolidated several different school lunch funding programs for next year, to reduce administrative costs, but there will not be any cuts to the school lunch program in Seattle Public Schools.

3) When will the North Precinct work get started?
$500,000 has been included in the 2011 Adopted Capital Improvement Program to upgrade the existing facility. We are still taking a look at the plans for a new North Precinct building, and have not yet identified a funding source or decided on a timeline for its construction. The City has a lot of important capital projects competing for scarce dollars, and we are working hard to come up with a plan to get them built.

4) Is it a requirement that daycares have to wrap cloth diapers in plastic in order to use them?
For public health reasons, Washington state law does require that re-usable diapers be “individually bagged and placed without rinsing into a separate, cleanable, covered container equipped with a waterproof liner before transporting to the laundry, given to commercial service or returned to parents for laundry,” and also that they be “removed from the facility daily or more often if odor is present.” (WAC 170-295-4120) The Washington State Department of Early Learning is the agency that licenses child care centers and enforces the legislation; a full list of their requirements and regulations can be found at http://www.del.wa.gov/laws/rules/licensing.aspx. If you’d like to contact someone at the Department of Early Learning, their Seattle phone number is 206-760-2479, or you can find more contact information online at http://www.del.wa.gov/about/contact.aspx.

I hope the information in this E-mail is helpful; if you have input on how to improve our neighborhood visit follow-up going forward, feel free to contact Sol Villarreal in my office at sol.villarreal@seattle.gov  or 206-427-3062.
 
For other opportunities to talk to me or other City staff in your community please see our Public Outreach and Engagement Calendar at http://seattle.gov/engage/access.htm, and as always, please write to me with any questions, comments, or concerns that you have at mike.mcginn@seattle.gov .

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  1. #4 has to be among the most random question ever asked at a politician’s open forum.

    Not a bad question. It’s just that if you were going to write down a list of questions likely to come up at a politician’s open house I bet, “What do I do with dirty diapers” wouldn’t hit the list.

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