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McGinn Appoints Slate of Contributors to Help Shape Transportation Ballot Measure
This post has been updated to reflect the fact that Lyn Tangen donated $500 to Sally Bagshaw and $200 to Richard Conlin, and that Barbara Wright donated $450 to Bagshaw, contributions I initially missed.
This morning, the city council's transportation committee will appoint 12 people to a new Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee III (CTAC-III, confusingly pronounced "SeaTac"), the group that will come up with recommendations for a ballot measure to help pay for city transportation projects---six names from the mayor, and six from the council.
They are: Cascade Bicycle Club advocacy director David Hiller, Sierra Club transportation chair Tim Gould, landscape architect and longtime McGinn supporter Brice Maryman, El Centro de la Raza director Estela Ortega, Washington Environmental Council board and carpenters' union head member John Littel, and Metro transportation planner Ref Lindmark.
What that group has in common (besides the fact that most of them are environmentalists): Every one of them helped McGinn financially during or immediately after his run for mayor (AKA the late train ). Several also volunteered for McGinn's campaign. In all, the six appointees contributed nearly $3,200 to McGinn's campaign.
In contrast, only half of the city council's six appointees gave money to winning candidates last year---Children's Hospital transportation planner Paulo Nunes-Ueno gave $225 to Mike O'Brien (and $250 to McGinn), Vulcan government relations director Lyn Tangen gave $200 to Richard Conlin and $500 to Sally Bagshaw, and King County Public Health deputy director Barbara Wright gave $450 to Bagshaw, for a total of $1,375 in contributions to all council members. The council's other picks are Downtown Seattle Association head Kate Joncas, accessibility architect and consultant Karen Braitmayar, and Transportation Choices Coalition outreach director Shefali Ranganathan.
Last year, the council created a citywide Transportation Benefit District, allowing the council to raise car-tab fees by $20 and put a proposal on the ballot that could include sales taxes, property taxes, up to $80 in additional car-tab taxes, and tolls on city streets. The CTAC group will come up with a proposed list of revenue sources by the end of the year.
This morning, the city council's transportation committee will appoint 12 people to a new Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee III (CTAC-III, confusingly pronounced "SeaTac"), the group that will come up with recommendations for a ballot measure to help pay for city transportation projects---six names from the mayor, and six from the council.
They are: Cascade Bicycle Club advocacy director David Hiller, Sierra Club transportation chair Tim Gould, landscape architect and longtime McGinn supporter Brice Maryman, El Centro de la Raza director Estela Ortega, Washington Environmental Council board and carpenters' union head member John Littel, and Metro transportation planner Ref Lindmark.
What that group has in common (besides the fact that most of them are environmentalists): Every one of them helped McGinn financially during or immediately after his run for mayor (AKA the late train ). Several also volunteered for McGinn's campaign. In all, the six appointees contributed nearly $3,200 to McGinn's campaign.
In contrast, only half of the city council's six appointees gave money to winning candidates last year---Children's Hospital transportation planner Paulo Nunes-Ueno gave $225 to Mike O'Brien (and $250 to McGinn), Vulcan government relations director Lyn Tangen gave $200 to Richard Conlin and $500 to Sally Bagshaw, and King County Public Health deputy director Barbara Wright gave $450 to Bagshaw, for a total of $1,375 in contributions to all council members. The council's other picks are Downtown Seattle Association head Kate Joncas, accessibility architect and consultant Karen Braitmayar, and Transportation Choices Coalition outreach director Shefali Ranganathan.
Last year, the council created a citywide Transportation Benefit District, allowing the council to raise car-tab fees by $20 and put a proposal on the ballot that could include sales taxes, property taxes, up to $80 in additional car-tab taxes, and tolls on city streets. The CTAC group will come up with a proposed list of revenue sources by the end of the year.
