Morning Fizz
City Light Director Carrasco Looking for New Job
1. Longtime Seattle City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco
is applying for a new job in Arizona—GM of Salt River Project, a power utility that serves metro Phoenix.
He is one of five finalists for the job, which will pay between $500,000 and $700,000 a year.
Carrasco has been superintendent of city light since February 2004. He is currently the highest paid city employee, making $225,057.
UPDATE: The Arizona Republic had the news earlier this week.
2. Maurice Classen , the King County deputy prosecutor who's emerging as the most credible challenger to city council member Jean Godden, has another prominent supporter: T-Mobile executive Joe Mallahan, who lost the 2009 mayoral election to Mayor Mike McGinn.
Mallahan maxed out to Classen, giving $700.
3. Today's another milestone in Olympia: the last day for bills from one house to make it out of the opposite house's ways and means committee. As we noted yesterday afternoon , for example, Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles' (D-36, Ballard) medical marijuana bill made it out of the house ways and means committee, just in time.
Another bill we've been following , Rep. Christine Rolfes' (D-23, Kitsap County) oil spill clean up bill, which makes oil companies upgrade their preparedness to deal with spills, still hasn't moved out of senate ways and means. The committee held a public hearing on the bill on Wednesday and they are scheduled to meet today at 1:30—no agenda has been announced.
4. The city's Department of Transportation (SDOT) has formally recommended a "road diet" on N. 125th St. in Lake City ---a proposal that drew criticism from neighborhood residents last year because it would reduce the number of lanes on the road from four to three (two traffic lanes and a turning lane). The road, according to SDOT, only carries 16,000 cars a day, and has a much higher than average rate of speeding and collisions between cars and bikes or pedestrians.
City council members Sally Clark and Sally Bagshaw reportedly told neighborhood residents this past weekend that they didn't support the project, and asked to re-route the bike lanes to "another street" instead. However, as we've reported, 125th is the only route that goes directly through that part of Lake City.
5. In case you missed it yesterday, Erica had this scoop : Port Commissioner Gael Tarleton says the Port of Seattle does not have to pay its $300 million pledge to the tunnel project unless the Port decides—after it's been built—that the tunnel project is a success.
He is one of five finalists for the job, which will pay between $500,000 and $700,000 a year.
Carrasco has been superintendent of city light since February 2004. He is currently the highest paid city employee, making $225,057.
UPDATE: The Arizona Republic had the news earlier this week.
2. Maurice Classen , the King County deputy prosecutor who's emerging as the most credible challenger to city council member Jean Godden, has another prominent supporter: T-Mobile executive Joe Mallahan, who lost the 2009 mayoral election to Mayor Mike McGinn.
Mallahan maxed out to Classen, giving $700.
3. Today's another milestone in Olympia: the last day for bills from one house to make it out of the opposite house's ways and means committee. As we noted yesterday afternoon , for example, Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles' (D-36, Ballard) medical marijuana bill made it out of the house ways and means committee, just in time.
Another bill we've been following , Rep. Christine Rolfes' (D-23, Kitsap County) oil spill clean up bill, which makes oil companies upgrade their preparedness to deal with spills, still hasn't moved out of senate ways and means. The committee held a public hearing on the bill on Wednesday and they are scheduled to meet today at 1:30—no agenda has been announced.
4. The city's Department of Transportation (SDOT) has formally recommended a "road diet" on N. 125th St. in Lake City ---a proposal that drew criticism from neighborhood residents last year because it would reduce the number of lanes on the road from four to three (two traffic lanes and a turning lane). The road, according to SDOT, only carries 16,000 cars a day, and has a much higher than average rate of speeding and collisions between cars and bikes or pedestrians.
City council members Sally Clark and Sally Bagshaw reportedly told neighborhood residents this past weekend that they didn't support the project, and asked to re-route the bike lanes to "another street" instead. However, as we've reported, 125th is the only route that goes directly through that part of Lake City.
5. In case you missed it yesterday, Erica had this scoop : Port Commissioner Gael Tarleton says the Port of Seattle does not have to pay its $300 million pledge to the tunnel project unless the Port decides—after it's been built—that the tunnel project is a success.
