NEWBA Update- September 2010

NEWBA UPDATE- September 2010

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Status of Annextion

Petition Drive Oct 10, 2007

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● Introduction-----It is time to update the relationship between the NEWBA,, (North East West Bothell Annexation) and the City of Bothell. It is somewhat disappointing to many citizens who worked for annexation for decades only to fail at the Boundary Review Board (BRB). Groups from Locust Way, Hilltop Area, and 39th Ave SE have worked for years with the assumption of success with the BRB. The BRB is a state board with 5 Commissioners who sit in judgment as to 9 areas of objectives in accordance with RCW 36.93.180. Factors include preservation of natural neighborhoods and communities, use of physical boundaries, creations and preservation of logical services...etc. Bothell failed miserably at the BRB in June 2009, which can be verified by the BRB decision paper which is critical to understand for it was a painful experience by representatives from the NEWBA to have a right to vote for our destiny to fail in a few hours of deliberation. It is the intent of this update to review what happened and how Bothell is addressing our future now. There are issues of demographics of Bothell with our desire to have more representative government. Is the Bothell Council afraid of a north end takeover by 40,000 Snohomish County/Bothell Citizens vs 20,000 King County/Bothell Citizens? In my opinion, this is a basic issue that will haunt our area for years to come and is the only answer as to the past actions by the Bothell Council. This may change in the coming years. Symbolically, Superior Court for all of Bothell would shift to Everett from Seattle. READ FULL ARTICLE

Posted by: GGrieve on Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 08:37 PM 14 Reads

Introduction-----It is time to update the relationship between the NEWBA,, (North East West Bothell Annexation) and the City of Bothell. It is somewhat disappointing to many citizens who worked for annexation for decades only to fail at the Boundary Review Board (BRB)

Click here to Read the Boundary Review Board paper.

Groups from Locust Way, Hilltop Area, and 39th Ave SE have worked for years with the assumption of success with the BRB. The BRB is a state board with 5 Commissioners who sit in judgment as to 9 areas of objectives in accordance with RCW 36.93.180. Factors include preservation of natural neighborhoods and communities, use of physical boundaries, creations and preservation of logical services...etc. Bothell failed miserably at the BRB in June 2009, which can be verified by the BRB decision paper which is critical to understand for it was a painful experience by representatives from the NEWBA to have a right to vote for our destiny to fail in a few hours of deliberation. It is the intent of this update to review what happened and how Bothell is addressing our future now. There are issues of demographics of Bothell with our desire to have more representative government. Is the Bothell Council afraid of a north end takeover by 40,000 Snohomish County/Bothell Citizens vs 20,000 King County/Bothell Citizens? In my opinion, this is a basic issue that will haunt our area for years to come and is the only answer as to the past actions by the Bothell Council. This may change in the coming years. Symbolically, Superior Court for all of Bothell would shift to Everett from Seattle.

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Posted by: GGrieve on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 01:25 AM 666 Reads

On May 6, at the regular Bothell Council Meeting, a video tour of the MUGA area as finalized by the City...was presented in a form of 7 DVDs that were given to each Council. Member and it was an attempt to give a qualitative review of the entire area...showing locations of 3 parks, (13 Acre East Bothell Park-at 45th and 228th...being Planned), Logan Park and Forsgren Park, typical homes and streets, Business Districts and location Fire Stations.

The Bothell Staff is now working to update the Nesbitt Report for a staff report for the Study Session on May 27.... were the NEWBA reps will have some participation...

It is likely that the fiscal review will continue to be positive,,,and in particular the funding of Capital Improvements will be enhanced by Park and Transportation Mitigation Fees..which appear to have been left out of the analysis...it could amount to $30,000,000 for a 7 year progam... The Bothell MUGA had in 2006 $60,000,000 in new construction...and $300,000,000 in property sales... The revenue for our MUGA of Bothell is huge

Posted by: GGrieve on Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 01:32 AM 932 Reads

This updates the current actions for Annexaion

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Posted by: GGrieve on Monday, October 08, 2007 - 05:05 AM 861 Reads

On Oct. 10, 2007 a Petition Drive Kickoff will be held at 7 PM at the Bothell Police Station,,,on the corner of 101st ST and 184....Len Goodisman and Mickie Gunderson will lead a meeting to review the process and petition and organization. This petition will have a goal of 10% of the last general election.. this petition will be submitted to the Bothell Council for action...with an attempt to place this annexation proposal on the 2008 Ballot... This web site will answer many questions as to specifics in the coming months regarding Taxes, Zoning, Development Codes, Budgets., etc.. Gene Grieve 425 481 6280

Posted by: GGrieve on Monday, October 08, 2007 - 04:59 AM 951 Reads

The NEWBA committee is now finalizing the petition...for 10% signatures considering the count from last General Election... and when completed it will be submitted to the Bothell Council for action, which will require review by the County Auditors office for verification of signatures... It is likely that the Council will have open discussion and hearing after the review by the Auditor.

The petition will then be acted by the City Council and the annexation proposal will be placed before the Boundary Review Board.and public hearing.

It is hoped that the citizens of the proposed area will have an opportunity to vote on this annexation proposal in Nov. of 08


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