9/5/07, Final Primary Election Results

Official Final
KING COUNTY
9/5/2007 8:59:31 AM
Primary Election
August 21, 2007
Page 8 of 16
CITY OF REDMOND
Ballots Cast/Registered Voters:

6708 / 23630 / 28.39%

Poll Precincts Counted/Total Poll Precincts:
59

.....100.00%

City of Redmond Mayor
John Marchione
2445
.....39.23%
Jim Robinson
2252
.....36.13%
Holly Plackett
1517.....
24.34%
Write-in
19
.....0.30%

Proposition No. 1 - Levy for Public Safety Funding
YES
4116
......62.96%
NO
2421.....
37.04%
Proposition No. 2 - Levy for Parks and Recreational Funding
YES
3857.....
59.06%
NO
2674......
40.94%
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8/21 Council Meeting notes:

DESPITE REPEATED CRIES OF BUDGETARY WOES, Mayor Ives announced tonight that all future Council meetings would be taped and archived and available to view on the Redmond website! http://www.redmond.gov/. Hip, hip, hooray!

John Resha resigned from Council tonight owing to personal reasons, effective immediately. John's passionate public service work was applauded by all.

Council complained about the Redmond Reporter's distribution practice of throwing papers onto driveways. Councilwoman Allen said her deliveries were unreliable and Richard Cole said the neighborhoods are looking trashy from unread papers accumulating on driveways; with no way of cancelling delivery. I was hoping the City would start advertising their Legal Public Notices and conservation ads in our local paper rather than citizens having to pay the Seattle Times.

I recommend the Reporter publish & deliver only one paper/week and charge readers for it. The editor wouldn't have to scramble to find and print news twice a week, content would improve, the subscription price would pay for the smaller distribution. The Reporter shouldn't be afraid of not signing enough customers. It's a good paper and unlike "FOCUS" it provides valuable 'independent' community forum.

FROM BOB CHAMBERLIN, NORTH REDMOND GROUP:
As I have been led to understand it, Marchione got the biggest share of the votes in the primary for Redmond Mayor with Robinson coming in second. Regrettably, voter turn-out was apparently only 16.7% of the registered voters. It was actually a smaller percentage of the actual residents since this does not count the rather large number of people who have recently moved to Redmond and are not yet registered to vote in Redmond. As such, a very few people collectively decided that all of us should have our taxes raised rather substantially in addition to the amount that they were already being raised without our specific permission. I guess the moral is that people who choose to say nothing (IE: don’t vote) had best be prepared to live (without complaint) with the decisions of those who do speak with their vote. Please forgive my complaint about this. I just feel that the city should be doing a much better job of managing the money that we have already given them and that they really do not need more of our money to mismanage. Perhaps I am relatively alone in this belief. If anyone else has an opinion about this I would personally love to hear it. Just hit reply to this message and everyone on the list will be copied. Bob Chamberlin 11405 169th Ct. NE Redmond, WA 98052 Home: 425-867-0667 Mobile: 425-503-4163 bobc@bc.org