CiViK provides 2009 City Council
Candidate Information from the
Washington Public Disclosure Commission
On Their Website
“The public’s right to know of the financing of political campaigns and lobbying and the financial affairs of elected officials and candidates far outweighs any right that these matters remain secret and private.” RCW 42.17.010 (10)
As per our IRC 501(c)(4) status, CiViK will [...]
As the author of this blog, I would like to state my sincere hope that the results of the Kirkland City Council’s annexation vote will not further divide Kirkland and our neighbors to the north. While many people hold deep concerns about the annexation process and the financial projections for annexation, those concerns should not [...]
The news about the April 7 Public Hearing on annexation (to be immediately followed by a City Council Go/No Go vote) is apparently spreading throughout the neighborhoods. Citizens around Kirkland are writing letters and sending emails, letting friends and neighbors know that their City Council is pulling a fast one on them: the Council has [...]
SRM Development, The City of Kirkland and CiViK have reached agreement on a modified plan
Documents just received from the City of Kirkland shed light on rumors that there has been progress in settlement talks surrounding the SRM Development v. City of Kirkland/CiViK lawsuit. It appears that an agreement has been reached between the parties and it is [...]
SRM Development has filed a petition with the Superior Court of Washington against the City of Kirkland and Citizens for a Vibrant Kirkland (CiViK) claiming a violation of constitutional rights in the appeal of SRM’s Bank of America/Merrill Gardens…
Will the citizens work together to find common ground or will we split further apart? There is a great deal of passion surrounding the events of the past four months with regard to the Bank of America project. This appeal process began in April, and it was evident last night that all parties were tired of…
By a vote of 4 to 3, the Kirkland City Council decided to end the Bank of America appeal and send the project back to the Design Review Board… unless SRM Development decides they have a better chance in Superior Court. SRM presented their final modified proposal to the Council followed…
Concerned citizens gathered at City Hall to attend a special meeting of the Kirkland City Council. The atmosphere was congenial as people of many political stripes waited in council chambers for the meeting to begin. After a slight delay the Mayor opened…
SRM Development has requested that Councilmember Hodgson “be prohibited from participating further in this appeal in any manner.” SRM documented their objection as follows: 1. Disqualification and Recusal of Councilmember Hodgson…
More light has been shed on the events surrounding the Bank of America Appeal. It appears that both SRM and CiViK agreed to a series of Question and Answer rounds following the July 11 quasi-judicial hearing. Kirkland Views has obtained additional…
A series of questions were posed to SRM Development during the July 11 hearing before the Kirkland City Council in the CiViK appeal of the Bank of America project. Kirkland Views has obtained a copy of SRM Development’s response to these questions….
To say that the events surrounding the City Council quasi-judicial hearing of July 1, 2008 have been bizarre would be an understatement. Kirkland has been witness to high drama in the Council chambers the likes of which we hope to never see again. This is a disturbing course…
“Mr. Hodgson’s waiver of the City’s attoney-clinet privilege was unliateral, unauthorized and not an effective waiver. It was clear at the time Mr. Hodgson provided you with the Memo that his attempted waiver was opposed by a majority of the Kirkland City Council..”
What role does anonymity play in the course of public debate? Does one have a responsibility to identify oneself when making potentially injurious claims against others? Or, is one immune to the mores of a civil society simply because they are able to hide behind a cloak of anonymity?
I pose these questions because of the [...]
The citizens of Kirkland have a penchant for appealing stopping projects they don’t like: Lake and Central in 2004 map, the Bank of America Project 2007 map, and most recently, the pending the McLeod Project map. Two of these three downtown developments have been successfully appealed stopped by CiViK. The McLeod project is currently on [...]
At 12:37AM the gavel came down as the Kirkland City Council ruled in favor of CiViK in their appeal of the mixed use project on the Bank of America site map in downtown at the corner of Kirkland Ave. and Lake Street South map. This project was to be the second phase of the Merrill Gardens senior [...]
Round two of the quasi-judicial hearing before the Kirkland City Council is scheduled for Tuesday, May 6th at 7:30PM. Round one needed to be continued as it became obvious that the proceedings could not be completed during one session.
There are many issues on the table to be decided by the council. Discussion on these pages [...]
