The Edmonds Civic Roundtable will be presenting a series of conversations with Edmonds city councilmembers. The first one features Council President Vivian Olson and will run from 8-9 a.m. Wednesday, May 1 in the Cline Jewelers Fireside Room, 100 5th Ave. N., Edmonds.
Seating will be limited. Attendees are invited to have a cup of coffee, donated by Starbucks. There is no charge for the event but attendees are asked to RSVP to simanton@comcast.net.
Vivian Olson is amazing…….soooo knowledgeable and listens! We are blessed to have her as our President of City council!
Unfortunately, I will be stuck in a hotel room in South Dakota. I have always found Councilperson Olson to be clear and transparent, as well as thoughtful.
It would be interesting to me to have CP Olson bring an infographic or Strom to explain the projections and math mandated by the GMA. It may take a supercomputer to do the numbers, but it will take Penn & Teller to work the magic. It would also be interesting to hear what the City is doing to get a piece of that delicious gas tax. There are probably 10k – 15k drivers in Edmonds chalking up that fiddycent per gallon, so we should be clamoring to get some of that back. Finally, it would be good to hear what she is doing or has done regionally or Statewide to advocate for Edmonds residents.
We all know that we are broke, we all know that some new novel tax scheme is coming down the pipe, but what are the top 3 priorities for her to continue and the top 3 priorities to discontinue? What budgetary impacts will they have? That would be a good question for MEN to ask all of the CP’s.