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		<title>City Council pop quiz 2</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/07/26/city-council-pop-quiz-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Ken Lanfear, director of Public Works who gave a presentation tonight, Ocean Shores is spending the following amount to keep weeds out of &#8220;fresh waterways&#8220;:
a) $140,000, just like was budgeted from the Storm Drain fund
b) $300,000, because the weeds are really bad this year
c) nothing, because we got State grants to take care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Council pop quiz</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/07/26/city-council-pop-quiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Dave Creighton&#8217;s statements tonight (at a relatively uneventful City Council meeting), it costs about how much to put on City Council meetings?
a) $500 per meeting, or $12,000 per year
b) $50 per meeting, or $1,200 per year
c) $2,000 per meeting, or $48,000 per year
d) Nothing &#8212; you can&#8217;t possibly pay for a building (Convention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Council meeting tonight</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/07/26/city-council-meeting-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The usual time and place: 6 p.m., Convention Center. Curiously, no Street LID-related agenda items. The ultra-light agenda includes: updates on tourism (Ken Mercer), Weatherwax banking (Neil Elridge) and roadside mowing/fresh waterways (Ken Lanfear).




 


Staff Repot


















4.
Update on Tourism for 201

Presented by Ken Mercer


























5.
Update on Weatherwax Wetland Mitigation Banking

Presented by Neil Eldridge


























6.
Update on roadside mowing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council meeting Wednesday, not Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/06/25/council-meeting-wednesday-not-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/06/25/council-meeting-wednesday-not-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a scheduling conflict at the Convention Center conv center June 2010 (remember when part of the justification for the new City Hall was to accommodate council meetings?), next week&#8217;s City Council meeting has been switched from Monday to Wednesday at 6 p.m.june 30 agenda
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		<title>The See Party: A Call to Minds</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/06/23/the-see-party-a-call-to-minds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Locals Only column looks for volunteers to help analyze the Ocean Shores budget:
Something is not right, here . . .
We, the residents and property owners of Ocean Shores, are paying more, every year.
And receiving less.
There have been increases in property taxes in each of the last two years,  and expect another 1 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a study session</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/06/14/notes-from-a-study-session/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the study session going on now, Mayor Garland French and Chief of Public Safety Mike Styner are pushing to re-hire the code enforcement officer who was laid off. French said he would, if necessary, &#8220;rob Peter to pay Paul&#8221; to fund the $30,000-35,000 needed for the position for the rest of 2010. &#8220;If I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m on a plane</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/05/24/im-on-a-plane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 00:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not like Kurt Cobain &#8212; literally. Oh, the wonders of modern wi fi . . . Anyway, I&#8217;ll be back to Ocean Shores tonight too late for the City Council meeting. In my going-on two years as NCN editor, I&#8217;ve only missed one of these, previously. And all that happened on that night was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Officer to be added?</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/05/20/police-officer-to-be-added/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/05/20/police-officer-to-be-added/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 22:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, at a study session, City Council and Mayor Garland French will brainstorm how to fund a Police Officer and/or Code Enforcement Officer. Then, at Monday night&#8217;s City Council meeting, they will vote on whether to actually add the staff.
05.24.10 Reg Agenda
05.24.10 Study Session Agen
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		<title>Roundabout questions, and an answer</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/05/12/roundabout-questions-and-an-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/05/12/roundabout-questions-and-an-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 16:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Roundabout scheduled for today at 3 p.m., a question remains: When did your elected officials approve an extra $350,000 of your Water, Sewer and Storm payments to go toward the Roundabout project?
At a recent City Council meeting, director of Public Works Ken Lanfear gave the latest figures: Engineering, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council: 22 cent Library levy</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/05/10/council-22-cent-library-levy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2010/05/10/council-22-cent-library-levy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 06:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After passionate, &#8220;let us have a choice&#8221; pleas by a half-dozen or so Citizens, after some Council members express confusion over the Timberland process, after Bob Crumpacker says the proposed 22 cent Library levy is a &#8220;slap in the face&#8221; to other departments that have had cuts, after Dave Creighton says he wants locals to [...]]]></description>
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