KC Executive Ron "King" Sims has been lobbying the County Council to buy a building in South Seattle for a while now, to supposedly group all of the Elections offices in one place, even though the County is in the process of building a new building! And this is during a tight budget period?
Fortunately, as reported here, those plans have been halted - for now - by of all people, Council member Bob Ferguson, a Democrat!
While I applaud Mr. Ferguson's efforts, the Council still voted to approve $75,000 to develop criteria for building owners to pitch buildings to the Council, that they may want to sell to the county. To me, the county should develop space in their new building to house the Elections office, and spend that $75,000 there, but they won't. I suppose that spending $75,000 is better than spending the $22.8 million dollars it would have taken to purchase and renovate the other building.
Kudos to Bob Ferguson for saying "NO!" to "King" Sims!
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