Mukilteo: EMS levy meeting scheduled
Get your questions answered about the 2010 emergency medical-services levy in open houses at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Fire Station 24, 700 Fifth St., and 6 p.m. Wednesday at Fire Station 25, 10400 47th Place in the Harbour Pointe neighborhood.
The city’s six-year EMS levy expires Dec. 31, and the City Council is expected to decide May 17 whether to place the levy on the Aug. 17 primary election ballot.
Monroe: City seeks new councilmember
The hunt is on for former City Councilman David Kennedy’s replacement.
The City Council is seeking applications from residents who have lived inside the city limits for at least one year.
Applicants must send a letter declaring their interest and an explanation of why they want the seat to deputy city clerk Eayde Martinson, City of Monroe, 806 W. Main St.
The council will gather applications until noon May 25 before appointing Kennedy’s replacement. The position pays $100 per meeting, with a limit of four meetings per month.
Kennedy resigned his seat March 30. His replacement may finish his term, which runs through 2011.
More info: 360-863-4524 or emartinson@ci.monroe.wa.us.
Lodging tax advisory committee openings
The city is gathering applications for its lodging tax advisory committee, which reviews requests for hotel-motel tax funding.
Applicants must represent a hotel or motel required to collect the tax or be involved in activities funded by the tax, such as tourism promotion.
Committee members serve an unpaid one-year term. There are about two meetings a year.
To apply, send a letter of interest with your qualifications by May 31 to Mayor Robert Zimmerman, Lodging Tax Advisory Committee, 806 W. Main St., Monroe.
More info: 360-863-4540 or bfeilberg@ci.monroe.wa.us.
Whidbey Island: Take a tour of forest
Whidbey Camano Land Trust has invited the public to learn more about the effort to buy a large parcel of forest land.
An open house is set for 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Land Trust office, Barn C-201 at Greenbank Farm, 765 Wonn Road.
Tours of the property are scheduled for 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday from the Land Trust office.
The Land Trust has purchased an option to buy the 664-acre former Trillium property and is trying to raise $4.2 million by June 10.
More info: www.savethe forestnow.org.
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