On February 11, 2014, the Bothell City Council held a study session for AB #14-24, the appointment of the Salary Commission.
I saw a letter in the Bothell Reporter the other day that stated that Bothell is a better place with Freed as mayor. This one positive letter was surrounded by negative letters from every side concerning the mayor. And when the letter stated that the mayor understands the private sector, it became apparent that there are two very different meanings to the term “private sector.”
The mayor in his letter admitting that he was involved in purchasing the back-nine of the Wayne Golf Course, stated that he was just one “partner” in the sale.
Craig Stone, the Washington State Toll Division Director seems to have a very “optimistic” assessment of the benefits from tolls.
In the mystery surrounding the Bothell mayor’s role in the purchase of the Wayne Golf Course back-nine, there is a rumor that the corporation that the mayor declines to mention is Toll Brothers.
This is regarding the crosswalks on Northeast 141st.
Ever since it was revealed that the [Bothell] Mayor [Joshua Freed], and [Councilman] Mark Lamb, and some of their cronies, had secretly purchased the rights to buy and develop the back-nine of the Wayne Golf Course, it appears that all decisions by the City Council are suspect. The lack of openness and transparency is apparent to the other council members and to the public in general.
The Bothell City Council recently voted 5-1 to sell a surplus, contaminated property to Regency Centers. This may be the most significant development in our city in the past 20 years.
Mayor Joshua Freed has been a key leader in the revitalization for the city of Bothell. Under his leadership, McMenamins is finally opening on Oct. 15 which will preserve the historic Anderson School, re-open the Northshore pool and give Bothell its first movie theater in decades.
I appreciate the March 18 Bothell Reporter account of the pending Bothell city investigation into the mayor’s potential conflicts of interest.
I do not begrudge anyone living in Bothell the right to make a living at his or her profession, provided that the business dealings are legal. However, when a businessperson is also a member of the City Council, that person must give first priority to his fiduciary responsibilities to the city he serves.
I read with great interest your article titled “Bothell mayor triggers conflict of interest investigation” from the March 20 edition.
Bothell High School has a huge problem and we need to fix it. Survey’s have shown that, “School waste is up to 80 percent recyclable.” If you think about all the schools in the world that don’t recycle that is a lot of biodegradable material being hauled into landfills. Although we are just one school, we do contribute to this problem.
The possible sale of the back-nine of the Wayne Golf Course has been in the news for the last 3-6 months. The Bothell Planning Commission and the Bothell City Council have had “standing-room-only” meetings in recent weeks. When our own mayor admitted that he had an interest in developing the back-nine of the Wayne Golf Course, the requests for a full independent investigation was voiced by many citizens and council members alike.
Recently, the Bothell City Council voted to sell surplus land to create yet another great development in our downtown, this time the anchor tenant will be a specialty grocer that citizens have been demanding for years.
To Bothell Mayor Joshua Freed – I am so disappointed to hear that you have “financial interest” meaning purchase of the Back 9 of the Wayne Golf Course and that you did not tell the other Council members when they repeatedly asked who might have made an offer.
My wife and I have lived in Kenmore since 1996. On numerous occasions we have tried to impress Kenmore City Hall with our concerns regarding the safety issues along 64th Avenue Northeast, especially between Northeast 184th Street and Northeast 187th Street.
What makes a community a community? What gives it heart, a pulse, movement? It is the people who are connected, invested and involved that make it something special and meaningful. Bothell is currently being torn apart by the boundary changes proposed by the EDFT (Enrollment Demographics Task Force) by the Norhshore School District.
Tourism is the fourth-largest industry in our state, yet Washington is the only state in the U.S. that does not have a robust tourism promotion program – since the State Legislature closed the state tourism office in 2011.
A National Border Patrol union member wrote the Citizen congratulating Congresswoman Suzan DelBene for sponsoring a bill that supported border protection.