We finally had our professional council portrait taken, now that the council has been finalized. (Previous pictures I posted this year were taken by visitors to the council chambers)

These pictures were taken in a light rain, but you can hardly tell. And rainy day pictures always have the nicest lighting and nice color. (click pictures to enlarge)




Here is council only

Here is council and mayor




We've each had new individual shots taken for the city's website. Previously, the website featured a mix of campaign photos and very old council portraits.

Here's mine.

New picture of Marcie Palmer, taken by her husband Gary. Marcie is running for reelection to city council.

Click on the picture to enlarge it!

Click here is more information about Marcie Palmer!

Go Marcie!

There will not be a council meeting tomorrow night because it is the fifth Monday of the month. Instead, most of us will be attending Marcie Palmer's campaign open house at Councilman Don Persson's beautiful home on Renton Hill. You are all invited to join us!

It will be a terrific event, and will give everyone a chance to get to know Marcie better if they have not had an opportunity to visit with her yet.

Here is the invite off of her website:


Renton Citizens to Re-Elect Marcie Palmer Open House
Monday, July 30th, 2007 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Dear Friends:

I am asking you to join me and my campaign team--Renton Citizens to Re-Elect Marcie Palmer--at an open house being sponsored by the campaign at the home of Don and Vicky Persson on Monday, July 30th, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Stop by for some light refreshments and take a moment to meet with me and let me know what issues facing Renton are important to you. This information will be invaluable to me as I continue my campaign to retain my seat on the Renton City Council.

Don and Vicky live on Renton Hill at 538 Renton Avenue South. Parking is down the alley at the rear of the house. You can reach us at their place the day of the open house at 206-579-8804.

There's nothing to bring (but your financial support of my campaign is always appreciated). I look forward to seeing you and we would greatly appreciate it if you plan on attending to please let us know by July 23rd by sending an e-mail to info@Palmer2007.com.

Many thanks,

Marcie Palmer
and Renton Citizens to Re-Elect Marcie Palmer

For more information visit www.marciepalmer.com

Here is a cute story from the Seattle PI. Congratulations to Haben Abraham and her family, and to Marcie Palmer who scheduled Haben for her big show!

( Read more... )

I enthusiastically endorse my colleague and friend Marcie Palmer in her bid for re-election to Renton City Council.

Marcie is an extraordinarily diligent and effective council member. She always does her homework, putting in long hours studying the issues and interviewing the community. She gathers input from citizens constantly, maintaining a meticulous understanding of the feelings and concerns of those who elected her.

Marcie is a problem solver. She is known for her ability to gather parties together and work though differences, often finding common ground that no one else believed could be found. As Chair of the City's Transportation Committee, she is currently working hard on a number of transportation concerns including noise and development issues at the Renton Municipal Airport.

Marcie also represents us in regional transportation planning, to help make sure Renton gets a fair share of State and Federal transportation dollars. She is independent minded, and will not hesitate to vote against the status quo when she knows she is right...a most important quality for your elected officials.

She is a wise steward of tax dollars, and is concerned about those in need in our community. As a result, she works hard on council and in her volunteer projects to make sure everyone is taken care of.

With all this work, she still manages to spend lots of time with her family by including them in so many of her activities. Her talented photographer husband Gary accompanies her to many city functions, and keeps the City of Renton and Chamber of Commerce supplied with high quality photographs for their websites. And Marcie helps in her children's classes, and brings them to city and volunteer events whenever she can.

I ask all my readers to vote for Marcie in November, and to join me in working hard to support her campaign.

Please click here to visit Marcie's website. You can learn more about her, and see how you can help her campaign."

Some photos of Marcie:



Marcie with her family...she worked very hard to try to save the dinner train





Marcie and I helping serve lunch at the Hichlands Community Association Picnic




Marcie tells venerated Boeing Test Pilot Clayton Scott, and hundreds his family and friends gathered for his 100th birthday, that Renton is naming our airport in his honor




Marcie pitching in with Salvation Army




Marcie helping the schools




Consoling a citizen who lost her home in the windstorm




As community leader...speaking at the Piazza

At the council meeting a week ago, the Renton City Council debated passing a resolution concerning the Sonics Arena.

( you can read about the debate and the wording of the proposed resolution by clicking here )

From:
pkplmarcie@comcast.net
To:
racorman@comcast.net (Randy Corman),Jmedzegian@ci.renton.wa.us
Subject:
Email public access
Friday, December 22, 2006 15:30:36

Randy, I just came from your website and saw the entry about our Council email. Julia, please do the same with mine. I totally agree that we should make our public information available to the Public. It will be interesting to see whether anyone is interested in reading it throughout the next year.

Marcie

A vote by the BNSF Corridor Advisory Committee has voted to leave train tracks in all sections of the Eastside Rail corridor, with the exception of the Renton to Bellevue section that is needed by the dinner train!

Here is an excerpt from Dean Radford's story in Sunday's King County Journal....

The committee took votes on the fate of four segments of the corridor. The (Renton) council member, Marcie Palmer, voted no on the committee's recommendation for the segment from Bellevue to Renton because to her it precluded using the corridor for trains in the next 5 to 10 years.

She's still hoping to keep the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train in Renton, but there's no chance of that happening if the track is gone. Eric Temple, the train's owner, is already talking to Woodinville about moving the jumping off point there.

But keeping the rail possibility open in a shorter time frame "would leave the door open a little more," Palmer said.

Temple's fate likely is sealed anyway because BNSF Railway Co. is going to abandon a section of the line at the Wilburton Tunnel in Bellevue. That will allow the state transportation department to save millions of dollars in construction costs in the Interstate 405 widening project because it wouldn't have to accommodate trains through the project.

The Renton City Council voted to protest the abandonment but has not formally done so. Burlington Northern is addressing some of its concerns about ensuring that The Boeing Co. will continue to get its 737 fuselages delivered to its Renton plant by rail without disruption, according to council president Randy Corman.

This has been disappointing for Renton, as we would have liked to keep our beloved dinner train.