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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAdmin Report Mayor’s Office Memorandum DATE: September 13, 2021 TO: Randy Corman, Council President Members of Renton City Council FROM: Armondo Pavone, Mayor Ed VanValey, Chief Administrative Officer SUBJECT: Administrative Report • Solid Waste Utility Division is hosting the last of three mini-recycle events on Saturday, September 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Renton Technical College. This event will include document shredding and collection of Styrofoam®. Food donations for the Renton Salvation Army Food Bank will also be accepted during this event. More information can be found at rentonwa.gov/solid_waste_utility/recycle_event. • King County Library System will display a Pop-up Story Walk along the walking path at Liberty Park through September. Enjoy each page of Cat’s Colors as you walk around the park. • Come view Renton History Museum’s new temporary exhibit When You Can’t Go Home: Portraits of Refugees in the Pacific Northwest. This exhibit is the life work of Karisa Keasey, local artist, author, and advocate. Keasey spent hours with each refugee featured in this exhibit with the help of World Relief, a globally celebrated refugee resettlement organization. These moving watercolor portraits demonstrate a passion for enabling some of the most marginalized people in the world to be seen and heard. On exhibit through November 6. • Information about preventative street maintenance, traffic impact projects, and road closures happening this week can be found at http://rentonwa.gov/traffic. All projects are weather permitting and unless otherwise noted, streets will always remain open. Preventative street maintenance, traffic impact projects, and road closures will be at the following locations:  Monday, September 13 through Friday, September 17, 2021, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Street maintenance crews will be conducting crack sealing operations along North 4th Street between Park Avenue North and Logan Avenue North. Alternating single lane closures will occur between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.  Lake Washington Loop Trail Project Logan Avenue South and Airport Way: Lane closures continue between now and project completion in early fall. For Randy Corman, Council President Members of Renton City Council Page 2 of 2 September 13, 2021 more information and project updates, please visit the project webpage at https://rentonwa.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=7922741&pageId=9346818.  Ongoing Trail Closure through fall 2021: Ripley Lane North Trail closure just north of the VMAC and the trailhead going north to support the WSDOT I-405 Renton to Bellevue Widening and Express Toll Lanes Project. Questions may be directed to Justin Johnson at 425-902-7172.  Downtown Utility Improvement Project: The Downtown Utility Improvement Project requires several roadway closures and detours between now and project completion in 2022. For more information on current upcoming road closures and traffic impacts or to sign up for email or text alerts visit the project website at https://rentonwa.gov/duip.  Williams Avenue South and Wells Avenue South Conversion Project: Impacts to traffic will continue throughout this area between South 2nd Street and South 3rd Street. Please visit the project webpage at https://rentonwa.gov/ww for more information.