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CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON
RESOLUTION NO. 2696
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON, REQUESTING
CONTINUATION OF PUBLIC MEETING CONCERNING GARBAGE
INCINERATION SITING
WHEREAS King County established criteria to use to choose
finalists for the sites for a incinerator or incinerators; and
WHEREAS that criteria was to lead to the selection of six (6 )
separate sites; and
WHEREAS the Black River Quarry was listed as twelfth on the
criteria for site selection; and
WHEREAS the County has received a request from the City of
Seattle to consider the Black River Quarry site as a. finalist despite
its prior announcements that only six sites were to be chosen and
despite the fact that it would be necessary to combine several sites
previously listed individually as one site, and expand the finalist 's
list to seven in order to include the Black River Quarry site as a
finalist; and
WHEREAS adding the Black River Quarry site as a finalist is
strictly a political decision; and
WHEREAS the announcement that the Black River Quarry site was a
finalist and the scheduling of a public meeting on that site have
been done in a very short time: and
WHEREAS publication of the meeting place and time have been done
with very little notice of the meeting; and
WHEREAS the meeting is being held at Foster High School , well
outside the corporate limits of the City of Renton; and
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WHEREAS the preliminary meetings for the Renton area on the
siting of the garbage incinerator was held at Liberty High School ,
once again well outside the corporate limits of the City of Renton;
and
WHEREAS the Black River Quarry site is immediately adjacent to
the City limits to the City of Renton and is within the area that the
City of Renton intends to annex within the near future; and
WHEREAS the date of the public meeting is during the busy season
immediately before Christmas; and
WHEREAS the meeting time is during the busy budget time for
municipalities and presents little opportunity for the staff of the
City of Renton to analyze the proposed site at the Black River Quarry
and make meaningful comments thereupon; and
WHEREAS the persons interested in other sites for the garbage
incinerator have had a much more extended time to prepare comments
and to publicize the public meetings, but the City of Renton has been
denied that opportunity; and
WHEREAS an oral request by Mayor Shinpoch to the King County
Executive to continue the meeting or to reschedule it after the
holidays was denied; and
WHEREAS it is in the public interest to have any site selected by
analysis of environmental documents, but it is feared that ultimate
site selection will also be a political process and the level of
protest and comment will necessarily be a strong factor considered in
locating the final site, and the late addition of this site and the
location of the public meeting will lead to a lessened level of
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concern about this site which would tend to cause decision makers to
favor this site, NOW THEREFORE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON, DO RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS :
1. The above findings are true and correct in all respects.
2. The City of Renton strongly. requests King County to continue
the hearing date for the Black River Quarry site to a time late in
January or early in February and to hold the continued meeting at a
location within the corporate limits of the City of Renton in order
to permit adequate publicity of the hearing and adequate preparation
by the citizenry and municipal government of the City of Renton.
PASSED BY CITY COUNCIL this 14th day off December, 1987.
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Maxine E. Motor, City Clerk
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this 14th day of December; 1987,
Barbara Y. hinpoch , Mayor
Approved as to form:
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Lawrence J. Warr n City Attorney
J8. 14: 46: 12/10/87
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