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Problem solving skills will help Dunlap as deputy city manager BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
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racey Dunlap likes figuring out how to make things work. Her recent promotion at the city of Kirkland from finance director to deputy city manager will give her plenty of opportunities to do just that with the city’s Work
Program, which includes the redevelopments of Parkplace and Totem Lake Mall, as well as renovating City Hall. The promotion comes as part of an internal restructuring within the city. Other projects include completing the city’s Comprehensive Plan update, the Transportation Master Plan, as well as on the Fire Strategic
Plan and the Development biennium budget in the face Services Plan. of decreasing sales For Dunlap, who tax revenue while will be joining fellow preparing for the Deputy City Manag2011 annexation of er Marilynne Beard, 33,000 people. challenges have been Though she’s part of her job since been with the city she first took over as nearly a decade, Tracey Dunlap finance director in Dunlap’s experience 2006, where she soon with its develophad to find a way to tailor the ment goes back even
further while working at the Redmond-based Financial Consulting Solutions Group. Growing up in Connecticut, Dunlap earned an industrial engineering degree, later working at Chemical Bank in New York before going into labor forecasting for Grumman Aerospace Corporation on Long Island
during the defense build in the mid 1980s. Grumman was the leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft, including the famous F-14 Tomcat. By the late 1980s, however, Dunlap predicted that the labor demand had reached its peak and would soon be on the decline. In 1990 she and her [ more DUNLAP page 6 ]
Screening of film on Olympic cyclists at KPC tomorrow BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
Lake Washington High School fastpitch softball player Tori Bivens faces the first batter at the Kangs new home field on April 1. The game marked the first time in school history the team has played on campus. MATT PHELPS, Kirkland Reporter
Kangs play first home game ... at home Emotional opening of new field marks new era for defending state champs The Lake Washington High School fastpitch softball team won the state title last year. However, the
Kang’s first home game this season might have been just as emotional. The April 1 game was the first played on the high school campus in
the team’s decades-long history after parents wrote letters to school and administration officials requesting better facilities. The contest was a
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Two years before the 2012 London Summer Olympics, Kirkland resident and cycling Olympian Jennie Reed was determined to walk away with a medal as part of the U.S. Women’s Cycling Team, despite it being her first time competing in a newlycreated Olympic event. Ultimately, despite a lack of support, funding and resources, the team was able to take the silver medal, the first for the U.S. women’s track cycling in over 20 years. A new film, “Personal Gold,” tells the story of how Reed, along with teammates Dotsie Bausch, Sarah Hammer and Lauren Tamayo, managed to pull it off. It will be shown at the Kirkland Performance Center during a private screening at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Running at 80 minutes, the film covers various
topics, including the Lance Armstrong doping scandal that erupted right before the Olympics, and also uses footage recorded during the women’s training prior to the Olympics in Mallorca, Spain as they struggle to recover from a disappointing fifth place performance at the World Championship in April of that year. To improve before the Olympics, Reed said, the team had made several significant changes in the training, one of which was writing their own training program. They also began training together every day, whereas before they had been mainly training individually and only together during week-long camps every other five weeks. Still, they encountered problems, one of which was a lack of resources, according to Reed. The team had only a single coach, Benjamin Sharp, compared [ more SILVER 5 page 5 ]
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VIETNAM WAR COMMEMORATION
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Seattle and Washington State have an unusual role in the Vietnam War Commemoration, a national initiative to thank Vietnam veterans a half century after the United States rapidly escalated its deployment of troops to South Vietnam following the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Many of the troops who returned home were met with disdain rather than with the thanks that veterans of other conflicts received. Joe Galloway, the Vietnam correspondent who authored the book “We Were Soldiers Once... And Young” (adapted into the 2002 film “We Were Soldiers”), is in Seattle for a week of interviews with local Vietnam veterans. He will speak at Seattle Rotary’s noon luncheon April 15 and will be featured at a breakfast interview session at the Columbia Tower Club on April 17. The Vietnam War Commemoration is aimed at spurring events and activities in states, cities and towns around the country to recognize Vietnam veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice. The partners’ program is designed for state and local communities, veterans’ organizations and other nongovernmental organizations to assist in thanking and honoring Vietnam Veterans and their families. To learn how to become a part of the 50 Vietnam Veterans Commemorative, communities may seek information or apply to become a Commemorative Partner by going to: www.vietnamwar50th.com/commemorative_partners/commemorative_partner_program th
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Vietnam author Galloway to visit Seattle Joe Galloway, the Vietnam correspondent whose book “We Were Soldiers Once… and Young” and the movie “We Were Soldiers” that was produced from it, will be in Seattle doing a week of interviews with Vietnam veterans as a special project for the 50th Anniversary Commemorative. Galloway has been going around the country doing three two-hour interviews a day with Vietnam veterans from across the services spectrum and by now has well over 75 two-hour interviews done, as he explained it, “beginning with Colin Powell and working outward.” Galloway was a Texas boy who became a correspondent for United Press International and, in the battle of Ia Drang that his book and its movie adaptation made famous, he was decorated for heroism on the battlefield, receiving the bronze star for rescuing two wounded soldiers while under fire. He was praised by the late Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf as “the soldiers’ reporter” because of his caring and regard for those whose battles he covered.
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The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
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City of Kirkland should provide pet waste bags The Kirkland City Update Newsletter first quarter 2015 contained this: “Retailers may continue to provide plastic bags for such items as bulk and frozen foods, meat and fish, take-out foods, and newspaper, dry cleaning, and pet waste.” I am most interested in retailers providing plastic bags for pet waste. All of the other items listed above are products or services I might purchase. Never have I purchased pet waste. Perhaps the city of Kirkland should supply plastic bags to pet owners, rather than putting the responsibility on retailers to provide them.
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Not too late to reverse bag ban in Kirkland It’s not too late for the members of the Kirkland City Council to undo the wellintended but totally unsupportable ban on so-called single-use disposable plastic shopping bags. Letters to the Reporter have repeatedly condemned the regulation for a They are putting their new money into variety of reasons, not the least of which is many administrative functions and nonthe net negative impact on the environment essential nice-to-have projects instead of when all aspects of the issue are considered. using the newly found $20 million to pay for When combined with the adverse economic the radio upgrade necessary for public safety. impact on consumers and retailers (as cusThe cities and county could fund the levy if tomers move to other locations without such they would put safety first. a ban) and the negative public health considI suspect the county also found new money erations, the ban makes no sense whatsoever. in their budgets making this new tax increase One has to wonder why the members of City Council seem so eager to enact a regula- unnecessary. But no, it’s business as usual. Their philostion that nobody needs or wants. While local ophy prevails. Once again, the tax payers are merchants may believe it will benefit them being manipulated. City and county officials by reducing their cost of operations to some have no intent to pay for this levy from newly degree, ultimately it will not. Customers will their newly found $20 million plus dollars. resent being required to pay for something They should be held accountable. they are used to getting for free, particularly Robert L. Style, Kirkland when it continues to be free a short distance away. They won’t like waiting the extra time in checkout lines while clerks struggle to fit purchases into customer-provided shopping bags, or the increased hassle at self-checkout stations. While hopefully well-meaning, Council Having keenly followed transit developmembers who support this regulation are ment in the area for some time, I found out-of-touch with current thinking on Sen. Andy Hill’s inability to properly the subject. They are certainly on the KIRKLAND represent his constituents with the wrong side in regard to the majority ST3 funding measure (SB 5987) to be of public opinion. rather disappointing. As for the few readers who have His willingness to support road exendorsed the ban, I recommend they pansion outside of our area, while denyconsider alternative uses for the cloth ing his own district the right to vote on its bags they have acquired. My guess is fellow own preferred solution to the gridlock that customers will be laughing at them behind is progressively lowering the quality of life in their backs. the area (as evidenced by both WSDOT and Jim Lewis, Kirkland the grumblings of disgruntled happy-hour friends and colleagues), leaves one to wonder where his interests truly lie? If he is indeed in favor of small government, why not allow “We the People” the right to vote on our own future? If he is indeed in favor of solutions to our According to the latest agenda, the city growing traffic problems, why does he refuse just found another $20 million that was to work positively towards a multi-modal unaccounted for in their adopted budget, a solution? surplus now that could be used to fund the Perhaps most damningly, why does he proposed Property Tax increase by King not fight harder for his King County home, County for an upgrade of “regional” emerwhich receives a mer e 65 cents for each gency radio network. dollar sent to the Capitol [source: Office of But no, the money is there however the Financial Management]? city has refused to fund safety first. Instead, If rumors of his gubernatorial ambitions they’re using the new money to fund other are correct, I would suggest that a commute non-safety issues, a ploy. They need a reason to Olympia would be more timely with a betto put a new levy on the ballot.
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Nourishing networks thanks community for help Wow! With your help, we have completed another successful year of growing the network of support for some of our most needy residents. The expressions of gratitude are huge and continuing. You made a real impact. Most parents have not known how, or have been very reluctant, to connect to support. We try to get families connected to ongoing support systems to provide sustainable ways of dealing with need. Your help to these children and their families has given them a much better chance of thriving. We will continue to grow the number of schools next year as we make workable connections with administrators. Please tell your friends about this and help them get connected when we return for Thanksgiving. If you are interested in getting involved in improving this program or have ideas for other gaps in support to those in need in our community, please join us at regular Kirkland Nourishing Network meetings on the third Friday of the month. It is best to contact Linda Benson with Nourishing Networks Central, to confirm the meeting location ahead of time. Linda’s email is linda@nourishingnetworks.net. Again, thanks for all that you have done to bring our community together.
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WSDOT says drivers to benefit from I-405 tolls Craig Stone, the Washington State Toll Division Director seems to have a very “optimistic” assessment of the benefits from tolls. I was particularly “impressed” by his claim “All lanes of I-405 will be able to go 45 mph or faster once the express lanes open this fall”. It makes one wonder why anyone would choose to pay the tolls.
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to other teams that had a full coaching staff and millions of dollars in funding. Though the U.S. team had the necessary equipment to compete, it was far below the quality of their competitors. “We were buying things off the shelf,” Reed said. “It’s funny to look back in some ways, because it was so ridiculous and stressful and we made it through, but it was everything down to the skin suits.” Their hope was to shave off five seconds from their time, but when Reed reached out to former Olympic teammate Sky Christopherson only a few months before the Olympics, she was less than optimistic about meeting that goal unless more changes were made. “We were a long ways out from the podium,” she said. “We had a lot of work to do. I said (to Sky) we actually have limited resources and we’re not on track to make up those five seconds the way we’re going.” For Reed, it was her first Olympics competing in the endurance event after a 12-year career as a sprint cyclist. A graduate from Issaquah High School, she first started cycling at the Marymoor Velodrome in Redmond and won her first national title as a senior-level racer at the 1998 U.S. National Track Championships. She went to compete at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, where she finished tenth and seventh respectively. In 2008, she won the World Championship Title in
Manchester, UK, making her the first and only U.S. woman to win the World Championship in the keirin, according to her website. Following what she considered to be a disappointing performance at the 2008 Olympics due to illness, Reed retired for a year, but in 2010 she came out of retirement after Hammer convinced her to compete in the newly-created team pursuit event, a threekilometer race compared to the 500-750 meter sprints. While Reed saw it as a chance to do something different from sprint cycling, it required her to adapt to an entirely different training program. The question, she said, wasn’t whether she could physically prepare, but if it could be done within the limited time frame before the Olympics. “It was quite scary to put myself out there,” she said. “I had retired as world champion…I didn’t know if I could make the transformation (in time).” Fortunately for the team, Sky Christopherson and his wife, Tamara, offered to join them in Spain, where they also brought along electronic tools Sky felt might be useful to their training. The tools they brought, which measured their glucose levels, core body temperature, and tracked their sleeping patterns, were part of what Sky Christopherson would later call the ‘Data not Drugs’ project, at the time known as Optimized Athlete. The year before, Sky had broken World
the Record in the velothey were riding slower drome sprint. As part of than even the World his training, he had used Championship,” she said. a “digital health” model “It’s a tough thing as an designed to help athletes athlete.” achieve performance Originally planning naturally. to stay for just 10 days, At first, however, Reed Tamara said they decided said she was wary of into stay and contribute troducing something new further to the team’s at such a late date. training, which included “When you’re trainsetting up cameras to film ing, you’re so tired from the women for feedback. day-to-day training, to As details emerged add anything new at about the Lance Armthat point can be restrong doping scandal, ally stressful,” she said. which also involved other “And when people add top U.S. men’s profesmore it becomes more sional cyclists, Reed said of a stresser than a help. they saw their own race Because he had been an as an opportunity to athlete he was really good bring attention to the U.S. at respecting those women’s track cycling boundaries.” team and prove they Reed said the could get the same OLYMPIC program helped results without them become using drugs. better informed “As females, about aspects of we’ve been comtheir training by peting at the high collecting data that by level for years,” Reed said. itself is not significant “We’ve been producing but when added together results for the U.S., but can produce significant we haven’t gotten a lot results. of recognition. This was “With the data it’s really a great opportunity about..pooling every to show ourselves and single one percenter,” she what we’ve been doing for said. “To have a perforyears and years and years mance like that (at the because we’ve been under Olympics) everything has the rug the whole time…. to go right and you have And we’ve been doing it to pool every resource the whole time drug free.” that you can. You build “I want people to this community around understand it’s (drug you with as many reuse) not at all cycling sources as you can and as a whole,” she added. that’s how great perfor“Women’s cycling, mances are done.” women’s track cycling, Yet, in spite of the new we’ve been working hard tools, Tamara Christofor years to get these pherson said it still wasn’t performances and we clear how well they would just haven’t received the perform when they got to recognition.” London. When they finally “The hope’s always reached the Olympics, the there (to do well), but team took the world by there were a lot of days surprise, finishing second
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behind Great Britain, which beat its own world record. Reed took part in the semifinal and preliminary rounds of the event, with Hammer, Bausch and Tamayo finishing with a time of three minutes and 19 seconds. Six months after the Olympics, Sky and Tamara Christopherson realized the footage left from training inadvertently contained a great story that would translate well onto the screen. Hiring a documentary writer, they sat through the hundreds of hours of footage to decide what would be used for the 80-minute film. “Two days scrubbing through every single minute of the footage, he came away with a really clear vision,” Tamara said. “The heart of the story was overcoming and being the underdog and what that feels like.” The film also shows how family members like Reed’s husband, Brandon Madden, along with Hammer’s husband, Andy Sparks, were fully involved in their training. “That was what was so cool about the movie,” Reed said. “All the husbands came together and became a huge support for all of us.” When they finally finished “Personal Gold,” Tamara said they screened it for the athletes and their family. Reliving their journey on the screen, she said, allowed them to reflect on their accomplishment. “For them, it was this really emotional experience,” she said. “As an athlete, you kind of forget
how tough it was, how difficult that training is….it was awe-inspiring and physically challenging to watch that again.” Having screened the film in several states in the past year, Tamara said the film is not just for cycling enthusiasts or sports fans, but anyone inspired by overcoming adversity. “Seeing how the crowd relates to that and responds to it, I think it was really cool for them (Reed, Hammer, Bausch, Tamayo) to see that,” she said. Reed said the response she’s received from people, even those who are not particularly into cycling or sports, demonstrates the film’s wide appeal. “They weren’t even athletes, but inspired in some way,” she said. “A lot of the film is like a love story. We brought in our husbands and then Sky and Tamara…they came to help. We just pooled as many people who cared about us…and built a community around it.” What makes it inspiring for others, Reed said, is that the film shows how one can really beat the odds. “On paper it didn’t look like we were going to stand on the podium,” she said. “Obviously it’s an underdog story, but it really shows it’s still about hard work and perseverance and what you can do with limited resources and drive.”
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Although the local economy seems to be improving, it was only last year that the city returned to its sales tax revenue peak from 2007, but only after adding nearly 40,000 more people. Part of her job as finance director, Dunlap said, was anticipating revenue from possible development while examining the forecast for the global economy, which ultimately impacts the city locally. “We can’t control a lot of things,” she said. “A lot of what it is, is predicting reality when it comes.” At the same time, it can be hard to predict local projects too, which can either be postponed or never get off the ground. When Dunlap first came to the city, for example, the City Council entered into a redevelopment agreement with the property owners of the Totem Lake Malls properties, promising $15 million in public improvements associated with the Mall. The contributions would only occur after the property owner completed at least 250,000 square feet of retail and 600,000 total square feet
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Metropolitan King County Council Vice Chair Jane Hague and King County Assessor Lloyd Hara will host two town halls in Bellevue and Kirkland. These public meetings will be an opportunity for East King County residents to learn more about how property values are established, how property taxes are calculated, and where the money goes. The one in Kirkland will be held at Kirkland City Hall at 7 p.m. on April 22, while the one in Bellevue will be held at the Bellevue Community Center at 7 p.m. on April 8. “It is important that our residents understand this process, especially in this economy of ever-changing real estate values and property taxes,” Hague said. “I am also glad that a member of the Board of Appeals will be available for questions on the appeal process.”
Hara and staff will be present to answer questions on the property valuation process, appeals and property tax exemption programs. “Continuing the 2014 trend, property values are increasing across King County as we emerge from the Great Recession,” Hara said. “Last year, we saw a
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Kirkland’s Xtreme Consulting Group claims title in Hopelink Can Madness The Hopelink Can Madness trophy is headed back to Kirkland after a spectacular
run by Xtreme Consulting Group, Inc. in the sixth year of the competitive food
drive. The second-year team cruised through each round of the tournament and in the end, managed to edge out a very determined Universal Avionics team from Redmond in the final round. Hopelink Can Madness is a bracketed competition similar to the national spring
college basketball tournament, matching businesses in weekly contests to see which one can bring in the most food. Greg Rankich with Xtreme credits teamwork for the win. After bringing in a particularly large haul during one round, the company’s
staff came into the Kirkland food bank to help sort their donations. “We had fun internally and volunteering helped us get even more involved,” Rankich said. “It was a total team effort to support Hopelink.” In the final round of the competition, Xtreme Consulting brought in 8,121 pounds of food and $585 in
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daughter Hannah Steele also plays on the team, added that they would pack as many girls into their vehicles as possible to drive to practice. As Hull and Steele see it, it’s about time a team that walked away with the state championship last year gets to play on its own field. The year before, they took second in league and made it to the state semi-finals in 2012. “The girls are excited to play on campus,” Hull said. “They were always contenders, they always had a solid program.” Parents and players hope that removing this inhibition, possibly reflected in
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the lack of a junior varsity team for the past two years and the consistent team size, will bolster the number of girls involved. Additionally, having their home games actually played on campus, they hope, will lead to more support from the student body. The first game reflected the pride many students and parents have in the program as the stands were packed - including the school’s drum line. It also allows the booster club to do things such as decorate the stands and hang banners. “We feel more students will come out and want to support the team,” Hull said. “It’s a beautiful looking field.” For some, the new field is also seen as fixing perceived inequalities between the baseball team and fastpitch team. The possible inequalities recently came to light when high school administration officials announced they were moving the baseball team from Lee Johnson Field in downtown, where they have played for decades, to the renovated baseball field on campus. The decision was recently put on hold, however, due to protests from not just the baseball team but alumnus and school district board members. While the seniors on the
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they have their own field. “It’s been a long time coming,” she said. “It’s just exciting for the players, fans and former players to get the support of the students.” She also hopes the new field will serve as a catalyst for creating better connections between the high school program and Little League teams in the area. “They want to know what’s next for them in the community and that the people support it,” she said.
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Mary B. Hansen, age 87, died peacefully in Austin, Texas on March, 19, 2015. She lived a wonderful life, full of travel and adventure. A fifth generation Texan, Mary was born December 14, 1927 in Strawn,Texas to Lenson and Leelia Bethel. She didn’t stay put for long. Her father’s careers as a Colonel in the US Army and revenue agent for the Government Accounting Office led the family to move every 2 years or so throughout the US. She graduated with an RN degree from Southern Methodist University in 1948. Mary met her soul-mate and life love, Ray Hansen, a West Point cadet, when his plane stopped for an emergency landing at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio,Texas en route to the West Coast. Her childhood prepared her well for the travel filled life she and Ray enjoyed during his long career in the Army Corps of Engineers. Married almost 60 years, Mary and Ray retired in the Pacific Northwest travelling extensively -- mostly to explore their special love, European megalith sites. Mary moved to Austin, Texas two years ago to be closer to family after her husband passed away. Mary had a particular fondness for classic movies, operas and reading. She delighted in her reputation as a quick witted contrarian and was particularly proud of the resilience, independence and adaptability she passed on to her nine children. She is survived by her children: Mary Reeves, Fulshear, TX; Nancy Bray, Philadelphia, PA; Tom Hansen, Houston, TX; Bill Hansen, Medina, OH; Kay Littler, Denton, TX; Doug Hansen, Austin,TX; Keith Hansen, Ellsworth, ME; Paul Hansen, Puyallup, WA; many grandchildren; and three great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband Ray, son Steve, and her beloved dog Corey. 1296613
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City Council extends city manager’s employment agreement The Kirkland City Council approved a resolution during the April 7 regular meeting amending the employment contract for City Manager Kurt Triplett with an increase in retirement contribution and contract extension through 2020. Triplett was hired in 2010 as Kirkland’s fourth city manager. Several of his
achievements are identified in the resolution, including guiding the city of Kirkland out of the “Great Recession” while maintaining its AAA credit rating, ensuring the completion of the 2011 annexation of Finn Hill, North Juanita and Kingsgate areas and more recently, implementing strategies to position
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