Demonstrating their desire to end a 15-year wait for a community center, the Snoqualmie City Council unanimously voted to cement a deal with the YMCA of Greater Seattle as the center's operator.
The council approved an operations agreement with the YMCA in a Monday, March 22, vote. About a dozen residents spoke prior to the decision, with most in favor of a center serving youth and adults. However, several Ridge residents and merchants renewed calls for a slower approach.
Early in the meeting, Snoqualmie Mayor Matt Larson revealed a miscalculation, caught last week, in the city's funding formula for the new center. For several years, going back as far as the initial bonds for the project, the city had calculated the full allotment of homes on the Ridge in its mitigation funding total from Weyerhaeuser . However, some 278 units do not count for mitigation, amounting to a $385,800 shortfall in the roughly $4 million that the city must set aside for the community center. Read More - Click Here.
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