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Thursday, September 20, 2012

City McGinn Will Reveal Budget Plans for Seattle Youth and Public Safety

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:24 AM

At 11:00 a.m. today, Mayor Mike McGinn will release more details of his 2013-14 budget, this time addressing funding for Seattle youth and public safety.

You can watch the action here:

This piles on yesterday's big budget reveal targeting poor families and the homeless:

· $500,000 in new funding for the City’s Child Care Assistance Program, which provides low-income families with vouchers to pay for 25-70 percent of childcare costs. (McGinn says the funds will cut the program's waiting list by 23 percent.)

· $980,000 to expand services to help homeless families with children find stable housing.

· $2.7 million to help Seattle's contract community service providers deal with inflation (related to their services).

And last week's announcement about studying—and building—high-capacity transit to Ballard within five years.

Lordy, McGinn's budget is like a peekaboo carbaret! Can't you hardly wait until next Monday, when McGinn finally stops his teasing, drops trou, and reveals the entire thing before a crowd of stunned, popcorn-chomping onlookers???

UPDATE: I have just received a tip from a reliable City Hall staffer that the mayor's 2013-2014 budget includes absolutely no funding for popcorn, or what I like to call spectacle corn. What—you think the people wouldn't notice, McGinn??? This is utter bullshit.

The people demand their city-sponsored spectacle corn!

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Cienna.

Admit it.

Not even you care about this crap......

Why dodn't you post that Obama's CounterTerrorism Director said the murder of Chris Stevens was a terrorist attack?

Not the result of a protest riot.....

That Stevens was on a terrorist hit list?

And knew it?

And spent the last weeks of his life fearing for his life?

And that Obama did not protect him?

Why don't you post that?

Posted by don't be part of the coverup. bitch. on September 20, 2012 at 9:32 AM

Can't you hardly wait until next Monday, when McGinn finally stops his teasing, drops trou, and reveals his entire budget before a crowd of stunned, popcorn-chomping onlookers???

This will be forever known as the "Fuzzy FUPA Budget".

Posted by gloomy gus on September 20, 2012 at 9:38 AM

He's trying *really hard* to make us all forget about the complete disaster that is the SPD.

Posted by digitalwitch on September 20, 2012 at 9:41 AM

@3, He's up for reelection in a few months....time to create distractions to avoid attention to nearly three years of lousy leadership on his part.

Look at the super spiffy new budget...ignore all those other problems.....

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on September 20, 2012 at 9:57 AM

@4, but don't forget, some voters will have swung his way recently. When the wee billionaire asked McGinn to help him launch version 1 of that nice soft arena deal the mayor said "yes, sir" instead of "no, sir". That'll count come election day, at least a bit.

Posted by gloomy gus on September 20, 2012 at 10:19 AM

@5 but that stadium is going to create lots of new jobs!! I mean you can make lots of money selling beer and hot dogs! Enough to raise a family on!! LOL!!

I have to hide now.....

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on September 20, 2012 at 10:48 AM