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City Light Strategic Plan: Your power future|Join the discussion – March 28

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Mayor Mike McGinn, Seattle City Council Member Mike O’Brien, Chair of the Council’s Energy & Environment Committee, and the City Light Review Panel are seeking public input about setting a course for the future of City Light. Since early 2010 the utility has been developing a six-year strategic plan with guidance and input from the Review Panel. From May through August of 2011 extensive public outreach took place – including numerous community and stakeholder meetings, focus groups, online surveys, a telephone survey, and employee meetings.

Join Councilmembers Sally Bagshaw and Mike O’Brien, along with Seattle City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco, in a discussion about City Light’s six year plans for the utility at a special breakfast meeting session for neighborhood chambers and local businesses on Wednesday, March 28th. There is no cost for this event.

The City wants to hear from you on:

    • Rate stability and predictability
    • Power reliability
    • Infrastructure maintenance and up-grades
    • Conservation and energy efficiency
    • New technologies

. . . and much more

To learn more about the draft strategic plan, visit www.seattle.gov/light/strategic-plan.

  • Seattle Neighborhood Businesses & Chambers of Commerce
    Wednesday, March 28
    7:00 a.m. registration and continental breakfast
    7:30 – 9:00 a.m.Discussion
    Shaw Room (Northwest Rooms) Seattle Center
    305 Harrison
    Seattle, WA 98109On-street parking or in the Seattle Center Parking Garage.  The map below shows the Shaw Room in the upper left hand corner.

Please RSVP to shelly.sherwood@seattle.gov and let us know if you will be part of the planning!

Planning Seattle’s Future

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  –Public is invited to help review and update Seattle’s Comprehensive Plan

The Department of Planning and Development, working together with the Seattle Planning Commission, is inviting the public to weigh in on the important opportunities and challenges Seattle faces over the next twenty years.  The City of Seattle is reviewing and updating its Comprehensive Plan and needs input from the public on what the City should focus on. This review is required to take place every seven years by the state Growth Management Act.

A number of online tools have been developed to help people weigh in on this important project.  The public is encouraged to: