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BY KRIS HILL
Covington is trying to make it more attractive to build apart-ments in the city.
At its Feb. 28 meeting the Covington City Council ad-opted a multi-family property tax exemption which will give property owners an eight-year or 12-year break on paying taxes on structures — the longer exemption ap-plies to residences that meet what staff members described as a generous defi nition of aff ordable housing — if they are built in one of three specifi c areas downtown.
Th is tax exemption ordinance was developed following what Community Development Direc-tor Richard Hart called a “pro-scriptive process” as outlined by state law.
“Cities can only do this if you follow the specifi cs of the state law,” Hart said. “Th e city must target specifi c zones where it’s allowed.”
Ann Mueller, senior planner for Covington, said City Council
BY KRIS HILL
Tax season is a frenzied time for Patti Hammett and yet she wants to make the most of this busy period to help Tahoma High School seniors.
It started simply enough nine years ago when the Maple Valley-based tax accountant whose kids attended Tahoma schools started helping the high school’s PTA by reading through scholarship ap-plications.
“It was just so frustrating to me,” Hammett said. “You had these brilliant kids who work so hard, but, if they missed a period or did one thing wrong (on the application) it was so competitive they missed the scholarship.”
A few years ago Hammett decided she would donate money for a scholarship because there isn’t enough cash to go around among the senior class every year.
She has worked with Kim Wal-ley, who currently serves as PTA president as well as scholarship administrator, on donations.
“I called the school and said, ‘I want to do a scholarship. I want
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Kentwood’s Cassidy Meyers grimaces while the offi cial lifts her arm signifying her victory in the girls 118 pound title match at the state championships, Mat Classic XXIV, on Feb. 18 at the Tacoma Dome. Meyers, a junior, also plays soccer for Kentwood and is a member of Kent Crusaders Rugby Club. SEE STORY PAGE 12 STEVE BARGELT, For the Reporter
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Bullies are simply cowards, and cyberbullies are no diff erent, according to Maple Valley Police Chief Michelle Bennett.
Bennett spoke at Shadow Lake Elementary on March 2 during a presentation about cyberbullying in an eff ort to inform and educate students about how they can pre-vent cyberbullying at school.
Bennett explained that cy-berbullying is even worse than traditional bullying.
“If you aren’t willing to say something to someone’s face, why are you doing it online?” she asked.
During the presentation, a video was shown depicting a girl who gets up in front of an audi-ence and verbally insults another girl. Th e message was that what you say online has the same aff ect
as saying it in person.“But online it’s worse,” Bennett
said. “Because when it’s in person it’s just you and them. Online it’s everyone.”
Bennett also took time to give a very specifi c defi nition of bullying to help diff erentiate it between harmless talk. Bullying, she explained, is when someone acts in a way that is intended to make another person feel bad. Joking in a playful manner is not bullying, she said, because the intent is not to hurt them emotionally or physically.
Another reason bullies are cowards, according to Bennett, is
Students learn about effects of bullying
Maple Valley Police Chief Michelle Bennett gives a presentation about cyberbullying at Shadow Lake Elementary March 2. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter.
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It wasn’t too long ago when classroom in-struction was almost
devoid of any technology.Educators in both the
Kent and Tahoma school districts are slowly, but surely, adapting to the use of technology for lesson planning, teaching as well as tools for their students.
Kimberly Allison, an instructional technology coach, has worked in the Tahoma School District for 19 years, fi rst teaching at Tahoma High. Although there was a computer lab, she said, none of the teach-ers had their own personal computers. Th e Internet had been invented by 1993, but, it was still in its infancy.
Even then the use of technology was based on traditional learning. When Allison took her class to the computer lab, it was merely to type up reports, rather than write in pencil or pen. If a student needed to do research on a subject, he had to go to the library, search through the catalog and then locate the actual book.
“When I taught in high school, it was about using physical resources in a physical building,” Allison said. “It was an automative process, but it didn’t change
anything. Technology was just the tool.”
Allison said she remem-bers going to an informa-tion session for teachers in the mid-1990s, where the use of the Internet was discussed. Ironically, at the time, it didn’t appear to her as though it would be any-thing more than another tool.
Now, it is nearly impos-sible to fi nd a classroom in the Kent or Tahoma schools without some new technol-ogy, whether it is in the form of iPads, netbooks, laptops, interactive white-boards or data management systems, all of which are connected to the Internet.
Kent school district staff are already researching new technology they can implement in schools for the 2014 levy.
“We really want our students’ learning to be more interactive, which can be done through many emerging technology,” said Th uan Nguyen, chief information and automated operations offi cer for the district’s information tech-nology department. “We feel it is our responsibility to match what is going on in our society. Our society is becoming more techno-logical and digital, meaning we need these same tools in our classroom so that our students can graduate and be successful in the real world.”
Technology the school district is considering in-cludes Apple iPads, laptops for every student, incor-porating all textbooks to be online in a PDF fi le and Kinect for Xbox 360, which brings games and entertain-ment to life without using a controller.
“Kids today have access to computers and games, they don’t learn the same way they used to in the past,” Nguyen said. “Having students get up and inter-actively learn is much more effi cient today.”
Nguyen believes teach-ers in the future might use augmented reality to teach their students. Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect view of a physi-cal, real-world environ-ment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video and graphics. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is modifi ed (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer.
“Th is next levy will be from 2014-2018, which means we have to think about what technology might be available at that time when we make our de-cisions,” Nguyen said. “We must always look ahead.”
Right now the district is operating from the 2010 levy, which allowed them
to issue laptops to middle school and ninth grade students.
“We have found this change to be extremely positive at our schools,” Nguyen said. “Th e teachers have told us that attendance has gone up and they see their kids studying on their laptops before class starts.”
TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
A 21st century classroom looks much diff erent than what anyone over 30 expe-rienced 15 or 20 years ago.
In many regards, much of what goes on in a modern classroom is conducted online.
Both Tahoma and
Kent schools use Moodle, which allows teachers and students alike to utilize the Internet for classroom work that would have normally been done with pen and paper. For teachers, they are able to build personal websites, post articles and assignments, as well as homework. Th ey are also able to set weekend tests or quizzes for students to take, which can be graded instantly, as well as provide data to the teacher about how the students did on various questions. Th is allows teachers to focus on concepts in class which were a struggle for students as well as design tests in a way that works better for
the kids.Kelli Sapean-Proctor, a
Spanish teacher at Kent-wood High, has been teach-ing for 20 years. She said the diff erence between her fi rst year and now is “night and day.”
“Th ere’s so much you can do now,” she said. “You’re not limited to a book any-more.”
For her freshman stu-dents, who all have laptops, Proctor said much of the textbook is found online and she only issues the book to students who spe-cifi cally request it. Th rough Moodle she is able to post her electronic planner
Technology tools of the teaching trade
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Glacier Park fi fth graders (right to left) Lillian Kilgallon, Kyla Peda and Alyssa Olds watch a video they created using an iPad. The class was able to obtain the iPads through a grant. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter
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her electronic planner which contains all of the classwork for the week. She also stated that Moodle has benefi ted her and the students most in terms of instant feedback on their work. Rather than wait until the assignment is graded, they are given immediate results, which allows them to go back and make corrections. Th is
also allows the students to work at a more indepen-dent pace. Depending on what classroom, some use specifi c soft ware or technol-ogy in order to teach their curriculum more eff ec-tively. Proctor, for example uses a program called DyKnow, which allows her to monitor and manage the students’ laptops. She can use the program to bring up a certain website on her stu-dents’ laptop screens, while
at the same time blocking all other sites from access to ensure they are not surfi ng the web. She can also cause all the laptop screens to go blank while she has some-thing on the whiteboard to show them. Th omas Riddell is the coordinator for the Kent Technology Academy, which works with Mill Creek Middle School students. He agrees with Nguyen about the kids’ progress since the laptops have been issued.
“What is so important about each student having a laptop is what the computer can do for the kids,” Riddell said. “For example, most Mill Creek teachers use an online virtual classroom. Because of this, anything I present in class is posted to the virtual classroom and is available for students to review aft er class and at home. Th is is great while completing homework, de-veloping projects, or shar-ing what they learned at school with their parents.”
All Kent School District’s students have access to desktops in computer labs, libraries, and classrooms, wireless laptops, SMART Board interactive white-boards in every classroom, SMART Response remotes to reply to teacher questions “game show style,” digital probeware and microscopes for science and health, digital cameras to record video and still pictures. Th rough the computers, students can use a wide variety of soft ware tools to complete class projects and
assignments. Almost every classroom in the district has a SMART Board installed. Many teachers use these in-teractive whiteboard to give students hands-on, minds-on learning experiences. Kent is also subscribed to Discovery Education Streaming, a website which has thousands of videos on many topics that tie directly into their curriculum.
“My classroom contains a production studio which allows for live broadcasts to be produced as well as students to “travel back in time” through the use of a green screen and editing soft ware,” Riddell said. “Th e kids love it.”
Jamie Mercer, a seventh grade special education teacher at Tahoma Middle School, for example, uses V-Port, an online data management system which performs several functions suitable for her special education needs. She is able to upload all student results on tests and assignments to it, while students have access to class work mate-rial when they go home for the day. She also uses Activboards, interactive white boards with access to various soft ware programs, such as word processors, as well as the Internet. With V-Port, she is able to watch student progress with graphs and charts, which are more visually appealing for parents interested in seeing their child’s progress in the class. Th e online sys-tem also improves teacher-parent communication
by allowing teachers like Mercer to instantly send student reports to parents upon request. Technology also helps teachers provide students opportunities to acquire skills that have a transparent applicability to the real world.
Th e video production course at Tahoma High taught by Rick Haag is an Apple Certifi ed Training Center where students are able to become Apple certi-fi ed for certain industries that use Apple soft ware. Th is certifi cation can be put on a resumé and placed on their websites.
Rick Haag stated that the school has updates included in the soft ware licenses so that the programs the students use are the newest and latest version.
Th ere can be downsides. Th e rapid pace in techno-
logical advances can easily make updated equipment obsolete within a few years — an issue the Tahoma School District has to face with its netbooks. One of the district’s goals is to ac-curately predict what will have the greatest cost-ben-efi t based on its perceived longevity.
“Th e question is what is the best thing and is it worth it,” said Walt Szklarski, Instructional Technology Coordinator who worked as a teacher at Cedar River Middle School six years ago.
Rick Haag stated that while it is critical to make their students prepared, predicting future tech-
nological trends can be risky for the school district fi nancially.
“If you don’t have your hands on it you don’t know how to use it,” he said. “But you don’t want to spend a lot of money on a product and then say, “Oh, we don’t need it.’ Our district is very money-conscious. Th ey don’t want to waste people’s money.”
Another issue they have to contend with is a gap be-tween tech-savvy teachers — for whom the change is a welcome one — and those who struggle to adapt, ac-cording to Mercer.
“I’m a digital native,” she said. “It’s a lot of having no fear in exploring it myself. It’s far easier for someone like me who’s grown up in technology.”
Fortunately for those teachers who have dif-fi culties there is a teacher at every Tahoma school, known as a tech leader, who specifi cally helps the faculty learn how to use new equipment as it is inte-grated into the classroom.
“Like anything, it takes time to change, because the teachers need to learn it,” Rick Haag said. “As a career, our purpose is to educate kids in how to prepare with the industry, so we have to stay current.”
Each Tahoma school has a person from the Depart-ment of Technology Op-erations, who repairs and maintains the equipment and the wireless Internet.
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to do more, I want to give more,’” she said. “I started out giving $100. They called up and asked if I could do more, so, I just said ‘Make it $100 to each of them.’”
So, she gave $100 each to two students.
“Slowly, but surely I’ve doubled and doubled,” Hammett said. “I would like for 10 kids to get $250. It would be awesome to see 10 kids get that recognition.”
Walley explained in an email that the Tahoma HIgh School Community Scholarship program is offered to all graduating se-niors who plan to continue with their education after high school.
“There are scholarships available for every type of
student, continued educa-tion plan and academic level,” Walley wrote. “Every year we are having more and more graduates apply for scholarships who are all very deserving, yet with deep sadness their just isn’t enough scholarship money to be awarded to each ap-plicant. If I would to chose one goal, it would have to be I would love to award each applicant a scholarship during the Senior Awards Night in May of each school year.Each graduate repre-sents part of our future and they all deserve to continue their education and be who they want to be.”
The Community Scholar-ship program is sponsored by the Tahoma High PTA in an effort to allow com-munity members as well as
business owners to donate to scholarships, Walley wrote, without setting up a scholarship application of their own.
“This is a great opportu-nity to have a scholarship awarded in a business’ name or as a memorial scholarship in a loved ones’ name,” Walley wrote.
With it being tax season, Hammett said, it make sense to offer a portion of the profit she receives from new clients between now and April 10.
“One of the ways I want to (give more) is increasing my business so I can give a percentage of my profit … to increase the the scholar-ship,” she said. “At the same time, I’ve talked to a num-ber of business owners.”
Hammett explained that
many local entrepreneurs simply aren’t aware that the PTA and Maple Valley Rotary offer scholarships to Tahoma students and that any amount they can donate makes a difference.
And businesses who do contribute are recognized at the PTA’s awards event for seniors which this year is set for 7 p.m., May 23.
But, that’s not why Ham-mett does it.
“People just need to know that this is available,” she said. “The kids, they de-serve it, and there just isn’t enough to go around.”
To donate to the THS Community Scholarship program, contact Kim Walley at [email protected] prior to April 1.
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because they usually put other people down due to their own low self-esteem.
“They shouldn’t have to put other people down to feel good about themselves,” she said.
She then went on to describe how a typical bully operates, through the use of threats, harmful teasing, insulting jokes, or gossip. She also discussed how technology has given bullies a new medium with which to operate from in an anonymous manner.
For example, a cyberbully can post untrue or hurtful things about someone else on YouTube, or send other messages via email. They
can also send text messages or call either their friends or the victim.
Bullying in any form not only causes physical harm, but emotionally damage as well, Bennett said, citing a study which deter-mined 160,000 students avoid school every day due to bullying. She used her own son as an example, who was punched every recess and
eventually said he did not want to school anymore.
Bennett stressed how bullying, whether in person or online, is not merely wrong, but can be considered a crime if the courts are able to prove a child knew what he was doing was wrong.
“It’s no different if you talk on the phone, online, or to their face in the eyes of the law,” she said. “Sometimes these things are more than mean. Sometimes these
things are a crime.”To help prevent cyber-
bullying, Bennet advised that students who receive rude emails, texts, or mes-sages are to remain calm and not engage the bully. They are to instead report it either to their parents or to a teacher if it happens at school. If the bullying is done in person, they are to tell them directly that their behavior is to stop.
During the presentation, Bennett also cited statistics that showed bullies and their victims make up a very small proportion of a student population. Seven out of 100 students are bullies, while eight out of a 100 are victims. The other
85 percent, Bennett argued, can either prevent or en-able bullying by how they respond to it when they see it happen.
“You guys are the ones that can make the differ-ence in that,” Bennett said.
Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to maplevalleyreporter.com.
“It’s no different if you talk on the phone, online, or to their face in the eyes of the law. Sometimes those things are more than mean. Sometimes those things are a crime” Michelle Bennett
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) will hold a Foothills Friends of Scouting Breakfast event from 6:30-8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 27 at the Lake Wilderness Lodge.
King County Executive Dow Constantine will be the key note speaker at the breakfast. Constan-tine earned his Eagle rank in West Seattle. The Lodge is located at 22500 SE 248th St., Maple Valley.
For more information, contact Bradley Roberts, Foothills District executive at 253-209-2903.
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Watching the news coverage of the Ohio high school shooting last week reminded me of what makes me so angry about sensationalist journal-ism.
Th e fi rst thing I read about the story at all was a headline on a website that read “Bullying may have pushed Chardon shooter.”
When this particular ar-ticle published, the smoke hadn’t even cleared, liter-ally. One student was still dying from the wounds he had suff ered. Yet com-mentators were already publishing speculation-driven stories that serve no useful purpose.
If that wasn’t enough, the name of the shooter — which I won’t state here — was printed in big letters, along with a large photo of him for everyone to see. Th ere’s the saying that you can’t buy publicity like this. Th e truth is, you can. Th e price is just in human life. Th is one cost two plus one injured and one paralyzed. Maybe it’s just me, but too oft en when an incident occurs involving a large degree of suff ering, it turns into a circus and does more harm than good. Th e media’s job is to report the news, not to infl uence it or exploit it, oft en with serious repercussions.
Th e best example I can think of occurred in Japan during the 1930s. In 1932, two young Japa-nese lovers threw themselves into the Saktayama volcano near Oiso because their parents forbade their marriage due to class diff erences. Th e Japa-nese newspapers handled it about as poorly as you can imagine. One of the headlines read “A Love Th at Reached Heaven.” According to “Curious Events in History” by Michael Powell, the article intentionally exploited their suicide with scarcely concealed eroticism mixed with spirituality.
Th e result: Th ere were over a thousand copycat suicides by the following year. Th e Japanese press continued to exploit this by publishing photos of young couples walking up the volcanos hand in hand to their deaths.
Powell writes that the copycats “were a direct result of the romantic hysteria generated by the media.”
Every time there is a school shooting, I feel newspapers and news stations inadvertently encourage copycats by portraying the shooters as tragic anti-heroes who act out of frustration due to perceived societal rejection or bullying. In an age where fame-seeking is considered a virtue, it also sends an unintended message that the easiest way to have your name and face in the news is to commit a heinous crime.
Aft er the Virginia Tech massacre, NBC received a videotape and pictures from the killer - whom I will also not name - who mailed it before he had gone on his appalling rampage.
If NBC had wanted send the right message, they would have taken the tapes and burned them on live television as a warning to any would-be copycats: You won’t get free publicity from us. Instead, however, they aired it, and the killer got his 15 minutes of fame at the cost of 32 innocent lives and another 22 wounded.
Among a reporter’s fundamental skills should be the ability to discern what to put into a story and what to leave out. Th is can be done for several reasons. In a crime story, it’s done to protect the privacy of a victim or the victim’s family. In oth-ers, it’s because the information isn’t necessary for the public to know and is otherwise irrelevant.
But many times we keep details out of stories because publishing it has the potential to lead to greater problems than that which we are report-ing on.
Th is is what happened with Colton A. Harris-Moore, a.k.a. “Th e Barefoot Bandit.” Rather than sticking strictly to the pertinent facts, newspapers shamelessly published photos Harris-Moore had taken of himself with stolen cameras, which were left behind in a mocking gesture. Th e articles also contained worthless anecdotes of how he left sto-len money at animal shelters. How thoughtful.
Th e result was an impression of a mischievous, but well-intentioned Robin Hood-like folk hero. Th is same image was created for notorious bank robber and cop killer, John Dillinger. Because he looked like the debonair lady’s man, the press painted a sympathetic picture of him which remains to this day, while other murderers who operated at around the same time who were not blessed with similar publicity are remembered for what they truly were.
Freedom of information is essential to a free society. But this freedom also brings with it a somber sense of responsibility. And sometimes the responsible choice is to refrain from elabora-tion for the sake of decency.
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Th e fi nal in a series of three: Student issues in the classroom.
Back in the day the mantra was, and still is, “all students can learn.” By golly that’s right, all students can learn; that is, “when they want to learn” and what they want to learn.
Th e fact that all students can learn cannot be denied. However, in the past as well as now, many students came into high school classrooms know-ing what they were going to do upon graduation, and they were very content to work hard enough to get a D grade. Imagine a very capable student being encouraged by the teacher to apply himself more. Finally the student becomes annoyed with the teacher’s persistence and says, “…It’s nothing personal but I only need this class to graduate, so
tell me how many points I need to get a D and I will handle the rest...” Clearly this student has his own agenda.
Raise your hand if you want to be evaluated on how well you brought this student up to the expected academic standards.
Having other priorities is not only the case at high schools but research consistently shows that some students at all grade levels studied more aft er school hours than others, and the test scores generally refl ected the diff erence in achievement. How much control does a teacher or principal have over those scenarios? Family and commu-nity have more control.
Even though better teacher evaluation tools may be necessary, neither the governor nor any-one else has produced an intelligible argument indicating that we can close the achievement gap by hammering out tighter teacher evalua-tions; that’s because many Asian and white kids are causing the achievement gap by studying
four hours a night aft er school while many black and brown kids are watching TV more than four hours a night. Perhaps we should spend more resources helping families and students assume responsibility for education.
Extending the school day and other options might be considered when families can’t assume
responsibility for education. However not many of those options will help the student who thinks carrying books, going to class, and studying are a “white thing.“
Let’s be clear, some families and students aren’t capable, but we have to look at individual cases to determine who is and who isn’t capable, and we assist on an individual basis. We can’t assume that because a student says, carrying a book to class is a “white thing;” that it’s a teacher’s problem. Wrong,
OK? Sure, we have to look deeper to see if that attitude is masking other issues, but sometimes we will fi nd the only thing some such students need is fi rm guidance by those who have the authority to deliver fi rm guidance.
Rather than go into the homes to work with students and families, it’s probably easier to blame the teacher and the system for a few more years, fi nd a few improvements, and wait for the next “crisis” in education; the kind of recurring crises our nation has had in education since the Rus-sians launched Sputnik back in 1957.
Meanwhile, just about every educator and par-ent already know that regardless of what a teacher does in the classroom, individual students have to apply themselves as well.
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All I am saying, is give peas a chance.
This is the week to leap into spring as February stretches into March and it is time to plant the seeds of a healthy harvest. Plant pea seeds now if your soil is well drained or you garden in raised beds. Delay planting if you can grab a handful of soil and a good squeeze causes water to run through your fingers. This means the soil is still too wet and seeds could rot. In most areas, sweet peas, garden peas, bare root strawber-ries, raspberries, fruit trees, rhubarb and asparagus can be planted now. If you’ve never grown peas from seed you are missing one of the sublime sensations of tast-ing the sweet color green.
Like tomatoes and sweet corn, home-grown peas have a superior flavor. Our kids preferred fresh peas to candy and we still serve them in the pod as portable snacks and after -dinner treats. You don’t need a vegetable gar-den to harvest a crop of peas. A pot at least 2 feet deep or half-barrel planter can provide enough root room for a small harvest. There are several types of dwarf or bush peas perfect for small gardens, and there is a short-growing sweet pea you can even grow in a window box. Imagine swooning from the sweet fragrance every time
you open the window.All three of the varieties
below are sold by local Ed Hume seeds, easy to order
online or to find in seed racks at local nurseries.
Best pea for the beginning gardener
Alaska peas: Super-
early harvest from this more cold-resistant pea that ripens on bushy vines that grow only 2 to 3 feet tall.
Best Pea for the gourmet cook or a lazy gardener that doesn’t want to shell peas Oregon Sugar Pod II:
Edible pod pea perfect for stir fries or eating fresh. The bushy vines grow to 4
feet so use all those fallen twigs and branches from the wind storm to poke into the ground and support the seedlings as they grow.
Best sweet pea for the romantic at heart
Dwarf sweet peas “Little Sweet Heart.” Another bush variety but these are bloom-ing sweet peas, the old-fashioned fragrant flower that still inspires sonnets to be written, music to be com-posed and old folks to fall in love all over again. In our small town the local post office often displays a Mason jar full of cut flowers during the summer, home grown by the friendly employees. When the sweet peas are in season, some visitors confess they post a letter every day – just to have an excuse to visit
that vase of fragrant sweet peas. Bury your nose in an old fashioned sweet pea bouquet and all will be right and sweet with the world.
Pea Planting TipsWork or loosen the soil
and then add steer manure or compost as peas love or-ganic matter. Soak the seeds overnight or pre-sprout them by wrapping in a damp dishrag for a few days. Dig a trench 6 inches deep. Lay two inches of manure into the bottom of the trench. Cover the manure layer with an inch of soil then set the pea seeds into this trench. Add another inch of soil on top of the peas. As the peas grow, fill in around the seedlings until the trench is filled. If planting in a window box or container
garden or if your soil is well worked (this means it is light and fluffy) you can simply poke the pea seeds 4 inches down into the soil. It pays to follow the spacing instructions on the seed pack. Crowded seedlings are prone to disease.
Pea PestsBait for slugs and cover
the crop with netting to keep out the crows. These intelligent birds watch you plant the seeds, read the label that says the peas will spout in 10 days, then arrive on that very same day to pluck each seed from the soil. Of course, these feath-ered thieves wait until they hear the shower running or watch until your car drives away so you never catch them in the act.
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Treehouse began through the efforts
of volunteer caseworkers in the late 1980s and didn’t hire paid staff until 1993. The goal was and is to develop programs to meet the unique needs of children in foster care. As its website notes, “Treehouse makes a difference in their lives by helping with school, fulfi lling key material needs and paying for extras that are, for most kids, just a regular part of growing up.” There are six programs for foster kids that help them with things like clothing and school supplies, taking part in activities like driver’s education, going to summer camp, getting tutoring and preparing for college.
Trillium Family Services was formed in Oregon in 1998 and has an integrated treatment system with a statewide reach to serve more than 5,000 children and families each year. The children who are treated at Trillium Family Services have mental and behavioral health issues. These can include: severe depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia,
aggressive behaviors, attention defi cit disorder and other conditions. Trillium offers specialized therapeutic programs with age-appropriate activities to provide cost-effective care that can help to teach teens and young adults the life skills necessary to cope with their mental health challenges and become successful adults.
QFC is proud to partner with Treehouse and Trillium Family Services to raise awareness about the important
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In Covington he was known as the “Rose Fellow” and the “Candyman.”
Robert D. MacDonald, the 2005 Covington Citizen of the Year, died on Feb. 26 at the age of 89 in Auburn.
Born in No-vember 1922 in San Francisco, he joined the United States Navy in 1942, attending a navy machinist school in Oklaho-ma. He later served as a telephone man on an aircraft carrier. MacDonald was involved in both World War II and the Korean War. In 1947, he was attached to a naval master jet station in Virginia. It was there he met his future wife, Blanche, on Chincoteague Island. They married in 1948.
He attended Pasadena
Community College and the University of Southern California, where he stud-ied architectural design. According to his wife, he was very active in the Construction Specification Institute in Seattle, where he eventually became an
emeritus member.According to his
wife, he was also actively involved in local politics, which included the incorpora-tion of the city of Duarte, Calif. in their living room in
1957. He also served as the vice chairman on the city’s planning commission for 10 years.
MacDonald’s interest in roses began in 1978, when he and his wife moved to Covington, bringing with them a single rose to plant in their yard. By 1999, there were more than 272 roses in their garden. He also helped found the Rainy
Rose Society based in Kent and served as the editor of the newsletter for 22 years.
MacDonald got his nickname from taking his roses, as well as candy, and passing them out to people along the street and in cof-fee shops in Covington.
These small acts of kind-ness led him to be selected as the Covington Citizen of the Year in 2005.
“Rob MacDonald is deserving of recognition for his contributions as a citizen and especially for spreading his good cheer with a small town attitude,” the proclamation stated.
MacDonald is survived by his wife, three children, eight grandchildren, and five great-grand children.
There will be a military service at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 16 at the Tahoma National Cemetery.
A church service is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 17, at St. James Episcopal Church in Kent.Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go covingtonreporter.com
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The Perils of Doggie BreathImagine that you and your trusted canine companion
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While there can be many causes for your pet’s breath to be less than pleasing (do you actually know what the last thing he ate was?), one of the most common causes is dental disease. Dental disease is more aptly termed periodontal disease. Periodontal dis-ease affects approximately 80% of the canine pet population 3 years of age and older that are not receiving proper dental care. In addition to bad breath, other signs of periodontal disease include red gums (gingivitis), tartar, loose teeth, missing teeth, broken teeth, drooling, or diffi culty eating (to name just a few). As the periodontal disease progresses, the infection in the mouth can spread through the blood stream to other organs, such as the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, and occasionally the nervous system.
There are two things you should know. The fi rst is that many pet owners have diffi culty understanding how their dog can have signifi cant periodontal disease and still have a hearty appetite. Consider the fact that most cases of advanced periodontal disease have been reaching their current state over a period of months (or
years), allowing our pets to adapt to chronic mouth pain. Also, consider that not all dogs chew their food before swallowing it; hunger can be a strong motiva-tor to encourage eating in spite of oral discomfort. The
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tite often have severe periodontal disease, which may have caused an infection in another organ, such as the liver orkidneys. In those cases, the poorappetite often stems from organmalfunction due to infection, rather than mouth pain.
Now for the good news. With proper dental care, periodontal disease is abso-lutely preventable.
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So…the next time your canine companion strikes you with a doggie breath yawn, skip the milk bones and con-sider scheduling a dental consult with your veterinarian instead.
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Kentwood junior Cassidy Meyers wrestles from the top position in the 118 pound title match against Burlington Edison’s Taylor Graham. Meyers won the match 4-1 and left Mat Classic XXIV with a state crown after fi nishing sixth and fourth the past two years. STEVE BARGELT, For the Reporter
BY KRIS HILL
Kentwood junior Cassidy Meyers was
inspired at Mat Classic XXIV.
Inspired by her older sis-ter, Jolene, who won a state wrestling title four years ago and is currently serving in the United States Marine Corps.
“She really looks up to her older sister,” said her
father, Steve Meyers, who is also her coach at Kent-wood.
And she was inspired by Shelby Lee, her best friend and wrestling sparring partner who attended Ken-tridge, who was killed in a car wreck on Dec. 28, 2010.
“She is one of the reasons I wanted to go out there and kick butt,” Cassidy said.
With that inspiration in the back of her mind, Cassidy had a goal: make it
through the semi-fi nals.“To get past that semi-
fi nal was a big relief,” she said.
Th en Cassidy went one step further Feb. 18 and won the whole thing.
Cassidy, who is the fourth of six children with three older sisters and two younger brothers, began wrestling when she was 6 years old.
“My brothers were wres-tling,” she said. “I thought it was really cool. I told my dad I wanted to join in. We always did things together.”
As a freshman she
fi nished sixth in the girls tournament at the state championships at the Ta-coma Dome. A year ago she fi nished fourth.
“Th is year I didn’t re-ally feel like it was state,” Cassidy said. “I kind of had a short season.”
Cassidy fi nished the season with a 26-3 record. Typically she wrestles closer to 40 matches so her mindset was a bit diff erent coming into the state cham-pionship tournament.
And she had diff erent results than in years past.
Th is year at the end of
Mat Classic, the offi cial held up her hand when the 118 pound fi nal was over, sig-nifying she was the winner and a state champion just like her sister.
“I look up to her in so many ways,” Cassidy said of Jolene, who is four years older. “She doesn’t believe it, but, she’s a big inspira-tion.”
Cassidy may not even have wrestled in high school were it not for Jolene, her father Steve, said.
“Coming into high
FOLLOWING IN HER SISTER’S FOOTSTEPSKentwood senior Cassidy Meyers fi nds inspiration en route to state title
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[ FOOTSTEPS from page 12] school, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to wrestle,” Steve said. “Then Jolene won.”
Going into the final against Taylor Graham of Burling-ton Edison, Cassidy said, she didn’t know much about her opponent other than she had a few moves coupled with significant upper body strength.
“All I knew was that it was a new day, a new match and if I wanted it, I had to go after it,” she said. “She was hard to turn. Most of the match It was me trying to turn her and not succeeding due to her upper body strength.”
Cassidy was able to get a 4-1 lead pretty quickly though the escape point she gave up was on a mistake early on when she tried a move she hadn’t executed in a match before.
Despite Graham’s strength, Cassidy was able to hold off her opponent as she worked from the bottom position in the third period, so she could hold onto her lead and the state crown.
That she won a state title, however, didn’t sink in right away.
“It actually didn’t hit me until the next morning,” she said. “Because it didn’t feel like state, it felt like another match. I woke up the next morning and went, ‘I’m a state champion. I did it.’”
Not a surprise, though, given that Cassidy probably had other things on her mind.
She plays premier level soccer and is also a member of the Kentwood girls soccer team.
Soccer is something all of the Meyers kids have done. Cassidy’s mom played in college.
“I’ve been playing soccer all my life,” she said. “I’m pretty sure my mom put a soccer ball at my feet as soon as I started walking. I know I’m going to have a soccer ball at my feet because it’s in my blood.”
She is a member of the Kent Crusaders Rugby team, a
more recent passion than wrestling or soccer, but one she has taken to quite quickly.
“It sucked me in deep,” Cassidy said. “I really fell for it. It was the intensity of soccer but you could hit people and play with your hands. If you’re an athlete you can be turned into a rugby player. And the form is exactly the same as a double leg take down.”
In fact, Cassidy has got a date with the United States Women’s U-20 National team tryouts this weekend in Atlanta.
Rugby has also given her a sense of having a second family.
“I hope I can take rugby as far as I can,” she said.On top of that, she is an excellent student, maintaing a
3.75 grade point average.“She’s a good kid,” Steve said. “She’s very athletic. She’s
got good grades. She does what she’s asked. She’s doing good things with her life right now.”
During the course of this wrestling season, both Steve and Cassidy agree she matured in all the ways she needed to, which set her up to succeed at Mat Classic.
“For the most part, she is pretty focused,” Steve said. “I’d like to see her intensity at workouts be better. It’s been up and down the past four years. She’s grown a lot in the past two years.”
As far as her technique on the mat, Steve said, Cassidy is rock solid.
A conversation during the first tournament of the sea-son, which is where she got most of her matches, Steve said he had a conversation with his youngest daughter.
It was important, he told her, to focus and listen to her coaches so they could help her stay calm during a match as well as to look to them for guidance.
It must have worked as Cassidy went on to have a strong season and went into Mat Classic the top ranked girl in her weight class in the state, according to Washington Wres-tling Report.
Now that she knows how to win a state title, Cassidy would like to go one step further than her older sister, Jolene, and win a second one.
Steve said Cassidy will have a target on her back heading into next season.
“Next year what I would like to see from her is come out and finish (high school wrestling) strong,” he said. “It’s easier to reach the top than to stay on top. One of the things we’ve talked about is everything you want, you’ve got to earn it. Win or lose, I’ll be happy if she gives 100 percent.”
Cassidy, who her dad described as quiet, is laid back when she’s off the mat but is focused and serious on it dur-ing a match.
And there’s no doubt she will continue to be inspired by Jolene and Shelby Lee.
“It’s my goal to take state (again),” Cassidy said. “I just have to take it to the next level practicing and try to stay healthy.”
Jolene, who is stationed in the Phillipines, heard the news about her younger sisters’ triumph through other family members.
“I know that she’s proud that I’m following in her foot-steps and holding up her honor,” Cassidy said. “She let let me know how proud of me she is no matter what before-hand.”
And Cassidy doesn’t see herself as in her sister’s shadow.“I see it as a challenge,” Cassidy said. “I strive to be as
strong and as mentally prepared as my sister.”Someday, long after she’s done wrestling, playing soccer
and rugby, Cassidy plans to be an entrepreneur.“I want to hopefully go to Arizona State and major in
business management,” she said. “Then go to culinary school for pastry then open my own bakery. Baking is my release.”
Whatever Cassidy does in the future she has plenty of inspiration to draw on.
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Jesse Dehnert climbed onto the diving board
out of curiosity but the Kentwood senior finished his high school career with a third place medal at state while setting a pair of school records.
Going into his freshman year at Kentwood Dehnert decided to give div-ing a chance after watching the 2008 Olym-pics in Beijing. He joked
that he avoided swimming because it looked too hard.
“I thought (diving) was cool, and that’s about it,” Dehnert said. “I thought I’d try it to see if I’d like it.”
His first two years on the team were nothing out of the ordinary, aside from an appearance at the district meet sophomore year. Then he decided to get serious about improving, which started with joining
a club, where he was able to practice during the off-
season. “During my sophomore
year I kept working to do better,” he said. “And the best way to get better is to do club and swim all year round.”
He started by joining Pacific Northwest Diving, where he was able to focus on various aspects of his diving which needed to improve, such as his form and technique.
“Some stuff came naturally,” he said. “That (his form) did not.”
He also worked with the club coaches on moving from feet first to head first dives, which earn more points. His dedication
ultimately paid off when he entered his third season where he made large strides in his overall performance.
“I like the feeling when you have a clean dive,” he said. “It’s a great feeling to know for certain that you did well without checking the score.”
It was then he real-ized he had a shot at
breaking the school’s diving record of 328 points for an 11-dive meet which had
been set by Aaron Westin during the 1990-
91 season. The moment finally came
on Jan. 8, 2011, where Deh-nert scored 333.5 points during the Lakes Invita-tional in Lakewood, which
qualified him for the Class 4A state meet. For him, fate couldn’t have picked a better date, as it was also his 17th birthday.
“I wanted to qualify for state for sure because I had a meet earlier in the year where I didn’t qualify,” he told the Reporter back in 2011. “So I really waned to. It wasn’t my primary thing, but, I had it in the back of my mind that I would possibly break the school record.”
In the post season a year ago he took first at the South Puget Sound League meet with a score of 328 points and eventually took seventh a state with 314 points.
Still, Dehnert said he was determined to break the school record again, this time for a six-dive event. As the season progressed, however, he said his score continued to hover just below the record of 269 points.
“That was kind of frus-trating,” he said.
At the last six-dive meet of the season, he was able at last to tally a score of 273 points.
“It was interesting, be-cause it was the last chance to break it and I wasn’t really worried about it anymore,” he said.
In 2011, Dehnert told the Reporter he hoped to accomplish two things
his during his final swim season: Finish in the top five at state and break the 400 point mark, which was nearly 70 points higher than both his personal record and school record at the time.
A year before, he wouldn’t have even thought it was possible. But he had the determination and per-sistence to make it happen.
At the state meet in Federal Way Feb. 17-18, Dehnert secured third place with a score of 377.05 points, a 63 point improve-ment over his performance a year ago. During the preliminaries, however, he put together a 407.35 seed score, setting another school record.
“I’m happy with how I did,” he said. “It was a very close meet. It’s just fun.”
Although the season is over, he still competes for his club twice a week and hopes to join the team at Principia College, a Divi-sion III school in Elsah, Ill.
Not too bad for someone who climbed on the diving board four years ago to satisfy his curiosity.
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For colon cancers that have not spread to distant sites, surgery is usually the primary or first treatment. Additional chemothera-py also may be used. If you’re 50 or at high risk for colon cancer, now would be a good time to schedule a colonoscopy, which is a test that allows your doctor to look at the inner lining of your large intestine. During a colonoscopy, tissue samples can be col-lected and abnormal growths can be removed.
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COMMITTEE SCHEDULES Notice is hereby given that the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Executive Committee will be held on the second Tues- day of every month from 11:00-12:00 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center.
Notice is hereby given that the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Joint Conference Com- mittee will be held on the second Tuesday of every month from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center. This meeting is excluded from the Open Public Meeting Act pursuant to RCW 42.70.510 and RCW 43.41.200.BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of Trustees
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City of Covington Public Works Department located at 16720 SE 271st Street, Suite 100, Covington, WA 98042 is seeking coverage under the Washington Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit.
The proposed project is for improvements to vacant land at the southwest quadrant of the intersection of SE 240th Street and 180th Avenue SE in Covington, King County, Washington.
This project involves 5.93 acres of soil disturbance for grading and installation of new parking, trail and ballfield facilities associated with development of a community park.
Stormwater will be discharged indirectly to Little Soos Creek via dispersed overland flow.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Covington City Council will hold a Public Hearing at its meeting on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., to be held in the Council Chambers at Covington City Hall, 16720 S.E. 271st Street, Covington, WA.
The purpose of the Public Hearing is for the City Council to receive comments, both written and oral, from the public, regarding repeal of Covington Municipal Code 12.55 Street Vacation and replacement with a new CMC 12.55 - Street and Public Easement Vacation procedures. The new street and public easement vacation provisions incorporate the general process, as established by state statute, and includes language that more clearly outlines requirements for submitting an application, verifying petition signatures, processing the hearing examiner’s recommendation, and requiring final action by the City Council.
All persons desiring to comment may do so in writing to Sharon Scott, City Clerk, at 16720 SE 271st Street, Suite 100, Covington, Washington, 98042, prior to 5:00 p.m. on March 12, 2012 or by appearing at the public hearing on March 13, 2012.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that agenda information will be posted the Friday prior to the above meeting at Covington City Hall and on the City’s web site: www.covingtonwa.gov. For further information, please contact Salina Lyons, AICP, Senior Planner, at [email protected] or by phone at 253-638-1110, ext. 2239. Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on March 9, 2012. #594014.
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schools also has advantages and disadvantages.
“I believe that technol-ogy is extremely beneficial for students,” said Rebecca Keene, teacher and pro-gram specialist for the Kent School District. “I think it is difficult to argue otherwise after reading the research behind increased technol-ogy access for students and the trends in other countries to providing Internet access as a basic human right. Many of the disruptive behaviors we see that come from technol-ogy are similar behaviors to what we might see in an environment with less technology. Students who are bored, unengaged, unmotivated, or disruptive may act inappropriately in any situation, whether they have increased access to technology tools or not. We do see that students who
are involved.”Kent-Meridian High
School Principal Wade Barringer had a different opinion.
“I think technology can be both useful to students and a distraction,” he said.
Riddell believes it’s all in how the technol-ogy is utilized in the classroom.
“Putting great technology in a classroom does not instantly mean that a great education will be provided,” he said. “But, when fully embraced by the teacher and students, the walls of the classroom disappear and the possibilities are endless. Students are no longer hindered by limited resources because access to anything and everything is at their fingertips 24 hours a day. Technology allows each student to take owner-
ship in his or her education and focus on what they desire to learn.”
AVANTE GUARDSome teachers such as
Tahoma physical educator instructors Jeana Haag and Tracy Krause are helping to
define how new technology can affect class-rooms.
Jeana Haag and Krause, who use an iPad 2 for their P.E. classes, recently gave presentations at the Seattle’s Best West Confer-ence on the use
of iPads in physical educa-tion.
“Really, because of the mobile situation, it’s perfect for us,” Jeana Haag said. “Aside from the daily stuff, it’s right there in our hands. We can have student scores at any time.”
At Glacier Park Elemen-tary fifth grade science and social studies teacher Brandon Betlach was able to obtain iPads for the students in his classroom due to a grant proposal he promoted. He began teach-ing the students how to use them in late September and now uses them as a part of science experiments.
Among the most notice-able changes technology has brought to the class-room has been in commu-nication and organization. Rather than have to spend hours transcribing the grades of pencil-written homework assignments or test results onto a computer, netbooks and laptops, in addition to online assign-ments, enable teachers to spend more time teaching.
Mercer said that it also allows teachers to direct their students from home if needed due to an emergen-cy or illness as long as they
have Internet access. In Jeana Haag’s P.E.
classes, the iPad, with its Internet access, can provide video instructions for various activities out on the track, or record a student’s test to show their form or posture. The teacher can also immediately record their times and statistics on the spot, which aids in accuracy.
“From the teacher’s side, management and presenta-tion are easier,” Jeana Haag said. “We don’t have to worry about getting grades in, getting things down from our clipboards. It’s a big time saver for us.”
Betlach said that is helps not only the teacher, but the students be more creative. While working on building in-class telegraphs, they use the iPads to record their work, which are then used to build presentations on Keynote. They can also use the iPads to access informa-
tion online, such as NASA’s website or use GoogleEarth when studying geography.
“It’s not a cookie cutter, here’s a test type thing,” he said. “They have more control on exploring their learning.”
Part II will examine how students use technology as tools in the classroom in a wide variety of ways. It will be published in the March 16 issue of the Reporter.
For Tahoma, the transition started in 1994, when the first technology plan was created by the Tahoma School District Technology Committee (TS-DTC). It was revised in 1997 and 2000, and was later updated in 2003.
The TSDTC is an internal committee within the school district which sets a vision and goals for the School District in terms of the use of technology in education instruction. The TSDTC receives recommendations from a community tech advisory committee. The Tahoma Board of Directors ap-proves the tech plans each summer,
while the state renews them every three years.
Among the goals met since the tech-nology plan was first introduce was teacher-student access to computers, Internet, staff email addresses and a district-wide standard for software/hardware configurations.
Walt Szklarski, Instructional Technol-ogy Coordinator, worked as a teacher at Cedar River Middle School six years ago. Then he had to schedule his class four days in advance to be able to use the computer lab. Teachers were also lucky to have a computer in their
classroom.
The TSDTC, he said, has helped the school district keep up with technol-ogy by anticipating what will be essential for classroom instruction four years down the road, which included the need for student and teacher access to computers. In 2005, every teacher in the Tahoma School District was given a laptop. A year later, wireless Internet was available in all of the schools.
But the biggest change came when voters approved the district’s second tech levy in February 2010, which over four years will bring $10.9 million.
Through it, the Tahoma School District
was able to purchase a total of 2,500 netbooks for student use — with an-other 300-400 to be available by the end of this school year — creating portable labs which can be brought to any classroom. The netbooks, Szklarski said, generally retain a three to four year lifespan before they are replaced. Additionally, every administrator within the Tahoma School District has an iPad.
It’s a far cry from when the schools were purchasing surplus computers and monitors from the Kent School District for $1, according to Jamie Mercer, a seventh grade special education teacher at Tahoma Middle School.
“They had definitely seen better years,” Mercer said. “But that was all we had. They did the job. We didn’t need the high powered software.”
Now Mercer has a laptop, an up-to-date computer, as well as an interac-tive whiteboard in her classroom. She said that technology levy helped the school district transition from using technology as a tool to making the classroom instruction revolve around it.
“Without the passage of the tech levy by the community, none of this would have been possible,” Mercer said. “It makes it a heck of a lot more fun for the kids. It makes my job a lot easier.”
How Tahoma got money for tech tools
“From the teacher’s side, management and presentation are easier. We don’t have to worry about getting grades in, getting things down from our clipboards. It’s a big time saver for us. ” Jeana Haag
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Mueller stated other cit-ies such as Seattle, Tacoma, Federal Way among others have adopted this tax exemption and the exemp-tion is only applied to the structures on property but land owners still pay taxes on the dirt itself.
“We identifi ed three zones in Covington where we think that can take place,” Hart said. “Th e town center zone, the mixed housing and offi ce zone then the new high density residential zone we created called R18… (were areas) where we thought the tax exemption was reasonable.”
Some cities have adopted the code, Mueller said, but projects have not been pro-posed or built yet while Se-attle and Tacoma, explained Hart, have developments which have received the tax exemption.
Once the eight or 12-year exemption period ends, the city would begin receiving tax on the structures, as well as the tax on the land.
Developers who apply for the exemption can be required, according to the state law, by the city to add amenities within those zones.
And in the town center zone, Mueller said, the residential units must be combined in a mixed-use project which also has com-mercial and offi ce space. Typically those are in three or four story buildings with the businesses on the ground fl oor while apart-ments or condos would be located above.
In the town center zone, Mueller added, there has to be at least four residential units for it to be considered multi-family while there must be a diversity of off er-ings. In other words, there can’t just be a building with nothing but studio apart-ments, there must be diff er-ent fl oor plans available for the residential units.
And it’s important, Mueller said, to clarify what defi nition the city is using for “aff ordable housing.”
Based on a defi nition laid out by King County, the ordinance allows property owners to apply for a 12 year exemption for aff ord-able housing if at least 20 percent of the units built are rented to low or moder-ate income households.
A low income household is defi ned having an income
at or below 100 percent of the median family income adjusted for family size in King County as reported by HUD, Mueller explained in a follow up email. A moder-ate income household is defi ned as a household hav-ing an income at or below 150 percent of the median family income adjusted for
family size in King County. Aff ordable rent, then,
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“A three person house-hold making at or below 150 percent of King Coun-
ty’s median income could make up to $117,300,” Mueller wrote. “So, an aff ordable unit could be rented to a three-person household making 150 percent of median income for as much as $2,932.50 per month (assumes rent includes utilities); likewise it could be rented to a three
person family making 100 percent of median Income ($78,200) for $1,955 per month (including utilities).”
Hart added that the city is off ering the exemption “to add to the economic development toolbox to encourage residential de-velopment in one of those three zones.”
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