{"id":1040,"date":"2019-09-09T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdc.wastateleg.org\/pedersen\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:18:42","slug":"2019-session-review-building-a-stronger-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/2019\/09\/09\/2019-session-review-building-a-stronger-community\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Session Review: Building a stronger community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I had the opportunity to celebrate the re-opening of the recently renovated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiro7.com\/news\/local\/seattles-renovated-lincoln-hs-reopening-for-first-time-in-4-decades\/982053436\">Lincoln High School<\/a> (the first new comprehensive high school in our city in nearly 60 years) and attend the re-opening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/pacific-nw-magazine\/saving-a-buildings-soul-along-with-the-heart-of-town-hall-seattle\/\">Town Hall Seattle <\/a>after two years of major renovations. These projects were made possible thanks in part to our state\u2019s capital construction budget, which puts people to work building public schools, colleges, state parks, community gathering places, and essential infrastructure such as rural broadband.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dev2.sdc.wastateleg.org\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/Pedersen-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/Pedersen-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/Pedersen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/Pedersen-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/Pedersen-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/Pedersen-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/pedersen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2019\/09\/Pedersen.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Celebrating the recently renovated Lincoln High School with the community last week. (Photo courtesy of Seattle Public Schools)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key community investments<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\n2019-21 capital budget includes investments that will help our whole community\ncontinue to thrive.&nbsp; I was proud to work\nwith the other members of the Seattle delegation to secure funding for projects\nsuch as:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$21 million for Seattle Public Schools (SPS) to meet urgent capacity and safety upgrade needs at Leschi Elementary School, Madison Middle School, and North Beach Elementary School.<\/li><li>$6 million to help fund a 75-unit housing project at Broadway &amp; Pine, developed by Capitol Hill Housing as a complement to the new YouthCare Opportunity Center<\/li><li>$6 million to help fund an innovative high-rise housing project at Madison &amp; Boylston on First Hill, developed by Bellwether Housing and Plymouth Housing Group as a joint venture to provide 115 permanent supportive apartments for formerly homeless seniors and 253 apartments for low-income families <\/li><li>$200,000 to support the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farestart.org\/\">FareStart<\/a> program, which provides job training for people experiencing homelessness, poverty and hunger.<\/li><li>$271,000 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uheightscenter.org\/\">University Heights Center for the Community<\/a>, which is a crucial gathering place that&nbsp;promotes life-long learning, creativity, culture, community activism in Seattle.<\/li><li>$600,000 to help build the AIDS Memorial Pathway at the Capitol Hill light rail station and Cal Anderson Park.<\/li><li>$1.5 million to support early learning through the construction of Roosevelt Childcare Center.<\/li><li>$986,000 to support the design and construction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattle.gov\/parks\/about-us\/current-projects\/northwest-native-canoe-center\">Northwest Native Canoe Center<\/a> at Lake Union Park.<\/li><li>$451,000 to replace the main <a href=\"https:\/\/wildliferecreation.org\/projects\/green-lake-dock-replacement-restrooms\/\">Green Lake dock<\/a> with a larger dock with two floats, renovate two restrooms and add two restrooms with showers.<\/li><li>$500,000 to replace the Volunteer Park Amphitheater with a modern and accessible structure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Statewide highlights:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$1.1 billion to build public\nschools, including $43 million for rural and distressed schools.&nbsp;<\/li><li>$973 million for projects at public colleges and universities,\nwith $408 million for community and technical colleges and $34 million for a\nnew behavioral health teaching hospital at the University of Washington.&nbsp;<\/li><li>$154\nmillion for projects at state mental health facilities, including the design of\na new forensic hospital and the design and construction of new 16-bed and\n48-bed behavioral health facilities.&nbsp;<\/li><li>$585\nmillion for orca, salmon recovery, and water quality projects&nbsp;<\/li><li>$175\nmillion for affordable housing development&nbsp;statewide.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If\nyou missed my previous updates on health care, gun safety, civil rights,\nclimate change, orca recovery, behavioral health, housing or education, <a href=\"http:\/\/sdc.wastateleg.org\/pedersen\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">you can read those here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had the opportunity to celebrate the re-opening of the recently renovated Lincoln High School (the first new comprehensive high school in our city in nearly 60 years) and attend the re-opening of Town Hall Seattle after two years of major renovations. These projects were made possible thanks in part to our state\u2019s capital construction budget, which puts people to work building public schools, colleges, state parks, community gathering places, and essential infrastructure such as rural broadband. Key community investments The 2019-21 capital budget includes investments that will help our whole community continue to thrive.&nbsp; I was proud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2019 Session Review: Building a stronger community - Sen. 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