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April 18, 2008

Nickels wants more power for the region

  • The mayor called for a new regional government with decision-making and spending authority.
    • By SHAWNA GAMACHE
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Nickels
    Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels kicked off a City Club forum Thursday with what he said would be a “provocative” idea: The Puget Sound region should “declare its independence” and form a more powerful regional government with more decision-making and spending authority.

    “I would look to the Puget Sound Regional Council and I would put it on steroids,” Nickels said at the forum, which also featured Mayor Grant Degginger of Bellevue and Mayor John Marchione of Redmond. “It ought to have a real ability to make real decisions with the money we have.”


     
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