Mike Bollich-Ziegler

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

This grant also inspired this statement from our current city council president Susan Honda.

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The city accepted a $500k grant for this project last December, and I would’ve sworn it said “sidewalk” at the time. Turns out it did! 🤔

photo of a street with a small, ~6x3" concrete hump alongside the street with pavement on either side providing separation from the drive lane.

If a 'designated shoulder' is another one of these concrete humps masquerading as a sidewalk, it's a hard no from me. People will just park in the space.

I will attend the mtg to ask the city to include specific designs in its agenda packet and to figure out what this designated shoulder plan is.

Text from the memo: Financial Impacts: The cost to the City for the City Center Greenway project was included within the approved budget under the Public Works Department, Capital Project #36244. In accordance with the approved budget, this item is funded by $500,000 from the 306 Fund and $500,000 from a Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) grant. Upon completion of the City Center Greenway project, future costs will be funded through street maintenance. Funding requirements for operations and maintenance of infrastructure are reviewed and adjusted as required during the budget process. Background Information: The purpose of this project is to improve the connection for pedestrians and bicyclists between Federal Way High School and the City Center. It includes providing a designated shoulder, roadway signing and striping, traffic calming, and lighting improvements. The following provides a brief synopsis of the progress to date. Currently, the project design is approximately 85% complete, which includes the following completed tasks: • GPS Data Collection • Public Outreach • Project Design to 85% Ongoing tasks include: • Project Design to 100% • Contract Specifications • Utility Coordination • Environmental Documentation

text from the memo: Project Estimated Expenditures Design 45,000 2026 Construction Costs $ 635,000 Construction Contingency $ 64,000 Construction Management & Inspection $ 32,000 Estimated Total Project Costs $ 776,000 Project Available Funding Grant - TIB Complete Streets $ 500,000 CIP Funds $ 500.000 Total Available Budget $1,000,000 After receiving bids, the total project costs will be refined and presented to the Committee and Council for bid award authorization. Staff anticipates bidding this project in May 2026. Construction is anticipated to start in Summer 2026 with an estimated substantial completion date in Fall 2026.

Overview project map of S 308 St and 20 Ave S between Pac Hwy and S 312 st.

Tomorrow, the Federal Way LUTC Committee will vote on requesting bids for a City Greenway Project from FWHS to the city center. The project will provide a 'designated shoulder, roadway signing & striping, traffic calming, and lighting improvements.'

Who knows what a "designated shoulder" means!

Which WA legislator is going to sponsor legislation requiring online budget proposals work with with ctrl+f?

COUNCIL BUSINESS Council Confirmation of 2026-2027 Committee Appointments Council President Honda ORDINANCES a) First Reading Council Bill #932/Ordinance: Co-Living Housing Code Amendment AN ORDINANCE of the City of Federal Way, Washington, relating to co-living housing; amending FWRC 19.05.040, and 19.05.190; and adding new sections FWRC 19.205.060, 19.215.055, 19.220.085, 19.225.065, and 19.230.075. (Amending Ordinance Nos. 08-585, 09-593, 09-605, 09-610, 12-713, 14-778, 15-797, 17-834,18-844,20-898,21-921, 22-932, 23-951, 23-963, 23-977, 25-1008, 25- 1016, and 25-1025) Becky Chapin, Senior Planner Public comment: 3 minutes each CITY COUNCIL REPORTS EXECUTIVE SESSION ADJOURNMENT

COUNCIL BUSINESS a) Parks and Recreation Commission Appointments Heather Dumlao, City Clerk ORDINANCES a) Second Reading/Enactment Council Bill #932/Ordinance: Co-Living Housing Code Amendment AN ORDINANCE of the City of Federal Way, Washington, relating to co-living housing; amending FWRC 19.05.040, and 19.05.190; and adding new sections FWRC 19.205.060, 19.215.055, 19.220.085, 19.225.065, and 19.230.075. (Amending Ordinance Nos. 08-585, 09-593, 09-605, 09-610, 12-713, 14-778, 15-797, 17-834,18-844,20-898,21-921, 22-932, 23-951, 23-963, 23-977, 25-1008, 25- 1016, and 25-1025) Becky Chapin, Senior Planner CITY COUNCIL REPORTS EXECUTIVE SESSION ADJOURNMENT

The Federal Way City Council hasn’t done much work in the time since they ousted the former council president.

Non-consent agenda items in the subsequent two meetings include:
- redo on council commission appointments
- citizen commission appointments
- co-living housing code amendment

the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status...

all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will

such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy

A real live look into Cop Brain:

1. Driver hits a cyclist in a bike lane. The cyclist is knocked unconscious and receives multiple fractures
2. The attending cop follows the victim to the hospital to give a ticket for "cycling without a helmet" which does not exist
3. Driver gets off with no charge

Traffic control box on an intersection pole with a picture of kristi noem in a cowboy hat with this text surrounding her photo: “DOMESTIC TERRORIST CORRUPT LIAR RACIST ASSHOLE”

Good morning, Olympia.

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

trump going on about corruption and then slandering somali-americans makes my blood boil

So far the legislature is not including the cut in their budgets. FTR, these are the WA House members, all dems, who voted for the cut:

Ormsby, Gregerson, Macri, Berg, Bergquist, Cortes, Doglio, Fitzgibbon, Leavitt, Lekanoff, Peterson, Ryu, Springer, Stonier, Street, and Thai.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The WA Senate Dems' budget proposal includes at least a whopping $310 million in cuts to public education:

❌ $140M cut to transition to kindergarten
❌ $110M cut to Local Effort Assistance (meaning an immediate budget cut to school district operations)
❌ $60M cut to budget depreciation calculations

I'm similarly outraged at the ESIT cuts. I can't tell if the reduction has been included in the first budget draft from the House today. fiscal.wa.gov/statebudgets...

I imagine even if it isn't that HB 2688 can still move since it doesn't have a cutoff.

She would likely miss out on a month of services at most due to turning three soon, but still. Access for all is so important.

It’s not just that the services are public and low/no cost, but speech therapy in-home or in-daycare is so convenient and the people are excellent! ☹️

Found out by reading this that my daughter will likely lose her Birth to Three speech therapy services due to the proposed HB 2688 cuts. 🤬

Wrong and shortsighted in every way.

Screenshot of the routle game with map of Seattle and a thin green line of a bus route superimposed on it. Between a list of possible king county route numbers and the map are six boxes, and the first box has a green 65 in it.

Had the area in the Seattle right in my head, but guessing the route number was pure luck.

Wordle for transit nerds: www.routle.city/king_county_...

VARNEY: We are told that temperatures of 10 million Kelvin are bad for the human body, is that no longer true?

BURGUM: It's true, but those temperatures are required for nuclear fusion, which powers sunshine. So are those temperatures dangerous or necessary for life? We know it's the latter.

As a former employee, I love to see these new Kaldi’s Coffee leaders. ✊

Tolan: Alien Best Friend

This startup is trying to be that: www.tolans.com.

Personally, the concept is a hard pass for me. I think I’d only trust it in a clinical setting with similar stricter clinical oversight, accountability, and standards (i.e. actual therapy and etc).

FW City Council this evening confirms this property at 320th & 1st Ave is no longer for sale by the property owner and thus no longer needs a rezone.

The city development director said the property owner didn’t disclose why. With NIMBYs like these, I can imagine.

Screenshot of a Reddit comment: 27-year-old woman hit by car in Capitol Hill dies from i... 474 upvotes • 201 comments Comment: when I called the police because he was screaming he kept saying that he didint hit her and that a random person got under his car and that the person wouldn't move. I commented above, I was the first to call the police, I didn't see him hit her but I i was driving and pulled up right behind him and saw her legs sticking out. it was so sad, I'm deeply traumatized by it.

Screenshot of Reddit comment. “as I was driving I saw the car was parked in the middle of the road so I stopped to see what was going on ( before any police arrived or were called. The guy was saying "help someone got under my car " . I was so freaked out bc I saw her legs under the car but it didn't seem that she got under the car, she seemed squished. He didn't speak English so he was screaming in Spanish. I Called the police and explained that he kept saying that he didnt hit anyone that when he came out of the ramen shop that he saw the person under his car. he was so freaked out. Pretty sure that he was in a rush to go get the order that he didn't even realize he hit her and went inside to grab the food. Then he came out, put the foood in his car and only AFTER realized she was there. The whole like having to deliver food super fast was over his mind and he was so distracted that he didnt even realize he hit her. His spanish sounded like a Dominican/ Puerto Rican accent. I was able to translate to the police because I speak Spanish and am Hispanic. The weird part was when the police arrived, he showed them that he was just there to pick up an order, and got the izakaya ramen bag out of his car from the FRONT PASSENGER SEAT. so that shows he was in a whole different mindset that when he got back to the car he didn't even realize she was there. Maybe he didn't realize until he tried to drive forward and couldn't pull forward hence her being further stuck into the car. I have pictures and videos.”

Screenshot from a Reddit comment: “I think it was my DoorDash order. I feel HORRIBLE. I placed an order around 7pm but they forgot the ramen part of my order. We were refunded and placed the order again. Around 8 we saw that the driver picked up the order. By 8:40 we messaged asking if everything was OK because we could see that he was still in front of Kizuki. He messaged that he was in an accident and was waiting on things to be cleared up- DoorDash showed that his correspondence was in Spanish. We messaged back asking if he would like us to cancel the order so he could focus on the accident (we assumed it was a fender bender or something). He canceled the order. DoorDash offered a free express order so we ordered my ramen for a third time. It took forever to get here. I had a crappy day at work & my elderly cat is sick so | joked that my order was clearly cursed and that the universe is testing me. This morning, I see how truly cursed my order was. My heart goes out to her loved ones. I cannot imagine the loss. And I hate whatever pressure the driver felt he was under from DoorDash. No food order is worth someone”

An entire community and family are left traumatized and devastated by a driver killing a pedestrian, and as a society we are okay with them walking free as long as they cooperate with police and aren’t detectably drunk/high?

Link to the Reddit thread:
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They're all really letting their inner Nazi out for a little dance. Gestapo, camps, show us your papers, yellow stars...

Big year for transit improvements in Federal Way. These changes also include higher frequencies for the 181, I believe.

And when they are reported, this is the kind of headline and story we get.

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Not only do you get to walk away, you can continue to drive which begs the question of why we issue licenses at all.

Signs installed! I appreciate the tow scare icon.

My confidence residents won’t continue to use it as their private parking lane: next to none.

But maybe it will help Federal Way PD not argue with me that cars can’t park on pedestrian paths.

Literal Nazi shit

"I never want to see third and fourth graders have to run away from our own government."