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Posts for January 2014

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Volunteer Firefighters and the Affordable Care Act

January 29, 2014  by  Pat Mason
Category:  Legislation

Are the hours of volunteer firefighters and other volunteer emergency responders counted for purposes of determining whether the employing local government is subject to the health care...

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SPD Officers, courtesy of Martin.

Washington Supreme Court Narrows Public Records Act Investigative Records Exemption

January 22, 2014  by  Joe Levan
Category:  Public Records Act

As 2013 came to a close, the Washington Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in Sargent v. Seattle Police Dep’t, __ Wn.2d __ (2013), that, for some, upends their long-held understand of how to apply the "investigative" exemption...

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The Year the Public Servant Became the Bureaucrat

January 21, 2014  by  Tracy Burrows
Category:  Management

Cultural shifts are reflected in the language that we use. We can see this over the past 50 years of city planning as we have shifted from "urban renewal," which quickly took on the connotation of a flawed solution...

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What is the Nature of a Public Right-of-Way?

January 2, 2014  by  Bob Meinig
Category:  Streets and Sidewalks

I often come across misconceptions that local government officials have regarding the nature of a city or county right-of-way – the improved part termed a “street” if located in a city and a “road” if located in the unincorporated county. These misconceptions center on the issue of ownership.

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