tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post9182086879184946915..comments2024-03-29T02:41:52.718-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Council Members Stepping Into BEX Project?Melissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-66096910652189055562008-05-30T00:42:00.000-07:002008-05-30T00:42:00.000-07:00The City Council sent an unofficial letter signed ...The City Council sent an unofficial letter signed by 8 members of the Council offering to assist the School Board in finding an Alternative design to cutting Down Ingraham trees. The tree ordinance is to protect some of the larger trees in the city because the "excuse" that 2.7 trees (size undetermined! 4-6 ft?) equals one 100 foot tree is being used to often. As far as Ingraham is concerned it is 90 trees averaging 90 feet, some as old as 75 years.<BR/><BR/>I think it is shameful that it takes a city ordinance to make a public entity like a school district save trees. You would think a school like Ingraham would want to save trees. <BR/><BR/>The school is named after a mountaneer who climbed Mt. Rainier 13 times, 11 of them to the top. A man who was known to be an outdoorsman, perhaps even the first of the ENVIRONMENTALIST, I wonder if he is turning over in his grave at the proposal to cut down 90 trees? Especially when there are at least 3 other options for the addition. <BR/><BR/>By the way this is another one of those "Don't tell the Public moments", The first meeting for the public was in March, only people with east/west addresses were notified. The people to mainly be affected live north/south.<BR/><BR/>Great Schools we have, Democracy= Secrecy.SAVE THE TREEShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06334822812219090430noreply@blogger.com