Archive for 'Nightlife Initiative'
Seattle Police Chief John Diaz announced his retirement today after 36 years in law enforcement, 33 of those years as a member of the Seattle Police Department. Assistant Chief Jim Pugel of the Criminal Investigations Bureau will be the acting Interim Chief upon Chief Diaz’s departure at the end of May. “After
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Posted: April 8th, 2013 under CCI, Nightlife Initiative, Public Safety.
Today Mayor McGinn, the Seattle Police Department and the Seattle Department of Transportation updated the public on the mayor’s pre-paid parking program and road safety emphasis patrol efforts in advance of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this weekend. “When it comes to our road safety efforts, we are taking an ‘all-of-the-above’ approach,” said
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Posted: March 13th, 2013 under Arts and Nightlife, CCI, Community Engagement, Education, Health, Nightlife Initiative, Public Safety.
Mayor Mike McGinn and Police Chief John Diaz announced today that new “Predictive Policing” software has been deployed in the East and Southwest Precincts. The software was designed by the University of California, Los Angeles in partnership with the Los Angeles Police Department. It has been used by police departments all over
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Posted: February 27th, 2013 under CCI, Nightlife Initiative, Public Safety, Race and Social Justice.
King County Executive Dow Constantine, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and Downtown Seattle Association President & CEO Kate Joncas today signed a landmark Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), calling for a series of improvements to the Third Avenue corridor to support Seattle’s strengths, address its challenges and work collaboratively with the community to continue
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Posted: December 11th, 2012 under CCI, Mayor McGinn, Nightlife Initiative, Public Safety, Transportation.
Today Mayor McGinn joined Captain Jim Dermody of the West Precinct, Jerri Lane of the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau and Kate Joncas of the Downtown Seattle Association to highlight attractions, and public safety emphasis patrols in the downtown retail core for the holiday season. Downtown Seattle Association President and CEO Kate
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Posted: November 13th, 2012 under Mayor McGinn, Nightlife Initiative, Public Safety.
Tags: April Thomas
Downtown Seattle is the economic engine for the entire region. It is the center for entertainment, music, food, theater – for Northwest culture. It offers great shopping from international names to local gems. Even on a cold, rainy day, you will find people and activity bustling along on city sidewalks. This is
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Posted: May 8th, 2012 under CCI, Community Engagement, Human services, Jobs, Mayor McGinn, Nightlife Initiative, Public Safety, Transportation.
Tags: ap, April Thomas
Tune in to KEXP 90.3 tomorrow morning at 8:15 am for Mayor McGinn's regular monthly appearance on the Morning Show with John Richards. The mayor will be joined by local musician Macklemore and Olivia Smith, a Youth Ambassador from Cleveland High School, to talk about their work on our campaign to improve
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Posted: February 14th, 2012 under Arts and Nightlife, Community Engagement, Education, Mayor McGinn, Nightlife Initiative.
Today we announced the installation of five new late night taxi stands as part of our Seattle Nightlife Initiative. To help ensure that everyone arrives home safely, the stands provide a safe and visible sidewalk location for people to grab taxis in the city’s entertainment hubs and operate nightly from 10PM to
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Posted: November 29th, 2011 under Arts and Nightlife, Mayor McGinn, Nightlife Initiative.
Tags: nightlife
On Saturday the mayor introduced Best Coast at the Capitol Hill Block Party, accompanied by the Summer Fellows from the Washington Bus. The Bus is a grassroots progressive organization dedicated to getting young people involved in politics, and most importantly, getting out the vote. They were out in full force at the
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Posted: July 25th, 2011 under Arts and Nightlife, Mayor McGinn, Nightlife Initiative.
Tags: music
After significant public outreach and community input, Mayor Mike McGinn today announced his proposal for changing state policy to allow cities to allow extended service hours for Seattle nightlife. The mayor transmitted a resolution to the City Council supporting a petition to the Washington State Liquor Control Board (LCB) to allow for
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Posted: July 14th, 2011 under Arts and Nightlife, Mayor McGinn, Nightlife Initiative, Public Safety.
Tags: extended service hours, nightlife
