Dear Mayor Rowe and Laura:

The email exchanges below detail my continued requests for more effective
and open communication for Sultan residents. As you know, I have spent a
good deal of time and personal finances trying to inform Sultan taxpayers.
Even though I do not live within the city limits, decisions made by the City
affect my husband and myself, and many others, very directly and personally.

I am making three requests:

1) That the below requests are complied with; this includes ANY notice,
whether or not it is a legal mandate. I should not have to submit and pay
for public information requests to receive information of interest to the
greater Sultan community in order to post them on my website.
2) The council packets INCLUDE a complete text of any ordinances
scheduled for discussion during a council meeting. This was being done for
a short time, but their inclusion has since disappeared. Ordinances can be
included as attachments, rather than as part of the council packet. Or you
may send them to me and I will post them as part of the council packet. The
purpose of this is clear: Citizens can hardly comment on an item of this
import without prior review.
3) If the city does not wish to comply with items #1 and #2 above, then
I'm requesting that an email distribution list be compiled and maintained by
the city in order to send out material of interest to ALL citizens,
especially notices of application, any notice that requires legal notice;
i.e., hearings, etc. The city made a baby step forward with electronic
dissemination of the council packets and certain notices, but in this age of
instantaneous communication, it is an incredibly easy, inexpensive, and
citizen-responsive action for the city to maintain such a list. Anyone
wishing to receive public information of any kind from the city would be
able to receive it instanteously as the city sends it out, simply by
requesitng to be included on this list.

I eagerly await your response,

Loretta Storm
360-793-6683
33520 - 116th Street S. E., Sultan 98294

----- Original Message -----
From: Loretta Storm <dellastreet@premier1.net>
To: Koenig, Laura <laura.k@cityofsultan.com>
Cc: sumpter77 <sumpter77@email.msn.com>; Wakefield, Chris
<chriswake@aol.com>; Bourne, Gary <bourne@bhiinc.com>; Roger Wagoner
<wagoner@bhiinc.com>; Raney, Mark <msraney@earthlink.net>; Ostrom, Bob
<reostrom@premier1.net>; McPherson, Perry <PERRYMCP@aol.com>; Broughton,
Cindy <Rellajones@aol.com>; Porter, Jim <SultanPost@msn.com>; Kraut, Ron
<cohobanger@aol.com>; Everett, Jeff <vidman@gte.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: Public advisement


> Dear Laura:
>
> I have not yet received a response to my request sent previously. I
believe
> that this is an appropriate request, until such time as the city has its
> website up and running on a full-time, daily advisement. Although
everyone
> understands that the city and I disagree on a myriad of issues, still,
> public advisement and participation is the heart of our American system
and
> integral to a taxpayer-supported system.
>
> Thanks for your consideration and response,
>
> Loretta Storm
>
> PS: Once again, I would like to express my appreciation for the EIS in
> electronic form, as well as hard copy via mail.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Loretta Storm <dellastreet@premier1.net>
> To: Laura Koenig <laura.k@cityofsultan.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re:
>
>
> > Laura,
> > Thanks for the agenda.
> >
> > I would like to formally request that you place me on the list to
receive
> > notices of ANY kind in the future, be they notices of application,
> meetings,
> > or any other event. I believe there was a notice of a meeting on the
19th
> > which I was not sent. Also, I believe there is a "planning" schedule or
> > update that is "published" by the city or its engineer, and I am
> requesting
> > to be placed on the list for that, too.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Loretta