HIGHWAY 2 SAFETY COALITION
(Coalition meetings are held 7:00 PM on the last Monday of each month in the Community Center of Sultan's city hall located at 319 Main Street)

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Coalition Minutes: Regular meetings & Workshops

TOPICS:

• Fred and Donnetta Walser's trip to Washington, D.C. (to visit Washington State's Congressional delegates)
• Minutes of the Highway 2 Safety Coalition meetings and workshops
• The Coalition's "backstory": News articles and stories from 1998 (coming soon, hopefully!)

THE WALSERS' WASHINGTON, D.C. TRIP (the purpose of which was to request $8 millon for an EIS study on U. S. 2): Mayor Donnetta Walser and Sultan Police Chief Fred Walser took a whirlwind, 2 1/2-day trip to D.C. to lobby for funds. The Walsers fully funded their trip with personal funds, using vacation time. Below is our article on this trip (based on a conversation with Fred Walser), and the documentation they distributed to members of Washington's Congressional delegation during that trip.

• G.R.I.T.-authored story on this trip (in Word)
• Sky Valley Joint Mayors' resolution to Washington State Congressional delegation
• Letters of support from around the Valley to Congressional representatives:
  • Washington State Legislators, 39th District
  • Washington Council of Police & Sheriffs and WSP Troopers Association
  • WSDOT (Lorean Eng
  • Washington Trucking Association
  • Evergreen Crescent Initiative
  • School districts (Monroe and Sultan)
  • Chambers of Commerce (Monroe and SkyValley)
    • Business interests:
      • Cadman
      • Speedway Chevrolet (this is an excellent letter)
  • Sultan Planning Commissioner Josie Fallgatter (this is an excellent letter)

MINUTES OF THE HIGHWAY 2 SAFETY COALITION MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS (listed most-recent meeting first)

2005:

• June 27, 2005 Coalition Mtg. Minutes (in Word, Acrobat).
• May 31, 2005 Coalition Mtg. Minutes (in Word, Acrobat)
• April 25, 2005 Coalition Mtg. Minutes (in Word, Acrobat)
• (March meeting not held.)
• February 28, 2005 Coalition Mtg. Minutes (in Word, Acrobat)
• February 14, 2005 Coalition Working Group Meeting notes (in Word, Acrobat)
• January 31, 2005 Coalition Mtg. Minutes (in Word, Acrobat)

2004:

• November 29, 2004 (in Word, Acrobat)
• 10/25/04 Minutes (includes word-for-word transcription excerpts of Rick Larsen's aide, Schatz, PSRC's strategy advisor King Cushman, and Sultan Councilmember Jiim Flower) in Word, Acrobat. ALSO: Here's the PSRC information on the Regional Rural Cities Corridor program distributed at that meeting.
• 11/29/04 Minutes (Word, Acrobat)

2003:

• 1/21/03: Minutes (in Word, Acrobat), and our GRIT summary of the Meeting (in Word) (copy of press release from Rep. Doug Ericksen distributed at that meeting.)
• 2/24/03 Minutes (not published)
• 3/24/03 Minutes (Not completed)

2002:

• May 2, 2002 (in Word)
• May 24, 2002 (in Word)