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The City of SeaTac
Learn about where you live, work, play and volunteer!
Incorporating as a city in 1990, the city of SeaTac is still a fairly young city which has come along quite well so far and continues to grow and embrace changes as the world and our community grows and changes. In case you are new to SeaTac or haven’t noticed before – you live in a great city!
SeaTac residents enjoy many amenities for a city our size including a broad range of places to worship; four elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools. SeaTac is unique because we have an international airport in the middle of our city which draws many visitors to, and through, our city. And, we are tucked between two cities which provide lots of retail and restaurants for us to enjoy as we also realize some of the most affordable housing in our region right here in SeaTac.
Check out the links below (in bold type) and then visit one, or more, of our great SeaTac Parks and Gardens or our Community Centers, or any number of other activities in SeaTac which are open to all!
SeaTac Quarterly Magazine/Parks Activity Guide (Fall 2019)
The City of SeaTac runs a very popular Senior Program and folks from all around the area participate in our Senior Program. We also boast a lovely Senior Center within our Community Center, with a Senior Lunch Program with lunch 4 days a week and live music and dancing on Wednesdays and lots of Senior activities and day trips to enjoy! Our Seniors also volunteer as members on the Senior Citizen Advisory Committee. Our Senior Holiday Bazaar is Nov. 2 from 9 – 3pm at the SeaTac Community Center.
On November 11, 2019 at 11am, we will open our beautiful new Veterans Memorial Park at the SeaTac Community Center! All are invited!
Our Human Services are outstanding! 1.5% of our budget goes to services for our SeaTac citizens in need. This amount is currently over a half a million dollars.
We have a host of volunteer Advisory Committees and everyone is welcome to participate and apply for a committee
I hope you find this info helpful in living a full, active life in the great City of SeaTac! Hope to see you at the Senior Holiday Bazaar this weekend and at the Tree Lighting festival.
– Pam Fernald
40 year city of SeaTac resident and taxpayer
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Thank you Pam
Pam, Vicki, Michael, Joel. A chorus of status quo boosters for SeaTac who clog SeaTac blog and Next Door with pro incumbent propaganda. SeaTac is one of the neediest cities in our region. Yet they keep telling us that our paltry 1.5% human services budget is meeting the needs. The SeaTac Council has ignored recommendations of the human services needs assessment they commissioned. Our parks are really inadequate especially for small children. I am tired of hearing this Gang of Four tell us everything is wonderful in our community when it is not. They represent a minority who are primarily interested in minimizing taxes and protecting their property. Enough already.
How about all those expensive slick mailers from the challengers clogging my mailbox who haven’t shown up anywhere to learn anything?
The “paltry” 1.5% to Human Services is more than any other City contributes. Didn’t get your cut? Enough already.
Hello Mr. Paulson, This is Council member Fernald. You wrote: “Our parks are really inadequate especially for small children.”
I would appreciate it if you would contact me via my city email and let me know what it is you feel the parks are lacking. I always appreciate hearing feedback from residents. 🙂
And, just a comment that I hope won’t clog you up, but I do NOT consider 1.5 % of our Human Services budget ‘paltry’ as you have characterized it. Please feel free to educate yourself regarding SeaTac Human Services here: https://www.seatacwa.gov/government/city-departments/parks-community-programs-services/human-services
Even with all of the naysayers and mean people who try to tear down how the City of SeaTac is run, I am proud of the work I have done for the citizens and proud to serve you.
So Mr. Paulson, asI understand your post, you have a problem lowering taxes and protecting property rights, while growing the budget and spending more on the community? That’s interesting!
Here’s how I see it, this is a great election. If the majority changes to your new supported majority, they will be obligated to equal or exceed the performance of the “Gang of Four” or they will have failed. Or, if the the challengers lose, your party will have wasted over $120,000 attempting to retake a 29,000 residence city. Since there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the challengers do not have the ability to run the city as well as it has been run, because it is now in the best financial shape it has been in since incorporation, I see this as a win-win situation.
We will talk again in the future!
Thank you Pam.
Mr. Paulson,
I’m sorry you feel as if I’ve clogged the blogs … I glanced over to the right side of this website under ‘Recent Comments’ and I don’t see my name there. I have posted 5 threads on NextDoor since Aug. 14th: 2 were notifications of Registered Sex Offenders in the McMicken Neighborhood (posted only to that one neighborhood), and one was for a fund raiser event for the USO. Apparently your tolerance level for others to communicate is extremely fragile.
You said ‘SeaTac is one of the neediest cities in our region’, What have you done to alleviate the neediness you refer to?’
You also criticize ‘the paltry 1.5% human services budget’. Are you contributing additional money from your bank account to these organizations? I’m certain they’d appreciate your monetary attention.
You are of the opinion that our parks are ‘inadequate especially for small children’. Have you attended any committee meetings to share your vision of what is needed and suggested how we might fund the missing items?
I believe you intended to insult our incumbent Council Members by accusing them of minimizing taxes and protecting their property. If you’d like to pay more money to your government than you’re billed feel free to donate all the money you’d like to the City’s account.
And lastly, if you have no desire to preserve your property I’d call that irresponsible.
Have a nice day.