Edmonds’ stimulus wish list $9.2 million long
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From Washington, D.C., and from Olympia, the refrain is the increasingly same: This recession demands a job-creating stimulus package. From Edmonds, the response has been quick: If you have money, we have ways to spend it. And not on Wall Street, or in Detroit, but on “Main Street.” Literally. Sidewalks, walking trails, lighting improvements on downtown Edmonds’ Main Street and more mundane projects are all included in the city’s 11 project, $9.2 million ’stimulus package’ wish list. Two versions of the list were submitted on Dec. 3 to officials in Olympia and Washington, D.C., in hopes that somehow, someway stimulus dollars will find their way to Edmonds.
All told, the city’s projects would create a total of 116 full-time equivalent jobs, officials estimate. “We are pretty far down the food chain to be expecting much out of it, but the flip side is that the U.S. Conference of Mayors said, ‘Get your packages in,’ and so we did that,” said Mayor Gary Haakenson. “We saw the opportunity and we ran with it.” By Chris Fyall
Enterprise editor
