Snohomish County NewsDumpsters available to put leaves
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A couple dry days last week gave residents a chance to clean up leaves in their yards. Hired to clean a yard on Avenue A in Snohomish, Chris McCotter uses a leaf blower to clear the sidewalk. The city is asking residents to place leaves in three dumpsters located around town and not blow them into the streets. The leaves placed in the dumpsters will be taken to Cedar Grove Compost. For more information, call 360-568-3115.
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Hal Moe eliminated as site for new pool facility
SNOHOMISH- The city’s new pool facility will not be built on the Hal Moe site next to the skate park on Second Street, and the Snohomish School District will revisit whether the facility can be built at the Freshman Campus, the district told the school board last week.
The decision means the skate park will not be moved, City Manager Larry Bauman said.
A lack of parking was the problem at the Hal Moe site. The city requires the district to have enough onsite parking on the lot that is shared with the Boys and Girls Club, a restriction the district cannot meet during peak use times.
There are 125 spaces available and adding the pool facility attracts more than 150 cars during peak times. Offsite parking was not an option, district construction manager Ralph Rohwer said.
The Freshman Campus is not the final site option. The district first must assess whether it can mitigate the high water table at the site, which eliminated the Freshman Campus site from pool plans earlier this year. It also may need to work around having a city sewer pumping station near the site.
Another issue is whether wetlands exist on the Freshman Campus site, called a “dealbreaker” by district project manager Steve Moore.
The district tried multiple configurations at the Hal Moe site but could not make it fit, Moore said.
“We made every effort to make that work,” Superintendent Bill Mester said about the Hal Moe site.
Within the block bordered by Second Street, Maple Avenue, Third Street and Pine Avenue is the Boys and Girls Club, the skate park, a small children’s park, and the defunct Hal Moe Pool, which closed in 2006.
The district wants to build a new aquatics center with three pools in town. The money for the facility’s construction is coming from a $261.6 million bond passed by voters in 2008. Bond money represents an estimated $19.9 million of the $26.8 million project, according to August figures.
The construction schedule targets a 2011 opening date.
Mester said the school board will tackle what to do with the Hal Moe site, now in disrepair, later this year.
District engineers will bring back information on the Freshman Campus site before the district’s next board meeting in early December.
Student-run PUB closes
The PUB, an eatery run by students, closed this year, reports the Snohomish High Arrowhead. The eatery, located in the 400 block of Avenue D, was run by students in the Future Business Leaders of America club. The building is now being used for JROTC shortage.
By MICHAEL WHITNEY
Published Nov. 11, 2009