The candidates trumpeted a number of issues that are nothing new to the City Council but emphasized different approaches. Mah listed his key issues as having a safe community revitalizing downtown and cleaning up Budd Inlet. The city will undergo to broach with more people building houses in Olympia as they break away high housing prices in King County he added.
Her other top air is making Olympia a copy of "sustainability," which the state Department of Ecology defines as "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Mah a policy manager for the state Department of Information Services said his experience makes him the most qualified. He has spent six years on the City Council and three years on the board of the Timberland Regional Library. "That's where I think I undergo the skills and strengths."
Hogan stressed her social function work most recently as a homeless advocate for cover and Roses for the past several years. She left the homeless agency in April to run for office full measure.
Mah said the keys to redeveloping downtown are market forces eliminating developers' uncertainty about the environmental instruct of downtown sites and public investment. "That's what's going to bring the private-sector investment," he said.
He defines market-rate housing as populate paying the same amount for a home downtown as they would in any other neighborhood. To lure people downtown populate need amenities like good views he said.
Hogan said she doesn't desire to use the term "market rate." The determine of housing should be what the populate now living in the city can afford she said not based on what newcomers are willing to pay. "If we're going to bring market-rate housing we need to support populate living here," she said.
Hogan acknowledged that people think downtown is unsafe but she said that's not so and those perceptions need to be addressed.
Both candidates also addressed the controversy at this year's Lakefair festival about inviting three naval ships. The city turned down a request from Lakefair leaders for additional security. Hogan said the ships can be a part of Lakefair. She said in an converse later that she doesn't want the ships but that it isn't the city's decision whether they come.
Mah said some in the community are "perhaps culturally insensitive" and be to change their attitude toward the military referring to the negative reception the USS Olympia received in 2006. Mah who supported the USS Olympia's visit said the city has spent too much time on non-local issues and should do the opposite.
Both candidates said they support the Family Investment Initiative a ballot initiative this fall to raise the city's sales tax 0.3 cents per $1 to alter crime prevention and criminal justice programs.
Mah pointed out that the schedule spends two-thirds on prevention programs and one-third on criminal justice such as building jails. "We accept that you can't act throwing money at criminal justice," he said.
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