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Phase One of the Yelm Loop or Bypass To Nowhere has gone up on the Washington State Department of Transportation site for bid.
Titled: YELM LOOP – STAGE 1, it is described in short as “SR 510, MP 13.28 to MP 14.81 in Thurston County, CL 1 or 4.CONTAINS APPRENTICE UTILIZATION REQUIREMENT: 15%. For more information [...]
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Amid several current blunders by the Yelm City Council, Yelm watch dog and blogger Steve Klein urges Yelm Residents to ask the City of Yelm Council some hard questions about pressing issues.
Directly from Yelm.com
YELM RESIDENTS SHOULD DEMAND ANSWERS FROM CITY OFFICIALS!
The number one responsibility of elected officials and their staffs of our municipalities is to [...]
On February 9, 2010, all registered voters in the City of Yelm and County Fire Districts 2 and 4 will get an opportunity to vote on the merger to be under one umbrella of the Southeast Thurston Regional Fire Authority. The merger will eliminate several redundant administrative expenses and allow the Fire Authority to operate [...]
The Olympian ran a story titled Permit process gone awry creates nightmare in Yelm detailing the struggles of Andy and Cindy Smith who are unable to move into their new house because of the City of Yelm’s mismanagement of the building permit process.
The city issued a building permit for the home despite a development condition [...]
On October 26, 2009, Mayor Ron Harding signed a a letter stating the City Of Yelms intent to evoke Eminent Domain to seize the McMonigle water rights that were key to the Washington State Dept. of Ecology’s June 20th decision to reverse the the Thurston County Conservancy Board Draft Water System Plan approval of Yelm’s [...]
JZ Knight, owning property just over a mile from the location of the new wells outlined in the City of Yelm’s Water Plan, launched an aggressive media campaign to get information out to the residents of Yelm and the surrounding areas concerning the City’s practices regarding the Water Plan.
The post on her website states:
The City [...]
The below is from a press release sent today, May 7th, 2009.
As a result of over a thorough 2-month investigation, I have published today
a detailed report outlining what I assert is the negligence of City of Yelm officials
in handling the official business of the city and in keeping this knowledge from public view.
“THURSTON HIGHLANDS IN [...]
The Washington Legislature has approved a downsized $3.2 billion construction budget with Yelm listed in two of the bullet points.
The House, on a 61-35 vote Sunday night after removing $777 million from the budget to help try to meet the state’s $35 billion operating budget. The last step is the signature of Gov. Chris [...]
With some recent confusion over the status of the Yelm Bypass funding, I emailed Dennis Engel, who is listed as the Project Engineer WSDOT Olympic Region for the project (the SR 510 – Yelm Loop)
Under the current funding we have right of way and preliminary engineering (design) funded. There are three seperate budgets being [...]
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