Meet Your Firefighters This Weekend, Learn How Council President Forsythe is Enhancing Her Leadership, Help Design Southeast Redmond Park, and more
City of Redmond Washington sent this bulletin at 10/09/2023 09:00 AM PDT
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Meet Your Firefighters This Weekend
Join the Redmond Fire Department for a fire station open house from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 14, at Redmond Fire Station 11 (8450 161st Avenue NE). See cooking safety demonstrations, take fire engine tours, and meet fire crews. Follow us on Facebook this Fire Prevention Week for cooking safety tips.
Learn How Council President Forsythe is Enhancing Her Leadership
Redmond City Council President Jessica Forsythe earned a Certificate of Municipal Leadership through the Association of Washington Cities. This certificate program provides mayors and councilmembers in Washington an opportunity to enhance their knowledge and leadership skills to provide more effective local governance. Training is conducted in five core areas: roles, responsibilities, and legal requirements; public sector resource management; community planning and development; effective local leadership; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Join us from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18, for the Southeast Redmond Park Master Plan community meeting. This is the second community meeting that will help shape the vision for the future Southeast Redmond Park. Attendees will review and give feedback on three conceptual plans. Feedback received will help guide the design for this neighborhood park. The meeting will be held at the Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village (6505 176th Avenue NE). Children are welcome.
The City and OneRedmond are partnering on a small business grant fund, which will open for applications on Monday, Oct. 16. The program’s focus is to offer relief in the form of one-time $5,000 grants to small, for-profit businesses that have experienced financial hardship due to COVID-19 and related public health measures. Eligible businesses must be located within the City of Redmond zip code of 98052 and have 10 or fewer employees. Register for an Oct. 17 webinar to learn more.
Learn About a New Grant Supporting Sustainability Goals
The City has been conditionally awarded a $100,000 grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce to complete a solar and battery storage feasibility study. The study will evaluate five city facilities for solar and battery storage installation opportunities and position Redmond for additional grants. These technologies support the City’s sustainability goals and create more resilient facilities during power outages.
The City is partnering with Bloodworks Northwest on Tuesday, Oct. 10, to host a blood drive in the Redmond City Hall parking lot (15670 NE 85th Street). Donating blood is essential for local hospitals to have a constant supply of blood to help patients. On donation day, look for the Bloodmobile, and please arrive with your photo ID.
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