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City of Sammamish Washington sent this bulletin at 12/04/2020 02:42 PM PST
City Calendar
Dec 8 Big Top Tuesdays - Variety & Magic Show; City Council Study Session
Dec 9 Human Services Commission Regular Meeting
Dec 10 Public Information Session: Ebright Creek Fish Passage Project
Dec 15 Big Top Tuesdays - Winter Magic Show, City Council Regular Meeting
Dec 16 Sammamish Youth Board Meeting
Pursuant to the Governor’s Emergency Proclamation 20-25, the City is unable to provide an in-person location for the public to listen to the virtual City Council meetings. Meetings are still accessible to the public, and public comment is able to be submitted. View Live on the City Website, City's Youtube, or Comcast Channel 21 (within Sammamish only). To Provide Verbal Comment, please see instructions in the Meeting Agenda.
City News
COVID-19 Updates: Please take our Community Needs Assessment Survey. See the latest updates on the Sammamish COVID-19 information hub.
From the report: "The City of Sammamish has now seen 555 cases of COVID-19, up 213 from Nov 1st. A 62% increase in total cases in the last month alone." Please read the full report linked above.
The contest runs from December 1st – 29th. The winners will be chosen by the public and the top 3 in each category will win a special prize from a local business in the community! Submit your best pics for each category by clicking on the graphic above. There are no limits on the number of submissions.
EF&R set a goal of raising $80,000 to match last year's totals, benefiting Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank and Hopelink. To donate: unionly.io/o/eastsidefireandrescue/holiday-food-and-toy-drive
Come to check out Eastside Firefighter's Reindeer Engine and holiday lights in their first drive-through donation event in benefit of Hopelink! Please consider making a donation or bringing an unwrapped new toy that can be gifted.
We will use your input to inform the City’s response, leverage resources, and support critical service needs. Please go to the survey by clicking on the above graphic.
Washington Exposure Notifications (also known as WA Notify) is a new tool that works through smartphones, without sharing any personal information, to alert users if they may have been exposed to COVID-19. It is completely private and doesn’t know or track who you are or where you go. Find out more by clicking on the graphic above!
These road work projects are scheduled in Sammamish for the week of December 5 - December 11, 2020.
SCHEDULES MAY CHANGE DUE TO WEATHER AND/OR EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY.
Construction Hours are 7am to 8pm Monday - Friday, 9am to 6pm on Saturdays, and no work on Sundays and holidays.
Issaquah Pine Lake Road @ SE Klahanie Blvd
In order for the new Issaquah School District Elementary School 16 to open on time for the 2021 school year, a request has been granted for construction on Saturday, December 5, and Sunday, December 6, 2020, from 7:30am to 5:30pm, where structural steel will be erected with a crane along with other associated construction activities.
Sahalee Way @ NE 25th Way
New utility poles are being installed between 9:30am and 3:00pm starting December 3 and finishing December 11th. One lane will be closed with traffic control.
SE 4th Street: Finishing Up!
On SE 4th St., Most of the work has been completed. Crews are working on the final touches; property restorations; fences; minor adjustments; clean up, etc. While the impacts to traffic are much less now, construction equipment will be moving up and down the roadway and there will be minor traffic impacts. At times flaggers will be controlling traffic to get vehicles around the work. Typical work hours are 7:00am to 5:00pm. During non-work hours, traffic will be traveling in normal lanes. Please be cautious as you travel through the corridor and keep an eye out for construction crews as they work to finish up this great community asset.
SE 43rd Way and Providence Point Signal
This is a City of Issaquah project. To sign up for project updates and traffic alerts, please visit
https://issaquahwa.gov/3130/SE-43rd-Way-Signal.
Issaquah-Fall City Road (IFCR)
Issaquah-Fall City Road remains closed for construction. Local access will be maintained during the closure. The closure between 247th Place SE and Klahanie Dr. SE will now remain until the end of January 2021.
- Construction of the bridge is underway with plans to open two lanes of traffic on the north half of the bridge by the end of January 2021. The south half of the bridge will remain closed while utilities are incorporated in the bridge abutment retaining walls (small wall connections).
- Construction of the retaining walls and bridge approaches on the east and west side of the bridge is currently being built.
- Between 242nd and 247th Ave. SE, traffic remains on the south side of the roadway. Work continues along the north half of the roadway in this area. The contractor is installing the concrete sidewalk along the north side and placing concrete in the median islands.
- Construction of the 242nd roundabout will resume in early December, as the utilities complete the final relocations in this area.
- The contractor will be working on the new detention pond and storm drainage facilities at the northwest corner of the intersection of Issaquah Fall City Road and Klahanie Drive SE.
- With the daylight hours shortening in the fall and winter, the contractor is expected to work on the occasional Saturdays to take advantage of daylight hours, weather and keep on schedule.
Daytime Project work hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday Work Hours 9:00 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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