The Board started its process to replace outgoing Executive Director, Jeffrey Hamlett, Esq., AIA last October. After a lengthy national search, Tammie Sueirro was hired. Here is a little more about Tammie. Tammie holds a Bachelors of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She was a principal…
The State Legislature adjourned 8 minutes before midnight on April 28, 2019. Our final legislative report is here. In the final 24 hours of the session, the Democrats had the numbers to pass all three budgets and a number of other bills that went down to the wire. Included in…
Ruth is a partner at The Miller Hull Partnership, where she has worked since 1999. As a senior design lead in the office, Ruth has worked on a number of award-winning projects, including Fisher Pavilion, Olympic College Poulsbo Campus, Vancouver Community Library, Odegaard Undergraduate Library at the University of Washington and Renton Library. By embracing…
Architects Advocate is a nonpartisan advocacy group of architecture and design firms committed to creating healthy and livable communities through their work and advocating for national action on climate change through public policy. Two elements lie at the heart of Architects Advocate’s work: its mission is to enact meaningful legislation and…
The newly-established Washington State Women’s Commission is now accepting applications from individuals interested in working to address problems that contribute to inequality for women in the workplace and society. The commission will also make regular recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor based on their research, deliberations, and public input….
Next City’s Vanguard Conference is an experiential urban leadership gathering of the best and brightest young urban leaders working to improve cities across sectors, including urban planning, community development, entrepreneurship, government, transportation, sustainability, design, art and media. The Vanguard Conference welcomes entrepreneurs, community developers, activists, artists, designers, urban planners and sustainability experts…
OVERVIEW This year’s 60-day legislative session ended on time on March 8 with a flurry of activity in the final days of the session. Overall, the session was characterized by significant movement on several issues that have been stalled in recent years. Democrats took full control of state government for…
This year’s legislative session is expected to conclude on March 8th as scheduled, as many legislators are eager to resume campaigning for the 2018 elections and all are disinclined to extend their work into extra innings after doing so for the past few years. In addition, this is the first…
February 14th marked a significant calendar cutoff day in Olympia. Bills that did not receive enough love to pass out of their house of origin by the end of that day are considered dead for the rest of the session. (Note: this excludes legislation that has a significant fiscal impact,…
We are now over half-way through this year’s legislative session in Olympia. Deadlines have come and gone, including the last day for bills to pass out of their house of origin policy committee and the last day for non-tax bills to pass out of their house of origin fiscal committee….
