Mukilteo to hold Public Hearing on Airport Compatibility Code March 3rd
MUKILTEO-The Mukilteo City Council will hold a public hearing on March 3, 2025, at 6:00 p.m., in the City Council Chambers, 11930 Cyrus Way to consider adoption of a new Title 17.86 – Airport Compatibility Code. The public hearing will be held in person and can be viewed virtually on Facebook and Zoom for those […]
Hawthorne Hall fiasco, what you need to know
Kudos to the shrewd local businessman who paid $500,000 to purchase from the city a pristine real estate parcel—Hawthorne Hall—zoned single family and appraised at $830,000. He acted to pursue his vision for the city’s property. Shame to my four fellow councilmembers and the mayor for this tone deaf and fiscally derelict decision to execute […]
Mukilteo City Council Elects New Leadership for 2025
MUKILTEO—The Mukilteo City Council has elected its 2025 Council Leadership. Councilmember Tom Jordal will serve as Council President, while Councilmember Jason Moon will fill the role of Council Vice-President. Council President Tom Jordal was elected to the City Council in 2022 for a four-year term. After serving as Vice-President in 2024, he now assumes the […]
Mukilteo Budget: Big bets and tough choices avoided
At the November 25 Council Special meeting, the Mukilteo City Council voted 5- 2, Councilmembers Dixon and Steve Schmalz against, to adopt the biennial budget for the years 2025-2026. The adopted budget, little changed from the mayor’s 2025-2026 preliminary budget, draws down the general fund ending balance, our savings account, from $5 million today, to […]
Commentary: Just Trust Joe?
Doubling down on obfuscation: At the November 4 Council Regular meeting, the Council voted to close the public hearing on the City’s biennial preliminary budget from the mayor for the years 2025-2026. The mayor’s 2025-2026 budget draws down the general fund ending balance, our savings account, from $5 million today, to under $2 million in […]
Mukilteo may soon become bigger and better, annexation vote December
MUKILTEO—The Mukilteo City Council will hold a Public Hearing to annex a portion of land between the Mukilteo Speedway and the Paine Field Airport north of Bevely Park Road as well as six parcels south of Beverly Park Rd. Most recent interlocal annexation agreements in Snohomish County have been that of the Town of Woodway […]
Police records point to inconsistencies in Riaz Khan’s assault claim
MUKILTEO—The Lynnwood Times followed up with State Representative Republican candidate Riaz Khan on how he is coping following what he claims was an attack by two politically and racially motivated individuals during the early morning of Tuesday, October 29 at the intersection of Goat Trail Road and Mukilteo Speedway. The Lynnwood Times also obtained 911 […]
Feds and CAIR now involved in politically-motivated hate crime against State Rep candidate
MUKILTEO—The Mukilteo Police Department have launched an investigation with federal partners to get to the bottom of the alleged assault on State Representative candidate Riaz Khan on Highway 525 and Goat Trail Road on Tuesday, October 29. Khan claims he was surveying his campaign signs early in the morning Saturday when two White males, aged […]
Muslim Republican candidate brutally assaulted in politically motivated attack
MUKILTEO—The intersection of Highway 525 and Goat Trail Road in Old Town Mukilteo, became a scene of a politically motivated attack against former Mukilteo City Councilman and current Republican candidate for the Washington State House of Representatives, 21st Legislative District, Riaz Khan. “You fucking foreigners, you come to America, you son of a bitch,” Khan […]
Broken promises, lies & dereliction of duty: How Mayor Marine has driven city finances into a ditch
On Friday afternoon October 11 at 4:15 p.m., the Mukilteo City Council received the City’s first biennial preliminary budget from Mayor Joe Marine for the years 2025-2026. In the run up to this preliminary budget, there was vigorous debate concerning waiving our deficit spending policy, known as the Gap policy, for this budget, with the […]
