Since 2021, Bainbridge Community Foundation (BCF) has taken a more in-depth approach towards analyzing community needs and produced a State of the Sector Community Report. In particular, these reports use original data collected by BCF through its Annual Nonprofit Survey and Sector Gatherings combined with …
UPDATE 09/12/23: Council unanimously voted to approve the proposed changes and updates to the Waste Reduction Ordinance – effective 09/27/23 – so the cup fee is officially repealed… UPDATE 08/09/23 – Council voted unanimously at the August 8th meeting to move the proposed ordinance updates …
How Commissioners, County + Citizens Work Together To Move The County Forward Kitsap County faces important decisions in the coming years, decisions about land use and population growth, development and infrastructure, and who its next leaders will be. As part of our Government 101 series, …
District 1 Vacancy Renews Interest In County’s Top Jobs Local politics are getting a good dust-off post-pandemic and whether you’ve been here your whole life, or you moved here last week, you’re bound to feel the impact as Kitsap County faces important decisions about its …
Like our local island and county politics, state-level politics in Washington are increasingly impactful and important to post-pandemic life. In our last Government 101 article we discussed all the ways the state’s structure, its institutions, and representatives function. Now we’re going to focus on how …
How the House, Senate, Governor, Supreme Court + Citizens work together to govern our state Like our local island and county politics, state-level politics in Washington are increasingly impactful and important to post-pandemic life. From setting the statewide policy which guides and frames local decisions, …
Police Chief Provides Quarterly Public Safety Update Statistics from Bainbridge Island Police Department’s most recent report show that many of the types of crime rates on Bainbridge Island in 2022 rebounded to historic averages, and are generally much in line with the numbers seen prior …
Jon Quitslund is a current member of the Bainbridge City Council, and a former member of the Island’s Planning Commission, giving him a detailed understanding of the current Winslow Subarea Plan guidelines and the opportunities to update them and better support the area’s future growth. …
How council, city staff and citizen advisory groups work together to govern our island Ever wondered exactly how Bainbridge’s very own special form of local government is intended to work, and how it came to be? In the first of this new series of in-depth …
UPDATE 02/21/23: At the February 14 meeting, City council voted 5-2 not to consider the Haggar Scribner Project as a separate, parallel planning process to the ongoing considerations of updates to city code. Council subsequently voted unanimously to detach the project from next year’s Comprehensive …