Thursday, January 25, 2007
More about protecting the bases
Monday's study session led to a nuanced article in The News Tribune about ways to protect the military bases from closure (first described two posts below).
The council ended the discussion Monday in a good place. We told the city manager to go ahead and talk to potential partners in an annexation, including the federal, state and county governments. As the article above states, nobody is talking about having Lakewood go it alone. There is no way Lakewood should bear the entire burden of saving the entire Pierce County economy. No final decisions have been made.
Those of you who want to know more about this topic can read the full report, which is now available through a link on the city's Web site. My earlier posting on this topic of annexing the bases and protecting the surrounding land is available here.
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The council ended the discussion Monday in a good place. We told the city manager to go ahead and talk to potential partners in an annexation, including the federal, state and county governments. As the article above states, nobody is talking about having Lakewood go it alone. There is no way Lakewood should bear the entire burden of saving the entire Pierce County economy. No final decisions have been made.
Those of you who want to know more about this topic can read the full report, which is now available through a link on the city's Web site. My earlier posting on this topic of annexing the bases and protecting the surrounding land is available here.
