Tag: police station
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Final Election Results + TNT Runs Last Minute Story On Tax Increases & Police Station Rental
• Lindsay Smolko Wins Solid Victory • Heather Schiller Gets Within 33 Votes of Unseating King • Jeff Bennett Within 63 Votes of Kastama On the final day of the election, The News Tribune published a story about concerns we raised over tax increases Puyallup City Council levied for a new police station rental project.…
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Final Survey Results on Puyallup City Council Campaign Issues with Candidate Preferences
• No Surprise on Candidate Choices Following Attacks from Kastama & King • Jeff Bennett & Heather Schiller the Overwhelming Preferences • Shout-Out to Lindsay Smolko for Sharing Full Survey Responses A mailer from Puyallup City Council candidate Heather Schiller arrived on our doorsteps here in District 2 late last week, and it featured an…
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A Challenge to Dennis King & Jim Kastama
PV4I Challenges Puyallup City Council Incumbents Dennis King & Jim Kastama To Debate Claims on Tax Increases, Senior Center, Parks & Farmland Considering incumbent candidates Dennis King and Jim Kastama avoided all forums they were invited to attend during this campaign season, we know it’s a long-shot, but PV4I founder and treasurer Chris Chisholm would…
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JIM KASTAMA & DENNIS KING WARN US …
Watch out for “Mudslinging” … while they’re the only ones calling names, saying their own constituents are “political operatives” and “shills” for being involved in civic life and elections. Watch out for “Seattle Style Politics” … while they dox their own constituents with AI photos and raise city taxes to the highest levels allowed by…
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2025 Campaign Survey – Partial Results: Tax Questions & Comments Submitted So Far
(Candidate preference poll results will be shared on election day.) Our plan was to share updates on the PV4I Puyallup City Council Tax Increase Survey every Tuesday since we started distributing the surveys to voters on October 14th. Last week’s update was delayed by having to respond to attacks that incumbent candidates King and Kastama…
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News From District 2 – “Keep Taxes Low” Becomes A Meme
Dennis King Adds To His Large Political Signs • Surveys Show: Even his supporters know “Keeping Taxes Low” has been a “no-go.” Throughout the beautiful neighborhoods of Puyallup’s District 2 yesterday, incumbent city council candidate Dennis King added the phrase “keeping taxes low” to his signs littering our street corners. Then he promoted those eyebrow-raising…
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A Study In Logical Fallacies – Kastama & King Try Diverting Attention From Their Tax Increases
After raising taxes more than anytime in the history of the City of Puyallup, council mayor Jim Kastama and deputy mayor Dennis King blame everyone but themselves for their tax increases (and lie by saying city taxes went down, citing percentages compared to other tax districts) when they should just explain their actions. Like with…
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City Council Considers ANOTHER Property Tax Increase
3 Minute Per Person Citizen Comment Period Open To All Who Attend October 21st. Or Watch On City Website & Just Vote by Nov 4th! Morning-After Update: Upon citizens bringing this tax increase to light yesterday, multiple council members scrambled to be the one to propose canceling their 1% tax increase, and it was unanimously…
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Kastama & King Admit Raising Taxes To Maximum Allowed By Law – Call Facts “Mud”
Puyallup City Council, lead by current mayor Jim Kastama and deputy mayor Dennis King, think bringing to light their tax increases is “throwing mud.” As ballots were being sent out last week, the incumbent candidates running for reelection to Puyallup City Council focused their social media attention on preparing followers to expect “mudslinging.” Jim Kastama,…
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Lessons Unlearned: Taxes Raised for Big Projects & No Public Involvement
City council and manager repeat pattern of making proposals without public negotiation … and enact worse plan for new police station… By Chris Chisholm, PV4I Treasurer Last week, I read through the Puyallup City Manager’s website page about the new police station that city council apparently approved in the summer of 2024 while most city…
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Recommend No Warehouses on 2024 Knutsen Farm EIS
Lessons From Our Successful 2019 “No Warehouses on Farmland” Campaign: IT’S 2024 and IT’s BAAAAACK! The Knutsen Farms Mega-Warehouse proposal is still alive. However, as a result of our 2019 campaign to help defeat city council candidates supported by developer Running Bear’s warehouse PAC still wanting to build these 7 monstrosities, the city was able…
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2023 Lesson: Conduct Public Research Before Making Big Proposals
Lessons from our Successful 2023 NO JAIL Campaign: The take-home message from our 2023 “No, And” Campaign opposing the city’s Public Safety Building bond measure are that in the future, the Puyallup City Council has to – 1) avoid proposals based on assumptions (like whether we need a city jail) rather than on fundamental feasibility…
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Vote NO AND Get Public Safety Facilities We Need
In retrospect, the path to achieving modern public safety facilities in Puyallup is more simple than city leaders imagined. Our research suggests a better path forward than the latest boondoggle they put on the ballot, and it can be done in short order without raising taxes: Contributors to Puyallup Voters for Integrity would like to…
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They Acknowledge: NEW CITY JAIL MORE EXPENSIVE Than Using County Jail
Puyallup’s police chief recently shared that our city never did a feasibility study comparing the cost of running our city jail to the cost of booking inmates into our county jail, and suggested it would be “a wash.” Now one city council member has tried to respond to our research demonstrating $1 million in savings…
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Puyallup could save a million dollars every year using our county jail
If you present facts to the proponents of a new Puyallup jail, showing that our costs to incarcerate inmates would drop from over $2.1 million/year (plus insurance and losses) to around a million dollars, they pivot to fears that we won’t be able to book our inmates into our county jail – a jail we…
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Puyallup Public Safety Building Survey
QUESTION 01 | Please rank your Public Safety Building priorities for the City of Puyallup: QUESTION 02 | Regarding this ballot measure, do you prefer: Current Ballot Proposal: Raising Property Taxes & Using General Fund Tax Revenues to build a new misdemeanor jail and police station, with new court facility added later. 3 14.29 % Our Recommended…
Puyallup Voters for Integrity 