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Maggie Fimia is a community organizer and former King County Washington Councilmember, City of Shoreline Council Member and Shoreline Deputy Mayor.
Early Career edit
Originally from Queens NY, she got her start in community organizing as a young VISTA volunteer stationed in North Georgia in 1971. She was elected to the King County Council (1994 to 2001) and served on several committees including: the Puget Sound Regional Council Transportation Committee and Co-chaired their first Transportation Pricing Task Force. She also served on the State Commute Trip Reduction Task Force; the County Law, Justice and Human Service committee and Regional Water Quality Committee. She successfully lobbied for neighborhood traffic calming, clean diesel buses , significantly more & better bus service, low fares, & bus rapid transit. Following a “No” vote by the public, she worked to minimize public financing of the new baseball stadium. As a Shoreline City Council member (2003-2007), she brought historically opposing groups to increase public participation, reduce overhead, fund basic infrastructure and increase environmental protection of sensitive areas. She has been the Co-Chair of CETA, the Coalition for Effective Transportation Alternatives since 2001. The group is now called Smarter Transit, www.smartertransit.org.
In 2010 she was inducted into the University of Washington Department of Communication Hall of Fame. http://www.com.washington.edu/uwcomm-alumni/hall-of-fame-list/#2010
The Metro Council was responsible for the King County Metro Bus System and the Sewer Treatment Plants up to 1994. After that, the King County Council took over responsibility for those two functions in our region.
Education edit
1992 Masters in Public Administration, University of Washington
1989 BA in Speech Communication, University of Washington
1974 Certificated Lamaze Childbirth Instructor
1970 Associate of Applied Science, Registered Nurse Degree, Nassau Community College, New York
History edit
2014 - 2015 & 2018 - 2019 Volunteer with several Edmonds City Council Races
2011 - Present Owner of Welcome Home Family History Services
Winter Qtr, 2009 Guest Instructor, Political Science 120, Puget Sound Early College Program, Highline Community College
2001 - Present Co-Chair and Founding Member of CETA, the Coalition for Effective Transportation Alternatives, a non-profit organization, now called Smarter Transit.
2001 - 2009 Founded & help lead the Shoreline Coalition, a broad based group of people and organizations that came together to create positive change in Shoreline, Washington
2006 - 2007 Deputy Mayor, City of Shoreline (Pop. 53,000) (2 Years)
2004 - 2005 Council Member, City of Shoreline (2 years)
1994 - 2001 Metropolitan King County Councilmember, (Pop. 1.3 million) full-time elected official. Chose not to run for third term**
1993 – 1994 Board Member, Center for Human Services, Shoreline WA
1988 - 2007 Founding Member and Former Coordinator for Westminster Triangle Neighborhood Network, Shoreline WA
1992 - 1994 Appointee, Puget Sound Regional Council
1989 - 1991 Appointee, Shoreline Governance Committee
1991 - 1992 Internship, Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle
1991 - 1992 Master's degree Project, Shorecrest High School: Analysis of community service requirement, Shoreline WA
1988 - 2007 Member 32nd District Democrats
1970 - 1982 Registered Nurse, Buffalo, New York; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, & Spokane, Washington
1974 - 1981 Certified Lamaze Instructor, Hood River, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington
1975 - 1976 Initiated & Coordinated first "Choices: Childbirth, Childrearing Educational Fair," Clark County Washington
1971 - 1972 Vista Volunteer/Parent Coordinator-Head Start Program, Toccoa, Georgia,
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1. Public Funding of Stadiums
Until the owners of the Seattle Mariners and Seahawks demanded new stadiums, Maggi Fimia was not a household word. In her first term on the Metropolitan King County Council representing the north county areas of Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore and Bothell, Fimia was best known for being a transit fan, for taking the bus to work and seeing that her staffers did the same. But football and baseball changed that. By becoming the council's most vocal opponent of new government-financed stadiums, Fimia gained political friends and enemies who may make the difference this fall in her first run at re-election.
https://seattletimessubs.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB538D9DD0E652A?search_terms=Fimia&text=Fimia&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=STIW&page=6&pdate=1997-06-18 Paul Allen's $5 million campaign-spending spree for a new football stadium bought victory in only seven of the state's 39 counties - but they are the right counties. Stadium opponents took some solace in how tight the race was. They said Allen's millions should have bought a much more comfortable win. The opposition groups spent only about $130,000.
It's like the Seahawks playing against a high-school football team and only winning by two points," said Metropolitan King County Councilwoman Maggi Fimia, a vigorous opponent who was so excited by the close race that she fired up a cigar at the "Stop Stadium Madness part. 2. Rural Churches issue
Maggie Fimia worked with the faith, environmental and rural community to try and find a compromise solution to churches wanting to build in rural areas. The Growth management act limited building there, but religious institutions were protected by the Constitution and could have sued the county.
After months of partisan wrangling, negotiating and maneuvering, the Metropolitan King County Council yesterday narrowly passed legislation repealing a moratorium on church and school construction in rural areas. The council also narrowly adopted an ordinance, crafted by a group headed by Councilwoman Maggi Fimia, D-Shoreline, that regulates the construction of churches and schools on rural land and tightens environmental restrictions on larger churches. https://seattletimessubs.newsbank.com/doc/news/0ED71A2984B822A0?search_terms=Fimia&text=Fimia&pub%255B0%255D=STIW&page=4&pdate=2001-07-10
County Executive Ron Sims yesterday vetoed a package of environmental regulations compiled by Councilwoman Maggi Fimia, D-Shoreline, and six Republicans, who worked with churches and schools to propose a compromise.
Fimia's compromise would have set a threshold for restrictions beginning at 25,000 square feet.
The environmental restrictions would have included sewer regulations, traffic and parking-lot limits and land-use measures intended to keep the rural areas rural. Sixty-five percent of a new church site would have had to be native vegetation. Impervious surfaces - the building, parking lot and sidewalks - could have occupied only 10 percent of the land.
3. Wastewater treatment plant issue
4. Sound Transit/Transit
Enter Maggi Fimia Sane Transit evolved last June when County Councilwoman Maggi Fimia joined. With Fimia, a Shoreline Democrat, it got a designated spokeswoman who could personify the image presented when it went public last month. An ardent transit supporter, Fimia has become increasingly concerned that light-rail costs are going over budget and may threaten bus funding. https://seattletimessubs.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB53A6EF72C21FD?search_terms=Fimia&text=Fimia&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=STIW&page=5&pdate=2000-08-05
Metropolitan King County Councilwoman Maggi Fimia yesterday proposed increasing sales taxes by up to three-tenths of a cent to raise $120 million a year for bus service. Her plan competes with a plan by King County Executive Ron Sims. He also wants to raise taxes by three-tenths of a cent but would spend the money on a variety of transportation projects including bus service, Interstate-90 improvements and light rail. https://seattletimessubs.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB53A715477D34B?search_terms=Fimia&text=Fimia&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=STIW&page=6&pdate=2000-08-14
Sims' idea to earmark $320 million to extend the Sound Transit line to Northgate is, at its nub, a Seattle solution to transit problems. Instead, Fimia's alternative is to add $120 million a year into bus service. Her proposal would ask voters for two-tenths of a cent increase in sales tax for $80 million in bus service, and to vote an additional one-tenth of a cent for $40 million for increased bus service. She thinks that's more winnable at the polls than the de facto Sound Transit increase proposed by Sims.
Kenmore/Lakepoint Project
The advisory group's work will be coordinated by Metropolitan King County Councilwoman Maggi Fimia, the county's Department of Development and Environmental Services and the site developers.
Traffic Calming
Through the project, launched by Metropolitan King County Councilwoman Maggi Fimia, county public-works officials will work with a neighborhood in the East Hill area near Renton to seek ways to lower vehicle speeds while encouraging walking, bicycling and bus riding.
Denny Creek Park
When they organized, maintenance at O.O. Denny Park was iffy. With the help of Metropolitan King County Council member Jane Hague and former council member Maggi Fimia they brought maintenance back to acceptable levels and got a bulkhead protecting the shoreline rebuilt.
- ^ "Metro to Convert to Natural-Gas Buses -- Switch Would Cost Agency $456 Million | the Seattle Times".
- ^ "Transit Milestones 1990s".
- ^ https://smartertransit.org/
- ^ http://www.com.washington.edu/2010/10/margaret-fimia-ba-1989-fighter-and-nurturer/
- ^ http://www.com.washington.edu/uwcomm-alumni/hall-of-fame-list/#2010
- ^ https://www.welcomehomefamilyhistoryservices.com/welcomehomefamilyhistoryservices/Welcome.html
- ^ "Shoreline to pay $159,000 to settle suit over city manager's ouster". 15 September 2007.
- ^ "O'NEIL v. City of Shoreline".
- ^ "170 Wn.2d 138, O'NEILL V. CITY OF SHORELINE".