Community Cafe Bainbridge

In this 42-minute conversation about the birth of the home-rule Bainbridge Island city in the 1990s, we hear stories from former officials from the old days. You'll hear: Andy Maron of the Home Rule Committee and the ensuing City Council of the 1990s, former council member and mayor Dwight Sutton, and Lynn Nordby who served as City Administrator from 1991 to 2003. Stories like these will be shared at City Hall at 5:30pm on Tuesday March 1st, at the public commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the all-island city. Hear the anecdotes and amusing stories that these three city founders share about: how it felt to start up an all-island City for 15,000 in place of the Winslow city for 2,500 creating the first Comprehensive Plan in 1991-94 life at the City prior to having a City Hall what it was like to apply for a top City job staffing a larger city, and the first-ever union contract of 1991 3 major road projects in 1991-94: High School Rd, Ferncliff, Brien/Bjune the challenges of an early Public Works site ne