...dollar collected last year. "This is less a bonding issue than a transparency issue," says Jewell Petek, campaign manager for the initiative.
Voters in Seattle could help decide the fate of a controversial monorail project that voters approved in 2002. The vote was ordered by a state appeals court in September. Initiative 83 would ban permits for the project (ENR 9/20 p. 7). But Nils Finne, a local architect and project opponent, says the vote will not be decisive. The appellate court will make a final ruling on the dispute following the Nov. 2 vote. "I think it will rule in our favor," Finne says.