As a retired fed way school maintenance manager told me a couple of years ago, it was unwritten policy to let things look as bad as they could get away with or else its too hard to get levy passed. Anyone showing initiative to fix something until it was a crisis was taken aside and talked to. Same reason they used to paint the year a bus was purchased on the back so people would “wow..we better vote for that levy”. Roofs may be leaking in the schools but the maintenance dept is about to finish a brand new facility for themselves.

Wow…someone should tell the Seafair Pirates! Traveled back on the ferry from Bainbridge to Seattle last year one night and they would have racked up $100K in fines….oddly they wouldn’t be cited for kidnapping the dozen or woman they did since it’s not cover in the new law. Man some of those guys are strong judging from the size of some they slung over their shoulders…

So this is a real problem? ...while Victoria flushes UNTREATED 31 million gallons of raw sewage -- enough effluent to fill 40,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools in a year into the same waters...
And don't start responding that they are doing something about it...its only on a very slow path being studied right now...decades from actually treating anything...think Bright Water x 4.
Funny how in news accounts and esp these dire warnings from water quality folks here they always seem to ignore this and the you know what that comes from our friends to the north floating by. Did you know too that in Canada its completely legal to empty you holding tanks into the water. Again...nothing said as if it doesn't exist.

Insanely badly written requirements, lack of any decision making ability, byzantine system of aristocracy and bureaucracy in project offices is the root cause and GH isn’t alone. A VP of major aerospace company recently told me “there is more profit in chaos than order”.

The other factor the projections don’t probably account for is that in Puget Sound right now the engineering average age is 58 years old at Boeing. Way too high to sustain a viable engineering work force in a few years.

What the article doesn’t mention and projections of needing 314 aero engineers in the state per year doesn't account for is the 60% loss of engineers hired out college within 5 years of hire at Boeing. Something the company wants to keep out of the press. They come and see how much BS admin stuff they have to do, how much “permission” is required for the most basic activity, how many flavors of the month programs (lean, 10x, 5S, etc) clutter their lives, their badges physically branded with the scarlet letter “N” for un-trusted new hire, being assumed to be unethical unless continually bombarded with inept videos and speeches in a 1984-esq environment, a multitude of dysfunctional changes in direction and leadership, a high percentage of their peers being so incredibly apathetic…and they say good-bye. Engineering is the one thing that almost never happens when you really take hard look at a average day. It’s like taking a medical doctor and after all that dedication to get degree and passing his boards, loading him up such that he can’t see more than one patient per day. What do you think the longevity of their career is?