We really need some younger residents on the Sammamish City Council. I spent two hours with just the right candidate. Her name is Christie Malchow. She really has fire in the belly when it comes to Sammamish City government and she studies it as if it were a class in graduate school.

Malchow has recent experience in successfully opposing the location of a housing development in the Chestnut Estates area of Sammamish. Her MBA and work at Johnson & Johnson held her in good stead during the appeal process.

What Christie is passionate about is how the City has been catering to unsustainable development with little thought being given to the things that matter to the young families in the community. Schools are high on her list and where the funds are going to come from when all these new high density homes need a quality educational system.

She wonders what will happen to our property taxes when the roads are grid locked during the commute hours, additional firemen and police officers have to be hired and a long list of other services dependent on the City’s property taxes. Our water and sewer infrastructure will need a considerable infusion of capital and operating funds just to keep pace with unrestrained growth.

The “lack of transparency” mantra repeats whenever Christie talks about Sammamish City government. She sees a city council that appears to rubber stamp developer’s plat plans rather than focus on the consequences to the residents of the City.

This is a rare opportunity to elect the young intelligent person the council so desperately needs. Vote for Malchow you will not regret it.

-Jackie Maresca, Sammamish