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C HALLENGING P EOPLE TO S HAPE A B ETTER F UTURE N OW
Special
Session
Coming
URBAN
GAMES
Stuck at square one,
budget agreement
remains out of reach
By Mike Baker and Rachel La Corte
The Associated Press
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Marschae Davis-Sanders plays some
wheel chair basketball at the 2nd
Urban Games: A Sport, Health and
Wellness Event, April 28, at Garfield
Community Center. There were a
variety of fun activities at the event
including fitness and nutrition
workshops, indoor and outdoor
games, health screenings and
cooking
demonstrations.
Able
bodied young people were invited to
experience playing basketball in a
wheelchair.
College Tuition Rates in Limbo
Legislative stalemate on budget means students don’t know costs
By Donna Gordon
Blankinship of The
Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) — Students
heading off to college in Wash-
ington state next fall will have
to wait awhile to find out how
much tuition they’ll be paying.
Since the Legislature was set
to go home without finishing the
state budget, no one is sure
whether Washington students
will be getting a tuition
increase, a cut, or neither. All
three ideas have been proposed
this year.
If you go to the University of
Washington or Washington
State University, tuition and
mandatory fees already add up
to nearly $13,000 a year, so plus
or minus $390 may not seem
like a lot to individual students
or their parents.
But students aren’t the only
ones waiting for a decision from
the Legislature. The state’s col-
lege and universities are also on
hold.
They can’t finish putting
together their budgets for next
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year until the Legislature finish-
es its work. Depending on the
choices lawmakers make when
they return to Olympia soon,
universities are waiting to hear
whether they’ll get millions
more from the state this year
and next.
Officials at all Washington’s
public colleges and universities
will likely have to wait a few
weeks or even a few months
longer before they can set
tuition for next year.
For the most part, college offi-
cials say they’re not chewing
their fingernails over the delay.
``It’s not that unusual in the
first year of a biennium,’’ said
Todd Sprague, spokesman for
The Evergreen State College.
Although trustees of the
Olympia college usually make
their tuition decision in June,
they also have a July meeting
scheduled and can add a special
meeting if they need one,
Sprague said.
``We wouldn’t do anything
without getting direction from
the Legislature,’’ he said.
See COLLEGE on page 3
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — With just one
day before the end of session, Washington
lawmakers slogged through a handful of lin-
gering bills Saturday but appeared to make
little progress toward the ultimate goal of a
final budget agreement.
Leaders in both the House and Senate
seemed to resign themselves to the prospect
of an overtime session, with the regular 105-
day period coming to an end Sunday night.
A spokesman for Gov. Jay Inslee said that
no decision had been made on when a spe-
cial session may start.
Republican Sen. Don Benton, deputy
majority leader in the Senate, said budget
negotiations were moving ``glacially slow.’’
He said the two sides were struggling to
agree on the general size of the budget and
hadn’t begun negotiating on the components
that would be included.
Lawmakers are tasked with patching a
projected budget deficit of more than $1.2
billion for the next two-year budget, not
counting additional money needed for a
court-ordered requirement that they increase
funding to basic education.
The House and Senate have taken differ-
ent approaches to balance state spending
and increase funding for education, with the
biggest difference centered around whether
to raise revenue from extending taxes or
eliminating tax breaks.
Democratic Rep. Reuven Carlyle, one of
the House budget negotiators, said that
while both sides may be far apart, he thinks
a resolution could be swift.
“Things can get unstuck quickly,’’ Carlyle
said.
With the budget talks stalled, lawmakers
worked for only a few hours Saturday. They
passed some remaining bills, including:
— WOLF MANAGEMENT: Lawmakers
want to compensate the owners of livestock
who suffer losses due to wolf attacks. A bill
See BUDGET on page 3
NBA Committee Rejects Kings Move
Sacramento erupts in cheers, Seattle is back to the drawing board
By Antonio Gonzalez
AP Sports Writer
T
he NBA’s relocation committee voted
unanimously Monday to recommend
that owners reject the application for
the Sacramento Kings to relocate to Seattle.
The committee, made up of 12 league
owners, made the decision over a confer-
ence call and forwarded its recommendation
to the NBA Board of Governors. The board,
which consists of all 30 owners, will con-
vene during the week of May 13 to vote on
the matter.
Moments after the league announced the
committee’s recommendation, Sacramento
Mayor Kevin Johnston wrote on Twitter:
``That’s what I’m talking about SACRA-
MENTO!!!!! WE DID IT!!!!!’’
The recommendation doesn’t guarantee
the Kings will stay in California’s capital
city. But at this point, it’s difficult to imag-
ine how they don’t.
The Maloof family that owns the Kings
reached an agreement in January to sell a 65
percent controlling interest in the team to a
group led by investor Chris Hansen at the
total franchise valuation of $525 million,
See TEAM on page 3