text: cmck,
  You forgot about the so-called Snohomish Carnegie Educational Center boondoggle where Karen Guzak and her partner Warner Blake want the city taxpayers and water and sewer ratepayers to waste $5.1 million to refurbish the interior of a 4,000 s.f. 1910 building.  That's spending $1275 per SQUARE FOOT.  
  And that doesn't include the value of land.
  This boondoggle ranks up there with the county courthouse fiasco.  $1275 per s.f. is "Taj Mahal" prices.  Only one example of city hall extravagance and wasteful spending we've seen the last 15 years in Snohomish!