Rainier Beach

Okay, the other map, this is, I think this was the Abu, when I said it's like farming, always the cheap dirt is in floodland area and all that area floods.

This is, here's Rainier Beach, all right, South Seattle, tough gang riddled neighborhood.

None of this is particularly expensive real estate.

A lot of it's working, blue glass, you got Boeing Field right here, Museum of Flight, you got airplanes coming over, you got I-5, This is where a lot of the affordable real estate is in Seattle.

So you wrote this, "Yeah, $40,000 to $70,000 per daycare is what I was finding in two small neighborhoods in the Seattle metro, and I was accused yesterday by the SEIU," I call those the purple-shirted thugs of unions, "of conducting racist attacks on Americans." I take it these were neighborhoods of color, to use the woke terminology.

Yeah, can you believe that? So I investigated just two Seattle nei- two Seattle metro neighborhoods, one West Seattle, Rainier Beach, and then I also hit up Tukwila.

And these Som- and I investigated Somali-run because that was easy after the Minneapolis, so that's why I chose Somali, and they are getting $40,000 to $70,000 per month for a home daycare that has a maximum capacity of 12.

But most of them are zero to five capacity, and they're getting about, they're billing about four to six times more than they're supposed to be getting each month.

Look, if a community is telling you to your face that, hey, we don't like cameras, but we know that there's something that we need on, you know, Henderson and Rainier right now to help prevent some of these pieces.

Or if kids are telling you Rainier Beach boys basketball team coming to King County saying we want positive relationships with an officer or You heard the kids at Garfield say, we want metal detectors.

These are from, I'm not saying this, these are kids saying what would make them feel safe.

We can't shame people in telling us they feel unsafe.

I've done planning.

I've read this in a book.

If I talk to you on the street and I ask you where Rainier Beach is and you're like, I've never been to that beach.

I know that you've never been to the South End because Rainier Beach is not a beach.

Our next guest knows exactly where we are, all courtesy of our pals over at Taco Time.

We'll get his Taco Time pick of the week in a matter of minutes, but here he is from CBS, former Washington head coach, former UCLA head coach, former Baltimore Ravens assistant coach, former Rainier Beach head coach.

That's right, Vikings.

Our friend Rick Neuheisel.

One, she's establishing a new plan to reduce gun violence, which is going to have, among other things, the CARE team, the Community Assisted Response and Engagement team, lead violence intervention programs that support gunshot victims and their families.

It's also going to increase SPD bike patrols in Belltown, North Aurora, Little Saigon, and Rainier Beach.

And it's going to expand mentorship and after-school programs for teens to keep them engaged with something positive.

Also, Wilson told the Seattle Times that she is revising her initial plan of adding 1,000 shelter units in her first year of office.

Um, there's a big section that really emphasizes support for youth.

Um, one n- another new item is a $600,000 pilot for a new after-school program at Rainier Beach High School.

Um, there's more funding for the city to contract with organizations that kinda do safety work in public schools, and these are overseen by the city's human services department.

So it's not the case that absolutely everything is, is moving under, under the CARE Department umbrella.

He just said whatever happens, he wants there to be outreach to his constituents.

Here's Councilman Lin.

Many people in District 2, in particular Rainier Beach, wanna have a seat at the table.

Um, yes, they want additional resources and support, but they don't want somebody, you know, uh, just telling them like, "Hey, here's how we're gonna solve it," uh, a- and them not having some input.

And he's a guard.

And then you had a big from Rainier Beach, who's a young guy.

I think he's a freshman.

And then a big from Garfield.

Yeah, thank you so much.

Let's take a break, and when we come back, we're still waiting on the Rainier Beach Skate Park's opening, so we'll dive into Seattle skate history.

There's a new skate park in Rainier Beach, a 31,000 square foot moonscape style concrete park with a large bowl, street elements and transition features.

The result of eight years of community advocacy, city funding and nonprofit partnership.

As a south ender, geriatric skateboarder and this week's fill in host, you know, I had to exercise my prerogative to cover this one.