On September 20th, Mill Creek’s Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing regarding proposed changes to the East Gateway Urban Village zoning to allow larger stores such as Target to be built there. Some of these changes have been in the planning stages since April of 2011.

Acting City Manager, Tom Gathmann, said that the City is in detailed discussions with Target for development of the west end of the East Gateway Urban Village in the July 3rd City Council meeting.

Mill Creek’s Stuff the Bus for Kids event, sponsored by the Everett Public Schools Foundation, will be held at Central Market beginning tomorrow. Volunteers will be collecting school supply donations in yellow school buses, which will be parked outside for four days, from August 16th to 19th from 9 AM until 5 PM.

The Everett Public Schools Foundation will be trying to fill over 1,700 support requests from all 26 schools in the Everett School District - a reflection of the number of students who need community support to ensure that each student has school supplies needed to begin school ready to learn.

Each year members of the City of Mill Creek’s Art and Beautification Board tour the City and make note of those residents who have put exceptional time and effort into the beautification of their property. The Great Garden Award program gives awards across the City to deserving gardeners.

The Mill Creek City Council unanimously approved a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the City and the Police Guild at the July 24th city council meeting. The new Collective Bargaining Agreement is retroactive to January 1, 2012 and is in effect until December 31, 2014. Police Guild members have been working without an agreement since the old Collective Bargaining Agreement expired on December 31, 2011.