Waypoint Project Wins 2013 State Municipal Excellence Award - INSIDE BAINBRIDGE

INSIDE BAINBRIDGE
Posted by Julie Hall on May 24, 2013 at 11:57 am

Bainbridge Island’s Waypoint Project, which transformed our Island gateway to the peninsula from a pile of rubble into a richly landscaped and artfully designed park-walkway, has won the Municipal Excellence Award for Building Partnerships. The annual award is given by the Association of Washington Cities (AWC) for an exemplary collaborative city building project in the state.

AWC Strategic Alliances Manager Michelle Harvey told me that the Waypoint Project stood out among the twelve competing community projects for its extensive community involvement and outstanding execution from the ground up. She said cities that applied for the Building Partnerships award ranged from Wenatchee to Cosmopolis. Bainbridge City Manager Doug Schulze applied for the award, and an independent judge selected the Waypoint Project for the honor.

Harvey said award-winning projects are archived in an AWC database for other cities to review and learn from across the state.

A film crew from AWC will visit Bainbridge Island on June 5 to interview people involved in the Waypoint and show off the finished project, which visitors and commuters enjoy daily as they pass through between the ferry and Winslow.

The award will be presented at the 2013 AWC Annual Conference in Kennewick, Washington, at the Municipal Excellence Awards Breakfast on Thursday, June 27. The award itself will be a framed rendering of an image of Waypoint or its construction process to be hung in City Hall.

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