District Federal Way IV (Citizens Initiative #24-003), if receiving enough signatures and getting on the ballot and passing, would implement 6 ward or district seats and 1 at-large seat for the Federal Way City Council after a district map is drawn by a Districting Commission and the 2027 elections ensue.
The ward system would have one City Councilmember for each of 6 wards, thereby ensuring close proximity of at least one councilmember to any particular City neighborhood and, as would follow, closer attention to all neighborhoods and areas, and more of a councilmember-to-constituent connection.
There would still be an at-large councilmember elected in alternate election cycles, along with the mayor, except for the first 2027 election when all the Council seats would be elected together.
Exclusively a Federal Way petition, which only FW registered voters can sign.
Speak at your community organizations in favor of the wards/districts petition. Be sure to ask for volunteers-for-the-committee, and pretty much exclusively, for the time being, to help us gather signatures. If you can't download and print the petition yourself, we will mail you one.
Download and print the petition that you see from the home page (PDF Viewer), or download it from this page from the top of the PDF Viewer section, and start getting signatures (must be on 11" by 17" and double-sided paper; there are two sections).
Mail the finished sheets to the committee address on the petition (On "separate-from-the-petition" paper, be sure to include your name & address, and how many sheets you've mailed in or handed in to us, so far). This will be considered an in-kind contribution.