Bothell Mayor and council receive thousands in contributions from Pastor prior to land vote

BOTHELL-On July 16, the City of Bothell entered a Letter of Intent with the Bothell United Methodist Church (BUMC) to gift the church, at no cost, a city-owned plot of land worth $6 million to be used for affordable housing and a community space. But conflict-of-interest concerns have since been raised involving one of BUMC’s lead pastors seeing as she made sizable financial contributions to the Mayor and City Council members who voted in favor of that decision.

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