Good afternoon, everyone.
The July 9th, 2025 meeting of the Parks Public Utilities and Technology Committee will come to order.
It is 2 at 1 p.m.
I am Joy Hollingsworth, the chair of the committee, the most phenomenal clerk in the world.
Would you please call the roll?
Thank you, Chair.
Councilmember Kettle?
Here.
Councilmember Rivera?
Councilmember Strauss?
Present.
Council President Nelson?
Present.
Chair Hollingsworth?
Here.
Chair, there are four Councilmembers present.
Awesome, thank you.
Today in committee, well, hello colleagues and hello to the public on the Seattle channel and people in chambers.
Today in committee, we will welcome back the Seattle Parks and Recreation on their funding plan for landscape conservation in and infrastructure program for South Lake Union and downtown in District 7. And then we'll hear from Seattle Public Utilities on the direct sale on a King County parcel and designation of the proceeds.
And then we will, as well as SPU's acceptance of an easement on a property.
We're gonna now consider the agenda and if there's no objections, the agenda will be adopted.
Hearing, seeing none, the agenda is adopted.
With that, we're gonna jump right into public comment.
And for the record, I apologize.
Council member Rivera is excused from committee today.
Public comments should relate to items on the agenda or within the purview of the committee.
Clerk, how many speakers do we have signed up?
Currently, we have two in-person speakers signed up and there is one remote speaker.
Awesome, thank you to the people who came to our parks committee to do public comment.
We're looking forward to hearing.
I'm gonna go ahead and read the instructions.
The public comment period will be moderated in the following manner.
Speakers will be called in order in which they are registered on the council's website and the sign-in sheet available here in council chambers, starting with in-person speakers first.
If you have not registered to speak, but would like to, you can go ahead and sign up.
before the end of the public comment period in Council's website.
The link is listed in today's agenda or by signing on to the signup sheet.
When speaking, please begin by saying your name, the item that you're addressing.
Speakers will hear a chime, 10 seconds that are left for the allotted time.
If speakers do not end their comments within the allotted time, the speaker's microphone may be muted to allow us to call on the next person.
The public...
hybrid, excuse me, the hybrid in-person public comment period will now begin and we'll begin with the first speaker on the list.
The first speaker is Stacy Siegel followed by Bennett Hasself.
Welcome, Stacy.
Give us one second, we're gonna get the time up and then let's make sure, is that mic on?
Sorry, thank you.
Best clerk in the world.
All right, awesome.
Hi, my name is Stacy Siegel and I've lived in South Lake Union for 15 years as a proud property owner and I currently serve as the Vice President of the South Lake Union Community Council and the Sloot Parks Task Force.
As an area resident, I really value and appreciate the local parks we have in our area and I appreciate all the work that SPR and everybody else does to maintain them and keep them active for use.
I'm here today regarding the proposed landscape conservation and local infrastructure program funding plan amendment known as ELCLPS, specifically the Southlake Union Council Task Force-led projects which were developed through a collaborative process with a strategic task force as well as multiple public community meetings.
We've appreciated the opportunity to work in partnership with SPR and their leadership has been invaluable as we understand and navigate this process which is quite complicated as you might know.
and it's really gotten us to this point today, which we really appreciate.
We look forward to continuing this collaboration with parks and bringing our vision to completion with the use of these funds.
So the 2.7 million for the South Lake Union Community Council Task Force-led projects will go a long way to providing needed improvements in these parks, which include Denny, Lake Union, and Cascade.
These funds also set the stage to continue engaging with our local neighbors around the opportunity to leverage these funds through additional activation and fundraising efforts going forward.
We want to just thank you for your leadership in this process.
And of course, ask that you support the proposed ELCLIP funding plan amendment in full.
Thank you very much.
Awesome.
Thank you, Stacey.
Thank you for coming as well.
The final in-person speaker is Bennett.
Welcome Bennett.
Good to see you.
Thank you, Council Member Hollingsworth.
So I was at Cal Anderson just a couple of weeks ago and on the south end of the pool, they had something really cool painted on one of the openings of the building at the south end.
This looks like really intricate tile art.
It says, Hot Rat Summer at the bottom.
OK.
So the picture's kind of low-res.
I can't tell if it's tile art or how much somebody just painted that texture on.
But I looked at that, and I thought, that's very Seattle.
That's very awesome.
A couple of days ago, it had just been painted over.
And it's just gone.
And it left me thinking, who is this for?
Who benefits from that?
I mean, I kind of liked what was there before.
Illegal unofficial art there's always the risk that somebody else will come along later and put something else on top of it But it seems like if it's just there, I mean, there's nothing stopping people from just leaving it.
Here's the This is what was on the like the bathroom building in the middle of the park.
It says It's a picture of roses against the backdrop of the trans flag that says give us your roses while we're still here and then three days ago.
It was just that.
Somebody had painted over it.
And I think, I don't know, it seems to me like the Parks Department ought to be able to have the discretion to say, this is kind of cool.
Let's just leave it the way it is, rather than somebody having to make the trip all the way down there and drag the paint cans all the way out and balance precariously on the edge of that reflecting pool thing to paint over the whole thing.
You could just say, this is cool.
Let's just leave it.
Thank you.
Thank you, Bennett.
And I actually agree with you on that.
I think the art that is on in Cal Anderson, I think there was a rat that was drawn and other things in those places.
I will engage with our parks department to talk about what discretion they can use for that, because I do believe that that adds to the character of the neighborhood, especially on Capitol Hill.
So one of the things that I agree with you on, Bennett, and that's very slim.
So mark my words, my friend.
No, I'm just playing.
I got you thank you thank you thank you for but honestly thank you for bringing that to our attention about that that's really good and I think other people had reached out regarding that and I didn't realize that the bathroom had gotten painted over so that's that's that's good to know thank you we will now move to remote public comment we now have two remote speakers once your name is called please press star six to unmute we'll start with Bill Farmer followed by David Haynes Hi Bill, just press star six, unmute yourself, and you can go ahead at it with your public comment.
Okay, I think that worked that time.
Can you hear me?
Absolutely.
Greetings committee members.
Bill Farmer, long-time parks advocate.
I want to start with thanking you all again for support for the environmental ed program with Seattle Parks and Rec.
Especially Councilmember Strauss getting amendment six passed into the FEP levy.
So that's our hope for getting staff positions refunded pending the levy getting passed.
So we got work to do.
That still leaves Any other program that's not youth or family oriented, so adult, senior programs, there's a lot of other programs that the environmental ed program was involved with.
And I think we're talking about in the maybe low hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding that's needing to be backfilled.
Right now, all that is going to be gone as the current approved budget states for 2026 the EE program was to be defunded so I know all this is in the executives realm but anything you all can do to get some answers or push SPR to fund the entire program I'm encouraged I just got an email I guess there's gonna appears there's gonna be a new division for environmental stewardship and and environmental program will be housed in there, which makes a lot more sense than being in recreation.
I look forward to hearing more about that.
So what else?
I guess with that said, the one disconcerting thing is that it appears that SPR management has not really been talking with the EE program staff.
So anything that can be done to improve communications and get the word out as to what the long-range plan is.
Thank you, Mr. Farmer.
Next we have Mr. Haynes, David Haynes.
Go ahead and press star six and go ahead and give us your public comment.
Yeah, hi, thank you.
Are you all like going to get rid of the racial equity toolkit or should the Department of Justice finally shut your all's racist agenda down?
I have to ask, with another slush fund that y'all are creating to gussy up the neighborhood, I was just wondering, are you going to hire politically connected non-profits who give themselves a six-figure salary and then they act like they're doing black and brown kids a favor by hiring them at minimum wage to grab a shovel and move some dirt, acting like they're bringing back, I don't know, maybe it's not the sanctuary for a salmon, but it's gussying up an area of the neighborhood.
I don't really have a problem with that.
It's just the racial equity toolkit is like social engineers' racism, like reverse racism, like hatred and all these ignorant interpretations of a lens that you look through.
And I'm thinking that the LBGQT Democrats are purposely doing a disservice to the council by refusing to do anything about the Denny Blaine deviant perverts because they're deemed more important because we got another election year and we don't want to upset the LBGQT community who likes to like take their private personal bus and display it creditorially in public.
You know, but we have experts overseeing the Parks Department, evidently, that know what to do.
Other than that, it makes you question, you know, the impaired judgments of landlords who self-deal and have conflicts of interest with families who got an agenda between the landlord and the tenant that permeates everything with bad policies and decision makers who are untrustworthy.
to implement millions of dollars that seem to want to clean up after all the drug addicts that they get to use to wrap around a more profitable opportunity that still lines the pockets of a political re-election apparatus, but it does not solve the public safety crisis because we have people who sympathize with the devil on the council who are cowardly capitulating to evil, deviant, racist, perverts.
Thank you.
Are there any more public commenters?
That's the end of public comment.
Okay, awesome.
Thank you.
Public comment period is now closed.
I want to thank the people who came in person and also online to give us your public comment.
We're now going to move on to the agenda items.
Will you please read item number one into the agenda?
Agenda item one, council bill 121008, an ordinance amending the landscape conservation infrastructure program funding plan for South Lake Union and downtown as adopted by ordinance 124286. This is for briefing discussion and possible vote.
Presenters are here from Seattle Parks and Recreation and council central staff.
Awesome.
Thank you all for joining us today on this very Seattle day.
The sun is not out, but that's okay.
Thank you.
Oh, please, I'm sorry, Andy, please introduce yourself and you can go ahead and start for the record.
And I know we have central staff here as well.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
I'm Andy Schaeffer, deputy superintendent, Seattle Parks, overseeing capital.
And with me is Jonathan Gardner, senior planner extraordinaire to present OutClip and- Tracy Ratzliff, council, central staff.
The city is fortunate to be on the receiving end of this innovative funding strategy to protect the environment and simultaneously elevate our downtown neighborhoods, making them more livable and sustainable through improvements.
We have worked diligently and vigorously with community SDOT and CBO in this effort.
Jonathan, you want to take it from there?
Sure.
Thank you, Andy.
Hello, council members.
Thank you for your time today.
We're here today so that council can take action on a funding plan that allows SPR to implement some really cool projects that will enhance and activate park spaces in South Lake Union and the greater downtown area.
To utilize this, this is kind of a condensed version of last week's presentation, so I'm just going to try to buzz through this real quickly.
To utilize this program, the city had to determine a local infrastructure project area, I'll refer to that as the LIPA, and create zoning opportunities within the LIPA to provide for additional development rights that in turn also fund local infrastructure projects through a transfer development rights program.
that's established between King County and the City of Seattle with an interlocal agreement in 2013. This is a fully voluntary program, both for property purchasers and sellers.
It was established in 2013. There was a list of projects that have now been completed, except for one, and this funding for this program has already been incorporated into SPR's line of business for the next five years.
So today the resolution that needs to be amended relates to the interlocal agreement.
An attachment of that agreement is a list of proposed open space investments that will be completed with revenues from this program.
Since 2013, like I've mentioned SPR has completed all the original listed projects except for one, and there's a separate funding source for that.
So we need to amend the legislation to allow for these new projects.
The new project list is informed by rigorous community engagement over the past five years.
SPR knew and anticipated that this funding would be coming to us and we have worked with our community partners to identify projects that meet the RCW requirements of public improvements while also allowing to meet community needs and desires in their parks.
The timing for the projects is organized by project readiness.
The first half here 2025 through 2030, these are projects that have already either completed design and are shovel ready or are already under construction like the Northwest Native Canoe Carving Center.
The second half that you see there 2030 to 2035, those projects still need additional community engagement or design work.
and so we'll be focusing on that while these shovel-ready projects are going in the ground.
So with that, let me back up one more thing.
The remainder of the program, the last five years of the program, the funding will return back to SDOT for them to continue the work that they've been doing for the past 10 years.
SPR has project funding for the following 10 years.
So with that, I can answer any questions.
Awesome.
Thank you, Extraordinaire Jonathan.
Got your name right.
Tracy, do you have anything to add from central staff?
I do not.
Easy money.
Thank you.
I don't know if there's other council members that have any questions.
I know I was briefed on this and was comfortable voting last week to approve this, but I know that some council members wanted a little extra time to review some of the stuff.
And I see council member Kettle.
You are recognized.
Thank you, Chair Hollingsworth.
Being the District 7 representative, I too am well aware of Eclipse.
Even in my pre-City Council days, I was aware of it.
and I do support the program and it's really important to take care of those things that are not seen like with the South Lake Union, you know, the infrastructure, the utilities pieces and I think that will in the future enable other things that we don't necessarily have a plan for right now but will come up.
but by addressing the utilities piece we give the flexibility to South Lake Union Park and then obviously the Native Canoe Carving Center is going to be fantastic in addition to the other programs, the elements of the program.
Thank you, and I look forward to working with, you know, all the community organizations within D7, but outside D7 too, obviously Pioneer Square and CID, but I appreciate the work that's gone into this and the opportunity that it provides us to address some, as you know, we've been working the water, the whole South Lake Union Park challenges, so this really unlocks a lot of things, so thank you.
Awesome, thank you Councilmember Kettle.
I'll pause here and I don't know if any other council members have anything.
For the record, yesterday I said Director Ederer was my favorite Dan to work with and I see Councilmember Strauss is here.
I just wanted to offer those words that Councilmember Strauss is my favorite Dan to work with.
Councilmember Strauss, you're recognized.
I can be your favorite Strauss if you want.
The other two Dans are pretty great as well.
Thank you for a moment to make a statement.
I won't ask more questions, but would love to follow up with you, Andy, and others about City Hall Park, Prefontaine Plaza, and the Canoe Carving Center.
All three of those are projects that I have been tracking for seven years, eight years now, especially the Prefontaine Plaza and the City Hall Park improvements.
I'm excited to dig in with you, and it just is a demonstration of Councilmember Bagshaw started this round of improvements in 2018. And when you have big visions like Councilmember Bagshaw has, it oftentimes takes a while for those visions to be realized.
This is just another step in that process.
So I just want to thank the parks team for doing great work.
Thank you, Chair.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Thank you, Councilmember Strauss.
Council President Nelson.
You might have mentioned this in your comments, but I don't see it addressed in print in your presentation, so excuse me if I didn't hear something, but is there any plan for a restroom in Lake Union Park at some point?
I don't think my mic's working.
Yes, the Canoe Carving Center is gonna have external facing restrooms, which is why the L-clip, we're putting a portion of L-clip towards the Canoe Carving Center, because it fulfills that mission.
Great.
And that's under construction now.
Thank you very much.
Awesome, thank you.
That's good to know.
Thank you.
I'm looking forward to this project and just wanna thank all of the community folks that have come and also our parks department and everyone that has had a shape, everyone who has had a footprint with this project and looking forward to it.
So I'm gonna go ahead and move that we recommend passage of Council Bill 121008. Is there a second?
Thank you, it's been moved and second to pass, that the committee recommend passing Council Bill 121008. Are there any additional comments before we take roll?
Clerk, will you please call the roll?
Council Member Kettle?
Aye.
Council President Nelson?
Aye.
Council Member Strauss?
Aye.
Chair Hollingsworth?
Yes.
Four in favor, none opposed.
The motion carries and the committee recommendation to pass the bill will be sent to Tuesday, July 15th, council bill meeting.
Thank you all so much, really appreciate all your help.
And the extraordinary Jonathan, thank you, and also the infamous and illustrious Mr. Andy Schaffer.
Thank you.
All right, next, clerk, will you please read item number two into the agenda?
Agenda Item Number 2, Council Bill 121014, an ordinance relating to Seattle Public Utilities authorizing a direct sale of real property identified in King County records as Parcel 162206904904, a portion of Lake Young's Aqueduct right-of-way in King County, Washington, to Sherrill Development, LLC.
This is for briefing, discussion, and possible vote.
Our presenters are from Seattle Public Utilities and Council Central staff.
Awesome, thank you all for being here.
Please state your name for the record and then you can just jump right into your presentation.
Okay, thank you.
My name is Jerry Caruso and I'm the real property manager for Seattle Public Utilities.
I'm here to present an ordinance on the sale of property in Maple Valley and just show me which ones.
Yeah, no worries.
I just want to get through there.
Thank you.
And just the arrow.
So today's ordinance we're proposing, we're requesting a council to authorize Seattle Public Utilities to sell a parcel of land in Maple Valley that is surplus to the city and surplus to SPU.
This parcel is located down in Maple Valley, so it's outside the city limits, and it's on Maple Valley Black Diamond Road, and as you can see from the picture up there, the parcel, our SPU's parcel divides the Gary Shirell's parcel in two, and Gary Shirell is the proposed purchaser of this parcel that we've surplus this parcel to.
This parcel was originally part of the Lake Young's Aqueduct and the Lake Young's Aqueduct was a pipeline corridor that ran from Lake Young's Dam, Lansburg Dam to Lake Young's, and it was purchased in 1928, and decades later, after a different pipeline was built, they determined that they were no longer needed, the Lake Young's Aqueduct Pipeline, and we were, in 1987, there was a surplus ordinance to surplus the entire Lake Young's pipeline and all of those parcels now have been sold and this is the last remaining parcel on that pipeline to be sold.
This is the line in red.
Up on the map is the former Lake Young's aqueduct that was never built, and we had property rights all throughout there.
And this, where the yellow dot is, is approximately where the remaining parcel is that we're selling today.
The blue line represents the current pipeline coming out of Cedar Falls Watershed through the Lake Landsberg Dam and Lake Young's.
The resolution to surplus this property back in 1987 requested that we make a determination of fair market value for any future resolutions and that we offer this property to the abutting property owners first for fair market value.
This was conducted, the budding property owner approached us, he was the third property owner to approach us over the years and we reached agreement on terms of fair market value based on an appraisal and we are under a purchase and sale agreement subject to council approval.
The benefits of this transaction are it's reducing our risk, our liability, and our maintenance costs.
This is approximately a quarter-acre site with grass, bushes, and trees, and it could present a fire risk.
It also directly abuts King County's trail, and it could attract unauthorized encampments.
It's a liability and a risk for us to hold this land.
We have no future use for it and it returns productive revenue-generating land to the tax rolls of Maple Valley.
And if you have any questions on this transaction, just let me know.
Mr. Goodnight.
Thank you, Chair.
Brian Goodnight, Council Central Staff.
No, I don't have any comments.
This item and the next one are both fairly routine kind of ministerial things that come before the Council because they're required to.
If this transaction had exceeded $50,000, we would have held a public hearing for it.
But since the sale price is below that, one was not needed.
Thanks.
That's correct.
Awesome.
Thank you for that clarification.
Thank you for the presentation as well.
I see Council President has her hand up.
Council President Nelson.
Thank you.
When did SPU determine that it was not needed and that it was completely surplus?
That's my first question.
Second question was, you mentioned that this is the third offer to purchase.
I think you said that, and so I want to know why you didn't accept the two other ones.
And then how big is the parcel?
It's 12,200 square feet approximately which is just a little under a quarter acre I don't have the details of any prior offers I just know from this I know from the notes from emails that there were prior offers made on this file, but they were not made by the recent property owner.
They were made by former property owners probably over 10 years ago.
and what was the third question?
I think you got them all in one clump and then but since can I have a bonus question which is when SPU or any utility sells surplus property but let's talk about SPU does the does the money go into a an account for the purchase of property if needed in the future or for infrastructure repair or anything?
No, the money goes back to the general fund account for the line of business, and in this case it's the water line of business for Seattle Public Utilities.
So we have three lines of business, solid waste, water, and drainage, and this is just a general fund revenue, non-rate revenue to the water department.
Thank you.
Yeah.
And I believe the last question, um, council president that you asked, I think we missed it.
It was, when did SPU decide on selling or that this was surplus property?
It was in the 1980s.
And again, I don't have an exact, our records are not that detailed that I have a, uh, I know that the, the, um, resolution to surplus this was in 1987. Uh, I would imagine that it was, you know, a few years before that, that the determination was made to surplus all the land.
Thank you.
That's good to know.
Awesome.
I don't know if there's any other questions.
Councilmember Strauss.
Thank you, Chair.
Jerry, I always love seeing you at Committee.
You always bring us fun projects to work on.
Can I dig into the money a little bit more?
I heard you say it was the general fund within this line of business.
Are these ratepayer dollars or are these general fund dollars?
General Fund was probably a misstatement in this setting.
I meant the General Fund of the Water Department.
You have tax-based dollars here.
We had rate fund dollars in Seattle Public Utilities.
These are, in Seattle Public Utilities, we have both rate and non-rate revenue.
This would be non-rate revenue.
This is not generated from the water rates and how much water you're using or how much of the service you're using.
This is just revenue that's coming in from an asset of ours.
So we just put it into our general account.
And I guess I probably could follow up with you if you need more information on that with accounting to get a more detailed answer.
No, you're fine.
terms matter and you know what I'm saying here and so you're totally fine Jerry and so as compared to the drainage project that's going from Ballard to Fremont Ballard to Wallingford those were ratepayer dollars that purchased those properties to create that project is that correct sorry you didn't know this question was coming
Yeah, I think you're now getting into a nuanced area.
We don't, our property that we receive, revenue that we receive from a purchase, we don't, you know, put it in a different fund for acquisitions later.
I mean, from a sale, we don't put it in a different fund, in a special account for acquisitions.
So I'm not really sure what you're asking, actually, Dan.
Could I jump in, council member?
Yes, please, Brian.
I don't think the distinction is appropriate so that all the revenues flow into one of the three funds of Seattle Public Utilities.
So in this case, it's the water fund.
Those funds are used for a variety of different purposes, sometimes capital, sometimes not.
So the origin of the fund of the revenue doesn't kind of matter, to put it bluntly.
Well, great.
Well, I'll follow up with y'all after because the bill before us looks straightforward and a good policy to move forward with.
So great work, Jerry.
Thanks for all your work for the city.
Thank you.
Thank you, Council Member Strauss.
Council President Nelson.
So the, what is the property?
What is the zoning of the property?
It's a low residential low, There's a certain classification, but it's a residentially zoned property in Maple Valley, according to the Maple Valley zoning code.
Got it.
And I'm prepared...
I support this legislation, so I'll just say that right away.
But of course, and I should just be clear about or come clean about the purpose of my questions or what's motivating it is obviously we are facing...
some budget challenges and I always wonder why now and not some other time are we doing something?
And so if this is motivated by a need to alleviate some pressure on our funding needs, et cetera, I can understand that.
And it's a choice we have to make and it's sitting there as a surplus piece of property.
So I'm not passing judgment, that is just what I'm wondering.
The property is unutilized by the utility.
We have no future use or purpose for it, so it is nothing more than a risk to us.
It creates a liability for us, so when someone approaches us on property that we have surplused already, we will entertain an offer and engage with those individuals.
Awesome.
Thank you, Council President.
Thank you, Jerry, for all your work on this and giving us a presentation.
I feel comfortable moving forward.
And I know that indication from other council members have said the same thing.
So I'm going to go ahead and move the committee recommend passage of Council Bill 121014. Is there a second?
Second.
Thank you.
It's been moved and seconded to recommend the passage of the bill.
Will the clerk please call the roll to the committee.
Recommendation to pass Council Bill 121014.
Council Member Kettle?
Aye.
Council Member Strauss?
Yes.
Council President Nelson?
Aye.
Chair Hollingsworth?
Yes.
Four in favor, none opposed.
Awesome.
Motion carries committee recommendation to pass.
The bill will be sent to the Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 City Council meeting.
Last agenda item, number three.
Will the clerk please read the agenda item into the record?
Agenda Item 3 is Council Bill 121015, an ordinance relating to Seattle Public Utilities authorizing the acceptance of an easement granted to the City of Seattle and recorded as King County Document Number 20220817000046 for the installation and operation of a drainage facility on property commonly known as 14100 Westwood Place Northeast.
This is for breathing, discussion, and possible vote.
Awesome.
Welcome back.
Please state your name again for the record and then you can just jump right in.
Thank you, committee members, chair and the public.
My name is Jerry Caruso.
I'm the senior real property, I mean, I'm the manager of the Seattle Public Utilities and I am here to present a drainage acquisition ordinance.
The purpose of this legislation is to counsel to authorize the acceptance of a drainage easement by Seattle Public Utilities.
The property is located in Lake City area of Seattle in the northeast section of Seattle and it's located on Westwood Place and the diagram on the right shows the easement area going through a parcel that is going downhill from the top of the slide to the bottom and not clearly identified on there at all really is 41st Place Northeast is just at the top of the slide and that is where the water is running down.
So this was a situation where there was a lot of flooding and it needed to be addressed.
So there was continued and repeated flooding in the area that impacted both the road and was causing erosion to the public and private property.
The small landslide project team of the drainage department in Seattle Public Utilities managed this project.
They did an assessment and looked at the past flooding and made a determination that they needed to install new infrastructure on this private property.
We approached the property owner who was represented by council.
We obtained an appraisal and negotiated terms and agreed on fair market value for the purchase of this easement.
And the property owner agreed to grant us an easement.
The transaction details, we paid $20,000 appraised value for the property for the property right and this will enable us to significantly reduce our risks and liabilities in this area.
We, you know, the erosion is continuing and this had many floods and complaints in this neighborhood so this was a continued issue that needed to be addressed and this was a permanent or more of a permanent solution to it.
So we're asking for you know, acceptance of this ordinance, of this easement.
Any questions?
Awesome.
Thank you, Jerry.
Looks pretty straightforward.
Was the erosion when the runoff happened, was a lot of the damage happening on the street?
There was both the street and private property, but the street above it is only partially built, and it was eroding the
the culvert along the street.
Got it.
Understood.
Thank you for that.
Colleagues, do you have any questions for Jerry?
Awesome.
Well, that means that you did a great present.
Oh, Mr. Gnight, do you have anything?
I'm sorry.
Nothing to add.
Thank you, Jerry.
All right.
Awesome.
I know I got to set my game up.
I apologize.
Okay.
So I'm going to go ahead and move that the committee recommend Council Bill 12105. Is there a second?
I second.
Awesome.
It's been moved and seconded.
Thank you.
Is there any other comments before we take a vote on this bill?
Will the clerk please call, seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the committee recommendation to Council Bill 121015.
Council Member Kettle?
Aye.
Council Member Strauss?
Yes.
Council President Nelson?
Aye.
Chair Hollingsworth?
Yes.
Four in favor, none opposed.
Motion carries in the committee recommendation to pass.
The bill will be sent to Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 City Council meeting.
Awesome, thank you.
I know that's not a record time.
I don't know if there's any other for, oh, thank you, sorry.
I just about to jump right into the ending.
Thank you, Jerry, really appreciate you being here and thank you for the presentations.
Thank you, Mr. Bryan, good night.
Always a pleasure to hear your assessment and analyze all the bills that are coming from us.
So thank you everyone.
With that we have no other items on the agenda today.
I also want to thank the people that came for public comment to talk about parks and how we have artwork in our parks and I'll be looking into that.
I will also look into that because I know that the bathroom at Cal Anderson and some of the artwork that's around there is important and I know some of the artists that make some of that.
So we'll make sure that we can figure out a solution there because I think it's important that we continue to elevate the neighborhood with the type of art that's in that park.
This concludes the July 9th meeting of the Parks Public Utilities and technology committee.
Our next meeting is going to be scheduled for Wednesday, July 23rd at 2 p.m.
And hearing no other business, it is 2.43 p.m.
This meeting is adjourned.
Thank you, Queen.