Seattle City Council 9/13/2022

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Today is September 13th.

The meeting of the Seattle City Council will come to order.

It is 2-0-1.

I am Deborah Juarez.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Councilmember Lewis?

Present.

Oh, thank you.

Councilmember Morales?

Here.

Councilmember Mosqueda?

Present.

Councilmember Nelson?

Present.

Council Member Peterson.

Present.

Council Member Sawant.

Present.

Council Member Strauss.

Present.

Council Member Herbold.

And Council President Juarez.

Present.

Eight present.

Thank you.

Moving along on the agenda, we have no presentations here today.

Moving on to public comment.

Again, colleagues, we will open up the hybrid public comment period.

for the hybrid public comment period, the remote speakers today.

Let's see.

Why don't we do the in-person first today, and then we will go to the for remote.

And then Madam Clerk, I'm going to hand it over to you.

Oh, everyone will have two minutes.

Everybody, two minutes.

We'll do the in-person first, and then we will do the remote.

And with Madam Clerk, with that, I will hand it over to you for the instructions.

Hello, Seattle.

We are the Emerald City, the City of Flowers and the City of Goodwill, built on indigenous land, the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples.

The Seattle City Council welcomes remote public comment and is eager to hear from residents of our city.

If you would like to be a speaker and provide a verbal public comment, you may register two hours prior to the meeting via the Seattle City Council website.

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That is your cue that it's your turn to speak.

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Be sure your phone is unmuted on your end so that you will be heard.

As a speaker, you should begin by stating your name and the item that you are addressing.

A chime will sound when 10 seconds are left in your allotted time as a gentle reminder to wrap up your public comments.

At the end of the allotted time, your microphone will be muted and the next speaker registered will be called.

Once speakers have completed providing public comment, please disconnect from the public comment line and join us by following the meeting via Seattle Channel Broadcast or through the listening line option listed on the agenda.

The Council reserves the right to eliminate public comment if the system is being abused.

or if the process impedes the council's ability to conduct its business on behalf of residents of the city.

Any offensive language that is disruptive to these proceedings or that is not focused on an appropriate topic as specified in council rules may lead to the speaker being muted by the presiding officer.

Our hope is to provide an opportunity for productive discussions that will assist our orderly consideration of issues before the council.

The public comment period is now open, and we will begin with the first speaker on the list.

Please remember to press star six after you hear the prompt of, you have been unmuted.

Thank you, Seattle.

All right.

We will now move into in-person public commenters.

Once your name is called, please approach either microphone and state your name and the item which you are addressing.

Our first speaker is Marguerite Richard.

A good day, and my name is Marguerite Rashard.

I put something down only because of the actions that are supposed to be taken as far as funding climate resilient community spaces and investing in net zero affordable housing.

And so I'm concerned about affordable housing, tents, folk ODing on the street, like this lady told me. a woman did around the corner from Ross today.

And some other things that concern progress, and I don't see us progressing in our communities.

I don't understand why there's no more people other than myself periodically coming down here to say anything.

I don't know.

We, I don't think we could stand another anything it pandemic it, whatever they want to label it because what has happened here is just a tragedy.

I mean, I heard the governor opened up the state as much as what you wanna call open, but the people are still not here.

Even our faces, like we used to have our faces on the screen, it's not even visible anymore.

I don't even know how you can live with yourself like that, knowing that you're terrorizing people when you don't have a free speech and you don't have open government and you tell a person one time that somebody is in violation, of any rule, regulation, ordinance.

Look at Bannon right now.

You probably say, oh yeah, he's a real good gunslinger.

And then Trump folk and whatnot.

You say I'm off the subject.

No, I'm not.

Because I'm human.

And I see these things.

And I don't see any changes.

And I'm wondering what's going on behind closed doors.

Because we can't see what's going on behind closed doors.

But we know that you're doing something.

And it's going to come out of the wash.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Alex Zimmerman.

And you can start the timer, Amelia.

You can start.

Yeah.

Sieg Heil, my damn dirty Nazi Gestapo Democrat, a fascist, a mafia, a mafia cartel.

My name is Alex Zimmerman.

I want to speak about agenda number five, about budget 22. Yeah, guys, it's very interesting.

We don't have money right now.

100,000 people totally poor right now, don't have money, price for everything go up.

And you make $150,000 salary for three years sitting home.

It's like a welfare, like disability, you know what I mean?

$150,000 each.

You have four assistants for $70,000 each.

So you, government, government, I don't know, people, people pay you $150,000 per year.

You sit there and don't do nothing for three years.

My question right now, and I never see you for three years, you donate $1 to poor people.

or to minority or somebodies who have a crisis, like homeless.

Why are you doing for $150,000?

The salary, what is, don't have analogy in America, you know what I mean?

Seattle, number one fascist city in America, but when you comparable to Nazi or communist, you know what I mean?

These are not believable.

Why are you doing for $150,000?

Why are you so quiet?

Why not one talk, for example, give us $50,000, like Senator of State Washington?

What is going on?

And right now, speak to this $750,000 idiot.

zombie and happy cow.

Are you freaking idiot?

You don't understand what has been $150,000 welfare in home for three years.

Give money back because you are poor criminal.

Thank you.

Now we'll move to the remote speakers and speakers will be called on in the order registered.

If you're not registered to speak, you can still sign up before the public comment period is concluded by registering for public comment online for remote public comment or in person in chambers at the podium.

And our first speaker is Howard Gale.

And Howard's not showing his present.

Okay, let's go to the next one.

Our next person is I'm present.

What the fuck?

Okay, we're done.

Stop.

We're done.

We are not.

We are not entertaining that language.

Let's go to the next person.

I'm not present.

Move to the next person.

The next person is Christopher persons.

Mr. Persons, I see his tile up there.

Good afternoon, President Juarez and Council Members.

My name is Chris Persons.

I'm the Director of Community Roots Housing and I am speaking in support of Council Bill 120414 relating to the development of Yesler Family Housing, part of the Yesler Terrace redevelopment.

Your support of this bill ensures that this project, already under construction, will continue and open next year and will provide over 150 family apartments to low and very low income people in the Central District and the International District.

The three and four bedroom apartments in this joint project of Community Roots Housing and the Seattle Chinatown International District CDA are rare and are a vital addition to affordable housing to low and very low income families in our community.

Thank you for voting yes on this council bill.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next person is David Haynes.

Mr. Haynes.

Yes.

Hi, thank you.

I was hoping that the council would reconsider and stop exempting drug pushers and sex crimes from jail.

You're sabotaging the integrity and safety effectiveness of police reform, causing good cops to leave and untrustworthy chief officers to get rich off overtime, not fighting crime.

Now, please understand in order to be successful at alternative policing, you still have to be honest and successful about fighting crime and rooting out the evil customs, violating repeat, offending criminals, conducting uncivil war on the innocent community with impunity, committing crimes against humanity.

Yet city hall, progressives, police chief and the prosecutor's office and George Soros funded nonprofits, just care and lead.

Run interference for and lift a drug pusher, destroying our life daily with less than 3.5 grams as a nonviolent misdemeanor prioritized for housing motels and services like wraparound.

Instead of improved jail punishment at expensive, innocent houseless and taxpayers.

Now the police chief is on record saying he's making it up to the black and brown community for past wrongs by simply not weeding out evil within the community.

Because he is totally unqualified and refuses.

Yet while city hall has capitulated to protesters from George Floyd and black lives matter, defund presently put in charge of what constitutes proper policing as if qualified and trustworthy.

All because they flash mob city hall, organizing protesters to March.

They ended up co-opting our elected officials and their staff turning against innocent citizens for election support, redirecting homeless crisis and public safety money to buy up organizers, activists, and protesters.

Hiding within newly created nonprofits, shaking down city hall, power mongers, selling out our society at our expense.

This council redirected American rescue plan dollars earmarked to solve the homeless crisis of no shelter to organizers, activists and protesters hiding within newly created non.

All right.

Thank you, Mr. Haynes.

Our next speaker is Will Smart.

Mr. Smart.

Madam Clerk, I don't see his tile up there.

Am I not seeing the screen?

Mr. Smart?

Council President, Hueshawin is not present, but we do have a couple more speakers.

That have just dialed in remotely?

that are in chambers that have signed up.

Oh, okay, certainly, absolutely, sure.

Our first person is Sami Abdallah Syed.

Is there Mr. Syed, Sami Abdallah Syed?

Sami.

Are you speaking?

Are you going to do public comment?

Okay, please, please step up to the microphone.

Thank you.

I want to pass something for you guys for legislator, because we've been misleaded and mistreated.

My name is Sami Saad.

I represent the South African American in New South and the Sudanese American, Sudanese Unity Association in Washington.

We are more than 65 Washingtonian.

Unfortunately, We've been treated really bad as black people.

I own the first medical cannabis store in Washington, it's called 12 green.

And we have a lawsuit, the lawsuit is here.

I want to give you guys copy.

And if you go to chain.org, we have a lot of people supporting Signature.

We are a previous shop owners, we are not being acknowledged, and we are not being addressed.

Last meeting, you guys having Peter, Manny, and Ellie Garrett.

Ellie Garrett don't support us and don't represent us.

And Paolo Saldana.

Paolo Saldana, she's using the community.

She called me on my phone, she said, Mr. Saad, I cannot help you.

Publicly, she said she will help me because she know the story after we have meeting in the Aleutian Center.

But unfortunately, closed door, most of them, they stay willing to help in front of people, just like I'm here today.

When I called the phone first, Ellie Garrett, she said, do not call this phone ever again.

You guys knows Ellie Garrett.

She worked for the LCB.

She's, to me, is a mafia.

That's what the community said.

This is using us.

Ellie Garrett, the first person being acknowledged and get a license.

was black excellent with Peter Manning don't he come and spoke here he said here you have the first license.

He, he, he have a license just like me.

I started before him.

But we both we should be acknowledged not just him, Peter Manning lied to me he said the pulse the HP 27. It's not for us.

And I said that in the Senate floor in Olympia draw from here.

And we, that deal is, it should not pass, fail.

But unfortunately we've been treated as delegate.

You should know, they make it pass and we are not being acknowledged.

Seattle social equity groups is being shunned by legislator came and meet with my community.

Thank you, sir.

And they did not acknowledge us.

And they say we have to get our shot back.

You should let me to speak.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Sir, your two minutes are up.

You interrupted me because this is bigger than anything.

Our next speaker is Joseph Bach.

And I represent Peter Manning.

Okay, let's hold up, sir.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Let's go to our next speaker.

Our next speaker is Joseph Bach.

And it's not just Jewish, I'm mixed with Jewish, too.

This is sad and misleading.

Sir, we have another speaker.

Please be respectful.

OK, let's do this.

Let's cut the mic for a minute, because we're not going to entertain hate speech.

So let's hold up for a minute.

Let's just recess.

Let's recess.

Let's just stop it.

I want to say hi to everybody up here.

Yeah, it's today, you know, I just come down here to support Sam, to his business, you know.

He's the first, you know, Sudanese-American, you know, he opened his own, you know, medical shop by Renew, Martin Luther King, I know his shop.

And, you know, he's helped a lot of communities.

And, you know, I just like, I just come back from Midwest and he just, yeah, told me, you know, his store been shut down.

But, you know, just my hope is today is it's about, you know, to let him, you know, went back to his feet, support his family and his, you know, his get his own family.

and his mom, his dad.

I want you guys to acknowledge, I don't feed my family from being a child.

I feed it.

I have a junk removal company in Washington.

That's what the community on you guys took from the community.

What he tried to say is simple all the time.

Please be quiet, sir.

Thank you.

Black people is not being acknowledged.

But if something gets to go, white people, everybody, I'm trying to fight for them.

You guys are damaging the community.

You guys are damaging.

You guys are not listening.

You guys, we have a pointed leader, self-pointed leader.

Ella Garrett and Paulson Daniel, they're using us.

Ella Garrett, Paulson Daniel, Oh, and I have witnesses.

Kevin, this is a bad how you use a word like that.

And you want to be a community leader.

This is my testimony today.

If you guys can we please have the gentleman removed?

And can we please take us to mute?

And this whole the clock.

Let's take a quick recess here.

Okay, so we get the situation under control.

Let's all take a couple minutes here and we will regroup until I will be back in two minutes.

OK, Madam Clerk, I believe that we have waited two minutes and we have a gentleman up and I think we left him at maybe a minute 15. Can we roll it back a few seconds for him because of the disruption?

Yes, but do you like to start at the two or less than two minutes?

Yeah, let's just start at the two again for him because he was yeah, we couldn't hear him over the commotion.

So let's let the gentleman start again at two.

Thank you.

Go ahead, sir.

It's about, you know, it's about, it's about the community.

It's about, you know, the poor.

It's not about, you know, like discrimination and all this.

I didn't believe this, you know.

All I believe, you know, is believe we need to be, and we need, you know, to be treated like, like the same, you know.

And to me, my, my appointment, my option is, is like this.

where they took his license, you know.

That's why he become like everything.

He lost in everything.

He behind rent right now.

He behind his rent.

He's dead.

He just passed away like three months ago.

He went back to Sudan and he came back.

So right now, you know, he get like, you know, he doing recycling job, you know.

He can pick up truck, you know.

He pick up, you know, recycling, you know.

I sell it, you know, and he used to have his own business, own shop, you know.

But anyway, you know, just anything I hope, you know, just to you guys, just try to help him out.

That's all the thing I hope, you know.

I have nothing in my hand to do to help him, but you guys, the people, you guys can help, you know.

That's my words.

I have nothing to say.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, are we done with our our individuals that showed up in chambers?

We are done.

Thank you.

We reached the end of public comment and with that public comment is closed.

Moving on to our agenda, I'm moving on to the adoption of the introduction referral calendar.

If there's an objection, the introduction and referral calendar will be adopted.

Not seeing or hearing any objection, the the IRC is adopted.

Moving on to adoption of the agenda.

If there's no objection, the agenda will be adopted.

That is today's agenda.

Hearing and seeing no objection, today's agenda is indeed adopted.

Moving on to the consent calendar.

My understanding is that there are no council members that wish to pull any particular items from the consent calendar.

So the items on the consent calendar or the minutes from September 6th, our last council meeting and the payroll bill, council bill 120416. Councilor Mosqueda, is this something you, you okay?

Okay.

So since does anyone, I'm guessing nobody has anyone wants to remove anything.

We're good.

Good.

Okay.

Okay.

I hearing none.

I move to adopt the consent calendar.

Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

It's been moved and seconded to adopt the consent calendar.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on the adoption of the consent calendar?

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council Member Sawant?

Yes.

Council Member Strauss?

Council Member Strauss, you're very faint.

Yes.

Thank you.

Council Member Herbold?

Yes.

And Council President Juarez?

Aye.

Nine in favor, nine opposed.

Thank you.

The consent calendar is adopted.

And Madam Clerk, can you please affix my signature to the consent calendar on my behalf?

Moving on to committee reports.

We got 13 items on deck today, and I understand it'll be Casper Peterson's day today.

So Madam Clerk, let's start with item number one.

Will you please read item one into the record?

Agenda item one, clerk file 314504. Report of the city clerk on the certificate of sufficiency for initiative number 135 concerning developing and maintaining affordable social housing in Seattle.

Thank you.

As I shared with you folks yesterday and the viewing public, I'm going to make the same kind of the same statement that I made yesterday regarding this particular clerk file, clerk file three one four five or four is a is notice that initiative one thirty five has sufficient signatures to go to the ballot.

According to the city charter, the city clerk has 20 days from receipt of notice from King County elections to file the notice with the city council.

The city clerk filed her report and the certificate of sufficiency with the council via this clerk file today, September 13th.

I apologize for that.

Let's see, this actually started the 45 day clock for council action on the initiative as discussed in yesterday's briefing.

I'm recommending holding the clerk file for another week.

as required by city charter, I'm sorry, for another week.

New sentence, as required by city charter, this clerk file will appear on every agenda until the city council determines what action will be taken in response to initiative number 135. The current plan is to vote next week.

As a reminder, the city elections code, Seattle Municipal Code 2.04.300 prohibits elected officials and city employees from using their office for the promotion or opposition of any ballot measure.

According to the code, we should refrain from discussing the merits of the initiative until we are actually voting on legislation to support or oppose the ballot proposition.

That will occur at a future meeting and within 45 days of this clerk file being filed with the city council.

I recommend that council members refrain from discussing this initiative today and until the council considers legislation supporting or opposing this valid proposition.

I move to postpone clerk file 314504 to September 20th, 2022. Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

It's been moved and seconded to postpone the clerk file.

Will the clerk please call the roll on the postponing of clerk file number 314504 until September 20th.

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council members to want.

Yes.

Council member Strauss.

Yes.

Council member Herbold.

Yes.

And Council President Juarez.

Aye.

Nine in favor, none opposed.

Thank you.

The motion carries.

The clerk file is post postponed to September 20th, 2022. And this item will appear on every agenda until city council determines what action will be taken in response to initiative number 135. Moving on into our agenda and to item number two, Madam Clerk, will you please read item number two into the record?

Agenda item two, clerk file 314501. Office of Inspector General requests for an extension for the filing of September 2022 annual surveillance technologies review reports.

Thank you.

I move to approve and file clerk file 314501. Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

It's been moved and seconded to approve and file the clerk file.

Councillor Nelson, as the sponsor, you are recognized to address this item.

Great, thank you very much.

This is a request by OIG to extend the due date for its annual surveillance usage reviews by six months, postponing the deadline from this month to March 31st, 2021. As you know, the Seattle Municipal Code requires OIG to produce surveillance usage reviews each year for the technologies that council approves SPD to use.

Last year, Council approved SPD's use of eight technologies, so OIG needs to report on those this month.

But OIG says that it won't be able to complete the reviews in time given, one, the complexity of the technologies under review, and two, OIG's current staffing resources.

These are first time reviews for these technologies so OIG says it needs to conduct significant additional work to understand controls and develop pertinent testing methodologies.

OIG's auditors are all assigned to other required projects.

OIG just doesn't have the capacity right now to complete these reviews on time.

OIG is recruiting for an open position dedicated to conducting these reviews, but OIG doesn't expect that post to be filled until sometime this month at the earliest.

This delay should give OIG sufficient time to conduct the reviews and report back as required by the municipal code.

That's it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member.

Are there any questions or any comments to be made in regards to what Council Member Nelson just shared with us?

Okay, Council Member Herbold.

Thanks, I just wanted to thank Council Member Nelson for working with Inspector General Judge on the timing for this item.

I really appreciate that.

Thank you.

All right.

Okay, is there any closing comments you want to make, Council Member Nelson, before we go to a vote?

That's it.

Great, thank you.

Will the clerk please call the roll on the approving of the filing of the clerk file?

Council Member Lewis.

Yes.

Council Member Morales.

Yes.

Council Member Vizcarra.

Aye.

Council Member Nelson.

Aye.

Council Member Peterson.

Aye.

Council Member Sawant.

Yes.

Council Member Strauss.

Yes.

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

And Council President Juarez.

Aye.

Nine in favor, none opposed.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The clerk file is approved and will be placed on file.

All right, let's move on to item number three.

Will the clerk please read item number three into the record?

Resolution 32066, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Discovery Park Master Plan.

Thank you.

I move to adopt resolution 32066. Is there a second?

Second.

Thank you.

It's been moved and seconded to adopt the resolution.

And Council Member Lewis, the floor is yours.

Thank you so much, Council President.

I'll be brief on this.

I'm really looking forward this fall to celebrating with the Friends of Discovery Park the 50th anniversary of that park being developed and becoming part of our park system.

I'll reference some of the remarks I made in briefing yesterday, just that it is a quarter of all of the open space in the city of Seattle in our park system represented in one park.

For anyone who has experienced it, it is a truly relaxing experience that makes it feel like you are not in the center of a major city, but in a more rural kind of park setting that is an open respite for many of us during the hustle and bustle of our urban living.

And I really look forward to celebrating the special place that has been created in collaboration between the Friends of Discovery Park, our partners with United Indians of All Tribe at Daybreak Star, our partnership with our federal officials who increasingly have worked with us to carve off more and more parcels of the old Fort Lawton site for public use for a variety of different purposes including recreation.

So this is a resolution brought forward in partnership with Friends of Discovery Park and I look forward to this being the beginning of a broader series of celebrations and partnership throughout this fall commemorating this historic event.

Thank you and I see Council Member Strauss has his hand up.

Council Member Strauss.

Thank you.

I don't have the pleasure of representing Discovery Park although just across the ship canal I represent that area and I can say.

Oh my gosh.

Council Member Mosqueda, you're off mute.

Council Member Mosqueda, Council Member Mosqueda.

We can hear you.

All right.

Just all that to say, Discovery Park has held, has been a gem for many different reasons, too many for me to list now, highlighting, you know, a Hunger Strike music video by Temple the Dog was filmed there on top of Council President Juarez's epic roller skating trip.

Among so many different things, it's really a beautiful urban forest that those of us in D6 get to enjoy by looking across the water as well.

So thank you, Council Member Luz for bringing this forward.

Thank you, Council Member Strauss for that.

for that moment of going back into the time machine.

Is there anyone else that would like to have any comments before I hand it off to see if Council Member Lewis has any closing comments and then we can go to a vote?

All right, not seeing any.

Council Member Lewis, did you want to add anything before we go to the vote?

I will stand by my earlier comments.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of the resolution?

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council Member Swant?

Yes.

Council Member Strauss?

Yes.

Council Member Herbold?

Yes.

And Council President Juarez?

Aye.

Nine in favor, nine opposed.

Thank you.

The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it.

And Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the Legislation on my behalf.

So moving on in our agenda to item number four, Madam Clerk, can you please read item number four to the record?

Part of the Finance and Housing Committee Agenda Item 4, Council Bill 12414, relating to the redevelopment of Yesler Terrace by the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle, authorizing the Mayor to execute an amendment to the Yesler Terrace Cooperative Agreement with the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle that was authorized by Ordinance 123-961, authorizing the Director of Housing to implement the cooperative agreement as amended and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

The committee recommends that the City Council pass the bill.

Thank you.

Councilor Mosqueda.

I am clearly excited to speak about this.

So let me get my excitement out on this legislation.

I am very excited about this ordinance here.

It allows for us to continue the fulfillment of the vision for the redevelopment of Yeser Terrace.

It's going to allow for us to provide new family size housing units for low income families developed by our community based housing partners, including Skipta PDA and Community Roots Housing.

And importantly, It's going to have a new education center on site run by the Denise Louie Education Center.

Just in terms of background, in 2012, the City of Seattle and the Seattle Housing Authority signed Yesler Terrace Cooperative Agreement outlining terms and conditions of the redevelopment of Yesler Terrace.

Included in the cooperative agreement is a set of conditions related to CINDI funding to be committed to the redevelopment.

The third amendment authorizes the city to increase its funding contributions to a phase three development projects located at 1215 East First Street and up to just over $3.3 million.

The additional contribution is needed here today to address the inflated costs that are arising as a result of unprecedented material and labor shortages during the pandemic.

Office of Housing is authorized to provide up to $13 million already and using existing Office of Housing Fund sources towards phase three of Yesterterris redevelopment under the terms of the city's cooperative agreement.

The city has reached this limit of $13 million of contributions for supportive development and is supporting at least 135 replacement housing units and 130 of those at 60% of area median income housing units in phase three, included as well as a loan commitment to the 1215 East First Street project.

Importantly, and I want to thank Council Member Peterson for asking some questions along with my other committee colleagues in the meeting.

Importantly, we want to also note that this amendment includes 1.3 $5 million grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce to the Office of Housing for the project.

And as noted from Office of Housing, that might also include pass-through dollars from our federal government.

So I appreciate that there was a series of questions that were asked from Office of Housing and defer to my colleagues as well who received that additional information from OH to see if their questions have been met.

But really would encourage a yes vote on this legislation today.

Thanks so much.

Thank you, Council Member Esqueda.

Are there any comments for Council Member Esqueda before we move on?

Council Member Herbold.

Thanks.

I just wanted to speak up because I did abstain in committee.

And I really want to thank the chair for her patience, as well as the Office of Housing and the project sponsors.

I did have some questions about the source of funding that the Office of Housing was proposing to use for the purpose.

and the process by which that funding was allocated to the project.

Normally, I think I would have gotten those questions answered.

over a series of committee discussions, but I totally appreciate that we are moving towards budget and we don't have as much time to consider legislation.

So though I did abstain from voting in committee, I did let folks know that I was pretty sure I was gonna be able to get to yes today.

And I really appreciate the clarification that the office of housing provided and let me know that the language I was concerned about existing in the 2012 original cooperative agreement that required future levy funding for replacement housing at Yeso Terrace to be awarded via a regular NOFA process, a competitive process, that we actually removed that requirement in the third amendment to the cooperative agreement in 2017. So I certainly cannot hold this project to a standard that does no longer exist.

So thank you.

I do intend on voting in support of this legislation.

Thank you, Council Member Herbold.

I did note on here that you had abstained, so I appreciate it when Council Members step forward and explain and clarify, and then we can all move forward with consensus because it sounds like this is a good ordinance, a good piece of legislation.

With that, Council Member Mosqueda, are there any closing comments that you would have?

You sure?

Before we go to a vote?

Okay.

No, thank you.

I'm good, Council President.

Okay, great.

So with that, I don't see any other hands raised.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on the passage of the bill?

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council Member Sawant?

Yes.

Council Member Strauss?

Yes.

Council Member Herbold?

Yes.

And Council President Juarez?

Aye.

Nine in favor, nine opposed.

Thank you.

The bill passes, the chair will sign it, and Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the legislation.

Moving on to item number five it looks like it's Councilor Mosqueda again.

Will the clerk please read item five into the record.

Agenda item five council bill 12413 amending ordinance 126 490 which adopted the 2022 budget changing appropriations to various departments of budget control levels and for various funds in the budget in order to advance the Seattle Green New Deal by funding actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, funding climate-resilient community spaces, and investing in net-zero affordable housing, and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

The committee recommends that the City Council pass the bill.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Councillor Mosqueda.

Thank you, Madam President.

Again, another piece of legislation I'm very excited to have in front of us.

This proposed bill would release the $6.5 million from the Jump Start Seattle funds that we as a council and the mayor have committed to adhering to.

This comes from the finance general funding that we have allocated specifically for Green New Deal priorities, and these priorities were to be funded once we got the recommendations back from the Green New Deal Oversight Board.

Today, we make those recommendations that the Green New Deal Oversight Board has provided to counsel a reality by allowing the 6.5M dollars to be released to go towards their priorities.

The Seattle City Council included this process as part of our 2022 adopted budget to ensure that the Green New Deal implementation strategies truly came from the Oversight Board and thus direction from folks who are both from frontline and fenceline communities, frontline workers and fenceline residents who are dealing the most with the impacts of climate crisis.

The board, the Green New Deal Oversight Board engaged with various city departments and conducted an extensive public outreach process and and community engagement process to develop these recommendations that are in front of us and funded by this legislation.

The Green New Deal Oversight Board then submitted their recommendations for both the 2022 reserve balance that we currently have and the upcoming 2023 budget to the mayor and council, and that was submitted to us on June 2nd of this year.

I want to thank the Green New Deal Oversight Board and congratulate them, along with the staff of the Office of Sustainability and the Environment and Mayor Harrell's team for helping us fill this commitment, the commitment made by the Jump Start Seattle Progressive Revenue Tax to make sure that we adhere to the priorities in the spend plan and in doing so release the funding for 2022 and also bake these priorities into our upcoming budgets.

I will conclude by saying there is no better example than what we've seen over even just the last few days.

Record heat waves in Seattle, smoke again filling our airs, Seattle being in our region having the worst air quality in the entire entire world over the last weekend.

We see ongoing floods in Pakistan, worldwide drought, wildfires, food scarcities, and this is the most pressing issue that we here at the city level have the opportunity to continue to address and need to do so collectively with state, national, and global partners as well to make sure that we are addressing the climate crisis.

So again, I want to thank the Green New Deal Oversight Board, the staff of OSC mayors for their team, and all of the folks who will continue to participate in making sure that these recommendations are community-led, frontline and fenceline community developed, and that we do more every year to invest in climate resilience work forward thinking, creative strategies at the city level to address the biggest issue facing our entire globe, and that is climate, the climate crisis.

So thank you very much, Madam President, and I look forward to moving this forward.

There are about 20 individuals that I'd love to thank as members of the Green New Deal Oversight Board, but I will hold off on doing so, Madam President, until the end.

Okay, thank you.

I see that Councilor Lewis has his hand up.

Thank you, Council President.

Very excited to vote on this package today and appreciate the opportunity to support it in committee and support it here.

The Green New Deal investments and Jumpstart, just to put a fine point on it, are going to be a pivotal part of our efforts to decarbonize city buildings, including the community centers that we're working on through the Malden Park District.

and just want to flag in the materials that were distributed to council members last Tuesday, it does factor into some of the mayor's budget proposals to take advantage of the work this council and Chair Ms. Gata did to have the support and this investment present so we are well positioned to continue our work as a city in the biggest public policy and environmental challenge that we have before us in global climate change.

and really shows how we can leverage not just this Green New Deal money, but resources in the Metropolitan Park District, resources from our federal partners in the form of Inflation Reduction Act support and other funds to really make a lot of progress on this because we have money ready to pour into this kind of infrastructure.

And it's just a testament to the wisdom of this council in putting the Jump Start plan forward and really capitalizing on the resources from it for the biggest possible impact in the community.

So looking forward to voting for this today and looking forward to more of these kinds of collaborations to make progress on climate change.

Thank you.

Councilor Osanic.

Thank you, Council President Morris.

I will be voting yes on this bill because I support the funding it contains.

However, we need to be crystal clear that $6.5 million out of a multi-billion dollar project is not a green new deal.

It is business as usual for the most part while the climate continues to rocket towards catastrophe.

In the 1930s, the new deal employ thousands of people for massive infrastructure projects like the Bonneville hydroelectric plant that continues to provide Seattle emission free electricity.

At the time, the political establishment was willing to make investments of that magnitude because they were desperately afraid that working people would fight for and win socialism.

Projects of that scale are what would make a Green New Deal today.

And in fact, that would be the beginning of what could be a Green New Deal today.

But just like in the 1930s, big business and their political representatives will not accept it without a fight.

Over two years ago, the tax Amazon movement won this money when we forced Seattle's democratic establishment to pass a big business tax.

Yes, they reduced the size of the Amazon tax from what we were initially fighting for.

And they rebranded it Jumpstart in an attempt to erase from history the movement of working people that was required to win it, not to mention the Black Lives Matter movement.

But nevertheless, it was a substantial victory that was won by ordinary people.

But since then, the funding for green infrastructure has been sliced and diced into a token amount.

And climate activists have been told that they must decide how to spend the remaining $6.5 million as an intentional diversion from what they know they should be spending their time on building a movement to fight for far, far bigger investments to fund massive infrastructure projects and end our society's reliance, at least as far as the Seattle region is concerned, on fossil fuels.

In other words, a real green new deal for Seattle.

So I will vote yes on these small climate investments, but I would also warn working people of our city to read, to understand beyond the big rhetoric that is being used by politicians and understand what the scale of the investments is today and what would be needed as scientists tell us based on facts about the climate crisis, the kind of investments that would actually be needed for a Green New Deal.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Sawant.

Council Member Herbold.

Thank you.

I just wanted to get local for District 1, just really appreciate that there are some projects called out for district one.

There is the idea of funding, the resilience hubs that are supported in the Duwamish Valley action plan.

And also, it's very, very welcome and appreciated by residents of South Park and the other Duwamish Valley Action Plan stakeholders.

And then also want to call out and thank Council Member Peterson for his leadership during the budget process, where he highlighted the need to fund electrification, heating, cooling, and air quality upgrades at our libraries and worked to get funding in our budget for 2022 for both the Southwest and Northeast branches.

That, even though the Council voted on that funding, it was not made available and so I appreciate Council Member Sawant's comments about sort of the scarcity of the package, but really appreciate the Green New Deal Advisory Board members in acknowledging the priorities of the council in the 2022 budget as it relates to these two libraries.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Herbold.

And are there any other comments before I hand it off to Council Member Mosqueda to take us out?

Okay, not seeing any.

Councilor Mosqueda.

Thank you very much.

Again, really excited about the opportunity to finally have the Green New Deal Oversight Board created and then the chance to move forward with the recommendations from folks who have put their time and energy in crafting these recommendations.

And this pot of money, as folks know, grows year over year.

It's actually $14.3 million for the year 2022. It's near $20 million next year and continues to grow after that.

So it's a percentage of the funds as codified in the spend plan.

I am excited to really lift up the work of the folks who made this possible.

So I want to read off the names of the Green New Deal Oversight Board members and thank them again for their very hard work to bring forward these recommendations.

And together we will work to make sure that the recommendations are implemented.

Thank you, Maria Batayola, Matt Remley, Thomas Madrigal, Rachel Heaton, Ken Wolkman, Christina Chu, Tyler Valentin, Dennis Comer, Debolina Banerjee, Peter Hasegawa, Emily Myers, Andrea Ornelas, Keith Weir, Jess Walsh, and Deepa Sivarajan, and Steve Gleb.

I really appreciate the entire oversight board for the Green New Deal.

Board members, thanks again for your work, and we look forward to voting yes on this.

Thank you, Councilor Mosqueda, and thank you Council Member Sawant and Councilor Herbold for your comments as well.

And particularly Councilor Mosqueda, thank you for giving a shout out to the Green New Deal Oversight Committee members.

We don't often get to list off these people that are on all these different committees that advise us and are volunteers and do the hard work and let us know what's going on and come to committee and come to public comment So thank you for that.

I think this is a big win today.

And I'm glad that Council Member Herbold brought up, not that we're trying to be too district-centric here, but the, and also with Council Member Peterson about the, us looking at libraries and trying to get air conditioning in them.

That's been a long time coming, at least in the six years I've been here.

So I'm glad it's happening and we're moving forward.

And thank you for clarifying that the jumpstart Um, at 14.3 for 2022 and the projections for 20 million in 2023, and that that number will keep growing.

And we know how, um, at least we've been working on that for at least four years, different iterations, but however it happened, it got across the finish line.

And for that, I think we're a better city for it.

So thank you for that.

All right.

Um, are there any other comments before I asked the clerk to call the roll?

Okay, not seeing any, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on the ordinance?

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Thank you.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council Member Sawant?

Yes.

Council Member Strauss?

Yes.

Council Member Herbold?

Yes.

And Council President Juarez?

Aye.

Nine in favor, nine opposed.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The bill passes, the chair will sign it.

And Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the legislation.

And congratulations to Council Member Mosqueda and her team and everybody else to make this happen.

All right, let's move on to item number six.

This comes out of the Public Assets and Homeless Committee.

Madam Clerk, will you please read item six into the record?

Report of the Public Assets and Homelessness Committee, Agenda Item 6, Council Bill 120-416, relating to Seattle Parks and Recreation, authorizing the acquisition of a conservation and recreation easement of the Turner Cope House and Garden, commonly known as the Garden House, located at 2336 15th Avenue South, authorizing acceptance of a recording of the conservation and recreation easement for open space park and recreation purposes.

ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

The committee recommends that the city pass the council bill.

Thank you.

Council Member Lewis.

Thank you, Council President.

So I was happy to be able to accommodate this before budget and work with Parks and Historic Seattle to get this legislation through for the acquisition of the easement on the Turner Cope House and Garden property in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, commonly known as The Garden House, located at 2336 15th Avenue South.

This acceptance and recording of this easement will allow this space that is owned and held by Historic Seattle to be used and programmed for park and recreation activities and really look forward to this property continuing to be a staple of the community and be able to provide these services legally and in perpetuity due to this easement.

It was unanimously recommended out of the committee and I look forward to voting for it again this afternoon for final passage.

Thank you, Council Member Lewis.

Are there any comments for Council Member Lewis regarding this?

Council Member Lewis, is there anything else you want to say before we move to a vote?

No, thank you.

I'm ready to vote.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on the passage of the bill?

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

I said, Thank you, Councilmember Peterson.

Hi.

Councilmember so want.

Yes.

Councilmember Strauss.

Yes.

Councilmember herbals.

Yes.

And Council President what is I nine in a favor and opposed.

Thank you.

The bill passes and the chair will sign it and Madam Clerk please affix my signature to the legislation.

Moving on to the Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities Committee.

Will you please read, Madam Clerk, will you please read item number seven into the record?

For the Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities Committee, agenda item seven, appointment 2333. Appointment of Greg Spatz, Director of Seattle Department of Transportation, for a term to August 1st, 2026. The committee recommends that City Council confirm the appointment.

Thank you.

Council Member Peterson.

Thank you, Council President, colleagues in a moment we'll finally vote on the final recommendation of the mayor's nomination of Greg spots to become the new director for our Seattle Department of Transportation, Mr spices here after we make remarks and vote.

To make some of his remarks, the mayor's nominee to lead and manage the Seattle Department of Transportation, it's $700 million budget and it's 1000 employees is going to dramatically shape how people and freight travel through our city safely and efficiently as we battle climate change.

Seattle deserves a department director with a balanced and practical approach to urban transportation, as well as a focus on safety and mobility that of course includes improving our city's aging bridges.

I'm grateful to the mayor, his team, and his search committee for putting forward a nominee with impressive credentials, who can keep Seattle moving forward.

For the benefit of the viewing public.

Here's a quick history on this nomination, as with all recent nominees from the mayor, the city council followed the vetting process outlined in our resolution 31868. On July 27, Mayor Harrell announced Greg Spatz as his nominee to be the new director of SDOT.

On August 4, my office circulated the mayor's confirmation packet to all council members.

On August 16, we had Mr. Spatz and his nomination packet before our committee for an initial introduction.

We gathered more than 30 written questions from council members for the nominee to answer.

And on August 23rd, my office circulated Mr. Spatz's responses to all council members.

We also posted those questions and answers on our Legistar website as part of his appointment packet, appointment 02333. My office checked in with some of his former colleagues on the Los Angeles City Council, all of whom provided very positive feedback about him.

On September 6, Mr. Spotts came back to our committee for a Q&A session, and then our committee unanimously recommended that the Council confirm his appointment.

I've been personally very impressed with Mr. Spotts throughout this vetting process.

I know many of us appreciated his thoughtful answers to our questions on Vision Zero safety, on bridge safety, on collaborating with transit agencies, and on the transportation needs within our council districts.

I think it's fitting that as our new SDOT director, one of Greg Spatz's first official acts will be to reopen the West Seattle Bridge this weekend.

I hope you join me in voting yes for Mr. Spatz today.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Peterson.

Do any of my colleagues have any questions before we go to a vote and then allow our guests to speak?

Okay, everybody's unusually quiet, so.

With that, before we do anything else, is there anything else you want to add, Council Member Peterson, before we go to a vote and then allow our guests to speak so I can recognize him?

I just want to thank the committee members, transportation committee members.

They all had terrific questions that they asked and comments they made at our committee last week, which was very helpful.

OK, great.

Thank you.

Um, so with that, um, madam clerk, will you please call the roll on the confirmation of the appointment of Mr. Um, I was going to say, I was going to say your name wrong.

I'm so sorry.

Spots.

I was going to say something spots.

Got it.

Great spots.

Madam clerk.

Council member Nelson.

Excuse me.

Council member Lewis.

Yes.

Council member Morales.

Yes.

Council member Mosqueda.

Aye.

Council member Nelson.

Aye.

Council Member Peterson.

Aye.

Council Member Sawant.

Yes.

Council Member Strauss.

Yes.

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

And Council President Juarez.

Aye.

Nine in favor, nine opposed.

Thank you.

The motion carries and the appointment is confirmed.

Congratulations, Director Spatz.

And with that, you are recognized to provide any comments that you would like to share, not only with Seattle City Council, but the viewing public.

The floor is yours.

Thank you, Council President and Council Members for your support today.

I'm truly honored to serve Seattleites as Director of SDOT.

I moved from Los Angeles to Seattle on September 4th, and as promised, I hit the ground running and walking and scootering and biking and riding Metro and riding Sound Transit.

I've been exploring Seattle's neighborhoods, parks and shorelines meeting residents, small business owners, school administrators and parents, and organizations of all sizes from the Cascade Bicycle Club to the Port of Seattle.

I've been touring street construction projects and I have visited the inside of the West Seattle Bridge to see the repairs firsthand.

Along the way, I've met so many talented and motivated SDOT staff.

I'm confident we can achieve our goals with this team.

I'm especially impressed with the passion across SDOT for actualizing the transportation equity framework along the full spectrum of our programs, projects, and activities.

Regarding two promises I made publicly last month, on Friday, I appointed an executive sponsor for the top-to-bottom review of Vision Zero, and we will have a project manager for that effort in place by next week.

We've launched an online form for community members to sign up for my listening tour, and we've already received 70 expressions of interest from individuals and groups.

I'll be walking, biking, rolling, and riding transit with community members and SDOT staff nearly every morning this fall.

So far, I've had the opportunity to explore two council districts on foot, bike, and scooter with council members, and I look forward to spending time with each of you on Seattle streets, getting to know you and learning about your priorities.

In closing, I wanna thank you for your support and ask for your partnership in improving safety, mobility, equity, placemaking, sustainability and climate resilience in Seattle.

Thank you.

Thank you, Greg, Spatz.

Is there anything else before, and again, thank you for that.

Usually people don't give us a huge kind of, you know, give us an idea of where they've been and what they've done.

So I appreciate that, but you haven't been to D five.

So until that happens, you haven't really seen the city.

I'm just going to say that, um, with that, um, I think we are, um, going to move on to our next item, but thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councillor Peterson for shepherding this through and we'll always bite you now.

and wait for the bridge to open.

All right, let's move on to item number, let me see, I'm gonna make sure I get this right because it's all council member Peterson.

So next on our agenda, items eight to 13 are council bills 120380 through 120383, 120403, 120404 regarding property conveyances Council Member Peterson will address items eight to 13, and then we will, right now we'll go to have the clerk read the titles in, and then we'll vote on each bill separately.

How does that sound, Council Member Peterson?

Good?

Yes.

Okay, great.

All right, Madam Clerk, will you please read the short title of item number eight?

Agenda item eight, council bill 120.390.

or 380, sorry, accepting various deeds for street or alley purposes, laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of rights of way, placing the real property conveyed by said deeds under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

The committee recommends that city council pass the bill.

Okay, so did I, I want to correct myself here.

I'm hearing something separate than what I'm seeing.

I thought we were going to read Um, is counselor Peterson gonna speak now to eight to 13. And is that how we're going to do it.

Okay, so, and then we'll vote separately on each but I think I was gonna we were going to read all six at least the short titles and then I can address all six at once briefly and then we can vote individually.

You're right.

I apologize.

I was looking at the script and I did not see the plural read the titles and vote on each bill.

So we'll read all the titles in, let you speak to them, and then we'll vote on them separately.

Okay.

Madam Clerk, can we read all the short titles in and then we'll let Councilor Peterson address them all.

Agenda item nine council bill 123 81, accepting 21 limited purpose easements for public sidewalk and alley turnaround purposes, placing the real property conveyed by such easements under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation, ratifying and confirming certain prior acts agenda item 10 council bill 123 82. accepting various deeds for street or alley purposes, laying off opening widening extending and establishing portions of rights away, placing the real property conveyed by said deeds under the jurisdiction of Seattle Department of Transportation and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts, the committee recommends that city council pass the bill.

Agenda Item 11, Council Bill 12383, accepting various deeds for street or alley purposes, laying off, opening, widening, extending and establishing portions of right of ways, placing the real property conveyed by said deeds under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

The committee recommends that City Council pass the bill.

Agenda Item 12, Council Bill 120-403, accepting various deeds for street or alley purposes, laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of rights-of-way, placing the real property conveyed by said deeds under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation, and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

The committee recommends that City Council pass the bill.

Agenda Item 13. Council Bill 120-404.

Accepting 25 limited purpose easements for public sidewalk and alley turnaround purposes, placing the real property conveyed by such easements under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

The committee recommends that City Council pass the bill.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

And Council Member Peterson, you're recognized to address all five council bills.

Thank you, Council President.

Colleagues, I'll briefly address these bills.

These are items 8 through 13 on today's agenda.

that were just read into the record.

In accordance with the city charter and the Seattle Municipal Code, these six council bills will authorize SDOT to accept the conveyances of several slivers of property from multiple transactions throughout the city.

For example, this often includes additional sidewalk space that's conveyed to SDOT when parcels are developed.

As part of our committee process, our city council central staff already reviewed this SDOT legislation and confirm that each of the council bills is appropriate.

These are essentially ministerial actions to accept these easements and deeds that fulfill legal requirements associated with the transactions.

There's no cost to the city.

So all six council bills were unanimously recommended by our committee.

So we encourage you to vote yes on these today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So are there any council members that want to speak to the I thought it was five council bills in front of us, eight to 13, six, six through eight through 13 on the agenda?

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I said five.

I stand corrected.

Are there any comments that we have to council member Peterson on these from number six to 13?

Okay, I am not seeing any.

Councilor Peterson, do you want to add anything before we go to, in closing, and we can just go to the vote on each?

We can just vote on each, thank you.

Okay, all right.

With that, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on item number eight?

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson.

Aye.

Council Member Peterson.

Aye.

Council Member Sawant.

Yes.

Council Member Strauss.

Yes.

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

And Council President Juarez.

Aye.

Nine in favor, none opposed.

Thank you.

The bill passes, the chair will sign it, and Madam Clerk, please affix my signature.

Let's move on to item number nine.

Okay, roll call.

Yes, I'm sorry.

Thank you.

Yes.

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council Member Swant?

Yes.

Council Member Strauss?

Yes.

Council Member Herbold?

Yes.

And Council President Juarez?

Aye.

Nine in favor, nine opposed.

Thank you.

Item number nine, the bill passes, the chair will sign it, and Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the legislation.

And with that, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on item number 10?

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

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and Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to item number 10, the legislation.

Moving on to item number 11, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on item 11?

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council Member Sawant?

Yes.

Council Member Strauss.

Yes.

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

And Council President Juarez.

Aye.

Nine in favor, nine opposed.

Thank you.

The bill passes and the chair will sign it.

And Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the legislation.

Okay, so let's move on to item number 12. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on item number 12?

Council Member Lewis.

Council Member Lewis.

Yes.

Council Member Morales.

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda.

Aye.

Council Member Nelson.

Aye.

Council Member Peterson.

Aye.

Council Member Sawant.

Yes.

Council Member Strauss.

Yes.

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

And Council President Juarez.

Aye.

Nine in favor, none opposed.

Thank you.

And the bill passes, the chair will sign it.

And Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf.

And let's move to item 13. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on item 13?

And I know that there's a bill number to it, but I'm not tracking that, so.

Council Bill 120404. Council Member Lewis?

Thank you.

Yes.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson.

Council Member Nelson.

I'm saying aye.

Thank you.

Council Member Peterson.

Aye.

Council Member Sawant.

Yes.

Council Member Strauss.

Yes.

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

And Council President Juarez.

Aye.

Nine in favor, none opposed.

Thank you.

The bill passes and the chair will sign it.

Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf.

So it looks like we got through items one to 13, which is the end of our committee reports.

So moving along on our agenda, there were no items removed from the consent calendar.

So we will go to next on our agenda, which is adoption of other resolutions.

There are no other resolutions today.

Moving on to other business.

Is there any other business to come before council?

Okay, not seeing any.

Before I move to adjourn, colleagues, this does conclude our items of business today.

Thank you all very much.

And thank you for being patient with me and trying to shuffle all this paper and these numbers.

Thanks, Council Member Peterson.

Our next regularly scheduled council meeting is on Tuesday, September 20th, and we stand adjourned.

Thank you.