Good afternoon.
Thank you for being here in City Hall for a regularly scheduled full council meeting the April 29th 2019 City Council meeting of the full City Council now come to order 2 o'clock p.m.
I'm Bruce Harrell Council president, please call the roll clerk.
Please call the roll so on here Bankshaw Gonzales here her bold Juarez Mosqueda here O'Brien Pacheco here President Harrell?
Here.
Seven present.
Thank you very much.
If there's no objection, Councilmember Juarez will be excused from today's meeting.
Hearing no objection, Councilmember Juarez is excused from today's meeting and we wish her a speedy recovery.
If there's no objection, today's introduction and referral calendar will be adopted.
Hearing no objection, the introduction and referral calendar is adopted.
And similarly, if there's no objection, today's agenda will be adopted.
Hearing no objection, today's agenda is adopted.
The minutes of the April 15th, 2019 City Council meetings have been reviewed.
And if there's no objection, the minutes will be signed.
Hearing no objection, the minutes are being signed.
Presentations, I'm not aware of any presentations this afternoon.
And so at this time, we'll take public comment on the item that appear on today's agenda, our Introduction and Referral Calendar, or our City Council 2019 Work Program.
And we'll start off with Mr. David Haynes, followed by Marguerite Richard.
The City Council needs to realize the root problem in Seattle is the sabotaging of the 2012 police reform that saw the Attorney General bypass the legislative branch's rule of law and slip an unconstitutional sentence that literally exempted low-level drug pushers from jail.
This was also the same time the Public Defender Association went into business, acting like there is a public-private partnership to keep nefarious, self-destructive junkies out of any form of advanced jail to break their habit, instead enabling the big pharma alternative drool drugs and the non-profits that issue them.
This has resulted in Seattle Police Department refusal to go after the crack meth heroin pushers destroying lives daily, yet listed non-violent by liberal Democrats.
We need honest cops and honest oversight, not more sympathy for drug pushers causing societal implosion embraced by social welfare industry prioritizing more services and housing for those deemed a nuisance while forsaking innocent sober drug-free only reached out to during bankers hours.
I hope the Community Police Commission is willing to investigate the ongoing crisis of Seattle bar owners buying off cops, moonlighting as they protect bartenders, over-serving drinking and driving patrons.
There is a case against a homeless veteran that proves cops are lying for bar owners who pay their overtime, moonlighting as security in order to maintain a relationship between the Seattle PD and bar owners buying their loyalty at the expense of an honest police report, resulting in innocent poor oppressed by the city prosecutor conducting a war on the poor left over from Ed Murray's evil administration, furthered by present leaders undermining interpretation of who to make the community and the public safe for.
Thank you, Mr. Haynes.
Our next and last speaker is Marguerite Richard.
Yes, good day everyone.
I guess my concern is it's only because it's on here and it was brought to my attention about the other business of Mr. Zimmerman.
It's not online as stated on this paperwork here.
So I guess what I'm concerned about is that you want us to speak to a program agenda, but if we're seeing all these inconsistencies going on up in here, then for the average person that may not be thinking straight, you know, the bus might have crashed somewhere, like the crane may have came down, and so you got post-traumatic stress because either you witnessed it or you saw it happen in your city.
And then you come down here and it's like, you spanking folk.
But I'm letting you know today, I'm not no rollover.
And if you got some itty bitty feelings that you're going through, well, you need to put them in your pocket right now because this stuff that is incompatible with public goodies, the customer service bureau, I heard that the curtain is down over at the office.
I've yet to find out why, because that's something that you would think that we're always going to need is customer service.
So whoever created that situation down there, I'm still trying to find out why that was violated.
So, I'm consistently telling you that these are criminal acts.
If we're not able to go into a public entity without fear of retaliation just because of the color of our skin, that I-200 and that 1,000, you can go 1,000 and 1, 2, 3, 4, I don't care how much down the line, if you're still connected to slavery, those talkers over there, You see him?
That's what I'm saying.
That's why he said, clean this dirty chamber and then we could all be free.
Thank you.
That will conclude our public comment section and we'll move to the payment of bills section.
So please read the title.
Council Bill 119503. Appropriating money to pay for our claims and earning the payment thereof.
I'll move to pass Council Bill 119503. It's been moved and seconded that the bill pass.
Any further questions or comments?
If not, please call the roll on the passage of the bill.
Sawant?
Aye.
Begshaw?
Aye.
Gonzales?
Aye.
Herbold?
Aye.
Mosqueda?
Aye.
O'Brien?
Aye.
Pacheco?
Aye.
President Harrell?
Aye.
Eight in favor, none opposed.
Bill passes and the chair will sign it.
Please read the first agenda item.
The report of the Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development, and Arts Committee, agenda item one, appointment 1274, appointment of Mariko Lockhart as Director, Office for Civil Rights for a term to December 31st, 2021. The committee recommends the appointment be confirmed.
Council Member Herbold.
Thank you.
So appointment number 01274 came out of the Civil Rights Utilities Economic Development Arts Committee recommending that the full council confirm appointment.
The mayor first appointed Director Lockhart as interim director in December 2018. In February, we invited the commissions and their members to help craft questions to include in the questionnaire for Interim Director Lockhart.
And the confirmation process has been unique in that Council Bill 1192-0 actually made reference to a RET analysis that was being conducted along sort of during the same period of time that we were beginning the confirmation process.
That analysis is intended to assess the structure and position of the Office of Civil Rights within the city, and with a particular look at the independence of the office.
Understanding the role that the director has in offering a strong independent voice is one goal in this RET analysis, especially with the potential responsibilities of overseeing recommendations from the racial equity toolkit process that might result in actual changes to the structure of the office as well as potential changes to the structure of the director's position.
So the confirmation questionnaire and Director Lockhart's responses ultimately helped inform the expectations letter that was emailed to council members this morning for review.
In the confirmation process, Director Lockhart provided important insights into her goals, if she was appointed, highlights being advancing anti-racism within city institutions, adopting alternative models to enforcement for civil rights and discrimination violations, and working to create broader adoption of the Racial Equity Toolkit, and supporting staff in a resource-tight environment.
And especially importantly, as somebody who would play a role in shepherding potential changes to the office that might come out of the Racial Equity Toolkit process.
I really appreciate Director Lockhart for her commitment and diligence throughout this process as well as the efforts of the executive, specifically folks in the mayor's office who have been very collaborative with me in mapping out a process that might have taken a little bit longer than the executive would have liked or as Director Lockhart would have liked, but also I think did a really good job of both incorporating input from the commissions as well as respecting the autonomy of the RET process.
And I'm really excited to move forward with Director Lockhart's confirmation.
I do understand that I might need to amend the appointment to add the letter of expectations to the clerk file, and Amelia's nodding, so I will so move amending the clerk file to add the letter of expectations to the clerk file.
It's been moved and seconded to add the letter of expectations to Marco Lockhart, an amendment to appointment 1274 as described by Councilmember Herbold.
Any questions on the amendment only?
All those in favor of the amendment, please vote aye.
Opposed?
The ayes have it.
The appointment is amended.
Councilmember Herbold?
As true to form, I flipped the script and I've said all of my comments as it relates specifically to the confirmation as well.
And so with that, I would like to move forward with the confirmation too.
Thank you very much.
Council Member Mosqueda.
Thank you very much.
I just want to thank Councilmember Herbold for her due diligence throughout this process.
Part of the reason that I think we now have a more robust process moving forward is to make sure that especially the voices of women, people of color, the LGBTQ community, folks who we serve directly within our departments, but really the folks that Office of Civil Rights focuses on serving and addressing any concerns that come forward.
We are trying as we move forward as a body to make sure that future appointments are as inclusive as the ones that OCR may dream of one day.
And so thank you to Council Member Herbold for her work with us on the other resolution.
I think that this is a great example of where we want there to be a great outcome and not a delayed one and to make sure that there's more folks who are able to serve the very constituents that they look like and represent.
So thank you for your work on this and looking forward to supporting this nomination.
Thank you, Council Member Esqueda.
Council Member O'Brien.
Thank you.
I just want to repeat some comments I made at committee.
I'm really excited about this appointment, Marco.
I'm really excited for you to take on this role.
I appreciate it seems like you're very excited to take on this role too, knowing that this is going to be, it's a really challenging, tricky balance.
And we've talked a little bit about some of those dynamics.
We talked about a committee and you're well aware of that.
And I'll just name, you know, my perspective is that The challenges we face around racial equity and all forms of equity at the city require just a huge amount of urgency with which we need to move this institution and you know that better than I do.
And the reality of this institution with its institutional racism built into it is that it's not gonna be able to move with nearly the urgency that it needs to go.
And you get to walk that line between being held accountable to a whole host of folks who are gonna hold you accountable to move with that urgency and at the same time have to balance how fast you can move this institution with elected leadership and 11,000 employees and 100 plus year history.
And no matter what you do and how great you do, there are gonna be a bunch of people that are not gonna be happy with you.
And but I think that my experience and working with you over the years that the commitment Your passion about this work and the grace with which you do this work Makes me feel really good And I will try to hold you accountable and not be too upset when you don't meet all the goals all at once But look forward to working with you.
So, thank you.
Thank you customer Brian customer Gonzalez.
Oh Man, it's hard to follow that I just wanted to say congratulations and sort of premature early congratulations to soon-to-be permanent director Lockhart.
I've had the pleasure of knowing you for several years and have really come to appreciate your sense of dedication to what public service means and really rooting that service in a concept of the work that we're all, I think, committed to and need to be more equally committed to, which is centering the work that we do as public servants on on dismantling institutional racism and the legacy of racism that is current in our country.
And as a former civil rights attorney, I have a deep affection and appreciation for the work that the Office for Civil Rights does and for the work that you have done both in the Office for Civil Rights but before.
coming to this particular role.
So thank you so much for taking this work so seriously and really making it your life's work over many, many, many years for many people in our community and in our city.
And really appreciate the perspective that you bring in that regard, but also the perspective you bring around being a steward and a protector of your staff and the people who work at OCR.
I think that's a really important value to bring to this position.
in this current period of time.
So I appreciate you and I appreciate your staff and look forward to continuing to work with you on some of the more important issues that our city faces today.
Looking forward to voting yes.
Thank you, Council Member Gonzalez.
Any other comments from the dais?
Before Council Member Herbold may just say a closing remark and I'll just say a brief remark that thank you for your leadership.
It's proven.
We take these appointments very seriously, as recent events would suggest, and certainly you not only pass the test, if you will, but again, with all of my personal interactions with you, you're the ultimate professional.
So thank you for your service.
Council Member Herboldt.
I just want to close up by saying I've really appreciated your commitment and your leadership, and I really look forward to working with you over the rest of my time as chair of the Civil Rights Committee, and want to pledge to you that I look forward to working specifically on addressing some of the resource challenges that we've identified through this process.
Thank you.
All right.
So without further ado all those in favor of the appointment as amended, please vote.
Aye.
Aye Those opposed vote.
No The motion carries an appointment is confirmed Objection, I'd like to suspend the rules and we'd love to hear some words from miss lockhart You can take as long as you want.
We have a short agenda today.
Thank you.
I'm going to be really brief.
But first I want to say that was very moving to me to have your support in such a personal and direct way.
The trust that you are placing in me and the confidence to lead this office is a tremendous responsibility and I take it very seriously.
I am committed to living up to that responsibility and to your expectations.
I'm also really excited because I think the office is at a an important turning point and I think we're going to do pretty amazing work going forward.
Several of you mentioned the staff and I'm really proud to be leading such an incredible team and very fortunate to have to be in this particular place at this particular time.
And Councilmember Herboldt, you referenced the racial equity toolkit analysis that our office is undergoing.
We do anticipate that there will be change.
and that this is a period of transition.
And I think we have built strength and trust among ourselves as a team that we will really be able to move forward and accomplish whatever changes are in store for us.
And I am confident that they will be the best changes for our community and particularly those most impacted by institutional racism.
So thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Councilmember Herbold.
Please read the next agenda item.
Agenda item 2, Council Bill 119502 relating to the Cedar River Municipal Watershed amending the secondary use policies adopted by Ordinance 114632 to provide for the limited application of the herbicide Amazapar to treat invasive knotweed species.
The committee recommends the bill pass.
Councilmember Herbold.
Thank you.
So this is an ordinance related to the application of the herbicide Imazapyr to treat the invasive knotweed in the Cedar River Watership.
This ordinance would allow for three additional years through 2021 of limited spraying of Imazapyr with the goal of eradicating knotweed.
The legislation would amend a 1989 ordinance that banned herbicide use in the Cedar River watershed and extended the authority described in ordinances from each 2010, 2013, and 2015. So each of those three years we have amended the 1989 ordinance to extend the authority to allow very limited application of this herbicide, imazapyr, in order specifically and only to treat knotweed.
Knotweed poses the greatest risk of any invasive plant in the watershed.
The plant takes over habitats near water, displacing native plant species, degrading habitat for salmon and other fish, and threatening water quality by destabilizing stream banks.
Herbicide use has declined every year since 2011, and the amount used to treat knotweed throughout the watershed reached a low of 0.4 ounces per acre treated in 2018. This is a 95% reduction in the use of this herbicide, and it's also the Seattle Public Utilities has gone to great lengths to adjust its application practices, specifically to minimize potential impacts to pollinators.
Thank you very much.
Any questions or comments?
Council Member Bryan.
Just a quick comment.
Thanks for your work on this, Council Member Herbold.
I will be clear, I'm frustrated that we are still allowing this, but my frustration lies solely with the persistence of knotweed.
I worked on the original piece of legislation in 2010 to create this exemption, and I will say that I am convinced that SPU has done some amazing work to continue to reduce the footprint and the amount of herbicides they're using, and it's an amazingly invasive, pervasive, persistent beast, this knotweed.
And it may be a number of years until they can say that they're confident that it is completely gone and will not come back.
But I also want to say that this is part of an overall strategy all the way down the Cedar River, not just in the watershed, the Seattle Public Utility where we get our water from, but all the way down to the lowlands.
And King County and other partners have been working collaboratively to remove that along the bank because it does transfer by water too.
I'm happy to support this and I think SPU is doing a really great job in a really difficult situation.
Thank you, Council Member Bryan.
Council Member Begshaw.
Council Member Herbold, without asking for you to give me any numbers, do we know whether or not the acreage has been reduced?
Greatly.
And can you talk a little bit about, if you know, how much left that SPU is focused on?
So, they are anticipating being able to move more into a maintenance stage, but the amount of area that they have to cover has greatly reduced over the years that they've been doing this application.
And as I mentioned before, they are very careful to not apply mazapyr on knotweed plants when they're flowering, specifically to address folks' concerns about the impact on pollinators.
And when I say they're anticipating being able to move into sort of more of a maintenance approach, Although their goal is to eradicate knotweed, they are still anticipating that even in a maintenance approach, they're still going to have to go out and spray because and it will be spraying more to deal with the buds that come out of the ground while there are still roots.
They've tried doing manual eradication of knotweed, but just because of how invasive it is and how it travels, the manual eradication isn't effective.
But at some point, they feel that the root system is going to degrade so much that the threat of larger plants is going to be greatly reduced or continue to be greatly reduced.
Thank you.
And my recollection from the presentation was it was about a 95% reduction also in the acres of where it is.
And I believe they haven't seen any new places where it's popped up.
So they're still dealing with the same areas that they have, and they're just going back there on a regular basis, checking it.
And when little pieces pop up, they're going to treat them until they win the battle over the energy left in the root system.
I don't know if they're still doing injections.
They used to do injections where they would go break the plants.
Here they're doing, they're now switched to spray and I forget, I don't know if that's the reality of the maturity of the plants they're dealing with is much different or if it's a different technology or that's evolved.
I'm not sure.
Okay.
Everything you need to know about knotweeds, here you go.
Okay.
If there's no further questions or comments, please call the roll on the passage of the bill.
Salant.
Aye.
Bagshaw.
Aye.
Gonzales.
Aye.
Herbold.
Aye.
Mosqueda.
Aye.
O'Brien.
Aye.
Pacheco.
Aye.
President Harrell.
Aye.
Eight in favor, none opposed.
The bill passed and the Chair will sign it.
Please read the next agenda item.
Agenda items four and five, appointments of Alice Kuwahara Day as member of Pioneer Square Preservation Board for term to March 1st, 2020. Whoa, excuse me.
Excuse me.
The report of the Finance and Neighborhoods Committee, agenda item three, Council Bill 119493, relating to city employment, commonly referred to as the first quarter 2019 employment ordinance, designating positions as exempt from the civil service authorizing payment of the employee's 2019 premium share into the Washington State Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program and ratify and confirm research and prior acts all by two-thirds vote of the City Council.
The committee recommends the bill pass as amended.
Yes, Mayor Begshaw.
Thank you very much.
So we've got two subjects in this ordinance and the first is designating three positions as exempt from the civil service system.
Two in our information technology department and the third in the Human Resources Department.
And this is typical of the quarterly report.
There's just these three that will be made exempt, and there's no other changes.
The second section in this ordinance authorizes payment completely separate from the first items, which is that the city will pay into the Washington State Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program the employee's premium share beginning January 1st of this year and up to December 31st, 2019. So, those separate subjects are both incorporated in this ordinance and committee recommends do pass.
Very good.
Are there any questions or comments?
If not, please call the roll on the passage of the bill.
Salant.
Aye.
Bagshaw.
Aye.
Gonzales.
Aye.
Herbold.
Aye.
Mosqueda.
Aye.
O'Brien.
Aye.
Pacheco.
Aye.
President Harrell.
Aye.
Eight in favor, none opposed.
Bill passed and the Chair will sign it.
Please read items four and five.
Agenda items four and five.
Appointment 1307 and 1308. Appointment of Elise Kuwahara-Day as member of Pioneer Square Preservation Board for term to March 1st, 2021. And appointment of Audrey Morton-White as member of Pioneer Square Preservation Board for term to March 1st, 2022. The committee recommends the appointments be confirmed.
Thank you.
Both these women were at our committee this last week.
Elise Kuwahara Day has her bachelor's from Carnegie Mellon University.
She will fill the position of architect on our Pioneer Square Preservation Board.
And if I may just jump to Audrey Hoyt, we'll vote on them separately.
She is the business or the retail appointee to this commission.
And many of you know that we have been working hard with our Pioneer Square Preservation Board, both to preserve the character of the Pioneer Square area, but also to begin to focus on some of the buildings that have been derelict for In some cases, 30 years.
So I'm excited about these two appointments because it's going to fill out the board and they've had multiple vacancies for a couple of years now.
So I recommend that these appointments be confirmed.
Very good.
Any questions or comments?
And we can vote on these together since they are read together.
So all those in favor of appointment 01-307 and 01-308, please say aye.
Aye.
Those opposed vote no.
The motion carries.
Appointments are confirmed.
Thank you.
Please read items 6 through 15, please.
The report of the Gender Equity, Safe Communities, New Americans, and Education Committee agenda items six through 15, appointments 1294 through 1300, and 1309 through 1311. Appointments of Asha Mohammed, Natasha Moore, Mark Mullins, and Alana Sanzayan.
as members, Community Police Commission for term to December 31st, 2019. Appointment of Aaron B. Goodman as member of Community Police Commission for term to December 31st, 2020. And appointments and reappointments of Brandy Grant, Esther Lucero, Carissa Murakawa, Joseph Sia, and Harriet Walden as members, Community Police Commission for term to December 31st, 2021. The committee recommends these appointments be confirmed.
Council Member Gonzalez.
That was a mouthful.
Thank you, Amelia.
We are in the home stretch here.
So I have a bulk of today's agenda items and I will go through each one and I'll leave it up to Council President to figure out how to call the roll call on this or call this to vote because I think they all have different term limits.
So the first one is Asha Mohammed.
Asha has been nominated by the mayor.
She is currently the executive director of the Somali Youth and Family Club.
She has professional experience as a leader addressing community needs relating to housing, self-sufficiency, education, criminal justice, and immigration.
She's been a Seattleite for over 20 years, but maintains a global conscience, having worked to form multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual spaces in an effort to achieve equity through a human rights lens.
She is also the daughter of a police officer, as well as the mother, sister, and wife of black boys and men.
Natasha Moore is our next nominee.
She is a council appointee.
Natasha has five years of experience working with high-risk youth and young adults involved in the criminal justice system.
She currently works as a program manager with Choose 180, a restorative justice organization.
She previously worked for the YMCA of Greater Seattle in multiple roles, including as an outreach worker.
She's a board member of the Beacon Hill Hub and is currently enrolled at Seattle Central Community College.
Our third nominee is Officer Mark Mullins.
This is an appointment being made by the Community Police Commission and serves in the role as the SPOG representative.
Mark Mullins, Officer Mullins, was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio.
He graduated from the Police Academy and became an SPD officer in 1990. He has worked primarily in the South Precinct for the bulk of his 29-year career.
He has served as a community police officer.
And in that capacity, he worked closely with community-based organizations such as El Centro de la Raza.
He was the South Precinct Officer of the Year in 2017 and currently serves as a shop steward for SPOG.
Our fourth nominee is Alina Santillan.
She is a council nominee.
Alina works as the director of racial equity for Seattle Center Cohort, supporting Seattle Center organizations to strengthen the racial equity strategies and practices.
Previously, Alina worked at KEXP 90.3 FM in several roles, including as community engagement manager.
Alina is a graduate of the Seattle Community Police Academy and has volunteered for a number of nonprofit organizations, including Youth Care, the Rainier Valley Corps, and the Black Prisoners Caucus at Clallam Bay.
Alina earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern Mississippi.
Our next nominee is Erin Goodman.
She is a mayoral appointment.
Erin has served as the executive director of the Soto Business Improvement Area since its founding in 2014. In her role, she cultivates collaborative relationships between BIA business and property owners, elected officials, city departments, and community organizations.
with a high degree of focus on public safety issues impacting the Soto area.
She is currently the chair of the South Precinct Advisory Council and is focused on building bridges between the South Precinct officers and the community they serve.
Our next nominee is Brandi Grant, a council appointment.
Brandi currently works as program manager at the Alliance for Gun Responsibility Foundation.
At the Alliance for Gun Responsibility Foundation, she works to build a network of advocates and allies to help promote education, awareness, and recovery services for domestic violence survivors, suicide prevention, and mental health around gun violence prevention.
Brandy has 20-plus years of community work in organizing, mental health and program management, all through the lens of gun violence prevention in impacted communities.
She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Tulsa and her master's degree at the University of Oklahoma.
Our next nominee is Esther Lucero.
She is a nominee made by the mayor.
She is the CEO for the Seattle Indian Health Board, which operates the Thunderbird Treatment Center, a 65-bed residential treatment program in Rainier Beach, among many other healthcare-related services.
Esther is a co-chair of the Healthier Here governing board, as well as a delegate for the American Indian Health Commission.
And our next nominee is Carissa Murakawa, who is a nominee made by the council.
She currently works at Choose 180 as a CEDAR navigator supporting youth and their families when facing their first felony charge.
She worked as a case manager for CCYJ's LINC intervention team while employed by YMCA Young Adult Services.
She's also worked at Roots Young Adult Shelter and has conducted casework as a rapid rehousing resource specialist and a program manager.
Our CPC reappointment is next, and that's Joseph Sia.
Joseph was originally appointed to the CPC in 2018 to fill the remainder of a partial term and is now being reappointed to his first full three-year term.
He serves as Director of Program Operations at New Horizons, where he manages the organization's youth programs in Seattle.
He previously worked as a youth case manager and community advocate for Southwest Youth and Family Services.
and is deeply engaged in the Samoan community in Seattle and the region and is a highly valued addition to the CPC.
Our last person that we would like to move forward in terms of a reappointment is a mayoral reappointment of Reverend Harriet Walden.
She's a co-chair on the CPC and has served on the commission since its inception in 2013. She has been reappointed to her third and final term on the Community Police Commission.
She co-founded Mother for Police Accountability in 1990 and has been a fixture of the police reform movement in Seattle and Washington State for decades.
So those are the appointments, reappointments to the Community Police Commission.
And I think as you all can tell from the diverse set of candidates that we have in front of us, we really worked hard to identify people across the spectrum to bring different perspectives to the Community Police Commission and to continue to advance upon the mission and the goals of the Community Police Commission.
And with that, I am happy to recommend passage.
Very good.
Thank you, Councilman Gonzalez.
Any questions or comments on these appointments before we cast judgment?
I just want to thank both the mayor and Councilman Gonzalez for Some level is even recruiting I should say but just for making sure that we have such a talented Commission for The Community Police Commission because this is incredibly important work for our city.
So thank you very much for this outreach Okay, even though they are different appointments and reappointments in different terms They are all to the same Commission so we can vote on them all at once I've been told by the clerk so I'm gonna take 6 through 15 and So all those in favor of confirming appointments 6 through 15, please vote aye.
Aye.
Opposed vote no.
The motion carries and appointments are confirmed.
Please read the next agenda item.
The report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee agenda item 16, Council Bill 119472 relating to land use and zoning amending sections 23.22.062 to 23.24.045 23.49.019, 23.54.030, and 23.84a.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code, adding a new requirement relating to electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
The committee recommends it will pass as amended.
Council Member O'Brien.
Thank you.
Very excited about this.
This is something that's been in the works for over a year to create this EV readiness ordinance.
This legislation will require that all new construction in the city meet certain standards for making sure that any parking spaces that are already going to be provided in that building or even in a lot if it's not a structured parking, provide a certain level of readiness for adapting to electric vehicles.
The main standard for residential is that in single-family homes or in small multifamily developments like townhomes or row houses would require that each parking spot have a EV-ready outlet ready to go.
And then as we get larger structures where you have structured parking that's shared spaces, eventually phases to about 20% of the, exactly 20% of the spaces need to be electric vehicle ready, meaning that there's wire pulled, there's panel capacity, everything ready to go to hook up essentially an electric vehicle charging station relatively easily.
As I mentioned in this morning's meeting, the technology now exists so that as people put in charging stations, you put in a charging station per outlet.
Charging stations are capable of balancing loads and charging up to five vehicles per station, so a policy that has 20% of the spaces EV ready could effectively, through that technology, be 100% of the spaces could be EVs charging simultaneously over the course of a night.
It's really, I think it's some of the best legislation in the country.
It builds on what other jurisdictions have done and takes the strongest parts of various cities and combines it in this.
I'm sure that in the coming months and years, other jurisdictions will leapfrog us to the next level, but I'm proud to say that I think Seattle will be, at the moment, at the leading edge of requirements for electric vehicle residents and new construction.
Thank you, Council Member Bryan.
Any questions or comments?
If not, please call the roll on the passage of the bill.
Salant.
Aye.
Bankshaw.
Aye.
Gonzalez.
Aye.
Herbold.
Aye.
Mosqueda.
O'Brien.
Aye.
Pacheco.
Aye.
President Harrell.
Aye.
Seven in favor and none opposed.
Thank you very much.
Let's move to adoption of other resolutions and can you read, will you read all three resolutions?
We'll vote on them separately just into the record.
They're all interrelated.
Adoption of other resolutions, agenda items 17 through 19, resolution 31883, relating to committee structure, membership, meeting times, and duties of the standing committees of the Seattle City Council for 2018 and 19, and superseding resolution 31859. Resolution 31884, designating the monthly president pro tem of the City Council of the City of Seattle for 2018 through 2019, and superseding resolution 31790. Resolution 31885 relating to the Seattle City Councilmember participation for 2018 and 2019 on King County Committees, Regional Committees, State Committees and City of Seattle Committees and superseding resolution 31792. Very good.
As I described to you this morning, these three resolutions basically evolve around the appointment of Councilmember Abel Pacheco to council position number four.
The first, resolution number 17, basically updates our standing committee structure with Councilmember Pacheco's name in the place of former Councilmember Rob Johnson.
He's now chair of the Planning, Land Use, and Zoning Committee, vice chair of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee, and a member of the Gender, Equity, Safe Communities, New Americans, and Education Committee.
and is also an alternate on the Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development, and Arts Committee.
Resolution number 18 reestablishes the pro tem schedule designating Councilmember Pacheco as president pro tem for the month of October.
And number 19, resolution number 19 updates the assignments to King County committees and regional committees and state committees.
I'll just name a few.
And Councilmember Pacheco replaces Councilmember Johnson on the Growth Management Planning Council of King County the Growth Management Planning Council Executive Committee as well as the Puget Sound Regional Council Executive Board and other Boards, I just won't list them all.
Councilmember Juarez replaces according to this resolution former Councilmember Rob Johnson the following committees the Sound Transit Board and the Sound Transit Elected Leadership Group.
So those are your three sort of transition resolutions describing the change.
Are there any questions or comments?
Okay, Council Member Chico, would you like to say a few words?
I just want to take a brief moment to address my colleagues.
I'm sure all of you remember how crazy the first few days on the council were, but I've been impressed by everybody in my first week here at City Hall.
I'm inspired by the high-level civil service displayed by both my council colleagues and all those who work behind the scenes to make sure the legislative body doesn't miss a beat.
I want to give a big shout out to the central staffers, our clerk's office, and the different department directors I've had a chance to meet with so far.
You've all been very generous with your time.
and imparting your knowledge as well with bringing me up to speed so quickly during my onboarding.
It's felt a bit like drinking from a fire hose at times and I want to make sure I say thanks.
I'm excited to serve the constituents of D4 and to work with all of you and the mayor's office and to identify areas of common ground to benefit this beautiful city we all love and call home.
I look forward to working closely with all of you to identify places where we can make a meaningful impact, as I assume former Council Member Johnson's committee appointments.
It's an honor to serve the Emerald City.
Thank you, Council Member Pacheco.
Any other comments or concerns or questions before we take vote on the resolutions?
Okay.
So those in favor of adopting Resolution 31883, Please vote aye.
Aye.
Those opposed vote no.
The motion carries.
The resolution is adopted and the Chair will sign it.
Those in favor of adopting Resolution 31884, please say aye.
Aye.
Those opposed vote no.
The motion carries.
The resolution is adopted and the Chair will sign it.
And those in favor of adopting Resolution 31885, please vote aye.
Aye.
Those opposed vote no.
The motion carries.
The resolution is adopted and the Chair will sign it.
Just one moment here.
Okay, other business.
The City Council will now consider an administrative appeal to an exclusion issued to Abram, Abram, Alex Zimmerman on April 18th, 2019. The question is, shall the decision to exclude this individual from council meetings through May 14th, 2019 be sustained?
So just to make it clear, if you vote in favor of the exclusion, that means you are in favor of the current exclusion.
And if you vote opposed to the motion, you will vote that you do not agree with the exclusion and the individual should be allowed to attend future council and committee meetings before the expiration of the exclusion period.
I'm hoping everyone's, are there any questions about the motion?
Council Member Herbold.
Yeah, I have a question about the date of May 14th.
How did we land upon that date?
So I'll take a shot at that one.
I believe the rules allowed for a 28 day extension, a 28 day exclusion.
And there's 20 days from the moment of the incident that came into to be scrutinized.
And given that we have had discussions about Mr. Zimmerman's activities being beyond simply rule-breaking, we are exploring other avenues that would act as a sanction beyond the 14th of May?
Yes, we are.
Those we have conferred with our law department on all available options based on the most recent conduct.
Thank you.
Madam Clerk, I had one question.
Well, I'll better say it on the record, I suppose.
Am I to allow any testimony in favor or opposed to the exclusion to the members of the public or did my public comment section suffice for that period?
Do I have to open it up again for public comment on this motion?
Okay.
Well, I'll err on the side of Cautiousness here if there's anyone here that would like to testify on behalf of the appellant.
I will open up the floor The appellant being mr. Zimmerman based on his exclusion on April 18 2019 Hearing no one willing to speak on his behalf.
I will close that section of the Public comment section.
Okay is the motion clear to my colleagues?
Okay, I All those in favor of the motion please vote aye.
Aye.
Those opposed vote no.
So the motion carries and the exclusion remains in effect.
Okay is there any further business to come before the council?
Okay if not we stand adjourned and everyone have a great rest of the afternoon.
Great thank you.