Seattle City Council Briefing 9/26/22

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Good afternoon, everybody.

Today is Monday, September 26, and the council briefing meeting will come to order.

The time is 2.01.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Council Member Mosqueda?

Present.

Council Member Nelson?

Present.

Council Member Peterson?

Present.

Councilmember Strauss?

Present.

Councilmember Herbold?

Here.

Councilmember Lewis?

Council President Ores?

I'm here.

Six present.

Thank you.

If there's no objection, the minutes from the September 19th Council meeting briefing will be adopted hearing and see no objection.

The minutes are adopted.

So let me go through quickly.

Briefly, we'll actually have a little bit more than normal.

The president's report on today's agenda.

We will have three proclamations offered by Councilor Herbold proclaiming Diaper Need Awareness Week.

Councilor Mosqueda proclaiming El Centro de la Raza Day.

and Council Member Strauss honoring 100 years of Mike's Chili Parlor.

You should have received copies of each of these proclamations last week with an opportunity to comment.

There will be no presentations or executive sessions today.

As a reminder, we do not take public comment at council briefing, though we welcome the public to council chambers today or to watch online.

public comment will be accepted tomorrow both in person and online.

On tomorrow's agenda, we will begin with the delivery of the Mayor's proposed 2023 budget by Deputy Mayor Harrell, Senior Deputy Mayor Harrell.

Did I get that right?

Okay.

Senior Deputy Mayor, not the Mayor.

Correct.

Okay.

This will be followed by a presentation of the Diaper Need Awareness Proclamation by Councilmember Herbold, and then a presentation of the El Centro de la Raza Proclamation by Councilmember Mosqueda.

The consent calendar will include the minutes and payment of the bills, as well as a clerk file sent directly to council regarding extending the due date for a surveillance report.

If you have any questions about the surveillance report legislation, please feel free to ask Lisa Kay on central staff.

In addition, on the consent calendar, there will be 24 appointments, including two appointments recommended by the Land Use Committee and 22 appointments recommended by the Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities Committee.

We will take one vote on all items on the consent calendar unless any council member requests that an item be removed, which we will consider at the end of our agenda.

Following the consent calendar, there will be eight items on the agenda.

This first item was referred directly to full council without committee review.

It is an ordinance relating to the traffic code conforming the municipal code with changes in state law.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Asha on central staff.

Asha also provided a written summary of this item to each council office last week.

Item two on tomorrow's agenda is also a clerk file sent directly to council regarding the mayor's 2023 budget address.

Mayor Harrell will be publicly delivering his budget address tomorrow at noon, which can be viewed on the Seattle Channel.

Items three to six were recommended by the Land Use Committee.

Item three changes municipal code.

changes the Municipal Code to support the development of townhouses and row houses and was recommended by a vote of four to one.

Items four to six were recommended unanimously.

Item four is to approve the Crown Hill Neighborhood Design Guidelines.

Item five allows virtual meetings of the Design Review Commission and item six makes minor corrections to the Land Use Code.

Councilmember Strauss will speak to items three to six tomorrow.

Lish Whitson and Ketel Friedman on central staff are available if you have questions.

Item seven is a resolution endorsing the Third Avenue Vision, which was recommended by the Public Assets and Homeless Committee.

Finally, item eight is regarding the State Route 520 Bridge Replacement Program, and specifically amends the General Maintenance Agreement between the City of Seattle and the State of Washington.

It was recommended by the Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities Committee.

Council Member Peterson will speak to that item.

Information of all these items are available on the online agenda.

Moving on into our council briefing agenda, the signing of letters and proclamations.

I think we're going to start with Council Member Herbold.

Councilor Herbold has a proclamation for signature today, proclaiming the week of September 24th through October 2nd to be Diaper Awareness Week.

Councilor Herbold, the floor is yours.

Thank you so much.

So this afternoon, I'm asking for your signatures on a proclamation declaring September 24th through October 2nd as Diaper Need Awareness Week.

The mayor is concurring with the proclamation.

My office circulated the proclamation to all council offices last Friday.

And just to speak to the need behind the issuance of this proclamation, we wanna recognize that nationally, one in three families struggles to afford enough diapers for their little ones.

And 48% of families report delaying changing a diaper to extend the available supply.

Here in Seattle, diaper need impacts BIPOC families particularly hard with 42% of Seattle's BIPOC families struggling to afford enough diapers to keep their children clean and healthy.

Representatives from Westside Baby will join tomorrow's council meeting to accept the proclamation and talk about their efforts.

to meet the unmet need for Seattle residents.

Anybody has any questions or comments?

Happy to hear them.

Thank you.

All right.

I am not seeing any questions or comments, Council Member Herbold.

So with that, Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll to determine which council members would like their signatures affixed to the proclamation proclaiming September 26th through October 2nd, Diaper Awareness Week.

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Thank you.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council Member Strauss?

Yes.

Council Member Herbold?

Yes.

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council President Horaz?

Aye.

Seven signatures will be affixed to the proclamation.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Let's move on to our second proclamation.

Councillor Mosqueda has a proclamation for signature honoring the accomplishments and impact of El Centro de la Raza.

Councillor Mosqueda, the floor is yours.

Thank you very much, Madam President.

I am very excited about the proclamation to honor El Centro and El Centro de la Raza Day.

Council colleagues, last Wednesday, I circulated this proclamation to make sure that we could honor the accomplishments and impact of El Centro de la Raza, proclaiming October 8, 2022 to be El Centro de la Raza Day.

We have secured confirmation from the mayor's office that Mayor Harrell will be concurring with this proclamation.

And I do hope for your support today in honoring the work, the 50 years worth of work that El Centro has been able to accomplish.

in their history.

Estela Ortega, who many of us know, admire, and see as an inspiration and mentor, will be joining us tomorrow during full council meeting.

This proclamation will be presented during the 50th anniversary Building the Beloved Community Gala that El Centro is hosting on Saturday, October 8th from 5 p.m.

to 9 p.m.

This event will be live for those who are hoping to participate remotely as well, and in person, it will be hosted at the Washington State Convention Center.

I am very excited that we are going to be able to honor and reflect on the legendary leader, legendary civil rights leader, Roberto Maestas, who in 1972 formed El Centro by making sure that he and other social justice advocates, warriors took over the vacant building and really created a hub for creating advocacy and opportunity for literacy, health care, education, housing justice, and promoting civil rights as well.

And under the leadership in recent years of Estela Ortega, Estela has continued to grow the mission and services by continuing to advance the commitments to affordable housing, child care, and community gathering and cultural opportunities for all.

So very excited about this proclamation and to be able to celebrate all that El Centro has accomplished in the last 50 years.

And thanks again to Freddy de Cuevas on my staff who helped to draft this with El Centro and is making it possible for us to honor them at their October 8th gala.

Thank you, Council Member Rosqueda.

Is there any comments that anyone would like to make before we go to a vote?

All right.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll to determine which council members would like to have their signatures affixed to this proclamation?

Council Member Mosqueda?

Aye.

Council Member Nelson?

Aye.

Council Member Peterson?

Aye.

Council Member Strauss?

Yes.

Council Member Herbold?

Yes.

Council Member Lewis?

Yes.

Council President Ores?

Aye.

7 signatures will be affixed to the proclamation.

Thank you.

We'll move on to the next agenda item and that is Council Member Strauss has a proclamation for signature today proclaiming September 30th, 2022 to be the 100 years of Mike's Chili Parlor Day.

Council Member Strauss.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you for saying it with a straight face too.

I know we've tried really hard.

We've got, you know, Councilmember mosquito brought forward a proclamation on a very important cultural and community center.

And this is a very different type of cultural and community center.

I'll be brief, and I'll be restating some of these words and my council briefing comments but Mike's Chili Parlor is celebrating its 100 years in Ballard.

The Simandris family has been the stewards for five generations, and they first operated out of a chili cart, serving fishermen and lumber mill workers on the Ballard shoreline.

You might already know of Edith Macefield's house, the house rumored to be an inspiration for the movie Up.

Mike's Chili Parlor is just around the corner on the same block as that development.

they had the exact same conflict with deciding whether to stay or sell.

And they decided to stay and hold this space for what Ballard has been.

Because in 1939, Mike built and lived in the current building that houses Mike's Chili Parlor.

The original space was adjacent to the parlor where the Ballard Bridge is now.

So Mike's Chili Parlor predates the Ballard Bridge.

What you might not know is that Um, Oh, sorry, just totally lost my lost my line of thoughts.

I'll just end here with this, which is Mike's Chili Parlor attracts customers from all walks of life.

It's a business built on blue collar workers from Ballard and the surrounding areas.

You'll currently find Ballardites old and new occupying the same seats that generations before them occupied, which all have a story to tell.

And while the neighborhood has changed, the Chili Parlor hasn't.

So steadfast, Mike, we're looking forward to celebrating 100 years this Friday and then another 100 and 100 years from now.

Thank you, Councilmember Strauss, and I'm sure that Shelly is not indigenous to Ballard.

Is there any other comments or anything any of my colleagues would like to say in regards to this proclamation?

All right, not seeing or hearing any.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on what council members would like their signatures affixed to this proclamation?

Council Member Mosqueda.

Aye.

Council Member Nelson.

Aye.

Council Member Peterson.

Aye.

Council Member Strauss.

Yes.

Council Member Herbold.

Yes.

Council Member Lewis.

Yes.

Council President Juarez.

Aye.

Seven signatures will be affixed to the proclamation.

Thank you.

Let's move on to the preview of city council actions, council and regional committees.

The lineup today starts with council member Mosqueda, council member Nelson, Peterson, Strauss, Herbold, Lewis, and then myself, council member Mosqueda.

Thank you very much, Madam President.

Colleagues, I'm very thankful for your support for El Centro de la Raza Day and I do encourage folks who can't attend or watch virtually on October 8th to do so.

And thanks again.

I'm excited to welcome.

I'm also excited this week because starting tomorrow it kicks off our fall budget cycle.

This will be the first opportunity for the council to see the mayor's proposed budget that will be transmitted to The council deliberations begin on Wednesday, September 28th at 930 a.m.

This is part of the process that we go through every year with co-equal branches of government.

The executive proposes a budget.

The legislative branch finalizes the budget and sends it back to the executive.

We will hear on September 28th, starting at 930 a.m., public comment.

This is an opportunity for folks to comment remotely.

Ideally, for anybody who does want to come in person, we are asking people to respectfully wear masks in person and we will have a chance to get initial feedback from the community.

And during the full day's worth of deliberations, council colleagues, you will have the chance to ask questions of the city's budget office.

City Budget Office Director Julie Dingley will be with us and her team as well immediately after public comment.

We will get an overview, an introduction, if you will, by department of the process that each department went through and what the major takeaways are from the budget perspective.

Our day will be shaped from an overview from Director Handy at Central Staff.

We are going back to a two-year In 2020 and 2021, we went back to just looking at one year.

But this year we are going back to our buy-in legal process, which again is a adopted budget for 2023 and an endorsed budget for 2024. The mayor's proposed budgets will describe any significant, excuse me, the mayor's proposed budget description from the city's budget office and from any department personnel will be remote.

There will be no people sitting at the table, if you will, in chambers.

All of the presenters through our entire budget process will be remote to try to reduce the number of people that are exposed to COVID and in person.

Each of the presenters will describe any significant programming shifts, any significant staffing shifts, changes or reductions to either program or staffing, and we will all talk about this in relation or relative to the 2020 adopted budget.

Again, thank you for limiting in-person contact as much as possible for members of the public, for our staff, for council members.

We are going to strongly continue to encourage people to participate remotely.

And all Select Budget Committee members are encouraged to participate remotely, especially on the days where we're just doing budget deliberations.

If you do come in person, please, again, consider wearing an N95 or KN95 mask, and we will be excited to hear from members of the public for a full hour and a half at the beginning of all of our budget meetings that have oral public comment accepted.

Again, I can't share a screen here with you today for members of the viewing public, but we did share this on our social media and really appreciate all of the council colleagues who have promoted the communications infographic that shows which days we are accepting in-person or oral public comment either virtually or we will have public comment at the podium.

Again, that starts on October, excuse me, that starts on Wednesday, September 28th.

Again, we will have public comment October 11th at 930 a.m.

A public hearing in the afternoon starting at 5 p.m.

on October 11th.

And the rest of the opportunities to provide public comment either virtually or in person are going to continue to be shared out for me on a With that, just a quick update on the things that we've done in the last week and what's coming up this week.

Last Friday, I did attend the Association of Washington's Cities Board of Directors meeting.

I want to let folks know I did vote no on the proposed legislative agenda that was suggested to the AWC board members.

Colleagues, I am concerned that some of the positions among the very long list of AWC legislative priorities, a few of those look like they could potentially be in direct opposition to some of Seattle's ongoing priorities.

These are positions that the city of Seattle jointly with the mayor's office and council have weighed in on in the past.

such as improving pedestrian and passenger safety by restricting high-speed officer chases, making sure that we have mandatory referral and diversion for and preventing against local criminalization efforts, ongoing worker protections that are being considered every year in the state legislature, I want to make sure that we are on the proactive side of being productive partners with other jurisdictions and in partnership with our state legislative members.

So while I did vote no on that suggested agenda, I look forward to working with the Office of Intergovernmental Relations, our AWC new CEO, and Councilmember Strauss, and all of you to make sure that as dues-paying members of AWCs, our priorities are not directly being contradicted or lobbied against in the halls of our state legislature.

So more information to come on that.

I will be attending AWCs large city advisory committee meeting this week and the National League of Cities Board of Directors quarterly meeting.

And I wanted to highlight, I had the opportunity to join Executive Constantine, Mayor Harold, mayors from around King County, law enforcement officers, both the King County Sheriff and our Seattle Police Chief, along with a number of workers, the leaders at Crisis Referral Center to make sure that we together in this region are standing up to respond to the behavioral health crisis in our region.

We've been having a number of conversations amongst the city, the county, the state around ways that we can make sure that there is a landing place for people to go, not just referrals, but there is a place to refer people to.

And we have to recognize that when we ask for referrals somewhere very Infrequently, there is a place for people to go because we only have one behavioral health crisis facility, no walk in urgent care facilities in our county.

So our region does not have either the clinics, the centers, or the care teams with the staff needed to address the growing behavioral health crisis in our community.

workers, residents, first responders, business owners, and every one of us see this crisis playing out every day on our street.

So I'm excited that King County Council, led by the executive and Council Member Zahalai, are putting forward a proposal that local voters will have a chance to vote on next year, early in the spring, to allow for more revenue to come in to improve the health of our community and the health of our local economy.

I look forward to continuing to get more information about the King County proposed budget, along with our city proposed budget tomorrow.

But this proposal that executive Constantine announced today allows for us to have a chance in this region to build the care facilities.

We need.

invest in essential workers and get people into need faster, get people in need faster into actual care instead of revolving doors at either hospitals or jails.

I believe Executive Constantine has much more information available on their website.

And in short, it creates five new regional crisis care centers, preserves and restores the dramatic loss of residential treatment beds, grows behavioral health workforce pipeline, and provides immediate services while centers are being constructed by making sure that more mobile and site-based crisis behavioral services can operate in the interim.

Lastly, I want to flag for our colleagues my interest in circulating amendment number 10 to the parks levy for tomorrow.

I want to thank the parks board president, Councilmember Lewis, and also public safety chair, Councilmember Herbold, for their ongoing work to help answer questions about park rangers, what park rangers currently do, some of the restrictions and limitations on their activities.

We are working with the city of Seattle to make sure that we are not only working with the city of Seattle, but also really working to help hone alternative strategies for how park rangers have been deployed in the past and some of the language that they have already secured in the resolution and the underlying bill.

We are working with Seattle parks and recreation to provide information on hiring strategies, what activities the park rangers are doing so we can shift from talking about what the park rangers won't be doing and do an analysis of what they are doing.

So thanks again to our council members who have been continuing trying to raise the issue of what they currently do.

This will help us have a better pulse on how those new individuals are being utilized in our city and in partnership with the community advocates who have some concerns, along with members of local 242. I think that this amendment will help shed greater light on future conversations that will continue to occur around Park Ranger so that we can all have a baseline level of information.

So thanks so much to that partnership with 242 and community members largely.

Madam President, that is my summary.

Council Member Nelson.

Well, good afternoon, everyone there's.

Hi, there is nothing on tomorrow's agenda from the economic development technology and city light committee, except the aforementioned clerk file report from last week.

Well, yay, we.

created a film commission.

And when I was going through my thank yous, I neglected to thank our amazing comms team for all the support they gave me leading up to the vote and organizing the press conference and securing coverage.

So I just want to include a hearty thank you to Joseph, Jesse and Dana.

So thank you very much.

All right, last week in preparation for the 2023 legislative session, I met with Representative Javier Valdez and Senator Jamie Peterson just to start talking about what their priorities are to help inform my priorities in advance of conversation with OIR Director Tarleton and her state legislative representatives.

And that was good to hear what what they're thinking going forward in next year's session.

And it was also OIR week, met with the federal representatives to find out what is on OIR's list of many things that they will be advocating for on behalf of the city of Seattle in DC.

Let's see, staff and I met with T-Mobile representative, government affairs representative to talk about how how our digital equity goals might be enhanced with anything that they might be able to offer.

And just for the record, I am meeting with all broadband providers on that question.

My staff attended the Seattle Metro Chamber's 140th annual meeting.

Among the chamber's many 2021 to 2022 accomplishments, they distributed 24,000 COVID 19 tests and 5000 canine masks to businesses in partnership with seven regional chambers and business health trust.

They also exceeded projections for the number of members and investments as they continue to build a larger and more cohesive business community.

On Saturday I attended, well Saturday night I attended Tabor 100's 21st Captains of Industry Gala and for those of you who don't know Tabor 100 is an association committed to economic empowerment, educational excellence, and social equity for African Americans and the community at large.

And it was a packed house and I have to say, maybe half those people were were the Harold administration just kidding.

It was a very full room and in a great executive showing so kudos to them for the turnout.

Let's see.

And finally, I want to mention from last week, Saturday was the grand opening ceremony of the Detective Cookie Chess Park at 9201 Rainier Avenue South on the corner of South Barton Place.

And I've mentioned Detective Cookie before.

Since 2006, she's been offering, she's run a chess club.

first for the Rainier Beach youth, but now it's citywide.

Since 2006, Detective Cookies Chess Club has provided a safe haven and created an opportunity for neighborhoods of all ages, neighbors of all ages to interact and build community.

So congratulations very much for the opening of this long awaited space.

This week, I will be visiting today.

I'll be visiting and meeting Captain Grossman of SPD's North Precinct and joining officers at their 7 p.m.

roll call.

On Thursday, I will attend Evergreen Treatment Services Fifth Annual Roots of Recovery Luncheon.

Excited to learn more about the services that they provide.

My chief of staff and I will attend the 2022 SIF Gala on Thursday night.

And on Friday, staff and I will tour and meet with leadership of DESC's main office downtown.

All right, that's it for me.

Are there any questions from my colleagues?

Well, I'd like to say that I've been to the Tabor dinner many times and it's always fun.

So I've had a chance.

I've been going well before I was an elected leader.

But also give this council last year kudos because we actually got it put in the budget to fund the I'm going to say it wrong, the chest park, the cookie chests.

And we met with Aaron and I think Danita.

We went down there and also a big thank you to Murphy Bush in our office who shepherded that whole field trip budget.

Councilor Mosqueda gave it the green light.

This council voted yes.

It got funded.

I'm sorry I missed the event.

It would have been my fifth event and I was tired.

I'm not gonna lie.

I just have a lot of stuff Thursday and Friday.

So I'm sorry I missed it.

But I heard that the group did give me a shout out and I appreciate that.

But it was this council that funded that park.

So and I, you know, I thank you for that.

And I was reading the literature on it.

And it was also Parks Foundation and for culture, but I know that you as chair shepherded that whole effort.

So thank you very much for that.

Regarding the Tabor event, First Lady Harold gave the keynote address.

So that was great.

And it was the first time for me in that redone facility on the inside in that tall building.

So that was great as well.

Good.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Pedersen.

Our committee also unanimously recommended Council 120419 regarding the western portion of State Route 520 bridge replacement and high occupancy vehicle project.

The bill updates the roles and responsibilities under the General Maintenance Agreement between the City and the State of Washington for that This project has undergone an extensive design review and community engagement process during the past decade.

due to our focus on reviewing the entire city budget during the next two months.

Our committee on transportation Seattle Public Utilities is scheduled next for Tuesday, December 6th at 9.30 AM.

This past Friday, my office returned to in-person office hours.

We met with constituents at the Ravenna Eckstein Community Center in the heart of District 4, within walking distance of the new Roosevelt Light Rail Station.

Constituents brought their concerns to me primarily about safety.

You can sign up for these Friday afternoon office hours through my City Council website.

And that concludes my report.

Any questions before we move forward to Councilmember Strauss?

Oh, are you done?

Yeah.

Oh, OK.

I'm sorry.

I didn't catch that last part.

I yield my time to my colleagues.

It's very riveting.

So I'm sorry I just lost it there.

It's very exciting.

Because I'm not quite as concise as our colleague Councilmember Peterson.

I'm going to time myself again, Council President.

Yeah.

Starting the timer.

Here we go.

Yeah.

What time is it?

2.33.

I'm restarting my timer now.

There we go.

Thank you, Council President.

First, Shana Tova.

Happy New Year.

Last night was the start of Rosh Hashanah, marking the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days.

Yes, I am still at work and for better, for worse, here we are.

Last week in District 6, I met with District 6 residents.

I meet with District 6 residents every week as part of office hours and meeting with people in the neighborhood.

Usually on Thursdays, I held, I usually hold office hours on Thursdays.

Last week, I held them on Wednesdays, met with D6 residents, two from Ballard, one from West Woodland, five from Green Lake, one from Fremont, two from Whittier Heights, and one from Finney.

We discussed homelessness, Green Lake, Outer Loop.

density and affordable housing, missing middle housing, Ballard Avenue, pedestrian safety, and policing.

I also met with a District 6 resident on Friday to pick up trash in the industrial area.

I pick up trash every week in Ballard and it was really nice to do this with other people this time.

This was the week of Green Lake last week.

On Saturday, I attended the Green Lake Community Boathouse groundbreaking and spoke about how much this means to the community.

This is a really big deal because the athletes have been working out the workout gym is in the structure under the stairs of the aqua theater.

This, and so now they're going to have a new play, but it's not even a new gym that's most important.

What is most amazing about this expansion is that we're going to be able to store different types of crafts so that people of all ages and abilities can paddle.

And the programming that they're setting up is going to expand the number of scholarships so currently, a third of participants have scholarships and that's going to be expanding and so this community boathouse is more about than a new gym, it is about expanding access and opportunity to the water.

I then after the groundbreaking I then walked the section of Green Lake outer loop, where we're putting in a new bike trail and walking path, meeting with S dot construction crews and neighbors.

This is an important project that I support, and I've been working hard with neighbors to make sure that the details in their neighborhood are done right.

While the project isn't perfect and there are still adjustments we need to make.

fully connecting the outer loop and creating a barrier between the highway and the park is important.

I've asked to reassess the two way travel on both North 76th Street and Ashworth Avenue where these streets connect to Winona Avenue.

I do believe that these streets should be one directional in nature.

for the one to two blocks adjacent to Winona.

Estada has told me that this is possible once the current changes are made, at least assessing the ability to do this, so I'll keep you updated on these efforts.

Then also on Saturday, I attended the Green Lake Illuminata Parade put on by the Fremont Arts Council.

It was such an amazing event, welcoming an autumn You can see pictures from the event on Seattle Times right now.

Fremont Arts Council keeps our city and our neighborhoods vibrant, and welcoming in summer with the solstice parade, welcoming in autumn with the celebration of lights, and adding to our city's vibrancy in so many ways, whether it's from the troll to the little pop-up art that they do at the powerhouse.

I'm just so thankful for having the Fremont Arts Council.

I'm also glad to report that Seattle Parks and Recreation recommended to the park the Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners to make, and they made the decision last week, to reallow wheels on the interloop of Green Lake Path.

As you know, I had concerns about the removal of wheels because it is a place where kids learn to ride, and people like to roller skate and roller blade among other uses.

You've heard me say for months that we should be able to allow kids with parents to ride on the interloop.

I said it then and I say it now, if you're an adult riding a bike and trying to go fast, Please don't use the inner loop.

This is a place to recreate, not to speed.

It is my understanding that this policy change will be made by November 1st.

Unfortunately, it was not the parks department who alerted me to these changes in the first place, nor to these changes last week.

It was D6 residents who alerted me to both the removal and return of wheels to the lake path.

I will keep you up to date with what I know and learn.

And this demonstrates the importance of having relationships with D6 residents.

Thank you.

to everyone who is staying alert and looping me in.

Also tomorrow is the final park district board meeting at following full council.

I'll be putting forward some amendments in particular about Green Lake Community Center.

We've had the conversation about more funding and what I can say is that we don't necessarily need more funding at this moment.

What we need is a full analysis of the costs for an expansion or rebuild and so rather than going around the barrel about how much funds.

This project requires what's important is that we put forward a statement of intent that a renovation is not acceptable because we've done it before and at this point will be spent throwing good money after bad, and so my.

amendment will be stating that the renovation, there were renovations completed during cycle one of the parks district.

They have not met the needs of the building, and indicating that the parks district intent that funding included in cycle two will be used for an expansion or rebuild of the community center in combination with other funds potentially understanding that further analysis is needed to assess the full cost of the project.

This is, I'll be also bringing forward an amendment modifying the existence statement of intent recognizing that pre-commitment projects should also be meeting our decarbonization goals.

And then I will also be bringing an amendment adding a spending restriction requiring funding of up to $2 million of bathroom renovations be used for the rent renovations at Gilman Field and Salmon Bay bathrooms, both of which were old when I was little, put it that way.

Moving on, I will say that I was successful and not driving last week as part of a week without driving challenge I, I can admit that started the week I didn't think I could go the whole week and I did throughout the week I used bus light rail line bike scooters and walked most interesting challenge was getting to my kayak race last Monday.

I meant to share this news last week and want to take a moment to recognize Jean Darcy.

Jean Darcy passed away in August and helped form the Ballard Community Task Force on Homelessness.

She looked out for the least amongst us and was constantly active in her work to make the world a better place.

And so I just wanted to take this moment to recognize her, her work, her dedication, and life.

Thank you, Jean, and steadfast.

This coming week in district six I'm already over halfway through my time my staff and I continue to host our regular operational public safety and public space meetings with community leaders, social service providers mayor's office can count city departments can count city attorney's office can count prosecutors and SPD to move forward action plans that Larry triangle.

addressing homelessness, implementing the 22nd Avenue plan, and case conferencing.

The big updates from this are that we have the autumn activation events in front of the library.

This past Saturday we had a workout group from 2.30 to 3.30.

On Sunday the 9th we'll have free kids activities.

And you can check out my newsletter for up to date information.

This is this program is intended to reestablish the habit of having these events in downtown Ballard.

And if you're interested in hosting event, you can email me and best my district six district director on Tuesday I'll be joining the North Seattle Industrial Association Wednesday I'll be joining the Green Lake Chamber of Commerce.

I'll be meeting with leaders from Labataya House, which is a United Indian of all tribes youth home in Crown Hill, getting ready for budget this week.

On Friday, I'll be attending the anniversary to honor 100 years of Mike's Chili Parlor.

As I shared with you colleagues, Mike's family has been stewards of Mike's Chili Parlor for five generations, initially operating out of a chili cart.

Their original location was where the Ballard Bridge is now, and it was Mike's great-grandfather that moved into the current location.

While the neighborhood has changed, the Chili Parlor hasn't.

Steadfast, Mike.

We're looking forward to celebrating 100 years this Friday.

Moving on to the Land Use Committee.

There are four land use bills and two appointments on the full council tomorrow.

We have the Crown Hill Neighborhood Design Guidelines.

We have the Virtual Meetings Bill for allowing for certain virtual meetings to be held in land use decisions.

We have the Building Code Omnibus Bill, as well as two appointments to the Design Review Board, Gargi Kadu and Brittany Port.

The rules were suspended in committee to bring these items to full council since committee happened after noon on Thursday.

Council President, I want to alert you there was a divided vote on the townhouse and row houses bill.

Council Member Peterson, Council President, let's circle up after this briefing.

If there's consensus, we'll have it at council tomorrow.

If not, we can delay it a week.

Lastly, we won't be holding land use committee meetings during the budget process.

Our next land use committee meeting is in December.

Thank you, Council President.

Colleagues, that is my report.

Any questions?

Nine minutes, 20 seconds, Council President.

Under the bar.

Not by my clock, but okay.

Council Member Herbold, how does it feel to have your bridge back?

Tangibly wonderful.

Everywhere I go, people have a lightness to them that they did not have.

Thanks for asking.

And where it is, functioning as it should be, 24-7 monitoring and regular visual inspections are planned moving forward.

So just easing into my update today, we will have on full council agenda tomorrow, as mentioned by Madam President, we'll have Council Bill 120423, which updates the city's traffic code to bring the Seattle Municipal Code in line with changes to state law.

Asha is available for any questions.

She sent a summary of the bill on Friday afternoon.

This is going directly to full council and not going to Public Safety and Human Services Committee because it is really focused on updating Seattle law to be consistent with changes made in state law.

There will be a companion bill to update the criminal code to reflect changes from the state legislature.

and some updates that are proposed by the city attorney, but that bill will be heard in public safety and human services committee tomorrow.

But again, the traffic code bill, we're sending directly to full council for tomorrow afternoon.

Just as background, state law requires that the city's traffic code matches state law as traffic laws are required to be uniform statewide and local jurisdictions can't have ordinances conflicting with state traffic laws.

We have a deadline of wrapping this work up by the end of the year.

And my last committee meeting of the year after budget in December falls on the same day as our last full council meeting.

So we've got to get this in.

I think that's a great idea.

Other items coming up.

I do have my public safety and Human Services Committee meeting tomorrow morning at 9.39 AM.

I will sit 9.30 AM.

We're starting a little early so that we can have a hard stop.

You heard it.

I said it.

Hard stop at 11.30.

So council members who wish to attend the mayor's On the agenda are four appointments to the Pacific Hospital PDA, a presentation from the city attorney's office on the update to the criminal code harmonizing with state legislative changes, a presentation from Presiding Judge Eisenberg on some municipal court grants that, again, we need to turn around some quick action on accepting.

hearing a panel presentation from workers from Drive Forward and Working Washington regarding deactivation and background checks.

This is the next part of the pay up legislative package.

This is just really our opportunity to hear from them to tell the story of the challenges that they face with the way deactivations from the apps have impacts on them and how we can make some reforms that will improve the outcomes for both workers, customers, and employers.

We'll be hearing the quarter two report from the city attorney's office.

Then finally, we're going to be following up on the conversation from last committee meeting, where we're gonna hear the risk managed demand analysis that we've all been waiting for.

Some departmental related updates as is widely been reported, Mayor Harrell has announced the nomination of Adrian Diaz for the position of permanent police chief.

I wanna thank everyone who served on the search committee.

We know that this is a very consequential decision that the mayor can make one of the most and I look forward to moving into the confirmation process in the Public Safety and Human Services Committee.

Given that the Council will be considering the proposed budget for the next two months, when regular committee meetings are suspended, we'll be looking at picking up the confirmation process directly after the passage of the budget.

Given that Interim Chief Diaz has been serving for the last 24 months.

I think it's a little easier to delay the confirmation process for a couple months in that case than if it was a new person coming in.

So I think we will be able to move forward and facilitate that.

Just a quick Seattle Fire Department update.

I know folks have seen the press about the assaults and scenes of violence at some of the calls that the fire department has been going to and how the data shows an increase in that activity directed, activity that is harmful and directed at firefighters.

I last month did ask Chief Scoggins to take a look at the data to see how many initial dispatches that don't have a flag for a police department escort might have had a final disposition that resulted in a scene of violence.

I wanted to see if there was a trend of a particular call type that should include an SPD escort from the beginning.

Last week, myself, Chief Scoggins, Chief Diaz, 911 Director Lombard, local 27 President Pittman, and Council Member Lewis, we met and Chief Scoggins reported back that he had done that analysis that I requested and found that both overdose calls and seizure calls might be good to consider for an automatic joint response with SPD escorting, SFD.

This is because patients who receive Narcan or who are coming out of a seizure for another reason can be unaware of their surroundings and have an initial violent reaction.

This is a near-term change that the fire department is considering in conjunction with 911, while the Joint Safety Committee considers other recommendations to protect the health and safety of our firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics.

I'm wanting to share a late-breaking addition from the Human Services Department, who would like to acknowledge that yesterday, September 25th, was the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims.

This day is meant to bring attention and support for surviving family members who suffer an unimaginable loss.

The Mayor's Roundtable for Mothers Impacted by Gun Violence is hosting a meeting this evening to honor the occasion.

And this is a collective of six mothers who began meeting in August 2021. and their work is funded through the Human Services Department.

It's a space for participants to identify gaps in services and resources, engage in the process of mapping and providing support for healing.

Regional committee updates coming up this week.

I will be attending the Police Pension Board meeting tomorrow.

I have in-person office hours this Friday between 3 and 7 p.m.

And then as far as events out in the community, I'll be participating in, I'll be attending Community Passageways event on Thursday, the SEIU 775 Leadership Awards Celebration, also on Thursday.

Friday morning, I'll be attending the Seattle Firefighter Memorial.

And also on Friday morning, we'll be attending a part of the LINC conference on Friday, attending partially in the morning.

That's all I've got.

Does anybody have any questions or comments?

Seeing none, I will pass it off to Council Member Lewis.

Thank you so much, Council Member Herbold, and very much looking forward to that RMD presentation in the Public Safety Committee tomorrow.

So thanks for your diligence and staying on top of the department for that.

Okay, moving forward to my updates, as Council President indicated in queuing up the agenda, we will consider a resolution from the Public Assets and Homelessness Committee regarding 3rd Avenue.

And I appreciate the discussion in committee on that resolution last week and look forward to fully considering it tomorrow and hopefully passing it.

I do want to give a note because it was mentioned that the committee was requesting an updated fiscal note in anticipation of the budget being introduced this week for that resolution.

And I am happy to report that if you go into Legistar, there is an updated fiscal note.

That fiscal note does indicate that the work requested by the council for the resolution can be accomplished within the proposed 2023-2024 budget.

So it is not going to require adjustments or moving things around to accommodate what's been requested.

It has been baked in to the budget Mayor Harrell anticipates introducing tomorrow.

And that fiscal note is in LEGISTAR if anyone wants to review it.

I want to move forward to just give a brief update on Metropolitan Park District.

I want to thank colleagues for their work over the last couple of weeks in really formalizing not just the investment goals of the park district, but accountability language, requests for additional information from the department, and discussions about how the investments that we make in the park district sync up to the budget that we anticipate from Mayor Harrell tomorrow.

I do want to take a moment to again thank the executive and the parks department for submitting what was labeled Appendix B in the transmittal of their initial materials for the park district, which did inform us well in advance of the implications of the Metropolitan Park District investments to the budget and how those things would interact.

That was not expected information and it was incredibly helpful in giving us the ability to do this body of work and turn it around in anticipation of the much bigger discussion regarding the budget that will commence this week.

With that, I want to go over a little bit of how this is going to run tomorrow after full council when we convene as the Metropolitan Park District.

Central staff is going to walk us through each of the proposed amendments.

As has been indicated, depending on whether colleagues decide to go through with them or not, we anticipate there'll be somewhere between nine and 11 total amendments that have been proposed some of which have been discussed here in open session by colleagues.

A couple of new amendments are likely to be added to the final packet.

Central staff is going to distribute in addition to what was distributed last Friday.

Following each walkthrough of an amendment, I will move the amendment and I will ask for a second.

After the amendment receives a second, the amendment sponsor will be invited to address the amendment.

Council members will then be able to ask questions of central staff or the sponsor.

And finally, a vote will be taken after comments.

And these steps will be repeated for all proposed amendments.

After considering each amendment in turn, we will call the roll on resolution 51 as amended.

After passing resolution 51, the board will still need to amend and pass the clerk file, to include the adopted funding plan at the initiative level as amended.

So, I know we're all eager to dive into the mayor's proposed budget and this is one of our last significant pieces of work on our way to doing that.

And I want to thank everyone here as fellow MPD board members for your consideration of these important investments, and the engagement being shown in the amendment process.

So please reach out to Eric, Tracy, Jacob, or myself if there's any further questions about how that run of show is gonna go tomorrow.

And I look forward to being able to complete the significant body of work.

Clean city updates.

So for September 12th through to September 16th, The Clean City Initiative recovered 2,102 needles and 49,000 pounds of garbage from 69 pickup locations.

This week did not have any focus parks and appreciate as always the continued report of that data and that accountability from the Clean City Initiative.

Moving on to Seattle Public Library updates.

What do you get when you combine poetry, prose, and improv theater?

You'll find out starting Tuesday, September 27th, each night from 7 to 8 p.m.

for the four-night festival, Bibliophilia, at the Seattle Public Library Central Library.

Bibliophilia is curated by Jakiva Phillips, a Seattle writer, producer, and actor, and features improv groups, the bibliophilia players, and unexpected productions.

Each night we'll highlight a different theme, Heathcliff letters, bestsellers, Vonnegut, and the bibliophilia quiz show.

So look forward to being able to have community come together and engage in more great programming at the Seattle Public Library, and look forward to continuing to get those updates on their programming and educational work.

With that, Madam President, I don't have any additional updates, and I believe I hand it directly back over to you at this point.

Thank you, Council Member Lewis.

Two things.

I was going to say, when you said, what do you get when you combine blah, blah, blah, I was going to say Seattle City Council, but I would have been wrong.

But on a more professional note, thank you so much for the work you did on this cycle, which was not easy.

And extending the deadlines for us to get amendments and have a have an opportunity to kind of dig in a little deeper on what was sent down from the executive and then your spending package.

So you accommodated us in the districts.

And I really appreciate that because I know that that was no easy feat, particularly since you went out to particular districts and communities to get feedback.

So thank you so much for that.

I I cannot stress enough how important that was, particularly for as you know, the conversations about community centers and the waterfront and other issues.

So thank you very much for your leadership, Council Member Lewis, on that.

And I look forward to tomorrow and the amendments.

All right.

So with that, I will you can start the timer, Council Member Strauss.

There will be no items from the Governance, Native Communities and Tribal Governments Committee on tomorrow's agenda.

Last week, we were pleased to attend the AT&I affiliated tribes of Northwest Indians, which comprises Alaska, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon.

It was hosted by the Tulalip tribe and many tribes, of course, were there and tribal leadership.

And it was a 4 day conference and we attended a few events, most notably the missing murder indigenous women and the boarding schools, some workshops on climate change, housing, and all the other issues that tribes face, which are the same as any other municipality or government.

So that's pretty much what we are working on.

18I also featured a presentation by Deborah Parker and Teresa Shelton of the Native American Boarding Schools Healing Coalition regarding the national investigation of Indian boarding schools, and we continue to work with Interior to hopefully have a hearing out here for those can be part of the healing tour.

I also had the opportunity to meet the new, her name is Alyssa Macy, She's a member of the Warm Springs tribe.

She is the new CEO of the Washington Conservation, is it voters?

I'm gonna say this right, Washington Conservation Voters.

So it was wonderful to meet an indigenous woman who will now be the CEO of that organization.

And also I got the opportunity to meet Ms. LaVonna Butler, the new president of EMILY's List.

she was in attendance.

So actually, that was pretty cool.

I understand she comes from the Teamsters.

So meeting those two women with all the tribal leadership and wrap things up.

It's a four-day conference.

I think they wrapped things up Thursday.

Okay, on Friday, we toured the new location for the Refugee Artisan Initiative, RAI.

Thanks to funding approved by this council in the 2022 budget, the RAI Initiative, Was able to relocate to prime space in Lake City and the Lake City business district on Lake City way, probably tripled their space.

They're currently upcycling donated fabric remnants from closing manufacturers, such as Tony Bahama working with local hospitals and Amazon.

Your products include everything from medical scrubs to reusable lunch bags.

to COVID masks, to pet toys.

They are just doing an amazing job there.

I just can't even tell you.

This council has been really good to them, and it has really showed up, not only in brick and mortar, but the women and communities that they're serving.

And they also just made arrangements to do the costumes for Seattle Opera.

The eight Ethiopian women who were taking a class during our visit generously made food for us, which was amazing.

And after graduation, and we gave them their certificates, they were awarded or given a sewing machine so they can also sew from home and at the same time be there for their children and their family.

Following the tour of the Refugee Artisan Initiative, we joined the celebration of the opening of the Seattle Indian Health Board's new medical clinic, second opening in Lake City, co-located with North Helpline.

The new clinic is also centrally located in the business district on 33rd across, off Lake City Way in the McDermott House, which also houses the low-income and veterans housing of Lehigh.

As of Friday afternoon, the clinic had already served 18 clients as part of their pre-opening work.

San Leon Health Board's clinic will now officially be open to serve all people and will provide specialized and culturally attentive care for Indigenous residents in the North End.

When the Seattle Indian Health Board conducted a market research study, they identified 800 of our indigenous relatives in the greater Lake City area, making the case for their expansion to Lake City from their current location at the base of Beacon Hill.

And this is my big push to have a indigenous footprint in the north end and to keep moving that space there.

building these brick-and-mortar centers for not just Indigenous folk, but everybody that they can serve.

We are pleased to introduce Esther Lacerro, the CEO of the Seattle Indian Health Board, and Kelly Brown, who you all know, the Executive Director of North Helpline to make this partnership happen.

The leadership of Esther and Kelly made this clinic a reality, and we have their expertise and willingness to partner to thank for the expansion of the services, So we had speakers there, we had dancers.

It was a wonderful open house.

Sally and her helper completely redid the space in the clinic.

And it's going to be a game changer up in Lake City.

Folks from all over the county and south of the Ship Canal, people up in the north end don't have to come all the way down to the south end.

They can take light rail and actually get to our new clinic.

Sound Transit Board of Directors also met last week and we received a presentation on plans for the Soto Station on West Seattle Ballard Link Light Rail Extension.

In addition to Sound Transit Board, we'll now be meeting monthly in a virtual format and an in-person once a quarter.

All meetings will be available to the public to stream and to participate via public comment.

Coming up this week on Wednesday, we'll be meeting with the Sound Transit North King Subarea Leadership and Sound Transit staff.

On Thursday, myself and our amazing comms director, Dana Robinson-Sloat, and I will be joining Joni Balter to speak to a class on the media at Seattle University.

So are there any questions before I wrap this up?

Council President, you asked me to time you.

That was six minutes.

How many?

Six.

And that's called leadership.

Thank you.

Yes, it is.

OK, so let me before I do anything else, is there anything anyone wants to say before we go to adjourn?

OK, I do not see or hear anybody who has anything else to say, so that will conclude our items of business today.

Our next regularly scheduled council briefing meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 3rd at two o'clock.

Have a great afternoon.

And with that, we are adjourned.