Okay.
Good morning, everyone.
The September 9th, 2022 regularly scheduled meeting of the Neighborhoods, Education, Civil Rights and Culture Committee will come to order.
It is 934. I'm Tammy Morales, chair of the committee.
Will the clerk please call the roll?
Councilmember Lewis?
Present.
Councilmember Nelson?
Present.
Councilmember Strauss?
Present.
Vice Chair Sawant.
Present.
Chair Morales.
Here.
Five present.
Thank you.
If there's no objection, today's agenda will be adopted.
Hearing no objection, today's agenda is adopted.
On today's agenda, we've got Council Bill 120398, which includes six distinct policy changes to the Families Education Preschool and Promise Levy.
Five of the changes have to do with the Seattle Preschool Program in particular.
And one relates to the K through 12 homelessness and housing support that is offered by the Families and Education Levy.
We'll discuss those.
We did talk about those at the last committee meeting.
Brian Goodnight is here from Council Central staff to give us a quick review, and then we will vote on those.
And then we also have several appointments, including one appointment to the Disability Commission, one to the Landmarks Preservation Board, and five to the Pioneer Square Preservation Board, so we will discuss those as well.
But before we continue, I do want to welcome 11th grade students who are here from the downtown school.
We've got a full crowd here, so thank you for being here, and thank you for your interest in learning more about our legislative process.
Okay, at this time we will open the in-person and remote general public comment period.
I ask that everyone please be patient as we operate this hybrid system.
It does remain the strong intent of the city council to have public comment at our regularly scheduled meetings, but we do reserve the right to modify these public comment periods at any point if we deem that the system is being abused or is unsuitable for allowing our meetings to be conducted efficiently.
I will moderate the public comment period in the following manner.
We will have up to 20 minutes, I don't think we have that many commenters signed up but we will see what we've got.
And I'll start with the speakers who are here in chambers then call on speakers who are online.
If you are online, once I call your name, we will unmute the microphone and an automatic prompt of you have been unmuted will be your cue to begin.
You do need to press star six in order to begin.
We ask that you begin by stating your name and the item you're addressing, and you will hear a chime of 10 seconds.
When you have 10 seconds left, once you hear the chime, we ask that you begin to wrap up your public comment.
If you do not end your comment by the end of the allotted time, speaker's microphone will be muted to allow us to call on the next speaker.
So the regular public comment period is now open.
Do we have speakers signed up here in chambers?
Yes, we have one speaker in chambers, Chair Morales, Marguerite Richards.
Ms. Richard, please go ahead, Richard.
I'm from Seattle, Washington, it's good to see you, young people here.
I've had many challenges in the area of civil rights.
and it's not improving.
You say, oh, yes it is.
I put down disabilities because these people have been able to disable people where they would rather not have a disability because we're supposed to be all wholesome and working together.
We hear this term One America.
when there's no oneness.
Downstairs is where I was asked like Rosa Parks, get up, you're not supposed to be there.
There's no signs designating that we're not supposed to sit there outside of the elevator.
A guard foreigner approached me along with Honorable Michael B. Fuller.
I haven't heard anything about, is that justice?
Huh?
And you can see the fact that I'm the only one signed up.
Well, the pandemic might've contributed to that.
Is that right, Ms. Morales?
But it's not over yet.
So I call for all you other speakers in here, speak up.
Our free speech is being so ripped apart and whatnot.
Did you hear all those rules that you heard before I got up here?
when we're supposed to be able to use our own mind and our own thought process so we won't be disabled.
Because I've seen that aging and disability discriminate against indigenous black people, and it continues.
And this is 2022. That's why I keep coming.
the speaker said, well, I'm not feeling too good these days.
I used to be real active, but not so anymore.
Pray for me.
Thank you.
Any other commenters in chambers?
We have no other commenters in chambers.
Okay.
In that case, I see one person signed up online.
Chris Woodward, please press star six and begin your speaking.
Do we have Chris on the line?
I see that he's signed up, but I actually don't show him present.
Chris Woodward, if you're on, press star six.
No.
Chris Woodward, if you press star six, if you're on, we can't hear you right now.
There we go.
Sorry, navigating technical issues.
We're all good.
Good morning.
My name is Chris Woodward.
I'm the Community Development Director for the Alliance for Pioneer Square.
Just here today to provide comment and support of the appointment and reappointment of members of the Pioneer Square Preservation Board.
I'd like to thank the past, present, and future members of the Pioneer Square Preservation Board as well as the Department of Neighborhoods support staff for their work to preserve a key component of what makes Pioneer Square so unique, our historical and architectural character.
The Alliance looks forward to working with the current and new board members in the future.
Thanks so much.
Thank you very much.
I do not see anyone else signed up.
Let me check one more time.
Okay, in that case, that concludes our public comment period and we will move on to our first agenda item.
Alexis, will you please read item one into the record?
Agenda Item 1, an ordinance relating to the 2018 Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise Levy, amending the levy implementation and evaluation plan adopted by Ordinance 125807 and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts for briefing, discussion, and possible vote.
Great, thank you very much.
Colleagues, as I said, at our last meeting, we did hear from deal and from council central staff about the proposed amendments.
But I did ask Brian goodnight from council staff to be here just to give us a quick review of the amendments of the policy changes.
And then we do have one technical amendment.
as well.
So I do plan to vote on this today and wanted to give us another chance for questions and discussion.
So Brian, I will hand it off to you and get us going.
As you indicated earlier, this item was discussed in detail at the committee's previous meeting on August 12th.
So I will take just a few minutes to summarize the policy changes proposed in the bill, and then we'll describe the technical amendment.
So the bill proposes to make six distinct policy changes to the Families Education Preschool and Promise or FEP levies implementation and evaluation plan.
And I'll refer to that as the I&E plan from here on out.
The I&E plan was approved by the council in April, 2019, after voters had approved the FEPP levy proposition in November of 2018, and it provides a substantial amount of detail with respect to the levy's four investment areas and describes the strategies to be funded within each area.
The I&E plan has been amended by council three times previously, all of which were limited duration addendums in response to the pandemic, and at this time all of those addendums have expired or are no longer in effect.
If you would like any more detail on the proposed policy changes that I'm going to discuss, or would like to know the pages of the I&E plan that are affected by each of the proposed changes, there is a central staff memo attached to the agenda that includes that level of detail.
So the first set of proposed policy changes would provide DEEL, or the Department of Education and Early Learning, the ability to make policy modifications to the Seattle Preschool Program, which we call SPP, to align with similar county, state, and federal preschool and child care programs.
Along with this authority, DEEL would be required to provide a 60-day written notice to council prior to the changes taking effect.
Second, it would allow DEEL to use income metrics other than the federal poverty level to calculate free tuition thresholds and the tuition sliding scale.
This change is requested to align with the city's Child Care Assistance Program and the state's Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, which is known as ECAP, which both use state median income as their income metric.
Rather than specifying state median income as the income metric, however, the proposed changes would allow deal flexibility in case a different metric becomes commonly used in the future.
Third, the changes would allow certain children who turn three years old after the program's August 31st deadline to enroll in SPP on their third birthday.
Children would be eligible for this early enrollment if they are transitioning from early ECAP into an SPP classroom or if they have an individualized education plan and they're enrolling into an SPP plus classroom.
The fourth policy change would modify the I&E plan to recognize that DEEL has the authority to extend SPP into the summer months rather than only operating the program during the typical school year calendar.
DEEL began offering providers the option to continue programming into the summer months in spring of 2021 and continue this practice during summer of 2022. The fifth set of changes would simply update an evaluation timeline table to reflect the delays that DEEL has experienced during the pandemic in evaluating its programs.
And finally, the six policy change would expand the eligible uses of levy funds in the homelessness and housing support services category to include activities outside of typical housing related costs, such as nutrition, clothing and transportation expenses.
And the last thing that I'll describe this morning is the potential technical amendment that's listed on the agenda and I'll bring that up on my screen right now for you.
So the amendment is listed as Amendment 1, Version 1, and is sponsored by Councilmember Morales.
The amendment would simply correct oversights in the initial drafting of the bill, and the changes in the amendment are consistent with the intent of the policy changes that I just described.
Specifically, the amendment would make two small changes on page 35 of the I&E plan to reference the ability of DEEL to use an income metric other than the federal poverty level, and it would strike one sentence on page 47 that refers to SPP as only being offered during the school year.
If the committee finds the proposed changes in the bill to be acceptable, I would recommend adoption of this amendment as well to keep the plan consistent internally.
And I'm happy to answer any questions that you all might have.
Great.
Thanks very much, Brian.
Just for the record, can you explain one more time the reason for the amendment is to further address the fact that we are changing the the federal poverty, we're going more in alignment with the changes that are made at the state level for who is eligible to participate.
So can you talk just a little bit more about why that change is needed?
Sure.
The changes specifically in the technical amendment or just to align?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, so simply the I-NE plan is, as I mentioned earlier, is very specific in terms of what deal is eligible to do.
And so when the plan was crafted back in early 2019, it was very specific about the federal poverty level being the income metric.
So the Seattle Preschool Program, anyone at the time who was 350% of poverty level or below has free tuition in the program.
And then there's a sliding scale.
So as a family's income increases, their contribution to tuition increases as well.
Since that was adopted, both the state's Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, and the city's Child Care Assistance Program, which we call CCAP, have switched their income metrics.
So instead of relying on federal poverty level, they've switched over to state median income, which is supposed to be a better indicator.
So the changes to switch to state median income actually The deal has tried to align them very closely.
So the same types of families are receiving the same types of services and will pay the same tuition, but it's simply switching the metric.
So this allows them to have flexibility that if for some reason they chose a different metric in the future, they could switch to that as well without having to come to council.
And part of the rationale for the state change is that our cost of living here in Washington state is significantly different from other states.
And so if we're going by the federal guideline, that could cause a real imbalance in the students, the kinds of families that are eligible for this service.
Is that right?
That's correct, yeah.
It's a better indicator for families that are living in our area.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, thank you.
Colleagues, any questions either about the underlying legislation or the amendment itself?
I have one.
Council Member Nelson, yes.
Thank you for that synopsis.
It's been a while since we heard this first presentation.
For the modification to the Seattle Preschool Plan program eligibility, I support this and I do support the underlying legislation.
I am curious, changing, allowing a child to enroll shortly after their third birthday.
Is there an estimate how many more children will be able to participate based on this change?
Yes, there is.
So Deal estimates that over the last two years, approximately 10 children would have benefited from these changes.
So it's not that many, which is why Deal thinks it's an equitable change to make and that the expansion of the program wouldn't impose significant enrollment or financial implications for the program.
Got it.
Thank you very much.
Any other questions, colleagues?
Council Member Strauss.
Thank you, Chair.
Just to say, no, I don't have any questions.
Mr. Goodnight, your memo was very helpful in understanding what we're voting on today.
Thank you.
Okay, so in that case, I will move the amendment first.
I move to amend Council Bill 120398 as presented on the proposed amendment one.
Second.
Thank you.
Okay, so as Brian said, the amendment would make two additional changes to the FEP plan to include, to fully implement the policy changes that have been proposed by the executive and just to correct some oversights in the drafting.
So if there are no other comments or questions, will the clerk please call the roll on the amendment?
Council Member Lewis.
Yes.
Council Member Nelson.
Aye.
Council Member Strauss.
Yes.
Vice Chair Sawant.
Yes.
chair morales yes five in favor none opposed thank you the motion carries and the council bill is amended um any other comments or remarks on the final bill then okay uh well then i move the committee recommend the city council pass council bill one two eight three nine one two zero three nine eight as amended is there a second second second Okay, it's been moved and seconded.
Will the clerk please call the roll on the council bill as amended.
Councilmember Lewis.
Yes.
Councilmember Nelson.
I Councilmember Strauss.
Yes.
Vice Chair so want.
Yes.
Chair Morales.
Yes.
Five in favor, none opposed.
Thank you.
The motion carries and the committee recommendation that the council pass Council Bill 120398 as amended will be sent to the September 20th City Council meeting.
Okay, thank you very much.
We just voted on the bill, right?
Okay, it's in my script again, so I just got myself confused.
Sorry about that.
Okay, thank you very much.
Will the clerk please read item two into the record?
Agenda item two, appointment 02340, the appointment of Silas T. James as a member of Seattle Disability Commission for a term to April 30th, 2024.
Great, thank you very much.
We have from the Office of Civil Rights, Janet Stafford here to introduce us to Silas James.
So Janet, I'm gonna hand it off to you.
Yeah, thank you for the introduction.
Yes, my name is Janet Stafford.
I work in the Seattle Office for Civil Rights and we support the Seattle Disability Commission.
Just a little bit around their work.
They have held jubilee events every year highlighting the work of folks in the community.
Some of their other work has included the closed captioning and they've also pushed forward supporting the Seattle Straw Band.
This year they are working towards discussing a little bit more about accessibility within the city of Seattle and getting resources to the community, as well as supporting capacity among the commission recruitment, really building on the commission itself.
Today, I did want to share a little bit about Silas James, who we had a chance to meet early on this year.
He has been an active contributor since, I would say since April of this year, and has been calling for action to increase accessibility housing, improving resources, and specifically looking into public transportation for the Disability Commission, as well as the disability community.
Silas is joining us today, so I do want to pass it on to him to share some words.
Great, thank you.
Yes, Silas, welcome.
Thank you for being here.
Please go ahead.
Thank you.
Can you hear me okay?
Okay, great.
Just always want to check.
Thank you, Janet.
Thank you to the entire city council for this opportunity.
I'm pleased to be here.
As Janet mentioned, I've been attending Seattle Disability Commission meetings.
I want to tell you a little bit more about myself.
I graduated from the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs with a master's in public administration.
I work at the University of Washington in disability research and education.
I have a long history of disability and civil rights advocacy in the fields of healthcare and public benefits.
If appointed to the Seattle Disability Commission, I will continue my advocacy work and education to maintain and expand the resources and practices that allow people with disabilities to live working around Seattle.
That's essentially all I wanted to say.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Thank you so much and thank you for your willingness to serve.
These boards and commissions are really important to the city.
It's important for us to hear directly from people who are impacted by some of the decisions that we make and the infrastructure, the services that we have in the city.
So really appreciate your willingness to serve.
Council Member Nelson.
Welcome and thank you very much for your willingness to serve.
I was reading your confirmation packet and it says Silas would like to contribute to compiling a dynamic directory of the resources available to people experiencing disability in the Seattle area.
There are quite a few resources that people in circumstances of low income or chronic disability can benefit from.
And I love this idea.
I like this effort because I feel like government could do a better job of letting our public know what is available.
And government could also use the help of people like you.
So thank you very, very much for, if this effort comes to fruition, that would be a great asset to the city.
And thank you very much for bringing that and all your other experience to the table.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Other colleagues, questions or comments for Silas?
Okay, very good.
Well, thank you for being here.
Thank you, Janet.
I am going to move that the committee recommend confirmation of appointment 02340. Is there a second?
Second.
Thank you.
It's been moved and seconded.
Will the clerk please call the roll on the appointment?
Council Member Lewis.
I mean, yes.
I'm sorry.
Yes, yes.
Councilmember Nelson?
Aye.
Councilmember Strauss?
Yes.
Vice Chair Sawant?
Yes.
Chair Morales?
Yes.
Five in favor, none opposed.
Okay.
The motion passes and the committee recommendation that the appointment be confirmed will be sent to the September 20th City Council meeting.
Silas, you do not need to be there, but if you would like to, you're certainly welcome to attend.
You can also watch it on the Seattle channel.
But once these appointments are confirmed in committee, they're typically put on a consent agenda, which we just passed kind of the beginning of meetings.
So thank you very much again for your interest and willingness to serve and congratulations.
Thank you very much.
Thanks very much.
Okay, Alexis, will you please read item three into the record?
agenda item 3 appointment 0, 2, 3, 4, 1, The appointment of pay Drake slaughtery as member of the landmarks preservation board for a term August 14th 2025 for briefing discussion and possible vote.
Thank you very much.
We have Aaron Doherty here from the Department of Neighborhoods to introduce us to Mr. Slattery.
So Aaron, I'm going to hand it off to you.
Thank you.
Good morning everyone.
I'm Patrick I'd ask you if you could turn your camera on.
And I will give just a brief introduction.
There he is.
So, The Landmarks Preservation Board is a board of 12 volunteers that have different types of position.
Mr. Slattery is recommended for the finance position, and I'll give just a brief overview.
But the Landmarks Preservation Board primarily reviews potential new landmarks through the nomination and designation process, as well as proposed alterations to landmarks.
That's the majority of their work.
So, Mr slattery holds bachelor degrees in finance and accounting, as well as a master of business administration.
He worked for 10 years and commercial real estate and small business lending before launching his current business in historic building rehabilitation, eight years ago.
He is honored by both Historic Seattle and NIAP for his building renovation projects, and his work includes commercial and residential properties, including recent projects centered in workforce and affordable housing.
Mr. Slattery is personally invested in saving and repurposing old buildings, and we welcome his passion for history, architecture, and sustainability.
Thank you, Erin.
Mr. Slattery, would you like to say anything?
Can you guys hear me okay?
Yeah, I think Aaron did a pretty good job.
If I could add something to that, I would say that historic preservation isn't always about gentrification.
It can be and should be about community engagement and seamless integration into the landscape.
And that's something that's very valuable to me.
And protecting the small business community as these historic renovations typically house those businesses, just because I'm very fearful that the small business community might not be here in 30, 40 years the way it's going.
So I'm deeply invested in these projects.
It's what I do, and I want to be the best in the world at what I do.
So I'm deeply invested in all these structures.
And there's a way that everybody can win with historic preservation.
That's all I have to say.
Thank you very much.
Terrific.
Thank you.
Well, again, thank you for your willingness to serve.
We are having lots of conversations lately about these issues, as you said, you know, whether it's the way our city is changing and growing and the impacts that that has on community members, on neighborhoods, on our small business, it's an important area for us to be focusing on and really appreciate your willingness to serve and to help guide the city on some of the decisions that we're making about these issues.
Council Member Nelson.
Thank you very much for your willingness to serve.
I appreciated how you presented your background presentation packet with the letter and photos of your work, gorgeous renovations.
Congratulations on your awards and your recognition for that work.
You have focused a lot on studs out, which is a new term that I learned from reading, renovations of mid-century modern buildings.
Also, you talked a lot about our old historic brick buildings.
how do we deal with unreinforced masonry buildings is an ongoing issue here.
So just hopefully you can add some advice and bring forward your understanding of finance and kind of put grounding that our future work in some of those challenges.
So thanks.
Thank you, Council Member Nelson.
Any other questions for Mr. Slattery?
Okay.
In that case, I am going to move confirmation of the appointment 02341. Is there a second?
Second.
Thank you.
It's been moved and seconded.
Will the clerk please call the roll?
Council Member Lewis?
Yes.
Council Member Nelson?
Aye.
Council Member Strauss?
Yes.
Vice Chair Sawant?
Yes.
Chair Morales?
Yes.
Five in favor, none opposed.
Thank you very much.
The motion passes and the committee recommendation that the appointment be confirmed will be sent to the September 20th committee meeting.
Sorry, full council meeting.
Congratulations, Mr. Slattery.
We look forward to working with you.
Thank you so much.
Very much.
Thank you for being here, Erin.
Thank you all.
See you later.
Okay, Alexis, will you please read items four through nine into the record?
Agenda items four through nine.
Appointments two, three, four, two through two, three, four, seven.
The appointments to the Pioneer Square Preservation Board for Soyoun Kim, Carl Mueller, Steven D. Sparks, and Henry Watson to terms to March 1, 2025. And the reappointment of Maureen R. Igla, I hope that's in there right, and Lauren Cush to terms to March 1st, 2025 for briefing, discussion and possible vote.
Great.
Thank you very much.
I believe we have Jenna Nasham here from the Department of Neighborhoods.
Yes, I'm here.
Oh, OK.
There you are.
Yes.
Good morning, Jenna.
Thank you so much for being here.
I'll hand it to you.
And I think we have at least some of the appointees here.
So I'll let you introduce them once you are once you're done.
Okay, thank you.
Hi, I'm Gina Nasham.
I'm the staff for the Pioneer Square Preservation Board in the Department of Neighborhoods.
The Pioneer Square Preservation Board is a 10 member board who reviews alterations to the exterior of buildings to the public right of ways and other public spaces within the Pioneer Square Preservation District.
They also review changes of use.
Today we have, I'm excited to bring you a slate of new appointees.
So again, Kim also goes by Sage.
And Sage, if you're able to turn on your camera, that will be great.
Sage is nominated for the architect position on the board.
She has a master's in historic preservation from Columbia, and she works for Bassetti Architects located within Pioneer Square.
And Sage, is there anything else you would like to talk to, to tell about yourself?
Yeah, can you hear me okay?
Yes.
Hi everyone, good morning.
Yeah, I'm really happy to be here to have my nomination confirmed.
Yeah, when I found this architect position that can serve the preservation board in this Pioneer Square, I thought it would be such a great opportunity for me to learn about the neighborhood and any social challenges that we could help resolve through design practices that can be relevant to preservation.
Um, you know, with my, um, you know, uh, sorry, can you hear me?
Steven, you're off mute.
So, yeah.
Um, and I recently moved back to Seattle, um, you know, after all my work and study in the East coast and yeah, so I'm really kind of looking forward to, you know, applying all my design methodologies that I explored through the preservation studies at school.
And also, you know, I mean, seeing how those practices actually, you know, implemented in reality through the actual projects in the neighborhood.
Yep.
That's it for me.
Thank you for, yeah, time today.
Thank you.
Well, and I just wanna say I appreciate the focus in your application on, you know, placemaking and the role of architecture and placemaking and storytelling about, particularly about, you know, neighborhoods, the culture that is represented in the neighborhoods and the need to make sure that we're preserving that in the work that we do as well.
So thank you for that.
Maybe we should go through all of these first and then, sorry, I won't interrupt again.
Sure, sure.
Please go ahead.
Next on the list was Carl Mueller.
Carl was not able to be here today.
Carl's nominated for the retail position on the board.
He's the co-owner of Intrigue Chocolate Company, which is located in Pioneer Square.
He has also lived in the district for the last seven years and worked in the district since 2007. He participates in volunteer activities in Pioneer Square and formerly served as the treasurer for the organization Historic South Downtown.
And being he's not here today, I'll move on to Stephen Sparks.
Stephen Sparks is the program, he is nominated for the human services position on the board.
He is the program coordinator at the Bread of Life Mission in Pioneer Square.
He has experience on boards and committees within his spiritual committee, and he values Pioneer Square as a unique place in Seattle.
Stephen, is there anything you'd like to add?
And now you're muted.
There we go.
There you go.
Can you hear me well?
Yes.
Good morning.
My name is Steven Sparks and currently I am the program director slash director of the shelter here at the Bread of Life Mission.
So since the time of my application for the Pioneer Square Historical board motions.
Stephen, I think you are breaking up a little bit.
Maybe we can go to Henry and come back to Stephen in a moment.
That's great.
Henry works for Urban Villages and he is nominated as a property owner position.
Urban Villages has three buildings on one block in Pioneer Square and has has been going through major rehabilitation.
He also has experience working in Denver.
Henry, would you like to say anything else?
Yeah, just so thrilled to just be appointed to this position.
I manage the Rails for a project on Pioneer Square, you know, the old FX McRory's building, and I just understand how important, you know, that building and that block is to Seattle, and it's just great to have a seat at the table.
I just want to make sure that, I mean, Pioneer Square is in such a, you know, important moment in time right now, just in the neighborhood.
It's history and it's great to just have a seat at the table.
And I just want to make sure that things are done right, because it's a neighborhood that means a lot to me and to everyone here.
So thanks for having me.
Great.
Thank you so much, Henry.
Nice to meet you.
And thank you for your willingness to serve our community.
Stephen, do you want to try again?
You were breaking up a little bit, but you're on mute.
So why don't you unmute and we'll try again.
Okay.
Can you hear me now?
Yes.
I don't know where I left off, but I just want to say that it is indeed an opportunity and a real pleasure to be able to serve on the Pioneer Square area.
I do have lived here a number of years.
I currently work here.
and minister here.
I serve this community to a degree that I think can be a benefit.
So I'd like to see it continue to be a historical area.
It has a unique face in the city of Seattle, and it's different.
And I like it, and I hope it will stay that way.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Well, I just wanna say thank you again to the four of you, or I guess three of you are here right now.
The Pioneer Square neighborhood is changing, the city is changing, downtown is changing, and it is gonna be really important that we make sure that the small businesses, the neighbors who live there, and the feel and the vibe and the architecture of the neighborhood is preserved so that we can, I mean, it is the, the historic core of the city.
So making sure that we're able to continue the legacy of the beautiful parts of Pioneer Square and make sure that we are serving the many people who are now living there and who have very different needs is gonna be really important.
So I appreciate all of the work that you're already doing there and the work that you're willing to continue to do.
Colleagues, are there questions or comments for any of our appointments?
OK.
No, thank you, Chair.
Just thank you, everyone, for your volunteer service.
Thank you.
And then we do have two reappointments as well.
Is there anything you wanted to comment on about Maureen or Lauren?
OK.
Um, terrific.
Well, colleagues, I am going to move that we recommend confirmation of appointments 23 42 through 23 47. Is there a second?
Second.
Second.
Thank you.
It's been moved and seconded.
Will the clerk please call the roll?
Council member Lewis.
Yes.
Council member Nelson.
I Council member Strauss.
Yes.
Vice chair.
So what?
yes chair morales yes five in favor none opposed
Thank you.
The motion carries and the committee recommendation that the appointments be confirmed will be sent to the September 20th city council meeting.
Before we conclude, I do again wanna thank the students who are here.
I can't count how many of you there are, but maybe 30 students are here.
So the last few things we did here were appointments.
And I want to let you know that the city does have a get engaged program.
Once you turn 18, if you're interested in serving on any of the boards or commissions that we have as a city and they range from pedestrian issues to bike safety to parks, to things related to housing, there are plenty of opportunities for you to get involved in city government if that is something that you're interested in doing.
And as a council, we really do listen to the recommendations and suggestions and ideas that come from these boards of commissions, and they inform the work that we do.
So keep that in mind as your 18th birthday's approach.
We'd love to see you back here.
And I will let you know, Alexis.
Oliver Turla, my Chief of Staff, has a couple little council swag for you here before you go.
So thank you again for being here.
Okay, this does conclude the September 9th, 2022 meeting of the Neighborhoods, Education, Civil Rights, and Culture Committee.
Our next committee meeting is scheduled for September 23rd.
Thanks everybody for being here.
We are adjourned.