Seattle City Council Briefing 5/28/19

Feeling lonely down there?

No, I feel just fine.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Thank you for being here for a regular scheduled council briefing.

We are here with Council Member Sawant, Council Member Bagshaw, Council Member Pacheco, and Council Member Gonzalez and myself.

If there's no objection, the minutes of the May 20th, 2019 meeting will be approved.

If any of you want hard copies, you do have soft copies.

I have them here.

Just let me know and I'll always try to pass them down.

Hearing no objection, the minutes are approved.

And just as a reminder, we do have an MHA meeting after this one, and maybe Council Member Gonzalez could share a little bit more if she's so inclined, but that will start at 1030. This afternoon, as far as a vote, nothing from the We do have a resolution 31888 which is a resolution that amends a previous resolution 31857 that provides conceptual approval of what is called a significant which includes the construction of what are called permanent tension tiebacks in portions of Thomas Street, east of 1st Avenue North and west of 2nd Avenue North.

We, of course, met as a select committee and discussed what a permanent tension tieback is, and it passed out of the select committee, and we'll present that this afternoon.

And sort of kudos to the status of the project that we had, the construction update on Kiarene and all the great things happening over there.

And so that's going as well as could be expected.

So we're looking forward to that piece of legislation.

And then from the Governance Equity and Technology Commission, I misspoke earlier that we do have one actually, Resolution 31886, which is a resolution the revised certain general rules and procedures of the Seattle City Council amending attachment one of the resolution 31806. And as you may recall, we should have addressed issues of, in our court, our council decorum here, words of a threatening nature and of assault-like words, those kinds of behaviors that we certainly don't condone, which is far different than free speech.

And that's it from this side, and we'll just go around the table.

Council Member Sawant.

Thank you, President Harrell.

Good morning, everyone.

There are no items on today's City Council agenda from the Human Services, Equitable Development, and Renter's Rights Committee.

The next meeting of the committee was scheduled for this Friday, but we're putting it off to give the Human Services Department more time.

to prepare their presentation on the Seattle Youth Employment Program, and I'll be announcing the date of the next committee soon.

Very good.

Councilmember Bexler, before you go, I will just pass down copies of the minutes you approved here, since I have them and I don't want to sit on them here.

Council Member Bakeshaw.

Thank you so much.

Nothing today for the Finance and Neighborhoods Committee.

We will have some items next Monday because we had a meeting, a special meeting on last Friday, so there wasn't enough time to bring forward what we had passed out of committee.

So that'll be a week from today.

We do have Bobby Humes who is the proposed SDHR director nominee.

He's going to be coming to my committee on June 12th and the 26th if you've got questions for our new potential director of human services.

Human resources.

Human resources.

Thank you.

Please get your questions to Allison today.

We've got a start, and we can circulate that, and you can add some additional questions if you'd like.

Tomorrow, I'm going to be meeting with a group, and if any of you are interested as well, we're going to be riding our bikes around the south end of Queen Anne, uptown, looking at Thomas Street and the connections there to the Seattle Arena.

So if you're interested, we're meeting at 8 a.m.

tomorrow morning on bikes.

Let me know if you would like to participate.

I also have a proclamation here that was brought forward by Councilmember Herbold.

It's a proclamation by the Mayor and the City Council declaring June as Orca Awareness Month.

This is actually in support of something Governor Inslee did, also looking at the state of Washington proclamation.

And the major objectives here to focus on what is causing the decline of the southern resident orcas, both in numbers and in health.

And it includes the fact that the endangered salmon runs, we're finding that we're just not getting as many Chinook here in our area as in the past.

Their principal source of food.

There's also significant noise and disturbance from ships and small boats.

and vehicles, vessels that are chasing the orcas, which of course impacts and affects their ability to echolocate.

And then lastly, to be aware of the toxic pollutants which are going into the sand that really cause the young orcas problems.

So I'll be circulating that.

Thank you for signing it.

And let me know if there's anything you want to tell Council Member Herbold before she introduces it this afternoon.

Thank you.

Council Member Pacheco.

Good morning.

There are no plus related appointments on the full council agenda today at the council meeting I will be presenting a proclamation declaring May as bike everywhere month in the city of Seattle.

I'd just like to thank my staff who hurried to put this together before the holiday weekend on Friday and the Cascade Bike Club for helping us draft the language.

My staff sent this out to the council on Friday, and I hope you all will sign on.

The next PLEZ committee meeting is on Wednesday, June 5th.

And on Thursday, I will be attending the annual Puget Sound Regional Council General Assembly as one of Seattle's representatives.

So I wish everybody a good week.

Thank you.

Council Member Juarez.

Hey, thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Sorry for being late.

Well, you know, it happens to the best.

So two things, actually three big things.

But first, the next Civic Development, Public Asset, and Native Communities Committee is June 5th.

I'm dedicating this agenda to one item, a briefing and presentation on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Abigail Echo-Hawk.

Abigail works at the Seattle Indian Health Board, and she was commissioned well over a year ago to write the 30-page report through the Urban Indian Health Institute, and some of us had a briefing on that of the Board of Health.

Abigail Ekohakis Pawnee, she's the Chief Research Officer, as I shared, at the Seattle Indian Health Board and Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute.

Not only did she author this report, Seattle and the state of Washington was the first state and city to come out and have this comprehensive report about the data crisis, not only regionally, but nationally.

The report sheds light on the following facts.

Decades of an epidemic of violence perpetuated against Native women.

How Seattle has the highest number of missing and murdered Indigenous women amongst over 70 cities identified in this report.

Seattle has 45 missing murdered Indigenous women and girls.

And the state of Washington ranks second in missing murdered Indigenous women and girls.

The report also addresses the gaping holes in our government when it comes to data collection, law enforcement, and reporting.

If you remember, this council passed legislation, and in the budget, I want to thank Council Member Bagshaw, who joined me in this, to address that the city departments require that they basically intensify their efforts and are required now to provide the city, including law enforcement, with data regarding Native American women.

And again, this would be addressing the data crisis regionally and nationally.

I'm honored to chair this meeting because Abigail will be able to identify where the city lacks in accountability and how we can step up as we move forward to solve this major health crisis.

Abigail's advocacy has gone as far as D.C., as well as King County Council and the Washington State Legislature.

If you remember this last session, we had improvements in Olympia.

Representative Deborah Lakoff and Mosberger sponsored legislation in response to this report.

HB 1713, a bill that we worked on, this council supported, establishes two liaison positions within the Washington State Patrol to build relationships between government and Native communities.

It requires the Washington State Patrol to develop a best practices protocol for law enforcement in response to missing persons and reports for indigenous women.

It requires the Governor's Office of Indian Affairs to provide Washington State Patrol with government-to-government training, and this is crucial.

This bill was signed by the Governor on April 24th.

While this law isn't perfect, it's a great step forward and a foundation to build upon, which I'm hoping we can do this session.

at least until the end of this year.

I invite my colleagues and others who are interested for this presentation.

Again, it will be June 5th at 2 o'clock in council chambers, and my staff will also be providing you not only with a copy of the bill that was passed, but also a copy of the report.

The report came out last year.

It's about 30 pages long.

It's incredibly, well, it's critical but it's also eye-opening and it's also very sad because not only are we addressing missing, murdered, indigenous women, we're also addressing the LGBT community, the two-spirit community, and there's just a really interesting intersection of the discussion about how law enforcement is tracking missing, emerging, missing murdered indigenous women and girls, how the media reports it, and how the community in collective memory has responded.

And those three visions, if you will, don't always add up.

So we suspect that there are much more missing murdered indigenous women, not only in Seattle and the state of Washington, but nationally.

And again, it's called a data crisis, and I was very blessed and lucky to be in Washington, D.C.

in February to meet with our congressional delegation and talk about the money that has been set aside to address this issue, but also the VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act, which was really crucial.

And so I will continue to work on this, and I would invite you all to attend, and I will give you all the report.

Thank you.

Thank you, Consular Warriors.

Good morning, Mr. President and colleagues.

There are no items from the Housing, Health, Energy, and Workers' Rights Committee on today's full council agenda.

This next week on June 6th at 9.30 a.m., we will have a regular meeting of the Housing, Health, Energy, and Workers' Rights Committee.

On the agenda, there are five items.

First, the Seattle City Light review panel appointment.

the appointments and reappointment of the joint apprenticeship and training committee, the notice of intent to sell legislation briefing and discussion, possible vote on the Fort Lawton rezone and redevelopment plan, and possible vote on extending the rent bidding prohibition by another year.

I want to say we had a really good meeting on the Fort Lawton redevelopment plan last week, Tuesday afternoon.

Thanks also to Council Member Pacheco's staff for being there.

and helping us staff that evening.

We had about 35 people sign up.

Overwhelmingly positive in support.

There was a few people who asked for some amendments that we had already drafted up and heard about turning a portion of the parking lot into I want to thank the folks who came out to testify, those who have come out many times before.

This is the 15th year that we've been engaged in that process.

And this is now the fourth meeting we've had.

So next week will be the fifth meeting.

Thanks to Councilmember Sawant and Councilmember O'Brien who were part of that briefing and discussion as well last Tuesday.

Really appreciate you being there.

I want to note for folks who are coming to the June 6 meeting, we're going to be extending that until noon just because of all of the items on our agenda.

And then at 1.30 that day, next Thursday, June 6, we will have a work session or a lunch and learn.

to host a special committee meeting on the human services providers cost of living, issues around the inflationary costs to operate in the city and to live in the city.

Folks remember and thanks again to Council Member Baxter for her work to include this in the budget last year.

My biggest issue last year that we were working on was trying to get a inflationary adjustment in for all human services contracted providers.

recognizing that many of them hadn't had an increase in about 10 years.

This will be an opportunity for us to hear more broadly on this topic that many of you have been working on, including Council Member O'Brien's office, to make sure that human services providers have a meaningful compensation and that we respect the fact that they have a direct relationship with the residents and provide vital and wide-ranging services and support to all residents, especially our most vulnerable.

I want to recognize that last year we heard from human service providers who are working 100 hours a week, who are living in their cars, who are qualifying for the same programs and services that their clients were qualifying for.

If we want us to have any sort of stability in the system to help serve those who are homeless or on the verge of becoming homeless, we have to make sure that our human service providers are also stable and that the organizations that they work with are stable.

So, look forward to having all of you come if you can.

Again, that's 1.30 on Thursday.

This Friday, we have office hours in District 5 and looking forward to seeing all the folks out there.

We will be, I think, at a coffee shop all morning.

Let me just double check where we're at.

Oh, I don't know.

Okay, we're going to be at Can you see?

Coffee Clutch.

Coffee Clutch, yes.

That's my coffee shop there.

Oh, good.

I'll see you there.

Yeah, and the pretzels.

Okay.

Hope everybody can join us from 10 a.m.

to 12.30 on Friday.

And then this weekend's going to be busy.

I'm going to be participating in the Seattle Emergency Communications Exercise on Saturday morning.

speaking at the Cimar Cesar Chavez Social Justice Festival, at the new Cimar Chicano and Latino Museum in South Park, and afterwards, attending the Town Hall Gala, hosted by Town Hall Seattle, and their new People's Hall.

I'm sure many of you commented on this already, and others may.

Our thoughts are with the families who, this weekend, were shot doing something that all of us should be able to do, which is enjoy time in a park with our families.

And I think it just continues to underscore our deep need to move forward on many of the gun violence prevention programs and to restrict the amount of guns that are out there.

So the intersection between our continued effort to try to address gun violence and the ways in which people want to access and utilize our parks, sitting right between the two co-chairs on this issue.

I think it's truly a public health issue and wanted to underscore the importance of us acknowledging that and not just sending thoughts and prayers, but I think a renewed call for our action is what you'll hear from this council as a whole.

So our thoughts are with them, but so are our actions and we'll be working on it, I'm sure, going forward.

That's it.

Thank you.

Councilman Gonzalez.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Nothing on this afternoon's agenda from the Gender Equity, Safe Communities, New Americans, and Education Committee.

And in terms of, at least on the regular introduction and referral calendar, I will have two resolutions for the full council's consideration that I circulated, that my office circulated last week before the requisite deadline.

I'm going to hand out copies of those and speak to them really briefly so that folks are aware that they're coming.

The first one is a resolution in support of a woman's right to bodily autonomy and the right to access a safe and legal abortion and affirming the City of Seattle's commitment to act consistently and proactively in support of those rights.

So this is a follow-up to a lot of the recent legislation that we have seen coming out of other states across the country that endeavor to directly challenge the Roe versus Wade Supreme Court case that established clarity around a woman's constitutional right to access health care, including a safe and legal abortion.

Many of us who are at the table this morning joined women's health care groups last Tuesday in solidarity to speak out against these laws that effectively ban abortions, and this is a resolution to continue to affirm our commitment to that.

We do participate as a partner in the Seattle-King County Public Health System.

One of the things that we fund are contracts related to women's reproductive health and really need to, I think, send a clear message to folks across the country and across our region that here in Seattle we remain committed to ensuring that there is full and unfettered access to reproductive health care including safe and legal abortions for the women who live and receive health care from our Seattle King County Public Health.

So this resolution endeavors to solidify those commitments and I'm excited about presenting that at two o'clock.

We are expecting that folks from the community will join us at at full council this afternoon.

The second resolution is a resolution that we are advancing in conjunction with Mayor Durkin and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.

Many of you may have been following the news last week that really laid out the fact that gave us the good news that the first step was taken in passing the Dream and Promise Act.

a piece of legislation that was introduced in Congress that will create a legal pathway for dreamers, as well as individuals who are currently eligible for temporary protected status and deferred enforced departure.

And again, as I mentioned, we're doing this in partnership with the mayor's office and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.

I'll speak more to the resolution in the context And I think it's important that we look at the content of the legislation that was passed by the house at the federal level.

But we here in the city of Seattle, of course, continue to have a very strong set of policies around being a welcoming city.

First and foremost, ensuring that we are providing sanctuary to our immigrants and refugees, regardless of their immigration status.

And this is a body of federal legislation that, if adopted in the Senate, would finally provide a pathway for millions of youth.

in our city to finally become their full American selves in the legal sense.

So really excited about advancing this resolution as well and hope to have your all's support this afternoon in that regard.

I want to thank this time to thank Councilmember Gonzalez for doing this resolution for us speaking on a woman's right to choose.

I know I think all three of us spoke.

Councilmember Sawant was there too.

Councilmember Sawant as well.

But from those of us that have children and those of us that are going to have children, going to have children, I'm not going to speak for anyone else.

I don't want to get in trouble here, but I'm just saying it was wonderful.

The whole point is all choices are that woman's choice.

Thank you.

And I kind of got a little bit passionate because as an older woman who's had a couple children and two daughters that are 28 and 25, And this issue has been going on, see, I'll be 60 in July.

So this issue has been going on my whole life.

So I think a lot of it was just more anger and frustration and calling out these states and us getting tired of and goes to the issue that we have to continue to fight for the basic right of a woman to choose.

And I'm hoping that my daughters won't be doing this at 59. So thank you very much, Council Member Gonzalez.

Absolutely, and really a lot of the credit and thanks goes to all of the activists and organizers in the community who've been really harnessing this opportunity to continue to build momentum to ensure that we aren't going backwards in terms of our right to access healthcare.

So, really excited about being able to sponsor that resolution in support with those community members.

Okay, next, I wanted to just quickly touch on the fact that later this morning, starting at 10.30, assuming that we, it looks like we're probably going to end this early, so we'll be back here at 10.30 a.m.

I will be chairing a special meeting and public hearing for the Select Committee on MHA.

For those of you who may have missed Council President's memo, Council Member Pacheco and I will be co-chairs of the Select Committee on MHA, and I have the pleasure of chairing the next Select Committee, which is again today at 10.30 a.m.

We will have two items of business.

The first item is only a briefing.

There will be no action on it.

It will be an update on MHA implementation in parts of the U district.

We will be joined by OPCD staff and Ali Panucci from Council Central staff for that briefing and that'll be an opportunity for us to get an update on some of the policy issues that we deferred.

making decisions on until there was additional EIS work completed, and we'll hear an update about that work and anticipated timeline for the rest of the year.

Item 2 is a technical cleanup that will amend Ordinance 125791, commonly referred to as the Citywide MHA Legislation.

It will correct map errors in Map A for SMC 23.58B.050 and then Map A for 23.58C.050 and Attachment 1 to the Ordinance 125791. I want to emphasize that these are truly technical cleanup opportunities.

The overarching issue here is that we want to make sure that the attachments, the maps, and the language in the code are consistent with policy decisions that we as a full council made when we initially passed the citywide MHA ordinance.

This is not an opportunity to relitigate those policy decisions.

This is merely an opportunity to ensure that that this council's policy decisions that were made several months ago are consistently and accurately reflected in ordinance one two five seven nine one so we will go through the process of considering those technical amendments nonetheless we are required to have a public hearing because these are land-use issues and we will go through a are legally required and mandated processes to ensure that we have met those standards.

So we will hear, we'll have a public hearing, we will get a briefing from council central staff on those technical changes, and I will then suspend the rules and allow the full committee to vote on those technical amendments and refer them accordingly to full council for action.

all I have on that.

And then lastly, I just wanted to say, Council President, if I may, I also wanted to take an opportunity to reflect on the recent episode of gun violence that we just saw in South Seattle.

As Council Member Mosqueda mentioned, this occurred yesterday, in fact, at about 7 p.m.

at Pritchard Island Beach.

Regrettably, this was a situation where it appears that two individuals began to argue in a parking lot and then exchanged gunfire.

People who were injured appeared to be innocent bystanders who just happened to be in the park enjoying their Memorial Day celebrations.

Unfortunately, it includes children.

A 27-year-old woman and two boys were victims in this most recent episode of gun violence.

One of the children was eight years old.

The other one is just under the age of two.

And there was also a young girl who was 10 years old who was also hit by gunfire.

So we obviously take gun violence seriously without regard to who the victim is, but it becomes particularly concerning when it is children who are as young as two in our own city falling victim to to gun violence and so I know that we are all equally concerned about the impact here and have received assurances from the Seattle Police Department and the mayor's office that they continue to engage in emphasis patrols to try to engage in as much proactive policing as they can in these areas to deter this type of behavior from occurring in the future.

But ultimately, obviously, what we need is much more common sense and swift gun reform legislation that really takes a lot of these dangerous guns off of the streets.

I mean, we have no reason to believe these are semi-automatic rifles of any sort.

I'm not exactly sure what kind of weapons were used, but from the reporting it appears that they were just handguns.

And so I think that it's another example and opportunity for us to really challenge the people who control these laws to really take some swift action to ensure that our communities can stay safe.

And I send a lot of thoughts and obviously we want to see action come out of these types of incidents.

And my hope is that we'll be able to connect with some of our federal legislators, for example, to give them these stories as a tool for them to hopefully be able to I think it's important to recognize that we have a lot of work to do to catalyze some change at the federal level.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Councilmember O'Brien.

Thank you, Council President.

Sustainability and transportation committee has a number of items on this afternoon's agenda.

We will be, the first item is approval of an extension of a Then we have six separate ordinances, each accepting a series of deeds and easements.

Each of those ordinances has 20 deed acceptance or easements, so a total of 120 of them.

Just as a reminder for the public, oftentimes as new development happens, there's small parcels I'm talking small, oftentimes just a couple square feet of property the city will need to acquire in response to a development project.

Maybe it's to make sure the sidewalk's the appropriate width.

Maybe it's to make sure there's access to certain utilities or transportation infrastructure.

Instead of each one, city code requires that those come back to the council for approval, but instead of doing those on a one-off basis, we let them accumulate until there's 20 of them.

In the last few years, the pace of development we're seeing in our city, We will often get them in bundles and so we will be accepting on these six ordinances a total of 120 different parcels or easements across parcels.

We also have the final approval of alley vacation for the block in the Denny Triangle where the Amazon spheres are.

This was something that we did conceptual approval on that block and two other blocks as probably about four or five years ago now.

And one block has already come through final approval.

This is the second.

And then the final project is going to be done sometime this summer.

And I imagine we'll see that last one by the end of this year or maybe next year.

We have a couple of appointments, one to the Seattle Transit Advisory Board and one to the Sweden Beverage Tax.

advisory board.

And that is all for this afternoon's agenda.

The final thing I want to mention is that we have a special committee tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m.

This is the Sustainability and Transportation Committee, but it's a single agenda item to discuss legislation around backyard cottages and in-law units, ADUs and DADUs.

As a reminder, this is something that's been on hold for a couple years as we went through an appeal and then an EIS and then another appeal.

The hearing examiner ruled a couple weeks ago, as I'm sure you all recall, that our EIS had met all the requirements and we're free to proceed.

So the discussion tomorrow is going to be largely highlighting the changes that are proposed in the draft legislation over what current law is for backyard cottages.

A couple of the changes are expanding the square footage from 800 to 1,000 square feet.

Instead of allowing either a mother-in-law or a backyard cottage it would allow two accessory dwelling units Only one of those could be a backyard cottage on a single lot It's allowing a slightly increased height one to two feet extra height depending on the lot width For a backyard cottage structure eliminating the parking requirement eliminating the owner occupancy requirement an alley will be at the table to walk through and those changes and then also highlighting a variety of options that we may want to consider or to offer, you know, all of you different ways we may want to consider changes, including not making some of those changes that I'm proposing.

Mr. Mayor, would there be some discussion on, in the last 10 years or eight years, where we've piloted certain areas, sort of the historical developments, either pros or cons, that we've seen since we have some data to show good.

Yeah, so we can absolutely highlight certainly the number of units that have been built.

The pros and cons probably gets into a little more subjective and so Allie probably won't present too much on that, but we can certainly have a discussion about what we've heard.

But certainly we can talk about the numbers and And a little bit of how that pace has changed and also probably a little bit of reference to what's happening in places like Portland or Vancouver, British Columbia, where regulations are a little looser and they're seeing a lot more of this happen.

We could also talk about the EIS and what it's, the modeling projects would be built in Seattle and also what the modeling shows kind of what the viability, financial viability of certain models there are for these two.

So, very good.

And then I'll just follow up on that one because this is kind of a hot topic.

We will also, in addition to the meeting tomorrow afternoon, we will be back in committee here in chambers on the evening of June 11th for a public hearing on that.

I imagine we'll have pretty good turnout for that.

and then back in committee on June 18th.

And if the council's ready to be considering approving legislation out of committee, we would do that at that point.

Very good.

Council Member Gonzalez.

Thank you.

I just wanted to make two points.

The first is, I wanted to confirm that Council Member O'Brien, you've been working on this issue since when?

Well, we started discussing it a little over three and a half years ago.

That's a long time.

Well, we might get 400 units a year out of this deal.

Yeah, that's great.

I really just wanted to acknowledge your work in this space for quite some time and really appreciate you sticking with it and guiding our conversation forward on this really important issue, which I see as an opportunity for us to prevent the displacement of some families that are looking for opportunities to age in place, for example, and also open up our single-family homes zones to other people who may not historically or otherwise have access to living in this part of our city.

So thank you for your commitment to that.

Secondly, I also wanted to just take an opportunity to thank the folks over the Department of Neighborhoods who have been doing roundtable conversations around the proposed legislative changes.

I had an opportunity to sit in in one of those roundtables in West Seattle last week in the junction right across the street from where I live and had a really great time listening to and hearing from interested neighbors around why they frankly believe in this policy and how it's important for the reasons that I just described.

previously and so I hope that there will be an opportunity either during the special committee meeting or in the future to hear a report back from the Department of Neighborhoods in terms of their outreach and what they're hearing.

My understanding is that that they have been hearing a lot of positive feedback from people who would be impacted or could benefit from this legislation.

And I think that we're gonna be pleasantly surprised with some of the feedback that they have been receiving from our neighbors.

So I'm excited to give them an opportunity to report on those more granular details and feedback.

I appreciate that.

I was able to attend one with Councilmember Pacheco in North Seattle and similar feedback was very positive.

And frankly, I've been hearing a lot of positive feedback for three and a half years.

In fact, the negative, there's two flavors of the negative feedback.

Obviously, there's some fairly vocal people who've been part of the challenges that have been opposed to it.

And then the other feedback has been, how come you can't do this quicker because I'm waiting for you to finish this so I can submit my permit so my you know, fill in the blank, my mother, my sibling, my children, myself can move into one of these things that I really am waiting to build till you change the regulations.

So, yeah, we will certainly hear from both sides.

There's certainly a vocal group that's been well-resourced to challenge this, but I think there's a lot of people throughout our communities that are anxiously awaiting our action on this, and it'll be a good month.

Well, thank you for all your work.

Very good.

Preview of the discussion there.

Before we break I wanted to give a shout out to one event that's occurring this Saturday at Fisher Pavilion at 6 o'clock It's the dad's organization divine alternative for dad services And this is a phenomenal group that city has funded in recent years, but it's been around for 20 years They're out in district 2, but they are an organization that really works feverishly on particularly fathers who have had, either they've been in custody, they've had legal challenges, but they've had challenges reuniting with their children.

And they've put together literally thousands and thousands of fathers, particularly in communities of color.

back in healthy relationships with their children.

And so it starts at six o'clock at Fisher Pavilion.

We actually have tickets for either staff or council members or anyone that would like to attend.

It'll be well attended this Saturday at six o'clock.

There'll be hundreds of people there, but it's a phenomenal organization, one that's very near and dear to me.

So six o'clock this Saturday, all of you are invited.

Okay, Council Member O'Brien.

I apologize, I missed two items on my notes.

So really quickly, we will also be considering grant acceptance ordinance for SDOT this afternoon.

This is a series of grants that SDOT has won from federal government, state, Puget Sound Regional Council, and including one that's a prospective grant because there's a project on East Marginal Way.

that is next on the list to be awarded a grant from Puget Sound Regional Council on a contingent basis if some other projects ahead of it don't go through.

And it's looking like there's a chance that we might get that money.

And so in addition to accepting grants that we've already won, there'll be a conditional acceptance if we win that one too.

And finally, there's an actual clerk file around a street vacation proposed.

along the Burke-Gilman Trail, between the Burke-Gilman Trail and University Village for a project.

They're looking to vacate a street that is a dead-end street and instead replace it with a really nice facility, a bike and pedestrian connection that would connect the Burke-Gilman Trail all the way down to 24th with a new crossing on 24th over to the University Village.

So including a bike repair station and some water and a pull-out area along the Berkelman there just adjacent to the University of Washington.

So those two more items, I'm sorry I missed those.

I did see that you were just slow playing us on those.

So thank you for announcing those.

OK, so we'll meet at 10.30 on our select committee on MHA and we'll see you then at 10.30.

We stand adjourned.

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