City Council 5/13/2025

Good afternoon, everyone.

The May 13th, 2025 meeting of the Seattle City Council will come to order.

It is two o'clock.

I'm Sarah Nelson, council president.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Council member Strauss?

Present.

Council member Hollingsworth?

Here.

Council member Kettle?

Here.

Council member Moore?

Present.

Council member Rink?

Present.

Council member Rivera?

Councilmember Saka?

Here.

Council President Nelson?

Present.

Seven present.

Thank you very much.

All right, today we have three proclamations that will be presented in the following order.

Councilmember Moore will present a proclamation proclaiming May 2025 to be Older Americans Month.

Then council member Saka will present a proclamation recognizing May 2025 to be foster care month.

And, uh, finally, council member rank will present a proclamation recognizing May 13th, 2025 to be Frank chop day of action.

Each council member will present their proclamation and then council members will be provided the opportunity to comment before the rules are suspended to allow the proclamation to be presented to those accepting it and make comments themselves.

All right, that's the run of show.

Council Member Moore, you're recognized in order to present the proclamation on Older Americans Month.

Oh, and I want to recognize that Council Member Rivera has joined us in person.

Thank you very much, Council President.

So I wanted to thank all of my colleagues who added their name to this proclamation and I am honored to present to Pamela Williams of the Mayor's Council on African American Elders and sincerely thank them and all the service providers and community volunteers that support our aging community, including but not limited to the Seattle King County Advisory Council, the Northwest Universal Design Council, and the City of Seattle's Human Services Department's Aging and Disability Services Division.

The theme for this month is Flip the Script on Aging, intending to transform how society views, talks about, and approaches aging, as well as challenging the stereotypes and misconceptions.

And to that...

I have a button here that says, I love aging, so I proudly wear this button.

So we encourage all Seattle residents to connect with their elder family members, their friends, their neighbors, their colleagues, and honor their contributions to our communities, as well as consider how we think of and approach aging and ourselves.

It really is, in some ways, the new frontier in terms of challenging stereotypes and limitations.

So I'm very pleased to present this proclamation to Pamela Williams, and I'll meet you down here for the presentation.

No, first we ask if there are any...

Oh, I'm sorry.

Hold on, please.

Do any of my colleagues wish to make comments?

Well, I do.

I will just simply say thank you very much again for bringing this forward.

Right now, I don't mean to be a downer, but with President Trump cutting Medicaid, Medicare, et cetera, or threatening to, people can feel more vulnerable.

And in this proclamation, I think recognizes people over 50 to be in that category.

So I'm right there with you.

And I just want to say to our older Americans in Seattle that we've got your back.

We recognize and we're with you.

And thank you very much.

with that.

All right.

So, oh, there's a hand up.

Council Member Strauss.

Thank you, Council President, and thank you, Council Member Moore, for bringing this proclamation before us.

It was an honor to get to work for the last council member that held the position that you do, which is putting this forward, Council Member Sally Bagshaw.

I see some folks from Human Services Department who do the work every day out here in the audience, and I want to thank you all for what you do on behalf of the City of Seattle and the residents we serve.

Thank you.

Okay, if there aren't any other comments, I will suspend the rules so that we can present this proclamation and the receivers can make some comments on their own.

Seeing no objection, the rules are suspended.

Thank you, everyone, and good afternoon.

On behalf of the Seattle King County Council on Aging and Disability Services and the Mayor's Council on African American Elders, thank you for your proclamation for Olders Americans Month 2025. My name is Pamela Williams, and I chair the Council on African American Elders.

I'm joined by Alex O'Reilly of the Aging and Disability Service Advisory Council.

She's the chair, as well as other members from our respective organizations.

Together, we help advise programs and policies that impact adults, older adults.

We offer insights based on what we hear, see, and experience in the community, and based on our own lives that we experience as people aging in Seattle and King County.

As mentioned earlier, this year's Older Americans theme is flip the script on aging.

This is an invitation to examine and transform how society perceives, talks about, and approaches aging.

Overall, we all are aging, so why not embrace it?

Let's challenge stereotypes and create communities where we can all thrive and live later years.

We are grateful to the City of Seattle for leading the change on this by developing an anti-ageism training.

And we're thrilled that hundreds of city employees and community members have already taken it.

I also want to lift up the case managers.

the nurses, and the support staff who work every day to provide care and resources to older adults and strengthen systems so that all people in our region can age with dignity.

Again, we deeply value the City Council for the recognition of Older Americans Act Month.

And we know our communities are aging and experience diverse needs, and your ongoing support is invaluable.

We are proud of Seattle's role as a leader in this space.

On behalf of both councils, we thank you.

Okay, Councilmember Saka, you are recognized in order to present the proclamation declaring May to be foster care month.

Go ahead, please.

Thank you, Madam Council President.

And first off, I want to extend my heartfelt thank you and appreciations to my fellow council member colleagues, everyone at this dais, and the mayor for signing this important proclamation.

which recognizes the tireless and compassionate work of those who support our foster youth.

And it's no secret, I've said this before, this work is deeply personal to me as someone who has overcome the foster care system.

So I know what it's like firsthand.

And I'm grateful every day that I get to be at this dais And also, in a strange way, I'm also grateful for all of my collective experiences, not because I had to encounter them and overcome them, but because I am where I am today despite those experiences, but for the hard work and sacrifice of many foster care organizations, philanthropic groups, nonprofits, social workers, other providers, it's a broad, expansive list, I wouldn't be here today.

And so I'm forever grateful for this work, and I know we are all grateful for the work that these advocates do every day for the benefit of foster youth and our broader community.

So it is May, it is time to uplift and acknowledge and celebrate the individuals and organizations who are truly changing lives.

So today, I think we are honored to be joined by representatives from some of the leading organizations in this space, including Washington State Supreme Court Justice Bobby Bridge, now retired, who is the founding president and CEO of the Center for Children and Youth Justice, CCYJ.

Linda Hall, Senior Director of Policy and Government Relations at Treehouse.

came up in discussion yesterday.

And of course, Laura McCormick, Program Director for ICW Foster and Fresh Bucks Family Services through the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation.

Again, I know firsthand the impact of this work, Growing up in Minnesota, benefited from so many wonderful organizations, including the Wilder Bush Foundation and their old Bush Memorial Children's Home.

But there's a whole ecosystem of providers that we're passed through to celebrate and uplift in the city of Seattle.

So thank you all.

I'd like to present this proclamation to them at this time, with your permission, Council President.

First, I will open the floor to any colleagues who have anything to say or comment.

I'm looking.

Council Member Moore.

Thank you, Chair.

I wanted to say thank you so much to Council Member Saka for bringing this proclamation.

It's incredibly important that we acknowledge the incredible work that the foster families do.

Having been a public defender who represented parents and children in abuse and neglect proceedings, as well as a judge and a guardian ad litem, and I also had the...

eminent pleasure of appearing before Washington State Supreme Court Justice Bradley Bridge, who was an absolute advocate, a fierce advocate for foster youth.

So often the system is criticized legitimately, but the people who are in it doing the work of raising children Difficult times are lost, and so I so appreciate you bringing this to the forefront.

Thank you.

Okay, I'm not seeing any other hand.

Councilmember Rivera.

Thank you.

I, too, want to lend my voice of gratitude to Councilmember Sacra for bringing this up, also for sharing his personal story by way of example.

I, too, when I was in law school, I interned for an organization Did lawyers to children who were in neglect and abuse proceedings and who were removed from their homes and also new people in my neighborhood who served as foster parents.

And really, you know, when in these types of situations, family reunification is always the goal.

And in the interim, you know, while those families are getting the help that they need to, be able to accept their children back in their homes.

There are a lot of loving people who are taking foster kids in and providing stability to these kids as best they can during some difficult times.

So it is really important to acknowledge the kids, the foster kids, and the families who serve as foster families who do wonderful and loving work on behalf of these kids.

Really thank you for bringing this forward.

It is really important that we recognize this work.

So thank you.

Councilmember Strauss.

Thank you, Councilmember Saka, for bringing this forward.

Your timing is impeccable as we're taking up the Families Education Preschool Promise Levy.

I'd love to work with you to see if there's something that we can do in that levy to make a budget outcome from this resolution today.

Thank you, my friend.

I have a few ideas.

Let's work offline.

Yes.

Well, just real quick, I'll just say thank you again for bringing this forward and, of course, lending your story, which grounds us in the reality.

And I spent some time lamenting the Treehouse's loss of funding yesterday, so I just want to extend my gratitude to them in the room and to the other folks that you introduced who make up the ecosystem that provides care and a more healthy and loving environment, so thank you very much.

And if there is no objection, the council rules will be suspended to present the proclamation and allow our guests to accept it and provide remarks, unless you have any closing remarks as well.

The only thing I'll say is, like, gotta name a few uncomfortable truths and then, you know, end on...

you know, what I think is an optimistic note.

So we know that there, sadly, is a foster care to prison pipeline.

We also know that there is a foster care to homelessness pipeline.

And I think 50 and 40% of youth, respectively, I might have those stats flipped, that have entered the foster care system one time, one day, can sadly be expected to go down one of those paths.

But it is organizations like those with us today, and more who aren't, that are doing the work to get that number down and make sure more people, foster youth, are able to achieve their true potential in life and thrive.

And so that's what this is about, celebrating the tremendous work and dedication and commitment of all those people in the ecosystem, mentors, whatever, that are doing the work to support and uplift our youth, particularly those most in need.

So I'm honored to present this.

So no further ado.

All right, go ahead.

You can be whichever one you want.

Since I'm here.

Can you hear me all right?

Yes.

Great.

Thank you so much.

My name is Bobbi Bridge, and I am very proud to be the founding president and CEO of the Center for Children and Youth Justice, my successor at the Center for Children and Youth Justice, AKA CCYJ.

It's just easier to say it that way.

is in Florida with her not even week old first grandchild.

So I thought she could absent herself from this one.

And so it's my honor to speak today on behalf of two organizations that are with me, Lauren from United Tribes, Indians of All Tribes, and Linda from Treehouse.

and also for me to accept this on behalf of the Center for CCYJ.

And also to thank so many others, maybe some of you who are in this audience, for their work every day to guide our children and youth to reach their fullest potential.

Foster parents, kinship care providers, caseworkers, child welfare professionals, nonprofit service providers, teachers, and even judges and lawyers.

Friends and neighbors are all providing essential services, loving care to our most important resources, our children and youth.

AI is never going to replace them, and AI is never going to replace our resource, meaning our kids and children.

Our foster care system is not perfect, as Rob has said.

It doesn't prevent all harm.

It doesn't protect all children and their families.

And we make mistakes.

But in over 40 years that I've been privileged to be a part of this work, we've gotten better.

We've reduced the number of kids placed outside their home by one half.

And those placements are resulting in shorter lengths of stay, although also, as Councilmember Saka has implied, even one day is too much.

But when they're placed now, they're more likely to be placed with family, with kin, as we say, also because we're listening to research, and we're listening better to the families, those we serve.

Not as much as we should, but we are listening better.

And still, we fall short.

There's lots more work to do to address homelessness, food insecurity, educational deficits, and persistent failures in race equity and social justice.

But Seattle is a community that cares.

This proclamation pledges us to continue to do better, and we can't do it without all of us, all of you.

Thanks to the mayor and council for their acknowledgment of our common mission and our common values to make Seattle a beloved community.

Thank you so much.

Okay, Council Member Rink, you are recognized in order to present the proclamation on Frank Chopp Day of Action.

Thank you.

Colleagues, it is truly an honor to bring forward this proclamation today designating May 13th as Frank Chopp Day of Action.

Frank was a mentor to me, and I know many people in this room.

I thought I knew Frank's legacy until I started working on this proclamation, and I want to thank the family who's here today, Nancy and Ellie, who will be sharing a couple words with us shortly.

I want to thank you both for your work on this.

I got to know Frank better through the process, and he is far more incredible than I even already thought.

And so I want to thank you for your work, not just in supporting developing this proclamation, but also for sharing him with us.

Colleagues, if I shared every single thing that Frank Chopp did for this community, we'd be here all night, and it would be a fun night for the record, but it would be a very long night.

So I wanna highlight just a couple of pieces of his legacy, particularly how they've influenced the lives of Seattleites across every corner of this city.

When Frank was a student at UW, go Dawgs, he was active in opposing redlining and helped found the Seattle Tenants Union.

He has been the managing director of the Pike Market Senior Center, founder of the Fremont Public Association, now known as Solid Ground.

He established our first Seattle housing levy organizing efforts in 1986. He also established the Housing Trust Fund, the Education Legacy Trust Account, expanded the document recording fees, and most recently helped to fund the Covenant Home Ownership Account, this program which is working to right the historical wrongs.

in our past discriminatory housing policy to open up the door for home ownership opportunity for black families.

Truly, his legacy has touched the lives of so many in this city and in every corner of this state.

But the last project that I got to work on alongside Frank was working to secure progressive revenue for the social housing developer.

Some of y'all who have Hulu might have seen the ads.

It was featuring Frank and I really pushing for making sure that we were setting up the social housing developer for success and delivering union-built social housing for working people.

It was incredible to work alongside him for that.

And that is why I remain committed to making sure we're establishing and setting up the social housing developer for success so they can deliver on that.

So today's proclamation, you might have noticed, it's not just Frank Chop Day.

He wouldn't have liked that.

If you knew him, you would have known he wouldn't have liked that.

That wasn't his vibe.

The thing that Frank wanted more than anything was to get work done.

He wanted to put people to work.

He put me to work.

I think he put a number of people in this room to work.

And so it's exactly what he would have wanted, to make sure that we were carrying forward the work.

And so colleagues, by establishing this day as a day of action, this is a reminder for us as elected leaders that we have a duty to deliver.

Frank was about the work through and through, and the best way we can honor him is by getting to work.

And that's why I'm committing publicly to working tirelessly to fight for working people, our renters, the right to organize, and for housing and healthcare justice for all.

And I would love to hear how folks plan to take action and keep up this fight.

And I invite everyone here to join us at four o'clock in the Bertha Knights Landis Room, where we'll not only just talk about Frank's incredible legacy, but talk about getting work done.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Are there any people that would like to make comments?

Councilmember Strauss.

Thank you, and thank you, Council Member Rink, for bringing this forward.

As she said, if we went through the legacy, we'd be here all night.

It would be a really great and healthy evening, but it would be a very long evening.

And so we'll reconvene in Bertha-Nightlandis after this to continue the conversation.

Just a few things for me on the record before I get into...

him as a politician and a leader, he worked with my godmother in Cascade neighborhood organizing folks.

Ellie, I know that you went to Model UN with you in DC with my good friend, Mr. Bell.

And Andy talks a lot about that experience of getting to be with him as a dad.

I think it's a geodesic dome on Cherry Street that he built.

What was he doing?

But he knew that somebody needed a place to rest their head.

And at that point in his life, he knew that he had a hammer and a nail.

He walks the talk.

And the full extent of his impact will never be known.

It'll never be known because he's humble and because he knew that a place to live or a place for someone to lay their head was more important than a press release.

And it's going to take all of us to keep that legacy going and to keep those ripples moving.

And we're all just so lucky enough to have had him in our community as a friend, as a politician, as an organizer, and as a dad, and as a husband.

Thank you.

I want to recognize that council member Solomon is, uh, here via zoom.

He cannot be promoted so that we can see him, but, um, I am, uh, going to offer him or anybody else the opportunity to make any further comments.

Okay.

I'm not seeing any.

I would just say that they'll let you know that I am here and, um, I'm honored to honor Speaker Emeritus Chop.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

All right.

If there is no objection, the rules will be suspended to present the proclamation and allow our guests to accept it.

Hearing no objection, the rules are suspended and the proclamation will now be presented.

Thank you very much for bringing this forward.

camera.

I see.

Hello, I'm Nancy Long, I'm Frank's wife.

I wanna thank Council Member Rink for this wonderful recognition of Frank today.

It's his birthday today, so it's particularly meaningful for Ellie and I to be here today.

Excuse me.

We also appreciate the focus in this resolution on taking action.

Those of you who know Frank know that he was always taking action from the time that he was in college to the day he died.

He got up every day and thought about how he could improve people's lives.

He wasn't a great person to go on vacation with because he was always thinking and working on what was next, what was more, what could be done.

And he had this amazing ability to see possibility and to bring those possibilities to light.

He certainly did that on housing with Sandpoint and Magnuson Park where he saw an opportunity because of the McKinney Act to build some low-income housing and worked on that his whole life.

I mean, he was still working on what was next out there after really pushing for Building 9 to get redeveloped and for cottage housing to be done.

He had that creativity when he thought about the importance of creating Home and Hope, which was the project that he and Tony Ucas worked on with Enterprise to identify publicly owned housing or publicly owned land that could be developed for housing and just recognizing that we had assets right here all around us in this community that could be turned into affordable living opportunities for childcare centers, for community facilities, and that project has generated more than 9,000 homes for people, units for people, and over 134 childcare facilities or early learning facilities.

just from recognizing assets we had that we were not appropriately using.

Expanded that by requiring sound transit to sell off properties that they had from transit development.

transit-oriented communities all because of recognizing that idea of all the titles that Frank had the title he was most comfortable with was community organizer and he he understood that organizing is inherently inclusive so throughout his career community also organizing, sometimes organizing to get people to show up to push the legislature to do things that needed to be done to raise issues.

And one of the things that was at the heart of that was that he always welcomed into his chambers, first and foremost, most important, was to bring in people who were telling their own stories.

like the story of being a foster child, like the story of dreamers who had barriers to going to college.

And those stories of people's lives that they shared with him really were what set his life on fire and set his efforts in way.

I know that he did that in concert with hundreds of community organizations, advocates, neighborhood organizations, some of which are here today with us because of the other proclamations.

And his success is absolutely a shared success brought about because of that collaboration and that inclusive approach, because the power in our community that's in our nonprofits, in our advocacy organizations was something He understood and could not have possibly accomplished the things that he's given credit for without them, and he often gave credit to those organizations for helping him accomplish his legislative support or his legislative outcomes.

So thank you very much for doing this today.

It means a lot to the family.

And we hope that he continues to be an example for people about how to really have a sense of urgency to solve problems and to be creative and recognize the many ways in which we can move justice forward in our community.

I want to invite Nicole Macri, who served along with Frank, Representative Nicole Macri, up to say a few words as well.

Thank you.

Can you all hear me okay?

Is that one working?

I can do this one.

Is this one better?

Can you hear me like this?

Thank you.

It's an honor to be in front of you all today.

As Nancy said, I'm Representative Nicole Macri, and I had the great honor to serve with Frank, representing constituents in the 43rd Legislative District for eight years.

Nancy said it well.

Frank always called himself a community organizer and a citizen activist.

He was really known to be a political genius and a giant in our state, particularly in the halls of Olympia.

He cared for people across the state and he loved this city.

Many of you are probably familiar with the many projects that Frank was involved with building here in the city of Seattle.

I invite you to go to any city in Washington state where there are many, many other housing projects and healthcare facilities that have Frank's mark on them.

I am one of the countless people who has been organized by Frank over his long, long tenure, and it is quite an honor to have been there.

Frank and I found common purpose in our drive to ensure housing and health care for all people.

in our state.

Frank is the person who made sure that every kid in Washington State has health care.

He made sure that Washington State is the first state where any low-income kid can have an entitlement to go to college for free.

Frank was a champion for expanding child care in our state and for ensuring that we have long-term care for older adults in this state, and that we have paid family leave for all working people in this state.

As you've heard already, we can go on and on about his legacy.

All of these things that you heard about today were only possible because of his incredible skill and humility in bringing people together and letting those who were most impacted lead on these issues.

efforts.

I'm just so grateful to all of you for recognizing not only Frank's legacy, but his commitment to action.

And I look forward to working, continuing to work with all of you to make sure that we live out his legacy and continue to do good work for the people of this city.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

I see your hand.

Hold on a second.

I would like to also recognize that we also have 43rd Legislative District Representative Sean Scott in the House as well.

So thank you very much for being here on this occasion.

Councilmember Saka.

Thank you, Madam Council President.

Point of personal privilege.

I just want to take a moment to recognize Mr. Phil Lewis, co-chair of the Seattle Human Rights Commission.

I invited them to join us for this proclamation.

I'm glad we caught you just in time before you left.

I know you got a meeting to head to.

I had the pleasure of partnering over the last few months with Mr. Lewis and the Human Rights Commission on a number of shared advocacy initiatives in Olympia pertaining to foster youth.

And so you don't have to be one of the terrific foster care service providers or one of the many great people as part of the broader ecosystem that Justice Bridge called out earlier.

You can be an advocate, or you don't have to have lived experience.

You can be an advocate and lend your voice of support.

Looking forward to continuing that work alongside you all and anyone who wants to take up this work together.

And, you know, some of that work in Olympia was successful, some of it wasn't.

But thankfully, we have Representative Marcy and Representative Marcy and Scott in the room to help us work together next year to make sure we're even more successful.

So thank you, Madam Council President.

Thank you very much.

All right, that concludes our presentations today.

Thank you all for coming.

This is a great slice of our civic life here in Seattle.

So it's great to have this component to our...

official council meetings.

All right.

At this point, colleagues will move into the hybrid public comment period.

Public comment is limited to items on today's agenda, the introduction and referral calendar and the council work program.

Uh, let's see.

Clerk, how many speakers are signed up today?

We have seven remote and 21 in person.

Okay, we'll give everybody, we'll start with 10 present, go to the remote, et cetera, and everybody can have one minute.

I just want to remind people, please refrain from racist or otherwise abusive language and then clapping, yelling, et cetera between speakers so that we can get to everyone in an expeditious manner.

And if you need to express your, um, your support for something that was said, go ahead and do the jazz hand thing or the clapping or whatever, so that we can move through this fairly quickly.

All right, go ahead and begin.

Speakers will be called in the order in which they are registered.

Speakers will hear a chime when 10 seconds are left of their time.

Speaker's mics will be muted if they do not end their comments within the allotted time to allow us to call on the next speaker.

All right, the first three speakers, we're gonna start with Patrick Gibson, Long Nguyen, and then Violet Lavadia.

So Patrick, thanks.

Currently, the city council is considering legislation that would roll back many of the renters' rights won during the 10 years of Kshama Samwan's Socialist City Council Office, including the ban on school year evictions for school children.

Under current ethics rules, Maritza Rivera and Mark Solomon would be unable to vote on that legislation because they're landlords.

That's why Kathy Moore and other Democrats on the City Council are proposing to gut Seattle's ethics rules so they can make sure they have the votes to push through these blatant attacks on Seattle's working people.

Council Member Moore has said she's concerned that particular voices are being disenfranchised by the current ethics rules.

In this case, she's referring to the landlord lobby being disenfranchised.

And I, along with Seattle's working people, wish that were true if only Seattle's corporate developers were disenfranchised more often.

In reality, the Democratic Party that controls our city government is a party of business bought and paid for in Seattle by the wealthiest capitalists and the biggest real estate developers in this city.

Any Democrat who votes in favor of this gutting of the ethics rules should be immediately voted out of office.

That is disruptive behavior.

This is considered an outburst.

That's against our council rules.

Don't do that, please.

These Democrat council members are attempting to tear down ethic laws that prevent council members from voting on renter-related legislation if they have landlord interest.

The renters' rights, like the cap on late fees and ban on winter eviction, Shama won alongside a mass movement of workers in Seattle.

Now that Shama is no longer in office, these Democrat council members believe that workers are in a weak position and that now is their time to launch an assault on those hard-won victories.

While the current protests are focused on Trump and the Republican Party, this Democrat city council thinks they will not face mass backlash for attacking renters and, by extension, workers.

So they are going to use the cover of Trump to join in on attacks on workers.

Council member Rink talks about taking action to develop affordable housing, but these are the same council members that raided the Amazon tax to fund policing and plug their budget.

The Amazon tax was for affordable housing.

We cannot rely on either the Democrat or Republican party to defend the rights of workers that have won through mass action.

We as workers need to wait our own independent offensive fights to tax the rich for the things we desperately need.

Fired.

Who is the next speaker?

Violet?

Violet, please come up.

You're losing your time.

Go ahead, please.

My name is Violet Lavatai, and I am speaking today.

I'm the executive director of a tenant rights organization.

I'm American Samoa, and I grew up in Seattle.

I don't no longer live here because of the rent increases.

I'm here representing the community, working peoples, elders, who believe deeply in transparency, accountability, and public service that censors people, not profits.

I'm here to speak out against the bill introduced by Councilmember Cathy Moore that changes Seattle's ethics code.

Let's call it what it is, y'all, and it's a step backwards.

While it appeared to streamline disclosure, it is in reality.

a bill that tears down public protection and opens up the door for greater influence by the rich and powerful at the cost of everyday Seattle residents.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you very much.

Please have your seat.

Your time is up.

Your time is up.

Who is next?

Could you please name the next?

Yes, we have Calvin Priest.

Following Calvin will be Jason Thiel.

People really didn't need further evidence of how unethical and anti-worker Democrats are, but you seem eager to provide it.

Over the past decade, Seattle's working people won historic victories, the $15 minimum wage, the Amazon tax landmark renter's rights.

In the absence of Kshema's Socialist City Council office, this council has been hell-bent on trying to overturn those victories.

We defeated your attack on 15 last year.

Now you want to carry out brutal attacks on renters because this attack on the ethics law is really clearing the path to kill renters' rights, which would dramatically increase homelessness and kill thousands of people so corporate landlords can profit more.

That's who these people are and what the Democratic Party is, a party of landlords, of billionaires, just like the Republicans.

I have a question for Alexis Rink.

You claim to support renters and workers.

Why haven't you said one word against this attack?

Workers Strike Back is organizing not only to defeat these attacks, but also to make sure everyone who votes for them pays the maximum political price, including the end of your political careers.

When workers' rights are under attack, what do we do?

Sit up, fight back!

When workers' rights are under attack, what do we do?

Sit up, fight back!

Go ahead.

Please start the time.

Sit up, fight back!

Jason.

Following Jason will be Megan.

It's disgusting that these Democrats and city council are trying to repeal the ethics code in order to ram through attacks on the renters' rights that were won by working people through the leadership of Shama Sawant's socialist city council office.

including a ban on winter evictions and a ban on school year evictions.

At a time in this city when corporate landlords have been caught price fixing and price gouging working people to the tune of billions of dollars, last year alone, the top three corporate landlords in this city earned $3 billion in profits.

And evictions in this county have seen a massive increase of 30% in the last year and doubled.

The rate has doubled since 2019. All of this in the context of other rising costs of living in society makes it even more disgusting for the council to be waging a fight against the rights of these renters.

The Democratic Party is corrupt.

It is a party of landlords.

And anyone that votes in favor of repealing these rights will be kicked out of office.

Thank you.

We have Megan.

Following Megan will be Bennett.

Halston.

This is a list of crucial runner rights.

Oh, this is the victories that they won.

So right now, the linchpin behind this scheme is a company called RealPage, which the lawsuits say coordinate pricing with the largest apartment property management companies in the US.

landlords that collectively control nearly 20 million homes.

How dare landlords control our property?

The property should be owned by the workers and union housing, and to gut our rights is ethically wrong and immoral, just as wrong as separating families that want to continue working together.

In Seattle, these corporations control a majority of rented apartment buildings, big Seattle landlords like Graystar, Equity Essex, Property Trust, Thrive Communities, Avalon Bay, all of whom have a track record of fighting viciously against every single renter's rights.

We have won the top three corporate landlords in Seattle, Avalon Bay, Equity, and Essex property, who collectively own about 15,000 rental properties in Seattle.

We had nearly three million of profits last year.

Thank you.

Who are the next three speakers?

Colleen Bennett will be Shirley.

Hi.

So if you all read the news, you've probably heard that Judge Vidati has filed a bar complaint against the Seattle city attorney for basically the same thing that I filed my bar complaint against her a couple of months ago, putting out press releases, making false statements about the judge.

So just FYI, this is no longer the domain of the protesters getting dragged out of here in handcuffs.

This has hit escape velocity and is getting mainstream coverage.

It's not too late to take some kind of a public stand on it.

City Council members had apparently endorsed Ann Davison for re-election.

Well, sort of.

I just ran into Councilmember Strauss in the hallway and he said he did not actually endorse her, did not know why he was listed on the website.

This is real.

This is a screenshot posted by Hannah Krieg of The Burner on May 9th.

And as far as I know, this is the first time Councilmember Strauss has seen this, but you were listed on Ann Davison's website, Neighbors for Ann, as one of the people who has endorsed her.

So with regard to the other five of you, if you do not actually endorse her either and she hallucinated that as well, that is a conversation you'll have to have with her.

Thank you.

Following Shirley will be Shama Sawant.

It is despicable that Seattle's Democratic Party politicians are attempting to undo the basic protections working class renters have won against the rapacious corporate landlord, multi-millionaire, and billionaires.

All of this is while we are seeing the crush of evictions in King County right now.

And in the midst of this ongoing housing crisis, Kathy Moore has openly stated that she has every intention of rolling back renters protections, including the $10 cap on late fees, the moratoriums on winter and school year evictions, just to name a few of them, all of them which were won through the movements of renters and workers led by Socialist City Council member Shama Sawant.

This repealing of the ethics rules is a naked attack on renters and workers in the city, but let's be clear, this is the legacy of Seattle Democrats, of Washington State Democrats, and Democrats in cities and states across the country, joining with Republicans and attacking working people.

Any Democrat who votes in favor of repealing the ethics law should be immediately thrown out of office.

Thank you very much.

Your time has expired, Councilmember.

Thank you.

Go ahead and clap.

And for those of you who are in the audience wondering why I am just letting this go on, I do not want to take the time in the middle of this meeting to take a recess or to wait for people to be escorted out or to leave out on their own for going against the ground rules that I established.

So I'm just going to let this go on.

So go ahead.

This city council meeting has been an exercise in disgusting and empty performative gestures.

There was a proclamation about respecting older Americans.

Flip the script on aging, says Kathy Moore, the very Democrat who has brought the bill to repeal the ethics laws on behalf of billionaire landlords repealing renters' rights that were Already bad rate of evictions.

According to the evictions lab at Princeton University, around one in every nine renters threatened with eviction every year.

Almost 830,000 people are over the age of 50. And statistics are even more frightening when you look at poor and low-wage adults, older adults, who don't have access to pensions and are forced to work till they die.

You had Councilmember Saka talk about foster kids, wax eloquent, and talk about the foster care to homelessness lifeline.

Do you know how many children will get evicted, how many more children will get evicted if the renter's rights are repealed?

That is why we say when renter's rights are repealed, what do we do?

Thank you very much.

Who is next on the list, please?

Thank you very much.

Your time is up.

Your time is up.

Council President, I'd like to note for the record that this is disruptive behavior, that there's been repeated disregard for the council rules, and I'm asking that you take action on this to note a record.

Thank you very much.

That is a disruption stop.

This is out of order.

You are out of order.

You are engaged in disruptive behavior.

Please.

This is your last.

Please leave the chambers.

This is, this is, this has been a disruptive in, You are engaging in disruptive behavior by prohibiting the normal, the flow of our meeting to continue.

So please stop.

Again, point of personal privilege.

These comments are disruptive to the order of the Council.

They are not addressed to the agenda.

Again, making a record that this is disruptive behavior.

And I would ask my colleagues to join in making a record that this is disruptive behavior.

This is exactly, so we are now at an impasse, see, because I recognize my colleague that yes, we are, there are, the rules, council rules are being broken through this disruptive behavior that is prohibiting the, don't interrupt, the continuation of our meeting, however, we still have everything on our agenda to get through.

And I hesitate to go through the whole rigmarole of this back and forth and then asking you to leave and then having security help you leave, et cetera, et cetera.

And so that is the situation that we find ourselves in.

So how many people have- We are at speaker number 10.

Speaker number 10, you are welcome to provide public comment and then we will go to the remote speakers.

Gwendolyn Hart.

but we are only scraping by while huge corporations like Greystar, Equity, Act 6 rake in massive profits off of our back.

Just these three corporations made $3 billion last year.

Repealing the ethics law is a blatant tactic to attack the renters' rights that we've won with Shama City Council Office.

The cap on lay fees at 10 dollars a month, the ban on winter and school year evictions, and much more victories of City Council President Sarah Nelson has stated her intention of re-examining, quote unquote.

Do not believe for a second that working people aren't paying attention to this.

Just because you have these stupid meetings in the middle of the working day when people can't come out and yell at you, do not think that people do not notice this.

It's blatant hypocrisy to make us sit through this one hour or so of award ceremonies waxing political.

You won't even sit here and listen to working people while you sell us out to the landlords?

This is the simplest example in the millions of our Democratic Party is no party for working people.

We need a new party of our own.

Because when renters' rights are under attack, What do we do?

We'll now move on to remote speakers.

A reminder to our remote speakers to please press star six after you have heard the message that you have been unmuted.

Our first remote speaker will be Deirdre Haynes followed by Alberto Alvarez.

Deirdre, go ahead, please.

My name is Deidre Haynes.

I support speed cameras.

I assume you have all seen videos of racing, stunt driving, and partying at the diagonal parking area at Duwamish Head.

You've read the emails and reviewed past testimonies.

The activity in my neighborhood has increased and participants have become more aggressive.

They don't come to Duwamish Head to enjoy the view.

They come because they have turned this area into an all-night party club and their personal Indy 500. Noise is so loud, my Apple Watch sends a loud environment notice When I'm inside my home with doors and windows closed, sleep is impossible.

Sleep deprivation is real.

Again, the view is not the reason.

The view is just a bonus.

Because they're partying with alcohol and drugs and the area does not have a public bathroom, they use Marshall Reserve, the park next door to my building.

Lately, they have started using our front yard.

Recently, I've had additional invasion of privacy with lasers and high-powered flashlights being aimed at my windows and lighting the interiors of my home.

There are often guns in fights.

Speed cameras will not resolve these issues, but they are an important tool that will aid our police department in their efforts to curtail and eventually eliminate this criminal activity.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Alberto Alvarez, and he will be followed by Charlotte Stark.

Go ahead, Alberto.

Thank you.

Rolling back rules of ethics to allow for more corruption would undermine what little trust we have in city council.

Self-dealing, self-interest, and self-righteousness will inflict critical damage to the protections of public good we all depend on.

Chaos and harm by wealthy politicians is not hypothetical.

It is a fact.

No one on this council is immune to corruption.

This legislation goes far beyond allowing a small group of landlords to line their pockets.

God only knows what future city councils would do if given free reign to enrich themselves.

Legalized corruption is not something the public has ever voted for.

Council member Kathy Moore, please take down your bill.

Thank you and have a good day.

thank you our next speaker will be charlotte stark and charlotte will be followed by david haynes go ahead charlotte good hello um i'm supporting the funds for the automated traffic safety cameras and the amendments by councilman rob saka by the way a councilman part of the best city council that seattle has had in a long time This is to address high speed in highly dangerous roads and in Alkai it is long overdue.

It's a neighborhood where both residents and visitors have seen consistent dangers with high reckless speed causing injury accidents, countless close calls, injuries and crashes where drivers exceed 80 miles an hour in a 25 mile an hour zone.

Vehicles have plunged over the seawall which is highly publicized and the danger is year round.

most predominantly, though, in the summer months by bad actors at the same time when we have the highest concentration of local visitors and tourists from around the world.

They walk, run, bike, attend seafare events, volleyball tournaments, and festivals, and everyone deserves to be safe.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is David Haynes, and David will be followed by Clara Hantor.

Go ahead, David.

David, are you there?

Thank you.

Yes, thank you.

I think we need noble use of a drone to help target some of the evil criminals that are predatorized in the community and help communicate that to the cops so they can get it right.

And with that said, the main reason I called in, was it a state violation for council to not admit that they have a conflict of interest on the city council trying to change the ethics rules and laws about what constitutes an ethics violation?

and a conflict between the landlord and the tenant?

While you conspire to further deregulate and inflate the abusive rental market, is it a state law violation that none of the landlords on council admitted they have a conflict of interest at the beginning of the council meeting?

Would that violation be submitted to the Seattle Ethics Committee or referred to the state or the Department of Justice?

I ask because with the changing laws as a favor to landlords cheating the working class renters, As landlords are writing a legislation, rules of law that sabotage incentives on the comprehensive plan and restrict higher levels on the one Seattle plan that justifies a revolt against your own.

Thank you, David.

Our last registered remote speaker, who is present, is Clara Cantor.

Security, please escort people that are disrupting.

Give us one minute, Clara.

Okay, Clara, please press star six if you're ready.

Hello, can you hear me?

Yes, thank you.

Hi, my name is Clara Cantor, and I'm speaking as a member of Whose Streets Are Streets.

First, I oppose the rolling back of the ethics code and support the renters' rights that other public commenters here today are speaking about.

I would also like to speak specifically about the automated enforcement legislation before you today and encourage you to vote no on both amendments before you today.

Whose Streets Are Streets had an outreach contact with SDOT, and we spent two years collecting BIPOC community feedback and concerns about admin enforcement in Seattle.

Many of the streets in Seattle, especially in BIPOC and low-income neighborhoods, are designed to encourage drivers to feed, and we want streets without dangerous feeding.

For legitimacy and public support of the program, all of the revenue needs to go back into slowing down speeds, and all of the policies need to stay true to that goal instead of being used as a revenue generator for the city.

15% of the red light camera revenue is a total of about 1.3 million, while every little bit counts.

Thank you, Clara.

That's the end of our remote speakers.

Thank you for your quiet.

Will you please call the next speaker?

Our next speaker is going to be Howard Gale, then Summer Miller, and M.

Smith.

Howard?

Last Thursday was the sixth anniversary of Ryan Smith's murder by the SPD.

In six days, it will be the fifth anniversary of Terry Caver's murder by the SPD, murdered just six days before George Floyd while you were in office, Council Member Strauss.

And June 18th will mark the eighth anniversary of Charlene Lyle's murder by the SPD.

Just like Urban Sae, who was murdered by the SPD in March, all these people were experiencing a severe mental health crisis while holding a knife, and all except Sae were African American.

All these people would be alive if they lived in the United Kingdom or Japan.

None of these people or their families received any form of accountability or justice, or were, or in the case of C, will be, deemed, quote, lawful and proper killings by all parts of our police accountability system.

So I'm trying to figure out, do you not believe me?

If so, read my articles in the South Seattle Emerald to document this.

Do you not care?

Is your moral compass guided by belief that others don't care, or do you simply believe that these people actually deserve to die?

Summer Miller.

My name is Summer Miller.

I'm a member of Workers Strike Back and Revolutionary Workers.

Seattle City Council should be defending working people, but instead, they're launching an attack on us to serve the interests of corporate landlords.

Their first step is repealing this ethics law so that council members who are landlords can legally vote to strip away renters' protections.

This is about clearing the way to roll back the gains we fought hard to win during Shama Sawant's 10 years in office.

Alexis Rink, you said you're committed to working tirelessly for working people.

You've been endorsed by labor unions.

How come you haven't said one word against the attempt to repeal the ethics laws in order to attack renters' rights we won through Shama's office?

While working families struggle to stay housed, companies like Essex, Equity, and Avalon Bay made nearly $3 billion in profits last year.

Evictions have more than doubled since 2019. Black renters are just 6% of King County's population, but they make up over a third of evictions.

And the council's response?

To help landlord politicians vote to take even more from renters.

This is a calculated attack on working people.

We need stronger renter protections, not weaker ones.

We need rent control.

We need to build a new party for working people, because time and again, the Democrats have shown whose side they're on, and it's not ours.

Any politician who votes to repeal the ethics law or to roll back any renter's rights should be driven out of mind.

Speaker, please.

Who is the next speaker?

Pause.

Do you think that you deserve more time than other people?

Thank you.

Next person.

You are delaying the orderly conduct.

Are we done?

Who's the next speaker?

We have M.

Smith and then Karen Kinch.

Democrats are attempting to undo the basic protections working class renters have won through Shama Suwan's Socialist Council Office.

The Democrats fought against all of these renters' rights, and now they're trying to roll them back.

It's ironic that Democrats are threatening to evict working people from this chamber for supposedly breaking the council rules, when at the same time, those Democrats are themselves trying to shred council ethics rules on behalf of billionaire landlords.

Last year, these same Democrats shamefully tried to dismantle our $15-an-hour victory which was won with the leadership of Shama Sawant and working people.

Workers Strike Back led the fight for that hands-off 15 victory, and now the minimum wage is $20.76 an hour for all workers.

Having failed to undermine 15, now the Democrats on the council are coming after renters' rights.

As others have said, the top three landlords have made nearly $3 billion in profits last year.

We should be fighting to tax those big landlords, tax the big corporations in this city to fund things like free public health care

your time has expired your time has expired stop multiple people have continued to engage in behavior that is out of order and this meeting cannot proceed until order is restored will security please remove the people that have been disrupting the meeting and breaking council rules.

I know.

I will call a three minute recess.

I have to think about this because we have to.

Bye.

Bye.

I'm

Bye.

from recess and we begin the meeting.

Council Member Strauss.

Present.

Council Member Hollingsworth.

Here.

Council Member Kettle.

Here.

Council Member Moore.

Present.

Council Member Rink.

Council Member Rivera.

Council Member Saka.

Here.

Council President Nelson.

Present.

Thank you.

Seven present.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you very much.

We will re-begin, we will recommence public comment.

If there is the disruptive behavior after this public commenter, I will then end public comment because per our rules, public comment shall not exceed 20 minutes.

We go over that all the time, but I'm just, we're going to get through this business and if If that is what comes to pass, we'll just continue with our meeting after that eventuality.

So who is next on the list to give public comment in person?

We have Karen, and then following Karen will be Jim, I believe it's Kinkle, and then Dominique, and then Bethany.

So Karen?

Good afternoon.

No.

Okay, good afternoon.

My name is Karen Kinch.

I stand before you today as a lifelong member of this once great city, as a homeowner, as a reasonable person, and as a proud member of Workers Strike Back.

Today, I address my comments not to the council, but to the others in this chamber and those listening online as those who will view this recording in the days and months and years to come.

The City of Seattle Ethics Code, as currently written, is a carefully constructed document designed to protect the citizens of this city against the rapacious greed of those very people who have been elected or hired to work for us, the citizens and taxpayers of this city.

As currently written, the code prohibits council members from performing any official duty when it would appear to a reasonable person that their judgment is impaired due to either personal or business relationship or that the council member must disqualify himself or herself.

Thank you.

Go ahead, who is the next person?

Okay.

We are, I'm ending public comment.

We have gotten to the end of our time limit.

I did warn that this would be the one to- Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

Let him speak!

That appears to be the case over and over again.

So council members will leave chambers to participate remotely I Object counts president I object to this if you if we if we simply just get through public comment We can get this meeting on our way.

The escalation of the way that you have managed public comment for the last 17 months is clearly escalating this.

I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing.

I do not condone disruptions in the chambers.

However, I do condone free speech.

Free speech is something that is important to us.

I don't condone disruptions, and I think we just need to get done with it.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate your comment.

Did you want to say?

I heard...

I just think that we need to keep going.

I simply wanted to concur with Councilmember Strauss's notion.

Let's continue with the public comment and hear everyone today.

Councilmember.

Go ahead, President.

Yeah, I disagree.

I think we need to follow our rules, otherwise there's no point in having rules.

And we have been more than generous.

We have been more than generous in our application of the council rules.

I support you wholeheartedly in this move.

I also want to take objection to the personal attacks on your leadership style.

This is not the time or place to be making those comments.

You are handling this in the best way possible.

And those comments need to be kept offline.

Thank you.

I just want to say that I wholeheartedly support free speech and that means everyone needs to be afforded the opportunity to speak and every time there is an outburst, it actually doesn't afford everyone the opportunity to speak.

So if people come to chambers to give public comment, they need to be respectful so that we can hear everyone because when you're disruptive, we cannot hear everyone.

And so I do support your authority as council president to do what you must in order to make sure that we have not chaos in the chamber.

If people want to speak, I support.

If they're not going to be disruptive, continuation with public comment.

But if there's going to be continued disruption, then we can't get through public comment and let alone our business.

So this really is back to the folks that show up for public comment, whether they're going to be respectful and allow everyone to speak.

I understand.

All in favor, we're going to take a vote.

I move that we continue with public comment.

If you say aye, then we continue with public comment.

If you say nay, we end public comment.

Please call the roll.

Council members.

Anyway, go ahead.

Before we vote, can you clarify what is yes and no?

Please.

The rules state that I am making a motion to continue with public comment because that is how our rules go, that actually public comment is supposed to end at 20 minutes unless expressly unless it's on purpose to keep going.

And so basically, and we always informally just let it go.

So that is the way things are.

So vote yes if you would like to continue with public comment.

Point of clarification, how many public commenters are remaining today, signed up?

11, I believe, remain.

Eight people, okay.

The vote would be whether or not public comment will continue.

So a vote aye would be to continue public comment.

A vote no would be to discontinue public comment.

Jodi?

May I have clarification for Council President on whether the vote is assuming that the commenters abide by the council rules because that is the issue here.

It's not the issue of public comment.

It's about whether they can provide the public comment within the constraints of the council rules.

So yes, what she said.

Please call the roll.

Council President.

Yes.

This is more of a clerk question.

Is a vote even needed?

Do you have the authority as Council President to relocate to offline?

Correct.

The chair does have the discretion and the chair also has the discretion to also ask the body for a vote whether to continue or not continue.

Yes, so we are going to vote on continuing with public comment or not.

And so that is the first motion.

And if we do not, then we will be relocating to a different location so that we can continue with the, unless things can proceed normally.

Go ahead, please.

For clarification, can you just say again what a yes vote means and what a no vote means here?

Go ahead.

The motion before the body is to continue public comment.

If you vote yes, it is to continue it.

If you vote no, is to discontinue public comment.

With the understanding that no more disruption so we can get through everyone and hear everyone.

Right.

Okay.

Go on.

Council member Strauss.

Yes.

Council member Hollingsworth.

Yes.

Council Member Kettle.

I abstain.

Council Member Moore.

No.

Council Member Rink.

Yes.

Council Member Rivera.

Yes.

Council Member Saka.

Yes.

Council President Nelson.

With the majority.

All right.

It appears that the will of the body is to continue, so I vote yes.

All right.

Six in favor.

In favor, one opposed, one abstain.

Please proceed.

I support that one more time, and then if this outburst, this circus continues, I 100% defer to your judgment if you want to unilaterally make decision to do whatever we need to do to move this along.

Thank you.

You know, you just keep, you guys, you know, I try to draw a line, and then there is equivocation, equivocation, and now you are saying we're going to proceed, but if things get dicey, then what?

It's what we voted on.

If there's continued disruption, then we will stop.

Yep.

Go ahead.

Our next caller is Jim.

Following Jim will be Dominic.

My name is Jim Kitsch.

I am also a lifelong member of this former great city.

A homeowner and a reasonable person and a member of workers strike back.

Following on what my wife said before this, the ethics code further states that members of the city council must disqualify themselves from acting and participating in any matter in which they have a direct or indirect financial interest.

The council members who support the proposed rollback of the ethics code are lying to themselves and they are lying to us.

They want us to believe that they have a godlike ability to ignore and separate their finances from the city.

They also want us to believe that their districts won't have representation because of these protections in the ethics code.

This is a matter of folly, nonsense, and arrogance.

The rollbacks must be opposed and stopped.

Thank you.

Please go.

Who is the next person?

Dominic, then Bethany.

Hi, I'm Dominic Wolfgang Wallace, a member of Workers Strike Back and a District 3 voter.

I'm also a minimum wage worker and one who had to rush here from my six to two shift because the city council insists on holding public comment in the middle of the workday on the day so few of us working class people will even be able to make it.

What's funny is that while I was rushing here, I passed an old coworker of mine, homeless, with a sign begging for money on the street.

This woman had a job and an apartment a year and a half ago, the same job I had at the time, and now she's sleeping on the street, and this is all with the rental protections in Seattle still intact.

The repeal of these ethics rules represents the first step in attacking all of the protections that have been won for the people of Seattle over the past 12 years.

If these codes go away, there will be leagues more people evicted from their homes and thrown on the street, and it's not the people our city council knows and works with.

It is our friends and co-workers.

This is what the Democrats do, and in the past year, we've seen a slew of attacks by them on working people, including the cuts to the state budget and the attempted attacks by Councilmember Hollingsworth on my wage.

Thank you very much, your time is up.

Okay, now here we go with the chant.

There we go.

President, point a personal privilege.

Hold on.

You are recognized to speak.

I think we've given the body an opportunity to continue with public comment.

They have chosen not to do so, and so I think it's time for us to continue under your leadership, of course, our meeting where we can finish.

Yes, this is me.

We will be now...

Pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act, I am now ending public hearing.

and we will be moving into a different location.

So under Pursuant to Public Meetings Act, RCW 4230-050, this meeting will adjourn.

And we will then, no, you are not recognized.

This is what we are going to be doing.

Council, public comment is now terminated.

And we will now, it is 333, and we will continue this meeting remotely.

And we do have to...

Remotely via Zoom?

Yes.

Okay, and media would be allowed to be present in Stampsmith.

Thank you.

Yeah, media would...

So, we will reconvene.

And the...

Seattle Channel, you can prepare to...

Please turn off the camera and the sound.

you

Councilmember Hollingsworth?

Councilmember Kettle?

Here.

Councilmember Moore?

Councilmember Rink?

Councilmember Rivera?

Present.

Council President Nelson?

Present.

Five present.

Thank you, and I will call council members when they get back into the room when they.

And when they put their video on.

Just one moment here.

If there is no objection, the introduction and referral calendar will be adopted.

Hearing none, the introduction and referral calendar is adopted.

If there is no objection, the agenda will be adopted.

Hearing no objection, the agenda is adopted.

We'll now consider the proposed consent calendar.

The items on the consent calendar are the minutes of May 6th, 2025, Council Bill 120980, payment of bills, and one appointment from the Sustainability City Light Arts and Culture Committee.

Are there any items that council members would like to remove from today's consent calendar?

All right.

Hearing none, I move to adopt the consent calendar.

Is there a second?

Second.

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

Will the clerk please call the roll.

Council member Strauss?

Present.

Aye on the consent calendar or nay?

Aye.

Thank you.

Council member Hollingsworth?

Council Member Moore?

Councilmember Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Thank you.

Councilmember Rink?

Thank you.

Councilmember Rivera?

Aye.

Councilmember Saka?

Aye.

Councilmember Solomon, if still present.

And Council President Nelson?

Aye.

Six in favor, none opposed.

Thank you very much.

The consent calendar items are adopted.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation and the minutes on the consent calendar on my behalf?

Okay, moving on.

Council President Nelson, this is Amelia.

My apologies.

Can we be at ease for a couple of minutes?

There's a couple of council members who are trying to get on and I want to make sure that they're able to participate on this next item.

Yes.

Thank you.

Council member Solomon, are you able to do a mic check?

And then council member Rink, are you, I know that you're having technical issues.

I don't want to make sure.

he's here in chambers with me and so we're just going to use both use my phone okay you're muted okay thank you okay um so we just have councilmore solomon that we just need to do a quick mic check do you hear me yes thank you

Rob, can Alexis use your chair?

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Let's proceed.

I do not know if council member Solomon can hear us or if he is near his device.

So let's proceed, please.

I can hear you.

Excellent.

Council member Solomon, you might have more than one item on, and so you're echoing on our end, just a heads up if you intend to speak, but I will, but we may proceed now, Council President Nelson, thank you.

Okay.

Will the clerk please read item one into the record.

Agenda item one, the report of the Transportation Committee, Council Bill 120971 relating to automatic traffic safety cameras, establishing additional uses, for automated traffic safety cameras to increase safety.

The committee recommends that they'll pass as amended.

All right, Council Member Sokka, as chair of the committee, you are recognized to provide the committee report.

Thank you, Madam Council President.

So this before us today is the automatic traffic safety camera legislation.

And at a high level, this legislation would do a number of things, including aligning current city law with current state law, long needed change.

There are some substantive tweaks made by the state legislature last year.

So this aligns city code with state law, recent changes to state law.

It would also authorize the deployment of more different camera types, including non-school speed zone cameras, amongst other things.

It would rescind the authority passed in 2023 by council ordinance designated certain racing zones.

Good news is through some of the amendments that we did and the existing authorizations under the recent changes to state law, many of those prior list of 10 designated racing zones would still qualify under a unique exception, allowing for cameras to be placed within 300 feet of our city parks.

In any event, passed committee last week unanimously and asked for your support this week today.

Thank you very much.

Are there any comments from council members?

I believe this would be the opportunity to address any amendments.

Council member Hollingsworth might be.

I apologize.

I move to amend council bill one two zero nine seven one.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded to amend the bill as presented on Amendment A. Councilmember Hollingsworth, a sponsor, you're recognized in order to address it.

Absolutely.

And I want to thank my colleagues for their work on the Transportation Committee and their amendments.

I just had one thing.

The underlying bill is strong enough.

And there was just one part in there.

And I want to thank Councilmember Rank as well.

We've had great conversations and and I think we're aligned on values.

I just had just one specific thing that I wanted to be really clear about, which was taking out the location.

There was an amendment brought forth that said that the revenue brought in from a specific camera would stay in that location.

I think it should be up to and I I think it should be up to the departments to be able, the SDOT, to decide equitably where stuff goes in terms of the need in our city as well.

So anywho, that's where our amendment, it goes to strike the location specific.

It still will be dedicated to safety.

It's still improvements and enhancement, but we just struck out the piece of location for the camera.

with that.

I hopefully I can get my colleagues support on this amendment.

Thank you.

Okay.

Council Member Inc is the sponsor of that amendment.

Did you wish to comment?

I do.

Thank you, Council President.

So as mentioned in committee, this amendment, as it was written, serves to direct camera revenue back into impacted communities where cameras are located.

We're looking forward to seeing revenue go back and served impacted neighborhoods.

It's the language within this amendment is broadly about guidance, calling out the importance of communities that have high levels of traffic accidents, which is why they are receiving consideration for these safety cameras in the first place.

In order for these neighborhoods and communities to receive long-term benefit through Vision Zero Investments, we should consider keeping the language as it left out of committee.

Colleagues, for this reason, I will be voting no on the amendment.

Thank you.

House member Saka.

Thank you, Council President and Chair of the Committee.

I view this as a friendly amendment.

I appreciate the intent that went behind the original amendment, but with dozens and dozens of cameras deployed across 84 square miles of city landmass, I think this amendment is a common sense one that recognizes the need for operational and execution flexibility and minimizing some of the overhead.

And I think it does a good job of trying as best as possible to meet the needs.

So for those reasons, I am supporting this and viewed as a friendly amendment.

Thank you.

And for the just for people's understanding, when I said when I referred to the amendment and and recognized Councilmember Brink to speak, I was referring to the amendment to the underlying legislation that we are now that that was made against which the Amendment A is speaking.

And so just so that we know which amendments we're talking about in Councilmember Saka, chair of the committee, when you referred to the amendment, you were referring to Amendment A. Correct?

Oh, wrong hand.

No, I was, my own amendment, of course, is friendly to the committee.

Yes, yes, I was.

Okay.

Sorry, this is confusing.

Yeah.

Thank you very much.

If there are no other comments on amendment A, looking once.

Okay.

Will the clerk please call the roll on amendment A, on the adoption of amendment A, yes.

Council member Strauss.

Yes.

Council member Hollingsworth.

Yes.

Council member Kettle.

I didn't get to the audio mic quick enough.

On the assumption that this is council member Hollingsworth's amendment.

Aye.

Thank you.

Council member Moore.

Council member Rink.

No.

Councilmember Rivera?

Aye.

Councilmember Sacca?

Aye.

Councilmember Sullivan?

Yes.

Council President Nelson?

Aye.

Seven in favor, one opposed.

The motion carries and Amendment A is adopted.

Are there any further comments?

You're on mute, Chair.

Thank you.

What's going on today?

Thank you, Madam Council President.

I move to amend Council Bill 120971 as presented on Amendment B of the agenda.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded to amend the bill as presented on Amendment B. Council Member Saka as sponsored.

You are recognized to address it.

Thank you, Madam Council President.

So this amendment is pretty straightforward.

All this would do is represent a reasonable allocation, reallocation of the proposed, the executive's original proposed amount that would go towards the general fund, which was 80 and modify that to 70%.

This is directly in response to community demands to make sure that these camera types and revenues that are generated as a result aren't solely a revenue generating tool for the city.

Instead, they're gonna be, we're gonna use these investments, a fair amount of these investments to invest right back into Vision Zero safety investments and things of the like.

And so that's the first thing we'll do.

The second thing we'll do is of the now 30% for the broader like safety fund bucket, of money under the new revenue after all the overhead expenses are accounted for.

So of that 30% it says 15% shall be used towards the construction of new sidewalk sidewalk alternatives or sidewalk repair.

And we know that the missing sidewalk problem in our city is is very pronounced.

We know equally colleagues you're on many the same City Attorney, Executive Briefings as I am.

You know, we have a problem with our broken sidewalk network as well.

So this would allow us to center pedestrians, center safety, and minimize legal risk.

Plus, it's just the right thing to do.

And so I ask for those reasons, I ask for your support.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Councilmember Strauss.

Thank you, Council President, Council Member Saka.

I'll say same thing to you, Fed and Private.

Same thing I said at the Council Committee the other day.

I'm proud to have supported you in creating a historic level of funding for sidewalk projects.

implementation and repair.

What I don't fully understand today is how quickly we can deploy those dollars.

At this time, I'm having trouble getting a crosswalk on 8th Avenue where I'd like one of these speed cameras.

I got a text yesterday from one of the neighbors saying that an eight-year-old kid almost got hit.

by a car.

This is why I reject SDOT's framing that we have to look at places that we can only make interventions when people have been injured.

We have to make these interventions before they're injured.

What I'm concerned with in this moment here is we don't know how many cameras we will be deploying.

We don't understand how much funding or how many dollars this will be generating.

I agree with Council Member Saka that we're not out here to make money.

We're out here to slow people down.

What also concerns me is that this is regarding all cameras, so that's school zone cameras, restricted lane cameras, blocked box cameras, red light cameras, and now speeding cameras.

If this was just on the speeding cameras, there might be another conversation there.

there's too much going on at this very moment with too many unknowns in the future at a time that I am darn proud again to help support that historic level of funding for new sidewalks I would be open as I said to you privately I'd be open to coming back to this next year or in a future time once we have a better understanding of how many cameras were deploying out and what the actual levels of revenue are because I know that we've been quoted at $300,000, but we're not, I don't know if that's, uh, scaled up with you and I, you chair sock and I both share, uh, vision to get these cameras rolled out quickly and to the places that they're needed.

So I think that's probably more places than SDOT is expecting is all I'm saying.

So I appreciate you bringing this forward and appreciate you hearing me out when I shared this with you in private and at committee.

Thanks.

Councilmember I see I see you Councilmember Kettle one moment please I have a uh a question because I'm not a member of the transportation committee Councilmember Saka how much money are we talking about yeah so we are taught the exact dollar amounts are unknown at this time because we don't we know that this would authorize the expansion of

and double the amount of cameras in school zones.

So from what, 18 or something today to 30, 36 or thereabouts.

And then also, council member Strauss wants, I want my own district in Harbor Avenue and Alki, non-school speed zone cameras.

So a lot of this kind of hinges on the executive's ability to roll these out.

We have commitments from the executive to do the work to roll out the school speed zone cameras and start the work of the non-school speed zone cameras, start installing those work, like the initial slate by the end of this calendar year and turning those on, if you will, by early next year and then continuing to roll out after that.

But, in any event, a lot of it hinges on the executive's ability to deploy these, so we don't know.

What my amendment does is it says, those principles that I mentioned earlier still apply.

We need to make sure that this isn't solely a revenue generating fund, this is designed to change behavior, and oh, by the way, that allocation does that.

And oh, by the way, everyone is a pedestrian at some point in their journey.

And we know our crumbling sidewalk network, broken sidewalks.

We know the challenge of our of our missing sidewalks, of course.

And so this this helps address those.

Thank you.

I was hoping for a dollar amount.

I will just know that we've asked.

Well, it hasn't.

Yeah.

I am basing my my position on information that I received from central staff analyst Calvin Chow, who did who approximated about a half a million.

So that's about 500,000, give or take.

So that is the number that that I received that is informing my position.

Councilmember Kettle.

Thank you, Council President.

I do also want to thank Councilmember Saka, Chair Saka in this transportation case for this bill related to automated traffic safety cameras.

I support this.

I also support the idea that generally beyond the operations and maintenance costs that these kinds of revenue should generally be going to like a Vision Zero in this case.

but as I did in committee and as I've done kind of like Councilmember Strauss in person I oppose this amendment for basically two reasons one is this is a transportation item but it's also a finance budget committee item and I believe that if the nine of us were to do budget pieces individually, I think that would be a concern.

You know, we should be looking to set up through committees budget actions, either through the mid-year supplemental or through the budget season.

And so that's the first position that I have on this related to this amendment.

And again, so that's in terms of individual actions.

But specifically, too, I'm just kind of hinted at, you know, this should also be taken in the context of the similar kind of, you know, cameras, you know, revenue sources from these kinds of things in its entirety.

But also, and importantly, in going through the budget process, we can also be looking at this through the budget process.

process that we're going through as everybody knows the general fund we're in a deficit so again generally i do believe that monies from these kind of activities should be going to in this case like a vision zero But given the fact that we should be looking at a holistic picture in terms of similar ideas, but importantly, these will be the general fund as well, particularly given the deficit that we have.

And so in that case, I'd like to see this personally be worked through in the fall.

And so in that case, today in May, I'm going to be voting now.

Thank you.

My position, I will be supporting this amendment and here's why.

First of all, I am persuaded by the statement that we're not just trying to generate a bunch of money for the general fund.

This is not a money making.

These cameras are designed to change behavior and presumably the revenue generated by them will decrease over time because people will learn.

But I also recognize that we're not in budget time, but this is such a small amount of money then.

sidewalks are, as we know, in in pretty desperate need of repair.

We all understand that there are people that are injuring themselves, you know, more often than we would like.

And so I do see this as a safety measure.

And I recognize that we did allocate a lot of money in the transportation levy for side for new sidewalks and that that I did express my concern that we might not have capacity to actually pour all those sidewalks with the money that we have, because that requires a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of labor, we can still, however, repair sidewalks.

And I've always said that we need to take care of our existing infrastructure right now.

And the number of people tripping or just injuring themselves trying to pass on our sidewalks is too high.

So that is why I will be supporting this legislation.

or this amendment council members is there anybody else that would like to make a comment before i pass it over to council member strauss council member rink go ahead wonderful thank you council president um it's a bummer that

You know, as we have looked at the transportation levy, which was passed, there are a lot of expanded investments as folks have spoken to that would allow for the construction of new sidewalks, which I am fully in support of.

I am supportive of the version that was passed out of the Transportation Committee, as I think it strikes that nice balance of making sure that this is not just a revenue generating machine, but rather we are putting those investments back towards a broader array of investments that do support pedestrian safety, including vital traffic safety, accessibility, Vision Zero investments.

This amendment will move that funding strictly to sidewalks, taking away potential funding for proven safety measures like intersection, daylighting, enhanced pedestrian crossings, calm turnings, as well as neighborhood traffic circles and roundabouts, which is where our transportation advocates have actually been pushing for expanded investments in.

And so while I appreciate Councilmember Sokka's work on this amendment, I will be voting no on this amendment today.

Thank you.

Councilmember Rivera.

Thank you, Council President.

My understanding from prior conversations today is that this is an estimated $375,000.

Normally, as you all know, I'm very diligent on the budget and waiting till the fall for all things since this is coming before us now in terms of this revenue piece and we have to vote on this now.

I would say that The 30% that's going to either traffic safety and then what council member SAC is proposing as a sidewalks makes sense to me.

And as far as there are a lot of missing sidewalks near schools, and I very much support the safe routes to schools.

I think that is really important.

And given that during the transportation levy conversation, you know, it would be a long time before we are able to complete sidewalks.

And so I think it's prudent to use at least a small amount of this to go toward additional sidewalks, given that we are not gonna have the ability to in the near foreseeable future, be able to dedicate more funding towards sidewalks.

So while normally, yes, I very much agree that we should wait till the fall for budget items since this one is directly related to this and we need to take a vote on this now, the revenue from the safety cameras, and I will support this particular and very...

directly allocate a very small commitment toward the continuation of our crosswalk investments.

Thank you.

Madam president, can you hear me?

Yes, I can.

Council member Solomon.

Thank you very much.

I can't figure out how to raise my hand on the phone.

I wanted to speak about this amendment because I have many streets in many neighborhoods in District 2 that do not have sidewalks, forcing people to walk in the street and coming into conflict with vehicular traffic.

So I don't see a conflict between doing this and Vision Zero.

I see them as complementary.

So for that reason, I will be voting in support of this amendment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, I'm not seeing any other hands raised.

All right.

Are you trying to raise your hands, Council Member Hollingsworth?

No?

Okay.

Yeah.

All right.

Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of Amendment B?

Council Member Strauss?

No.

Council Member Hollingsworth?

Aye.

Council Member Kettle?

No.

Council Member Rink?

No.

Council Member Rivera?

Aye.

Council Member Saka?

Aye.

Council Member Solomon?

Aye.

Council President Nelson?

Aye.

five in favor three opposed okay uh the motion carries and amendment b is adopted are there any further comments on the bill as amended okay i'm not seeing any council member strauss

Yeah, thank you, Council President, just taking the moment to acknowledge that it has been many, many years to get here.

And thank you, Councilmember Saka, for your work on this.

Thank you to all the staff over the last up to 15 years working on this, everyone who's testified in Olympia, everyone who's worked behind the scenes.

I just raise again, I received a in one of the locations that I have been requesting to have this camera placed to reduce speeds between an industrial zone and a residential neighborhood where we've already had cars hit homes, I'm requesting again today that we have a camera placed out there.

When I talked to SDOT today, I didn't receive that commitment.

These are people's lives.

The reasoning that I was provided is that there might be places where cameras are needed sooner and faster because people are being hit at a higher rate.

And that makes total sense to me.

I just cannot continue to allow the fact that people have not been hit at a location to be a reason that we do not put in interventions because I don't want the next text message that I get from eighth Avenue saying, an eight-year-old got hit, not an eight-year-old almost got hit.

So I think that this speeding camera legislation in this program is a straightforward way to reduce the speeding between that industrial zone and that residential zone the data is going to back it up go down there today you'll see not one single car abiding by the speed limit if that's not data i don't know what is so again thank you to everyone who's worked on this over the last decade and a half thank you councilmember soccer for getting this across the finish line And thank you to SDOT and the Seattle Police Department for making this happen.

Thank you.

Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill as amended?

Council member Strauss?

Yes.

Council member Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Council member Kettle?

Aye.

Council member Rink?

Yes.

Councilmember Rivera.

Aye.

Councilmember Saka.

Aye.

Councilmember Solomon.

Aye.

Council President Nelson.

Aye.

Eight in favor, none opposed.

The bill passes and the chair will sign it.

The amended bill passes.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf and congratulations Councilmember Saka.

All right, will the clerk please read item two into the record?

Atend item two, Council Bill 120945, vacating the alley in Block 52 AA Denny's extension to the Terry's first edition in the First Hill neighborhood.

The committee recommends the bill pass.

All right, Council Member Saka is chair of the committee and recognized to provide the committee report.

Thank you, Madam Council President.

So this bill, Council Bill 120945, is an important alley vacation in District 7. that come before our Transportation Committee, but this is an impactful and important project that began originally in 2018 and it is in District 7 again, Councilmember Kettles District near Town Hall.

So and as I mentioned during our committee meeting last week, I was particularly impressed during earlier committee sessions with the benefits, the public benefits that this project will bring to the neighborhood, including sidewalk improvements and new landscaping, et cetera.

So exciting nitty gritty routine item, but an impactful item to allow us to build the future of transportation infrastructure one alley vacation at a time across our city.

So I ask for unanimously pass committee, ask for your support here as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember Kettle.

Thank you, Council President.

I WANT TO THANK CHAIR ASAKA FOR HIS WORK ON THIS BILL.

FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, I DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF DISTRICT 7 ON THE EAST SIDE OF I-5 BORDERING THE GREAT DISTRICT NUMBER 3, WHICH YOU'LL SEE IN ANOTHER ISSUE THAT'S GOING TO COME UP BEFORE THE COUNCIL IN THE NOT TOO DISTRANT FUTURE.

BUT I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT FIRST HILL, THIS SMALL PART OF FIRST HILL, ABUTTING I-5 TO INCLUDE THE AREA AROUND TOWN HALL.

The work around there, for those who have been to town hall, already can know the work that's been done on that alley area.

And I think it's been well done.

And it also serves as a complement to freeway park across the street.

And I think that's something to recognize, too, in terms of public benefit.

And so I just wanted to add, as the district representative, my support for this bill.

Thank you.

Thank you for that, Councilmember Hollingsworth.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair Saka, and thank you, Councilmember Kettle.

I supported this in committee, and I just want to also acknowledge the amount of investment that's going.

Councilmember Strauss, I believe your microphone's on.

Oh, sorry.

We're trying to figure out this whole mess.

Just my apologies.

No worries.

You're good.

Just want to let you know the amount of investment that has been brought on First Hill for walkability has been really, really great in terms of we have Swedish hospital that's investing a significant amount of money with walkability.

And we have this alley vacation connecting with Virginia Mason and just the whole transportation sector in First Hill.

We love to see the investment.

So even though this is not my district,

we're right across the street and just want to urge the council for their support and thank you councilmember Saka for your leadership on this as well and councilmember kettle all right seeing no further comments will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of this bill unless the chair would like to provide nope no last word okay please call the roll on the passage of the bill councilmember Strauss yes

Council Member Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Council Member Kettle?

Aye.

Council Member Rink?

Yes.

Council Member Rivera?

Aye.

Council Member Saka?

Aye.

Council Member Solomon?

Aye.

Council President Nelson?

Aye.

Eight in favor, none opposed.

The bill passes and the chair will sign it.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf?

And will the clerk please read item three into the record?

Agent item three, Council Bill 120-972 relating to appropriations for the Seattle Department of Transportation, modifying a proviso and amend ordinance 127-156.

The committee recommends the bill pass.

Thank you.

Councilmember Saka, as chair of the committee, you're recognized to provide the committee report.

Thank you, Madam Council President.

Colleagues, this is the final transportation item before us today.

It's Council Bill 120972, which would, as noted, lift the proviso from the 2025 budget.

As you'll recall, this specific proviso that we authorized a few months ago during the budget process restricted the use of funds a little over a million dollars worth solely for speed camera implementation and required future council action to remove this restriction.

That's why we're here today.

It's a great thing.

We wanted when we originally, as you'll recall from from our original conversations back in budget, we wanted the department to provide more planning and certainty around this, because they already clearly had a plan, executive already clearly had a plan for the school speed zone cameras, essentially doubling the number from 18 to whatever it is, 16 or 18 to doubling.

And so we wanted to make sure that yes, other non-school cameras, traffic cameras are important as well.

They provide us a plan, gave us some commitments about, you know, current anticipated timeline so that this helps them unlock and get helps get out of the way so they can actually go spend the money and start deploying these cameras because this council member Strauss noted earlier, you know, he has some he wants in his district.

I got some of mine and you know, we now we need them to start spending the money.

So pass unanimously out of committee and colleagues ask for your support here full Council today.

Okay, are there any comments?

I am not seeing any.

I do wanna acknowledge that former council member Alex Peterson was a big proponent of additional speed cameras in school zones.

And so some of this is a continuation of some of those efforts as well.

All right, if there are no more comments, will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill?

Council Member Strauss?

Yes.

Council Member Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Council Member Kettle?

Aye.

Council Member Rink?

Yes.

Council Member Rivera?

Aye.

Council Member Saka?

Aye.

Council Member Solomon?

Aye.

Council President Nelson?

Aye.

Eight in favor, none opposed.

All right, the bill passes and the chair will sign it.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf?

Okay, will the clerk please read item four into the record?

The report of the Finance Native Communities and Tribal Governments Committee agenda item four, Council Bill 120970 relating to acceptance of funds from non-city sources, authorizing the heads of various departments to accept and authorize the expenditure of specified grants, private funding and subsidized loans The committee recommends the bill pass.

Thank you.

Council member Strauss as chair of the committee, you're recognized to provide the committee report.

Thank you colleagues.

This is a straightforward bill.

This bill accepts grants and then appropriates the funding to carry out those grants.

It's a simple bill and it looks like I got cameras back on.

All right.

It's a simple bill.

I urge a yes vote.

Thank you.

Are there any comments from colleagues?

All right, seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill.

Council member Strauss?

Yes.

Council member Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Council member Kettle?

Aye.

Council member Rink?

Yes.

Council member Rivera?

Aye.

Council member Saka?

Aye.

Council member Solomon?

Aye.

Council President Nelson.

Aye.

Eight in favor, none opposed.

The bill passes and the chair will sign it.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf?

All right, moving on.

There were no items removed from the consent calendar.

There is no resolution for introduction and adoption today.

Is there any further business to come before council?

All right.

I am seeing none.

Okay, we've reached the end of today's agenda.

Our next regularly scheduled City Council meeting is on May 20th at 2pm.

The time is 420 and we are adjourned.