Seattle City Council 6/14/21

Everyone the June 14th 2021 meeting of the Seattle City Council will come to order.

It's 2.01 p.m.

I'm Lorena Gonzalez president of council.

Will the clerk please call the roll.

Lewis.

Present.

Morales.

Here.

Peterson.

Here.

Sawant.

Present.

Strauss.

Present.

Herbold.

Here.

Juarez.

Here.

Council President Gonzalez.

Thank you so much.

Presentations.

I'm not aware of any presentations for today, so we'll move to approval of the minutes.

The minutes of the City Council meeting of June 7th, 2021 has been reviewed.

If there is no objection, the minutes will be signed.

Hearing no objection, the minutes are being signed.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the minutes?

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

Hearing no objection, the introduction referral calendar is now adopted.

Approval of the agenda.

If there's no objection, the agenda will be adopted.

Hearing no objection, the agenda is adopted.

Colleagues, at this time, we will open the remote public comment period for items on the city council agenda, introduction referral calendar, and the council's work program.

I thank everyone for their ongoing patience and cooperation as we continue to operate this remote system, public comment system.

It remains the strong intent of the city council to have remote public comment regularly included on the meeting agendas.

However, as a reminder, the city council reserves the right to end or eliminate these public comment periods at any point if we deem that the system is being abused or is no longer suitable for allowing our meetings to be conducted efficiently and effectively.

I will moderate the public comment period today.

And we will have a public comment period for this meeting to last a total of 20 minutes.

And each speaker is going to have two minutes to address the city council.

Speakers are called upon in the order in which they registered to provide public comment on the council's website.

Each speaker must call in from the phone number used for this registration and using the meeting phone number, ID, and passcode that was emailed to each speaker upon confirmation of their preregistration.

This is a different number than the general meeting listen line call-in information.

So for those of you who are registered for public comment Take the time now to make sure that you are calling into the meeting phone number with the ID and passcode that was emailed to you upon confirmation of your registration using the same exact number that you pre-registered with.

If you have called into the general meeting listen line, that is the wrong number and you will appear as not present on my end and I will not be able to call on you in order to hear public comment.

For those individuals who do show up as not present on my end, I'll make sure to call your name out to make sure that you have notice of the fact that you are listed as not present so you can check your credentials once again.

Again, I'll call on each speaker by name and in the order in which they registered on the council's website.

If you've not yet registered to speak but would like to, you can sign up before the end of public comment by going to council's website at seattle.gov forward slash council.

The public comment link is also listed on today's agenda.

Once I call on a speaker's name, staff will unmute the appropriate microphone and you will hear an automatic prompt if you have been unmuted.

That'll be your cue to excuse me, press star six in order to unmute yourself.

Again, in order to unmute yourself and for us to hear you, you will need to press star six after you hear the prompt of you have been unmuted.

I'm gonna go ahead and call on the first two speakers for public comment today.

Our first two speakers are Howard Gale followed by Cody Zaleski.

Howard, welcome.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Howard Gale, District 7, commenting on continuing failure to have police accountability in Seattle.

This Friday, in four days, we commemorate the fourth anniversary of the SPD's brutal murder of Charlena Wiles, who was pregnant, leaving her four children motherless.

At a public meeting after this murder, Council Member Juarez said, quote, we will demand accountability, transparency, and community oversight and not allow this to happen.

Council President Gonzalez said, quote, I want you to hold us accountable.

We can't wait any longer for these systems to be changed, unquote.

And Council Member Herbold said that, quote, we are already shamed.

What I am pledging to you is to work on finding a new way of doing things so that we can actually get different results.

I will use the power that I have on the city council to change what is happening today in our city, unquote.

but then the following years brought us the brutal sbd killings of iosayah palatobo danny rodriguez brian smith shulman kurt terry caver and eric not only had nothing changed but the families and loved ones of those killed by the sbd had to suffer in addition to a brutal and unjust loss a complete failure of accountability and justice because their loved ones were killed in Seattle, where truly independent investigations have been and remain impossible.

Seattle's police accountability system deemed all of these killings either lawful and proper or have not even completed or attempted an investigation into these killings.

A recent NBC News report on officers who have repeatedly shot people focuses on one Seattle officer who shot four people, killing three, including the horrifying and completely avoidable murder of Ryan Smith in 2019. It is only through 100% civilian-led and run accountability that these past bad acts can be revealed, thereby preventing future ones.

I invite everyone here to join Seattleites in a city initiative to finally create full civilian oversight of police by going to seattlestop.org.

That is seattlestop.org.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for calling in today.

Our next speaker is Cody Zaleski, followed by Sage Wilson.

Cody, welcome.

Hi.

Oh, hi.

My name is Cody Zaleski, and I'm a resident of District 4. I'm here representing the organization Decriminalize Nature Seattle.

Our group seeks to have entheogenic plant medicine be listed as the lowest long-term priority with protection to medical practitioners.

I'd first like to thank the seven Seattle City Council members for their signatures last week on a letter submitted by Council Members Lewis and Council Members Herbold.

There is increasingly more recognition that the Schedule 1 designations of psychedelic entheogenic medicine is based in archaic misinformation.

The examination and inclusion of these medicines in the OEIR task force is an extremely welcome change.

We find that these entheogenic substances are incredibly valuable in the treatment of pathological rumination and psychiatric disorders.

Not only do these medicines carry low to no risk of addiction and abuse, but are actually beneficial in treating the abuse of their substances, such as alcohol and opiates.

Based on preliminary evidence, these medicines even exceed the success rate of 12-step programs.

In addition to their inclusion on the OER task force, we would ask the council to signal their support by taking the very modest step of making enforcement of drug laws related to antigens the lowest law enforcement priority as soon as possible.

If the city of Seattle passes our measure, we will be the eighth city in the country to acknowledge the benefits of these substances and send a signal to state and federal lawmakers that people are ready for more comprehensive legal change.

Thank you, and I cede my time.

Thank you so much for calling in today, Cody.

Next up is Sage Wilson, followed by Raymond Evans.

Sage, welcome.

Hi, Sage Wilson here on behalf of Working Washington today to urge you to pass the Contractor Transparency Ordinance today, including the intention by Council to act this year to make the gig economy pay up.

The COVID crisis has become a COVID bonanza for gig companies.

Instacart alone added more than a half million new workers this past year.

Gig companies have established new lines of business from prescription delivery to restaurant staffing, and dozens of executives have struck it rich.

In fact, DoorDash's CEO was paid $400 million last year.

one of the very highest pay packages on record.

Meanwhile, the people doing the work are paid as little as $2 a job, and too many food delivery workers can't afford food themselves.

City Council took bold and effective action last year to pass emergency hazard pay in six days for many workers, and these laws have made a tremendous difference.

However, as we look to the possibility of these emergency laws expiring, it's time to take the next step.

and act to advance permanent policies that raise pay, protect flexibility, and provide meaningful transparency to all gig workers.

The timeline for action in the ordinance before you today is an important step in that direction.

And as we work with stakeholders to hammer out a policy that raises pay, protects flexibility, and provides transparency, we welcome the clear statements about Council's intention to end what is effectively a subminimum wage for people who rely on gig work, including people of color, immigrant workers, workers with disabilities, LGBTQ workers, and other marginalized workers.

I note also that Council is taking action today on a permanent policy to address some of the concerns raised by community restaurants about their dealings with gig companies.

We appreciate Council as a multifaceted approach to reining in abuses by these multibillion-dollar corporations, and are glad to see Council is taking steps to address the needs of gig workers at the same time.

Thank you again for your work on the transparency ordinance before you today.

I look forward to it passing, including the language stating Council's intentions act this year to make the gig economy pay up.

Thanks for calling in, Sage.

Next up is Raymond Evans, followed by Kim Wolf.

Raymond, welcome.

Thank you, council members.

My name is Raymond Evans and I represent gig workers here in the Seattle Puget Sound region.

I've worked at Nordstrom for 22 years as a personal stylist of a very high end clientele, served in multiple capacities.

I'm a local native of Seattle and also feel that the city has always been a place that I can relate to.

But as a black gay male who's gotten older and things have changed, the city is changing face and I feel like we're leaving people behind and they're falling through the cracks.

The gig work is a nice fallback.

It allows people of color, black, brown, whatever color they may be, to have a way to obtain a life for themselves, come to a city that's a wonderful place, provide a life, pursue a life, and make ends meet for themselves.

But when we're doing work as gig workers and large companies that are making billions of dollars in profit, are expecting us as the person who's already gone through trauma and trying to make it and contribute to society to continue to rely on the graciousness of others who are also stressed, we fall through the cracks.

People are making it $3 and $4 an hour.

We're riding around in cars that we can't pay permits on.

We can't pay the licensing fees.

We can't pay the maintenance.

And it's imperative that the city council, I encourage the city council, to consider voting on this bill today for the transparency so that we can have a better understanding of what these corporations are really doing so that Seattle can continue to be a city which is based in values diversity multiculturalism ethnic sensitivity Black Lives Matter.

So I encourage you guys today to make that happen and thank you for your time.

Thank you for calling in today.

Next up is Kim Wolfe followed by Erin Burkhalter.

Kim welcome.

Thank you.

I'm Kimberly Wolf, I am gig worker and I'm supporting the passage of CB 1269, mostly because of the transparency that's in there, which is the first step that we need in order to know what exactly is happening and make sure that fair standards are there for everyone.

Also, the commitment in this bill to pass fair labor standards or pay standards this year is the thing that I'm most excited about.

And I really hope that you guys get this passed today.

I can see the rest of my time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kim, for calling in.

Next up is Erin Burkhalter, followed by Michelle Thomas.

Erin, welcome.

Hi I'm Aaron Burkhalter.

I am a project manager with the LEAD programs in the southwest area of King County which includes the southwest precinct that opened operations in December.

I'm here to talk about funding LEAD to bridge a gap to meet the needs of our community.

In the southwest precinct we have a great relationship working with area organizations residents and business owners the latter of which are particularly excited about LEAD arriving to West Seattle and ask me all the time what can we do to help.

And they are also asking in what ways we might be able to help them.

With a $3 million funding gap, we are asking businesses and residences for their patience, even though we have an important group who can help us prevent people from landing in the criminal justice system.

Filling the gap will not only provide us with resources in terms of case management we need for the program to be successful, but it will allow our community as well to participate in a program that prevents harm to the clients that we serve and impact to the surrounding area.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for calling in, Aaron.

Next up is Michelle Thomas followed by Mariah Mitchell.

Michelle, welcome.

Hi, I'm Michelle Thomas with the Washington Low-Income Housing Alliance testifying with strong support for the Transparency Ordinance before you today, including the commitment to take action to enact a minimum compensation policy for gig workers this year.

The city and state have taken important steps to expand tenant protections and address our affordable housing crisis, but we have to do more, including by raising pay for gig workers who are some of the lowest paid workers in our city.

According to the latest out-of-reach report from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, Workers need a job paying more than $40 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment in King County.

But tens of thousands of jobs via apps like Instacart and DoorDash pay as little as $2 a job, far less than minimum wage.

This is directly related to housing justice and the current eviction crisis.

Economic security is housing security.

When people get paid a living wage, they can afford to pay the rent.

This is also about racial justice and creating an equitable recovery from the pandemic.

BIPOC workers are highly represented as both gig workers and as renters.

BIPOC renters disproportionately face housing insecurity and eviction.

Ensuring fair and decent wages for gig workers is critical for racial justice and housing stability.

I urge you to pass the transparency ordinance today with the commitment to take action this year to end the sub-minimum wage for gig workers.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for calling in, Michelle.

Next up is Mariah Mitchell, followed by Jason Reeves.

Go ahead, Mariah.

Mariah, I see that you are unmuted on my end, but we cannot hear you, so check to see if you're muted on your phone.

Okay, I am.

Can you hear me now?

Yeah, we can hear you.

Go ahead.

Okay, so my name is Mariah Mitchell, and I am calling in for the transparency today.

I would like to say that I am a family member of Charlena Lyles, and I also grew up by the North Precinct.

And I am very familiar with the racism that comes out of that precinct.

But the reason I am calling today is with Working Washington, and I'm calling on the transparency.

on CB 120069. I'm a single mom of three and this last year I've had to make the hard choices of whether to stay at home to help my children with schoolwork or bring us an income.

My eldest child would likely stay at home in order for to help the family out so that I could work as an Uber Eats driver instead of being able to attend her own activities.

And the companies I have worked for boasts the ability to make a flexible schedule for ourselves, yet penalize us when daily life happens.

Establishing labor standards for gig workers would ensure transparency, continued flexibility, access to stability, and overall enrichment of our lives.

It would also set equity standards for all so that nobody is getting paid less than minimum wage.

When I first started working, the pay was great.

I could do this.

They cut our pay time and time again, currently without the hazard pay.

The pay is substandard and you can't live off of $2.

Along with that, they have done unfair background check and also have deactivated us without giving us a reason.

You must create labor standards with full transparency for all gig workers.

Thank you.

I cede my time.

Next up is Jason Reeves, followed by Daniel Aruz.

And Daniel, if you are listening, you are showing up as not present on my end, so I won't be able to call on you until you show up as present.

So double check those numbers that you're using to call in.

Otherwise, we're going to hear from Jason Reeves, followed by Tiara Dearborn.

Jason, welcome.

Thank you for having me.

This actually marks my second year coming to the City Council.

And I, again, am also with Working Washington, and I've been coming here for two years asking for work for City Council to back us up with minimum wage standards and transparency and help us truly keep making uh money out there like mariah said we've seen pay cut after pay cut after pay cut while uh their their revenues and their other stock uh prices and whatnot go up and up and up and it's all because of us we're out there making we're out there making work happen um we need you guys to back us up because it's obviously we as we've seen with prop 22 when they have the when they have the chance to make laws themselves They make them themselves, and they make it at the expense of the worker, who is actually the best resource.

Seattleites, we can do better.

I've been asking for the last two years.

Come on, let's get this right.

Let's do it now.

Pulse minimum wage standards.

The transparency is a step in the right direction, but we need to keep going.

And a happy two-year anniversary.

I see the rest of my time.

Thank you, Jason.

Thanks for calling in today.

Next up is Tiara Dearborn.

And I am also showing that William Sirone is showing as not present on my end.

So again, William, if you're listening, make sure you double check those credentials that you called into the meeting for.

And if you show up as present, I will give you your two minutes.

Tiara.

Hi my name is Tiara Dearbone and I'm a project manager for LEED in Seattle.

I'm here to provide thanks to the council for today's proposed amendment of Council Bill 120096 that will fill LEED's 2021 budget deficit.

This will mean that we can continue to provide desperately needed wraparound case management services for individuals most traditionally impacted by the criminal legal system that will work to actually address the underlying needs contributing to this behavior.

This means that we can continue employing our case management team, including BIPOC individuals and individuals with lived experience who have dedicated their careers to doing this incredibly difficult and rewarding work.

We can continue responding to community members and stakeholders' requests for a response that is not traditional enforcement to address low-level public order concerns.

Thank you.

Thank you for calling in today, Tara.

Okay, I'm going to double check my spreadsheet here to see if any of the individuals who are pre-registered and showed up as not present are now present.

And I am still seeing Daniel and William showing up as not present on my end.

So IT, can you confirm that we don't have anyone else in the waiting room that is pre-registered and for public comment?

There are no other public comment registrants.

Thank you so much, son.

Appreciate it.

So with that, we're going to close out the period of public comment and begin on other items of business on the agenda.

First up is payment of the bills.

Will the clerk please read the title?

Council Bill 120097, appropriate in mind to pay Zarder claims for the week of May 31st, 2021 through June 4th, 2021 and ordering the payment thereof.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I move to pass Council Bill 12097. Is there a second?

Second.

It's been moved and seconded that the bill pass.

Are there any comments?

Hearing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill?

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Sawant?

Yes.

Strauss?

Yes.

Herbold?

Yes.

Warras.

Aye.

Council President Gonzalez.

Aye.

Eight in favor, nine opposed.

The bill passes and the chair will sign it.

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

Will the clerk please read item one into the record?

I move to pass council bill 120096.

Thank you so much, Madam President.

And I want to thank the folks that called in in support of this bill, particularly Jared Dearborn, who just called in, who really has been out in the field doing incredible work in moving our neighbors experiencing homelessness into well-resourced and supported hotel-based shelters that have been making a difference for the folks who are receiving that kind of shelter and care, as well as the house residents and business owners of those neighborhoods who have had problematic experiences with some of the unsanctioned encampments.

This legislation gets us one step closer to continuing to hold up those folks who are doing this work by giving them the resources they need to get it done and to accomplish a lot of resolutions in these complicated areas to the benefit of all parties and really making sure that we're centering that fundamentally we all have the same interest, and that's really the core, I think, of the Just Care model and why it has been so successful, is really leveling that, you know, someone experiencing homelessness in an unsanctioned encampment, business owners and residents that have concerns about the encampment ultimately all have the same interest at heart, which is actually being able to move folks inside to get the care and assistance they need And this is the model that we are essentially committing to front loading more resource toward in the run up here to the reopening of Seattle's economy and the reality that during COVID as we've seen in countless news stories.

The resources to provide health care, to provide shelter, to provide care to our homeless neighbors have been the most impacted to a large extent by the reality of the COVID emergency.

And that rebuilding and building back after COVID is going to require filling a lot of these service gaps, which means leaning into models like the Just Care model.

I want to thank the Downtown Seattle Association for the very strong support of this measure.

and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, in addition to the service providers who are, who have been doing this work, particularly the Defender Association, obviously REACH, Chief Seattle Club, Asian Counseling Referral Service, among others.

and I hope that we can get the support out the door to continue to build on the progress that we've been making together and have that impact be felt in more parts of the city instead of just in the Chinatown ID and Pioneer Square neighborhoods.

So with that, I will turn it over because I think there's some amendments that need to be considered as well and appreciate the opportunity to do this.

Thank you so much, Council Member Lewis for addressing the base bill.

There is at least one amendment that I'm aware of.

So we will go ahead and address that amendment.

And then once we've addressed the amendment, we can open up the debate and discussion to the bill as amended.

So I'm gonna recognize Council Member Herbold who has amendment one in order to have her make her motion.

Thank you so much.

I move to amend Council Bill 12-0096 as presented as Amendment 1 on the agenda.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded that the bill be amended as presented on Amendment 1. Council Member Herbold, I'm going to hand it back to you as the prime sponsor so that you can walk us through the amendment.

Thank you so much.

As I mentioned at this morning's briefing, this amendment provides $3 million of the $12 million to expand the city's contract with LEAD.

This expanded contract will allow LEAD to respond to the increase in community referrals as a result of COVID and the increased costs of operating during the pandemic.

The expanded contract is consistent with Council's vote last year to require LEAD to accept community referrals without prior law enforcement approval and Council's adoption of Resolution 31916 in 2019, which declares the city's commitment to ensuring that law enforcement pre-arrest diversion programs receive public funding sufficient to accept all priority qualifying referrals citywide.

Why is the removal of the barrier to referrals requiring prior law enforcement approval relevant to this amendment?

It's so important because our community stakeholders want to use LEAD.

We've gotten rid of the barrier that limited non-law enforcement referrals.

Now we need to address the capacity limitations.

Otherwise, LEAD will not be able to take direct referrals from as many neighborhood groups, neighborhood watches, precinct advisory councils, and business improvement areas that are interested in using LEAD.

So I want to thank Councilmember Lewis and Councilmember Morales for their co-sponsorship of this amendment and urge its Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Council Member Morales, you have your hand raised.

Should we vote on this first or can I just address the amendment?

What's that?

I said, do you want to vote on the amendment first or is this the time for me to address it?

No, now would be the time to address and make any comments related to the amendment.

Thank you.

Well, first, I do want to thank Council Member Herbold for allowing me to co-sponsor this.

She kind of beat me to the punch on actually drafting this amendment.

There's so much interest in sponsoring this because we know that LEAD works.

It is providing the organization, effort is providing consistent, valuable diversion services.

The LEAD program partners with organizations who know our communities and understand the different points of view that our neighbors feel about how to best address the challenges of our homeless neighbors.

But they are also trauma informed and they are trusted by by community members by our unhoused neighbors by business owners.

So it's really important as Councilmember Herbold said that we increase the capacity of this group.

to respond and provide the kind of service that we need.

Constituents in my community are regularly asking how we can expand LEAD in places like Mount Baker and Beacon Hill.

So I'm really excited to be able to co-sponsor this amendment and look forward to our ability as a city to make the kind of investments we need to really begin addressing the challenges that our homeless neighbors are facing.

Thank you so much, Council Member Morales for those comments.

Any additional?

I see that Council Member Peterson also has his hand raised.

I'm assuming he wants to make a comment on Amendment 1. So, Council Member Peterson, please.

Thank you, Council President.

I strongly support the LEED diversion program and will continue to fund LEED.

I would rather see 100% of these housing funds go toward housing people experiencing homelessness, so I'll be voting no on this amendment, which would redirect, essentially redirect 25% of the $12 million.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Peterson.

Any other comments or questions on Amendment 1?

I don't see any other hands raised.

So with that being said, will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of Amendment 1?

Lewis.

Aye.

Morales.

Yes.

Peterson.

No.

Sawant.

Yes.

Strauss.

Yes.

Herbold.

Yes.

Juarez.

Aye.

Council President Gonzales?

Aye.

Seven in favor, one opposed.

Thank you so much.

The motion carries.

The amendment is adopted and the amended bill is now before the council.

Are there any additional comments on the amended bill?

Council Member Morales, please.

Thank you.

I am really excited to see this bill.

So I do want to thank Council Member Lewis.

My office consistently hears resounding support for Just Care.

In fact, Just Care is the model that my office looked to last year when we fought to eliminate the navigation team and replace it with the HOPE program.

I will admit there's still some work to do to make sure that the HOPE program is implemented as intended, but Just Care has proven to be successful at sheltering people in safe, non-congregate settings, at providing intensive 24-7 case management, and in finding people long-term stable housing.

They are not perpetuating trauma to unhoused people.

And we know that to truly meet each individual's needs, we need this kind of service, this kind of option for folks.

That's why my constituents are regularly asking for programs like this to be extended.

That support comes because people are seeing rapid results and they're seeing real results.

Whether we're talking about small business owners having fewer encounters with folks who are experiencing a crisis or service providers who are seeing a real collaboration pay off, we know that house neighbors are seeing folks committing crimes of poverty or crimes related to a state of distress getting the kind of help that they need, and we see unhoused folks able to get into a safe space, receive intensive services that meet their needs, and find housing.

So small business owners, business associations, service providers, housed neighbors, the King County Council, the majority of the city council, and most importantly, our unhoused neighbors themselves have all applauded the work of Just Care.

I was recently in a public safety meeting in the CID where a representative from SPD said that they too welcome the work that Just Care does.

So I don't know who isn't on board at this point, but I think this is really important work that goes beyond traditional outreach.

This is public safety work that doesn't involve the police.

It's substance abuse treatment work.

It's crisis intervention work.

And it's housing connection and support work.

There's a real appetite for us to do something on all of these fronts.

That is a big part of the conversation we've been having in the last year in Seattle.

I've heard it over and over again that folks want this work done without police intervention and without punitive consequences that move people from one place to the other but don't actually accomplish anything.

People understand that that doesn't work.

and showing up with a truck, a bulldozer or a dump truck isn't humane.

So this is an option that really provides a model of care that has acute impacts for our community with minimal funds and support from the city.

They've been able to create a system that really has huge support across the city.

So I'm excited by the funds that we've appropriated and excited to see this work continue.

And I'll just close by thanking both LEAD and Just Care for the work they've done in my district.

And thanking Council Member Lewis once again for highlighting the needs of these programs and council colleagues who have co-sponsored this.

I think it's our strong advocacy that is contributing to this work.

And I look forward to having a strong partner in the executive's office so that we can distribute funds allocated for Just Care in the future.

And as we all know, we can appropriate these funds, but we need to get the money to the providers.

And my hope is that we'll be able to do that once we get this signed.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Council Member Morales.

Really appreciate those comments.

Council Member Strauss.

Thank you, Council President and thank you colleagues for and the sponsors of this bill for bringing it forward.

I'm excited to vote yes today and had hoped to see this bill sooner, and I'm glad to see it here today because we know that just care works, it has been a proven solution to address homelessness with lasting results, rather than.

time-limited results.

This is a program that we need throughout the city, and I'm excited to see how we and how quickly we can expand these services because we need these services.

We need the Just Care program in Green Lake, in Fremont, in Ballard, and throughout the city.

Thank you to everyone who's made it a success so far, and I look forward to continuing to work with everyone on bringing Just Care throughout the city.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Strauss.

Councilmember Lewis, I see that you have your hand raised.

You're the prime sponsor, so you'll get last word.

So let me see if anyone else has any comments.

Councilmember Peterson, please.

Thank you, Council President.

I had a question about the, based on some comments I just heard, I have a question for the sponsor about the bill, and then I have quick comments, just a few sentences.

The question we talk about just care.

I just want to make sure what we're talking about is the model and not a particular vendor or provider.

Is that is that correct?

Well, that that could be one way that it could be interpreted because the I mean, we can't be too too prescriptive.

I mean, the bill is not does not pick a particular vendor, right?

So.

Not necessarily, but the people that have been bidding on this work have been the same consortium of providers.

So I would anticipate that it would probably end up being the consortium that the Defender Association has convened, but it doesn't necessarily have to be.

Thank you.

Council President, just quick comments to close out my thoughts.

Thank you.

I'll be voting yes on this ordinance.

I recognize the urgent need to house people experiencing homelessness.

Placing them in hotels and other non-congregate shelter during the COVID pandemic is a promising, albeit temporary, solution during the current crisis, and so I'm supporting this investment of public dollars.

to make sure the investment of these public dollars is ultimately effective, regardless of which service providers receive the funds management program, since this is not a sole source award, I would ask our human services department to track the key metrics, such as the cost to house each person, and the key outcomes, such as the number of people exiting to permanent housing.

I'll be voting yes on this.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Council Member Peterson.

Any additional comments before we close out debate?

I'm not seeing any other hands raised.

I also wanted to echo thanks to Council Member Lewis for leading the charge as the chair of our Homelessness Committee.

Really appreciate the leadership in this space and the opportunity to collaborate with you, Council Member Lewis, as one of the sponsors of this really important piece of legislation.

We know that the model related to meeting the needs of people experiencing homelessness that allows us to be nimble and not pursue sort of strategies that are law enforcement focused first are really critical to our ability to successfully end homelessness.

And while this is a temporary solution, it's still a very important one to begin to connect people to the services and the housing that they need.

I'm really excited about the opportunity to continue to invest in a model that really seems to have a broad community support amongst constituencies that don't ordinarily agree with each other.

And I think that the results that we are seeing from housing placements and service connection are very promising results, and I'm excited to be able to continue to support strategic investments in this area to continue to make a meaningful difference in the area of homelessness.

And with that being said, I am going to hand it over to Council Member Lewis, who's going to close out debate, and then we're going to vote on this bill.

Thank you, Madam President.

I'll be brief here in closing it out, given everyone else's comments.

I've said a couple of times that my predecessor, Sally Bagshaw, used to refer to things as passing the C-test, or that the C-test is an important component of what we do, like people that can see the tangible difference that something that we fund is having, and then draw conclusions about whether that is making a difference in their lives or not.

And unequivocally, this Just Care consortium during the pandemic has passed the C-test.

I received more positive communication from provider advocates, from small business owners, from neighborhood residents who are involved in this and who have really changed some of their core convictions and perceptions about how to solve the homelessness crisis through their experience of working with and interacting with Just Care and seeing how this approach and this model can work.

I just wanted to add a couple more sort of logistical things at the top.

There are many ways that this investment can be squared with our ultimate budget.

I know that this has been a little bit of a hiccup in funding this effort over the course of the past few months based on interpretations of FEMA guidance and based on schedules of potential reimbursement for some of these dollars.

We have new information now that we didn't have when we initially passed this legislation.

We know that the general fund is recovering at a faster rate than we had initially anticipated when we did our last budget.

we have the benefit of a $10 million FEMA reimbursement insurance program that State Representative Macri passed in the last legislative session.

We have the benefit of knowing that there's going to be another big tranche of federal money coming down the pipeline in 2022 that gives us some extra flexibility.

Even since crafting this bill, we also have a little bit more assurance that Jumpstart is going to survive its legal challenges and be part of the fabric of our city budget.

There are ways we can square this obligation of $12 million that can be spent up front at the beginning of the summer to make a noticeable difference in impact, both for people experiencing homelessness and people who have concerns about the unsanctioned encampments.

There are multiple ways we can remit this money.

The legislation allows, if there's capacity issues, for this money to be remitted through the contracts that King County has.

They would still be subject to the same reporting requirements, but to take advantage of our relationship and partnership with King County to remit those dollars faster, to get them out into the community.

From my conversations with our counterparts at King County, that arrangement would be possible.

if it's something the city needs to pursue to avoid administrative hurdles with our greatly appreciated and considerably overworked human services department contractors.

King County stands ready to be a strong partner and I look forward to helping to establish that relationship if necessary to get this resource out into the community.

I do want to just finally thank the coalition that Councilmember Gonzalez alluded to earlier.

This effort has led to a letter that is now out in the world in the public record where the Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Seattle Association are praising Councilmember Salant for her leadership.

So it is clear we can do great things when great ideas come forward that can transcend some of the divides we have in the city.

And I want to thank the coalition that includes the Downtown Seattle Association and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, in addition to organizations representing arts, organizations representing tourism, and service providers who have been clamoring for this kind of investment for a long time.

So with that, you know, I think there will still be some additional work on the other side of passing this bill to hammer out some of the details and implementation.

I look forward to those conversations, and I'm looking forward to voting on this, so thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Lewis.

Thanks again for stewarding this bill through the legislative process.

All right, colleagues, with that, debate is now closed.

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

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Sawant?

Yes.

Strauss?

Yes.

Herbold?

Yes.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Warren.

Aye.

Agenda Items 2 through 6, Appointments 1940 through 1944. Appointment of Mary G. Wu as Member of Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority Governing Council for Term 2, December 31, 2022. Appointments and reappointments of Cindy Chu, Lisa Nitsi, David J. Della, and Wayne H. Lau as Member of Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority Governing Council for Term 2, December 31, 2023.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I move to confirm appointments 1940 through 1944. Is there a second?

Second.

It's been moved and seconded to confirm the appointments.

Council Member Strauss, you are the sponsor of these appointments.

I'm going to hand it over to you to walk us through these items.

Thank you, Council President, and thank you, Clerk Sanchez.

You summed it up very well.

These are five appointments to the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority Governing Council, SCIPTA.

is the shorthand name for it, is a community driven organization that works in the CID to develop affordable housing, manage affordable housing and commercial property and engage in community and economic development.

These five, I'll summarize these five people now.

Mei Wu is the Internal Controls and Change Management Director for Holland America and grew up in the West Columbia building in the CID.

Cindy Ju is a recent graduate of the Harvard Business School and works as a real estate professional at Heinz focused on acquisition and development.

Lisa Nitze is the Vice President of Marketing Investment and Community Partnerships for Nitze Stegen and is a previous CEO of Social Venture Partners Seattle.

David Della is a former Seattle City Council member and former Deputy Chief of Staff to Mayor Norm Rice.

Among other notable titles, he has held over 20 years in the public sector.

I'm excited to be bringing him forward.

He is being reappointed to the board.

And Wayne Lau has been has a 35-year career in commercial real estate lending and small business lending, including as the founding executive of a local community commercial bank.

He is also being reappointed to the board.

Council President, that is the summary of these five appointments, and I urge a yay vote on all of them.

Thank you so much, Council Member Strauss.

Are there any additional comments on these appointments?

Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the confirmation of appointments 1940 through 1944?

Lewis.

Yes.

Morales.

Yes.

Peterson.

Yes.

Sawant.

Yes.

Strauss.

Yes.

Herbold.

Yes.

Juarez.

Yes.

Council President Gonzalez.

Aye.

Eight in favor, nine opposed.

The motion carries and the appointments are confirmed.

Will the clerk please read item seven into the record.

Agenda Item 7, Clerk File 314476, Findings, Conclusions, and Decision of the City Council of the City of Seattle in the Matter of the Final Assessment Roll for Local Improvement District Number 6751 and the Appeals of Multiple Appellants.

Thank you so much.

I move the adoption of the findings, conclusions, and decision of the council as presented in Clerk File 314476. Is there a second?

Second.

It's been moved and seconded to adopt the findings, conclusions, and decision of the council.

I'm going to hand it over to Council Member Juarez, who's the sponsor of this item, this clerk file, and looking forward to being walked through this particular item.

Thank you.

Council President and colleagues, we have items 7, 8, and 9 that all have to do with the LIDS.

So Council President, I guess I'll just do each individual as we call them in.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And if your comments are divided up in a way where we can do that, that'd be great.

Otherwise I can have the clerk read the next two items into the record.

If, if you planned on addressing them all at once, can we do that?

Would you mind?

Sure.

Madam clerk, can you also please read item eight and nine into the record?

The short titles are fine.

Thank you.

The report of the public assets and native communities committee agenda item eight, Modifying, approving, and confirming the final assessments and assessment role of Local Improvement District Number 6751, the committee recommends that the bill pass.

And Agenda Item 9, Council Bill 12073, relating to financing public improvements within Local Improvement District Number 6751, authorizing providing for the issuance and sale of Local Improvement District bonds.

The committee recommends that the bill pass.

Great.

We will take an individual vote on each of these items, but for purposes of the discussion, Consumer Juarez, you may now address all three items as part of your comments related to this subject matter.

Take it away.

Thank you.

So council colleagues and president, as you know, we've been working on the lid for a while.

So I'm just going to go ahead and briefly touch on item seven, eight and nine, starting with, of course, agenda item seven.

And that is the clerk file, the findings, conclusions and decisions.

And this document is the written record on the matter of the waterfront lid six, seven, five, one.

The council's adoption of the findings and conclusions decision would approve the final assessment role for the local improvement district with revisions recommended by the hearing examiner, which also denied each of the appeals and confirmed the hearing examiner's recommendation for each.

What I should say that is also on the clerk's file is all of the appeals the hearing examiner's decision, the initial report, the final report, and also a chronology dating back to November 2011, I believe.

So the whole history is there.

So we made sure that that was in the clerk file for everybody's reading and recommendation, which all of our colleagues got as well as the public, and we had a hearing on that.

The second item, item number eight, Council Bill 120072, approves the final assessment role.

Again, this would establish the final assessment role for the construction of the improvements of the lid, numbering 6751. That's the number of the lid.

And the third is the bill that authorizes the city, it's the financing piece, to issue bonds to pay the cost for the improvements to the waterfront lid.

So Council President, these all came out of committee unanimously, and so I, as the chair, Would ask that the City Council adopt the clerk file item number 7 which is clerk file 3 1 4 4 7 6 Agenda item number 8 that I asked the committee or the full council to pass council bill 1 2 0 0 7 2 and I asked that full council pass council bill 1 2 0 0 7 3 Thank You

Thank you so much, Council Member Juarez, and thanks for addressing all three items at once.

It's gonna make it much more efficient.

So colleagues, any additional comments on any three of these items?

So we're talking about items seven, eight, and nine related to the LID.

Council Member Lewis, please.

Thank you, Madam President.

I just wanna take a moment to really thank Chair Juarez for I appreciate her transparency and accessibility throughout the process and her committee.

I am not a member of the relevant committee, but certainly this is an area of intense interest in District 7, and I really appreciated the opportunity to be able to drop by the committee, be able to ask questions of central staff.

and other relevant analysts on these various bills and get clarification on things that I was unclear about.

Just speaking generally to the entire Waterfront LID project, which I'm free to do here in this open session and in this context, I did just want to share some of the Takeaways from that hearing and from the questions that were asked, you know, I do think fundamentally it is appropriate to seek the use of local improvement districts for significant for significant infrastructure changes that are going to have the benefit of the entire neighborhood as a whole at heart.

And we know that there's going to be considerable improvement to the core of downtown, to the waterfront, and to the area around the the pipe place market from some of the investments that are going to be paid for partially through this lid.

I do want to say, you know, I know that there are cases out there of folks who are going to get caught the boundaries of the local improvement district where payment could be a hardship, and that the residential portion of the lid as a whole is a fairly small portion.

This was useful information from the hearing that I attended, that it's about 20% of the $174 million.

Just to remind the general public, the lid is assessed to pay for about 49% of the improvements involved in this project, 51% of the improvements to be paid for with other taxes and with private philanthropy.

But I think it is important to flag that the residential portion of the lid is a fairly modest part of the overall project.

I would certainly be interested in pursuing in the future, especially as we go through implementation and assessment that if there are people reporting significant hardship over the course of the period where people are expected to pay into the LID, the council explores some kind of mitigation for the residential portion of the LID folks that are assessed based on a hardship to pay or based on other extenuating circumstances.

But that said, having reviewed the clerk file and having reviewed the rest of the process that the hearing examiner and that the relevant committee and indeed a lot of the outreach work that has gone into the overall waterfront project, I cannot say sitting here in a quasi-judicial capacity that this lid has or I have to agree that this LID has been conducted in a way that is squaring the law and the rules around how a LID assessment is carried out and implemented.

For those reasons, I'm going to vote today on all three pieces of legislation to move forward on this project.

But I do want to flag that going forward, the residential portion of the lid is something I would be interested in exploring future ways to mitigate over the pendency of the assessments in cases where there is real hardship, particularly for people that earn fixed incomes.

With that, I don't have any other comments, Madam President.

I do just want to once more express my appreciation to the chair for being very accessible throughout this process and allowing ample opportunity for me to engage.

Thank you, Council Member Lewis.

Any other comments on the bill?

All right, Council Member Juarez, any closing remarks before we close out debate?

Yes, I wanna thank Council Member Lewis.

I'm glad you had an opportunity to read the clerk file and that the law aligns itself with the state law.

Thank you for that.

Yeah, this lid, the number 6751 means that we've had 6,751 lids since the turning of the century, which aligns us with state law.

So that's great.

I'm glad you had a chance to look at that and that you approve.

So with that, Council President, I'd like us to take a vote on that.

Thank you so much, Council Member Juarez.

Thanks for closing out debate.

Hearing no additional comments, will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of the findings, conclusions, and decision of the council as presented in clerk file 314476. Lewis?

Aye.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Sawant?

Yes.

Strauss?

Yes.

Herbold?

Yes.

Whereas.

Yes.

Council President Gonzalez.

Aye.

Eight in favor, none opposed.

The motion carries, and the findings, conclusions, and decision of the council as presented in clerk file 314476 is adopted.

Will the clerk please affix my signature to the findings, conclusions, and decision of the city council on my behalf?

We have already read items eight and nine into the record and had debate, so I'm just gonna call each of these items up individually for vote at this time.

Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of item eight, which is, hold on a minute, Scrolling here.

Council Bill 12072.

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Swant?

Yes.

Strauss?

Yes.

Herbold?

Yes.

Juarez?

Yes.

Council President Gonzalez?

Yes.

8 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?

OK, moving over to item 9, which again has already been read into the record, described and debated.

So I'm going to go ahead and just call this one up for a vote now.

So will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of Council Bill 120073, which is item 9. Lewis.

Yes.

Morales.

Yes.

Peterson.

Yes.

Sawant.

Yes.

Strauss.

Yes.

Herbold.

Yes.

Juarez.

Yes.

Council President Gonzalez.

Yes.

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.

Will the clerk please read item 10 into the record?

Agenda item 10, Council Bill 12051, relating to public assets, land use, and zoning establishing regulations for the center campus sub area within the sign overlay district for the Seattle Center amending section 23.55.054 of, and adding a new section 23.55.062, the Seattle Municipal Code.

Thank you so much, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Juarez, back to you to address this particular item.

Thank you, Council President.

So this bill would allow for the implementation of Seattle Center's signage improvement project that we've been working on for a few years, as well as its long-term vision for campus signage described in the Century 21 Master Plan, for those of us that have had the opportunity to read that lovely document.

The proposed legislation would amend the Land Use Code, and I think that's Title 23, to establish regulations for the center campus sub area of the Seattle Center Sign Overlay District.

So the Public Assets and Native Communities Committee held a public hearing and briefing and vote on June 4th, passed unanimously.

And so today I'm asking that full council pass this bill.

Thank you so much, Council Member Juarez.

Are there any additional comments on the bill?

I don't see any hands raised.

Double-checking here.

No hands raised.

Okay.

With that being said, we're going to go ahead and close out debate unless Council Member Juarez, you have anything else you'd like to add?

Nope.

Okay.

Got it.

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

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Swart?

Yes.

Strauss?

Yes.

Herbold?

Yes.

Juarez?

Yes.

Council President Gonzalez?

Yes.

Eight in favor, nine opposed.

The bill passes and the chair will sign it.

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

Will the clerk please read item 11 into the record?

Agenda Item 11, Council Bill 12032 relating to Woodland Park, transferring jurisdiction of a portion of Whitman Avenue North from the Seattle Department of Transportation to Seattle Parks and Recreation for open space park and recreation purposes.

The committee recommends that the bill pass as amended.

Thank you so much.

Council Member Juarez, this one is also an item from your committee, so I'm going to hand it back over to you.

Thank you, Council President.

Yes, this has to do with parks in SDOT.

It's basically a land swap.

So this allows for a land swap from Seattle Parks and Recreation to the Seattle Department of Transportation.

It would transfer three feet of land from the Seattle Parks along East Green Lake Way between Northeast 50th Street to Northeast 57th Street to SDOT.

which is Seattle Department of Transportation, which it was inadvertently included as park property.

So we want to right that wrong.

The legislation clarifies that the land is the property of SDOT.

You also see in your materials the bill passed committee as amended to substitute two technical corrections to the base legislation.

It passed unanimously, and I'm asking that full council pass this bill as amended.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Juarez.

Are there any additional comments?

Councilmember Strauss, please.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you, Councilmember Juarez, for bringing this forward.

This is a highly technical piece of legislation that is required.

The Parks Department and SDOT work together in great partnership around many of the aspects of the paving project around Green Lake Way.

This is one of those small details that needs to be ironed out.

I'll use this moment to again make my pitch.

to the Seattle Department of Transportation and the Parks Department to do something similar along West Green Lake Way North, where we need to have a two-way bike lane and a two-way traveling street for cars.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you, Council Member Juarez.

Great.

Thank you so much.

Council Member Juarez, any closing remarks?

Thank you, Council Member Strauss, for making a pitch for a bike lane.

Appreciate that.

So anyway, no, that's it, Council President.

Thank you so much.

All right, debate is closed down on this bill now.

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

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Sawant?

Yes.

Sprouse?

Yes.

Herbold?

Yes.

Moraes?

Aye.

Council President Gonzalez?

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.

Okay, will the clerk please read item 12 into the record.

Agenda item 12, Council Bill 12069, relating to independent contractors in Seattle establishing labor standards requirements for independent contractors working in Seattle.

The committee recommends the bill passes amended.

Thank you so much.

Colleagues, as we all know, Council Member Mosqueda is excused from today's full city council meeting.

So in her stead on item 12 will be Council Member Herbold, who is going to provide the committee report.

Council Member Herbold, please.

Thank you so much.

So in Council Member Mosqueda's stead, I'm reporting out this bill from the Finance and Housing Committee for your consideration.

As it happens, the bill is sponsored by me.

This is Council Bill 120069. The committee unanimously recommended passage of the bill as amended with a vote of 5-0.

If the chair permits, I will now move to address the bill as the sponsor.

Please do.

Thank you so much.

As mentioned this morning in Council meetings, we addressed many of the concerns of stakeholders and the Office of Labor Standards through a substitute bill and an amendment that were both adopted in committee.

Just moving backwards a little bit for some context first before I get into the details of that substitute bill and amendment.

Misclassification is a high priority of our Labor Standards advocates, myself included, back in February 2019, after working with the Office of Labor Standards, the Council passed Resolution 31863. In part, that resolution requested that the Labor Standards Advisory Council work with the office of labor standards on the issue of misclassification and provide input on effective strategies based on their experience in existing worker and business associations.

In May 2020, the council received final recommendations from LSAC However, due to the pandemic, we were not able to take up the recommendations until early this year when my staff and Council Central staff presented to LSAC on the plans to take up their recommendations.

Again, that policy deliberation began, I believe, was back in February.

The finance and housing committee proceeded to have several committee discussions on the legislation, which led to additional conversations and other stakeholders.

Finally, on June 4th, the committee adopted a substitute bill to address the concerns that we've heard throughout the process.

Again, just very broadly, the bill includes a timely payment obligation for folks who are considered independent contractors.

Not every person who is considered an independent contractor has been misclassified.

But the timely payment obligation should be obligations that all workers receive, whether or not they work for an employer or are independently contracted.

But then also the other obligations in the bill.

obligations that require advance notice to a contract employee about what the conditions are for which they will be receiving payment on the front end, and then on the back end, an explanation of why your payment is what it is.

These are labor standards that I think regular employees take for granted.

But in the area of independent contracting, these are not standard obligations.

And it's kinds of information that an independent contractor can look at, help them determine whether or not they are being misclassified as an independent contractor and allows them to better advocate for themselves as a worker.

The changes in the bill that were in the substitute that we discussed last week clarifies that the director of OLS has authority to issue rules for the enforcement of this legislation.

There are some categories of independent workers that have rule issuance authority will allow OLS to take a look at.

Clearly, as was always intended with the bill, not cover independent contractors when the only relationship between the contractor and the hiring entity is a property rental agreement.

That is intended to deal with concerns that we've heard from independent contractor hairstylists whose only relationship with the salon is renting a booth for workspace.

It moves the effect date of the legislation to September 2022 at Office of Labor Standards requests.

It adds a non-codified section related to the standard that exists.

for the Office of Labor Standards to request funding through the budget process directly of the council.

This is a special authority that the OLS director has, unlike many departments of the city, to establish their authority so that they can directly identify what their budget needs are and not have to go through the mayor's office and queues this up as the way that and the mayor will deliberate on the enforcement costs associated with this bill.

It removes platform workers from many aspects of the bill, although not for timely payment.

Those obligations still exist.

And this was an amendment that Council Member Strauss requested that I raise in his absence in committee last weekend, in committee last week.

which I did so and was included in the substitute on his request.

And finally, in line with the removal of platform gig workers from many of the aspects of the bill, it also states our interest as a council on establishing minimum compensation and other protections like transparency for platform gig workers from late September to the end of 2021. And yeah, that covers the bill.

If there are other comments about it, Madam Chair, happy to open it up.

I would like just some closing thanks before we call the vote.

Absolutely.

Colleagues, any other comments, any additional comments on the bill as described by Council Member Herbold?

I don't see any hands raised, so it looks like we're headed right back to you, Councilmember Herbold, for those thank yous.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, I just want to, again, underscore my thanks to the Labor Standards Advisory Council for bringing these recommendations forward in the first place.

The collaboration of the Office of Labor Standards, as well as all the external participants that gave input to this bill over the last several months.

And a special thanks to central staff Karina Bull for her deft analysis.

patient policy shepherding and special thanks as well to Alex Clardy for his diligent work communicating with many stakeholders and tying up all the other loose ends.

Thank you so much Councilmember Herbold.

With that debate is now closed on the bill and I'm going to ask the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill.

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Sawant.

Yes.

Strauss.

Yes.

Herbold.

Yes.

Juarez.

Aye.

Council President Gonzalez.

Aye.

Made 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.

Will the clerk please read item 13 into the record.

Agenda, excuse me, the report of the Community Economic Development Committee.

Agenda item 13, Council Bill 12092, relating to the regulation of food delivery businesses and platforms, adding a new chapter 7.30 to the Seattle Municipal Code.

The committee recommends the bill pass.

Thank you so much.

Colleagues, this is a bill that I have primarily sponsored, but I do want to give Council Member Morales, as the chair of the committee, an opportunity to make comments on the bill before I do.

Thank you, Council President.

All I will say is that the bill passed out of committee with five in favor, none opposed, with a recommendation that it do pass, and I will pass it back to you as a sponsor.

Thank you so much, Council Member Morales.

I am really excited to have an opportunity to bring forward Council Bill 120092, the Fair Food Delivery Bill.

I believe that this bill is going to be instrumental in helping restaurants by ensuring their presence on the delivery platform is in their hands and their control and that they can continue to own the guest experience from beginning to end.

The guest experience is something restaurants work very hard to build and to execute.

When restaurants are unwilling participants on a delivery platform, this creates space for errors, mistakes, and misfires that can and do affect the restaurant and also negatively impact the delivery driver when a customer has a negative experience.

It is my hope that this will also help delivery drivers by allowing them to just focus on the delivery of food, When a restaurant isn't a willing participant and there may be an old out of date menu on line, for example, drivers become the customer effectively and have to make an order on behalf of customers that they're bringing food to.

So this entire process of ordering, waiting for food, getting the food to its delivery address takes a lot of time and of course reduces income for a driver who has little or no protections or benefits.

This is especially made worse as this process can mean a lot of places where an order fails to meet the expectations of the customers despite being well executed by the people at the restaurant or the driver who got the food to the customer.

Drivers should not have to suffer financially because of this, nor should restaurants take the hit when they have no idea a customer is ordering from an out-of-date menu.

Other businesses across the city have shared similar issues and experiences with platforms.

Some of those businesses include Bremerton Heel Tap, Bang Bang Cafe, Cafe Petrioso, Simply Soulful, Chupacabra, and so many others.

My office, in developing this legislation, engaged with Working Washington, Teamsters, hospitality groups like Seattle Restaurant Association and Seattle Restaurants United.

We also engaged with representatives from the delivery platforms directly, and we have also heard directly from other restaurants, all of whom have expressed broad support for this particular piece of legislation.

This legislation is very narrowly focused on ensuring restaurants are willing participants in the delivery food world, which we know now in pandemic life is become the new normal for so many of us here in Seattle.

So it's my hope that this bill will help improve and streamline the process of ordering for customers, making the food reflective of an up-to-date menu for restaurants, and that delivery drivers can just focus on pickups and making deliveries.

So I'm really excited about having an opportunity to bring this forward to you all, and I want to thank everybody who was on the committee who voted in favor of recommending that the full council pass this legislation.

And I also want to thank Vee Nguyen, my senior policy advisor in Yolanda Ho from our council center staff for their amazing policy work on this legislation.

And with that, colleagues, I hope you'll join me in supporting restaurants by voting yes on council bill 12092. Any additional comments?

Hearing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill?

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales.

Yes.

Peterson.

Yes.

Sawant.

Yes.

Strauss.

Yes.

Herbold.

Yes.

Moraes.

Aye.

Council President Gonzalez.

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.

Will the clerk please read items 14 through 19 into the record?

I turn to items 14 through 19. Appointments 19-20 through 19-25.

Appointments of Andrew Ashiofu and D'Andrea Baswell as members of the LGBTQ Commission for term to April 30th, 2022. Appointment of Raja Fahd as members of the LGBTQ Commission for term to October 31st, 2022. And reappointments of Latosha Correll, Deontay Damper, and Breanne Simpson, as member, sale LGBTQ commission for term to April 30th, 2023. The committee recommends these appointments be confirmed.

Thank you, Madam Clerk, Council Member Morales, you're the chair of the committee, and I'm going to hand it back over to you to provide the report on these appointments.

Thank you.

As Amelia mentioned, these recommendations came with a recommendation to pass and confirm, but I want to share a little bit about the folks who are applying for their appointments.

Andrew Ashiofu is a second-generation Nigerian-American who was born in Houston but moved back to Nigeria.

Living under a military dictatorship helped motivate him and informed his community involvement.

Since moving back to the states in 2016, Andrew's been actively involved in the Black Lives Matter movement and seeks to join the commission to help give a voice to those at the crossroads of being immigrants and refugees and also LGBTQ.

Yandra Broswell is a black, trans, non-binary person who is actively involved with the Alphabet Alliance as a mentee.

They also collaborated with the Gender Justice Project and Seattle Parks and Rec, currently working downtown at Espresso Vivace.

They are a staunch advocate for social justice and are able to draw from their lived experience as a QD BIPOC to uplift others and inform their activism.

Raja Fouad is a non-binary trans femme person who was born in Saudi Arabia with family from Pakistan.

They immigrated to the U.S. and received asylum on the basis of their sexuality.

They're now an active member of the LGBTQ community and have extensive involvement with local arts organizations such as the Seattle Art Museum, McCaw Hall, and MoCOP.

LaTosha Correll is chair of the People of Color Stakeholder Committee currently on the LGBTQ Commission.

Through her strong leadership, the commission, she hopes, will develop a community survey specifically for queer and trans people of color and will continue to work with the Human Services Department in response to the council slide regarding improving homelessness services for the LGBTQ community.

Deontay Damper is a Seattle native focused on bringing HIV and AIDS awareness and LGBTQ affirming education to marginalized communities throughout the city of Seattle.

This started with work for POCAN as a peer navigator for the Department of Health.

In April 2019, Damper made history as the NAACP's first LGBTQIA chair, the first in 110 years of the organization.

He is also a Rainier Beach High School Black Student Union advisor and has started a support group for young men of color.

He now serves as the co-chair of the LGBTQ Commission.

And finally, Byram Simpson is passionate about building bridges between his LGBTQ community and city government, and about ensuring the voices of those most marginalized are not only being heard, but elevated.

The city of Seattle continues to face an emergency centered around housing, which primarily impacts QD BIPOC individuals, and Byron wants to continue his work advocating for them and amplifying their voices.

And we are recommending confirmation.

Thank you so much, Council Member Morales.

Are there any additional comments on the appointments?

Hearing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the confirmation of appointments 19-20 through 19-25?

Lewis.

Yes.

Morales.

Yes.

Peterson.

Yes.

Sawant.

Yes.

Strauss.

Yes.

Herbold.

Yes.

Juarez.

Aye.

Council President Gonzalez.

Aye.

Eight in favor, none opposed.

The motion carries and appointments are confirmed.

Will the clerk please read items 20 through 24 into the record.

agenda items 20 through 24 appointments 1926 through 1930 appointment of Hey, well, I'm Ari as a member of sale Disability Commission for turned April 30 2022 appointment of Christina Lou as members sale Disability Commission for terms April 30 2023 appointments of Don Daly and Taylor woods as members sale Disability Commission for terms April excuse me, October 31st, 2022, and appointment of April Snow as a member of Seattle Disability Commission for term date October 31st, 2021. The committee recommends that the appointments be confirmed.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Consuelo Morales, I'm going to hand it back over to you.

Thank you, colleagues.

I do want to share just a little bit about each of these candidates.

Hey, what am I wants to see people who are the same color as her in positions of leadership, and see more people who have disabilities in positions of positions of leadership.

She's young, just turned 24, I believe, and still learning about being a leader.

But she's worked with King County and Special Olympics team to develop more accessible signage, such as using simpler wording where possible, and wants to bring that experience to the commission.

Christine Liu is a queer, neurodivergent, disabled Asian American woman.

Also CODA, a child of deaf adults, meaning that both her parents were deaf and her first language was ASL.

Christine is doing academic research on racial microaggressions and conducting qualitative research on the idea of disability gain, which is the advantages that come with having a differently abled mind or body.

and in her volunteer capacity has worked in tent cities and taught deaf and disabled children ASL.

She wants to bring her leadership, collaboration, and advocacy skills to the Disability Commission.

Dawn is currently pursuing her master's in museology from U-Dub and has extensive experience working in accessibility and advocacy for disabled individuals.

She previously worked with U-Dub's Disabilities, Opportunities, Information, and Technology Center to help with universal design technologies and accommodations, specifically in regard to museums and their ability to provide education through more informal methods, and wants to bring that experience to the commission.

Taylor Woods has spent her entire education and career working for persons with disabilities and or medical conditions.

Her passion has always been healthcare for people and children with disabilities.

This includes access to healthcare, quality and equitable services, price of care, and healthcare staff who represent the diverse disabled population.

And finally, April Snow is a disabled individual who has a long interest in becoming more civically engaged.

April has a particular interest in the intersection of race and disability, and has a specific interest in advocating for universal design to improve accessibility for everyone, crisis intervention teams to better prepare law enforcement in de-escalation, and workplace education so that workplaces are more accepting and accommodating for disabled individuals.

And the committee recommends that these confirmations be accepted.

Thank you so much, customer Morales.

Are there any additional comments on the appointments?

Hearing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the confirmation of appointments 1926 through 1930?

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Sawant?

Yes.

Strauss?

Yes.

Verbold?

Yes.

Juarez?

Aye.

Council President Gonzales.

Aye.

Aiden in favor, none opposed.

The motion carries and the appointments are confirmed.

Will the clerk please read items 25 through 28 into the record.

Agenda items 25 through 28, appointments 1931 and 1933 through 1935. Reappointment of Jolene Linther-Hughes as a member of Seattle Music Commission for term to August 31st, 2023. Reappointments of Paula Olivia Nava Madrigal, Judy Rafaela Martinez, and Terry D. Morgan as members of Seattle Music Commission for term to August 31st, 2024. The committee recommends that the appointments be confirmed.

Thank you so much, Madam Clerk.

Council Member Morales, back to you to walk us through these appointments.

Thank you very much.

Okay, the Seattle Music Commission.

First, we have Jolene Winter-Hughes, who's founder and principal of the Hughes Media Law Group, which represents some of the most innovative technology, music, gaming, entertainment, and digital media companies in the world.

Prior to owning this firm, Jolene served as senior counsel at Real Networks, where she was part of a legal team that structured the first legal digital music service and was a pioneer in developing business models of making music available via the internet and mobile devices.

Paula Olivia Nava Madrigal is a cellist and one of a small percentage of female conductors in the country.

In addition to conducting orchestra, she teaches classical music to immigrant youth.

She holds a BA in music from the University of Guadalajara.

Paula and her husband run two free programs teaching Seattle World Youth Orchestra and the Youth Strings Project Outreach.

Paula's co-founder, conductor, and artistic director of the Ballard Civic Orchestra.

Judy Rafaela Martinez, also known as Kitty Woo, is the co-director of 206 Zulu, a nonprofit organization that utilizes hip-hop culture and arts as an outlet for community empowerment, education, and social change.

In 2009, 206 Zulu became an anchor partner in the historic Washington Hall, a venue and community space that has been a hub for notable artists, musicians, activists, and communities of color for 110 years.

Kitty Wu has worked with notable local hip-hop artists.

She's a co-producer of the Cool Out Network, a music program that began airing on Seattle Public Access television in 1991 to showcase Seattle's hip-hop scene.

And we have Terry Morgan.

Terry started his career in music and African American studies.

His love of culture and performance inspired him to start a production company that produces events celebrating the arts while also developing his own career as a professional musician.

Terry's the founder and president of Modern Enterprises, LLC, and has served clients since 1979, providing talent, production, and technical services for cities, corporate clients, and civic occasions.

Terry's experience as a performing musician has strengthened Modern Enterprises' service of booking talent and designing sound environments for events, and he is excited about continuing his position on the Seattle Music Commission, and we recommend the appointments be confirmed.

Thank you so much, Council Member Morales, for walking us through those appointments.

Are there any additional comments?

Hearing no additional comments, will the clerk please call the roll on the confirmation of appointments 1931 and appointments 1933 through 1935?

Lewis?

Aye.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Salant?

Yes.

Strauss?

Yes.

Herbold?

Yes.

Moraes?

Aye.

Council President Gonzalez?

Aye.

Eight in favor, nine opposed.

The motion carries and the appointments are confirmed.

Will the clerk please read items 29 and 30 into the record.

The report of the Governance and Education Committee, Agenda Items 29 and 30, Appointments 1945 and 1946, Appointment of Rory O'Sullivan as Member of District Commission, and Appointment of Eliseo Juarez as Member of District Commission.

The Committee recommends that these appointments be confirmed.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

As chair of the committee, I'll provide the committee report and then open the floor to comments if there are any.

Colleagues, I'm excited to be putting forward these two nominees for our consideration as the city council's appointments to the districting committee, the first ever in the history of the city.

Rory O'Sullivan is an administrative law judge with the Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings and an attorney who has worked to protect and advance civil rights throughout his career.

In addition, Rory has focused his advocacy and activism on ensuring that democratic and electoral systems are fair and effective.

In 2003, he helped found the nonprofit organization Washington Public Campaigns, which is now known as Fix Democracy First.

And in 2015, he was one of the authors of the initiative that created Seattle's Innovative Democracy Voucher Program.

Rory earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University School of Law.

Eliseo E.J. Juarez has dedicated his career to shaping systems and policies that allow for reflective democracy and maximum participation in governance.

E.J.

has led stakeholder teams to create policy and rulemaking in the private and public sector, including in his current role as a public policy manager for the Group Health Foundation.

Previously, he managed processes that drafted complex proposals with community input in his roles with Solid Ground and United for Fair Representation.

He has also served by gubernatorial appointment on the Commission on Judicial Conduct and the Commission on Hispanic Affairs.

E.J.

has a bachelor's degree from St. Martin's University and a master's degree from the University of Washington Bothell, where his research focus was in civic representation and electoral participation.

During the application and interview process, EJ and Rory each demonstrated strong commitments to equity, as well as deep knowledge of electoral systems and meaningful experience in organizing communities towards strengthening our democratic institutions and processes.

Both appointees appeared in front of the Governance and Education Committee members and provided an opportunity for questions and answers.

And after consideration, the members of the Governance and Education Committee meeting unanimously recommend the full council adopt these appointments.

Are there any additional comments on the appointments?

Hearing none, will the court please call the roll on the confirmation of appointments 1945 and 1946?

Lewis?

Yes.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson.

Yes.

Sawant.

Council member Sawant.

Strauss.

Yes.

Herbold.

Yes.

Juarez.

Aye.

Council President Gonzalez.

Aye.

Seven in favor, none opposed.

The motion carries and the appointments are confirmed.

Will the clerk please read item 31 into the record.

Agenda item 31, appointment to 1939, appointment of Manuela Sly as a member of Families Education Preschool and Promise Levy Oversight Committee for term to December 31st, 2023. The committee recommends the appointment be confirmed.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

As chair of the committee, I'll provide the committee report and then open up the floor to comments if there are any.

I'm really excited for this appointment, the appointment of Manuela Sly to the FAP, Families Education Preschool Promise Levy Oversight Committee.

in front of the council today.

Manuela is a tremendous advocate and one that my office has had the honor to learn from even before she agreed to step up and serve on the levy oversight committee.

Manuela is the current president of the Seattle Council Parent Teacher Student Association and an expert at many levels of the education spectrum from early learning to post-secondary education, as well as community perspective as a parent leader.

She brings significant education expertise, especially in bilingual models for learning and instruction.

And additionally, she currently runs Gometa Play School, a bilingual preschool right here in West Seattle.

The committee had an opportunity to hear from Director Chappelle on the appointment of Manuela.

And after consideration, recommends that the full council confirm the appointment of Manuela Sly to the Levy Oversight Committee.

Are there any additional comments or questions on the proposed amendment?

Excuse me, appointment.

Hearing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the confirmation of the appointment?

Lewis?

Aye.

Morales?

Yes.

Peterson?

Yes.

Salant?

Strauss?

Yes.

Herbold?

Yes.

Juarez?

Aye.

Council President Gonzalez?

Aye.

Seven in favor, none opposed.

The motion carries and the amendment is confirmed.

All right.

Other business.

Is there any further business to come before the council?

Hearing no further business to come before the council, this does conclude the items of business on today's agenda.

Our next regularly scheduled city council meeting is on June 21st, 2021 at 2 o'clock PM.

I hope that you all have a wonderful afternoon.

We're adjourned.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.