Seattle City Council Finance & Neighborhoods Committee 9/12/2018

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our Finance and Neighborhood Committee for September 12, 2018. Thank you very much for being here.

We have a PAC committee.

This is one of our two meetings that we're going to have for the Finance and Neighborhood Committee this particular month, and then we've got a lot more starting with budget very soon.

So we're going to have two appointments today to the Community Involvement Commission, Leanne Doe and Karen Fleming.

We're also going to hear two appointments for Calvin Goings, Director of FAS, and Andre Montilla as the Director of our Department of Neighborhoods.

We had a third, but that one's going to be taken off today and will be reviewed again in a couple of weeks.

SDOT and FAS are going to join us to go over the disposition legislation for what is known as the Brickyard, just off of Pacific Avenue in Northlake.

And I see that Dunlumber is here, and thank you very much for coming and being part of this.

We're also going to have the first of our two meetings on the second quarter supplemental budget.

And finally, we're going to hear legislation that my good buddy Councilmember Mosqueda has been working on.

And really good to see you again.

Thank you for being here.

So, that is a quick overview of what we'll be doing today.

And we've got a few moments for public comment.

How many people have signed up?

This is it?

Okay.

Oh, my goodness.

Okay.

I'm going to ask that we keep this to a minute, simply because we've got so much that we need to get to today.

And if you want your two minutes, Alex, you can wait until the end, and I'll give you two minutes at the end.

Blake Trask, John Stewart, and Mike Dunn.

And I'm going to ask if you can to try to keep it to a minute.

Hey, Blake.

Hi, how are you?

Well, thank you.

My name is Blake Trask.

I'm the Senior Policy Director at Cascade Bicycle Club.

Cascade Bicycle Club supports the sale of the SDOT site to the abutting landowner, Dunn Lumber.

The sale will make their vision along the Berkelman Trail possible.

We support it for the following reasons.

We appreciate the collaborative spirit of the project team, which has engaged us on this vision for over two years.

We support Dunn's vision moving forward, which allows for more local jobs in the North Lake neighborhood.

This vision demonstrates, again, the huge potential for trail-oriented development in Seattle as well as the region.

And we appreciate the partnership that Seattle Parks, SDOT, and OED have had to make this project a reality.

Thank you very much.

Very good.

Thank you so much.

John Stewart, then Mike Dunn, and then Mary Ann Storr.

Thank you.

John Stewart with Feet First, and I'm just going to echo Mr. Trask.

You can pull this up if you want to stand.

Is that better?

To echo Blake's comments, we're also very supportive of this proposed sale and the project for all the reasons that he stated, quite eloquently actually.

I think trail-oriented development is something that we would love to see more of across the state.

Seattle has a great opportunity here to lead.

This project has had an amazing collaborative process, which we're really grateful for.

It's wonderful to see private sector development working that way.

I think the possibilities of actually finally starting to really integrate pedestrians and cyclists into commercial life, if you will.

This is a project that can really showcase that well.

And so we're really excited about it and hope council can support it.

Thank you.

John, thank you.

And I also want to say welcome back feet first.

And it's good to have that whole organization back and visible again.

So after Mike, Mary Ann, John Stobel, and then Anthony Bridgewater.

My name is Mike Dunn.

I'm the fourth generation president of Dunn Lumber Company.

We're a Seattle company, have been here for over 100 years.

and headquartered out of the same Lower Wallingford store since 1931. We care about our neighbors, and we love to do good things for this neighborhood.

We also need to expand our operations in Lower Wallingford in order to keep our store and headquarters there, as our current lumber staging area will eventually be going away.

We are fortunate enough to have the support of the mayor, council members, and community members for our expansion vision, a vision that looks to benefit both the city and the community.

Great, thank you very much for coming.

I appreciate all the work that Dunlumber does for us.

Mary Ann, John, Anthony, and after that, Rebecca.

Hi, I'm Marianne Stover and I'm a member of the Dunn team and I'm here to just present three letters in lieu of attendance today from Neighborhood Businesses to Councilmember Bagshaw.

Thank you.

So do you want to say anything more about the letters since you've got a few minutes or moments?

Sure, they're from Northlake Pizza Tavern and Vula's Offshore Cafe and then the property just across to the south of the block in question.

They're called B&N Fisheries.

Great.

And I assume that they're in support of this?

Yes, of the sale of the surplus property and the vision.

Great.

Thank you, Marianne.

John, Anthony, Rebecca, and then Alexander.

Hello, my name is John Stovall.

I'm a renter in District 4 and a member of Share the Cities.

I highly support Councilmember Mosqueda's resolution to prioritize city surplus land for affordable housing.

As a social worker for several years and a graduate student currently, I've never been able to earn more than 60 percent of the area median income.

And so, and there are tens of thousands of people in King County who are in the same position, many of whom are paying 30% or 50% of their income on rent.

So you've heard the story many, many times.

So luckily right now, we have a very powerful tool at our disposal to lower the cost of developing land, and that is to prioritize building affordable housing on our surplus land in Seattle.

So I just encourage all of you to vote and pass this resolution.

I also just want to just leave us with a parting note that it would be great if the Department of Financial and Administrative Services was known throughout the city as a department that creates affordable housing solutions and not for sweeping people around the city.

Thanks.

Thank you, John.

Anthony, Rebecca, Alexander.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, council members.

My name is Anthony Bridgewater, and I'm with Enterprise Community Partners.

We'd like to commend your efforts on the resolution on the work for public lands.

And we understand the value of using surplus lands for public benefit.

And we'd like to continue to be your partners in this effort going forward.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for coming.

Rebecca, Alexander, and then somebody else from Puget Sound Sage.

Hi, my name is Rebecca Bruin.

I'm a public policy graduate student at the UW and a District 4 renter, and I'm here also in support of Councilmember Mosqueda's proposal to prioritize affordable housing on publicly owned lands.

It's not news to anyone that we are facing an unprecedented housing crisis in our city, and we should be seizing every possible opportunity to make a dent in it.

Anything less is a failure on our part to do right by our cost burdened and housing insecure neighbors.

This proposal is an easy win.

High land costs and truly anachronistic zoning restrictions mean these opportunities to create new housing, especially deeply affordable housing, are severely limited.

We still have 12,000 people sleeping outside, and we still have hundreds of thousands of cost-burdened households in Seattle, mine being one of them.

These problems are not inevitable, nor are they unfixable.

Council Member Mosqueda's proposal is a strong sign of leadership on housing solutions, and I look forward to seeing the rest of the council follow her example.

Thank you.

Well done.

Thank you.

Alexander, and then the individual signed it.

It looks like first name G, last name P, and it's from Puget Sound Sage.

Hi, my name's Alexander Froelich.

I'm a resident of District 7. I'm co-chair of the Committee on Homelessness at the American Institute of Architects and chapter steward of the Seattle Architecture Lobby, a labor advocacy organization for our profession.

While neither of these organizations have yet endorsed the proposal that's on the table today, I've spoken with many individuals who are supportive.

The architecture lobby in particular is concerned with workers in our industry and also the needs of working people across all industries.

Just want to make three quick points today that, one, first, in support of Councilmember Mosqueda's efforts to legalize the use of surplus lands for things other than the sale to the highest bidder.

Second, to urge you all to make good on these efforts by halting the sale of the Mercer Mega Block.

And third, to support alternative forms of affordable housing development, guaranteeing housing affordability through keeping land within the public trust.

Thank you.

Thank you, Alexander.

Okay, and then after our Puget Sound sage friend, we're going to have Hoden Hassan and then Mr. Zimmerman.

Hi.

Good afternoon.

My name is Julia Pasciuto.

I work for Puget Sound SAGE, and we're in the middle of a displacement crisis.

Puget Sound SAGE and our coalition partners in SouthCore have been working over the last four years to create a framework to mitigate and prevent displacement of communities of color and low-income communities from our city.

Publicly owned land is a critical resource to address displacement and ensure housing affordability.

We commend this committee and the legislation brought before you today by Councilmember Mosqueda that makes affordable housing and other community development the number one priority for publicly owned land.

When it comes to solving crises of these scale we're seeing today, the means are just as important as the outcome, which is why we're thrilled to see strong alignment with the city's equitable development initiative in both the procedures themselves, as well as intent to amend the city's administration and finance plan next year to align with EDI priorities.

We look forward to working with OBCD, Office of Housing and Council to further align this plan with these objectives.

Thank you.

Hold on then, Alex, then Marguerite Richard.

Nice to see you.

Nice to see you, too.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Hodon, and I'm a community organizer with Got Green working on issues of displacement in Seattle.

I don't have to tell you that the issue of displacement in Seattle and the lack of affordable housing is, for the lack of a better word, intense and very big.

And I want to commend Councilmember Mosqueda's office for coming up with this legislation.

I think public lands should be for public good and should be used for affordable housing.

And I want to echo everything my friend Julia said, and I'm urging you to pass this so we can have an opportunity for low-income communities and communities of color to continue to live in Seattle.

Thank you.

And thank you for the good work that you've been doing.

Alex Marguerite and then Jeanne.

Thank you.

Start his time as soon as he starts talking, please.

Hi, my name is Alex Zimmerman.

I want to speak right now about appointment Susan Magub, Director of Seattle Department of Human Services.

Alex, she's not on today.

She's been removed for today.

was I kind of spoke about here?

Not about her.

I'm just telling you that that item's been removed from the agenda today.

Calvin Goings.

Okay, so give me one minute because I don't know about this.

Nothing here.

I announced it earlier.

Go ahead, please.

Yes, so give me begin and I will speak in about another point.

We appoint right now Calvin going director of department of financing in administrative service.

I think a new director will be much better than before because it's crook what is before I spoke with him a few times for last four year about eight my trespasses for 900 day what is involved Mike Ashbrook who violated pure constitutional right separation of government he's a crook well give me more time you cut me everything Okay, ma'am, can I become after you, you promise, uh, give me two minutes after.

Can we do it after?

You get a minute afterwards.

Marguerite Richard.

You, you, you promised.

You just had a minute like everybody else.

Please sit down.

Okay, I'm Miss Richard here and, um, I just have a few concerns too because I'm I'm I'm not a lawyer but I'm smart enough to know when people are full of wickedness and they won't let you have your free speech and when he was speaking of Fred Podesta he was talking about the area in which this new gentleman is supposed to be taken over and we've already had some egregious yeah egregious circumstances involving the the Department of Finance and Administration.

Another one is Krista Warner that deals with risk management complaints, such as not following through the investigative process that controls her.

So that means that everybody up in that office is going flip-de-flop like a fish out of water, and we cannot have that.

Because just like the people are talking about social justice, and you have a tool kit, but you're not enforcing anything.

Thank you very much.

Janine, Louise, and Ollie.

Excuse me.

Can you ask her a question?

Hello, Janine Shingler.

I live in Seattle and I moved up here last December and I am a grandmother and concerned about affordable housing for other people and building communities.

It's really important because of our climate and I think almost every issue leads back to climate change and making the world a hospitable place for us to live in and affordable housing is one component of that and I urge all committee members, the city council, everybody that's anybody to get on board quickly as possible because if we don't, the world will just go to waste.

Having communities, affordable housing, keeping people in the local area and having those neighborhood places to live is going to encourage people to be healthier in their body and healthier planet.

So thank you all for your service.

I really appreciate it.

Great.

Jean, thank you for coming and thank you for your comments.

Louise Chernin and then Olly Garrett.

Hi, Councilmember Bagshaw and Gonzales and Mosqueda.

Thank you for allowing me to speak.

So I am the President and CEO of GSBA, the LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

And I'm delighted here today to be able to recommend one of our most important departments, finance administration, Calvin Goings, as director.

I have known Calvin for over five years.

I first met him when he was regional administrator at the U.S.

Small Business Administration, and it was his outreach to GSBA To see how the Small Business Administration could be supporting our small businesses, which led to one of the few business builder programs in the United States.

And brought together procurement officers and supply diversity officers to see how they could work and help get contracts to small underrepresented businesses.

Calvin also became a board member of GSPA, and of course I've known him in his various capacities with the city.

And I have to honestly say, I've never met anyone more collaborative, committed to community, fairness, equity, and diversity and inclusion as Calvin Goings.

He is known to bring people together to solve problems in a way that listens to everybody respectfully, has leadership, but is able to actually be bold in decision making while compassionate and kind and recognizing the value of all people.

So I think our city will be so proud and better off to have someone at the helm of this important department as Calvin Goings.

Thank you.

Louise, thank you very much for coming and speaking.

Good afternoon council members and I want to just echo everything that Louise just said.

I met Calvin when he first joined SBA back in 2010 and the first thing in discussing what can be done different at SBA to help the minority community and the underserved and he was very instrumental in implementing the action plan, it was called the Underserved Entrepreneur Action Plan that focused on supporting women and minority-owned firms.

When he became, joined City Light, I think within the first week on the job, Calvin reached out to Tabor, and I think I said I'm president of Tabor 100. But he reached out to me on behalf of the members of Tabor 100 to say, what is it that I can do or we could do different at Seattle City Light to improve inclusion and relationships with the women and minority-owned business?

Within one week of getting this role, Calvin reached out and I met with him for the same type of discussion on inclusion and what he could do different to help women and minority-owned business in the city and in that department.

I think Calvin, as I said, I echo Louise, is going to make bold moves, bring new changes.

He's not going to go with the status quo the way things have always been.

So I am really looking forward on the continued relationship and working with Calvin in this role, and I hope that you confirm him today.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate that.

Ollie's the last speaker that we have signed up, so I'm going to move into our first item of business.

And I think Danielle Friedman, From Department of Neighborhoods, would you like to join us and bring your candidates?

And we have the appointment of Leanne King Doe as a member of our Community Involvement Commission, as well as Karen Kubo Fleming.

I told him I'd do it.

And we'll turn off the TV cameras.

Hi.

Would you?

Yeah, please read them in.

Thank you.

Appointment.

Number 01072, appointment of Leanne Kim Doe as a member of the Community Involvement Commission for a term to May 31st.

2019 and item number two appointment number 0 1 0 7 3 Appointment of Karen Kubo Fleming as a member of the Community Involvement Commission for a term to May 31st 2020 welcome and would you like to do introductions?

I'm Danielle Friedman from the Department of Neighborhoods.

Hi, my name is Leanne Doe I'm Karen Kubo Fleming Nice to have all of you here at the table.

Danielle, do you want to kick it off?

Yeah, I'm excited to present to you two candidates for the Community Involvement Commission.

Leanne Doe is the city council district number four appointee.

And Karen Fleming is the mayoral appointee to the CIC.

Karen is from the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle.

She started a nonprofit, which takes care of pets of homeless and low-income individuals.

Leanne was born in Seattle and raised by her Vietnamese refugee mother, father, and grandmother, and she works at the UW School of Social Work.

Congratulations, and thank you.

So I would like to start with Leanne.

Would you tell us why do you want to do this?

And I want to underscore thank you, because it's so important to have our community of voices here to be able to provide us your insights.

Thank you.

I'm joining this commission really for two reasons.

One, I've always wanted to support this city and be involved in a commission.

I was on the Seattle Pedestrian Advisory Board in the past as a lifelong Seattleite.

I've gotten to witness the city evolve and change over three decades, and I really look forward to being a part of the vision for the future.

I was waiting for the right commission to come around again.

It's been about 11 years since I've served on a commission.

And when the announcement for this one came forward, it was exactly what I'd been looking for, a commission that would be really intentional in how it brought people together to do the work together of making the city more inclusive and finding ways to engage community members.

So I'm here because I want to be a part of what the city's doing and here because I like what I see the city aiming to do.

Nice.

Thank you very much.

Karen, do you want to speak too?

It's hard to follow that up because Leanne was so articulate, but I've lived in Seattle for 30 years and I'm very honored to serve in this capacity.

I have focused recently on providing veterinary care for pets of the homeless and low-income and I am looking forward to bringing that perspective to the Commission.

It's so important we know that for people oftentimes suffering from from homeless or unstable housing that their pet is what links them back to the community.

So thank you very much for doing that.

It sounds like you've had an amazing family.

I appreciate the fact that both of you are willing to spend your time.

And I want to say specifically that we hope that you, we will come to your meetings, but I hope that if there are an issue that involves your community or certainly District 7, thank you for being my representative here.

that you feel free to call my office, set some time, because I want to meet with you and to hear individually what you might want to offer.

Great.

Any other questions?

Thank you.

Okay.

Can we move them both or do we need to vote on them separately?

All right.

Well, I would like to move the appointments of Leanne Doe and the appointment of Karen Fleming, both for the Community Involvement Commission.

Second.

Those in favor say aye.

Aye.

None opposed.

We don't have any abstention.

So it looks like things are good.

This will go forward next week.

We'll be voting on it on Monday.

Thank you both very much.

Appreciate your coming today.

Okay, we've got the next appointment of Calvin Goings.

Would you like to read that in?

And I'm going to invite Mr. Goings plus, I don't know if Mike Fong is, yes, Mike Fong is here.

Item number three, appointment number 01076, appointment of Calvin W. Goings as the director of Department of Finance and Administrative Services for a term to December 31st, 2021.

Very nice.

Mike and Calvin, would you two like, you don't need introductions, but would you introduce yourselves?

Sure.

Mike Fong, Deputy Mayor.

Calvin Goings, Director-designee, Finance and Administrative Services.

So welcome both of you.

Mike, do you want to kick this off?

Sure, of course.

Thanks, Calvin.

I've promised Mr. Goings significant hazing, so.

Oh, excellent.

Great.

Well, council members, it is my pleasure and honor to present Mayor Durkin's appointment of Calvin Goings as Director of Finance and Administrative Services.

Director Goings has had an extensive career in the public and private sector as an executive.

And he served seven years as President Obama's appointee as Regional Administrator for the US Small Business Administration, Northwest Region.

And prior to joining the, prior to that, Director Goings served in both the state senate and as a Pierce County council member.

And most recently he was, when he joined the city family as chief of staff for Seattle City Light.

The mayor and I are both extremely excited about being able to bring his leadership to finance and administrative services.

And we look forward to the council's consideration of his confirmation.

Very good, thank you.

Well, Mr. Goings, how are you?

Well, thank you.

Thank you, it's lovely to have your fan club here today and just for the benefit of my colleagues that Calvin and I have worked together in a number of capacities.

Once when he was SBA administrator and then also he is a member of Belltown as a resident there and it's great to be working with you.

So welcome, and I ask you to provide maybe a few minutes just introducing yourself, and then you can answer the question of why do you want this job, one of the toughest, and then I'll open it up for questioning.

Maybe I'll combine the first two together if that's all right.

Well, again, thank you very much, and I do appreciate the opportunity to appear before your committee today for my consideration of confirmation as the next Director of Finance and Administrative Services.

Senior Deputy Mayor Fonk, thank you for your kind introduction this afternoon.

And Chair Bagshaw, I realize you do have a busy and full agenda, so I appreciate just a few minutes to provide some introductory comments about myself.

some career highlights, my vision to answer your second question, and plans for FAS, and then look forward to entertaining the committee's questions after my introductory remarks.

I want to first start by saying thank you to Mayor Durkan and her administration for their confidence in me in this important role.

I also want to share my appreciation to you, Chair Bagshaw, your staff, and Council Central staff for their outreach during the confirmation process.

I'm also deeply appreciative of the team at FAS for their support, and some of them are here today during this transition.

But I do want to make a special thanks to my parents, who I hope are watching, in Arizona, where they're retired.

I sent them a link, so my fingers are crossed that they were able to find it.

So you can say, hi, mom.

Hi, mom, and dad, and stepmom.

I just, a quick note, my parents worked multiple jobs so that I could be the first person in my family to go to college and graduate.

My father is a retired member of Teamsters Local 117. My mother, a retired member of UFCW 367, and my stepmother is a small business owner.

And I believe in life, you stand on the shoulders of the people who went before you and helped you.

And so I'm incredibly grateful to them and the opportunities they've provided to me.

I also want to acknowledge and thank my son, Will, who left class early today.

I think we can get a note from the chair, so it'll be okay for class.

As long as he doesn't miss swim practice.

Exactly.

And to my partner and fiancé, David Hamm, who are here, I'm really appreciative of them both being here.

Members of the committee, I've spent the last two decades dedicated to improving and strengthening communities, and I'm excited to apply my unique skill set to this new opportunity.

Specifically, I'd like to highlight a few key areas that I think have prepared me for this new role.

First, I'm a strategic communicator.

As the previous chief of staff, I represented my department in key interactions with the mayor's office, elected officials, city departments, regional businesses, and community organizations.

I'm a collaborative leader.

As was mentioned, as a member of President Obama's economic development team for seven years, I led the U.S.

Small Business Administration here in the Northwest, where we focused on economic empowerment and inclusion and expanding SBA support to women-owned, new American-owned, LGBTQ-owned, and minority-owned small businesses.

Prior to the Obama administration, I spent eight years in county government leading progressive social and community development efforts.

In the private sector, I led the statewide Washington Credit Union Foundation, which empowered cooperative financial institutions to actively engage around income inequality and economic independence, specifically in communities of color.

And I'm a community activist.

Outside of work, as was mentioned by Louise, have worked as a member of the GSBA Board of Directors, the Belltown Community Council, a mentor for the University of Washington's MBA program, and others.

My vision to your second question for FAS is that we will be a timely, responsive, and efficient service provider to our internal and external customers in the city, while reinforcing the principles of a safe, respectful, and equitable work environment.

To that end, I've identified five key areas that my team and I will be working on over the coming months.

First, excellent customer service by breaking down silos and challenging the status quo and asking for continuous improvements on our operations.

Second, a respectful and equitable workplace by promoting inclusiveness and fairness of opportunity for all employees.

Third, continuous improvements and financial accountability by always pursuing efficiencies and innovations and a keen focus on preparing for the future.

Fourth, economic opportunity through city contracts by setting firm, transparent targets and challenging city staff to continuously improve on prior work.

And fifth, stewardship of city assets by right-sizing our fleet and developing a long-term vision for our real estate holdings.

So I look forward to discussing these issues today, but more importantly, as we collaborate together in the coming months.

You know, finally, I'm a lifelong resident of the Puget Sound.

And together with my fiancé and my son, we are proud to be downtown residents living in Belltown.

I hope, I trust, that my demonstrated passion for this community will earn your support today for this important position of public trust.

So thank you for your consideration, and I would respectfully ask for your vote today for my confirmation to be the next Director of the Department of Finance and Administrative Services.

Thank you.

Thank you, Calvin.

I am certainly going to be moving forward, asking for my colleagues to support your appointment.

But before I do, I'm opening up for questions.

Do either of you have anything you would like to ask Calvin?

Or maybe you know him already.

I already know Calvin.

I had an opportunity to first meet Calvin in 2015 or maybe early 2016 right after I got elected and just really appreciated your willingness to create connections where sometimes the connections might not seem so obvious and we just had an opportunity to sit down in my office yesterday and talk for about half an hour about your vision on what you'd like to do and some of the things that I hope to see FAS do better and had a really productive conversation with you and I appreciated you taking the time and I really appreciate your candor and your willingness to just want to get the work done and I think you are one of the few people that has worked this long in government bureaucracies and still believes in getting results and doing it quickly and efficiently and collaboratively and I really appreciate that.

I still have no idea why you want to do this job, because it's really hard.

But I think that's exactly why you want to do it.

So I appreciate your commitment to public service, and I think you will serve the people of Seattle very well.

Thank you.

Council Member Esqueda.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I look forward to sitting down with you.

I'm sorry we weren't able to do that earlier today and I just want to say as someone who hasn't had the opportunity to work with you very much, I have heard a lot from folks who have had the opportunity to and you come highly recommended.

One of the things I was going to ask you is actually something that Council Member Gonzalez just mentioned, which is why do you want this job?

And while we joke about why would you want this job, many people say that to us too when we ran for office.

So it's a challenge, and yet we learn something new every day.

And the opportunity to make a positive impact on people is something I think we probably share in common.

But wondering if you want to elaborate a little bit more on the vision of the issues that you'd like to take on at FAS.

how you plan to use this cohesive style of leadership that we hear a lot about from your references and councilmember Gonzalez's comments as well in Tackling these really tough challenges that are in front of us in the city Thank You councilmember and do look forward to getting to work with you in the future

FAS is a critical department, and I've seen that firsthand working as a city employee, but now 14 days in the chair, I've seen that firsthand.

They do amazing work for the city.

FAS really is the glue that keeps the city together.

And in those short days, I've had a chance to visit eight work sites already, visit all five floors in the SMT, and probably meet about 150 people.

And what I hear over and over again is the important work that FAS does and the collaborative approach that would really help push FAS forward to do even more creative work.

And that's really what I'm committed to.

I view this, having spent nearly 20 years in the public sector, as a capstone opportunity to bring my collaborative approach, but also a bit of a focused leadership to this important department, to help empower our employees from all levels of FAS to get the resources, the tools they need to do their job.

One example, which was mentioned just briefly, and there's several sheets in your packet, but I'll just pull out one.

This is in there, but it might make it easier just to get to it if I give it to you here.

This really, this one piece of paper kind of encapsulates who I am and what I'm about and how I believe in working cooperatively.

with all parts of our community.

So after coming to SBA in the depths of the recession, and I think history will record that the leadership of the administration, President Obama, did with lots of help from lots of people, prevented the U.S. from sliding into another Great Depression.

But one of the things that became very clear to me is that we were not doing the best job we could representing and serving underserved populations, women-owned, minority-owned, New American-owned, and LGBTQ-owned small business owners.

So I brought a group together, some of which you heard of, and we held a summit and put together this plan.

This is a highlight sheet of our Empowering All Entrepreneurs Action Plan.

And to me, it wasn't going to be shelf art.

I held my managers and leaders accountable.

And what we saw within two years is we saw loans to women-owned small businesses up by 25%.

loans to African-American-owned small businesses up by 45%.

52% of all of our microloans went to women-owned small businesses.

So I'm excited to be joining FAS in the great work that we do around WMBIE, community hire, priority hire, but we can do more, and I'm looking forward to setting the bar and working with you and your office and other members of this council to elevate that work and to be proud of the important work that FAS employees do on a daily basis.

I think the skill sets that you just described through the work that you did at SBA are critically important and relevant to the work that FAS does, being the main administrators of our prevailing wage, enforcement and investigation in terms of the work being done by workers on various capital projects that are funded by the city.

A key component of the work that you'll be doing as well as our priority hire program and enforcement and expansion and making sure that that Priority Hire Program continues to be a success.

And then, of course, all of the stuff related to just how we can have more equitable contracting with our women and minority-owned businesses is an incredibly important part of the work that you'll be doing.

I'm just very encouraged about your pragmatic approach on these issues, but also your passion and really, you know, deep-seated desire to really see the city's dollars being used in a way that really advance our goals around inclusion and equity in a real meaningful way through our contracting.

And so maybe you can talk a little bit more about what you'd like to be able to accomplish over your term as it relates to those particular programs.

Another example of the work we did at the Small Business Administration, which I think has, again, another parallel here, is in the federal government, there is a set-aside requirement for women-owned, New American-owned, minority-owned small business contracts of 23 percent.

So NASA, EPA, the armed forces at 23 percent.

Now, in the city of Seattle, varying departments have varying set-asides.

And so I think there's opportunity there, again, If we believe this is an important program, and I think it is an absolutely important program, the mayor feels it's a very important program, and I know everyone at this table believes it's a critically important program, we need to uplift, lift up that great work, highlight best practices, opportunities for other departments to learn from each other, and then be transparent about the results.

of what departments were able to accomplish.

And if there were barriers, how can we help at FAS remove some of those barriers?

Another good example of when you bring people together is a program called Emerging Leaders.

And because of the foundation we laid with this collaborative approach, we were able to, in my time at SBA, successfully encourage headquarters to have one of these wonderful programs in Seattle.

And Emerging Leaders is an MBA-like program.

I'm very happy to say that with the partnerships we built through the summit and the listening sessions, we had more people apply for that MBA light program in Seattle than in any other city in the U.S.

More than New York, more than L.A., and 90% of the cohort were women-owned, new American-owned, minority-owned, and LGBTQ-owned small businesses.

dedication and collaboration and cooperation.

I believe there is more that we can do, we must do, and with your help, we're going to do it.

Council President Harrell, I know that you've been involved in other things this afternoon.

Do you have any questions for Mr. Goings?

Because we've all been peppering him.

No, I've had the distinct pleasure of knowing Calvin in another life in several capacities, so he's no stranger to me, and I'm really looking forward to this process, so thanks for signing up for this.

I should be thanking you, so.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you.

Well, I'm just going to draw this to a close, but Calvin, I want to tell you, the public, and also to your mom and dad who may be listening here, that I've had the pleasure of working with you and you pointed out your ability to be a strategic thinker, to bring people together.

And I'll tell you, one of the things that just makes me smile every time I have the opportunity to get you on the phone or in a meeting is that you are always helping me to get to yes.

There are problems in the way.

You help us figure out how to do that.

So I just want to underscore that respectfulness that you've been talking about.

Your good stewardship, I have no doubt that you're going to be bringing that to this department.

And the sense of strong civil values, by civil I'm meaning that kindness and respect that you just embody.

I believe, frankly, that the tenor that we want to establish here in the city is done by people at the top like you, like Mr. Fong, and our mayor, and my council colleagues who are bringing people together.

And we have common values, and those values are not only to get the good work done, but to do it in a way that is inclusive.

And I have all the reason, and good faith, and the history with you to know that that's going to continue.

Thank you.

With that, then I would like to move forward with the nomination of Mr. Calvin Goings here for the Director of the Department of Finance and Administration for a term that is going to go through December 31st, 2021. Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

None opposed.

No abstentions.

Things are good.

Thank you very much.

This will come forward to the full council next Monday.

Thank you, congratulations.

And Mike, thank you very much for coming and participating in this.

Okay, the next one we're going to consider is the appointment of Andres Montilla for the director of the Department of Neighborhoods.

Appointment number 01078, appointment of Andres Montilla as a director of the Department of Neighborhoods for a term to December 31st, 2021. Very good.

Mr. Fong.

Great.

Council members, I am pleased to present to you Andres Mantilla, the Mayor's appointee for the position of Director for the Department of Neighborhoods.

Director Mantilla previously served as the Mayor's Director of External Relations and Outreach prior to his appointment as Interim Director of DAWN in May.

He has extensive experience working in both the public and private sectors in implementing public engagement and community outreach strategies, in particular related to public policy initiatives.

And this represents a second tour of duty with City of Seattle and City Hall.

As previously, he served under Mayor Nichols' administration, working both in the Office of Economic Development as well as Department of Neighborhoods.

With that, we look forward to your consideration of his appointment.

Very good.

Andres, welcome.

Thank you.

And like what we did with Calvin Goings, we'd like to give you an opportunity for a few minutes to introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about your background, why you want this job, and then I'll turn to my colleagues for additional questions.

Well, thank you, Chair Bagshaw.

Thank you, Senior Deputy Mayor Fong.

And I, too, would like to thank Mayor Durkin for the opportunity to be able to serve such a great department in such a great city.

As well, would be remiss to not give a shout out to my dad, who currently is traveling in the air from Mexico to Los Angeles.

So, hola, papa.

I come from a background of community organizing, campaign advocacy, both here locally and throughout the country.

As Senior Deputy Mayor Fong mentioned, I joined the City of Seattle under Mayor Nichols as part of the community outreach team.

It was an opportunity to really cut my teeth in local organizing, following in the footsteps of a lot of local community leaders, specifically in South Park.

and was named as part of the team to implement the South Park Action Agenda, which really has helped kind of define my career here at the City of Seattle, both through the implementation of 165 recommendations, which then Mayor Nichols had prioritized for South Park, but then leading up to the closure of the South Park Bridge, which we all knew was such an impact to that community and really required a different type of both engagement strategy, a different type of collaboration among city departments, and coordination of investments.

That opportunity really exposed me to both the community of South Park, which is a community that really brings a lot to the table, both in its residential mix, but also in small business mix.

But it's also a thriving arts community.

It's also an industrial manufacturing community.

It's a riverfront, one of the only riverfront communities that the city has.

It's dealing with a lot of equity issues in transportation and environment.

it's at the forefront of climate change.

And so it really allowed me to kind of broaden my perspective of how to engage community and really required me to think of how instead of doing one approach, really, to come up with a menu of engagement options.

And so that took me through to the Department of Neighborhoods the first time, really working on community capacity, specifically in South Park, but throughout Seattle, and then to the Office of Economic Development, specifically to help minority businesses in some of the access to resources, specifically microfinancing, and led me to be a co-lead of the Only in Seattle program, which we as a team then changed to be more accessible to community and really focusing on coalition building and sustainability of investments.

At that time, as I was looking across the city for engagement opportunities and best practices, I often found myself frustrated with some of the efforts that we were both at that time paying for, but external companies were doing.

And so I chose to leave the city to try to Improve the way that we were doing engagement and hiring engagement back to the city and other governments And so I did that for four years and was very honored when Mayor Durkin called me back to serve in her administration as external relations and outreach director and then equally honored to be named interim, so Thank you for your consideration Thank you.

Would you like to start with questions down councilmember misguided?

You have any you'd like to bring up?

I Okay.

I'll dive in with one and give you a moment.

You're going down the road and you just skipped two and you just took it back.

All right.

Go ahead.

Just a simple question.

It's always so tough on me.

On your question about the challenges that Don may face over the next three years, can you just elaborate a little bit on that?

I know communication and relationships, but maybe you could just elaborate there on what you were talking about.

So Department of Neighborhoods is one of those departments that has a lot of work happening in different areas.

It's one of the reasons why this job is so exciting for me and so equally challenging, because we have to bring community expertise in issues of FAS and City Light in OED and and really have that range of expertise in terms of how we're engaging.

So the challenge I mentioned here is the typical breaking down silos and so it's when we are in community and we don't have good internal coordination of other departments that are doing the same work and In my experience, the best success that we have is when we're able to be flexible and creative in how we engage and when we engage to better align both investments and planning processes.

And I think there are countless examples, even ones that are going on right now that are doing that, but we need to do more of that.

And it's a system-wide issue, and so it's challenging, it's change management, and so that's why I put it on there.

To just elaborate a little bit, I appreciate that answer.

When there was some discussion, some implementation sort of changing the neighborhood council structure and trying to gain more expansive participation and diversity and diverse perspectives, I continued to remain concerned.

And I'm all for some good change, and so I don't criticize that at all.

But I continue to concern myself with whether right now, this month, this year, whether the public and the neighborhoods are still convinced that we are in touch with them and we're not overlooking them or taking them for granted.

And I'm hoping under your leadership, particularly with your community organizing background, that you can not only make sure that the perceptions change, but the actual work is improved.

And so we're trying.

I mean, we have, you know, all the issues that our city are facing with the growth and with the homelessness.

I mean, we go down the list.

And at the end of the day, it's about our neighborhoods, right?

And so I'm hoping, again, I'm real pleased to see your name come up in this because of your background.

And I just really hope we can sort of just Move the needle on the public perception on some of the things we're dealing with.

Yeah, I appreciate that, President Harrell.

I think the key for us is to not stay stagnant.

And what I mean by that is oftentimes when we see something working with a certain community, we say, let's do it everywhere.

And really the challenge for us is to continue to have that evaluation.

So that we're not complacent with what we heard even a year ago in the same community, even if it has to do with a similar issue.

With the replacement of the traditional funding which you referenced in the district councils.

The district councils are still meeting, but essentially what we've said is the table needs to be broader.

We've expanded our outreach to the, you had today, the CIC appointments.

Engaging renters, engaging communities of color.

And really, we just closed actually a fairly successful, very successful, I would say, your voice, your choice process that really kind of opened up the way we do engagement in a participatory budget framework, including 400 ballots voted in language, in Chinese language, which is unprecedented here.

It's more things like that where we're just being creative and willing to do it, and really not just D.O.N. doing it, but working with across the city to kind of collaborate with other departments who have outreach and engagement teams as well.

I don't want to skip anybody, but did I get the evil eye a moment ago?

I was going to ask a question about housing affordability and Don's work in that space.

I think, you know, one of the things that we see around the mandatory housing affordability program in particular is sort of an inconsistency in understanding what what that program would actually do and bring to a particular neighborhood as it relates to additional affordable housing or additional density that would then lead to affordable housing either on-site or somewhere else and so can you and I think that it's Also true to say that particularly within some of the communities that you have expressed a desire to prioritize historically underrepresented communities in particular, low-income communities, et cetera.

How do you envision Dawn's role in the ongoing conversation around increasing density for purposes of supporting the city's overall strategies around affordable housing?

Yeah, thank you for the question.

And I guess I'll answer.

We have been very closely coordinated with both OPCD and across multiple departments on the conversation around HALA.

And I know that the conversation around affordability, livability, and access to housing is at the top of the mayor's agenda.

I feel we play a very important role.

Some of these terms and some of these concepts tend to be very technical.

One of the things that we try to do is kind of diversify our outreach, but also make it more relatable, make the information more relatable.

When we talk about zoning or housing types or comprehensive plans, that tends to be fairly in the weeds.

And so we've kind of elevated that conversation around what makes your neighborhood or your community or your place where you interact, your cultural hub, significant to you, and we've done through the partnership with OPCD and others really had that conversation at the traditional fairs, traditional town halls, but also pushed for door-to-door, pushed for in-language support.

This is where, in my opinion, the community liaison program is critical.

because it's not just a translation interpretation, but it's putting the policy in the context that's relevant to that community.

And so as we continue this conversation, not just on MHA and HALA, but on zoning and comprehensive planning, I think it's really important that we approach it from a community engagement, from a holistic community engagement approach, and then really work with our partners, both internal and external to the city, to make sure that we're well connected.

I really appreciate that response because I think in some of the presentations that we have gotten from the departments on this particular issue, I have flagged multiple times concerns around wanting to make sure that the outreach and the community engagement that is being done in terms of making sure that whatever policies we're considering are actually informed and influenced by that community engagement, that we are making sure that we're reaching into communities that don't have English as a first language, for example, or who, for cultural reasons, may not be engaging in the conversation around density and affordable housing.

And I'm not trying to take a slight on the agencies at all.

I think they're doing the best that they can.

And I just want to make sure that Dawn is really being prioritized in that body of work because I think that you all, particularly through the Community Liaison Project, have a fantastic model where community members actually demand that the community liaison be the person interfacing with their particular community.

And I think that that's an important aspect of the relationship that we need to continue to build to Council President Harrell's point, right?

We need to have people who the community trust on some of these very complex issues that involve change that can be rather scary.

And so I appreciate your effort and your willingness to prioritize.

in language and culturally competent outreach and community engagement skills on some of these very complex issues that are hard for even sophisticated subject matter experts to grapple with.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I also want to recognize how, once again, how responsive you've been to me personally when I have asked for questions and for help in reaching a community.

One of the questions that I really, it was your question number six that I appreciated, is the Department of Neighborhoods now is helping us with design review outreach.

And I cannot even begin to tell you how often, at least, I'm the way back machine when I first ran in 2009, that I heard the words, design review is broken.

And there have been major efforts to transform it.

Even as recently as about three weeks ago, I was meeting with a neighborhood, and there is a major project going up.

They felt like they had been trying to get to the design review board to explain what it was that they were looking for.

And this happened to be downtown.

So it was skinnier towers, smaller platforms, more green space, that kind of thing.

Initially, they felt like their voices weren't being heard.

I'm not sure what changed the tide there.

I want to just ask you, how can we do more of this with the neighborhood, with major projects, so people know when we come to a design review meeting, it's actually worth our time, our voices will be heard, and how that will impact the decisions.

So could you help address that?

Sure, we are very excited about the new design review program.

And it is in going back to the constant evaluation of how we're doing community engagement.

We are constantly looking as to what we can do to improve.

The main purpose there, which was so critical in what we heard is exactly right, is how do we get both in front of design review, but how do we get in touch with the developer or the applicant or whomever's kind of designing the project?

So the biggest value that we can bring here is just creating a space for that.

communication so that community can raise questions, can form partnerships, concerns, and the applicant can kind of consider those as it moves forward.

And what it does in the design review process, as we're seeing, and thank you for the feedback that folks are feeling more connected, is it makes the design review process largely about design and some of these other issues have been at least daylighted earlier.

And so it allows both the applicant and the community to come to some sort of conversation and in some cases some agreement.

So we are kind of ramping up, we're in the early phases of it.

And so we hope to continue this work.

And one of our main goals has been, yes, we want to do community conversations.

Yes, we want to have interactions.

We don't want to significantly slow down the pace of projects.

And so we, I think, are accomplishing that right now.

So it's really exciting.

Good, and I'd like to bring to your attention, too, one, to say thank you to Amy Wynn on Your Voice, Your Choice.

Amy worked in our office for a significant period of time.

And I love the fact that Your Voice, Your Choice brought more people to looking at how do you want your money being invested in your neighborhood.

So I want to acknowledge, I think that's been a big success.

And then also special thanks to your historical preservation group.

Over the summer, I've been working closely with some of my colleagues in King County and our police and firefighters and DESC.

just to help re-look at Pioneer Square.

And the Department of Neighborhoods has been super, because there are a lot of businesses and also empty buildings down in Pioneer Square that if we can get them restored, and if we can get people reinvesting in them, There'll be opportunities for affordable housing.

There'll be opportunities for just more odds on the street.

So first say thank you to your team.

I just want to acknowledge other ways that we can work more closely together.

And I'm going to just point to Pioneer Square since that's been a big focus of mine in the last few months.

Thank you.

Very good.

Any other questions?

No.

Thank you for your interest in this Department of Neighborhoods.

It's ever important.

Ever since it got started, I think, with Jim Dears and Nichols administration 30 years ago, it is a big, big opportunity for our city to connect with people.

So you're going to be a wonderful member of the department, obviously, your team with the mayor's office and working closely with me in this committee.

So thanks a lot, Andres.

Thank you.

Okay, I'm going to then move the appointment of Andres Matias, Director of the Department of Neighborhoods for a term through December 31st, 2021. Those in favor say aye.

Aye.

None opposed and there's no abstentions.

Congratulations and thank you very much.

Thanks a lot.

Mr. Fong, thanks for coming.

Next item, please.

Thank you.

Item number six, Council Bill 119357, an ordinance relating to the sale of Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Block 7 of the Latona addition to the City of Seattle.

Good.

Good, Rocky.

Thanks.

Hi.

How are you?

Everybody?

Thanks, Hillary.

Thanks for coming.

All right, how about Rocky, why don't we start with introductions down on your end.

This is the Dunlumber property, the one we've had some good public testimony on.

It was actually a late add to this particular agenda.

I want to say thank you, Mr. Hempelman, for bringing this to our attention.

And Rocky, do you want to get started?

Yeah, Rocky De Herrera, Office of Economic Development.

Hillary Hamilton, Finance and Administrative Services.

Pam Spencer, Seattle Department of Transportation.

Thank you.

All right.

Who's kicking this off?

I'm going to kick off, but everybody's got a role.

So we are here to talk to you about the potential sale of a property that is under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation, commonly known as the Brickyard.

And we can tell you why in just a moment.

A quick overview, FAS normally runs the disposition process that provides for a whole lengthy evaluation of options and considers a number of criteria set forth by the council.

This is a property that's located in Northlake.

It's very close to Dunlumber.

It's close to the Ivers.

Sam House, and there's a large City Light electrical distribution center there as well.

The lot's about 15,000 square feet.

We'll spend more time as we move along about the proposed transaction, but the sales price would be not less than $2.575 million.

We'll talk about why that's a good number.

The proceeds are directed by the ordinance to the transportation fund and would be used for transportation purposes.

The recommendation put together by the departments was to engage in a negotiated sale with Dunlumber for reasons that we'll fill you in on.

But first Sam is going to talk a little bit about the history of the property.

So the the brickyard was purchased by SDOT in the late 60s with gas tax funds for the potential realignment of Northeast Pacific Street and subsequently it wasn't used for that purpose and it was used for material storage so hence the brickyard.

The Brickyard, as Hillary mentioned, is located in the Wallingford neighborhood.

It's on a block that's bordered by the Burt Gilman Trail to the north and Northeast Pacific Street to the south.

It's east and west borders are 4th Avenue Northeast and Latona Avenue Northeast.

The brickyard's roughly one quarter of the block, and the remaining three quarters of the block that it sits on are owned by Dunlumber.

That's all kind of depicted in the map that you see above.

The property's zoned industrial commercial, and this zoning does not allow for housing.

In 2015, Dunn Lumber approached the City of Seattle with an unsolicited offer to purchase the brickyard.

SDOT then evaluated its operational needs and determined that the brickyard was excess because the materials could be stored at another SDOT-owned site.

in 2000 in July of 2017 the property was then declared excess and the disposition process began the proceeds from the sale of the brickyard Would be used for transportation purposes a portion of those Because it was purchased with the gas tax funds that that would be the reasoning for that.

I'm the portion of the the funds would be used for the cleanup of the right-of-way where RVs have been and then have moved on.

The rest of the proceeds of sale are being evaluated this time by SDOT.

Hillary is going to speak a little bit more about the actual disposition process of the property to date.

Okay, I want to talk about our outreach efforts, which have gone on for approximately a year.

It was August of 2017 that we first sent out a flyer to owners and residents with interests within about 1,000 feet.

We also pick up some community groups within that notice.

We ultimately, in this case, unusually, we send a second notice because one of the changes that As we started working with the property, the first notice did not include the vacated street.

It was anticipated that that would have to be handled separately.

That's one of the parcels, and you will see in the ordinance that the former The property lot four was laid off when it was purchased, never used for street purposes.

And so the ordinance in front of you actually goes to the step of vacating the laying off, so to speak, or taking that back.

Back to, yes.

in the ordinance?

If we are looking at slide three here, if you'd go back to that map, where is the vacated street showing on this map?

It is beneath the dotted line under the number seven, and it has the words NO96106.

I believe that's the ordinance number that actually laid off the street in about 1970. Erroneously so, because the other three were also purchased with the idea of realigning Northeast Pacific Street, but they were not laid off.

So it was an oddball.

So it's not actually been used by the public for a street since, would you say, 1970?

Correct.

OK.

Since the time we acquired it, yeah.

So we did send out that first notice, second notice with an updated description of the property.

We received about 20 comments at that point.

All in all, after mailing our preliminary report and final reports, we had received about 45. comments.

And as you see from the pie chart, about 35%, 36% support the sale of the property to Dunlumber.

There are a number of different kinds of ideas.

There were certainly some that favored housing, open space, child care, private property owners that were interested in acquiring it, and sometimes just queries by government agencies.

For example, the school district expressed some interest.

We also received a number of letters from organizations in the community.

They're listed here.

There's kind of a wide variety of business interests and community groups.

We did hear from three departments that they were not interested in the property housing.

As Sam noted, the property is zoned industrial, commercial, and housing.

development is not allowed under that zone.

Parks and Recreation did not want to acquire the property but has been working with Dunn and is interested in supporting the links to the Burke-Gilman Trail.

So you've got a northwest street connection here and then you've got the trail and it's been a, I think, positive relationship.

Is there any impact?

that this property sale would have on the trail.

It looks like the trail is to the north of it, and it's not going to be impacted.

It's to the north, and there's also a topographical distinction.

So just on the city property, there's about a 20-foot elevation gain between the the current access to the site and then the trail.

So I think that potentially Dunn's development has the potential to create some multi-story access for pedestrians and other people.

So it'll be positive, but not directly connected except by the street.

It's not going to negatively impact.

Obviously, if you've got Cascade Bicycle Club and Feet First showing up supporting it, they've done their homework as they always do, but feel that this is going to either contribute to or at the very minimum not detract from the Burke-Gilman as we know and love it.

I would add that Parks is here in the audience today in support of the sale also and look forward, as we all do, to improvements for access to the trail.

Max Jacobs.

Max is here.

OK, thank you.

Thanks, Max.

All right.

Thanks, Max.

One final slide about outreach, specifically just commenting on the support of the Wallingford Community Council.

And they raised two points in their support letters, and they they see this as an opportunity to strengthen the connection to the trail and to connect the trail and the waterway.

And they also saw some potential for an urban rest stop, which A lot of bicyclists will be thankful for it.

I don't have specifics, but generally that would refer to an opportunity to use facilities.

Okay.

And they're talking about that inside or putting a port-a-john on the outside?

I can't say.

All right.

I don't know.

Anybody know?

Mr. Hempelman knows.

You want to speak?

You can use a microphone, sir.

There's one here.

There's one over there.

Thank you, Chair.

I'm John Hempelman.

I've been working for almost four years now with Dunn Lumber on community outreach and planning for this project.

It starts with the fact that Dunn Lumber needs to acquire this property to build a new lumber warehouse because they're going to lose the site where they currently unload the large trucks every morning.

So that's the start of it.

And they thought, since they're going to have this property, And it's got quite a topographic change in elevation that they could build on top of the lumber yard and create opportunities for potentially a grocery store, maybe a bicycle shop.

And as they get up Chair Bagshaw to the Burke-Gilman Trail level, The plan, and it's not settled yet, and we'll have to have an agreement with parks and maybe come back here to see you, is to bridge over that gap, connect the trail to this development.

And therefore, there would be on the Burke-Gilman Trail portion of it, the public property portion of it, clearly designated public use opportunities.

that could then link like to the grocery store, the deli, maybe it's gonna be a beer stub like we have to bike out all the way to Kenmore to find.

So those are the kind of urban rest stops that we're hoping to put together.

And acquiring this surplus property from the city is a critical piece to all of this vision.

Great.

Thank you for stepping up to the table.

And I just want to say one of the attachments, it's attachment C in the packet, which I really appreciate.

The Wallingford Neighborhood Plan, there is in the vision statement is to really encourage within the community places where people can work and shop at a variety of local businesses and where those businesses can thrive.

And I see this as an opportunity to be doing just that.

So I'm certainly supportive of this plan.

Thank you.

Any other questions for my colleagues?

Just a question.

I have more curiosity because it looks like a good project.

We sort of concluded our FAS, and I think SDOT concluded that an assemblage premium would be attached.

It made better sense to lump them all together as opposed to selling them individually.

And so can you describe a little bit about how you reached that conclusion?

It just said that you reached that conclusion in some of the preparation documents.

I think what you're referring to is the difference between the lot four and the other three lots.

Initially, there was thought that lot four needed to be vacated, but because, as Council Member Bagshaw somewhat alluded to, it was not used as a street right of way ever, never opened to the public.

Also, all four of the lots, including lot four, which is the one we're talking about, was acquired in fee title.

the street vacation statute.

It's not subject to the street vacation statute.

And so that was the reasoning in assembling them all.

Also there is some, you know, increase in assemblage value to a adjacent property owner that owns the rest of the block.

So that was some of the thought process that went into the sale.

And do we know what SDOT, this goes into the general fund?

This is, all four lots were purchased with gas tax funds, and so the proceeds from sale need to be used for transportation purposes.

Any other questions, colleagues?

Okay.

Well, I would like to move passage then of Council Bill 119357. Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

And no abstention.

Moves forward.

Thank you very much for all your hard work.

Congratulations, Dunn-Lumber.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, okay.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Very good.

You good?

Okay, so we're on item number seven, please.

Item number seven, Council Bill 119338, an ordinance authorizing in 2018 acceptance of funding from non-city sources.

And I will also read in item number eight, Council Bill 119339, an ordinance amending ordinance 125493, which amended the 2018 budget, including the 2018 to 2023 capital improvement program.

Ben, welcome home.

Lise, Eric, thanks for being here.

Thank you.

So I'll give a few brief comments with your permission, and then if you have questions or want to share comments from the executive, that's Well, we have a representative here.

So, Council Bill 119338 is the second general grant acceptance ordinance of 2018, frequently referred to as the second quarter grants ordinance.

Not a hard chronological limit, as you can see.

This particular ordinance would authorize a number of city departments to accept about $2.6 million of funding from a variety of external sources for a range of purposes.

Most of that $2.6 million is park-related funding.

The single largest item being a little over 1.1 million for boat mortgage renovations near the boat ramp facilities at Don Armini and Stan Sayers Morages.

So that's one in West Seattle, on the east side of West Seattle, and one down by Genesee Park.

Additionally, there's a $250,000 grant for Smith Cove Park Playfield development and related work, $250,000 for turf conversion at Brighton Playfield, and about $250,000 nearly to help fund Seattle Fire Department's update to its hazardous materials response plan.

That's it.

Those are the highlights.

I think, Eric, when you and I talked about this earlier, I appreciate the fact that we've got $2 million that we need to approve the acceptance.

Were you able to find out about the timing on Smith Cove that that particular project is one near and dear to my heart because I've been working on this for about the last seven years?

I know money came from King County.

Council Member Cole-Wells was able to obtain some grants.

We've had many.

Do we know what the timing is now for the use of that $250,000?

And if not, if you can just get back to us.

I don't know now, but happy to get back to you on that.

It's been a real complicated project, one that, you know, we've got the west portion, we've got the east portion.

The community was pretty excited about getting the west portion going because we've got the little mini soccer fields or mod soccer fields, but then King County came back in, said there's drainage issues, that we're fixing that.

In the meantime, We did get the million gallon reservoir in place.

We took out blackberries.

We took out the fishing nets.

People in that neighborhood are just very excited about actually getting a park.

And it strikes me that we've been working on it for seven years, including in 2014 when we got it a line item into our Metropolitan Park District.

And I'm like, what's the schedule?

We've got to let the people know about this.

In the summary attachment aid to the ordinance, Item 1.1 is the one related to the Smith Cove youth play fields and at the end of the description there It says that the grant expiration date is December 31st 2019 Does does that effectively mean that we've got to use these dollars by December 31st 2019 or we lose them?

Yeah, that is my interpretation of that and my understanding.

But you'll note that they can be used towards planning, design, and construction.

So it may not be that we'll complete a construction by that time.

OK.

So then I guess there's some guidance in terms of when we expect the dollars to be used for something.

It may not be the actual construction.

So hopefully.

Right.

We want this thing constructed because it has been planned to death.

So I was just speculating, but we'll get you the information.

I just don't happen to have it here.

All right.

Thank you.

Just I know that I feel like I've been pushing this rock up a hill for a long time.

I know Park's busy.

I really hope that we'll have some attention in some time.

No, I'm actually very aware, but I drive past on my way to a favorite picnic spot at the just past the marina and have seen the site get cleared off and some of the work done, but it's still clearly in progress.

Yeah, it's glacial speed as far as I can see, but I apologize to my friends at Parks, but I really hope that we can light a fire here and get this done.

Okay.

We got free money.

We should not lose it, so let's get to it.

So, any other questions on this is the second grant acceptance of 2018?

No further questions?

Then I'm going to move that we pass Council Bill 119. We'll come to the next one.

We didn't, we were not going to vote on it this time and we didn't add it to the agenda.

There we go.

Because Eric recommended we have two meetings on the Q2 supplemental.

Thank you for that.

Thank you for the reminder.

Okay, we're not voting on this this time.

ask you to bring it forth again.

Is it going to happen on the 19th meeting?

And maybe by then you can give me a schedule on what we're gonna do about parks before the 2019 meeting.

Thank you for the reminder.

Okay, all right, let's move on to Council Bill 119339, which is our Supplemental Budget Ordinance.

That's correct, this is the second general supplemental appropriations ordinance of 2018. It provides for a net appropriations increase of a little over $32 million, of which a little over 12 million is general fund appropriation.

And that includes about $6.2 million that is backed by other external revenues, including the grants that are accepted in Council Bill 119338. The largest single item by far here is the $15 million Judgment and Claims Fund Appropriation.

Sorry, just confirming we're not voting on this either.

We're just listening and we vote next time.

So that's, the Judgment and Claims Fund is used to pay for the cost of settlements and judgments against the city, also claims and certain litigation related expenses.

And I think we've heard for a little while now that the Judgment and Claims Fund has experienced some substantially higher than budgeted costs.

And so we saw an additional appropriation in the first quarter supplemental.

There were further appropriations provided last year.

I think this $15 million appropriation is backed also in this ordinance by $10 million of new general fund money going in, but some of the expenditure authority there is backed by money that's already in the fund, so it's just the additional authority to use that extra $5 million.

So this committee also heard about the response to slide 356.182 which the council sent a statement of legislative intent to the executive with the executive support last fall to ask that the executive take a close look at the policies for funding that judgment and claims fund and that response has come back And so that's anticipating some changes to the way provided that the council approves to the way funds are budgeted for that.

But that doesn't really impact the judgments and the claims that have been incurred to date.

And so there's additional funding for that in this ordinance.

I think we've heard many times from city attorney's office and our risk managers about this as well.

Do you have anything you want to add on that?

The thing I most wanted to add here is that when we briefed you on this issue previously, we explained that over the years, 2018, 2019, and 2020, we expected to need to pay out approximately $30 million more than we had otherwise budgeted or anticipated into the Judgment and Claims Fund.

that has been described, this is really a $10 million net add of those $15 million in appropriation authority.

A portion of that is fund balance that we fully expected to spend as part of addressing those needs.

The real thing going on here is a timing one, so that total $30 million of additional expenditure remains the same over the 18, 19, 20 period.

Some of these cases have come to fruition or potentially will come to fruition and to settlement or judgment before the end of this year.

We'd expected more of them to happen in 2019. So we're asking, and I decided it was better to come to you We might have come now and asked for five and then come back to you in the fourth quarter and asked for five more.

I decided that it was just better to be, to tell you that we don't know the exact timing here.

What will happen is that whatever is unspent, if there is any, will be carried forward automatically into 19. The only use for these monies, only approved use is for the payments of these settlements.

So it's just easier and cleaner to move it this way.

But over the three year period, the total cost has not increased.

So just say that again, because I think that's an important one.

The total cost has not increased.

Yeah.

You will see in the budget, I had anticipated bringing you, when we brought you the biannual budget, that there would be a $20 million ask into the Judgment and Claims Fund.

That's now going to be 10, because we'll have asked for this 10 now instead.

Because again, one of the trickier things here is we have a sense of what the overall exposure is.

The timing is another challenge.

I don't know that it's good news or bad news, but their expectation from the law department is that some of these larger cases may settle before the end of this year, in which case we'll need the appropriation authority sooner rather than later.

We are already building the budget with the expectation of needing to write these checks, if you will.

That expectation doesn't change, just the timing.

Do we have, and I know we've talked about this off at other meetings, but do we have within our risk management office within your department a team coming together to look at these cases to see are there things that we can be doing, lessons learned from either cases or settlements?

Do we have repeating kinds of claims?

Can you just address that?

We do, and candidly it's work we could be doing more of and be better at.

But one of the, Bruce Horry, the city's risk manager, is one of the individuals who's involved in regular meetings on both the status of individual cases and the dynamics around potential settlements.

And part of those discussions include, what was the underlying cause?

Does this look like an underlying cause we've seen before?

What is a practical matter, if anything, can we do to mitigate those issues?

I mean, candidly, both from a financial sense and also just from a public responsibility sense.

The financial payment is usually an attempt to compensate or mitigate, but everyone would be better off if there wasn't an incident to begin with, whatever that incident might have been.

So I don't, I'm not sure that we have a meeting scheduled with risk management, but I think if, and maybe after budget, because we all have plenty to do between now and the end of November, but perhaps after budget, beginning of the year, finance committee, we could raise that again.

And I know it's been a drum I've been banging for a long time, but just to know what are, what are we, what lessons have we learned and what are we doing to avoid those kinds of liabilities?

And how do we manage our risks so that we're seeing less of them?

Great.

Anything else?

Colleagues, we don't have anything to vote on today.

So if not, oh yeah, Council Member Buscato.

I see that there's some funding in here for shelter funding and I'm just wondering if we can have clarification on whether that's overnight only or if that's enhanced shelters if you have that information on you.

I don't have it on me.

Oh, so the so yeah.

Go ahead.

Is this reference to one of the capital projects at 800 Aloha perhaps?

There are two new capital projects included that would be created by this ordinance, one of which is for the South Lake Union Fire Station.

That doesn't include any additional appropriations.

The other one is for the Finance and Administrative Services, and it is backed by a new $1 million appropriation in the real estate excise tax capital projects fund.

And that provides $1 million for design and site preparation related work as well as a hygiene trailer at 800 Aloha in their tiny houses.

And that's what's currently envisioned by the project.

And I haven't looked into that question specifically, but I believe the tiny house element implies that it's Yeah, 24-hour shelter, yeah.

That's correct, and now I understand which ones, yeah.

This is actually per state law for a limited time period, we're allowed to use real estate excise dollars in support of homelessness issues.

We had to be a little creative about how to do that, and that's the application here.

And I believe that $1 million is the limit, the annual limit of that permitted change in use.

That's correct.

A preview of the budget, we'll take advantage of that for 2019 as well because it's available for that time period, but not for 2020.

Thank you.

Go ahead.

On the South Lake Union fire station project, I guess I'm a little, I'm a little confused about why, what action are we taking, what action are we going to take when this is before us again next week on this particular issue if there is no additional dollars being provided.

So what are we actually accomplishing here?

So for certain areas of capital expenditure, it's necessary to have both the funds appropriated in the budget and an appropriate entry in the six-year capital improvement program.

And so I believe, I'm not sure exactly what element of this project was, whether the entirety of the project page was missing from the CIP last year or whether there was simply a provision of part of that.

I think a lifeline just arrived.

Testing, no.

Hi, Alan Lee, Council Central staff.

So I think I missed part of Eric's explanation, but excuse me.

The one million in REIT funds for the South Lake Union encampment, this was featured during the comm shop sale discussion.

This is one of the items that's part of the Mayor's Path to 500 plan.

Currently, work has already been underway on this project and, excuse me, the total cost for the South Lake Union project, I believe, is around $1.4 million.

And that includes the site prep?

Yes, that's site prep, the hygiene trailer.

It does not include the tiny houses themselves.

Okay, other questions or follow-up?

Alan was answering the question that Councilmember Muscata presented, so I think we were on us.

unless they're related.

No, I'll have to return to give you a more certain answer, but my recollection is kind of stirring in my mind that the funds for the South Lake Union Fire Station project, this first million may have been appropriated separately this year, but without creating a CIP page, this catches up, sorry, the CIP side of the equation with the funds that were appropriated.

Potentially a question of the types of funding we can use for the work.

So if the project's going to be read eligible, it needs to be called out in the CIP.

Got it.

So the issue is that it wasn't called out in the CIP before, even though there was an appropriation via an ordinance.

And if not, we may be anticipating, and I'm not previewing the budget, I don't even remember at this point, we may be anticipating efforts for 2019. And so, and also just for transparency and clarity, I mean, there is the intent here and the work is underway to evaluate potential sites for such a facility, so.

Yeah, no, I appreciate it, because I know that this is a high priority on Chief Scoggin's list in terms of making sure that we have a fire station for the Marine Emergency Response Unit in South Lake Union, given the amount of density and tourism increase that is occurring in that area, it's definitely been identified as a gap in ability to deliver effective and efficient services for the fire department.

A station at that location would serve two fundamental functions.

One is to provide service on the land side, if you will, to the density in South Lake Union that is only seemingly ever increasing.

And then also provide an opportunity to relocate the freshwater fire boats from their current dock in Fisherman's Terminal area to one that's a little more central and and a little more modern, well, a lot more modern.

Also the potential to, but not necessarily, to relocate SPDs, the police boat facilities at the north end of the lake, or anyway, to provide some additional facilities there.

Okay.

Other questions?

I'm sorry, just to go back to the FAS shelter facilities.

Just to clarify, the appropriation of the $1 million of REIT funds This is just one-time funding, correct?

Correct.

It's essentially site prep for that site, and actually this work has been underway.

So we've identified this as a good way to reimburse ourselves from a creative funding source, if you will.

In the work that you all have done in exploring this particular site, does your analysis tell you that you will need additional funds to continue to sustain the site?

In terms of its operations, yes.

And have those funds been identified?

They have going forward, yes, and you will see more of these details on the 24th.

But so the con shop sales and other revenues provide resources for 2018, for 2019 and beyond.

That's one of the challenges that we've been working on in developing the proposed biennial budget.

All right, any other questions for this?

All right, well, thank you all for coming.

We'll see you again on the 19th.

And any other questions that my colleagues have between now and then, please let me know.

We'll include Eric, and we'll get that information and request up to the Budget Office.

Thank you.

Okay.

The next is one of our favorite items.

I want to say big thanks to Councilmember Mosqueda for leading the charge on this.

And do you want to read this in?

I would love to.

Thank you.

Item number nine, resolution 31837, a resolution amending and adopting the policies and procedures that govern the reuse and disposal of real property owned by the City of Seattle, not subject to the City Light Department jurisdiction.

Very good.

And before we dive in, I'd like introductions, but then Council Member Esqueda, I want to give you a few moments if you would like to address what it is that, of course, we already have our folks here.

Hillary, would you like to just do introductions starting with Tracy?

Tracy Ratzliff, Council of Central Staff.

Emily Alvarado, Office of Housing.

Hillary Hamilton, Finance and Administrative Services.

Great.

And Emily, welcome.

Thank you.

OK.

Do you have anything you would like to say?

I'm very honored to be supporting you in this and appreciate your leadership on it.

Well, I'm very honored to be here today.

Thank you so much for your leadership and your work on this issue as well.

We've had the chance to meet a few times over the last few months to really talk about how to carefully craft this policy.

And I want to thank Chair Bagshaw for your interest in this, your additional input on the policies, and for your leadership in making sure that we fulfill our commitment to making sure that every public parcel is being used for the best public benefit.

And I'm really excited to be working with this council committee and the full council soon to be able to put forward legislation that really, I think, helps bring to life the vision of House Bill 2382. As we know, this passed the legislature last year and really allowed for us as municipalities to look at every parcel of publicly owned property to think about how we can best utilize it to promote affordable housing.

And when we talk about affordable housing, we know it's not just a place to sleep at night.

Housing means a home next to child care facilities and health facilities and let's say libraries and public spaces and the opportunity to have a place to call home and feel that you're really home.

When we think about underutilized property, surplus property, and how we as a city can do everything that we can to create affordable units in our community.

I think this piece of legislation and the direction that it lays out really brings together all of the best of Seattle, thinking about how we create affordable housing next to transit hubs, next to public services that will create a greater economic opportunity for our community.

So thank you for this work.

I just want to do a few quick thank yous, if I might, so we can have a context as we have this conversation.

Thank you to Tracy for helping continue to educate me and my team about the land disposition policies.

But this effort was really done in collaboration with the Office of Housing, with FAS, OPCD, and Department of Neighborhoods as we talked about how the city can live its values of making sure that every parcel is being used for the best public use and prioritizing affordable housing.

We have been able to have conversations over the last few months with community partners about what they'd like to see.

And we know that community development is done best when community's at the table.

So I just want to note a few of the folks that have come to the table to provide input on the policy that you're going to see in front of us today.

And I'm sure we're going to, I'm accidentally going to leave out a few, but I want to note a huge amount of appreciation for everyone who has chimed in.

including Puget Sound Sage, Got Green, Intram, El Centro, 350 Seattle, Sierra Club, Compass Housing, Housing Development Consortium, Future Wise, Fratera, Enterprise, Chief Sealth, Seattle Indian Services Commission, Beacon Hill Development, Rainier Beach Action Coalition, Filipino Community Center, Abundance of Hope, Sustainable Seattle, Sightline, Mount Baker, Seattle Tech for Housing, Seattle for Everyone, and that's just to name a few.

So what we really wanted to do today was to bring to you for consideration this policy that's been robustly discussed and developed.

Thank you to Michael Maddox and Aretha Basu on our team for really shepherding the conversations with community partners as we think about how we prioritize the utility of city-owned surplus and underutilized property to build affordable housing.

I think this is the last piece of the puzzle, at least for this year, the beginning of the conversation for how we can create affordable housing on underutilized land.

And I know Tracy's gonna walk us through the underlying bill, so I really appreciate that.

And we both have some amendments to make it even better.

We do.

Thank you.

And they're not substantive amendments, necessarily, but they are, I think, clarification and some important highlights.

And I do want to note here just you can help remind me as we go through this that Assuming that this passes out of committee today It is we are going to hold it until October 1st because I understand that you're going to be away on October the 24th, and I just want to make sure that you have the opportunity to be there on the day we vote for it, so.

That's right, and we also wanted to extend the timeline a little bit so we could continue the outreach and engagement with community partners as well, who wanted to make sure to have a strong showing and opportunity to review what comes out of committee today, so October 1st is the goal.

Good, very good, and thank you for reminding me of that.

All right, Tracy.

Council Members, so I will go very quickly through the highlights of the legislation that's before you.

This information that I will go through today was included in the September 5th memo that I emailed to all of you, along with the proposed Resolution 31837. So this resolution does amend and adopt policies and procedures that govern the reuse and disposal of real property owned by the city, excluding city-like properties, which, as you all know, have their own policies and procedures that we actually just made some changes to in the last few months.

So the resolution does readopt virtually all of the policy guidelines that were included in resolution 29799, which was approved in 1998. This was the beginning of the council setting out the policies and procedures for our evaluation of reusing and disposing of city property.

And we are adopting many of the policy guidelines that were in that original resolution with a few exceptional changes.

So a couple of the changes include one very specifically prioritizing the use of excess property for development of affordable housing if it's suitable for such use, which might include mixed use development projects.

This priority will be reviewed in 2023. This isn't a forever priority because we know things change.

And so we will review that priority in 2023. We establish a similar review period for the city light policies as well.

We also add to the list of potential priorities early learning facilities in addition to child care facilities and education as another one of those potential priorities for the use of city property.

The resolution also lists the criteria that would be used to determine if a property is suitable for affordable housing.

It includes things like current use, zoning, size and site configuration, topography, The Office of Housing uses many of these criteria already when they're looking at properties.

We just decided that it would be good to have those in the actual policies and procedures.

We also specifically call out the Office of Housing to provide assistance to departments that may have jurisdictions over properties that might be suitable for affordable housing, that they can actually help those departments to do that assessment as to whether that property that's in their possession might be suitable for affordable housing.

It also directs that 80% of the net proceeds from the sale of surplus city properties not designated for use for affordable housing be deposited either in the Low Income Housing Fund, which is the funds that Office of Housing uses to construct affordable housing, and or the Equitable Development Initiative Fund to be used for capacity building for non-profit organizations developing affordable housing.

And then finally, the policies add a requirement that the Office of Housing include in its annual investment report information on city surplus properties, if any, that were disposed of in the prior year for development as affordable housing.

And it also details the kind of information we might want them to report on.

Moving to the procedures, which is kind of, it's like a combination of the policies, but it also gets into the procedures for, for example, notice to the public when we have surplus properties.

It does include some things related to some of the policies as well, so there's a little bit of overlap there.

But those procedures are in attachment A, and there are a number of changes that are being proposed for that attachment A.

One, again, kind of calling out that affordable housing is the priority.

Two, actually expressing the city's intent to look at new models for developing affordable housing that would actually increase the number of units developed for households from zero to 30%.

And this could include models where the city maintains ownership and uses a long-term lease with affordable housing developer if the housing is guaranteed for a minimum of 50 years.

It also expresses the intent that if a property deemed suitable for development of affordable housing is located in a neighborhood at risk for displacement, that the Office of Housing will seek to partner with a local nonprofit housing organization that is culturally relevant and historically rooted in that neighborhood.

It also would authorize property that's deemed suitable for affordable housing to be retained in city ownership until funding and or a suitable development partner are identified.

And really this gets at the issue that sometimes it takes a little while for the Office of Housing to determine what is the best use for that property, what type of housing would be good.

and then to select a developer, and then to get the financing lined up.

That can sometimes take a year or so.

And so we're just saying explicitly, it's okay for us to hold those properties and the ownership until those conditions are met.

It also directs FAS when they're implementing the procedures, which sometimes involves a public involvement plan, to begin movement on implementing that PIP within 15 days.

The current procedures give them 30 days.

And there was a desire to see if we couldn't expedite that process a little bit.

We've left all the other deadlines in terms of community comment back and so forth unchanged.

This one we felt like was our own.

internal capacity to try to expedite our part of the process.

And so there was an acceptance by FAS that they probably could manage that kind of shortening of that timeline.

When assessing properties for disposition, there's some language in that requires that fair market value be determined.

We had some language, and this came up in actually the CommShop discussion, We had some language that says that that should be based on appraisal that's been done within the last six months.

And then we're just making it explicit.

Again, I think that is FAS's general policy and procedure, but we just made it explicit that we want that to be a current appraisal.

And then finally, language is included in the procedures that kind of mirrors the language that's in the resolution as it relates to the annual report, use of proceeds, and some of the reporting requirements.

So that's the base legislation.

There are a number of amendments.

Council Member Bagshaw, you and Council Member Mosqueda have amendments.

I'm happy to walk through your amendments if you'd like.

Council Member Bagshaw first.

That'd be helpful.

That'd be very helpful.

Council Member Bagshaw, Madam Chair.

Because I like to see all the amendments put together in the document, I just lifted the language and put it in if I might share that as well.

Oh good, absolutely.

It's helpful for me to see and our both of our amendments are combined in this document in addition to the two handouts that Tracy has My amendments are highlighted in yellow and yours are underlined in blue nice.

Thank you Thank you very much for doing that

So I'm going to walk through the handout I just sent you that's a one pager.

And it says at the top, proposed by Council Member Bagshaw, amendments underlined.

So the first is exploring alternative models for developing affordable housing.

And this shows up in two places, one in the resolution on page two.

And then on page five of the procedures attachment, and what it does is it actually adds underneath the language looking at different models, including models using alternative construction methods and materials such as modular or cross laminated timber.

Thank you.

and this I think is interest that you have in terms of the city exploring those particular models that might be more economical.

Correct and I just want to underscore for my colleagues in no way am I saying this is a priority or this is the only way it's that I am interested to see as we're moving this forward we know that getting Increasing the supply and increasing the supply fast is becoming a priority.

And we've been so good about brick and mortar and finding places, but we do know that it takes a long time.

to get that up and operational.

I'm not wanting to cut corners on quality or cut corners on the viability or how long what we build will last.

So I'm saying let's make sure that these are included in the mix.

They're called out as an opportunity, not as a mandate.

Moving on to amendment number two, this also shows up once in the resolution and then in the attachment A as well.

And this is in terms of the list of priorities, it adds language that relates to childcare and early learning facilities.

And then it adds education as another priority that is now not listed in the list of priorities.

Good.

And just to clarify what I'm wanting to do there, I didn't want to get into a debate about, is this universal preschool?

Is it childcare?

Is it early learning in some way that maybe we aren't defining?

And I'm just trying to say.

Just as you were talking about, viability and livability includes a good home near the kind of childcare, early learning, education facilities that we may want.

And specifically, there is a parcel of property that I'm looking at right now that it may be a park, it may be affordable housing, it may be an elementary school, we don't know.

But I want to make sure that we don't preempt the opportunity to look at something that could accomplish all three.

Another good example of that is in Othello, across the street from the Othello light rail station, they're doing affordable housing and elderly housing as well, along with ESL classes on the bottom.

So I think it's a great addition.

And the final amendment from Council Member Bagshaw is found again in the resolution as well as the attachment.

And this has to do with the use of proceeds.

And it just changes the language slightly as it relates to the funds that could go into the Equitable Development Initiative Fund to state that it would be used for costs directly related to the construction of an affordable housing project.

Good.

I just want to broaden that to make sure that that's what we're focused on is to support the construction of affordable housing.

And I am interested in any good ideas that come up that help us do this well and as quickly as possible.

I just want to echo my support, especially for those last two elements.

As we've been having conversations with community groups and the equitable development initiative team, we think that this is a really well-crafted amendment, so to be reflective of the original intent really helps to clarify.

Good.

Thank you.

Okay.

And do you want to proceed with?

Your amendments, Council Member Musil.

Okay, sure.

And then just because you need it in one more form, a couple of amendments here that again one appears in the resolution and that is on page one.

And it's a whereas that just emphasizes that there is a significant need for affordable housing under 80% of median income.

And that, in particular, we want to prioritize the housing for those with incomes from 0% to 30% of AMI.

The next, go ahead.

I think it's critical that we have affordable housing for all types of working families and we know that many people at 80% AMI are also struggling.

I think this emphasis on prioritizing housing to up to 30% just recognizes that this might be direct investment and this still allows for the cross subsidization that Office of Housing helps to compile together when working with community partners.

but really focuses on helping folks who are at the lowest ends of the income spectrum.

The next amendment B actually has a couple of different pieces.

So the first whereas actually just pulls the language that's in the attachment A that talked about when property is located in areas that are at high risk for displacement and puts it into a whereas, but also adds a little bit further in terms of explaining.

So when we're talking about organizations that are culturally relevant and historically rooted, It means that for the purposes of those partnerships or organizations, it's reflective of staff and a board composition that should reflect the community they purport to serve and meet other guidelines as defined by the funding criteria for the equitable development initiative.

So it just adds that last sentence to kind of give further definition about what does it mean to be culturally relevant and historically rooted for an organization to be such.

Council Member Musqueda, did you have anything you wanted to add to that?

Sure.

I think this one and the next amendment that we'll talk about in a second, these really do come from conversations with organizations who have expressed a lot of interest in helping to create affordable housing in our community and yet want to make sure that we are holding ourselves accountable to make sure that we're investing in those communities who are rooted in areas or work with populations who are most at risk of displacement.

When we think about, you know, one of the great examples that Office of Housing has had in creating community-driven development, it's been, for example, working with El Centro de la Raza.

And yes, they partner with a nonprofit developer, but they really have a board and staff that are reflective of the community they're trying to serve.

So I think it's a great addition that came directly from the community as we think about community-driven development.

I should also say that the final amendment pulls that same language and adds it to attachment A about what is a culturally relevant and historically rooted community, so that's kind of similar language.

The next whereas would commit the city to continue to explore and implement a community-driven anti-displacement program that may include priorities around labor standards for construction of projects, including use of priority hire, apprenticeship utilization, area standard wages, and bona fide benefits and community workforce agreements.

I'll just note, I think we have some good examples of how this type of commitment, this value is being implemented at the case site.

And we know that more labor standard requirements are being used there.

And I think it's a great starting point to continue conversations about how we live our values on these publicly.

own pieces of property.

Nice.

Emily, do you have anything you would like to add from the Office of Housing?

What we're hopeful is that we can, in partnership with you and with the community, identify sites and be working with our partners to get more housing.

Is there Concerns or anything that you would like to add?

No, I guess I would just say thank you.

I think this legislation helps to acknowledge that publicly owned sites can do two key things for affordable housing.

One, they can create cost efficiency by bringing down a portion of the cost that's associated with land.

And then two, it can provide key locational access in parts of the city, both that are at high risk of displacement.

and that offer opportunity and access to opportunity for low-income residents.

So land and access to land is one key piece of affordable housing development, and we appreciate the leadership and collaboration in helping to reduce barriers on that one key piece.

So we now do we have a just a resolution in front of us that we can So you have what has been reduced and you have with all the amendments exactly With all the amendments that I've just now talked about and so if you want to just authorize me to go ahead and incorporate all of those amendments that I just walked through including the last one we didn't talk about Ms. Gate is the one that has to do it.

So I just want to make sure you have that last whereas, which has as part of a development throughout city, the city will explore how to meet community needs for open and green space, recognizing these facilities as an asset to the entire city and community serve.

So that one just gets at the open space and green space needs.

So you can go ahead and authorize me to incorporate all of those amendments that we just walked through into new versions of the resolution and attachment A, because both will need to be changed.

and then I can have that prepared for the October 1st full council meeting.

Great, and colleagues and particularly Council President Harrell and Council Member Gonzalez, do you have other thoughts or issues or amendments that you would like to add at this time?

I just wanted to note that as you incorporate your changes, there's a grammatical error on that third whereas that is part of Council Member Mosqueda's suite of amendments.

So if you could just remove that period before the semicolon.

then I can support this piece of legislation.

I love that kind of close inspection.

Excellent.

Council President Harreld, do you have anything you'd like to add?

All right.

Is it appropriate for us just to move it as we have discussed and then you will bring us a clean copy?

Correct.

Okay.

Well, again, I want to say thank you.

And I also want to acknowledge that Michael Maddox and Allison and my team worked very closely together I came in and talked with both Tracy and me.

And Hillary, thank you for your involvement in this as well.

Really, I just have to say, you've got some fabulous people who are working with and for you.

And I just want to say thanks, Michael and Allison.

OK, so as we have discussed with the amendments that we have discussed, I would like to move Resolution 31837. As amended.

As amended with all of the amendments that we have discussed.

Second.

Okay.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

No opposition.

No abstentions down there.

Congratulations and thank you.

Congratulations.

And everybody who's in the audience, appreciate the work that you have done on this as well.

All right.

I believe that we have come to the end of our agenda.

So before I adjourn, I'm going to actually let all three of you know that feel free to be excused at this point.

I promised Mr. Zimmerman I'd give him another minute of public testimony, so you can choose to stay or not.

And Allison, if you would set the clock, Mr. Zimmerman, I invite you respectfully to come and give us another minute of your wisdom.

Two minutes is better.

Do you see that you've got one minute and the green light is on?

So we have today approved three directors.

Two.

Yeah, today we need...

Two.

Okay, two directors, yes.

So how we can approve these two directors?

We don't ever see these people before and never give question to him.

Public must be doing this.

You're talking about status quo.

Before change status quo, you need stop fascism as we have right now.

Because each director must be talk to people.

We have example with this with chief of police.

She talk to people, people can ask for her.

We must be doing this in every director.

We can use a better room for this situation.

So before you approve each director, we need talking to this director, give them couple question, and I think thousand people will become, because we have too many director, we have crooks in this exactly fascism, and I never find one honest director in my life for three years in Seattle.

It's a problem, include you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Now the meeting is adjourned.