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The February 10th, 2026 meeting of the Seattle City Council will come to order.

It is 2.03 p.m.

I am Joy Hollingsworth, your council president.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Council member Rivera?

Present.

Council member Saka?

Here.

Council member Foster?

Here.

Council member Kettle?

Here.

Council member Lynn?

Here.

Council member Rink?

Present.

Council President Hollingsworth.

Here.

Seven present.

Awesome.

Thank you.

And for the record, Council Member Juarez and Council Member Strauss are excused.

Council Member Foster will present a proclamation recognizing February, 2026 as Black History Month.

Council Member Foster, you are recognized to present the proclamation.

Thank you so much, Council President, and once again, happy Black History Month.

We love to see it.

I am really excited to present this proclamation signed by my fellow Council members and signed by the Mayor today, and excited to acknowledge that City Attorney Erica Evans is in the audience with us as well.

as we get to present this proclamation.

And I'll just share briefly, you know, for myself, it was fun to get to be asked to do the proclamation.

And I shared a little bit about it yesterday at Council Briefing.

But I'll just say again today, I think there's so much for us to both reflect on and so much for us to celebrate this month and every day.

And it's a pleasure to get to present this.

So I'm going to read just a tiny bit.

I'm a little verbose.

It's a long proclamation, so I'll read just a little bit.

And then I'm also really excited to share that later on this month I will be officially presenting this at the Northwest African American Museum during their performances of Living Voices.

So we'll be presenting it to them on the last day of Black History Month at an arts event that they're doing, which I am very much looking forward to.

And a little bit about that, the stories that they are going to be presenting there.

One story, Our Revolution, follows a young black colonist fighting for liberty, land, and future during the American Revolution, exploring the complexities of freedom and nationhood through a solo performance and archival footage.

And the second performance, The Right to Dream, shifts to the civil rights era, tracing a young man's journey growing up in the segregated South and spotlighting the 1960s fight for voting rights, youth activism, community organizing and more.

So encourage folks to join if they are able on February 28th for those two performances.

And with that, I will just share...

Oh, and the last thing I want to say is we are celebrating 100 years of Black History Month this year.

We are also celebrating 10 years of the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, which was started here in Seattle by Seattle educators, students, families, and community members.

So we want to acknowledge that moment as well.

And I'll just share a couple of the recitals here.

Whereas the centennial of Black History Week commemorates and represents not only a century of recognition and remembrance, but an enduring demand that institutions reckon with historical truth, honor black leadership and resistance, and translate memory into sustained action that confronts racial inequity, protects black communities, and expands opportunity across generations.

Whereas this year also marks the 10th anniversary of Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, a nationwide movement that began in Seattle and is led by educators, students, families, and community members affirming the humanity of black students and that underscores the vital role of schools as sites of truth-telling and belonging.

Whereas we commit to using the power and responsibility we hold today to build upon this history and take meaningful action to ensure black futures in Seattle are bright, joyful, and resilient, grounded in equity, opportunity, and collective care.

Now, therefore, the mayor and the Seattle City Council proclaim February 2026 to be Black History Month in Seattle.

Awesome.

Thank you, Councilmember Foster.

Council Member Foster and for authoring that as well.

We really appreciate your leadership on this and we're very grateful for the words that are in that proclamation and just also how very intentional you were with it as well.

Colleagues, at this time we'll pause if there's any other further comments.

I know that we discussed this yesterday as we were all signing on during our briefing, but I wanna pause here just to see if there's any other comments.

Awesome, okay.

The next thing, if there's no objection, I would like to suspend the rules to allow our city attorney, Erica Evans, to address the council.

Hearing no objections.

I caught y'all before there's any objections.

The rules are suspended.

I just want to thank Councilmember Foster for proposing this proclamation and for City Council and the Mayor for signing it.

Our city is built upon the excellence of black folks.

Our country is built upon our black excellence and it's just an honor to be part of the excellence and the history that we are all making in our respective seats and I'm just proud to be part of the team.

So thank you, thank you, thank you.

Awesome.

Thank you City Attorney Evans.

History, know your greatness.

So now we're gonna suspend the rules.

This is new for us as a council, because usually we have the person that's presenting the proclamation take a photo, but we're gonna do one together as a council.

And so what we'll do is we'll suspend the rules.

Councilmember Foster, you'll come to the middle as author of the proclamation, and we'll have our comm scene take a quick photo.

this will only take us 30 to 45 seconds, really fast.

So colleagues, you'll push in your chairs, we'll come to the middle and we'll take a quick photo.

Thank you.

Here, I'll be on the outside.

I was trying to even out the melanin.

Ready?

Right here.

Three, two, one.

Would it be possible to also include CAO in the picture?

Say it again.

Can we include CAO in one of the pictures?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Sorry.

I'm sorry, Erica.

My apologies.

I'm going to take one more a little bit closer

Okay, musical chairs.

Okay, thank you for that colleagues and thank you for public for your patience.

Okay, so now at this time we're gonna jump into the hybrid public comment period.

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

Clerk, how many speakers do we have signed up today?

We have 20 in person and four remote

Awesome, so everyone's gonna get four minutes, or sorry, four minutes.

Surprise.

I know.

Now, I'm sorry.

So let me tell you where I got that four from.

The Liquor and Cannabis Board does four minutes for public comment, and that was in my head just now.

Okay, so I apologize.

Two minutes.

Okay, each person, two minutes.

I know, my bad.

Okay, two minutes.

And we're gonna start with all the in-person speakers first.

Clerk, I'm gonna hand it over to you for you to read the instructions.

Speakers will be called in the order in which they are registered, Speakers will hear a chime when 10 seconds are left of their time.

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

Okay, awesome.

And I'm going to call people up in threes.

I believe the first three people want to come up in a group.

It's Amber, Emmy and Madison.

Did I say that right?

That you want to come up in a group?

Awesome.

And so that's going to be six minutes that will put on the time for you all to come up and speak as a group because it's two per person.

and just wanna make sure the person, Danette, is that a part of your group as well?

No, okay.

No, no, no, Bennett, you're after, it's number four on here.

I know how to say your name.

I know how to, no, it's number five, so it's number four.

Does anyone know who signed up number four?

That's not part of your group, okay.

Amber, Emmy, and Madison, we'll put six minutes up, okay.

Just give us one second.

Jodi, do you need me to share the screen or do you got that?

I'm going to share my screen.

One second.

I'm trying to find it here.

Okay.

Here we go.

Thank you.

Okay.

Awesome.

And whenever you all ready to start, we'll start the timer.

Hello, my name is Amber.

I'm a volunteer for Greenlight Project.

We're a peer-led mutual aid organization for sex workers in Seattle and King County.

Since 2019, we've been doing outreach on Aurora Avenue North twice a week for sex workers and survivors, and we have a list of demands that we're here to support today.

On Tuesday, January 27th, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office gave a presentation about sex trafficking at a meeting of the Public Safety Committee of the Seattle City Council that featured unredacted, identifiable images of brutalized, bloodied, and tortured women accompanied by graphic depictions of their rapes and assaults, including a list of foreign objects inserted into their bodies and other dehumanizing language and comments about women who engage in the sex trade.

While the Public Safety Committee Chair, Councilmember Bob Kettle, has apologized for allowing a public display of dehumanizing images of victims and survivors, we believe that it was part of a larger pattern of instrumentalization and exploitation of survivors, sex workers, and people in the sex trade by the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office and the Public Safety Committee members in their effort to promote their preferred policy position of expanding the power and reach of law enforcement.

While the King County Prosecutors Office and Public Safety Committee members selectively quote voices and stories of survivors that are convenient for their goal, those voices are far from consensus or even majority necessarily.

Instead of honoring diverse perspectives of survivors, sex workers, and people in the sex trade, Those of us who disagree with further criminalization are routinely dismissed as ignorant or privileged, explained away as speaking from trauma, or simply ignored and silenced.

It was evident throughout the conversations about prostitution loitering and the SOAP or stay out of areas of prostitution ordinances back in 2024, When people with personal histories in the sex trade who opposed the proposed ordinance struggled to be heard at all, while an organization supporting the ordinance was repeatedly given time to present to the council, then subsequently received $1 million in a no-bid direct contract from city council, that organization is now mired in allegations of serious human rights violations against women that they are supposed to be helping.

and I'm going to pass it on to Emi.

Thank you.

My name is Emi Koyama with the Coalition of Rights and Safety.

So I'm going to continue.

Even during the Public Safety Committee meeting in which the KCPO gave the offensive presentation, prosecutors and council members made numerous comments denigrating and dismissing survivors, sex workers, and people with sex trade who oppose further criminalization.

For example, Councilmember Kettle questioned the psychological state of those who disagree with his policies, including survivor sex workers and people with sex trade, repeatedly dismissed as members of the chattering class who are ignorant about the reality of violence against women and accused us of yelling at and targeting council members like himself.

Council member Rivera mischaracterized and dismissed survivors of sex workers and people of sex trade who disagree with her as members of the privileged few and argued that policies the council is discussing have nothing to do with us even though we are speaking out against policies that directly harm us.

She further chastised survivors of sex workers and people of sex trade who disagree with her for not listening to the council members like herself rather than the other way around.

When the Councilmember Lin asked the prosecutors about survivors who disagree with their approach, a prosecutor suggested that we are traumatized as children and are speaking from our trauma because that is all we have and know, instead of acknowledging that we are capable of forming our own opinions about what policy will help or harm our community based on our personal experiences and those of our peers, and that we have valuable insight that should be respected whether or not they ultimately agree or disagree with us on any given policy.

It was also telling that my public comment alerted the committee about the exploitative use of survivor storage and imagery in complete disregard for survivor safety, privacy, or dignity prior to the KCPO presentation was entirely ignored as if nothing happened.

This pattern goes beyond ordinary disagreements over policy preferences.

When the KCPAO and Public Safety Committee members selectively promote survivor voices and stories that are advantageous for their policy positions, while dismissing, mocking, and infantilizing voices and stories of other survivors, sex workers and people on sex trade, they're not listening to survivors.

They are exploiting survivors, as they did when they publicly shared the vulnerable survivors' images and defended doing so by arguing that they are part of some obscure court filing.

Therefore, there are public records.

And I pass on to Madison.

My name is Madison Zakwu.

I'm here with Strippers or Workers.

We represent all sorts of people in the sex trade.

We're a little bit short on time, but we have five demands total in response to this.

The summary of it is we want an acknowledgment of the pattern of selective and exploitative uses of survivor stories, voices, and images in policy advocacy by the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.

We want an examination of city and county policies, guidelines and trainings, or lack thereof, on ethical, trauma-informed and non-exploitative uses of survivor voices and stories.

We want systemic and empirical analysis conducted by the Office of Civil Rights on existing and potential policy approaches to reducing violence and exploitation in the sex trade.

We also want an establishment of strategies to honor and include diverse perspectives of survivors, sex workers, and people in the sex trade.

And we want a public safety committee meeting dedicated to a presentation about human rights-based, non-carceral, pro-sex...

We also have a written copy of our demand letter, as well as a written copy of quotes from council members that have been harmful to people in the sex trade, and we'd like to submit them for public record.

Right there.

Thank you, Amber, Emmy, and Madison for coming today and also for submitting your stuff.

If you could also send us an email as well with those, it would be super helpful as well.

So thank you all.

The next person we have is Donu.

Does that sound familiar?

Okay, I'm butchering your name.

Number four, Donyu.

Okay, we'll skip that, I'll come back.

Next we have Bennett, followed by Jonathan, followed by Steve.

Hi Bennett, welcome.

Mr. Seahawk.

I thought you were saying Dennett.

I thought it was actually me.

Good afternoon, council.

So about half of you were here more than a year ago, and council member Rivera was chairing a meeting where she had a budget proposal that would keep existing EDI funding, but freezing new EDI funding.

funding, and dozens and dozens of people had lined up to give public comment, I believe in good faith, but accusing Councilmember Rivera of wanting to cancel existing EDI funding.

And I remember, after virtually every person speaking, just seeing your faces, like you clearly were dying to jump in and say, no, that's not what I'm proposing doing, but believing that you weren't allowed to say anything, and so it was like an hour and a half of people saying, oh, Councilmember Rivera's cutting existing EDI funding.

Once again, I'm saying that I believe if a public commenter wants to ask a question, give you a chance to respond, you are allowed to talk.

Under city council rules, section 11, subsection C.

Hawks!

C!

Hawks!

Subsection C. It says there is no rule against a public commenter ceding some of their time and giving you time to answer.

So, with that in mind, I'd like to ask you about the council bill you proposed about reducing police cooperation with ICE, which is good, but it doesn't take out the part that says, Seattle police officers exempt from these limitations with respect to a person, previously deported again in the United States, where the cop believes you have committed a felony.

That part is not taken out by the law you proposed.

And I'd like to know, would you be open to an amendment that also takes out the part about police cooperating in that case?

I promise there's no rule that says you can't answer.

It's your time, Bennett.

I know.

I'm seeding part of it.

Let her answer if she wants.

There's no rule that says people can't ask a question and you can answer if you want to.

You're absolutely right.

You're right.

But it's your time.

I understand, but this is your time, Bennett, okay?

This is your time.

Jonathan, followed by Steve, and then Alicia.

Hi, Jonathan.

Hi, my name's Jonathan Moore.

I'm speaking only for myself, but I have worked at the Washington Defender Association Immigration Project since 2005, and I went this morning to the Public Safety Commission hearing on CB121-158, which is a very laudable bill that strikes from chapter 4.18 of the Seattle Municipal Code language that says city officers and employees are directed to cooperate with and not hinder enforcement of federal immigration laws.

So we will, I think, all be glad to see that go.

But I think there's another provision of the law that should, either by supplementing or possibly through an amendment, is also an anachronism.

and it was also passed before the state legislature passed 1093.160, which is the Keep Washington Working Act, and it's 4.18.015 inquiries into immigration status.

Part B says, first it says don't do it, but section B says, Seattle police officers are exempt from the limitations imposed by subsection A with respect to a person whom the officer has reasonable suspicion to believe, one, has previously been deported from the United States, two, is again present in the United States, and three, has committed a felony criminal law violation.

This is from 2003, long before 2019 when 1093-160 was passed, which basically prohibits It doesn't say if the person's a felon, then all the rules go out the door.

The bar on asking people about their citizenship status, their nationality, or their place of birth is across the board.

We're not supposed to collect this information.

So I want to pull your coat.

about this and hope that as the process goes forward, this can also be eliminated.

It also raises a strange sort of question, which I just realized looking at it since this could be the elements of a federal crime.

Anyway, thank you.

Thank you, Jonathan.

Next we have Steve, followed by Alicia, and then Aries.

Here we go again.

The Land Use Committee is helping developers keep their margins up, and let's keep the people out.

Now, I don't know if any of you noticed, I suspect you did, that last election, the longer you were here, the less likely you had a chance of being reelected.

And it's been a long time since we reelected a mayor.

And I think that the citizens of the city of Seattle have concerns about land use.

Well, systematically over the last few decades, the consul and the mayor have been pushing people out.

And I think that's one, there are several other pillars, but that's one of the reasons for your popularity, or lack thereof.

The people in the city of Seattle, many of them are concerned about their neighborhoods.

And guess what?

You even have other property owners.

who can be concerned about what happens next door.

And you have seen, or at least you should have seen, that all the stimulus, in other words, increasing the profit of developers, has not lowered the cost of housing in the city of Seattle.

Strangely enough, it's been going up, and some of you may have noticed that too.

Seattle, has allowed developers to put that money in their pockets.

When you stimulate, in other words, you make it cheaper for developers to develop, it doesn't affect the price.

It means the margin is bigger.

So it looks like today you're going to have Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus, any other holiday you can think of.

Another gift to your gods, the developers.

Thank you Steve.

Next we have Alicia followed by Aries and then Rose.

Welcome.

Thank you.

My name is Alicia Boulevard.

The images presented by the King County prosecutor were harmful to me and re-traumatizing.

I was trafficked and I'm now an outreach worker on the front lines working with people in the sex trade on North Aurora.

I am not representing my employer.

I want to note I am honored to be these survivors and people in the sex trade, their voice today.

The pictures put these individuals in great harm.

I am not attempting to read minds here, but I am suspicious of the prosecutor's motives as this was again, as these pictures were again incredibly harmful to the individuals in the pictures due to the gross violation of their privacy and their safety.

People go online, people look things up, perpetrators.

Survivors need to make their own decisions.

They face life and death decisions that depend on their agency.

These things cannot be fathomed.

We can't tell them how to respond to these life or death situations that that they're in, that they need to make.

So the voices of people in the sex trade must be centered.

This was harmful to us, and I strongly support the reprimands given to the county prosecutor.

Thank you for hearing me out.

Thank you, Alicia.

Thank you, Alicia.

Next we have Aries, followed by Rose, followed by Ruth.

Welcome.

Thank you.

I have come into some information that most of the people on this board are on our team and understand that what's happening in the city is wrong.

I also understand why you guys would be afraid.

You don't wanna go to jail.

You don't wanna get sued.

You are afraid just like every single person in this room and outside of this room, people that go to protest and people that can't go to protest, especially the students that were protesting here just days ago.

We understand your fear because we are living it every day.

We are fearing for our neighbors, our loved ones, our families.

We are all afraid, every single one of us, but we are still fighting.

we ask that you guys do the same.

So I said, I understand that you are afraid, but just like we protest for the hundreds of people that are getting abducted and the people that are killed for protecting them, we still...

Sorry.

We will stand for you as well.

God forbid anything happens, we ask that you stand for the people.

You put your fears in the back and you stand up because you're not alone.

If you go to jail, we will be right there behind protesting until you are free.

As we stated last time, our demands are eyes off city grounds, service not surveillance.

And as we stated last time, we will come with more people, the same demands, until we get the shit figured out.

Thank you.

Thank you, Harris.

Next we have Rose, followed by Ruth, and then Daniel.

Welcome back, Rose.

Yes, thank you.

Last week, Seattle City Mayor Katie Wilson was supposed to speak out about new ways to crack down on surveillance in the city.

That did not happen.

People are upset about this.

People feel lied to by the city council and by the mayor that none of this action is seeming to happen.

We like the piecemeal approach that first happened, but that cannot be the only actions that happen against ICE.

It also came out today, early this morning, that City Council Member Bob Kettle was instrumental in trying to make sure that surveillance technologies were not being outlawed on the Hill in Olympia.

This is further making people quite upset about this.

We have a lot of surveillance technologies that are making people feel afraid for their lives right now, that are being used to torture and kidnap the people in Minneapolis.

And we cannot afford to let that happen here.

As we get closer and closer to the World Cup, ICE is looking and has its sights set on Seattle.

ICE is going to be a part of the security for the World Cup.

If we do not prepare now, this is only going to get worse from here.

We cannot afford to delay.

There are a lot of other demands that were talked about last week.

There were very brave individuals who put their safety at the line to say that they needed housing, that they needed help, that they needed the city council members to reach out and listen to them, and there's been nothing done.

They need to make sure that they are not having to choose between being deported and being evicted.

That should not happen in Seattle.

Seattle is a place for all of us.

Seattle is a place where everyone should feel safe.

As a part of this, I'm a little sad that Erica Evans had to leave our city attorney because there are other DAs throughout the country in St. Paul, in Minneapolis, in Philadelphia that are joining together and saying, we are gonna prosecute ICE no matter what.

It is not a question of if this can be done, it can be done.

They are doing it now and it is on us to demand that that happens now because we deserve it and so do the people that you all serve.

Thank you, Rose.

Next we have Ruth, Daniel, followed by L.

This might be Eli, but I see two L's.

Ruth, is it L?

Okay, awesome.

Thank you so much for that correction.

Last week I heard you were scared.

Guess who's more scared?

Four days ago a man was abducted in Bellevue.

This week ice was spotted in multiple neighborhoods across the city lurking like the parasites they are.

People are afraid to go outside and it's crazy that people who are chosen to represent us are scared to represent us at every level.

No wonder the people have lost faith in all forms of government.

What do y'all do?

I'm not asking for shit.

Do your job and do the city some good.

We just got a big win and you should help us deliver the next one.

Join the coalition of attorneys to prosecute ICE.

Demand a state of emergency for migrants and asylum seekers.

Cut the surveillance, Rivera.

I don't remember getting locked up.

Don't just stop them from collaborating with the already incompetent and violent police department.

No, you can't use our cameras, other police officer.

Where does it make sense?

Push to ban them from the city.

Get ICE out of this city.

Washington rep J.I.P. House Ice Out of Our Face Act.

Push that.

I know y'all don't got pulled like that.

But push for the abolishment of ICE in this city.

I'm not from here, but these are my people.

Y'all look like us.

Y'all should fight for us.

Don't be scared to go to jail.

People are afraid of dying.

Time.

Thank you, Ruth.

Next we have Daniel followed by Elle and then Toby.

Welcome.

And you can do either mic, you can go there or in the middle, whichever one is most comfortable for you.

Thank you.

Hi there, my name is Daniel.

I live in the Central District.

Thank you for the time to speak today.

I'm representing ILPS, the International League of People's Struggle, which is a global alliance of grassroots organizations.

fighting against imperialism.

Many of the organizations here today and at these city council meetings have been members of ILPS.

And we want to thank the council members, especially Rankin and Foster, for meeting with some of our members this past week and some of the Venezuelan migrants that are concerned about their housing and working together to find ways that we can make change.

I'm here because I really want to speak on the issue of surveillance and demand that more be done, more action be taken against ICE in the city.

I think we need to be clear that the The job here is really to serve the people and not the major weapons corporations or surveillance companies that are infecting the city and this entire country.

We know that there are motivations behind passing certain surveillance laws, rolling out CCTVs.

People are profiting off of these systems.

And there's an entire industry really built on mass surveillance that ICE is really weaponizing against the people right now.

We should be pretty familiar with it too, living in Seattle with Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft as major weapons corporations that are profiting off of the deaths and the surveillance of millions of people around the world.

So we should be familiar with these corporations.

and need to demand more action against surveillance of all forms.

It's really impacting the people as we've been hearing, and we demand that people be put over profit and people continue to fight for services and not surveillance.

Thank you, Daniel.

Elle, Toby, Alex, and then Keandre.

Welcome, Elle.

I'm El.

I'm with Anikba in South Seattle, a youth and student Filipino organization for national democracy in the Philippines.

We have organized in the south end to try to get ethnic studies back.

for students for a long time, and that fight ended up turning into a fight to ensure that ICE is out of schools.

We are under the understanding that you are allowed to enforce the law that ICE is not allowed on city property.

We are asking that there is a two-mile radius so children can go to and from schools without getting picked up, and the majority of the teachers that we know organizing amongst themselves to protect students.

People are trying to figure out rides to get to and from school.

There's been several folks who have come and talked to us, but we also asked that the protocol is transparent across all school districts.

People are not familiar with what to do, not sure if it's safe to send their kids to school, but it shouldn't, like, you know, we talk about history and ethnic studies and, you know, teaching about black history or the history of other countries.

History is repeating itself as, you know, between what y'all are able to enforce is anonymous racial state violence, where people are allowed to get picked up for no reason at all.

You work with the schools and the different migrant coalitions to figure out how to ensure safety for the teachers and students who have a just right to education.

And that's all.

Thank you, Al.

Next we have Toby, Alex, followed by Keandre.

Welcome Toby.

Thank you.

I'm also here to speak on behalf of the International League of People Struggle and want to continue to raise the community demand that you all end surveillance and prioritize the services of people, continue to put people over profit.

We're currently living in an emergency situation, and you all need to treat it a lot more like the emergency it is.

There are so many things that you could be doing to meet different people's needs.

I understand that there are bureaucratic constraints, but you all need to get a lot more creative about how we address this issue.

We could be putting forward an eviction moratorium.

There could be different policies put forward to continue to protect our students in schools that Ella is speaking about.

$4 million are being allocated to this issue, but it is not clear where that money is going.

In the past, it has gone to services that are inaccessible and continue to place barriers for migrants needing them.

We need to have services that are actually accessible to migrants that address their issues adequately.

In order to actually address this crisis, we need to understand what those issues are.

There's currently a six-year-old child who's going to be standing alone in court without a lawyer and separated from her family.

That's happening in your city, and she is not the only one.

There needs to be adequate understanding of the root causes of these issues, of the services that are needed by migrants in our community, and far more creativity for how we actually address them.

Awesome.

Thank you, Toby.

Next, we have Alex, followed by Keandre, and then Howard Gale.

Welcome, Alex.

Hello.

Yeah, absolutely.

We are definitely in a state of emergency, and you guys have completely done nothing about it besides try to capitalize off everything that has happened.

We are gathered here at a moment of grave concern for our communities and our values across this country.

Aggressive immigration enforcement actions have reached into neighborhoods, homes, and schools, places where children should feel safe and secure.

In recent weeks, federal immigration officers have detained a five-year-old boy as he was going to school This is not freedom.

This is not democracy.

This is imperialism and an authoritarian government that refuses to treat people as humans.

Rather, they treat people as statistics and failures, not as contributors to our communities, not as people who helped build our society.

That's all I have to say.

You guys need to start doing a better fucking job.

Thank you, Alex.

Next, we have Keiondre, followed by Howard Gale, Carol, and Miss Yvette.

Welcome, Keiondre.

Hello, hello.

I would say it's a pleasure to be here, but unfortunately we are out of time.

In our sister city, ICE members kidnapped a member of our community.

Guys, the Trump administration is coming for us.

There will be boots on the ground eventually.

And you have to pick a side.

Is it going to be the side of the people?

Or is it going to be the side of the pedophiles in office right now?

Joy Hollingsworth, I serve you coffee.

My boss, he's an immigrant.

We work right next to Carmelo's.

There isn't a day that goes by where I come into work and expect not to see them.

The time is now, you guys.

Please, please, please prosecute and arrest ICE agents that break constitutional law.

And please protect your community.

We will be watching, we will be here, and we will have your back if you have ours.

Thank you.

Thank you, Keandre.

Next we have Howard Gill, followed by Carol, and then Yvette Dynish.

Welcome, Mr. Howard Gill.

Afternoon.

In honor of Black History Month, I'd like to read some quotes from the great poet, musician, and filmmaker, Boots Riley.

Quote, politicians perform a function, a role in government, and a role in city government is not one that serves the people unless the people make them do what the people want.

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

Yet for 15 months, you've offered us only sitting and watching.

For 15 months, we're put in a position now with imminent raids coming upon us The question I have to ask you is, is this what you want to be left with to tell your children and grandchildren?

That we, members of the city council, did not help drag folks to concentration camps.

That we did not help deport folks to prisons for torture and death.

That we did not help beat and kill our fellow Americans.

That we were good people because all we did was watch and let it happen.

That's simply not gonna be good enough and we are gonna be regretting this day.

So again, what I ask, it's nothing more than what a Washington attorney general, Nick Brown, said two weeks ago now.

State and local law enforcement do not have to simply watch or look away if the law is being violated.

If they see somebody being assaulted unlawfully or attacked unlawfully or otherwise having their legal rights violated, we do not expect state and local officers to simply watch or do nothing.

That is what the 36th District Democrats have offered to you for five months and you've been routinely silent on it.

So again, this is not an option of sitting by and doing nothing or having Seattle police get into a gunfight with ICE.

There is a huge area in between and somehow you are avoiding it.

So again, what I'm asking for is to take up that initiative have a town hall where you can actually bring to the fore the wisdom of the immigrants and all the people that live in the city so that it's not something that's being done as it is being done now behind closed doors.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Gale.

Next we have Carol, welcome, and then Miss Yvette Dynash.

Hello, my name's Carol Butterfield.

Thank you for having us this afternoon.

I am on the Executive Board of 36 District Democrats, partly what Howard was just speaking about, and I am here to support and highlight some aspects of the resolution that 36 District Democrats presented to you.

Parts of it, just gonna go through it quickly.

requiring that the City Council and the Mayor record the following information from people who are basically acting as law enforcement officers in our state, but are not clearly identified by name, badge, number, and agency, and are in fact still engaging in stops, detentions, or arrests within the City of Seattle.

So we'd want them to record their identity, evidence of probable cause, the names of the individuals being detained or arrested, and a body-worn video recording of the interaction.

Also that it's resolved that the SPD arrests for kidnapping any individual who detains another without providing authentic law enforcement credentials.

and also that SPD will not cooperate or participate with military personnel, except if the governor calls in the National Guard.

I would like to add here that I am really plain vanilla.

I'm 65, I'm white, I'm female, I'm educated, I'm a retired nurse practitioner, I'm a three-time PTA president.

If I'm afraid, I can't frickin' imagine what people are feeling, except that I can.

Fundamentally, I think what we are asking is that the City Council and the Mayor protect the Fourth Amendment rights of all Seattleites.

We're afraid.

Please protect us.

And I do thank you for your work.

It's hard.

These are hard times.

All right, thank you, Carol.

We have Miss Yvette Dynish followed by Alex Zimmerman and then Nathan Wall.

Welcome Miss Yvette.

Thank you kindly.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

I also want to thank members of organizations and others, including staff from the mayor's office that went to Minneapolis, boots on the ground.

And this is what they had to say about the experience.

As political organizers from Seattle crisscrossed Minneapolis, what blew them away was a power that ordinary people were exercising through collective action.

Huge numbers of residents were standing watch outside schools and restaurants tracking agents, blowing whistles.

I got my whistle.

Donating expertise, singing protest songs, and collecting groceries in an effort to shield vulnerable neighbors against apprehension and deportation pushed by you know who.

This is what we can do, everybody.

Pay attention, okay?

Please.

And I also wanted, I noticed in the, you know, I take the Seattle Times so I find out about all kinds of stuff.

but that budget almost $40 million is devoted to the community safety program, which funds violence prevention measures.

And that took me back to the Rainy Beach shooting a couple of weeks ago with two young men from the high school were murdered on the streets.

and when I asked a trusted friend what we could do to help prevent youth violence, they said, the arts, singing, painting, dancing, writing plays, and yes, boxing is an art and a sport.

And so I'd like to see some of that 40 million be directed to programs like this and then also accountability because $40 million is a lot of money.

I like to have accountability as the money is spent to what the organizations are doing and to show, have proof of what they're doing so the money is not wasted.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Miss Yvette.

We have Mr. Alex Zimmerman, followed by Nathan Wall.

Oh, you have my face.

It's good.

Oh, in three seconds.

Super.

No, we're not doing Nazi salutes here at all.

That's a violation of our council rules.

No problemo.

No problemo.

No problemo.

I want to speak about something what is, I think, absolutely critical in my Seattle life for 40 years.

I want to speak about the black life.

From my understanding, Seattle don't have more black community, and I spoke about this for many years.

But this is not only Seattle, Bellevue, Meslite Island, Kirkland, Redmond, and Issaquah, all these sites don't have black people, black community.

These are pure genocid.

So why am I a Jew speak about something that is genocid?

Because you are Nazi, Gestapo, fascist, a bandita and killer.

This is very important, absolutely.

So you understand who you are.

Yes, super, thank you very much.

And second, I want to speak about something that has made me very happy.

In old way, you know what this mean?

When circus come to small city, circus and clown go in main street and everybody happy.

Yeah, because circus very good in the small cities, old time.

My question right now, we have right now clown in circle, because they go to Parade, yeah, right now.

I don't know who these people.

I never know these people.

Yeah, well, Parade very important.

My question's simple.

Who will pay for this Parade and how much cost?

10 million dollars?

Who will pay for this?

I?

My social security very low.

Who will pay this?

This idiot will pay for this.

You will pay for this.

I want to know how much each Parade in Seattle cost.

Viva Trump!

Viva New American Revolution!

Stand up, slave and happy cow!

We need stopping this bandita who spend us money for nothing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And just for the record, that's violation number two, Nazi salutes, and that's against council rules.

Mr. Zimmerman, you're very smart.

You know the rules.

You know you have one more before we and you get kicked out, so you know what you're flirting with.

I don't even know how you follow that, I mean.

That's fine.

Sorry.

Thank you, Mr. Zimmerman.

All right.

Yeah, I don't know how you follow something like that.

Sorry, before you start, Council Member Foster, my apologies.

No, I was just gonna note for the record that that was a violation and making sure that it was read into the record, so you did what I was gonna do.

Thank you.

Awesome, thank you, Council Member Foster.

Anyway.

Nathan.

Welcome.

Thank you.

There's a couple things I want to get to today, so I'm going to cut myself off mid-sentence if I have to, but I woke up to news this morning that Mayor Wilson had put out a statement about the Ballard homeless encampment.

To be quite honest, I really wasn't clear exactly what happened.

I would like a little more clarity, but it seems to me that there was a sweep performed in Ballard today.

If I'm wrong about that, I would love to be wrong.

She said something about how we need to have these new housing units by the end of the year.

I agree completely, but I don't think we can sweep people without having housing for them available, and so I just encourage Katie Wilson and the city council to make good on that promise, build that housing as soon as humanly possible, because people really need it.

Okay, I also want to encourage Council to repeal the CCTV bill passed last summer, and I echoed the word.

Council Member Kettle, you know I appreciate you, but I was concerned to hear that you had lobbied against regulations for, maybe according to the burner, you had lobbied against regulations for ALPR.

I'm not remembering exactly what it was, I think ALPR puts us in danger right now, not just immigrants, but queer people, people seeking reproductive care, because people are coming to Washington State right now as a safe haven.

And I'm concerned that the federal government is going to use these systems to track people who are coming from other states.

You've already seen it happen with folks getting prosecuted for getting abortion care in places like Ohio.

Yeah, you know what I'm trying to say.

So I would just like to ask us, I think this is a reasonable discussion to have at a certain point in time.

But while Trump is in office, I think we can't consider this.

And so I just encourage you to reconsider that.

Also, just for the record, I want to state, it is weird that we had to have two Super Bowl halftime shows because the sensitive president demanded that we, that's weird.

Anyone else in any other country that looks at this and thinks like, hey, this is weird that our president's acting like this, this is kind of like how a dictator acts, you'd be right to think that way.

Fuck Trump.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nathan.

We're now gonna switch to online.

Present, excuse me, not presenters, but people who are online, please press star six.

There's a number of people who are not present, so we'll go to the people that are present and we'll continue to wait just to make sure we're not missing anyone.

The first one up is Ryan.

And then we have followed by Peter Manning, Lady Scribe, David Haynes, Keith Rohrabach, Joe Kunzer, and Jim Buchanan.

And first, Ryan, please press star six to unmute yourself.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Council President of Williams-Worthand and Councilmembers.

For the record, Ryan McKinster with Habitat for Humanity, Seattle King of Case House County.

Just reaching out to let you know about what we're supporting with Ordinance 121093. For many of our families, many who wait years to close in their habitat home in Seattle every month of delay means another month of housing instability.

When permitting processes staff redundant reviews on top of each other, working families pay the price through prolonged uncertainty about when they'll have a stable place to call home.

This ordinance eliminates this redundancy.

Taylor already conducts thorough environmental analysis through its Growth Management Act planning process and maintains strong protections through critical area regulations, stormwater standards, and design standards.

Adding project-level SEPA review on top creates a delay without environmental benefit.

The temporary SEPA suspension that you recently went through demonstrated that existing code requirements effectively protect environmental resources.

Projects continue to meet wetland protections, tree retention standards, drainage requirements, and infrastructure capacity benchmarks.

because those standards remained in place.

Habitat's pipeline includes over 200 permanently affordable homeownership units, of 75 percent of which are in Seattle itself, serving essential workers at 60 to 80 percent of area median income.

G9 increments means we serve more families sooner with the same limited public resource.

We urge you to pass Ordinance 121093 to get affordable homes to families faster and at lower cost.

Thank you for your time today.

Thank you, Ryan.

Next, we have Peter Manning.

I don't know if you're present, if Peter is present.

Peter Manning, if we see him.

Peter Manning, are you present online?

I don't know who's running online.

Do they see Peterman?

Council President, the only other person remotely that is online right now is Joe Kunzler.

Okay.

Okay.

Joe.

Okay.

We'll bump up Joe.

Joe, please press star six.

And there should be, we're getting emails that other folks are online.

Maybe they're having technical, but hi, Joe, go ahead and give your public comment.

Joe can you hear us?

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Can you hear me now?

Sure can.

Go loud.

Okay, Madam President Hollingsworth, it's Joe Conzler.

I just wanted to say, go storm, and aren't you happy the Seahawks won last Sunday night?

That was awesome.

I'm sorry I won't make the parade.

I got to do some work on my drone business, but I wanted to call in.

I wanted to say thank you to you and the council for giving a strike to Alex Zimmerman for that Nazi salute.

Never again means never again and we are the means and I really appreciate the allyship.

I've got Jewish friends and family and let me just say very bluntly and get to the point that Zimmerman doesn't speak for any Jew and he is 100% anti-Semitic, racist, anti-American, sexist, anti-Gorsuchtonian and just generally deplorable so looking forward to that third strike and hopefully a year-long exclusion because we don't need to hear from Bigots like Alex Zuri never again.

What we do need to hear from is more Joey Hollingsworth and hopefully the Seattle Storm are going to be having to plan a parade this fall for you because our Windhawks got one.

And I really also got some really good news to share, which is that Justin Farrell is now a South Transit employee.

Woo-hoo!

Go South Transit!

That's also great news.

So it's a really great time to be a fan of All-League Seattle.

And again, thank you for standing up to Alex Zimmerman.

It is very much appreciated.

Thank you.

Thank you, Joe.

Next we have a lady scribe.

And before you go a scribe, I'm gonna call the other people who are not present, but you are signed up.

Peter Manning has signed up.

They have sent us an email saying that they are online.

If we could just do a scanning for them.

We have David Haynes, we have Keith Rohrabach, and then we have Jim Buchanan as well.

So lady scribe, you are your public comment, star six.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can hear you.

Okay, perfect, I didn't know how to, okay.

Okay, do I just start now?

As we prepare to celebrate our Seattle Seahawks and host FIFA, I am calling in to remind our mayor that we really need her attention without being stereotyped as angry black women, aggressive black women or threatening black women.

We are the same black women from the campaign.

I just drove back non-stop celebrating the Seattle Seahawks and I'm super excited on the attention that this world stage brings and I'm hoping that in this that you guys just don't forget about Black Seattle and you begin to understand that we are the most vulnerable when it comes to ICE, being that we do not have our passports and if my son is, you know, maybe they think he's Haitian or something, you know, what happens then?

Where does he go?

but thankfully I was able to afford a passport for him, but his friends don't have one.

I think the passport initiative is very important for our community.

I'm here on this phone today requesting immediate funding for Black Seattle and Districts 2 and 3, not next year, not in another budget cycle, but now.

Our community was hit hard by recent flooding, heavy winds, and multi-day power outages.

Families lost food, seniors were left without resources, and single parent households are forced to choose between safety and survival outside of burying our two babies as well.

We've got to prepare for that.

So as history has shown us time and time again, black communities are the last to receive assistance, even when impact is severe.

This funding will support wraparound black-led solutions, including emergency preparedness kits for at least 100 black families, paid professional-led programming, safe community meeting spaces, and in-person youth and young adult programming focused on safety, mentorship and prevention.

A critical part of the work is the Passport to Freedom, but we're also proposing structured partnerships

Thank you, Lady Scribe.

Next we have David Haynes.

I will call David Haynes before you speak.

We still have not present Peter Manning, Keith Rohrabach, and Jim Buchanan.

So those three, Peter Manning, Keith Rohrabach, Jim Buchanan.

Go ahead, David, press star six.

Hi, thank you, David Haynes.

Remember when Pete Holmes was lobbied by his prosecutors to start exempting drug pushers under 3.5 grams from jail.

It looks like the progressives are repeating the skin color percentages that they're trying to manipulate when it comes to picking and choosing a social engineered race war about how many more crimes are being committed by white people versus crimes against humanity that are being committed by black and brown people that are being purposely listed as low-level, non-violent misdemeanor, no need to train for or punish or prosecute.

Yet, when we got a bunch of drunk drivers driving by and they got plenty of money, nobody wants to address the over-serving bartenders because they might start dialing down the amount of people that they're over-serving, generating all that tax money.

And I think it's shameful that this city wants to focus on riding the wave of whatever vicariously comes out of the past in Minnesota and distracting from the failed policies of public safety and the homeless crisis and the housing crisis and the main street reactivation crisis and the working class crisis that are ongoing that Ural's leadership when it comes to the oversight has watered down the integrity in a trade for an election support and promise of not being protested as long as you all go along with a bunch of racist non-profits that are conducting a race war within their scorn lived experience lens that wants to misconstrue what constitutes a criminal and start paying gun prevention violation like criminal gun toting repeat offenders to relocate if they don't retaliate, copycatting some damn city like Baltimore who's manipulating the statistics and spewing deceptions on the media about their success in dialing down the violence that you...

Thank you, Mr. Haynes.

I'll read the three people who are not present, or we haven't identified, Peter Manning, Keith Rohrabach, and Jim Buchanan.

We did get an email from Mr. Manning, their area code starts with 253, but I don't know if we just don't, I don't know the back end, how that works.

No?

Okay, we're not seeing you all.

Mr. Manning, Keith Rohrbach, Jim Buchanan.

We'll give it another 30 seconds, colleagues.

Just a second.

Okay, we're not seeing any one.

Sorry about that.

So we have reached the end.

If they pop up, maybe I can suspend the rules and let people speak, but we have reached the end of the list of registered speakers.

The public comment period is now closed.

Thank you to everyone who came in person.

Thank you to all the people that are online.

Thank you to people that give us public comment when we're on the street.

to all the emails and to all the meetings that we have where people continue to give us their feedback.

We really appreciate your time during this process and for your comments today.

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

Hearing no objection, the introduction referral calendar is adopted.

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

Hearing no objection, the agenda is adopted.

We are now gonna consider the proposed consent calendar.

Items on the consent calendar include the minutes of February 3rd, 2026, Council Bill 121159, payment of the bills.

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

Hearing none, I move to adopt the consent calendar.

Is there a second?

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

Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of the consent calendar?

Council member Rivera?

Aye.

Council member Sacca?

Aye.

Council member Foster?

Yes.

Council member Kettle?

Aye.

Council member Lynn?

Aye.

Council member Rink?

Yes.

Council President Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Seven in favor, then opposed.

The consent calendar items are adopted and will the clerk please affix my signature to the minutes and legislation on the consent calendar on my behalf?

Will the clerk please read item one into the record?

The Report of the Finance Native Communities and Tribal Governments.

Agenda item one, Council Bill 121-153 relating to the social housing tax, also using the mayor or designee to enter into an interlocal agreement with the Seattle social housing developer to establish the terms and procedures for the implementation, administration, transfer reporting, and oversight of the social housing tax, including provisions for reimbursement of the city's administrative and implementation costs and outstanding loan balances creating the social housing tax fund.

The committee recommends the bill passes amended.

Awesome, thank you.

And I know Council Member Strauss is chair of the committee, but I don't wanna assume, but I think Council Member Foster is going to share with us and then, or as the co-sponsor, sorry, as co-sponsor of the bill, you're recognized to give the committee report.

And then I will pass it off to the vice chair of the committee as well.

So Council Member Foster.

Thank you, Council President Hollingsworth.

Thank you, colleagues.

I'm really excited to put forth for consideration today this bill that is going to allow us to enter into an interlocal agreement with the social housing developer.

As we all know, voters have voted not once but twice to reaffirm their commitment to building social housing in Seattle.

And as part of ensuring that the developer is able to do that, we have to enter into this agreement that allows us to transfer the funds from the proceeds of the tax over to the developer so that they can continue to move forward.

Colleagues, as you know, as you all did last year before I was here, the council provided a $2 million loan to the developer that has allowed them to make progress in hiring staff and taking on work.

And once we enter into this interlocal agreement, FAS, Finance and Administrative Services, will be able to actually move the proceeds that have been collected to the developer.

So this is a technical yet important first step in this legislation, and it is well-timed.

We are looking forward to having the developer in our committee tomorrow from Housing, Arts, and Civil Rights, where we will be hearing more from the developer on their progress to date, changes to staffing and having a conversation around some of the work that we can expect from the developer this year.

So we look forward to that conversation in committee, but colleagues, this came out of the finance committee with a due pass recommendation.

So excited to put it in front of you all today.

Awesome.

Thank you, council member Foster.

And then for all your work on this, we know you worked hard and we'll be working hard within the housing committee to make sure that this is successful.

So thank you.

Are there any other comments from colleagues regarding this bill?

I will pause here.

I know I had said I would pass it off to the vice chair of the committee but I don't want to put her on the spot and there was nothing.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council President.

Just to say that Chair Strauss shepherded this through the committee.

I know where he worked in partnership with Council Member Foster and this is very much a technical amendment because this is something that we need to do.

And so we are going to, you know, the recommendation from the committee and as vice chair, I'll say that we recommend moving this forward.

I actually was not pressed in for the second half of the meeting, but would have voted for it.

So I did want to say that because my name doesn't appear, but I would have voted to move this forward as should we all so that we can fulfill our commitment to the voters who voted to move forward with the social housing PDA and ensure that they have the funds to do the work.

Thank you, Council President.

I wanted to give the shout out to Council Member Strauss, who shepherded this through as chair.

Thank you, Council Member Rivera.

And then as co-sponsor, Council Member Foster, do you have any closing words?

No?

Just the opening ones.

Okay, awesome.

Had the opening and the closing.

One and done.

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

Councilmember Rivera?

Aye.

Councilmember Saka?

Aye.

Councilmember Foster?

Yes.

Councilmember Kettle?

Aye.

Councilmember Lin?

Yes.

Councilmember Rink?

Yes.

Council President Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Seven in favor, none opposed.

Chair will sign it.

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

Will the clerk please read item number two into the record.

They report the Land Use and Sustainability Committee, agenda item two, Council Bill 121093 relating to land use and zoning, revising environmental review, thresholds and related provisions addressing transportation related requirements and archeological and cultural resource preservation requirements.

The committee recommends the bill passes amended.

Awesome.

Council Member Lin is chairs of the committee.

You are recognized to provide the committee report.

Thank you so much, Council President.

Yeah, we heard this in committee last week.

This has come before the committee before, but the committee did recommend this is for, there are two companion bills, 121093 and then next 121135 that we heard They are related.

The committee recommended both of them.

These relate to the SEPA threshold exemption and updating other codes.

The summary is that our other codes already address many of the environmental impacts, whether it's a construction management plans or transportation management plans and so that those are better addressed in those codes rather than through the SEPA process.

So we also should just mention that there was a proposed amendment that had been circulated earlier.

I'm not kind of withdrawing that amendment, not moving that forward.

So just proposing that we move forward with the bills as were recommended by the committee.

Awesome, thank you, Council Member Lynn.

Are there any other comments about this bill?

Awesome, seeing none, are there any closing, or was that an opening and closing, Council Member Lynn?

It was both, awesome.

All right, will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill?

Council Member Rivera?

Aye.

Council Member Saka?

Aye.

Council Member Foster?

Yes.

Council Member Kettle?

Aye.

Councilmember Lin?

Yes.

Councilmember Rink?

Yes.

Council President Hollingsworth.

Yes.

Seven in favor, none opposed.

Bill passes, the chair will sign it.

And will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf?

Will the clerk please read item number three into the record.

Agenda item three, Council Bill 121-135 relating to land use and zoning, revising requirements for transportation impact analysis, transportation management plans, and construction management plans.

The committee recommends the bill passes amended.

Back to you, Council Member Lynn.

You are recognized to provide the committee report.

Thank you, Council President.

As mentioned, this is the companion bill, just updates requirements around transportation impact analysis, transportation management plans, construction management plans to ensure that those impacts are addressed through those code sections.

The committee heard this and recommends it, and I would urge your support.

Thank you.

Awesome.

Are there any other comments?

Seeing none, that was the opening and closing, so we're gonna go straight to the roll call.

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

Councilmember Rivera.

Aye.

Councilmember Sacca.

Aye.

Councilmember Foster.

Yes.

Councilmember Kettle.

Aye.

Councilmember Lin.

Yes.

Councilmember Rink.

Yes.

Council President Hollingsworth.

Yes.

Seven in favour, none opposed.

Awesome, the bill passes, the chair will sign it, and will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf?

Colleagues, there were no items removed from the consent calendar.

There is not a resolution for introduction and adoption today.

Is there any further business to come before the council?

Seeing none, I do want to recognize, it is Black History Month, so I want to recognize Miss Yvette Dynash.

Her family's history has been amazing throughout the city.

Everyone knows the Dynash's and the work that you do in South Seattle for Color Girl Garden Club and also being able to deliver food during the pandemic.

We got to work together where Miss Yvette would come get greens and food and fresh produce from her garden, deliver it to us at the food bank where we would package it up in boxes and deliver it to people during the pandemic.

And had we not had those fresh vegetables, people would not have been nourished with their bodies and they were picked by your hands.

in honor of Black History Month, we want to honor you, Miss Yvette Dynish, and just say thank you for coming here every Tuesday.

If more people knew about the work you did, especially in South Seattle and Rainier Beach community, I think they would be blown away by the amount of impact that you do with such very little, okay?

So we love you and thank you.

So we have reached the end of today's agenda.

The next city council meeting will be February 17th at 2 p.m.

Is there any further business to come before the council?

Awesome.

Seeing none, this meeting is adjourned.

Thank you.