City Council Meeting February 13, 2024

City Council will come to order.

It is two o'clock and I'm Sarah Nelson, president of the council.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Council member Strauss.

Council member Wu.

Council member Hollingsworth.

Present.

Council member Kettle.

Here.

Council member Moore.

Present.

Council member Morales.

Here.

Council member Rivera.

Present.

Council Member Saka?

Here.

Council President Nelson?

Present.

Nine present.

Thank you very much.

So first we will have council members Wu and Morales have a proclamation proclaiming February 7th, 2024 to be day of remembrance for the expulsion of Chinese from Seattle.

So council members Wu and Morales, you will first introduce the proclamation and then I will open the floor for comments from council members.

And after council member comments, we will suspend the rules to allow council members Wu and Morales to present the proclamation to our guests.

and allow our guests to provide brief comments.

Council Member Wu, I believe you are the first to speak on this.

You are recognized in order to introduce the proclamation.

Thank you, Council President.

So a little bit of a history.

In July of 2015, a resolution 31605 was passed in Seattle City Council, which was a testament to the regret for the anti-Chinese legislation that the state of Washington and the Seattle City Council had passed at that time.

It stands as a recognition of the enduring contributions made by the Chinese community to the vibrant tapestry of Seattle.

This resolution reaffirms our unwavering commitment to the civil rights of every individual, irrespective of their background.

And so as we reflect upon our past, we cannot ignore the darker chapters.

On February 7th, 1886, a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment erupted into violence.

An angry mob of about 1,500 people descended upon the Chinese quarters of Seattle.

Some 350 Chinese residents were forcibly removed, loaded onto wagons, and brought to the docks, where they were expelled from their homes and forced onto steamers like the Queen of Pacific.

So I am a product of these exclusionary policies, even though my family has been here since the late 1800s.

I am the first generation born in the U.S. because the women in my family had not been able to immigrate until recently.

So today, as we stand on the on the precipice of progress, we must not forget the lessons of history.

We must confront our past of courage and humility and strive to build a future rooted in understanding and compassion.

And this is why we proclaim that February 7th as a day of remembrance for the expulsion of the Chinese from Seattle.

This is not just a commemoration, but a call to action.

It is a testament to our collective resolve to stand against discrimination in all its forms.

and to build a more inclusive and equitable society for generations to come.

And so I will send this to Council Member Morales for further comments.

Thank you, Council Member Wu.

I don't have anything to add except to say that I appreciate you bringing this and really think it's important that we honor the experience of the Chinese community in Seattle and really all along the West Coast.

and acknowledge that as a country, we have a history of racist policies and practices that really cause incredible harm to our neighbors.

And this is an opportunity for us to acknowledge that harm and to make sure that we don't let it continue to happen and that we ensure that we are commemorating the survivors, the families and the community, and that we as a city really move forward and make sure that we don't let these things happen again.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council Member Moore.

Thank you, Council President.

So I would like to say thank you to Council Members Wu and Morales for bringing this proclamation forward.

As we as a council work to build stronger communities and create a more equitable and unified Seattle, we must acknowledge past harm and face how it impacts the city today.

This proclamation requires us to have that self-assessment and to do better.

And so I am proud to have my signature attached to this proclamation.

Thank you both very much.

Are there any other council members that wish to speak?

Many of us made comment yesterday.

I will note that I grew up in Sacramento, and I remember along the Sacramento Delta, there are several towns that were founded by workers who made the levees along the Chinese workers, descendants of, that made the levees there.

So we have benefited from that labor, and I think that it's...

incumbent upon us to recognize our mistreatment as well.

Council Member Kettle.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you, Council Member Wu and Council Member Morales for this.

Too often recently, efforts have been made to hide our history, our nation's history and even criminalize it.

So I view today's proclamation is really an important step that we can acknowledge our history and we can learn from it and build on it.

And so thank you because it stands in contrast what we've seen recently across our nation.

So thank you for bringing us forward.

Thank you.

Okay, I don't see any other comments right now.

Council members, you are welcome to present the proclamation to our guests.

Thank you.

So now, if there is no objection, the council rules will be suspended to present the well, we already presented the proclamation.

But if there are no objections, I would like to open the floor to allow for Winston Lee, president of United Hub, to provide some brief remarks to the council and members of the public.

And seeing no objection, the rules are suspended.

Go ahead, please.

Sure.

Ladies, gentlemen, dear Seattle Council members, President, I'm truly honored to accept this proclamation today.

It's a significant moment for our community as we remember the tough times our ancestors faced during the Seattle Chinese explosion of 1886. Back then, unfair laws and violent acts forced many Chinese immigrants out of their homes, But despite these challenges, they show incredible strength and resilience.

As we mark this day in remembrance, let's honor their coverage and determination.

Let's also commit to create a more fair and inclusive society for everyone, regardless of where they come from.

Thank you so much for this important recognition, Council Member Wu, Council Member Morales, and the President, and also all the Council Members.

Thank you so much.

And also, I want to invite you all to join us for the rally in March.

For this coming Saturday, February the 17th, Chinatown CID Hintai Park at 10 o'clock a.m., your presence will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And for the viewing public out there that didn't tune in yesterday, this proclamation was signed by all nine council members.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for coming and thank you Council Members Wu and Morales for bringing this forward.

Colleagues, at this time we will open the hybrid public comment period and we're accepting comment on agenda items.

If you're here to provide comment on agenda item one, which is Council Bill 120738, that has a required public hearing and the public hearing will open after the Council considers the consent calendar.

So if that's what you would like to talk about, please wait until then.

Madam speakers, how Madam Clerk, how many speakers are signed up to speak in public comment today?

We have about we have three remote three remote and six present in chambers.

Okay, let's start with the in-person speakers, please, and go ahead and let's see.

Everybody will have two minutes to speak, and then we will have in-person and then go to the remote speakers as well, and you can provide the instructions now.

Thank you.

The public comment period will be moderated in the following manner.

Each speaker will have two minutes.

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

We will start with the in-person speakers first.

All speakers will hear a chime when 10 seconds are left of the allotted time.

And if speakers do not end their comments within the allotted time provided, the microphone will be muted to allow us to call on the next speaker.

The public comment is now open and we'll begin with the first in-person speaker on the list.

The first speaker is Debbie Wilson.

Hi, my name is Debbie Wilson, and I'm the owner of Fresh Family LLC.

And I wanted to call to come today to let you know how much I appreciated winning a contract with the city of Seattle as a black woman owned business.

And it's a very big contract.

We're keeping all of the homes and cabinets clean and cleaning up downtown corridor under the bridge when the A big fire happened, that was us cleaning that up, my business.

We have 13 workers that came with the contract to do it, BIPOC community.

We have five of those who are under 40 years old that now have purchased a home because they have came and we're giving them prevailing wage and we're giving them living wage.

They call it prevailing wage, but I call it living wage.

We've manicured the city of Seattle, downtown Seattle, Lake City, Magnolia, Ballard, all the way out the corner.

We have really cleaned the city up and we love doing this work.

It's a wonderful thing.

And by us doing this work and you guys, the city giving us the contract, we've been able to put this together and have it happen.

What has happened to me now and why I come before you today is because I'm being squeezed by Seattle Parks Department out of this position and I need some help.

There's nowhere for me to go.

I've been everywhere and they told me that, when I asked them why this happened, they told me I was led down the wrong road because this contract is not a black woman's contract.

And those are the reasons why I have.

And I want to be talked to somebody so that this can be known.

This is what happens.

You can win the contract, but once you win the contract, you're squeezed out if you're not the right person.

And that's what's happening to me right now.

And I want some accountability for why Seattle Parks is doing this to my business.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next speaker is Ron Jones, followed by Is it Lucides Perez?

Hello.

Hello, my name is Ron Jones, and I'm with Fresh Family LLC as well.

It won't take as much.

I work with my mother.

We own a BIPOC business that serves the city of Seattle.

We've won a contract with the city.

Just kind of skipping through, we have We've been squeezed by the department.

They are cutting hours out of our contract that don't make sense to the contract.

They're treating us differently than the company that had it before that wasn't a minority owned company.

We are there.

Their workers in the field are coming to us, making complaints.

I've had an internal whistleblower write a letter telling us how it's happening to us inside of the department and what's happening, as well as an internal email where they're saying that they want to get us out, where they want to squeeze us out of here.

And we've done nothing wrong.

We have nothing but positive accolades.

We've loved working with the city of Seattle.

We work with the city of Renton.

We work with the University of Washington.

And we've really loved providing these opportunities to our community.

provide the railways jobs to over 13 people now and have changed the lives of so many people.

And it's it makes an impact on our city, what we're doing.

We all live in Seattle.

We know what it looks like outside and that we're not ready to decrease cleaning up our encampments or keeping our areas cleaner than they are.

And we just We need some guidance.

We've reached out to the department.

We went to some people within, and we haven't been.

We're just running into dead ends.

We have communications saying we'll be followed up with, and we're not receiving those responses.

Right now, they're saying, you're going to work for the hours we say, but still do all the same job, which means they're asking us to work for free, which Purchasing said isn't acceptable, but still contradictory to the contract.

But at the same time, in the email, he says, we want to do it anyway.

And we're going to stick with the new terms we set.

They set new terms for an existing contract.

And somebody just, we just need some help.

I know, nine seconds.

That's all I need to say.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Lucides Perez?

Followed by Adriana.

Adriana?

They currently don't have translation services.

They can provide their public comment in Spanish and then we can see what we can do afterwards.

Okay, thank you.

Go ahead and provide your comment.

And also, you can send a written comment as well.

May I speak?

I don't know if I said it out, Amelia.

Oh, may I speak?

So we'll go ahead and double the time, make it four minutes instead of two.

Good afternoon.

Thank you so much for giving us another opportunity for being here.

I don't know if you remember us.

We're the community without borders.

Today we come to thank you for all the assistance you've given us.

To move quickly.

And to work for our community.

To secure housing.

For the actions you all took.

are priceless.

Now that you've made sure that our families and our kids wouldn't go to the street, the day we came to see you, asking for help very urgently, We appreciate with all our heart everything you've done for us, for our community.

I hope to continue with this relationship.

for the well-being of our families and all the refugees that will come.

If at any moment you need something from our community, we're here to offer our work, our services.

And we want to reciprocate for all the help you've given us.

Sincerely, a community without borders.

With all our heart, we're bringing flowers, one flower for each of us here, for each of you, and gratitude for all you've done for us.

Thank you.

Amelia, you can receive those.

Thank you very much from the bottom of our hearts on behalf of the whole community.

You're welcome.

Our next speaker is Alex Zimmerman.

Zeke Heil.

Zeke Heil.

Stop.

Please pause.

No.

No.

I said last time, cut the mic, please.

Please, no.

Sir, would you please be seated?

Security, please be seated.

This is very important.

She absolutely right.

I support her by 10%.

You cannot.

I don't move me.

Call to policeman.

I don't move.

Okay.

I speak like everybody like.

You never speak about rule, but as you said 10 year ago, you know what this means.

Everybody calls this Alex Zimmerman rules.

You make a rules that is above US Supreme Court.

Why are you doing this right now?

I have right for my opinion.

What is I use to reward?

legal, not legal word?

Why are you doing this?

What is your motivation?

She speak about discrimination.

I want speak about discrimination, too.

I want stopping this idiotic rules.

What is you take 10 year Wait, I thought that...

Okay, stop.

I thought that the clock was still going.

Excuse me.

I will tell you.

You need to stop speaking so that I may speak.

You called names.

From the get-go, I have said that that constitutes abusive language, which is disruptive behavior.

What is dirty names is?

You've been told several times before, and you continue to intentionally disrupt and disturb the orderly conduct of this meeting.

You were warned that if you continue violating council rules, you'd be excluded from chambers.

So, under Rule 11-D-5, you are excluded from this meeting and future meetings for a period of 28 calendar days.

You may still provide written public comment to the city clerk for distribution to the council at future public comment periods.

You have five days to appeal.

Please step away from the podium.

And security will assist you to your seat.

No, I have right.

Policeman supposed to be come, supposed to be arrested.

Doing this.

Yes, I'm sick from this.

She take me out because I have different opinion.

Why?

Have your seat.

Your time is up.

I've explained.

You now sit down and leave chambers.

Go ahead.

You totally dismiss U.S.

Supreme Court freedom of speech.

It doesn't court what is counted.

You are Nazi, real Nazi fascist.

that is what i mean be quiet please sit down concentration camp a million because they have different opinions and different religions why are they wrong no i don't want call police i have right you don't touch me i'm simple it don't have sense she make decision alone

As the presiding officer I am now recessing this meeting until 2.40.

2.40?

2.40, we'll conclude with public comment.

you you Thank you.

It is now 2.40 and the February 13th, 2024 City Council meeting will come back to order.

We'll have to take roll again, please.

Go ahead.

Council Member Strauss.

Council Member Wu.

Present.

Council Member Hollingsworth.

Present.

Council Member Kettle.

Here.

Council Member Moore.

Present.

Council Member Morales.

Here.

Council Member Rivera.

Present.

Council Member Saka.

Here.

Council President Nelson.

Present.

Nine present.

Thank you very much, and I apologize to the folks that have been waiting to speak.

You know, I've been trying to offer positive reinforcement to Mr. Zimmerman for not engaging in abusive behavior, but I did have to stop that.

So, is there any...

Council President?

Yes.

Point of personal privilege.

Go ahead.

I just want to reflect on what just occurred because Mr. Zimmerman has been before my committee in the past where I have explained that when he calls me Gestapo and fascist, it has a different impact than it has on most people because my family actually had to run from the real Gestapo in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

and it is very different than what we have here in our country.

I've explained this to him on the record.

I have seen him participate in public comment without using harassing language, and I have seen him participate without being disruptive.

But after hearing these aspects of my life, he stopped calling fascists Gestapo, and he has begun doing that again.

And that, it seems harassing to me.

And beyond just me, take me completely out of this picture.

It is disruptive to this body doing its work.

Just watching how it impacts the other people in the audience and watching how it impacts our ability to get our work done.

I am a full supporter of free speech.

It's a constitutionally protected right.

And we have rules here at the City Council that does not allow for harassing and disruptive behavior.

And that is what I just witnessed.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you very much.

That's very well put and exactly why I did what I did.

So thank you very much for your input.

Okay, moving on with public comment.

The hybrid public comment period is reopened.

And who is our next speaker?

You may proceed.

I think that we had more in-person speakers.

We have two who are currently present, and Yvette Dinish, excuse me, Dinish.

Is that a remote person?

It's a remote speaker, yes.

Okay, we're now allowing remote speakers.

Please press star six.

Just muted herself.

I think you just muted yourself, so now you need to press star six to unmute yourself.

I am unmuted.

Great.

Go ahead, please.

Good afternoon, council members.

Yvette Diners, founder and executive director of the Color Girls Garden Club.

Since 2020, we have been feeding our community twice a week, and I believe I sent you the flyer.

And for what it's worth, most of our shoppers are not unhoused.

But the reason I'm calling in today because yet another article in the Seattle Times about the homeless situation and the affordable housing issue.

Even though there are multi millions of dollars going into the situation, in particular the King County Regional Homeless Authority, which was designed to oversee King County's financial and strategic response to the crisis, The results have been dismal.

My takeaway is, what I would like to suggest, is to use that funding to help people that are struggling to pay their rent, to pay their rent so they do not end up houseless.

And to also use that funding to rent motel rooms, or better yet, to buy motels, such as King County did.

And then also regarding that, there is a move on or petition underway to make that happen.

Because I know that there's not enough shelter there to get people off the street, nor is there a lack of funding.

So that's pretty much all I had to say is that the solutions are out there.

There's money out there.

And can we please, please, please, help our citizens to get off the street, help our citizens to stay house.

Because like I said, the money is there.

Thank you for listening.

And I want to give a shout out to the Seattle King County Clinic, which starts tomorrow for four days.

And it's a wonderful resource for all of those who want free health care, free quality health care.

Thank you for listening.

Hope to see you guys in person soon.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is David Haynes.

Hi, my name is David Haynes.

I want to clarify with counsel why we have a societal implosion.

In 2012, U.S.

Attorney Jenny Durkan, an Obama appointee and George Soros operative, was tasked with suing Seattle Police Department.

During the negotiations, she slipped an arguably treasonous and unconstitutional sentence into the negotiation of police reform that said low-level drug pushers exempted from jail.

The police negotiator agreed, never clarifying we only legalize proper grown marijuana.

Ex-council member Bruce Harrell, now mayor, convinced ex-council member member and present deputy mayor Tim Burgess to go along with this agreement.

Then after the federal judge James Robart signed up on it, it became the law of the land.

To implement this sabotage police reform, Ed Murray, who was advised by Lorena Gonzalez, who became the council president and defunded the police, advised how to shift the paradigm of policing away from improving the war on illicit drugs to combat crack meth, heroin, and fentanyl that progressives perverted as being on par with cannabis.

Previous progressive politicians have tainted every aspect of our committees and government services to prioritize evil criminal repeat offenders to get first priority on housing and services, not have to go to a properly improved punishment of jail, never questioned.

And quite frankly, you need to investigate the community safety issues.

$30 million because they used some of that money to pay rival gang members to move to Arizona and different regions of this country because they were deemed most vulnerable because they didn't know any better.

and they destroy people's lives and the mayor bragged during the campaign that he has friends in the underworld and he says all we need is a summit for the rival drug gangs he has been tainting the efforts to solve the crisis because he keeps running interference for the criminal underworld drug pushers and he put an interim police chief who sabotaged every crime fighting unit blaming the homeless while allowing the evil drug pusher to destroy people's lives go to third avenue between You can't even go and pay for your Sound Transit bus because there's whacked out people.

Thank you.

That was the last remote speaker present to speak.

Okay.

We have reached the end of the registered speakers.

The public comment period is now closed.

Thank you, everyone, for your polite comments today.

So, if there's no objection, the introduction and referral calendar will be adopted.

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

And if there's no objection...

Go ahead, go ahead.

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

Hearing none, the agenda is adopted.

Okay, now we'll consider the proposed consent calendar.

Items listed on the consent calendar are the minutes of January 12th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th, 2024, and the minutes of February 6th, 2024, and Council Bill 120743, which is the payment of the bills.

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?

Second.

Second.

Thank you very much.

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 Strauss?

Yes.

Council Member Wu?

Yes.

Council Member Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Council Member Kettle?

Aye.

Council Member Moore?

Aye.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Rivera?

Aye.

Excuse me, Council Member Rivera?

Aye.

Thank you.

Council Member Saka?

And Council President Nelson.

Aye.

Nine in favor, none opposed.

Thank you very much.

The consent calendar items are adopted.

Will the clerk please fix my signature to the minutes and legislation on on the consent calendar on my behalf.

Okie dokie.

Moving on to item one.

Will the clerk please read the title of the item into the record.

Agenda Item 1, Council Bill 120738 relating to flood plans, sixth extension of interim regulations established by Ordinance 126113 and as amended by Ordinance 126536 for an additional six months to allow individuals to rely on updated national flood insurance rate maps to obtain flood insurance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Flood Insurance Program for public hearing and vote.

Thank you very much.

Before I open the public hearing on this item, I'm going to turn it over to Council Member Morales, who is the sponsor of this bill.

Go ahead, please.

Thank you.

Colleagues, we did talk about this yesterday in Council briefing, but for the viewing public, I'll give a quick snapshot.

Council Bill 120738 would extend for an additional six months interim regulations for the development of mapped floodplains.

These were initially proposed by Mayor Durkan in 2020, and the regulations adopt maps that show locations of federally mapped flood hazard areas, and also require that new development be built to withstand flood events, including the requirement that habitable floors be above the mapped base flood elevation.

So there has been some ongoing negotiation with the port.

SDCI, our Department of Construction and Inspection anticipates that those conversations will be done shortly and that there will be proposed permanent regulations this summer.

But we have interim regulations in the meantime, and that requires that we renew the six-month extension, and we are at the point now where we need to renew the extension.

So when we are at that point, it does require that we have a public hearing.

So that is what we are doing next.

Thank you.

Are there any questions about this item before we go to public hearing?

Okay, I will save my questions until afterwards.

Madam Clerk, are there any people signed up for public hearing?

We have one remote public comment speaker.

Thank you very much.

I will now open public hearing and give that person two minutes.

Go ahead, please.

David Haynes, you'll have two minutes, please.

Hi, David Haynes.

You know, as far as deregulating the floodplains, I think it's a telltale sign that you have to have 21st century first world quality redevelopments.

that build a lot higher, that save trees by building a lot higher and maybe giving over some roads that are bothering and driving through neighborhoods to have them robustly build out.

Because this sort of sounds like, and I could be wrong on this, that council is trying to implement another watered down interpretation of affordable housing, where you're literally gonna put the disproportionate oppressed poor into working class housing in the floodplain and acting like you're doing them a favor by making sure that their floor is going to be a little bit above the standard there so you can hustle some federal money.

You know, I think we really need a 21st century redevelopment that has legislation that prioritizes banks to finance new homes, but not necessarily right next to the industrial train or right next to the bus that's warehouse echoing in all of these like cosmetically prettified concrete structures that cause mental crisis and make people drink themselves to sleep because it's such a beeping noise polluting violation, but yet progressives think they're doing the oppressed a favor by keeping them out of the better neighborhoods that could have a robust build out as a favor to the establishment sellouts who came out here in the 80s that bought up a house and said you're not about to build anything nicer.

But when you have a floodplain that you're going to purposely put people into acting like you're doing them a favor, I think it's a suspect telltale sign that sometimes the liberal bottom-of-the-barrel progressives don't have the best ideas.

And they do certain favors that act like, you know, if you're a lesser-of situation and we're going to prioritize a skin color to make sure that you get to live in the floodplain, I don't know, it's kind of suspect to me.

But good luck raising the floors and the levels of buildings higher.

That concludes the registered and present public commenters for this hearing.

Okay, thank you very much.

The public hearing is now closed.

So, moving on to the content of this legislation, am I correct?

Is it likely that we'll be back in six months extending the deadline again?

What I know is that the port is reaching end of their conversation about the SEPA appeal, which is what they filed.

And what we hear from SDCI is that they expect that we'll have permanent regulations to submit by the summer.

Got it.

And it's my understanding that the reason we had to do this in full council instead of go through committee is because tomorrow is a deadline or...

We're up against a deadline.

Yeah, well, the six-month extension period is ending, and so in order for us to renew, we have to get that done.

Really bad things will happen or something.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you very much for taking the lead on this.

I don't see anybody's hands raised here.

So if that is the case, do you have any final comments?

I do not.

All right, then, just a moment.

I've already moved the legislation.

I have not moved the legislation.

Let me move the legislation.

I move to pass Council Bill 120738. Is there a second?

Second.

Second.

Thank you.

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

I don't think that anybody has any other comments, so will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill?

Council Member Strauss.

One last time, yes.

Council Member Wu?

Yes.

Council Member Hollingsworth?

Yes.

Council Member Kettle?

Aye.

Council Member Moore?

Aye.

Council Member Morales?

Yes.

Council Member Rivera?

Aye.

Council Member Saka?

Aye.

Council President Nelson?

Aye.

Nine in favor, none opposed.

Okay, the bill passes and the Chair will sign it.

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

Okay, there were no items removed from the consent calendar and there are no resolutions for introduction and adoption today.

So is there any other business to come before the Council?

Yes, Council President?

Yes.

May I?

I request to be excused on February 27th.

I have a community meeting that ends at 1. And if anything goes wrong, I won't be available by two.

I know I can rescind this if I do show up on the 27th and colleagues, I might be taking it from my district office, which is closer to the community meeting.

So my intention is to be here on the 27th and yet still I request to be excused on February 27th.

Covering all bases.

Indeed.

Got it.

I appreciate that.

Are there any objections to this request?

Okay, if there is no objection, Councilmember Strauss will be excused from the February 27th meeting.

If he can't be here on time, which he probably will because he runs a pretty tight ship.

Anyway, all right.

Hearing no objection, you're excused.

We've reached the end of today's agenda.

Our next regularly scheduled City Council meeting will be held on February 20th at 2 p.m.

And we are now adjourned.

It is 2.59.

Thank you very much, everyone.