1 00:00:22,522 --> 00:00:23,723 >> IS MY MICROPHONE ON? YES? 2 00:00:23,723 --> 00:00:25,024 AWESOME. GOOD AFTERNOON, 3 00:00:25,024 --> 00:00:25,859 EVERYONE, THE JUNE 2nd MEETING 4 00:00:25,859 --> 00:00:30,530 OF THE SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL WILL 5 00:00:30,530 --> 00:00:31,965 COME TO ORDER, IT IS TO: 04 6 00:00:31,965 --> 00:00:33,099 P.M., I AM JOY HOLLINGSWORTH, 7 00:00:33,099 --> 00:00:34,200 YOUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT. WILL THE 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,769 CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? 9 00:00:35,769 --> 00:00:39,439 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 10 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:39,806 >> HERE. 11 00:00:39,806 --> 00:00:40,340 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 12 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:40,607 >> HERE. 13 00:00:40,607 --> 00:00:50,350 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 14 00:00:50,350 --> 00:00:50,817 COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? 15 00:00:50,817 --> 00:00:51,084 >> HERE. 16 00:00:51,084 --> 00:00:52,152 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 17 00:00:52,152 --> 00:00:52,419 >> HERE. 18 00:00:52,419 --> 00:00:52,952 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 19 00:00:52,952 --> 00:00:53,286 >> PRESENT. 20 00:00:53,286 --> 00:00:53,820 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 21 00:00:53,820 --> 00:00:54,287 >> PRESENT. 22 00:00:54,287 --> 00:00:55,388 >> PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH? 23 00:00:55,388 --> 00:00:55,655 >> HERE. 24 00:00:55,655 --> 00:01:05,165 >> 10 PRESENT. 25 00:01:05,165 --> 00:01:05,899 >> COLLEAGUES, THANK YOU, 26 00:01:05,899 --> 00:01:06,766 EVERYONE, FOR BEING WITH US 27 00:01:06,766 --> 00:01:08,635 TODAY, I KNOW WE HAD A VERY 28 00:01:08,635 --> 00:01:09,502 HEFTY AGENDA AND USUALLY HOW WE 29 00:01:09,502 --> 00:01:10,537 START OUR MEETINGS IS BY 30 00:01:10,537 --> 00:01:11,404 PROCLAMATIONS SO WE HAVE TWO 31 00:01:11,404 --> 00:01:12,472 PROCLAMATIONS THAT WE WILL BE 32 00:01:12,472 --> 00:01:13,673 PRESENTING TODAY. THE FIRST ONE, 33 00:01:13,673 --> 00:01:18,211 WE ARE GOING TO BE RECOGNIZING 34 00:01:18,211 --> 00:01:19,345 THAT IS THE PROCLAMATION WE ARE 35 00:01:19,345 --> 00:01:25,318 PRESENTING TODAY, YES. WE ARE SO 36 00:01:25,318 --> 00:01:26,386 LUCKY AND GRATEFUL TO HAVE HIS 37 00:01:26,386 --> 00:01:28,121 FAMILY HERE TODAY, I AM HONORED 38 00:01:28,121 --> 00:01:31,491 TO JOIN MY COLLEAGUES, THIS IS A 39 00:01:31,491 --> 00:01:39,199 FULL COUNCIL PRESENTING THIS 40 00:01:39,199 --> 00:01:40,200 PROCLAMATION TODAY. I WILL SAY A 41 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,668 FEW WORDS AND THEN I WILL OPEN 42 00:01:41,668 --> 00:01:43,102 IT UP TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO WILL 43 00:01:43,102 --> 00:01:47,807 SAY SOMETHING, AS WELL. AND AMAR 44 00:01:47,807 --> 00:01:52,679 ASHAUN MURPHY PAYNE WAS BORN -- 45 00:01:52,679 --> 00:01:53,880 AS A TODDLER, HE LOVED HIS HOT 46 00:01:53,880 --> 00:02:00,887 WHEEL COLLECTION, HE LOVED 47 00:02:00,887 --> 00:02:01,721 WEARING AND COLLECTING DIFFERENT 48 00:02:01,721 --> 00:02:02,956 BASEBALL HATS AND COOL SOCKS. HE 49 00:02:02,956 --> 00:02:04,757 FOUND A LOVE OF MUSIC AS A 50 00:02:04,757 --> 00:02:05,525 TEENAGER AND EXPRESSED HIS 51 00:02:05,525 --> 00:02:10,497 PASSION THROUGH MUSIC. HIS 52 00:02:10,497 --> 00:02:11,731 FAVORITE MEALS WERE PANCAKES AND 53 00:02:11,731 --> 00:02:12,465 MAC & CHEESE. AMAR PLAY 54 00:02:12,465 --> 00:02:13,099 BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, BOXING, 55 00:02:13,099 --> 00:02:14,167 BUT HE WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL 56 00:02:14,167 --> 00:02:14,934 FOOTBALL PLAYER. VERY 57 00:02:14,934 --> 00:02:16,402 PASSIONATE, VERY, VERY TALENTED, 58 00:02:16,402 --> 00:02:21,140 AND THIS WEEK IS THE THIRD YEAR 59 00:02:21,140 --> 00:02:23,109 ANNIVERSARY OF HIS TRANSITION TO 60 00:02:23,109 --> 00:02:28,915 BE WITH OUR ANCESTORS AND WHEN I 61 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:30,250 SAY, I PUT EMPHASIS ON HIS 62 00:02:30,250 --> 00:02:31,184 TRANSITION TO BE WITH OUR 63 00:02:31,184 --> 00:02:32,185 ANCESTORS, I DON'T SAY THAT 64 00:02:32,185 --> 00:02:36,156 LIGHTLY BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE 65 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:37,390 AMARR'S SOUL TODAY RESTS TODAY 66 00:02:37,390 --> 00:02:38,057 UNDER THE CARE, PROTECTION, 67 00:02:38,057 --> 00:02:39,125 GUIDANCE, AND PERFECT PEACE WITH 68 00:02:39,125 --> 00:02:43,263 OUR ANCESTORS. IT IS NEVER EASY 69 00:02:43,263 --> 00:02:44,797 TO WITNESS SOME OF THE PAIN OF 70 00:02:44,797 --> 00:02:45,498 SOMEONE ELSE, ESPECIALLY WITH 71 00:02:45,498 --> 00:02:47,033 THIS TYPE OF PAIN, BUT AS WE 72 00:02:47,033 --> 00:02:48,168 GATHER HERE TODAY, AND CLAIM IT 73 00:02:48,168 --> 00:02:54,440 TO BE AMARR MURPHY-PAINE DAY, 74 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,341 CELEBRATING THIS YOUNG MAN'S 75 00:02:55,341 --> 00:02:56,009 LIFE, CELEBRATING HIS LEGACY, 76 00:02:56,009 --> 00:02:57,277 AND HIS IMPACT TO THE COMMUNITY, 77 00:02:57,277 --> 00:02:59,179 LET US ALSO MAKE SURE THAT WHILE 78 00:02:59,179 --> 00:03:01,881 WE ARE -- WHEN WE ARE NAVIGATING 79 00:03:01,881 --> 00:03:03,449 LIFE -- AND THIS IS THE ONE 80 00:03:03,449 --> 00:03:05,151 THING THAT I WILL ALWAYS HOLD 81 00:03:05,151 --> 00:03:07,720 ONTO -- IS THE QUESTION, HOW ARE 82 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:08,721 THE CHILDREN? THAT IS THE 83 00:03:08,721 --> 00:03:10,223 QUESTION THAT I WILL ALWAYS 84 00:03:10,223 --> 00:03:18,531 CONTINUE TO CENTER, WHEN WE ARE 85 00:03:18,531 --> 00:03:19,465 FOCUSING OUR GOALS, OUR 86 00:03:19,465 --> 00:03:20,199 PROCESSES, OUR PROCEDURES, OUR 87 00:03:20,199 --> 00:03:21,134 OUTCOMES, BASED ON A SIMPLE 88 00:03:21,134 --> 00:03:22,535 QUESTION -- HOW ARE THE 89 00:03:22,535 --> 00:03:25,705 CHILDREN? VERY HONORED TO BE 90 00:03:25,705 --> 00:03:27,674 HERE, TO HONOR THIS YOUNG MAN'S 91 00:03:27,674 --> 00:03:32,745 LIFE, WHO WAS AN OUTSTANDING 92 00:03:32,745 --> 00:03:34,013 STUDENT, WHO WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS 93 00:03:34,013 --> 00:03:36,282 A GREAT TEAMMATE, HE WAS A GREAT 94 00:03:36,282 --> 00:03:40,553 CLASSMATE TO PEOPLE, AND THIS IS 95 00:03:40,553 --> 00:03:41,955 OUR THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 96 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:45,592 CELEBRATING HIS LIFE THIS MONTH. 97 00:03:45,592 --> 00:03:47,594 SO, I WILL OPEN IT UP TO MY 98 00:03:47,594 --> 00:03:49,462 COLLEAGUES BEFORE WE ASK HIS 99 00:03:49,462 --> 00:03:52,966 FAMILY -- I KNOW HIS DAD, A RUN 100 00:03:52,966 --> 00:03:56,469 IS HERE, HIS MOM, LAKISHA, AND I 101 00:03:56,469 --> 00:03:58,404 WOULD LOVE TO OPEN IT UP TO MY 102 00:03:58,404 --> 00:04:01,207 COLLEAGUES, TO SEE IF THERE ARE 103 00:04:01,207 --> 00:04:03,710 ANY WORDS. I ALSO WANT TO THANK 104 00:04:03,710 --> 00:04:05,011 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, BECAUSE IT 105 00:04:05,011 --> 00:04:06,512 IS GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH, 106 00:04:06,512 --> 00:04:10,817 AND HAS PROCLAIMS IT TO BE GUN 107 00:04:10,817 --> 00:04:11,684 VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH, ALL 108 00:04:11,684 --> 00:04:12,585 THE WORK THAT COUNCILMEMBER 109 00:04:12,585 --> 00:04:18,691 RIVERA IS DOING. SO, THERE IS 110 00:04:18,691 --> 00:04:19,592 TWO PROCLAMATIONS WE HAVE TODAY 111 00:04:19,592 --> 00:04:20,627 FOR AMARR MURPHY-PAINE AND THEN 112 00:04:20,627 --> 00:04:21,661 THE GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS 113 00:04:21,661 --> 00:04:22,996 MONTH. THAT IS WHY YOU SEE SOME 114 00:04:22,996 --> 00:04:24,197 PEOPLE WEARING ORANGE TODAY. WE 115 00:04:24,197 --> 00:04:24,964 HAVE SOME COUNCILMEMBERS WEARING 116 00:04:24,964 --> 00:04:25,598 ORANGE, COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS 117 00:04:25,598 --> 00:04:36,142 HAS THE ORANGE TYPE. PEOPLE ALL 118 00:04:37,744 --> 00:04:38,845 ARE WEARING ORANGE TODAY IN 119 00:04:38,845 --> 00:04:39,879 THEIR HEARTS, TOO, BUT IT IS 120 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:40,713 SOMETHING WE ARE BRINGING 121 00:04:40,713 --> 00:04:41,948 AWARENESS TO, SO WE HAVE TWO 122 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:42,749 PROCLAMATIONS, ONE FOR AMARR 123 00:04:42,749 --> 00:04:43,716 MURPHY-PAINE, AND THEN ONE FOR 124 00:04:43,716 --> 00:04:44,751 GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH, SO 125 00:04:44,751 --> 00:04:45,585 THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, 126 00:04:45,585 --> 00:04:47,887 FOR THAT, AS WELL. I WILL PAUSE 127 00:04:47,887 --> 00:04:49,422 HERE, TO SEE IF ANYBODY HAS ANY 128 00:04:49,422 --> 00:04:50,523 COMMENTS BEFORE I AM GOING TO 129 00:04:50,523 --> 00:04:51,958 ASK TO SUSPEND THE RULES TO ASK 130 00:04:51,958 --> 00:04:53,426 FOR THE FAMILY TO COME UP AND 131 00:04:53,426 --> 00:04:54,761 SPEAK. AND PLEASE NOTE, A LOT OF 132 00:04:54,761 --> 00:04:55,662 PEOPLE SAID COMMENTS YESTERDAY 133 00:04:55,662 --> 00:04:57,230 WHEN WE WERE DOING THE SIGNING 134 00:04:57,230 --> 00:04:58,498 OF THE PROCLAMATION, AS WELL. 135 00:04:58,498 --> 00:05:08,107 OKAY, SO, WITH THAT, I AM GOING 136 00:05:08,107 --> 00:05:09,309 TO, COLLEAGUES, IF THERE IS NO 137 00:05:09,309 --> 00:05:10,576 OBJECTION, I WILL JUST ASK, CAN 138 00:05:10,576 --> 00:05:11,978 WE SUSPEND THE RULES SO WE CAN 139 00:05:11,978 --> 00:05:13,179 PRESENT THE PROCLAMATION TO THE 140 00:05:13,179 --> 00:05:14,580 FAMILY? WHICH, I HAVE HERE AND I 141 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:15,848 WILL JUST READ A LITTLE BIT OF 142 00:05:15,848 --> 00:05:17,450 IT. I WON'T READ ALL OF IT INTO 143 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:18,718 THE RECORD. BUT, WE HAVE HERE, 144 00:05:18,718 --> 00:05:29,195 THIS IS THE LAST PARAGRAPH, 145 00:05:30,897 --> 00:05:32,031 WHEREAS, IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING 146 00:05:32,031 --> 00:05:32,699 HIS PASSING, STUDENTS, TEACHERS, 147 00:05:32,699 --> 00:05:33,566 FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS 148 00:05:33,566 --> 00:05:34,467 HAD GATHERED TO HONOR AMARR'S 149 00:05:34,467 --> 00:05:35,568 MEMORY AND CALL FOR HEALING, 150 00:05:35,568 --> 00:05:36,135 PEACE, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND 151 00:05:36,135 --> 00:05:37,036 MEANINGFUL ACTION TO END GUN 152 00:05:37,036 --> 00:05:37,970 VIOLENCE TARGETING YOUNG PEOPLE 153 00:05:37,970 --> 00:05:38,938 IN SEATTLE, TURNING GRIEF INTO 154 00:05:38,938 --> 00:05:40,139 SERVICE. SO, ANYTIME I AM 155 00:05:40,139 --> 00:05:41,407 TALKING TO HIS FAMILY, THEY ARE 156 00:05:41,407 --> 00:05:42,575 TALKING ABOUT, WE NEED TO TURN 157 00:05:42,575 --> 00:05:49,415 HIS PAIN INTO SERVICE. WHEREAS, 158 00:05:49,415 --> 00:05:51,084 THE CITY OF SEATTLE HONORS AND 159 00:05:51,084 --> 00:05:51,684 CELEBRATES AMARR'S MEMORY 160 00:05:51,684 --> 00:05:52,418 THROUGH A SERVICE, COMPASSION, 161 00:05:52,418 --> 00:05:53,519 COMMUNITY, UNITY, AND A RENEWED 162 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:54,387 COMMITMENT TO ENDING GUN 163 00:05:54,387 --> 00:05:55,254 VIOLENCE NOW, AND THEREFORE, THE 164 00:05:55,254 --> 00:05:56,322 MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL 165 00:05:56,322 --> 00:05:59,692 PROCLAIMED JUNE 6th TO BE AMARR 166 00:05:59,692 --> 00:06:10,203 MURPHY-PAINE DAY. I WILL COME 167 00:06:10,436 --> 00:06:11,170 AND PRESENT THE PROCLAMATION, 168 00:06:11,170 --> 00:06:21,314 AND THEN WHOEVER IS HERE, ARON, 169 00:06:21,314 --> 00:06:22,448 THEY CAN COME AND SPEAK AND SAY 170 00:06:22,448 --> 00:06:23,683 A FEW WORDS AND THEN WE WILL 171 00:06:23,683 --> 00:06:24,751 ESCORT YOU DOWNSTAIRS WHERE WE 172 00:06:24,751 --> 00:06:25,918 WILL HAVE THE CELEBRATION. ALL 173 00:06:25,918 --> 00:06:27,153 RIGHT? AWESOME. I WILL GIVE THIS 174 00:06:27,153 --> 00:06:28,721 TO YOU AND THEN YOU CAN COME UP 175 00:06:28,721 --> 00:06:29,789 TO THE FRONT. 176 00:06:29,789 --> 00:06:40,299 >> [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] 177 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:01,053 >> THANK YOU. 178 00:07:01,053 --> 00:07:01,888 >> THANK YOU. 179 00:07:01,888 --> 00:07:07,460 >> [ APPLAUSE ] 180 00:07:07,460 --> 00:07:08,861 >> THE FLOOR IS YOURS, MR. ARON. 181 00:07:08,995 --> 00:07:12,932 >> FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY 182 00:07:12,932 --> 00:07:13,833 THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY 183 00:07:13,833 --> 00:07:15,234 TO GIVE US SOMETHING TO STAND ON 184 00:07:15,234 --> 00:07:21,974 FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES, TO BE 185 00:07:21,974 --> 00:07:23,643 ABLE TO BUILD WHAT WE NEED TO DO 186 00:07:23,643 --> 00:07:24,644 FOR AMARR'S LEGACY, AND FOR 187 00:07:24,644 --> 00:07:26,412 SAVING LIVES ONE HEARTBEAT AT A 188 00:07:26,412 --> 00:07:31,851 TIME. YOU COULDN'T TELL ME, TWO 189 00:07:31,851 --> 00:07:33,152 YEARS AGO, THAT I WOULD BE 190 00:07:33,152 --> 00:07:34,287 STANDING HERE AT THIS MOMENT IN 191 00:07:34,287 --> 00:07:35,688 TIME RIGHT NOW, BUT I ALSO WANT 192 00:07:35,688 --> 00:07:41,527 TO GIVE, YOU KNOW, SOME CREDIT 193 00:07:41,527 --> 00:07:42,495 TO EVERYBODY WHO STANDS BEHIND 194 00:07:42,495 --> 00:07:43,896 ME. MY FAMILY WHO IS HERE WITH 195 00:07:43,896 --> 00:07:45,198 ME, THEY HAVE ALL HAD THEIR 196 00:07:45,198 --> 00:07:46,165 MOMENT IN TIME, WHERE THEY 197 00:07:46,165 --> 00:07:47,400 REMINDED ME THE MISSION AT HAND. 198 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:48,634 EVEN IF THEY KNOW THEY DIDN'T. 199 00:07:48,634 --> 00:07:50,203 BUT, THIS IS JUST A PIECE OF THE 200 00:07:50,203 --> 00:07:51,504 MISSION, AND THEY START TO IT, 201 00:07:51,504 --> 00:07:54,907 AND I AM JUST SO HONORED AND 202 00:07:54,907 --> 00:07:56,442 WELCOMED TO BE HERE, AND I AM 203 00:07:56,442 --> 00:07:58,511 NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT NOTHING 204 00:07:58,511 --> 00:08:00,847 NEGATIVE. NOT HERE TO DOWN THE 205 00:08:00,847 --> 00:08:06,786 ENERGY OF THE ROOM. BUT, IT KIND 206 00:08:06,786 --> 00:08:08,254 OF FITS THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING 207 00:08:08,254 --> 00:08:09,722 A PROCLAMATION ON BOTH GUN 208 00:08:09,722 --> 00:08:10,923 VIOLENCE, BRINGING THE 209 00:08:10,923 --> 00:08:14,627 AWARENESS, AND AMARR ON THE SAME 210 00:08:14,627 --> 00:08:15,828 DAY BECAUSE HE DIED ON GUN 211 00:08:15,828 --> 00:08:19,298 VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY, 2024. 212 00:08:19,298 --> 00:08:20,900 SO, I SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE. 213 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:24,637 THIS IS A GLORIOUS MOMENT FOR 214 00:08:24,637 --> 00:08:25,638 OUR FAMILY, FOR AMARR'S NAME, 215 00:08:25,638 --> 00:08:32,278 FOR ME, LAKISHA, SHARIKA, AS 216 00:08:32,278 --> 00:08:33,279 APPEARANCE OF THIS YOUNG, GREAT 217 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:34,847 SOUL, HIS BROTHERS, EVERYBODY 218 00:08:34,847 --> 00:08:38,751 THAT IS HERE, AND EVERYBODY THAT 219 00:08:38,751 --> 00:08:40,253 HAS LIFTED HIM, THE GARFIELD 220 00:08:40,253 --> 00:08:48,995 COMMUNITY THAT DECIDED TO TURN 221 00:08:48,995 --> 00:08:50,062 SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN 222 00:08:50,062 --> 00:08:50,963 SO TRAGIC AND SO NEGATIVE, 223 00:08:50,963 --> 00:08:52,164 DECIDING TO WORK WITH US AND 224 00:08:52,164 --> 00:08:53,332 MAKE THINGS POSITIVE, SO WE JUST 225 00:08:53,332 --> 00:08:54,867 WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY AS WE GO 226 00:08:54,867 --> 00:08:56,035 FORWARD. BUT, I WILL SAY THIS, 227 00:08:56,035 --> 00:08:57,136 THERE IS STILL A MURDERER 228 00:08:57,136 --> 00:08:58,604 WALKING FREE. IF YOU GUYS KNOW, 229 00:08:58,604 --> 00:08:59,705 I DON'T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO 230 00:08:59,705 --> 00:09:05,645 TELL ANYBODY THAT JUSTICE 231 00:09:05,645 --> 00:09:07,246 DOESN'T EQUIP LATE FOR ME, BUT 232 00:09:07,246 --> 00:09:08,447 I HAVE TO SPEAK FOR MY MOM, I 233 00:09:08,447 --> 00:09:09,749 HAVE GOT TO SPEAK FOR EVERYBODY 234 00:09:09,749 --> 00:09:11,250 ELSE. BUT, FOR ME, PERSONALLY, 235 00:09:11,250 --> 00:09:16,489 JUSTICE DOESN'T MEAN HANDCUFFS 236 00:09:16,489 --> 00:09:17,657 AND BARS. WHAT WE ARE DOING 237 00:09:17,657 --> 00:09:18,491 RIGHT NOW, TODAY, THAT'S 238 00:09:18,491 --> 00:09:22,728 JUSTICE, FOR ME. BUT, AS FAR AS 239 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:24,230 THE JOB YOU GUYS HAVE TO DO, THE 240 00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:28,067 CITY HAS TO DO, EVERYBODY ELSE 241 00:09:28,067 --> 00:09:29,602 WALKING OUT HERE THAT IS 242 00:09:29,602 --> 00:09:30,303 SUPPOSED TO FEEL SAFE, THERE IS 243 00:09:30,303 --> 00:09:32,838 A MURDERER STILL WALKING. SO -- 244 00:09:32,838 --> 00:09:34,707 AND THERE IS A LOT OF MURDERERS 245 00:09:34,707 --> 00:09:41,013 STILL WALKING AROUND HERE AND 246 00:09:41,013 --> 00:09:41,647 THEY ARE COMMITTING MULTIPLE 247 00:09:41,647 --> 00:09:43,082 MURDERS AND THERE ARE A LOT OF 248 00:09:43,082 --> 00:09:43,916 FAMILIES THAT ARE SITTING 249 00:09:43,916 --> 00:09:45,284 WITHOUT THE CLOSURE OF JUST THAT 250 00:09:45,284 --> 00:09:46,953 PART OF THEIR LIFE, WITHOUT THAT 251 00:09:46,953 --> 00:09:48,754 DOOR SHUT. I DON'T THINK ABOUT 252 00:09:48,754 --> 00:09:50,222 THE LIFE -- I DON'T THINK ABOUT 253 00:09:50,222 --> 00:09:53,526 THAT YOUNG MAN AND AMARR'S LIFE 254 00:09:53,526 --> 00:09:54,794 HE TOOK, I THINK ABOUT HIM 255 00:09:54,794 --> 00:10:03,936 POSSIBLY TAKING MORE. AND I 256 00:10:03,936 --> 00:10:05,571 ALWAYS MAKE SURE THAT WHEN I AM 257 00:10:05,571 --> 00:10:07,206 IN THESE ROOMS, I JUST TRIED TO 258 00:10:07,206 --> 00:10:07,807 TAKE AND MAKE SURE THAT 259 00:10:07,807 --> 00:10:09,008 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT, AS LONG AS 260 00:10:09,008 --> 00:10:10,142 WE DON'T IMAGINE IT HAPPENING 261 00:10:10,142 --> 00:10:13,879 TO US, WE ARE NEVER -- WE WILL 262 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:15,881 NEVER MEET WITH THE PEOPLE IT IS 263 00:10:15,881 --> 00:10:22,121 HAPPENING TO. SO, I WOULD JUST 264 00:10:22,121 --> 00:10:23,322 CHALLENGE PEOPLE TO CLOSE THEIR 265 00:10:23,322 --> 00:10:24,156 EYES AND THINK ABOUT ANYTHING 266 00:10:24,156 --> 00:10:29,996 THAT YOU LOVE. NOT ONLY YOUR 267 00:10:29,996 --> 00:10:31,464 KIDS, BUT IF IT IS YOUR KID, 268 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:32,798 THINK ABOUT DROPPING THEM OFF AT 269 00:10:32,798 --> 00:10:34,367 SCHOOL AND NEVER SEEING THEM 270 00:10:34,367 --> 00:10:39,905 ALIVE AGAIN. I DIDN'T DROP HIM 271 00:10:39,905 --> 00:10:40,840 OFF ON EAST JUNIOR STREET, I 272 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:41,874 DIDN'T DROP HIM OFF ON 273 00:10:41,874 --> 00:10:43,042 HENDERSON, I DIDN'T DROP HIM 274 00:10:43,042 --> 00:10:44,076 OFF WITH HIS GANG MEMBER 275 00:10:44,076 --> 00:10:45,478 FRIENDS. I DROPPED HIM OFF AT 276 00:10:45,478 --> 00:10:48,014 SCHOOL. AND HE WAS DEAD AT 277 00:10:48,014 --> 00:10:52,351 SCHOOL, BEFORE SCHOOL ENDED. 278 00:10:52,351 --> 00:10:57,623 IMAGINE THAT. AND I WILL MAKE -- 279 00:10:57,623 --> 00:11:03,529 I DON'T TRY TO CHALLENGE PEOPLE 280 00:11:03,529 --> 00:11:05,131 TO IMAGINE THIS TO BRING YOU 281 00:11:05,131 --> 00:11:06,198 DOWN, I WANT PEOPLE TO IMAGINE 282 00:11:06,198 --> 00:11:08,034 IT TO LIFT YOU UP. TO SAY, "HOLD 283 00:11:08,034 --> 00:11:08,834 ON, WAIT, THAT COULD HAVE 284 00:11:08,834 --> 00:11:11,303 HAPPENED TO ONE OF MINE." THAT 285 00:11:11,303 --> 00:11:12,638 COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO -- HIS 286 00:11:12,638 --> 00:11:16,976 UNCLES ARE OVER THERE. IF YOU 287 00:11:16,976 --> 00:11:17,576 ARE UNCLES, THAT COULD HAVE 288 00:11:17,576 --> 00:11:18,778 HAPPENED TO YOUR NEPHEW, IF YOU 289 00:11:18,778 --> 00:11:29,288 ARE IN MY COUNTY, THAT COULD 290 00:11:30,656 --> 00:11:31,557 HAVE HAPPENED TO YOUR NEPHEW. IF 291 00:11:31,557 --> 00:11:32,625 YOU ARE A GRANDMOTHER, THAT 292 00:11:32,625 --> 00:11:34,026 COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO YOUR 293 00:11:34,026 --> 00:11:34,660 GRANDCHILD. IF YOU ARE A 294 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:35,461 GRANDFATHER, THAT COULD HAVE 295 00:11:35,461 --> 00:11:36,495 HAPPENED TO YOUR GRANDCHILD. IF 296 00:11:36,495 --> 00:11:37,730 YOU ARE A FATHER, THAT COULD 297 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:38,931 HAVE HAPPENED TO YOUR CHILD, IF 298 00:11:38,931 --> 00:11:40,132 YOU ARE A MOTHER, THAT COULD 299 00:11:40,132 --> 00:11:41,333 HAVE HAPPENED TO YOUR CHILD. BUT 300 00:11:41,333 --> 00:11:42,802 MOST OF ALL, IF YOU ARE A 301 00:11:42,802 --> 00:11:43,836 BROTHER OR SISTER, THAT COULD 302 00:11:43,836 --> 00:11:45,171 HAVE HAPPENED TO YOUR BROTHER OR 303 00:11:45,171 --> 00:11:45,971 SISTER. LET'S START THINKING 304 00:11:45,971 --> 00:11:47,073 ABOUT THE KIDS AND STOP THINKING 305 00:11:47,073 --> 00:11:48,140 ABOUT OURSELVES, BECAUSE IT'S 306 00:11:48,140 --> 00:11:52,812 NOT HAPPENING TO YOU. STOP 307 00:11:52,812 --> 00:11:53,946 THINKING ABOUT OURSELVES IN THAT 308 00:11:53,946 --> 00:11:54,647 SELFISH MANNER, BECAUSE IT'S 309 00:11:54,647 --> 00:11:55,715 NOT HAPPENING TO YOU. LET'S 310 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:56,882 START THINKING ABOUT WHO IT IS 311 00:11:56,882 --> 00:11:57,917 HAPPENING TO, AND REALLY LET'S 312 00:11:57,917 --> 00:11:59,085 MAKE THE CHANGES AND GET THOSE 313 00:11:59,085 --> 00:12:00,086 MURDERERS OFF THE STREET. THEY 314 00:12:00,086 --> 00:12:01,420 HAD NO REMORSE WHEN THEY PULLED 315 00:12:01,420 --> 00:12:02,421 THE TRIGGER, LET'S HAVE NO 316 00:12:02,421 --> 00:12:03,622 REMORSE WHEN WE PUT THEM IN 317 00:12:03,622 --> 00:12:04,890 HANDCUFFS. HOW ABOUT THAT? 318 00:12:04,890 --> 00:12:13,032 >> [ APPLAUSE ] 319 00:12:13,032 --> 00:12:14,500 >> AND SOME OF THEM AIN'T GOING 320 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:15,901 TO HAVE NO REMORSE WHEN THEY ARE 321 00:12:15,901 --> 00:12:17,203 IN THE HANDCUFFS. SOME OF THEM 322 00:12:17,203 --> 00:12:18,437 AIN'T GOING TO HAVE NO REMORSE 323 00:12:18,437 --> 00:12:19,638 WHEN THEY ARE BEHIND THOSE BARS, 324 00:12:19,638 --> 00:12:20,740 THAT IS WHY THOSE HANDCUFFS AND 325 00:12:20,740 --> 00:12:22,041 BARS DON'T MEAN NOTHING TO ME, 326 00:12:22,041 --> 00:12:23,409 PERSONALLY. THIS DOES. THANK 327 00:12:23,409 --> 00:12:24,877 YOU, GUYS. YOU GUYS HAVE A 328 00:12:24,877 --> 00:12:26,078 WONDERFUL DAY. I AM GOING TO 329 00:12:26,078 --> 00:12:27,513 SEGUE THE NEXT ONE FOR MY MOM. 330 00:12:27,513 --> 00:12:28,981 MY MOM HAS BEEN WAITING TO SAY 331 00:12:28,981 --> 00:12:30,249 SOMETHING TO YOU GUYS, AND HER 332 00:12:30,249 --> 00:12:31,517 NAME IS VERONICA MURPHY, AND I 333 00:12:31,517 --> 00:12:33,152 WANT HER TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK HER 334 00:12:33,152 --> 00:12:34,386 HEART, TO THE CROWD IN THIS 335 00:12:34,386 --> 00:12:35,721 CHAMBER TODAY. THANK YOU, GUYS. 336 00:12:35,721 --> 00:12:41,760 >> [ APPLAUSE ] 337 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,232 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. I AM AMARR'S 338 00:12:46,232 --> 00:12:56,675 GRANDMA. I WROTE THIS TO 339 00:13:01,180 --> 00:13:02,014 DESCRIBE HOW I FEEL. 340 00:13:02,014 --> 00:13:03,449 >> MAKE SURE YOU PULL THE MIC 341 00:13:03,449 --> 00:13:04,550 CLOSE -- THERE, YOU GO. JUST 342 00:13:04,550 --> 00:13:06,085 PULL IT AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN. 343 00:13:06,085 --> 00:13:06,585 THANK YOU, MA'AM. 344 00:13:06,585 --> 00:13:08,254 >> -- ABOUT HOW A GRANDMA LOST A 345 00:13:08,254 --> 00:13:09,722 CHILD. AMARR IS MY -- I AM 346 00:13:09,722 --> 00:13:14,293 AMARR'S GRANDMA, AND I AM HERE 347 00:13:14,293 --> 00:13:15,561 TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MY 348 00:13:15,561 --> 00:13:16,562 GRANDSON, WHO WAS KILLED AT 349 00:13:16,562 --> 00:13:18,597 GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL. I AM MAD, 350 00:13:18,597 --> 00:13:26,038 REALLY MAD, BECAUSE THERE IS NO 351 00:13:26,038 --> 00:13:27,039 JUSTICE FOR OUR BLACK CHILDREN, 352 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:31,277 AND I AM MAD ABOUT -- [ CRYING ] 353 00:13:31,277 --> 00:13:37,683 -- MY GRANDSON WAS BEING SHOT. 354 00:13:37,683 --> 00:13:42,721 PEOPLE HAVE -- WELL, I CALL 355 00:13:42,721 --> 00:13:46,592 THEM, "KIDS," SHOWED HIM GETTING 356 00:13:46,592 --> 00:13:48,527 KILLED ON FACEBOOK. WHO DOES 357 00:13:48,527 --> 00:13:49,828 THAT MESS? WHO DOES THAT? [ 358 00:13:49,828 --> 00:13:55,768 CRYING ] THEY NEED TO BE 359 00:13:55,768 --> 00:14:00,840 INVESTIGATED, THEY DO. BECAUSE 360 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:01,874 THEY HAD MY GRANDSON ON 361 00:14:01,874 --> 00:14:03,008 FACEBOOK, SHOWING THEM HOW HE 362 00:14:03,008 --> 00:14:08,881 GOT SHOT, FOUR TIMES. [ CRYING ] 363 00:14:08,881 --> 00:14:10,416 IT'S NOT FAIR THAT A GRANDMA 364 00:14:10,416 --> 00:14:12,384 HAD TO SEE THAT ON FACEBOOK. I 365 00:14:12,384 --> 00:14:16,822 MAD, BECAUSE THE POLICE DO NOT 366 00:14:16,822 --> 00:14:24,029 CARE. I'M MAD BECAUSE I CALLED 367 00:14:24,029 --> 00:14:25,130 DETECTIVES, AND HE TOLD ME, HE 368 00:14:25,130 --> 00:14:26,799 IS ON A VACATION AND HE IS GOING 369 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:28,601 TO CALL ME BACK -- NEVER CALLED 370 00:14:28,601 --> 00:14:30,169 ME BACK. I CALLED THE CAPTAIN, 371 00:14:30,169 --> 00:14:31,537 MARK, THE NEW ONE, WITH SEATTLE 372 00:14:31,537 --> 00:14:35,541 POLICE. LEFT, WHAT? FOUR 373 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:38,611 MESSAGES. GUESS WHAT? I GOT A 374 00:14:38,611 --> 00:14:39,745 CALL YESTERDAY BECAUSE I WAS 375 00:14:39,745 --> 00:14:41,280 GOING TO COME HERE. WHAT IS 376 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:46,452 THAT? [ CRYING ] AND THEN -- MY 377 00:14:46,452 --> 00:14:53,893 GRANDSON, MY BABY, WAS KILLED. 378 00:14:53,893 --> 00:14:58,731 HE WAS OUT AT THE SCHOOL. THE 379 00:14:58,731 --> 00:15:02,868 SCHOOL HAD -- THEY HAD NO 380 00:15:02,868 --> 00:15:04,703 PROTECTION FOR HIM. FOR NONE OF 381 00:15:04,703 --> 00:15:07,239 THE KIDS. WHAT KIND OF JUSTICE 382 00:15:07,239 --> 00:15:08,908 IT IS FOR BLACK CHILDREN? TELL 383 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:16,248 ME. TELL ME! TELL ME! [ CRYING ] 384 00:15:16,248 --> 00:15:18,951 WHAT KIND OF JUSTICE IS IT FOR 385 00:15:18,951 --> 00:15:23,289 BLACK CHILDREN? MY GRANDSON IS 386 00:15:23,289 --> 00:15:25,324 DEAD, JUST AT SCHOOL! WHAT CAN 387 00:15:25,324 --> 00:15:27,860 YOU DO? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO 388 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:33,999 DO? THAT'S ALL I NEED TO KNOW. 389 00:15:33,999 --> 00:15:35,434 >> THANK YOU. 390 00:15:35,434 --> 00:15:45,711 >> [ APPLAUSE ] 391 00:15:46,211 --> 00:15:51,116 >> SO, I WANT TO THANK THE 392 00:15:51,116 --> 00:15:57,289 MURPHY-PAINE FAMILY FOR COMING 393 00:15:57,289 --> 00:15:57,990 TODAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR 394 00:15:57,990 --> 00:15:58,824 RESILIENCE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR 395 00:15:58,824 --> 00:16:01,627 LOVE. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU 396 00:16:01,627 --> 00:16:06,231 FOR THOSE WORDS, BECAUSE I'M 397 00:16:06,231 --> 00:16:07,700 GOING TO TELL YOU THIS -- WE 398 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:08,600 NEED TO HEAR THOSE. SEATTLE 399 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,469 NEEDS TO HEAR THOSE. WE NEED TO 400 00:16:10,469 --> 00:16:14,273 HEAR THOSE. AND WE NEED TO DO 401 00:16:14,273 --> 00:16:15,307 SOMETHING. SO, THANK YOU, THANK 402 00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:17,376 YOU, THANK YOU, ALL. WHAT WE 403 00:16:17,376 --> 00:16:25,384 WILL DO NOW, IS WE WILL BE 404 00:16:25,384 --> 00:16:26,352 CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF AMARR 405 00:16:26,352 --> 00:16:36,862 DOWNSTAIRS, SO IT IS AN OPEN 406 00:16:37,863 --> 00:16:38,630 COMMUNITY EVENT, SO I KNOW MY 407 00:16:38,630 --> 00:16:40,299 TEAM WILL TAKE YOU, ALL, AND WE 408 00:16:40,299 --> 00:16:41,333 WILL JUMP RIGHT INTO THE MEETING 409 00:16:41,333 --> 00:16:42,501 AND WE WILL BE DOWNSTAIRS DURING 410 00:16:42,501 --> 00:16:43,902 THAT TIME AND I WILL COME DOWN 411 00:16:43,902 --> 00:16:45,170 THERE AFTER OUR MEETING, BUT WE 412 00:16:45,170 --> 00:16:45,938 ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO 413 00:16:45,938 --> 00:16:46,972 CONNECTING WITH YOU, ALL. SO, 414 00:16:46,972 --> 00:16:48,741 THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ALL, SO 415 00:16:48,741 --> 00:16:48,941 MUCH. 416 00:16:48,941 --> 00:16:50,642 >> [ APPLAUSE ] 417 00:16:50,642 --> 00:16:51,910 >> AND SO, NOW, COLLEAGUES, WE 418 00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:54,313 ARE GOING TO JUMP INTO OUR 419 00:16:54,313 --> 00:16:55,614 MEETING TODAY, AND I ALSO WANT 420 00:16:55,614 --> 00:16:58,884 TO THANK YOU, ALL, FOR COMING. I 421 00:16:58,884 --> 00:17:02,554 DO ALSO WANT TO MENTION -- AND 422 00:17:02,554 --> 00:17:07,359 WE ARE JUST -- WE WILL BE AT 423 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:08,660 EASE, REAL QUICK, WHILE WE ARE 424 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:19,171 MAKING THIS TRANSITION. THANK 425 00:17:51,236 --> 00:17:57,976 YOU. I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE -- 426 00:17:57,976 --> 00:17:59,278 AND I APOLOGIZE, I DIDN'T SEE 427 00:17:59,278 --> 00:18:04,616 HER EARLIER -- WE HAVE OUR CITY 428 00:18:04,616 --> 00:18:05,551 ATTORNEY, ERICA EVANS, THERE IN 429 00:18:05,551 --> 00:18:06,752 THE BACK. THANK YOU FOR BEING 430 00:18:06,752 --> 00:18:08,053 HERE, AS WELL, FOR US TALKING 431 00:18:08,053 --> 00:18:09,855 ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE, AND THIS 432 00:18:09,855 --> 00:18:10,656 CONVERSATION. SO, THANK YOU, 433 00:18:10,656 --> 00:18:11,723 CITY ATTORNEY ERICA EVANS, FOR 434 00:18:11,723 --> 00:18:22,267 BEING HERE, AS WELL. ALL RIGHT, 435 00:18:27,706 --> 00:18:28,340 AWESOME, WE WILL CONTINUE. AND I 436 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:29,575 WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T 437 00:18:29,575 --> 00:18:30,309 ALSO MENTIONED THAT WE ARE 438 00:18:30,309 --> 00:18:31,310 JOINED BY CONNOR HOLLAND FATHER 439 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:33,145 WHO IS HERE, CONNOR WAS MURDERED 440 00:18:33,145 --> 00:18:40,953 IN 2020 ON MOTHER'S DAY IN 441 00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:42,087 RAINIER BEACH. HIS MURDER STILL 442 00:18:42,087 --> 00:18:43,222 HAS NOT BEEN SOLVED, AS WELL. 443 00:18:43,222 --> 00:18:44,890 SO, WE ARE STILL LOSING A LOT OF 444 00:18:44,890 --> 00:18:51,997 OUR KIDS TO GUN VIOLENCE, THESE 445 00:18:51,997 --> 00:18:53,065 ARE HARD CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE, 446 00:18:53,065 --> 00:18:54,600 BUT WE NEED TO HAVE THEM AND WE 447 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,001 NEED TO TALK ABOUT THEM, SO HIS 448 00:18:56,001 --> 00:18:57,469 DAD WAS HERE, AS WELL. AND I 449 00:18:57,469 --> 00:18:59,104 KNOW HE IS OUT IN THE HALL, HE 450 00:18:59,104 --> 00:19:00,806 IS A GREAT MAN, HIS FAMILY IS 451 00:19:00,806 --> 00:19:03,242 GREAT. ALL RIGHT, SO, NOW, WE 452 00:19:03,242 --> 00:19:04,376 ARE GOING TO TRANSITION INTO OUR 453 00:19:04,376 --> 00:19:05,210 PUBLIC COMMENT, COLLEAGUES, AT 454 00:19:05,210 --> 00:19:06,478 THIS TIME, WE WILL OPEN THE 455 00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:07,279 HYBRID PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, 456 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:13,285 PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO 457 00:19:13,285 --> 00:19:14,286 ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA, THE 458 00:19:14,286 --> 00:19:15,354 REFERRAL CALENDAR, AND THE 459 00:19:15,354 --> 00:19:15,954 COUNCIL WORK PROGRAM. COUNCIL 460 00:19:15,954 --> 00:19:16,688 CANNOT ACCEPT COMMENTS ON 461 00:19:16,688 --> 00:19:17,656 QUASIJUDICIAL ITEMS OR ON OUR 462 00:19:17,656 --> 00:19:18,357 CAMPAIGN RELATED MATTERS. 463 00:19:18,357 --> 00:19:19,558 SPEAKER, HOW MANY -- "SPEAKER"? 464 00:19:19,558 --> 00:19:30,002 I APOLOGIZE. CLERK, HOW MANY DO 465 00:19:30,002 --> 00:19:30,836 WE HAVE SIGNED UP? 466 00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:31,837 >> WE HAVE EIGHT REMOTE. 467 00:19:31,837 --> 00:19:33,438 >> OKAY, EIGHT REMOTE AND I AM 468 00:19:33,438 --> 00:19:34,540 LOOKING AT 27 HERE, SO THAT 469 00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:35,774 MEANS IT IS BETWEEN 30-60, PER 470 00:19:35,774 --> 00:19:36,475 COUNCIL RULES, EVERYBODY WILL 471 00:19:36,475 --> 00:19:37,676 GET ONE MINUTE TO SPEAK. AND 472 00:19:37,676 --> 00:19:38,977 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE READ THE 473 00:19:38,977 --> 00:19:40,279 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PUBLIC 474 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:40,546 COMMENT? 475 00:19:40,546 --> 00:19:51,089 >> PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WILL BE 476 00:19:52,357 --> 00:19:52,891 MODERATED IN THE FOLLOWING 477 00:19:52,891 --> 00:19:53,792 MANNER, SPEAKERS WILL BE CALLED 478 00:19:53,792 --> 00:19:55,093 IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE 479 00:19:55,093 --> 00:19:56,161 REGISTERED, SPEAKERS WILL HEAR A 480 00:19:56,161 --> 00:19:57,362 TIME WHEN THERE IS 10 SECONDS 481 00:19:57,362 --> 00:19:58,597 LEFT IN THE TIME, SPEAKERS WILL 482 00:19:58,597 --> 00:19:59,798 HAVE THEIR MICS MUTED IF THEY 483 00:19:59,798 --> 00:20:00,866 HAVE NOT FINISHED THEIR COMMENTS 484 00:20:00,866 --> 00:20:02,267 IN THE ALLOTTED TIME TO ALLOW US 485 00:20:02,267 --> 00:20:03,702 TO PUT FORWARD THE NEXT SPEAKER. 486 00:20:03,702 --> 00:20:04,903 PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW OPEN AT 487 00:20:04,903 --> 00:20:06,505 THIS TIME AND WE WILL GO TO THE 488 00:20:06,505 --> 00:20:07,239 LIST. 489 00:20:07,239 --> 00:20:08,173 >> WE HAVE IN HERE, FOLLOWED BY 490 00:20:08,173 --> 00:20:09,474 RON, THEN STEVE, CLIVE, ROGILO? 491 00:20:09,474 --> 00:20:14,313 SAY IT AGAIN? ROBSELO. SORRY. 492 00:20:14,313 --> 00:20:15,581 GABRIEL, KATHY, ELIZABETH, AND 493 00:20:15,581 --> 00:20:25,724 MARTHA. 494 00:20:28,827 --> 00:20:30,195 >> GREETING. I WILL TRY TO GET 495 00:20:30,195 --> 00:20:31,430 THROUGH IT IN ONE MINUTE. GOOD 496 00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:32,064 AFTERNOON, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, 497 00:20:32,064 --> 00:20:33,332 AND HONORABLE COUNCILMEMBERS. MY 498 00:20:33,332 --> 00:20:38,203 NAME IS LIN TY AND I AM HERE 499 00:20:38,203 --> 00:20:39,238 TODAY TO RESPECTFULLY INVITE YOU 500 00:20:39,238 --> 00:20:40,239 TO A MEANINGFUL, CULTURAL, AND 501 00:20:40,239 --> 00:20:41,273 COMMUNITY EVENT -- THE 66th 502 00:20:41,273 --> 00:20:43,308 COMMEMORATION OF GRAND MASTER 503 00:20:43,308 --> 00:20:44,443 WHEN UP, THE FOUNDER OF 504 00:20:44,443 --> 00:20:45,310 VIETNAMESE MARTIAL ARTS. FOR 505 00:20:45,310 --> 00:20:52,417 OVER 85 YEARS, HAS BEEN MORE 506 00:20:52,417 --> 00:20:53,552 THAN A MARTIAL ARTS SYSTEM, IT 507 00:20:53,552 --> 00:20:55,087 IS A PHILOSOPHY, A WAY OF LIFE, 508 00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:56,188 ONE THAT CENTERS MIND AND BODY 509 00:20:56,188 --> 00:20:56,989 RESOLUTIONS TO PUT FORWARD 510 00:20:56,989 --> 00:20:58,223 DISCIPLINE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, 511 00:20:58,223 --> 00:20:58,824 RESPECT, RESILIENCE, AND 512 00:20:58,824 --> 00:21:05,530 SERVICE. THIS YEAR, OUR CITY 513 00:21:05,530 --> 00:21:06,431 COMMUNITY WILL HOST THE 66th 514 00:21:06,431 --> 00:21:08,033 COMMEMORATION CEREMONY ON 515 00:21:08,033 --> 00:21:10,769 SATURDAY, JUNE 27th, AT THE 516 00:21:10,769 --> 00:21:12,537 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS HALL IN 517 00:21:12,537 --> 00:21:17,876 SEATTLE. ON THIS SPECIAL 518 00:21:17,876 --> 00:21:18,477 OCCASION, WE RESPECTFULLY ASK 519 00:21:18,477 --> 00:21:19,411 THE CITY AND THE COUNCIL TO 520 00:21:19,411 --> 00:21:21,046 PROCLAIM JUNE 27th, 2026 VIETNAM 521 00:21:21,046 --> 00:21:27,953 DAY. I AM PASSING THE PROPOSED 522 00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:28,687 PROCLAMATION LANGUAGE, AS WELL 523 00:21:28,687 --> 00:21:33,659 AS A COPY OF -- AN INVITATION 524 00:21:33,659 --> 00:21:34,760 FOR EACH COUNCIL MEMBER, AND I 525 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:35,127 HOPE -- 526 00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:40,866 >> THANK YOU, LIN. JUST THROW IT 527 00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:42,334 IN THE BOX, THERE. GOOD TO SEE 528 00:21:42,334 --> 00:21:43,935 YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE RON FOLLOWED 529 00:21:43,935 --> 00:21:44,870 BY STEVE, THEN CLIVE. 530 00:21:44,870 --> 00:21:46,004 >> HI. THANK YOU FOR THIS 531 00:21:46,004 --> 00:21:47,639 OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. I LIVE IN 532 00:21:47,639 --> 00:21:51,243 NORTHWEST GREEN LAKE, IN A 533 00:21:51,243 --> 00:21:52,511 CERTAIN AREA THAT SEEMS TO BE 534 00:21:52,511 --> 00:21:54,379 VERY POPULAR FOR LAND-USE, 535 00:21:54,379 --> 00:21:55,781 BETWEEN THE COUNCIL, THE 536 00:21:55,781 --> 00:22:04,923 MAYOR'S OFFICE, SCOTT, I THINK 537 00:22:04,923 --> 00:22:06,525 THERE ARE FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS 538 00:22:06,525 --> 00:22:07,793 GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME RIGHT 539 00:22:07,793 --> 00:22:08,660 NOW. I DON'T KNOW WHICH IS 540 00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:10,595 GOING WHERE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE 541 00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:11,596 THE LATEST IS THE MAYOR'S 542 00:22:11,596 --> 00:22:14,566 AGENDA ON AURORA, WHICH LOOKS TO 543 00:22:14,566 --> 00:22:15,801 BE ANOTHER EMINENT DOMAIN 544 00:22:15,801 --> 00:22:23,842 GATHERING, OF THE SAME PEOPLE 545 00:22:23,842 --> 00:22:24,743 THAT TRIED THE SAME THING, BACK 546 00:22:24,743 --> 00:22:26,912 IN '08 AND '09. SO, I AM HERE 547 00:22:26,912 --> 00:22:29,881 TO PROCLAIM MY RIGHTS TO OWN MY 548 00:22:29,881 --> 00:22:31,116 PROPERTY AGAIN. I MEAN, THIS IS 549 00:22:31,116 --> 00:22:37,456 THE SIXTH TIME. UNDER THE FIFTH 550 00:22:37,456 --> 00:22:38,490 AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF 551 00:22:38,490 --> 00:22:39,758 THE UNITED STATES, I RETAIN MY 552 00:22:39,758 --> 00:22:40,892 RIGHTS TO OWN MY PROPERTY. THANK 553 00:22:40,892 --> 00:22:43,962 YOU FOR YOUR TIME, AND THE 554 00:22:43,962 --> 00:22:44,596 OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. 555 00:22:44,596 --> 00:22:46,098 >> THANK YOU, RON. NEXT, WE HAVE 556 00:22:46,098 --> 00:22:47,866 STEVE, FOLLOWED BY CLIVE AND 557 00:22:47,866 --> 00:22:48,100 ROGILO. 558 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:53,372 >> WE NEED A BETTER SEATTLE. I 559 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:54,673 THINK IT IS APPROPRIATE TO TAKE 560 00:22:54,673 --> 00:22:59,211 A LOOK AT, HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN 561 00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:00,479 SINCE WE HAVE HAD SQUADS THAT 562 00:23:00,479 --> 00:23:01,079 ACTUALLY INVESTIGATE CRIMES, 563 00:23:01,079 --> 00:23:06,952 AFTER THE FACT? IT IS IMPORTANT 564 00:23:06,952 --> 00:23:12,524 TO ME, YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE, 565 00:23:12,524 --> 00:23:13,859 AFTER THE POLICE, AND PICK UP 566 00:23:13,859 --> 00:23:15,127 THE SHELL CASINGS. WE NEED TO 567 00:23:15,127 --> 00:23:16,828 ACTUALLY BECOME A CIVIL SOCIETY 568 00:23:16,828 --> 00:23:22,534 AGAIN. AND WORLD WARS HAVE BEEN 569 00:23:22,534 --> 00:23:24,202 FOUGHT IN LESS TIME THAN THE 570 00:23:24,202 --> 00:23:27,272 CITY HAS SPENT TRYING TO REBUILD 571 00:23:27,272 --> 00:23:32,144 OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE OTHER 572 00:23:32,144 --> 00:23:33,678 THING I HAVE GREAT CONCERN ABOUT 573 00:23:33,678 --> 00:23:37,916 IS LAND-USE, AND WE HAVE SEEN 574 00:23:37,916 --> 00:23:42,187 PROFITS FOR DEVELOPERS, WHO ARE 575 00:23:42,187 --> 00:23:43,522 BUILDING NEW HOUSING, BUT FOR 576 00:23:43,522 --> 00:23:46,591 WHO? NOT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE 577 00:23:46,591 --> 00:23:49,728 HERE. WE ARE SEEING WORKING 578 00:23:49,728 --> 00:23:50,829 CLASS BEING SHOVED OUT OF THE 579 00:23:50,829 --> 00:23:57,135 CITY, AND WE ARE SEEING THE 580 00:23:57,135 --> 00:23:58,336 TREES THAT ARE GOING AWAY. 581 00:23:58,336 --> 00:23:59,471 >> THANK YOU, STEVE. NEXT, WE 582 00:23:59,471 --> 00:24:02,307 HAVE CLIVE, FOLLOWED BY ROGILO, 583 00:24:02,307 --> 00:24:02,941 THEN ROBERTO, GABRIEL. 584 00:24:02,941 --> 00:24:06,111 >> I AM ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL 585 00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:07,345 EXERCISE OVERSIGHT OVER THE 586 00:24:07,345 --> 00:24:08,580 WATERFRONT FREE-SPEECH ZONE AND 587 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:13,485 POLICY THAT REQUIRES SEATTLE 588 00:24:13,485 --> 00:24:14,653 CITY CENTER TO ESTABLISH RULES 589 00:24:14,653 --> 00:24:16,054 THAT COMPLY WITH THE 590 00:24:16,054 --> 00:24:23,261 CONSTITUTION. SEATTLE LOST MAJOR 591 00:24:23,261 --> 00:24:24,029 FIRST AMENDMENT LITIGATION IN 592 00:24:24,029 --> 00:24:24,896 2009 OVER RESTRICTIONS ON STREET 593 00:24:24,896 --> 00:24:25,997 PERFORMERS IN PUBLIC SPACES. THE 594 00:24:25,997 --> 00:24:27,199 CITY SHOULD NOT REPEAT THIS 595 00:24:27,199 --> 00:24:28,166 MISTAKE ON THE WATERFRONT. THIS 596 00:24:28,166 --> 00:24:30,168 IS NOT THEORETICAL. I WAS 597 00:24:30,168 --> 00:24:38,310 ASSAULTED BY SEATTLE CENTER 598 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:39,010 OFFICER DURING ENFORCEMENT 599 00:24:39,010 --> 00:24:39,878 CONNECTED TO THESE RULES. THAT 600 00:24:39,878 --> 00:24:40,812 SAME OFFICER LATER INVOLVED IN 601 00:24:40,812 --> 00:24:41,613 AN EXCLUSION PROCESS INCIDENT, 602 00:24:41,613 --> 00:24:48,453 THAT SERIOUSLY INJURED AN ESU 603 00:24:48,453 --> 00:24:49,888 OFFICER WHO HAS NOW BEEN OFF THE 604 00:24:49,888 --> 00:24:51,122 JOB FOR MORE THAN NINE MONTHS. 605 00:24:51,122 --> 00:24:52,290 THAT SHOULD BE A WARNING SIGN. 606 00:24:52,290 --> 00:24:53,558 THE WHOLE SET OF RULES AND 607 00:24:53,558 --> 00:24:54,459 ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM IS BROKEN. 608 00:24:54,459 --> 00:24:56,328 ONE RULES ARE UNCLEAR, 609 00:24:56,328 --> 00:25:05,270 UNJUSTIFIED, OR UNCLEAR ON 610 00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:05,904 CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK, THE 611 00:25:05,904 --> 00:25:07,205 RESULT IS NOT PUBLIC SAFETY, THE 612 00:25:07,205 --> 00:25:08,006 RESULT IS ESCALATION, CONFUSION, 613 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:12,410 HARM, AND LIABILITY. 614 00:25:12,410 --> 00:25:13,645 >> THANK YOU, CLIVE. NEXT, WE 615 00:25:13,645 --> 00:25:15,413 HAVE -- IS IT ROGILO? DID I SAY 616 00:25:15,413 --> 00:25:19,518 THAT RIGHT? NO? PARDON ME. 617 00:25:19,518 --> 00:25:23,855 ROGILO. LO SIENTO. MY BAD. 618 00:25:23,855 --> 00:25:29,861 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS ROGILO 619 00:25:29,861 --> 00:25:31,062 PEREZ, I AM A STREET PERFORMER, 620 00:25:31,062 --> 00:25:32,264 I AM AGAINST THESE BLUE BOXES. 621 00:25:32,264 --> 00:25:37,168 WHEN THE CITY PAINTS SQUARES ON 622 00:25:37,168 --> 00:25:38,103 THE GROUND, THAT TELLS 623 00:25:38,103 --> 00:25:39,371 PERFORMERS WE CAN ONLY SPEAK OR 624 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:40,305 PERFORM INSIDE OF THESE BLUE 625 00:25:40,305 --> 00:25:41,539 BOXES, THEY RESTRICT FREEDOM OF 626 00:25:41,539 --> 00:25:45,911 SPEECH. THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR, 627 00:25:45,911 --> 00:25:47,379 OUTSIDE OF THE BOXES, MY VOICE 628 00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:50,815 IS NOT HEARD. THIS IS NOT JUST 629 00:25:50,815 --> 00:25:51,650 MY OPINION, WILLIAM DORSETT 630 00:25:51,650 --> 00:25:54,920 ALREADY WON A $450,000 FEDERAL 631 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:59,591 SETTLEMENT IN SAN DIEGO OVER 632 00:25:59,591 --> 00:26:01,493 THIS SAME FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE. 633 00:26:01,493 --> 00:26:09,901 I AM ALSO VIGILANT WITH WILLIAM 634 00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:10,869 AND ANOTHER LAWSUIT AGAINST SAN 635 00:26:10,869 --> 00:26:11,703 DIEGO, CHALLENGING THE SAME 636 00:26:11,703 --> 00:26:12,404 KINDS OF RESTRICTIONS. SEATTLE 637 00:26:12,404 --> 00:26:15,106 SHOULD NOT MAKE THE SAME COSTLY 638 00:26:15,106 --> 00:26:17,175 MISTAKE. IF THEY NEED TO 639 00:26:17,175 --> 00:26:21,246 REGULATE ACTUAL BAD BEHAVIOR, 640 00:26:21,246 --> 00:26:22,480 REGULATE IT, BUT DON'T PUT ANY 641 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:28,219 BLUE BOXES ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH. 642 00:26:28,219 --> 00:26:30,221 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. NEXT, WE 643 00:26:30,221 --> 00:26:31,323 HAVE ROBERTO, FOLLOWED BY 644 00:26:31,323 --> 00:26:32,457 GABRIEL, KATHY, ELIZABETH, 645 00:26:32,457 --> 00:26:38,530 MARTHA. 646 00:26:38,530 --> 00:26:39,898 >> HELLO. I AM A TRAVELING, 647 00:26:39,898 --> 00:26:40,999 STREET PERFORMING MAGICIAN. I AM 648 00:26:40,999 --> 00:26:47,839 HERE WITH CLIVE AND ROGILO. 649 00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:49,174 ROGILO IS A CO-LITIGATOR IN THE 650 00:26:49,174 --> 00:26:50,909 CURRENT LAWSUIT GOING ON IN SAN 651 00:26:50,909 --> 00:26:54,245 DIEGO FOR EXPRESSIVE ACTIVITY 652 00:26:54,245 --> 00:26:55,780 ISSUES, AND WE ARE EXPERIENCING 653 00:26:55,780 --> 00:27:03,488 THOSE SAME ISSUES, HERE IN 654 00:27:03,488 --> 00:27:04,689 SEATTLE, AND WE DON'T WANT TO 655 00:27:04,689 --> 00:27:06,191 LITIGATE, WE WANT TO WORK WITH 656 00:27:06,191 --> 00:27:06,992 THE CITY. RECENTLY, THE 657 00:27:06,992 --> 00:27:07,659 WATERFRONT HAS BEEN REDESIGNED 658 00:27:07,659 --> 00:27:11,630 AND THERE HAS ALSO BEEN 659 00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:12,464 DESIGNATED SPACES FOR EXPRESSIVE 660 00:27:12,464 --> 00:27:13,698 ACTIVITY, AND WE ONLY HAVE FIVE, 661 00:27:13,698 --> 00:27:14,966 IN COMPARISON TO THE PIKE PLACE 662 00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:18,069 MARKET, WHERE YOU HAVE 15. IT 663 00:27:18,069 --> 00:27:19,337 HAS BEEN CREATING A LOT OF 664 00:27:19,337 --> 00:27:20,939 CONFLICT WITH US AT THE 665 00:27:20,939 --> 00:27:25,644 WATERFRONT, AND IT HAS BEEN 666 00:27:25,644 --> 00:27:26,511 CHILLING SPEECH AND PUSHING 667 00:27:26,511 --> 00:27:27,645 ARTISTS OUT OF SEATTLE, SO WE 668 00:27:27,645 --> 00:27:29,080 ARE ASKING THAT THE CITY 669 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,182 ATTORNEY SERIOUSLY RECONSIDER 670 00:27:31,182 --> 00:27:36,421 THESE RULES, AND AMEND ANY 671 00:27:36,421 --> 00:27:37,088 UNCONSTITUTIONAL POLICIES. THANK 672 00:27:37,088 --> 00:27:37,288 YOU. 673 00:27:37,288 --> 00:27:47,766 >> THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE 674 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,035 GABRIEL, FOLLOWED BY KATHY, 675 00:27:50,035 --> 00:27:50,935 ELIZABETH, AND MARTHA, THEN WE 676 00:27:50,935 --> 00:27:52,671 WILL GO ON TO THE SECOND PAGE. 677 00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:53,805 >> HEY, FOLKS. HAPPY PRIDE! AS A 678 00:27:53,805 --> 00:27:55,340 REMINDER, PRIDE WAS A WRITER 679 00:27:55,340 --> 00:28:05,817 STARTED BY QUEER AND TRANS 680 00:28:16,594 --> 00:28:17,362 FOLKS, BECAUSE OF VIOLENCE 681 00:28:17,362 --> 00:28:18,396 AGAINST QUEER PEOPLE. I'M GLAD 682 00:28:18,396 --> 00:28:19,264 THAT 57 YEARS LATER, WE CAN MEET 683 00:28:19,264 --> 00:28:20,365 HERE TO TALK ABOUT POLICE 684 00:28:20,365 --> 00:28:21,232 VIOLENCE AGAINST QUEER AND TRANS 685 00:28:21,232 --> 00:28:22,600 FOLKS. I WAS HAPPY TO DISRUPT 686 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:23,668 LAST MEETING BECAUSE OF THE SHAM 687 00:28:23,668 --> 00:28:24,836 WE HAVE UP HERE. LET'S BE 688 00:28:24,836 --> 00:28:25,904 CLEAR, OIG EXPLICITLY COVERED UP 689 00:28:25,904 --> 00:28:27,072 HOW VIOLENT THAT THEY WAS, OIG 690 00:28:27,072 --> 00:28:28,373 EXPLICITLY SAID THAT WE ARE HERE 691 00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:29,574 TO FUCK PEOPLE UP, TOOK, "WE 692 00:28:29,574 --> 00:28:30,375 WANT A STRONGER POLICE 693 00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:31,643 RESPONSE," BECAUSE THEY WANT -- 694 00:28:31,643 --> 00:28:35,747 SURE, YOU MIGHT ENCOURAGE 695 00:28:35,747 --> 00:28:37,248 VIOLENCE, BUT WHAT IF HE FACED 696 00:28:37,248 --> 00:28:38,283 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE VIOLENCE 697 00:28:38,283 --> 00:28:38,917 HE ENCOURAGED? SECONDLY, THEY 698 00:28:38,917 --> 00:28:39,517 SAY THAT OIG DEALS WITH THE 699 00:28:39,517 --> 00:28:40,385 PROBLEMS, THEY DON'T DEAL WITH 700 00:28:40,385 --> 00:28:41,386 THE PROBLEMS, THAT IS OPA'S 701 00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:42,620 JOB, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE JOB 702 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:43,888 OPA HAS BEEN DOING. TO START, 703 00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:44,923 OFFICERS PUNCHED MY FRIEND IN 704 00:28:44,923 --> 00:28:46,057 THE HEAD EIGHT TIMES WHILE ON 705 00:28:46,057 --> 00:28:47,358 THE GROUND. OPA RULED THAT THESE 706 00:28:47,358 --> 00:28:48,693 PUNCHES CROSSED THE LINE, AND 707 00:28:48,693 --> 00:28:50,128 THEY WERE THE CORRECT USE OF FOR 708 00:28:50,128 --> 00:28:51,396 SO THEY SPOKE TO CHAIN OF 709 00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:52,564 COMMAND, THE CHAIN OF COMMAND -- 710 00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:53,998 I HAVE A MINUTE, JESUS CHRIST. 711 00:28:53,998 --> 00:28:55,934 I'M JUST GOING TO KEEP GOING. 712 00:28:55,934 --> 00:28:56,534 LET'S SEE, THEY WROTE THAT 713 00:28:56,534 --> 00:28:57,435 AFTER THEY SPOKE TO CHAIN OF 714 00:28:57,435 --> 00:28:58,303 COMMAND, CHAIN OF COMMAND SAID, 715 00:28:58,303 --> 00:28:59,637 NO, THAT'S FINE. YEAH, EIGHT 716 00:28:59,637 --> 00:29:00,538 PUNCHES. [ INAUDIBLE - LOW 717 00:29:00,538 --> 00:29:00,905 VOLUME ] 718 00:29:00,905 --> 00:29:03,208 >> THANK YOU, GABRIEL. GABRIEL? 719 00:29:03,208 --> 00:29:06,611 GABRIEL, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 720 00:29:06,611 --> 00:29:13,985 THANK YOU, GABRIEL. GABRIEL? NO. 721 00:29:13,985 --> 00:29:18,890 GABRIEL? THANK YOU. NO. NO, 722 00:29:18,890 --> 00:29:24,062 THANK YOU, GABRIEL. THE MIC IS, 723 00:29:24,062 --> 00:29:25,396 UNFORTUNATELY, CUT. SO, THANK 724 00:29:25,396 --> 00:29:25,597 YOU. 725 00:29:25,597 --> 00:29:28,666 >> [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 726 00:29:28,666 --> 00:29:33,505 >> THANK YOU, GABRIEL. GABRIEL, 727 00:29:33,505 --> 00:29:35,273 YOU ARE NOT -- GABRIEL, THANK 728 00:29:35,273 --> 00:29:35,473 YOU. 729 00:29:35,473 --> 00:29:40,311 >> [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 730 00:29:40,311 --> 00:29:41,746 >> MR. DIAZ, I KNOW YOU ARE 731 00:29:41,746 --> 00:29:43,114 LISTENING TO ME. THANK YOU. 732 00:29:43,114 --> 00:29:47,852 >> THANK YOU, GABRIEL. THANK 733 00:29:47,852 --> 00:29:49,587 YOU, GABRIEL. THANK YOU, 734 00:29:49,587 --> 00:29:53,825 GABRIEL. 735 00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:55,593 >> WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED 736 00:29:55,593 --> 00:29:55,860 ANYMORE! 737 00:29:55,860 --> 00:30:01,366 >> THANK YOU, GABRIEL. 738 00:30:01,366 --> 00:30:03,034 >> I, AND MANY LIKE ME -- 739 00:30:03,034 --> 00:30:04,269 >> HEY, GABRIEL? THANK YOU SO 740 00:30:04,269 --> 00:30:08,807 MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 741 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:10,108 >> HERE EVERY DAY, MAKING OUR 742 00:30:10,108 --> 00:30:11,876 VOICE HEARD UNTIL THIS IS DONE. 743 00:30:11,876 --> 00:30:12,477 THANK YOU. I AM DONE, NOW. 744 00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:13,678 >> THANK YOU, GABRIEL. NEXT, WE 745 00:30:13,678 --> 00:30:16,548 HAVE KATHY MOORE, FORMER 746 00:30:16,548 --> 00:30:17,582 COUNCILMEMBER KATHY MOORE. 747 00:30:17,582 --> 00:30:28,092 WELCOME. HOLD ON, LET'S PUT 748 00:30:29,194 --> 00:30:30,295 YOUR MIC BACK ON. NO, NO, WE 749 00:30:30,295 --> 00:30:31,596 HAVE TO CUT -- YOU ARE GOOD 750 00:30:31,596 --> 00:30:32,697 POINT YOU MAKE THERE, WE GO. 751 00:30:32,697 --> 00:30:33,565 OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON, HONORABLE 752 00:30:33,565 --> 00:30:34,566 COUNCIL PRESIDENT, COUNCIL 753 00:30:34,566 --> 00:30:40,672 MEMBERS. I DID NOT EXPECT TO 754 00:30:40,672 --> 00:30:41,639 FIND MYSELF HERE TODAY, CLEARLY, 755 00:30:41,639 --> 00:30:43,174 BY MY ATTIRE. I HAPPEN TO BE 756 00:30:43,174 --> 00:30:44,309 DOWNTOWN AND THOUGHT, "WELL, I 757 00:30:44,309 --> 00:30:45,176 WILL MAKE A PRESENCE HERE 758 00:30:45,176 --> 00:30:47,245 BECAUSE OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN 759 00:30:47,245 --> 00:30:50,248 AURORA." AND, YOU KNOW, I READ 760 00:30:50,248 --> 00:30:51,082 TWO ARTICLES IN "THE SEATTLE 761 00:30:51,082 --> 00:30:52,283 TIMES" THIS WEEKEND. I HAVE BEEN 762 00:30:52,283 --> 00:30:53,084 FOLLOWING ISSUES, THANK YOU, 763 00:30:53,084 --> 00:30:55,320 COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ, AND 764 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:56,187 COUNCILMEMBER LIN, FOR BRINGING 765 00:30:56,187 --> 00:30:57,188 FORWARD LEGISLATION TO ALLOW THE 766 00:30:57,188 --> 00:30:58,223 CLOSURE OF STREET FOR PUBLIC 767 00:30:58,223 --> 00:31:02,760 PURPOSES, I THINK I WOULD NOTE 768 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,095 THAT THE MAYOR ALREADY HAS THAT 769 00:31:04,095 --> 00:31:05,096 AUTHORITY UNDER EMERGENCY 770 00:31:05,096 --> 00:31:06,497 PROVISION, BUT I THINK IT WOULD 771 00:31:06,497 --> 00:31:07,165 BE GOOD TO REMOVE ANY PARTICULAR 772 00:31:07,165 --> 00:31:08,333 OBSTACLES THE CITY ATTORNEY'S 773 00:31:08,333 --> 00:31:09,701 OFFICE CHOOSES TO THROW IN THE 774 00:31:09,701 --> 00:31:17,542 WAY. AND I KNOW THAT THERE HAVE 775 00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:18,142 BEEN CONVERSATIONS GOING ON, 776 00:31:18,142 --> 00:31:19,010 CERTAINLY BECAUSE I KNOW THAT 777 00:31:19,010 --> 00:31:20,278 HAPPENS. BUT, I WANTED TO BE 778 00:31:20,278 --> 00:31:22,113 HERE TO JUST SAY, THAT YOU HAVE 779 00:31:22,113 --> 00:31:32,657 TO TAKE POLITICAL WILL, YOU HAVE 780 00:31:32,857 --> 00:31:33,858 THE POLITICAL WILL, YOU HAVE TO 781 00:31:33,858 --> 00:31:34,926 LOOK AT MAMDANI AND LOOK AT 782 00:31:34,926 --> 00:31:35,793 SHORELINE, SHORELINE HAS EXACTLY 783 00:31:35,793 --> 00:31:37,428 THE SAME LAWS AND THEY DO NOT 784 00:31:37,428 --> 00:31:39,130 HAVE AN OPEN AIR STREET, SEX 785 00:31:39,130 --> 00:31:42,367 MARKET. TO IMPLEMENT AND ENFORCE 786 00:31:42,367 --> 00:31:43,034 THEIR LAWS. SHORELINE, POLITICAL 787 00:31:43,034 --> 00:31:43,301 WILL -- 788 00:31:43,301 --> 00:31:44,602 >> THANK YOU, KATHY. 789 00:31:44,602 --> 00:31:48,106 >> [ APPLAUSE ] 790 00:31:48,106 --> 00:31:48,873 >> NEXT, WE HAVE ELIZABETH, 791 00:31:48,873 --> 00:31:50,341 FOLLOWED BY MARTHA. IS ELIZABETH 792 00:31:50,341 --> 00:31:55,480 HERE? HELLO, WELCOME. 793 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,717 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS 794 00:31:59,717 --> 00:32:00,418 ELIZABETH ALWARD, I AM A 795 00:32:00,418 --> 00:32:03,388 RESIDENT OF WEST SEATTLE, AND I 796 00:32:03,388 --> 00:32:04,923 AM HERE WITH OTHER MEMBERS FROM 797 00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:15,433 THE FOUR SEATTLE GROUP TO ASK 798 00:32:18,369 --> 00:32:19,604 YOU TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE 799 00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:20,305 HOUSING PACKAGE AMENDMENTS. MY 800 00:32:20,305 --> 00:32:21,572 HUSBAND AND I RECENTLY BUILT A 801 00:32:21,572 --> 00:32:22,740 NEW HOME IN WEST SEATTLE AND 802 00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:23,841 ENCOUNTERED AN ABUNDANCE OF RED 803 00:32:23,841 --> 00:32:24,642 TAPE AND REGULATIONS, WHICH, 804 00:32:24,642 --> 00:32:26,210 ALONG WITH THE TWO YEAR 805 00:32:26,210 --> 00:32:27,912 PERMITTING PROCESS, ADDED 806 00:32:27,912 --> 00:32:28,946 SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE COST AND 807 00:32:28,946 --> 00:32:30,148 DURATION OF OUR PROJECT. MANY OF 808 00:32:30,148 --> 00:32:30,982 THESE REGULATIONS ADDED NOTHING 809 00:32:30,982 --> 00:32:31,783 TO SAFETY, OR ENVIRONMENTAL 810 00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:33,084 PROTECTION, OR DESIGN AESTHETIC. 811 00:32:33,084 --> 00:32:34,252 THESE SAME REGULATIONS ARE 812 00:32:34,252 --> 00:32:35,053 SLOWING DOWN AND ADDING 813 00:32:35,053 --> 00:32:38,656 UNNECESSARY COST, AND -- TWO 814 00:32:38,656 --> 00:32:42,694 HOMES BUILT ALL OVER SEATTLE. IT 815 00:32:42,694 --> 00:32:43,394 IS AFFECTING AFFORDABILITY OF 816 00:32:43,394 --> 00:32:46,998 HOUSING FOR ALL RESIDENTS. 817 00:32:46,998 --> 00:32:47,865 COMMENTS ON MODIFICATIONS TO 818 00:32:47,865 --> 00:32:49,400 SOME OF THESE REGULATIONS AND 819 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,201 PROVIDE CONSTRUCTION THAT WILL 820 00:32:50,201 --> 00:33:00,745 LEAD TO MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING 821 00:33:06,017 --> 00:33:06,551 FOR ALL WHICH, IN TURN, MAY 822 00:33:06,551 --> 00:33:07,518 REDUCE HOMELESSNESS. I HOPE YOU 823 00:33:07,518 --> 00:33:08,720 WILL VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE 824 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:09,020 AMENDMENTS. 825 00:33:09,020 --> 00:33:10,321 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. NEXT, WE 826 00:33:10,321 --> 00:33:11,723 HAVE MARTHA FOLLOWED BY BOB, 827 00:33:11,723 --> 00:33:12,357 LOGAN, EVAN, YVETTE, KENNETH, 828 00:33:12,357 --> 00:33:13,591 SCOTT, ALICIA, SYNTEL, DAVID, 829 00:33:13,591 --> 00:33:23,835 AND DeANDRE. 830 00:33:27,438 --> 00:33:28,239 >> OKAY! HELLO, EVERYONE. MY 831 00:33:28,239 --> 00:33:30,274 NAME IS MARTA, I AM HERE WITH 832 00:33:30,274 --> 00:33:30,908 FOR SEATTLE. I WILL KEEP THIS 833 00:33:30,908 --> 00:33:32,176 SHORT AND SWEET, I JUST WANT TO 834 00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:33,444 SAY, FIRST OF ALL, THANKS SO 835 00:33:33,444 --> 00:33:34,879 MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK GOING 836 00:33:34,879 --> 00:33:35,680 INTO THE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY 837 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:36,781 AMENDMENTS, I AM SUPER EXCITED 838 00:33:36,781 --> 00:33:44,555 ABOUT THIS, IT BRINGS MORE 839 00:33:44,555 --> 00:33:45,623 HOUSING TO LOTS OF NEIGHBORHOODS 840 00:33:45,623 --> 00:33:46,391 IN A QUICKER TIMELINE. I ALSO 841 00:33:46,391 --> 00:33:47,492 THINK IT REALLY SETS A 842 00:33:47,492 --> 00:33:48,259 FOUNDATION FOR WORK, GOING 843 00:33:48,259 --> 00:33:49,394 FORWARD, AND HOW TO ADDRESS OUR 844 00:33:49,394 --> 00:33:50,228 CRITICAL HOUSING SUPPLY NEEDS. 845 00:33:50,228 --> 00:33:51,629 THAT IS ALL. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO 846 00:33:51,629 --> 00:33:52,697 VOTE "YES," AND THANKS AGAIN. 847 00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:53,898 >> THANK YOU, MARTA. NEXT, WE 848 00:33:53,898 --> 00:33:54,899 HAVE BOB, FOLLOWED BY LOGAN, 849 00:33:54,899 --> 00:33:55,266 THAN EVAN. 850 00:33:55,266 --> 00:33:56,567 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU FOR 851 00:33:56,567 --> 00:33:57,635 THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY. 852 00:33:57,635 --> 00:34:04,442 MY NAME IS BOB AYLWARD. I AM A 853 00:34:04,442 --> 00:34:05,410 NEW RESIDENT OF WEST SEATTLE, 854 00:34:05,410 --> 00:34:06,811 WHICH WE ARE ENJOYING VERY MUCH, 855 00:34:06,811 --> 00:34:07,945 AND I AM HERE TODAY WITH MY 856 00:34:07,945 --> 00:34:13,651 FRIENDS FROM FOR SEATTLE TO TALK 857 00:34:13,651 --> 00:34:14,886 ABOUT URGING YOU TO VOTE FOR THE 858 00:34:14,886 --> 00:34:15,920 H.O.P. AMENDMENTS. AS I STAND 859 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,422 HERE TODAY, I KIND OF LOOK AT 860 00:34:17,422 --> 00:34:18,423 THE OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE HERE, 861 00:34:18,423 --> 00:34:19,657 THROUGH THE EYES OF MY 862 00:34:19,657 --> 00:34:20,691 GRANDCHILD, WHO LIVES ON BEACON 863 00:34:20,691 --> 00:34:22,093 HILL. JUST LIKE HE IS OUT, 864 00:34:22,093 --> 00:34:23,061 TAKING HIS FIRST STEPS, THESE 865 00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:24,195 AMENDMENTS TO ME CAN BE THE 866 00:34:24,195 --> 00:34:30,902 FIRST STEPS TOWARD ADDRESSING 867 00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:32,170 THE ISSUES WE HAVE IN ADDRESSING 868 00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:33,137 AFFORDABILITY HERE IN SEATTLE TO 869 00:34:33,137 --> 00:34:34,405 CONFRONT US. THERE WILL BE MANY 870 00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:35,540 OPPORTUNITIES TO DO BETTER. 871 00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:37,308 THESE ARE THE FIRST AND I WOULD 872 00:34:37,308 --> 00:34:38,743 URGE YOU TO TAKE THIS FIRST STEP 873 00:34:38,743 --> 00:34:44,048 JUST LIKE MY GRANDCHILD. THANK 874 00:34:44,048 --> 00:34:44,348 YOU. 875 00:34:44,348 --> 00:34:45,450 >> THANK YOU, BOB. THAT WAS 876 00:34:45,450 --> 00:34:46,284 CLEVER. "FIRST STEP." LOGAN, 877 00:34:46,284 --> 00:34:47,518 FOLLOWED BY EVAN, THEN YOU THAT. 878 00:34:47,652 --> 00:34:49,787 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL 879 00:34:49,787 --> 00:34:50,988 PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH AND 880 00:34:50,988 --> 00:34:59,497 COUNCIL. I AM HERE TODAY TO 881 00:34:59,497 --> 00:35:00,531 SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF COUNCIL 882 00:35:00,531 --> 00:35:01,432 121190, THE STORMWATER CODE, AS 883 00:35:01,432 --> 00:35:02,433 WELL AS THE H.O.P. LEGISLATION. 884 00:35:02,433 --> 00:35:05,503 ENCOURAGES THE PASSAGE OF BOTH 885 00:35:05,503 --> 00:35:12,643 OF THESE BILLS, I WANT TO THANK 886 00:35:12,643 --> 00:35:14,745 SPU AND STI STAFF IN DOING THEIR 887 00:35:14,745 --> 00:35:15,279 WORK IN SHEPHERDING THE 888 00:35:15,279 --> 00:35:16,481 STORMWATER CODE OVER THE LAST 889 00:35:16,481 --> 00:35:17,682 YEAR. WE LOOK FORWARD TO FURTHER 890 00:35:17,682 --> 00:35:18,883 ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CITY TO 891 00:35:18,883 --> 00:35:21,919 CREATING A STORMWATER MANAGEMENT 892 00:35:21,919 --> 00:35:23,421 PROCESS FOR THE CITY OF SEATTLE 893 00:35:23,421 --> 00:35:24,589 THAT IS RIGHT SIZED, FOR 894 00:35:24,589 --> 00:35:25,656 SEATTLE'S URBAN INFILL 895 00:35:25,656 --> 00:35:27,525 ENVIRONMENT. ON THE H.O.P. 896 00:35:27,525 --> 00:35:28,226 LEGISLATION, VERY MUCH 897 00:35:28,226 --> 00:35:31,596 ENCOURAGED BY THE FACT THAT THIS 898 00:35:31,596 --> 00:35:33,064 IS VERY TARGETED OF ZONING AND 899 00:35:33,064 --> 00:35:37,768 REZONING, THAT NOT ONLY HELPS IN 900 00:35:37,768 --> 00:35:38,803 THE PROCESS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE 901 00:35:38,803 --> 00:35:40,037 PLAN THAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH 902 00:35:40,037 --> 00:35:48,946 RIGHT NOW, BUT ALSO, IS GOING TO 903 00:35:48,946 --> 00:35:49,914 MITIGATE SOME OF THAT PRESSURE 904 00:35:49,914 --> 00:35:51,048 IN VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS, AND WE 905 00:35:51,048 --> 00:35:52,016 SEE THIS AS A VERY GOOD 906 00:35:52,016 --> 00:35:53,017 OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY. THANK 907 00:35:53,017 --> 00:35:54,051 YOU SO MUCH, ONCE AGAIN, 908 00:35:54,051 --> 00:35:55,119 ENCOURAGE PASSAGE ON BOTH THESE 909 00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:55,353 BILLS. 910 00:35:55,353 --> 00:35:56,554 >> THANK YOU, LOGAN. NEXT, WE 911 00:35:56,554 --> 00:35:59,824 HAVE EVAN FOLLOWED BY YVETTE AND 912 00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:00,258 KENNETH. WELCOME. 913 00:36:00,258 --> 00:36:01,092 >> IT AFTERNOON, COUNCILMEMBERS, 914 00:36:01,092 --> 00:36:02,460 MY NAME IS EVAN SEXTON, I LIVE 915 00:36:02,460 --> 00:36:11,469 IN DISTRICT 4. I AM ALSO HERE 916 00:36:11,469 --> 00:36:12,937 WITH FOR SEATTLE TO SPEAK IN 917 00:36:12,937 --> 00:36:14,071 FAVOR OF THE H.O.P. PACKAGE. WE 918 00:36:14,071 --> 00:36:14,705 KNOW THAT DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS 919 00:36:14,705 --> 00:36:15,940 AREN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE IN 920 00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:17,675 THE CITY, AND I THINK THIS IS A 921 00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:21,879 TARGETED RESPONSE TO THAT 922 00:36:21,879 --> 00:36:22,547 CHALLENGING CLIMATE. SO, AGAIN, 923 00:36:22,547 --> 00:36:23,848 I ASK YOU TO PLEASE VOTE IN 924 00:36:23,848 --> 00:36:24,382 FAVOR. THANK YOU. 925 00:36:24,382 --> 00:36:25,616 >> THANK YOU, EVAN. NEXT, WE 926 00:36:25,616 --> 00:36:26,617 HAVE MS. YVETTE FOLLOWED BY 927 00:36:26,617 --> 00:36:36,360 KENNETH, THEN SCOTT. 928 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:37,728 >> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE 929 00:36:37,728 --> 00:36:38,930 FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF 930 00:36:38,930 --> 00:36:39,864 AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR 931 00:36:39,864 --> 00:36:40,898 WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, 932 00:36:40,898 --> 00:36:41,732 UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH 933 00:36:41,732 --> 00:36:48,806 LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 934 00:36:48,806 --> 00:36:59,250 WHEN I READ THAT, ON FRIDAY, 935 00:36:59,250 --> 00:37:00,151 SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY AND POSTED 936 00:37:00,151 --> 00:37:01,953 ON NEXT DOOR, WITHIN 24 HOURS, I 937 00:37:01,953 --> 00:37:02,720 GOT OVER 3000 RESPONSES AND 938 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:03,621 EVERYBODY IS PISSED OFF. THE 939 00:37:03,621 --> 00:37:07,658 COUNCIL PRESIDENT WAS NOT 940 00:37:07,658 --> 00:37:08,759 CONSULTED, NOR WAS THE DISTRICT 941 00:37:08,759 --> 00:37:09,627 REPRESENTATIVE. THREE DAYS IS 942 00:37:09,627 --> 00:37:10,962 EGREGIOUS, TO CLOSE OFF THAT 943 00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:16,200 BOULEVARD. MAY I SUGGEST THAT 944 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,235 THEY DEDICATE EVERY SUNDAY TO 945 00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:18,336 BICYCLE SUNDAY AND LET THE REST 946 00:37:18,336 --> 00:37:19,604 OF THE COMMUNITY HAVE ACCESS TO 947 00:37:19,604 --> 00:37:21,205 THE BOULEVARD ON THE WEEKENDS. 948 00:37:21,205 --> 00:37:25,176 THANK YOU. 949 00:37:25,176 --> 00:37:26,410 >> THANK YOU, MS. YVETTE. NEXT, 950 00:37:26,410 --> 00:37:27,445 WE HAVE KENNETH FOLLOWED BY 951 00:37:27,445 --> 00:37:33,217 SCOTT, AND THEN ALICIA. 952 00:37:33,217 --> 00:37:34,385 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL, MY 953 00:37:34,385 --> 00:37:35,720 NAME IS KEN, I AM A CANDIDATE 954 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:37,188 MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PARTY OF 955 00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:37,888 LABOR AND HAPPY PRIDE TO 956 00:37:37,888 --> 00:37:38,823 EVERYONE EXCEPT FOR Y'ALL. 957 00:37:38,823 --> 00:37:40,024 ESPECIALLY YOU, JOY 958 00:37:40,024 --> 00:37:45,229 HOLLINGSWORTH, A QUEER WOMAN WHO 959 00:37:45,229 --> 00:37:46,397 HAS SOLD OUT HER OWN COMMUNITY 960 00:37:46,397 --> 00:37:47,431 FOR HER OWN POLITICAL GAIN. 961 00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:48,866 SHAME ON YOU. THE LINCOLN 962 00:37:48,866 --> 00:37:49,500 INSTITUTE OF GENOCIDE PREVENTION 963 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:57,675 HAS ISSUED A SECOND RED FLAG 964 00:37:57,675 --> 00:37:58,743 ALERT FOR THE GENOCIDE OF TRANS 965 00:37:58,743 --> 00:37:59,543 PEOPLE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES 966 00:37:59,543 --> 00:38:01,112 AND THE MOST I HAVE SEEN OUT OF 967 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:02,413 Y'ALL IS JUST RAISING FLAGS AND 968 00:38:02,413 --> 00:38:03,280 MAKING STATEMENTS, AND DOING 969 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:04,749 LITTLE PHOTO OPS. WHERE ARE THE 970 00:38:04,749 --> 00:38:06,050 RESOURCES? WHERE ARE THE ACTUAL 971 00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:06,617 STATEMENTS? SPECIFICALLY ON 972 00:38:06,617 --> 00:38:07,251 JENNIFER BLESSING, WHO SHOULD 973 00:38:07,251 --> 00:38:12,757 STILL BE HERE AND GOING TO UW. 974 00:38:12,757 --> 00:38:14,125 WHERE ARE THE STATEMENTS, ON THE 975 00:38:14,125 --> 00:38:15,226 OTHER TRANS WOMEN WHO ARE 976 00:38:15,226 --> 00:38:16,093 MISSING? WHERE ARE THE RESOURCES 977 00:38:16,093 --> 00:38:17,295 FOR THE PEOPLE IN SEATTLE, WHO 978 00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:18,462 ARE FLEEING HERE, FROM VIOLENCE 979 00:38:18,462 --> 00:38:19,830 AROUND THE COUNTRY, ONLY TO BE 980 00:38:19,830 --> 00:38:20,731 MET WITH INDIFFERENCE? JOY, YOU 981 00:38:20,731 --> 00:38:31,275 SHOULD GIVE A SHIT. INSTEAD, YOU 982 00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:32,576 JUST ADVOCATE FOR POLICE, THE 983 00:38:32,576 --> 00:38:33,577 SAME POLICE WHO BRUTALIZE PEOPLE 984 00:38:33,577 --> 00:38:33,778 -- 985 00:38:33,778 --> 00:38:34,812 >> MADAM PRESIDENT, MADAM CHAIR, 986 00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:36,447 MAY I ASK FOR A POINT OF ORDER? 987 00:38:36,447 --> 00:38:37,815 I WOULD ASK THAT THIS PERSON IS 988 00:38:37,815 --> 00:38:38,649 BEING DISRUPTIVE, MADAM, AND 989 00:38:38,649 --> 00:38:39,717 WITH PERSONAL COMMENTS. SHUT THE 990 00:38:39,717 --> 00:38:40,685 MIC. MADAM CHAIR? MADAM CHAIR 991 00:38:40,685 --> 00:38:41,352 YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 992 00:38:41,352 --> 00:38:44,455 >> YES, THANK YOU. IT'S BEING 993 00:38:44,455 --> 00:38:45,589 DISRUPTIVE, I WOULD LIKE THAT TO 994 00:38:45,589 --> 00:38:46,424 BE NOTED. 995 00:38:46,424 --> 00:38:48,459 >> -- PERSONAL INTEGRITY -- 996 00:38:48,459 --> 00:38:51,929 >> [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 997 00:38:51,929 --> 00:38:53,764 >> SO, THIS IS A GENTLE REMINDER 998 00:38:53,764 --> 00:39:02,873 THAT ATTACKING COUNCIL MEMBERS' 999 00:39:02,873 --> 00:39:03,474 RACE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR 1000 00:39:03,474 --> 00:39:04,642 THEIR GENDER IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. 1001 00:39:04,642 --> 00:39:05,943 SO, I AM JUST LETTING -- I'M 1002 00:39:05,943 --> 00:39:07,645 JUST LETTING -- I'M JUST 1003 00:39:07,645 --> 00:39:11,682 LETTING -- I'M JUST SAYING THAT 1004 00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:12,683 FOR THE RECORD, SO EVERYBODY 1005 00:39:12,683 --> 00:39:13,851 KNOWS. SO, LET'S GO AHEAD AND 1006 00:39:13,851 --> 00:39:15,419 START FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENT, WE 1007 00:39:15,419 --> 00:39:16,220 HAVE SCOTT, NEXT. THANK YOU. 1008 00:39:16,220 --> 00:39:16,487 WELCOME. 1009 00:39:16,487 --> 00:39:17,822 >> I AM SCOTT FROM THE AMERICAN 1010 00:39:17,822 --> 00:39:20,458 PARTY OF LABOR. AS WE KNOW, YOU 1011 00:39:20,458 --> 00:39:22,526 PUT A MORATORIUM ON THE CAMERAS, 1012 00:39:22,526 --> 00:39:28,833 AS PD WAS CONDUCTING 1013 00:39:28,833 --> 00:39:29,500 INVESTIGATIONS INTO WHETHER IT 1014 00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:30,968 WAS SAFE OR NOT. THIS SAME PD 1015 00:39:30,968 --> 00:39:35,039 HAS PARTNERED WITH -- A.I. 1016 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:36,207 ETHICS BOARD AND AS A REMINDER, 1017 00:39:36,207 --> 00:39:39,143 THEY USE A.I. TECHNOLOGY IN 1018 00:39:39,143 --> 00:39:40,511 THEIR HOMES, WITH THE HOME 1019 00:39:40,511 --> 00:39:45,449 TACTIC, THE SAME THAT IS 1020 00:39:45,449 --> 00:39:46,417 COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE FUNDS AND 1021 00:39:46,417 --> 00:39:48,185 USES THE SERVICE OF NYU PERIOD. 1022 00:39:48,185 --> 00:39:55,192 OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE NOT ONLY 1023 00:39:55,192 --> 00:39:56,227 GOING TO YOUR RACIST, KILLER 1024 00:39:56,227 --> 00:39:57,328 POLICE FORCE BUT A COMPANY 1025 00:39:57,328 --> 00:39:58,462 ENTRENCHED IN THE MASS MURDER OF 1026 00:39:58,462 --> 00:39:59,530 INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT HAS TAKEN 1027 00:39:59,530 --> 00:40:10,074 PLACE IN GAZA SINCE THE ZIONIST 1028 00:40:11,876 --> 00:40:13,010 OCCUPATION IN 1948. EVEN IN 1029 00:40:13,010 --> 00:40:13,744 BANNING THE CAMERAS TEMPORARILY, 1030 00:40:13,744 --> 00:40:14,678 YOU STILL CHOSE TO COOPERATE 1031 00:40:14,678 --> 00:40:15,646 WITH THE REACTIONARY FORCES OF 1032 00:40:15,646 --> 00:40:16,680 OPPRESSION THAT PROFIT OFF THE 1033 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:17,882 DEATH OF INNOCENCE, MUCH IN THE 1034 00:40:17,882 --> 00:40:18,916 SAME WAY YOUR POLICE FORCE 1035 00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:19,917 PROFITS OFF THE BEATEN CHILDREN 1036 00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:21,018 AND PROTESTERS, OFF OF FOREIGN 1037 00:40:21,018 --> 00:40:21,852 AND MINORITY COMMUNITIES. YOU 1038 00:40:21,852 --> 00:40:22,920 SIDE WITH THE CAMERA COMPANY 1039 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:23,721 COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE, YOU 1040 00:40:23,721 --> 00:40:24,688 CHOOSE AN AUDIT SERVICE THAT 1041 00:40:24,688 --> 00:40:26,157 STILL RETAINS X PD -- EXCESS PD 1042 00:40:26,157 --> 00:40:26,991 CHIEF CATHERINE O'TOOLE WHICH 1043 00:40:26,991 --> 00:40:29,260 IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. YOU AND -- 1044 00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:30,227 [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 1045 00:40:30,227 --> 00:40:31,862 >> THANK YOU, SCOTT. THANK YOU, 1046 00:40:31,862 --> 00:40:33,264 SCOTT. 1047 00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:36,767 >> [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 1048 00:40:36,767 --> 00:40:41,605 >> THANK YOU, SCOTT. 1049 00:40:41,605 --> 00:40:45,976 >> [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 1050 00:40:45,976 --> 00:40:48,012 >> THANK YOU, SCOTT. NEXT, WE 1051 00:40:48,012 --> 00:40:53,784 HAVE ALICIA, WELCOME. THANK YOU 1052 00:40:53,784 --> 00:40:55,286 FOR COMING. GOOD TO SEE YOU. 1053 00:40:55,286 --> 00:41:05,796 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, PRESIDENT 1054 00:41:05,996 --> 00:41:06,964 HOLLINGSWORTH AND MEMBERS OF THE 1055 00:41:06,964 --> 00:41:08,265 COUNCIL. MY NAME IS ALICIA RUIZ 1056 00:41:08,265 --> 00:41:09,300 AND I'M HUMBLED HERE TODAY TO 1057 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:10,134 REPRESENT THE FAMILIES AND 1058 00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:11,202 COMMUNITY AT HABITAT FOR 1059 00:41:11,202 --> 00:41:12,503 HUMANITY FOR SEATTLE AND KING 1060 00:41:12,503 --> 00:41:13,804 COUNTY. HABITATS MISSION IS TO 1061 00:41:13,804 --> 00:41:14,672 BUILD STRENGTH, STABILITY, AND 1062 00:41:14,672 --> 00:41:15,306 SELF-RELIANCE THROUGH SHELTER, 1063 00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:16,474 AND TO CREATE A WORLD WHERE 1064 00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:17,575 EVERYBODY HAS A SAFE AND 1065 00:41:17,575 --> 00:41:19,810 AFFORDABLE PLACE TO LIVE. WE 1066 00:41:19,810 --> 00:41:20,778 URGE FOR YOUR SUPPORT FOR 1067 00:41:20,778 --> 00:41:27,418 COUNCIL BILL 129688 -- ADVANCES 1068 00:41:27,418 --> 00:41:28,152 EQUITABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES, 1069 00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:28,786 IT CREATES PATHWAYS TO 1070 00:41:28,786 --> 00:41:30,187 AFFORDABLE HOMEOWNERSHIP FOR 1071 00:41:30,187 --> 00:41:37,761 WORKING FAMILIES. HABITAT 1072 00:41:37,761 --> 00:41:38,863 SUPPORTS THIS LEGISLATION 1073 00:41:38,863 --> 00:41:39,563 BECAUSE THESE ZONES WILL CREATE 1074 00:41:39,563 --> 00:41:40,197 MORE HOUSING CHOICES ACROSS 1075 00:41:40,197 --> 00:41:41,265 SEATTLE AND MAKE PROJECTS LIKE 1076 00:41:41,265 --> 00:41:41,999 OUR LIBERTY COMMONS DEVELOPMENT 1077 00:41:41,999 --> 00:41:42,900 POSSIBLE. LIBERTY COMMENTS IS 1078 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:44,034 THE LARGEST HABITAT BUILD IN THE 1079 00:41:44,034 --> 00:41:45,870 WORLD AND THAT IS BECAUSE OF 1080 00:41:45,870 --> 00:41:48,439 YOUR SUPPORT. WE APPRECIATE THAT 1081 00:41:48,439 --> 00:41:49,573 THIS PROPOSAL PROMOTES EQUITABLE 1082 00:41:49,573 --> 00:41:59,917 GROWTH ACROSS MORE 1083 00:42:02,052 --> 00:42:02,753 NEIGHBORHOODS, AS RESIDENTS 1084 00:42:02,753 --> 00:42:03,521 REMAIN ROOTED IN THEIR 1085 00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:04,154 COMMUNITIES. WE URGE YOUR 1086 00:42:04,154 --> 00:42:05,222 SUPPORT AND BEHIND EVERY NEW 1087 00:42:05,222 --> 00:42:06,523 HOME IS A FAMILY WORKING TOWARDS 1088 00:42:06,523 --> 00:42:07,224 STABILITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND A 1089 00:42:07,224 --> 00:42:07,992 BRIGHTER FUTURE. THANK YOU. 1090 00:42:07,992 --> 00:42:09,193 >> THANK YOU, ALICIA. NEXT, WE 1091 00:42:09,193 --> 00:42:10,861 HAVE, I THINK IT IS SINTA? DID I 1092 00:42:10,861 --> 00:42:11,862 SAY THAT RIGHT? OKAY, AWESOME. 1093 00:42:11,862 --> 00:42:13,097 SINTA FOLLOWED BY DAVID, THEN, I 1094 00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:17,835 THINK, IT'S LEANDRE? WELCOME. 1095 00:42:17,835 --> 00:42:22,539 >> AND 17-YEAR-OLD AMARR 1096 00:42:22,539 --> 00:42:27,645 MURPHY-PAINE 15-YEAR-OLD BROCK 1097 00:42:27,645 --> 00:42:28,245 ADAMS, 17-YEAR-OLD EBENEZER 1098 00:42:28,245 --> 00:42:32,650 HALEY, 15-YEAR-OLD -- [ CRYING ] 1099 00:42:32,650 --> 00:42:34,351 18-YEAR-OLD MALIK STEWART, 1100 00:42:34,351 --> 00:42:39,657 17-YEAR-OLD -- [ CRYING ] AND 1101 00:42:39,657 --> 00:42:40,858 COUNTLESS MORE. THIS IS FOR ALL 1102 00:42:40,858 --> 00:42:42,459 OF THEM. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME 1103 00:42:42,459 --> 00:42:49,433 IS SINTA CORDOVA I AM A MEMBER 1104 00:42:49,433 --> 00:42:50,568 OF THE WASHINGTON NAACP COUNCIL, 1105 00:42:50,568 --> 00:42:51,502 DISTRICT 3 RESIDENT, AND A 1106 00:42:51,502 --> 00:43:02,046 STUDENT ADVOCATE. I ADDRESS YOU 1107 00:43:05,616 --> 00:43:06,283 WITH THE HEAVIEST HEART AND 1108 00:43:06,283 --> 00:43:07,718 GENUINE CONCERN, I AM HERE TO 1109 00:43:07,718 --> 00:43:08,652 DEMAND IMMEDIATE ACTION ON THE 1110 00:43:08,652 --> 00:43:09,420 DEVASTATING GUN VIOLENCE 1111 00:43:09,420 --> 00:43:10,087 DEVASTATING OUR COMMUNITIES. GUN 1112 00:43:10,087 --> 00:43:11,021 VIOLENCE IS A DEEP, COMPLEX 1113 00:43:11,021 --> 00:43:11,822 ISSUE ROOTED IN SOCIOECONOMIC 1114 00:43:11,822 --> 00:43:12,856 AND SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS, NOT JUST 1115 00:43:12,856 --> 00:43:13,657 GUNS. OUR CURRENT REACTIVE 1116 00:43:13,657 --> 00:43:14,491 APPROACH, WAITING FOR TRAGEDY 1117 00:43:14,491 --> 00:43:15,559 BEFORE ACTING IS FAILING OUR 1118 00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:16,093 YOUTH AND COMMUNITY. 1119 00:43:16,093 --> 00:43:16,727 PERPETUATING DISADVANTAGE BY 1120 00:43:16,727 --> 00:43:18,128 LIMITING ACCESS TO VITAL 1121 00:43:18,128 --> 00:43:20,731 RESOURCES LIKE JOBS, 1122 00:43:20,731 --> 00:43:21,665 INTERNSHIPS, AND MENTAL HEALTH 1123 00:43:21,665 --> 00:43:22,566 SUPPORT. UNADDRESSED ISSUES LIKE 1124 00:43:22,566 --> 00:43:23,200 HOMELESSNESS, TRAUMA, AND LACK 1125 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,770 OF SUPPORT, ET CETERA, CREATE 1126 00:43:26,770 --> 00:43:27,905 HOMELESSNESS, TRAGICALLY LEADING 1127 00:43:27,905 --> 00:43:28,572 TO VIOLENCE, COMBINED WITH EASY 1128 00:43:28,572 --> 00:43:31,141 ACCESS TO FIREARMS -- [ CRYING ] 1129 00:43:31,141 --> 00:43:32,476 I NEED YOUR SUPPORT AND 1130 00:43:32,476 --> 00:43:34,278 ADVOCACY. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO 1131 00:43:34,278 --> 00:43:41,485 START. [ CRYING ] THERE HAS BEEN 1132 00:43:41,485 --> 00:43:42,252 A TIDAL WAVE OF DEATHS AMONGST 1133 00:43:42,252 --> 00:43:44,154 MY PEERS AND YOUTH AND I HAVE NO 1134 00:43:44,154 --> 00:43:47,424 IDEA WHAT TO DO. [ CRYING ] GUN 1135 00:43:47,424 --> 00:43:48,592 VIOLENCE RATES MAY HAVE GONE 1136 00:43:48,592 --> 00:43:49,460 DOWN, OVERALL GUN VIOLENCE RATES 1137 00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:54,999 AMONG'S USE OUR DOUBLING. [ 1138 00:43:54,999 --> 00:44:00,904 INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] YET, 1139 00:44:00,904 --> 00:44:02,639 NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE, NO SPARK 1140 00:44:02,639 --> 00:44:04,141 OF CONCERN. WE CANNOT WAIT FOR 1141 00:44:04,141 --> 00:44:09,213 ANOTHER DEATHS TO OCCUR. [ 1142 00:44:09,213 --> 00:44:10,080 INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] I 1143 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:10,881 RECOMMEND INCREASED FUNDING FOR 1144 00:44:10,881 --> 00:44:16,587 COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS, [ 1145 00:44:16,587 --> 00:44:27,131 INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] THIS IS 1146 00:44:28,399 --> 00:44:29,733 NOT ALL AND I WOULD LOVE TO TALK 1147 00:44:29,733 --> 00:44:34,271 TO YOU MORE ABOUT THIS. 1148 00:44:34,271 --> 00:44:41,378 >> THANK YOU, SINTA. I WANT TO 1149 00:44:41,378 --> 00:44:43,113 TAKE A MOMENT, JUST A MOMENT OF 1150 00:44:43,113 --> 00:44:53,657 SILENCE. COLLEAGUES, I HOPE YOU 1151 00:44:55,392 --> 00:44:59,663 JOIN US IN THE LANDIS ROOM AFTER 1152 00:44:59,663 --> 00:45:00,397 THIS MEETING TO CONTINUE THE 1153 00:45:00,397 --> 00:45:02,499 CONVERSATION. UP NEXT, WE HAVE 1154 00:45:02,499 --> 00:45:06,537 DAVID LOGAN WITH SANDRO B, 1155 00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:11,408 KEONDRE, ASHLEY, AND THEN 1156 00:45:11,408 --> 00:45:12,409 JESSICA. DAVID, WELCOME. 1157 00:45:12,409 --> 00:45:19,850 >> WELCOME, COUNCILMEMBERS, I AM 1158 00:45:19,850 --> 00:45:20,784 DAVE LOGAN FROM DISTRICT FIVE. I 1159 00:45:20,784 --> 00:45:22,119 AM HERE TO ADDRESS COUNCIL BILL 1160 00:45:22,119 --> 00:45:27,024 121190, THE STORMWATER CODE. I 1161 00:45:27,024 --> 00:45:28,292 WILL SPARE YOU THE DETAILS AND 1162 00:45:28,292 --> 00:45:29,393 TALK ABOUT THE PRACTICALITIES OF 1163 00:45:29,393 --> 00:45:30,227 IT. KING COUNTY ANNOUNCED 1164 00:45:30,227 --> 00:45:30,761 DOUBLE-DIGIT SEWER RATE 1165 00:45:30,761 --> 00:45:32,596 INCREASES FOR YEARS TO COME. TO 1166 00:45:32,596 --> 00:45:39,737 MANAGE THE STORMWATER RUNOFF. 1167 00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:41,205 WHY ARE YOU RELAXING THE CODES, 1168 00:45:41,205 --> 00:45:42,206 WHEN THE COUNTY SAYS WE NEED 1169 00:45:42,206 --> 00:45:43,407 MORE INFRASTRUCTURE? AND THEN, 1170 00:45:43,407 --> 00:45:44,675 JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, SEATTLE 1171 00:45:44,675 --> 00:45:45,309 PARKS DEPARTMENT CLOSED TWO MORE 1172 00:45:45,309 --> 00:45:46,710 BEACHES. AND THIS IS ON TOP OF 1173 00:45:46,710 --> 00:45:48,378 THE TOXIC ALGAE BLOOM AT QUEEN 1174 00:45:48,378 --> 00:45:55,819 MIC. OUR BEACHES ARE NOT SAFE 1175 00:45:55,819 --> 00:45:57,421 DUE TO THE STORMWATER RUNOFF, 1176 00:45:57,421 --> 00:45:58,288 AND THE COUNCIL IS PROPOSING TO 1177 00:45:58,288 --> 00:45:59,056 RELAX RESTRICTIONS. LAST YEAR, 1178 00:45:59,056 --> 00:46:00,224 COUNCIL PAST THE FIRST PHASE OF 1179 00:46:00,224 --> 00:46:01,158 THE COMP PLAN, ALLOWING NEARLY 1180 00:46:01,158 --> 00:46:02,459 100% LOT COVERAGE. THIS WILL 1181 00:46:02,459 --> 00:46:03,227 CERTAINLY LEAD TO MORE 1182 00:46:03,227 --> 00:46:03,961 STORMWATER RUNOFF AND BEACH 1183 00:46:03,961 --> 00:46:04,962 CLOSERS. PLEASE AMEND THIS BILL 1184 00:46:04,962 --> 00:46:15,506 TO PROTECT OUR WATER. TREES CAN 1185 00:46:16,406 --> 00:46:17,274 MANAGE STORMWATER, THEY HOLD 1186 00:46:17,274 --> 00:46:18,442 WATER IN THEIR TRUNKS AND 1187 00:46:18,442 --> 00:46:19,443 CANOPY. I ASK THAT YOU AMEND THE 1188 00:46:19,443 --> 00:46:20,611 BILL TO ASK TREES, THE 1189 00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:21,311 STORMWATER MANAGERS ON ALL 1190 00:46:21,311 --> 00:46:22,112 PROPERTY TAX. THANK YOU. 1191 00:46:22,112 --> 00:46:23,547 >> THANK YOU, DAVID. UP NEXT IS 1192 00:46:23,547 --> 00:46:24,548 SONDRA FOLLOWED BY KEONDRE. GOOD 1193 00:46:24,548 --> 00:46:25,015 AFTERNOON, WELCOME. 1194 00:46:25,015 --> 00:46:28,652 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS 1195 00:46:28,652 --> 00:46:32,122 JOSHUA DOUGLAS WITH THE 1196 00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:33,690 CARPENTERS. WE ARE IN FAVOR OF 1197 00:46:33,690 --> 00:46:40,030 THE H.O.P. AMENDMENT AND URGE 1198 00:46:40,030 --> 00:46:41,231 YOUR SUPPORT ON THAT VOTE. THANK 1199 00:46:41,231 --> 00:46:41,565 YOU, COUNCIL. 1200 00:46:41,565 --> 00:46:44,735 >> THANK YOU. THE SPEAKERS THAT 1201 00:46:44,735 --> 00:46:46,003 WE HAVE LEFT REMAINING IN 1202 00:46:46,003 --> 00:46:47,838 PERSON, KEONDRE, ASHLEY, 1203 00:46:47,838 --> 00:46:53,777 JESSICA, MICHAEL, SUSAN, AND 1204 00:46:53,777 --> 00:46:54,978 THEN WE WILL MOVE TO ONLINE 1205 00:46:54,978 --> 00:46:56,113 PUBLIC COMMENTERS. IF FOLKS WANT 1206 00:46:56,113 --> 00:46:57,981 TO LINE UP, THE TALL MIC IS THE 1207 00:46:57,981 --> 00:46:59,116 BEST, BUT WE HAVE LIMITED TIME, 1208 00:46:59,116 --> 00:47:01,752 SO IF WE CAN MOVE QUICKLY 1209 00:47:01,752 --> 00:47:02,586 THROUGH THIS NEXT SECTION? 1210 00:47:02,586 --> 00:47:07,424 KEONDRE, IF YOU WANT TO COME UP? 1211 00:47:07,424 --> 00:47:08,292 KEONDRE? KEONDRE? ASHLEY, ASHLEY 1212 00:47:08,292 --> 00:47:09,693 IRVING IS NEXT. KEONDRE? ARE YOU 1213 00:47:09,693 --> 00:47:14,932 COMING UP? YEP? OKAY. 1214 00:47:14,932 --> 00:47:15,933 >> TWO WEEKS AGO, JULIE 1215 00:47:15,933 --> 00:47:21,505 HOLLINGSWORTH REQUESTED AT LEAST 1216 00:47:21,505 --> 00:47:22,973 TWO COPS BE PRESENT AT CITY 1217 00:47:22,973 --> 00:47:23,974 COUNCIL. SINCE THERE HAS BEEN NO 1218 00:47:23,974 --> 00:47:25,609 PUBLIC COMMENT ON WHY, I AM LEFT 1219 00:47:25,609 --> 00:47:26,777 TO ASSUME THAT THIS IS TO KEEP 1220 00:47:26,777 --> 00:47:28,178 PEOPLE FROM KEEPING HER 1221 00:47:28,178 --> 00:47:36,420 ACCOUNTABLE. JOY, YOU TOLD ME AT 1222 00:47:36,420 --> 00:47:38,055 A HAY BLACK SEATTLE EVENT THAT I 1223 00:47:38,055 --> 00:47:38,956 NEED TO GET OFF A PROGRESSIVE 1224 00:47:38,956 --> 00:47:39,790 PLANTATION, HOWEVER YOU ARE 1225 00:47:39,790 --> 00:47:42,526 USING YOUR POWER TO ENFORCE THE 1226 00:47:42,526 --> 00:47:43,227 BIGGEST OPPRESSORS OF BLACK 1227 00:47:43,227 --> 00:47:44,461 PEOPLE AND TRANS PEOPLE TO BE 1228 00:47:44,461 --> 00:47:45,862 HERE, DISRESPECTING THE SECURITY 1229 00:47:45,862 --> 00:47:47,931 GUARDS WHO DO THE WORK, DAY IN 1230 00:47:47,931 --> 00:47:49,333 AND DAY OUT, TO KEEP THE CITY 1231 00:47:49,333 --> 00:47:52,302 COUNCIL SAFE. THE $500 MILLION 1232 00:47:52,302 --> 00:47:53,170 BUDGET THAT SPD GETS, ONCE 1233 00:47:53,170 --> 00:47:56,873 AGAIN, BEING USED TO COPY COME 1234 00:47:56,873 --> 00:47:58,542 AROUND AND DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY 1235 00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:00,277 DO BEST -- NOTHING. THERE ARE 1236 00:48:00,277 --> 00:48:04,982 STILL -- THERE STILL HAS BEEN NO 1237 00:48:04,982 --> 00:48:05,816 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE COPS THAT 1238 00:48:05,816 --> 00:48:07,217 KILLED FOUR PEOPLE LAST YEAR. 1239 00:48:07,217 --> 00:48:10,921 THERE ARE STILL FAMILIES THAT 1240 00:48:10,921 --> 00:48:14,057 ARE VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE 1241 00:48:14,057 --> 00:48:15,025 WAITING FOR THE CITY TO HEAR 1242 00:48:15,025 --> 00:48:16,193 THEIR CASES THAT THEY CARRY 1243 00:48:16,193 --> 00:48:17,561 EVERY DAY DUE TO POLICE 1244 00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:20,931 NEGLIGENCE. WE ARE ABOUT A WEEK 1245 00:48:20,931 --> 00:48:23,467 OUT. 1246 00:48:23,467 --> 00:48:25,035 >> THANK YOU, KEONDRE. 1247 00:48:25,035 --> 00:48:28,038 >> [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 1248 00:48:28,038 --> 00:48:32,175 >> THANK YOU, KEONDRE. 1249 00:48:32,175 --> 00:48:33,877 >> [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 1250 00:48:33,877 --> 00:48:37,447 >> THANK YOU, KEONDRE. 1251 00:48:37,447 --> 00:48:41,084 >> [ APPLAUSE ] 1252 00:48:41,084 --> 00:48:43,387 >> NEXT, WE HAVE ASHLEY, 1253 00:48:43,387 --> 00:48:44,755 FOLLOWED BY JESSICA. WELCOME, 1254 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:54,564 ASHLEY. 1255 00:48:54,564 --> 00:48:56,333 >> HI. HI, MY NAME IS ASHLEY AND 1256 00:48:56,333 --> 00:48:57,501 I LIVE IN THE EASTLAKE 1257 00:48:57,501 --> 00:48:58,502 NEIGHBORHOOD. I'M HERE TO ASK 1258 00:48:58,502 --> 00:48:59,436 YOU ALL TO PASS THE HOUSING 1259 00:48:59,436 --> 00:49:00,270 OPPORTUNITIES PACKAGE. I WILL 1260 00:49:00,270 --> 00:49:01,538 KEEP THIS SHORT BECAUSE I KNOW 1261 00:49:01,538 --> 00:49:02,739 AFTER I LEFT SEATTLE, IT TOOK 1262 00:49:02,739 --> 00:49:04,207 ME, LIKE, 10 YEARS TO GET BACK 1263 00:49:04,207 --> 00:49:05,375 HERE, JUST BECAUSE IT WAS SO 1264 00:49:05,375 --> 00:49:06,643 HARD TO AFFORD HOUSING. SO, I 1265 00:49:06,643 --> 00:49:15,986 JUST REALLY LOVE THAT THERE IS 1266 00:49:15,986 --> 00:49:16,920 SOMETHING THAT WILL INCREASE THE 1267 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:17,754 AVAILABILITY OF AFFORDABLE HOMES 1268 00:49:17,754 --> 00:49:18,522 ALL THROUGHOUT THE CITY, SO 1269 00:49:18,522 --> 00:49:19,289 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1270 00:49:19,289 --> 00:49:20,557 >> THANK YOU, ASHLEY. NEXT, WE 1271 00:49:20,557 --> 00:49:21,391 HAVE JESSICA, FOLLOWED BY 1272 00:49:21,391 --> 00:49:22,392 MICHAEL, AND THEN ALEX. WELCOME, 1273 00:49:22,392 --> 00:49:22,659 JESSICA. 1274 00:49:22,659 --> 00:49:23,794 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL. I AM 1275 00:49:23,794 --> 00:49:24,861 JESSICA YANG, A VALID HOMEOWNER 1276 00:49:24,861 --> 00:49:35,405 WHO WANTS TO MAKE ROOM FOR MORE 1277 00:49:49,686 --> 00:49:51,088 NEIGHBORS IN THIS CITY WE CALL 1278 00:49:51,088 --> 00:49:52,522 HOME, I AM HERE WITH FOR SEATTLE 1279 00:49:52,522 --> 00:49:54,091 TO ASK YOU TO VOTE YES ON THE 1280 00:49:54,091 --> 00:49:55,258 HOUSING AMENDMENT. AS WE ARE ALL 1281 00:49:55,258 --> 00:49:56,626 AWARE, WE HAVE A SHORTAGE OF 1282 00:49:56,626 --> 00:49:57,661 HOUSING IN SEATTLE, H.O.P. IS 1283 00:49:57,661 --> 00:49:58,762 THE KIND OF RESPONSE WE SHOULD 1284 00:49:58,762 --> 00:49:59,629 PRIORITIZE, LEGISLATION THAT HAS 1285 00:49:59,629 --> 00:50:00,397 ALREADY BEEN DRAFTED AND 1286 00:50:00,397 --> 00:50:01,298 REVIEWED AND CAN KICKSTART 1287 00:50:01,298 --> 00:50:02,432 PROJECTS READY TO GO. I HAVE 1288 00:50:02,432 --> 00:50:03,467 BEEN ADVOCATING FOR A BETTER 1289 00:50:03,467 --> 00:50:04,935 COMP PLAN FOR OVER A YEAR NOW 1290 00:50:04,935 --> 00:50:05,736 AND WHILE THAT IMPORTANT 1291 00:50:05,736 --> 00:50:06,703 LEGISLATION WILL GUIDE OUR 1292 00:50:06,703 --> 00:50:08,005 ABILITY TO PRODUCE HOUSING FOR 1293 00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:09,039 THE NEXT DECADE, I KNOW IT IS 1294 00:50:09,039 --> 00:50:10,474 ONLY ONE TOOL IN OUR TOOLBOX AND 1295 00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:12,109 THAT IS WHY I ENCOURAGE YOU TO 1296 00:50:12,109 --> 00:50:13,310 MOVE H.O.P. FORWARD. WE NEED TO 1297 00:50:13,310 --> 00:50:14,578 BOTH PLAN FOR THE FUTURE AND 1298 00:50:14,578 --> 00:50:15,579 RESPOND IN THE MOMENT WITH 1299 00:50:15,579 --> 00:50:16,847 URGENCY. I SEE THIS AS A 1300 00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:17,414 WIN-WIN-WIN, WIN FOR 1301 00:50:17,414 --> 00:50:18,215 AFFORDABILITY, FOR MORE CHOICES, 1302 00:50:18,215 --> 00:50:19,916 AND A WIN FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO 1303 00:50:19,916 --> 00:50:21,051 LIVE IN SEATTLE AND SUPPORT OUR 1304 00:50:21,051 --> 00:50:22,252 COMMUNITIES, SO THANK YOU SO 1305 00:50:22,252 --> 00:50:23,253 MUCH FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT 1306 00:50:23,253 --> 00:50:23,954 ON THESE ISSUES. 1307 00:50:23,954 --> 00:50:25,021 >> THANK YOU, JESSICA. NEXT, WE 1308 00:50:25,021 --> 00:50:26,123 HAVE MICHAEL FOLLOWED BY ALEX, 1309 00:50:26,123 --> 00:50:26,790 FOLLOWED BY JENNIFER, THEN 1310 00:50:26,790 --> 00:50:27,391 SUSAN. WELCOME, MICHAEL. 1311 00:50:27,391 --> 00:50:28,492 >> FIRST TIME GIVING PUBLIC 1312 00:50:28,492 --> 00:50:29,693 COMMENT, MY NAME IS MICHAEL, I 1313 00:50:29,693 --> 00:50:30,527 LIVE IN THE LEVERAGE 1314 00:50:30,527 --> 00:50:31,461 NEIGHBORHOOD OF SEATTLE, I AM 1315 00:50:31,461 --> 00:50:32,963 HERE TO SHARE MY SUPPORT FOR THE 1316 00:50:32,963 --> 00:50:33,797 ZONING AMENDMENTS TODAY. IT'S 1317 00:50:33,797 --> 00:50:34,731 VERY SIMPLE, I DON'T BELIEVE 1318 00:50:34,731 --> 00:50:35,999 YOU NEED TO HAVE TWO HIGH 1319 00:50:35,999 --> 00:50:37,467 INCOMES JUST TO BE ABLE TO EXIST 1320 00:50:37,467 --> 00:50:38,935 IN SEATTLE OR TO RAISE A FAMILY 1321 00:50:38,935 --> 00:50:40,337 HERE. I HAVE TO SAY, GENERALLY I 1322 00:50:40,337 --> 00:50:41,638 AM VERY PROUD TO LIVE IN 1323 00:50:41,638 --> 00:50:42,672 SEATTLE, WE HAVE MADE TREMENDOUS 1324 00:50:42,672 --> 00:50:43,240 PROGRESS ON TRANSPORTATION, 1325 00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:44,007 THROUGH TRANSPORTATION LEVIES. I 1326 00:50:44,007 --> 00:50:54,551 HOPE TO, ONE DAY, BE ABLE TO SAY 1327 00:50:55,419 --> 00:50:56,253 THE SAME THING ABOUT OUR 1328 00:50:56,253 --> 00:50:57,521 PROGRESS ON HOUSING. SO, THANK 1329 00:50:57,521 --> 00:50:57,888 YOU VERY MUCH. 1330 00:50:57,888 --> 00:50:58,755 >> AWESOME. THANK YOU, MICHAEL. 1331 00:50:58,755 --> 00:50:59,689 NEXT, WE HAVE ALEX LOFTON, 1332 00:50:59,689 --> 00:51:00,690 FOLLOWED BY JENNIFER, AND SUSAN, 1333 00:51:00,690 --> 00:51:02,092 THEN WE HAVE HOWARD GALE AND WE 1334 00:51:02,092 --> 00:51:02,759 WILL JUMP ONLINE. 1335 00:51:02,759 --> 00:51:03,960 >> HI, COUNCIL. THANK YOU FOR 1336 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:12,302 HAVING ME TODAY, ALEX LUMSDEN, 1337 00:51:12,302 --> 00:51:13,503 CITY RESIDENT, ENCOURAGING YOU 1338 00:51:13,503 --> 00:51:14,504 TO PASS H.O.P. TODAY. I ALSO 1339 00:51:14,504 --> 00:51:15,605 WANT TO THANK YOU, ALL, AGAIN 1340 00:51:15,605 --> 00:51:16,840 FOR YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE. IT IS 1341 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,475 NOT AN EASY JOB AND WE ALL SEE 1342 00:51:18,475 --> 00:51:20,043 IT. AND I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, 1343 00:51:20,043 --> 00:51:21,278 I AM JUST EXCITED FOR THIS 1344 00:51:21,278 --> 00:51:21,945 PARTICULAR LEGISLATION, BECAUSE 1345 00:51:21,945 --> 00:51:23,146 I THINK ABOUT MY FRIENDS, WHO 1346 00:51:23,146 --> 00:51:24,347 ARE BARISTAS, WHO ARE PERFORMING 1347 00:51:24,347 --> 00:51:32,722 ARTISTS, WHO ARE WORKING ALL 1348 00:51:32,722 --> 00:51:33,890 SORTS OF SERVICE JOBS, JUST SORT 1349 00:51:33,890 --> 00:51:35,025 OF STRUGGLING TO MAKE IT AND, 1350 00:51:35,025 --> 00:51:36,059 YOU KNOW, HOUSING IS A 1351 00:51:36,059 --> 00:51:36,793 FOUNDATION OF AFFORDABILITY, SO 1352 00:51:36,793 --> 00:51:38,261 ANYWAY WE CAN CHIP AWAY AT IT, 1353 00:51:38,261 --> 00:51:39,729 LET'S DO IT, THIS IS WHAT IT 1354 00:51:39,729 --> 00:51:40,664 LOOKS LIKE WHEN WE HAVE 1355 00:51:40,664 --> 00:51:41,932 SOMETHING IN FRONT OF US, LET'S 1356 00:51:41,932 --> 00:51:43,200 MAKE IT HAPPEN, WE WILL BE 1357 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:44,434 TRACKING TO SEE IF IT ACTUALLY 1358 00:51:44,434 --> 00:51:45,435 PRODUCES HOUSES AND TAKE LESSONS 1359 00:51:45,435 --> 00:51:46,470 LEARNED FROM THERE AND KEEP 1360 00:51:46,470 --> 00:51:47,437 GOING, SURPASS H.O.P., THANK YOU 1361 00:51:47,437 --> 00:51:47,904 SO MUCH. 1362 00:51:47,904 --> 00:51:49,172 >> THANK YOU, ALEX. WE HAVE 1363 00:51:49,172 --> 00:51:50,273 JENNIFER, FOLLOWED BY SUSAN AND 1364 00:51:50,273 --> 00:51:51,741 ALEX GAIL, AND THEN WE WILL JUMP 1365 00:51:51,741 --> 00:51:52,476 TO ONLINE. WELCOME, JENNIFER. 1366 00:51:52,476 --> 00:51:57,147 >> HELLO. SO, I, FIRST OF ALL, 1367 00:51:57,147 --> 00:51:58,114 SUPPORT YOUR WORK ON GUN 1368 00:51:58,114 --> 00:51:59,182 VIOLENCE, I HAVE AN 83-YEAR-OLD 1369 00:51:59,182 --> 00:52:00,417 UNCLE WHO WAS FATALLY SHOT WITH 1370 00:52:00,417 --> 00:52:01,651 NO INVESTIGATION, SO I AM VERY 1371 00:52:01,651 --> 00:52:02,619 MUCH GRATEFUL FOR YOUR WORK. 1372 00:52:02,619 --> 00:52:04,221 BUT, THE STORMWATER CODE, THE 1373 00:52:04,221 --> 00:52:09,426 RECOVERY PLAN RECOMMEND HIGHEST 1374 00:52:09,426 --> 00:52:10,560 POPULATION AREAS ON THE SOUND 1375 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:11,661 REDUCE POLLUTION RUNOFF, WE CAN 1376 00:52:11,661 --> 00:52:12,395 BUILD AND PROTECT GREEN SPACES 1377 00:52:12,395 --> 00:52:13,063 THAT NATURALLY REDUCE STORMWATER 1378 00:52:13,063 --> 00:52:14,564 AT MINIMAL COST AND NO 1379 00:52:14,564 --> 00:52:15,165 MAINTENANCE UNLIKE HUMAN MADE 1380 00:52:15,165 --> 00:52:16,366 MEDICATION. IT IS NOT A HARD 1381 00:52:16,366 --> 00:52:18,101 BOTH, WE CAN HAVE BOTH. 4-6 1382 00:52:18,101 --> 00:52:18,802 SEPARATE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES ON 1383 00:52:18,802 --> 00:52:20,470 LOTS, THERE WILL BE -- WHERE 1384 00:52:20,470 --> 00:52:30,380 WILL ABOVE GROUND FLOOD CONTROL 1385 00:52:30,380 --> 00:52:31,882 GO? AND I CAN MANAGE THE NEW 1386 00:52:31,882 --> 00:52:32,983 HARD SURFACE RUNOFF WHEN BELOW 1387 00:52:32,983 --> 00:52:34,150 GROUND OPTIONS ARE NO LONGER 1388 00:52:34,150 --> 00:52:34,784 REQUIRED. WHERE THE CALCULATIONS 1389 00:52:34,784 --> 00:52:35,652 ARE SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE IN 1390 00:52:35,652 --> 00:52:36,653 INCREASE IN HARD SURFACES, AND 1391 00:52:36,653 --> 00:52:37,687 THE REDUCED FLOOD CONTROL, WHAT 1392 00:52:37,687 --> 00:52:38,722 WILL HAPPEN TO STORMWATER WITH 1393 00:52:38,722 --> 00:52:39,289 REDUCED FLOOD CONTROL? 1394 00:52:39,289 --> 00:52:40,290 STORMWATER MISTAKES NEED 1395 00:52:40,290 --> 00:52:46,396 CORRECTING, COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA 1396 00:52:46,396 --> 00:52:47,864 RECITAL IS IMPORTANT STEP OF 1397 00:52:47,864 --> 00:52:48,732 ACCOUNTABILITY AND I SUPPORT IT, 1398 00:52:48,732 --> 00:52:49,366 THE FEEDBACK LOOP WOULD BE 1399 00:52:49,366 --> 00:52:50,634 CLOSED TO USE PERFORMANCE 1400 00:52:50,634 --> 00:52:51,535 METRICS DATA TO USE THE CODE TO 1401 00:52:51,535 --> 00:52:52,736 PREVENT THEM. I EMAILED AND 1402 00:52:52,736 --> 00:52:53,837 PRINTED OUT A SUGGESTED CLOSING 1403 00:52:53,837 --> 00:53:00,177 LINE FOR -- 1404 00:53:00,177 --> 00:53:01,177 >> THAT'S GOOD. THANK YOU, 1405 00:53:01,177 --> 00:53:02,379 JENNIFER. YOU CAN THROW IT IN 1406 00:53:02,379 --> 00:53:03,713 THE BOX. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1407 00:53:03,713 --> 00:53:04,981 SUSAN FOLLOWED BY HOWARD GALE, 1408 00:53:04,981 --> 00:53:06,016 THEN WE WILL JUMP ONLINE AND 1409 00:53:06,016 --> 00:53:07,851 DWIGHT, YOU ARE THE FIRST PERSON 1410 00:53:07,851 --> 00:53:08,084 ONLINE. 1411 00:53:08,084 --> 00:53:09,052 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. HERE TO SPEAK 1412 00:53:09,052 --> 00:53:12,389 ABOUT COUNCIL 121110, WITH THE 1413 00:53:12,389 --> 00:53:14,124 STORMWATER CODES. I WOULD LIKE 1414 00:53:14,124 --> 00:53:18,995 YOU TO APPROVE COUNCILMEMBER 1415 00:53:18,995 --> 00:53:19,896 RIVERA'S AMENDMENT, BASED ON 1416 00:53:19,896 --> 00:53:20,497 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS WIDELY 1417 00:53:20,497 --> 00:53:21,531 ACCEPTED BASED ON 1418 00:53:21,531 --> 00:53:29,272 ACCOUNTABILITY. WHEN UPDATING 1419 00:53:29,272 --> 00:53:30,307 STORMWATER CODE, PLEASE KEEP A 1420 00:53:30,307 --> 00:53:31,541 FEW THINGS IN MIND, THE SEWER 1421 00:53:31,541 --> 00:53:32,475 INFRASTRUCTURE IS MAXING OUT AND 1422 00:53:32,475 --> 00:53:33,343 REPAIRS ARE SHOULDERING THE 1423 00:53:33,343 --> 00:53:34,277 COST, THIS CONTINUES IN 1424 00:53:34,277 --> 00:53:35,946 SIGNIFICANT LOSS, CANOPY IS A 1425 00:53:35,946 --> 00:53:45,722 MAIN FACTOR, THAT LOSS IS 1426 00:53:45,722 --> 00:53:46,456 EXACERBATED BY HAVING INCREASE 1427 00:53:46,456 --> 00:53:47,257 IN PERMEATED SURFACE. LAST 1428 00:53:47,257 --> 00:53:47,857 WINTER, WE SUSTAINED 1429 00:53:47,857 --> 00:53:48,525 CATASTROPHIC FLOODING CAUSING 1430 00:53:48,525 --> 00:53:49,526 SEVERAL SEWER MAINS TO BURST 1431 00:53:49,526 --> 00:53:50,493 ACROSS THE CITY WHICH IS 1432 00:53:50,493 --> 00:53:51,094 EXPENSIVE. COMBINED SEWER 1433 00:53:51,094 --> 00:53:52,429 OVERFLOWS HAVE NOW BECOME 1434 00:53:52,429 --> 00:53:58,635 COMMON, WHICH REDUCES LEVELS OF 1435 00:53:58,635 --> 00:53:59,636 OXYGEN FROM PUGET SOUND. SEVERAL 1436 00:53:59,636 --> 00:54:00,670 PUBLIC BEACHES HAVE NOW BEEN 1437 00:54:00,670 --> 00:54:01,771 SHUT DOWN DUE TO UNHEALTHY 1438 00:54:01,771 --> 00:54:02,939 LEVELS OF BACTERIA IN THE WATER. 1439 00:54:02,939 --> 00:54:04,240 AS THE LARGEST CITY SITUATED ON 1440 00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:05,609 PUGET SOUND, WE HAVE A DUTY AND 1441 00:54:05,609 --> 00:54:14,484 OBLIGATION TO MAKE SURE WE TAKE 1442 00:54:14,484 --> 00:54:15,385 RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR WATERY 1443 00:54:15,385 --> 00:54:16,519 WAYS AND THE MARINE LIFE THAT 1444 00:54:16,519 --> 00:54:17,354 INHABIT THEM. THANK YOU. 1445 00:54:17,354 --> 00:54:18,622 >> NEXT, WE HAVE HOWARD GALE AND 1446 00:54:18,622 --> 00:54:19,889 ONLINE, WE WILL START WITH YOU, 1447 00:54:19,889 --> 00:54:20,857 RUTH, WHEN WE GO ONLINE. 1448 00:54:20,857 --> 00:54:22,058 >> AFTERNOON. GUN VIOLENCE IS 1449 00:54:22,058 --> 00:54:22,993 HORRIBLE AND NEEDS TO BE 1450 00:54:22,993 --> 00:54:24,527 STOPPED, BUT THERE IS A 1451 00:54:24,527 --> 00:54:30,533 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUN VIOLENCE 1452 00:54:30,533 --> 00:54:31,468 PERPETRATED AT RANDOM, AND GUN 1453 00:54:31,468 --> 00:54:32,535 VIOLENCE THAT IS PLANNED BY 1454 00:54:32,535 --> 00:54:33,603 SEATTLE POLICE. WE HAVE KILLED 1455 00:54:33,603 --> 00:54:35,138 19 PEOPLE IN THE LAST 14 YEARS, 1456 00:54:35,138 --> 00:54:36,406 WHO HAD ONLY KNIVES OR NO WEAPON 1457 00:54:36,406 --> 00:54:37,707 IN THEIR HAND. RIGHT NOW, OVER 1458 00:54:37,707 --> 00:54:39,609 AT THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, THERE 1459 00:54:39,609 --> 00:54:47,350 IS AN INQUEST INTO THE DEATH OF 1460 00:54:47,350 --> 00:54:47,984 DEREK HAYDEN. AGAIN, MURDERED 1461 00:54:47,984 --> 00:54:48,918 BECAUSE HE WAS SUICIDAL, IN 1462 00:54:48,918 --> 00:54:50,120 CRISIS, HAD A KNIFE, COPS CAME 1463 00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:51,321 UPON HIM, AND WITHIN 15 SECONDS 1464 00:54:51,321 --> 00:54:52,856 OF GETTING OUT OF THEIR CAR, 1465 00:54:52,856 --> 00:54:53,490 UNLEASHED FOUR HIGH VELOCITY 1466 00:54:53,490 --> 00:54:54,991 RIFLE ROUNDS AT HIM. THIS IS NOT 1467 00:54:54,991 --> 00:54:56,126 CHANGING. IN 2017, THIS IS GOING 1468 00:54:56,126 --> 00:54:57,394 TO BE THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF 1469 00:54:57,394 --> 00:54:58,161 CHARLENA LILES MURDER AND 1470 00:54:58,161 --> 00:54:59,195 EVERYBODY IN COUNCIL AT THAT 1471 00:54:59,195 --> 00:55:09,739 TIME, INCLUDING SOME HIT SITTING 1472 00:55:15,512 --> 00:55:17,280 HERE TODAY SAID WE WILL DEMAND 1473 00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:17,881 ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY, 1474 00:55:17,881 --> 00:55:18,481 AND MAKE SURE THIS DOESN'T 1475 00:55:18,481 --> 00:55:19,215 HAPPEN AGAIN, AND YET, IT HAS 1476 00:55:19,215 --> 00:55:20,550 HAPPENED 14 TIMES. WHEN ARE YOU 1477 00:55:20,550 --> 00:55:22,018 GOING TO STOP IT? WHEN ARE YOU 1478 00:55:22,018 --> 00:55:23,186 GOING TO TAKE ACTION? AND AGAIN, 1479 00:55:23,186 --> 00:55:24,487 AT THE END OF THIS WEEK, SIX 1480 00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:25,722 KING COUNTY JURORS ARE GOING TO 1481 00:55:25,722 --> 00:55:26,990 DECIDE THAT WHAT THE SPD DID 1482 00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:28,191 WITH DEREK HAYDEN IN 2021 -- 1483 00:55:28,191 --> 00:55:29,359 >> THANK YOU, MR. DALE. THANK 1484 00:55:29,359 --> 00:55:30,860 YOU, MR. GAIL. NEXT, SO, WE WILL 1485 00:55:30,860 --> 00:55:32,429 GO ONLINE. WE WILL GO ONLINE AND 1486 00:55:32,429 --> 00:55:33,496 WE HAVE RUTH, FOLLOWED BY JOHN, 1487 00:55:33,496 --> 00:55:34,764 AND THEN SUZANNE, AND THEN ROSE. 1488 00:55:34,764 --> 00:55:36,833 YOU WILL HEAR STAR SIX TO UNMUTE 1489 00:55:36,833 --> 00:55:37,434 YOURSELF AND THEN YOU GO AND 1490 00:55:37,434 --> 00:55:38,568 COLLEAGUES, WE HAVE 11 PEOPLE 1491 00:55:38,568 --> 00:55:41,971 SIGNED UP ONLINE. 1492 00:55:41,971 --> 00:55:46,810 >> HI, YEAH, I -- [ LAUGHTER ]I 1493 00:55:46,810 --> 00:55:56,186 JUST LEARNED ABOUT THIS H.O.P. 1494 00:55:56,186 --> 00:55:57,721 ZONING PROPOSAL. IT SOUNDS GOOD, 1495 00:55:57,721 --> 00:55:58,355 BUT I GUARANTEE YOU, .0001% OF 1496 00:55:58,355 --> 00:55:59,589 THE POPULATION KNOWS ABOUT IT. 1497 00:55:59,589 --> 00:56:00,623 I, FRANKLY, WANT TO SAY IT 1498 00:56:00,623 --> 00:56:09,466 DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO REDUCE 1499 00:56:09,466 --> 00:56:10,133 OUR RUNOFF STANDARDS, ESPECIALLY 1500 00:56:10,133 --> 00:56:12,001 WHEN WE ARE UP ZONING SO MUCH. I 1501 00:56:12,001 --> 00:56:15,572 HAVE EMAILED YOU -- OR, I WILL 1502 00:56:15,572 --> 00:56:16,473 EMAIL YOU LINKS TO A TWO MINUTE 1503 00:56:16,473 --> 00:56:20,443 VIDEO BY PATRICK CONDON, AUTHOR 1504 00:56:20,443 --> 00:56:21,010 OF "BROKEN CITY," WHERE HE 1505 00:56:21,010 --> 00:56:22,178 LEARNED ABOUT UPSCALING AND 1506 00:56:22,178 --> 00:56:24,047 AFFORDABILITY IN VANCOUVER. HE 1507 00:56:24,047 --> 00:56:24,714 WILL BE IN SEATTLE ON JUNE 15th. 1508 00:56:24,714 --> 00:56:26,583 ALSO, A VIDEO BY URBAN ECONOMIC 1509 00:56:26,583 --> 00:56:27,584 MIST ABOUT HOW DRIVES 1510 00:56:27,584 --> 00:56:30,620 AFFORDABILITY HOUSING CRISIS. 1511 00:56:30,620 --> 00:56:31,221 PLEASE SEE WHAT THEY HAVE TO 1512 00:56:31,221 --> 00:56:31,855 SAY. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU 1513 00:56:31,855 --> 00:56:32,489 HEAR A NARRATIVE DIFFERENT FROM 1514 00:56:32,489 --> 00:56:33,623 THE ONE YOU HAVE BEEN HEARING. 1515 00:56:33,623 --> 00:56:35,258 ALSO HEADS UP, WE HAVE SET OUR 1516 00:56:35,258 --> 00:56:39,596 PROPOSAL -- AND ANOTHER WILL BE 1517 00:56:39,596 --> 00:56:40,463 COMING SOON ON ZONING CODE 1518 00:56:40,463 --> 00:56:44,367 CHANGES AND WE THINK THERE IS A 1519 00:56:44,367 --> 00:56:48,238 BIG PROBLEM WITH THE NR ZONE. 1520 00:56:48,238 --> 00:56:49,038 >> THANK YOU, RUTH. NEXT, WE 1521 00:56:49,038 --> 00:56:53,843 HAVE JOHN FOLLOWED BY SUZANNE 1522 00:56:53,843 --> 00:56:54,444 AND THEN ROSE. 1523 00:56:54,444 --> 00:56:55,311 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD 1524 00:56:55,311 --> 00:57:00,617 AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS JOHN 1525 00:57:00,617 --> 00:57:01,818 LOCKTON AND I SERVE AS THE 1526 00:57:01,818 --> 00:57:02,819 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE 1527 00:57:02,819 --> 00:57:04,220 UNIVERSITY OF YMCA, LOCATED AT 1528 00:57:04,220 --> 00:57:10,627 THE 50th SIDE AND I AM SPEAKING 1529 00:57:10,627 --> 00:57:11,594 IN STRONG SUPPORT OF CP 121196 1530 00:57:11,594 --> 00:57:12,395 ALSO KNOWN AS H.O.P.. WE BELIEVE 1531 00:57:12,395 --> 00:57:13,696 THIS BILL WILL CREATE 1532 00:57:13,696 --> 00:57:14,531 OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERMISSION 1533 00:57:14,531 --> 00:57:15,498 DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE Y 1534 00:57:15,498 --> 00:57:26,042 TO BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION BY 1535 00:57:30,046 --> 00:57:31,681 PAIRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING WHICH 1536 00:57:31,681 --> 00:57:32,816 MUCH NEEDED COMMUNITY-BASED 1537 00:57:32,816 --> 00:57:33,449 SERVICES. WE THANK THE COMMITTEE 1538 00:57:33,449 --> 00:57:33,883 FOR THEIR UNANIMOUS 1539 00:57:33,883 --> 00:57:34,551 RECOMMENDATION AND WE ENCOURAGE 1540 00:57:34,551 --> 00:57:35,885 THE FULL COUNCIL TO SUPPORT 1541 00:57:35,885 --> 00:57:36,553 PASSAGE OF H.O.P. -- THANK YOU 1542 00:57:36,553 --> 00:57:36,920 VERY MUCH. 1543 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,188 >> THANK YOU, JOHN. NEXT, WE 1544 00:57:38,188 --> 00:57:39,389 HAVE SUZANNE FOLLOWED BY ROSE. 1545 00:57:39,389 --> 00:57:40,657 PRESS STAR SIX TO UNMUTE YOUR 1546 00:57:40,657 --> 00:57:40,857 SELF. 1547 00:57:40,857 --> 00:57:41,858 >> HELLO, COUNCIL MEMBERS. I 1548 00:57:41,858 --> 00:57:44,127 WANT TO EXPRESS MY CONCERN FOR 1549 00:57:44,127 --> 00:57:45,295 THE FAMILY TODAY THAT LOST 1550 00:57:45,295 --> 00:57:50,066 CHILDREN TO GUN VIOLENCE. 1551 00:57:50,066 --> 00:57:51,234 IMPERVIOUS SERVICES IN THE COMP 1552 00:57:51,234 --> 00:57:54,037 PLAN REQUIRE PARALLEL INCREASES 1553 00:57:54,037 --> 00:57:54,804 IN STORMWATER REGULATIONS. I 1554 00:57:54,804 --> 00:57:58,675 HOPE YOU PAID ATTENTION TO OUR 1555 00:57:58,675 --> 00:57:59,676 RESIDENTS, THEY CANNOT CARE FOR 1556 00:57:59,676 --> 00:58:06,316 THEMSELVES, SO WE MUST DO SO. 1557 00:58:06,316 --> 00:58:07,917 NEARLY 100% LOT COVERAGE BY 1558 00:58:07,917 --> 00:58:09,252 HOMES, THERE WILL BE NO ROOM FOR 1559 00:58:09,252 --> 00:58:10,320 ON-SITE IRRIGATION AND TREES, 1560 00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:11,254 LEAVING MANY AREAS VULNERABLE TO 1561 00:58:11,254 --> 00:58:19,262 FLOODING AT INCREASING COMBINED 1562 00:58:19,262 --> 00:58:20,330 OVERFLOWS WHICH IS ALREADY 1563 00:58:20,330 --> 00:58:20,964 HAPPENING. SERVICES GENERATE 1564 00:58:20,964 --> 00:58:21,598 WATER POLLUTION, BUT TREES, 1565 00:58:21,598 --> 00:58:22,765 GREEN SPACES, REDUCE THE 1566 00:58:22,765 --> 00:58:23,500 FILTERING. WHAT CAN YOU DO? 1567 00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:24,367 ALLOW TREES AND STORMWATER 1568 00:58:24,367 --> 00:58:25,902 MANAGERS ON ALL PROPERTY TYPES. 1569 00:58:25,902 --> 00:58:27,070 STOP ALLOWING THE TREES TO BE 1570 00:58:27,070 --> 00:58:28,505 CUT DOWN. OR, WILL YOU REPEAT 1571 00:58:28,505 --> 00:58:29,939 THE GRIEVOUS ERRORS BEING MADE 1572 00:58:29,939 --> 00:58:34,210 BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHO DENIES 1573 00:58:34,210 --> 00:58:35,445 CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH YOU KNOW 1574 00:58:35,445 --> 00:58:37,013 IS HAPPENING. POLLUTION RUNOFF 1575 00:58:37,013 --> 00:58:37,881 IS A TOP SOURCE OF OUR WATER 1576 00:58:37,881 --> 00:58:39,249 POLLUTION. DON'T DEREGULATE THE 1577 00:58:39,249 --> 00:58:41,451 STORMWATER CODE. EACH OF YOU HAS 1578 00:58:41,451 --> 00:58:44,420 TO DO SOMETHING YOU DON'T -- TO 1579 00:58:44,420 --> 00:58:45,855 SHOW YOU DON'T SUPPORT THE 1580 00:58:45,855 --> 00:58:46,689 TRUMP POLICIES, TODAY YOU CAN 1581 00:58:46,689 --> 00:58:47,257 TAKE THAT STEP. 1582 00:58:47,257 --> 00:58:49,225 >> NEXT, WE HAVE ROSE FOLLOWED 1583 00:58:49,225 --> 00:58:52,195 BY AMITRA AND DAVID HAYNES. STAR 1584 00:58:52,195 --> 00:58:58,067 SIX TO UNMUTE YOURSELF. 1585 00:58:58,067 --> 00:58:59,202 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS ROSE. PRIDE 1586 00:58:59,202 --> 00:59:00,870 MONTH IS USUALLY A TIME FOR 1587 00:59:00,870 --> 00:59:01,938 WHICH WE CELEBRATE WHAT IT IS 1588 00:59:01,938 --> 00:59:03,239 LIKE TO BE QUEER IN AMERICA. 1589 00:59:03,239 --> 00:59:05,074 UNFORTUNATELY, THIS YEAR, WE ARE 1590 00:59:05,074 --> 00:59:11,681 LEARNING WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS. 1591 00:59:11,681 --> 00:59:13,316 TRANS PEOPLE ARE GOING MISSING 1592 00:59:13,316 --> 00:59:14,384 ALL OVER SEATTLE, WE ARE HAVING 1593 00:59:14,384 --> 00:59:15,518 PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES, WE ARE 1594 00:59:15,518 --> 00:59:16,252 HAVING PEOPLE GO MISSING, 1595 00:59:16,252 --> 00:59:24,661 ESPECIALLY YOUNG TRANS PEOPLE 1596 00:59:24,661 --> 00:59:25,929 AND HAVING PEOPLE CONSTANTLY 1597 00:59:25,929 --> 00:59:26,629 ASSAULTED IN OUR PARKS. OVER 1598 00:59:26,629 --> 00:59:28,264 THIS PAST WEEK, I HAVE HEARD OF 1599 00:59:28,264 --> 00:59:29,065 MULTIPLE PEOPLE BEING ASSAULTED 1600 00:59:29,065 --> 00:59:29,732 AND CAL ANDERSON BEING HARASSED, 1601 00:59:29,732 --> 00:59:30,900 NOT JUST THROUGH INSULTS, BUT 1602 00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:31,568 PEOPLE BEING PHYSICALLY ATTACKED 1603 00:59:31,568 --> 00:59:38,207 AND ALSO ATTACKED BY RIGHT-WING 1604 00:59:38,207 --> 00:59:38,875 PROVOCATEURS. IT IS IMPERATIVE 1605 00:59:38,875 --> 00:59:40,443 THAT THE CITY START LOOKING INTO 1606 00:59:40,443 --> 00:59:41,611 OUR COMMUNITY AND HELPING OUR 1607 00:59:41,611 --> 00:59:42,211 COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE ARE IN 1608 00:59:42,211 --> 00:59:43,446 DESPERATE NEED AND RIGHT NOW, 1609 00:59:43,446 --> 00:59:44,480 THERE IS NOTHING BEING DONE 1610 00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:45,782 ABOUT IT. WE NEED THE EMERGENCY 1611 00:59:45,782 --> 00:59:53,022 DECLARATION TO BE ABLE TO HELP 1612 00:59:53,022 --> 00:59:54,090 THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE HELPING 1613 00:59:54,090 --> 00:59:55,224 OUR PEOPLE AND OUR CITY ALREADY, 1614 00:59:55,224 --> 00:59:56,526 THAT THE CITY HAS LEFT BEHIND. 1615 00:59:56,526 --> 00:59:57,660 AND IF WE ARE UNWILLING AND 1616 00:59:57,660 --> 00:59:58,761 INCAPABLE OF DOING THAT, THEN 1617 00:59:58,761 --> 00:59:59,896 THIS IS JUST GOING TO CONTINUE, 1618 00:59:59,896 --> 01:00:01,698 AND GET WORSE, AND WORSE, AND 1619 01:00:01,698 --> 01:00:02,865 WORSE. LOOK OUT FOR US. WE ARE 1620 01:00:02,865 --> 01:00:03,833 TRYING TO LOOK OUT FOR EACH 1621 01:00:03,833 --> 01:00:04,801 OTHER, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1622 01:00:04,801 --> 01:00:06,836 >> THANK YOU, ROSE. I DON'T SEE 1623 01:00:06,836 --> 01:00:08,304 AMITRA FULLER, PRESENT, SO WE 1624 01:00:08,304 --> 01:00:09,305 WILL GO TO DAVID HAYNES, 1625 01:00:09,305 --> 01:00:10,406 FOLLOWED BY HOWIE WILLIS, AND 1626 01:00:10,406 --> 01:00:17,213 THEN NATE HOWARD. 1627 01:00:17,213 --> 01:00:18,881 >> THE CITY CARES MORE ABOUT THE 1628 01:00:18,881 --> 01:00:20,650 ALCOHOL SALES TAX THAN THE OVER 1629 01:00:20,650 --> 01:00:27,256 SERVING BARTENDERS. AND IT SEEMS 1630 01:00:27,256 --> 01:00:28,324 LIKE THE POLICE CHIEF IS NOT 1631 01:00:28,324 --> 01:00:29,392 HERE TO PUT PEOPLE IN JAIL, 1632 01:00:29,392 --> 01:00:30,693 LECKIE PROMISED TO. HE IS NOT 1633 01:00:30,693 --> 01:00:35,365 GOING TO PUT PEOPLE IN JAIL. IT 1634 01:00:35,365 --> 01:00:37,100 IS A TELLTALE SIGN THAT WE NEED 1635 01:00:37,100 --> 01:00:38,334 TO HAVE AN INVESTIGATION OF THE 1636 01:00:38,334 --> 01:00:40,003 HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT FOR 1637 01:00:40,003 --> 01:00:40,670 PAYING GUN-TOTING, CRIMINAL GANG 1638 01:00:40,670 --> 01:00:41,604 BANGERS TO RELOCATE IF THEY 1639 01:00:41,604 --> 01:00:42,972 DON'T RETALIATE, AND USING 1640 01:00:42,972 --> 01:00:44,474 HOMELESS CRISIS MONEY TO 1641 01:00:44,474 --> 01:00:48,878 PRIORITIZE BIPOC REPEAT 1642 01:00:48,878 --> 01:00:49,545 OFFENDERS THAT ARE CONNECTED TO 1643 01:00:49,545 --> 01:00:50,980 THE UNDERWORLD, TO GET A PASS ON 1644 01:00:50,980 --> 01:00:58,054 SCRUTINY. AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 1645 01:00:58,054 --> 01:00:59,188 WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP AT THE 1646 01:00:59,188 --> 01:01:00,156 COUNCIL PRESIDENT, COUNCIL 1647 01:01:00,156 --> 01:01:00,790 PRESIDENT, MAYBE YOU SHOULD STEP 1648 01:01:00,790 --> 01:01:01,958 BACK AND FOCUS ONLY ON CAPITOL 1649 01:01:01,958 --> 01:01:03,760 HILL AND LET COUNCILMEMBER 1650 01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:05,361 KETTLE STEP UP AND HAVE SOME 1651 01:01:05,361 --> 01:01:06,095 REAL PUBLIC SAFETY, PROACTIVE, 1652 01:01:06,095 --> 01:01:07,030 CRIME-FIGHTING EFFORTS, THAT 1653 01:01:07,030 --> 01:01:09,666 HELP THE COPS GET ACCURATE, AS 1654 01:01:09,666 --> 01:01:10,333 OPPOSED TO PEOPLE COMPLAINING 1655 01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:13,403 ABOUT THEM GETTING IT WRONG. HE 1656 01:01:13,403 --> 01:01:14,404 SAID, AN EXTENDED VACATION LAST 1657 01:01:14,404 --> 01:01:15,972 WEEK, NOTHING ON THE AGENDA, AND 1658 01:01:15,972 --> 01:01:23,046 YOU ARE A PARTY TO A VICTIM 1659 01:01:23,046 --> 01:01:24,313 ACTING LIKE YOU CARE. IT IS TWO 1660 01:01:24,313 --> 01:01:24,580 FACED -- 1661 01:01:24,580 --> 01:01:25,915 >> THANK YOU, DAVID. NEXT, WE 1662 01:01:25,915 --> 01:01:27,316 HAVE HALLIE WILLIS FOLLOWED BY 1663 01:01:27,316 --> 01:01:32,922 NATE HOWARD. 1664 01:01:32,922 --> 01:01:34,190 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL 1665 01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:34,824 MEMBERS, MY NAME IS HALLIE 1666 01:01:34,824 --> 01:01:36,059 WILLIS, I AM THE POLICY MANAGER 1667 01:01:36,059 --> 01:01:37,493 FOR THE SEATTLE KING COUNTY 1668 01:01:37,493 --> 01:01:38,061 COALITION OF HOMELESSNESS. 1669 01:01:38,061 --> 01:01:39,562 SPEAKING TODAY IN SUPPORT OF THE 1670 01:01:39,562 --> 01:01:41,731 RESOLUTION FROM COUNCILMEMBER 1671 01:01:41,731 --> 01:01:42,932 RINCK AND COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER 1672 01:01:42,932 --> 01:01:44,167 TO RESPOND TO THE EVALUATION OF 1673 01:01:44,167 --> 01:01:45,835 THE CASE. THIS COMMUNITY HAS 1674 01:01:45,835 --> 01:01:48,137 MADE IT CLEAR THAT WE NEED A 1675 01:01:48,137 --> 01:01:55,044 COUNTYWIDE, REGIONAL COALITION 1676 01:01:55,044 --> 01:01:56,279 ON HOMELESSNESS TO OPERATE WITH 1677 01:01:56,279 --> 01:01:57,780 TRANSPARENCY AND TO BE A GOOD 1678 01:01:57,780 --> 01:01:58,881 STEWARD OF PUBLIC FUNDS. THE 1679 01:01:58,881 --> 01:01:59,482 RESOLUTIONS BEFORE YOU TODAY 1680 01:01:59,482 --> 01:02:00,149 TAKE STEPS TOWARD THAT GOAL AND 1681 01:02:00,149 --> 01:02:07,957 WE URGE YOUR SUPPORT. AS YOU GO 1682 01:02:07,957 --> 01:02:08,758 THROUGH THIS PROCESS OVER THE 1683 01:02:08,758 --> 01:02:09,692 COMING MONTHS, WE ENCOURAGE YOU 1684 01:02:09,692 --> 01:02:11,160 TO BE CLEAN ENGAGE DIRECT 1685 01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:11,794 SERVICE PROVIDERS, COALITIONS, 1686 01:02:11,794 --> 01:02:13,262 AND PEOPLE WITH LIVED 1687 01:02:13,262 --> 01:02:13,896 EXPERIENCES OF HOMELESSNESS IN 1688 01:02:13,896 --> 01:02:14,530 YOUR PROCESS TO DETERMINE WHAT 1689 01:02:14,530 --> 01:02:20,002 HAPPENS NEXT. AND, ENSURE THERE 1690 01:02:20,002 --> 01:02:21,070 IS NO DISRUPTION TO THE 1691 01:02:21,070 --> 01:02:21,904 ESSENTIAL HOUSING, SHELTER, AND 1692 01:02:21,904 --> 01:02:22,839 SERVICES THAT PEOPLE RELY ON 1693 01:02:22,839 --> 01:02:24,073 EVERY DAY. MORE IMPORTANT FOR US 1694 01:02:24,073 --> 01:02:25,274 TO GET THIS RIGHT TOGETHER, THEN 1695 01:02:25,274 --> 01:02:27,143 DO IT FAST, ALONE. THANK YOU 1696 01:02:27,143 --> 01:02:27,810 VERY MUCH. 1697 01:02:27,810 --> 01:02:29,278 >> AWESOME. THANK YOU, HALLIE. 1698 01:02:29,278 --> 01:02:29,912 NEXT, WE HAVE NATE HOWARD, AND 1699 01:02:29,912 --> 01:02:31,547 THEN WE WILL GO TO OUR IN PERSON 1700 01:02:31,547 --> 01:02:33,116 SPEAKER, BENNETT. STAR SIX TO 1701 01:02:33,116 --> 01:02:34,417 UNMUTE YOUR SELF, NATE. 1702 01:02:34,417 --> 01:02:39,989 >> HI. MY NAME IS NATE. I AM 1703 01:02:39,989 --> 01:02:41,624 CALLING FROM DISTRICT 3. I AM 1704 01:02:41,624 --> 01:02:44,127 HERE JUST TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF 1705 01:02:44,127 --> 01:02:49,098 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA'S RECITAL. 1706 01:02:49,098 --> 01:02:56,372 A COUPLE OF TARGETED ASKS, HERE. 1707 01:02:56,372 --> 01:02:58,307 THE FIRST WOULD BE THAT WE ADD 1708 01:02:58,307 --> 01:02:58,908 PERFORMANCE METRICS, WHICH 1709 01:02:58,908 --> 01:02:59,775 INCLUDE TAKING SAMPLES OF 1710 01:02:59,775 --> 01:03:00,376 ASPHALT CITYWIDE THROUGHOUT 1711 01:03:00,376 --> 01:03:00,943 INTERVIEWS -- INTERVALS 1712 01:03:00,943 --> 01:03:04,213 THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. I WOULD 1713 01:03:04,213 --> 01:03:09,886 ALSO ASK THAT SPU PRACTICE 1714 01:03:09,886 --> 01:03:10,653 SOFTER MANAGEMENT TO ADJUSTMENTS 1715 01:03:10,653 --> 01:03:15,791 IN CODE WHEN PERFORMANCE METRICS 1716 01:03:15,791 --> 01:03:17,827 SHOW DEGRADATION IN WATER 1717 01:03:17,827 --> 01:03:18,461 QUALITY, AT OUTFALLS, AND ALSO 1718 01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:19,262 NOTE THAT DEGRADATION OF WATER 1719 01:03:19,262 --> 01:03:21,564 QUALITY SHOULD BE EXPECTED WHEN 1720 01:03:21,564 --> 01:03:25,835 THE PUMP PLAN IS ALLOWING FOR 1721 01:03:25,835 --> 01:03:27,170 NEAR 100% LOT COVERAGE BY 1722 01:03:27,170 --> 01:03:34,210 DEVELOPMENT AND WE ARE EXPECTING 1723 01:03:34,210 --> 01:03:36,179 -- TO ALLOW FOR A VAST INCREASE 1724 01:03:36,179 --> 01:03:37,380 IN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY. NOT 1725 01:03:37,380 --> 01:03:38,114 OPPOSED TO DEVELOPMENT, OF 1726 01:03:38,114 --> 01:03:39,615 COURSE, BUT WE NEED TO BE SMART 1727 01:03:39,615 --> 01:03:42,618 ABOUT OUR STORMWATER COVERAGE. 1728 01:03:42,618 --> 01:03:44,253 >> THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE BEEN 1729 01:03:44,253 --> 01:03:46,289 IT. 1730 01:03:46,289 --> 01:03:50,092 >> IT AFTERNOON, COUNCIL. JUST A 1731 01:03:50,092 --> 01:03:50,927 LAST-MINUTE THOUGHT, BUT I 1732 01:03:50,927 --> 01:03:54,096 STOPPED BY AURORA YESTERDAY, 1733 01:03:54,096 --> 01:03:55,831 WHERE THEY HAVE THE NEW CONCRETE 1734 01:03:55,831 --> 01:04:04,974 CHICANES, THE WORD I USE FOR THE 1735 01:04:04,974 --> 01:04:05,708 STAGGERING CONCRETES LOWERS, YOU 1736 01:04:05,708 --> 01:04:07,276 CAN DRIVE AROUND THEM AND ON THE 1737 01:04:07,276 --> 01:04:08,578 FACE, THEY STILL HAVE THAT BIG, 1738 01:04:08,578 --> 01:04:09,245 METAL PLANTER THINK THAT THE 1739 01:04:09,245 --> 01:04:17,253 NEIGHBORS DRAGGED OUT TO BLOCK 1740 01:04:17,253 --> 01:04:18,521 THE STREET OFF. I'M NOT SURE 1741 01:04:18,521 --> 01:04:19,922 WHY THEY LEFT THAT ONE THERE AND 1742 01:04:19,922 --> 01:04:21,390 GOT RID OF THE OTHER TWO, BUT 1743 01:04:21,390 --> 01:04:22,158 EVERYONE KNOWS THESE HOMEMADE 1744 01:04:22,158 --> 01:04:23,826 STREET BLOCKERS ARE PROBABLY NOT 1745 01:04:23,826 --> 01:04:24,460 GOING TO REMAIN THERE FOREVER 1746 01:04:24,460 --> 01:04:25,561 AND THEY WERE A HAZARD WHILE 1747 01:04:25,561 --> 01:04:26,329 THEY WERE THERE, AMBULANCES 1748 01:04:26,329 --> 01:04:27,363 COULDN'T GET DOWN THE STREET, 1749 01:04:27,363 --> 01:04:28,397 BUT HERE'S THE THING, WHEN 1750 01:04:28,397 --> 01:04:29,165 NEIGHBORS DRAGGED THOSE THINGS 1751 01:04:29,165 --> 01:04:30,399 OUT THERE AND PUT THEM THERE, 1752 01:04:30,399 --> 01:04:31,701 THE CITY LISTENED, AND WHAT THEY 1753 01:04:31,701 --> 01:04:32,735 DID, VERY QUICKLY, WAS TO 1754 01:04:32,735 --> 01:04:33,736 REPLACE THEM WITH THE CONCRETE 1755 01:04:33,736 --> 01:04:34,804 BLOCKERS INSTEAD, BUT YOU HAVE 1756 01:04:34,804 --> 01:04:36,038 TO WONDER, IF THE NEIGHBORS HAD 1757 01:04:36,038 --> 01:04:41,677 JUST COME TO CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC 1758 01:04:41,677 --> 01:04:43,512 COMMENT, WEEK AFTER WEEK, DO YOU 1759 01:04:43,512 --> 01:04:44,213 THINK THE CITY WOULD HAVE 1760 01:04:44,213 --> 01:04:45,348 RESPONDED AS QUICKLY? WE HAVE 1761 01:04:45,348 --> 01:04:46,215 OUR RALLIES AND MARCHES, AND 1762 01:04:46,215 --> 01:04:47,250 SOMETIMES, RIOTS ALL THE TIME. 1763 01:04:47,250 --> 01:04:48,517 BUT, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE ON 1764 01:04:48,517 --> 01:04:50,152 AURORA, THEY RIGHTED THE WAY 1765 01:04:50,152 --> 01:04:52,154 THAT PEOPLE LIVING ON AURORA 1766 01:04:52,154 --> 01:04:53,656 DID, WHICH IS TO BRING OUT TRASH 1767 01:04:53,656 --> 01:04:55,057 TO BLOCK THE ROAD SO WE SHOULD 1768 01:04:55,057 --> 01:04:56,392 TRY TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE 1769 01:04:56,392 --> 01:04:57,293 LISTENING TO PEOPLE BEFORE THEY 1770 01:04:57,293 --> 01:04:58,461 GET TO THIS STAGE OF DRAGGING 1771 01:04:58,461 --> 01:04:59,762 STUFF OUT IN THE STREET. 1772 01:04:59,762 --> 01:05:00,796 >> THANK YOU, BENNETT. 1773 01:05:00,796 --> 01:05:02,431 >> [ INAUDIBLE - LOW VOLUME ] 1774 01:05:02,431 --> 01:05:03,699 >> THANK YOU, BENNETT. IS THERE 1775 01:05:03,699 --> 01:05:05,434 ANY MORE PUBLIC COMMENTERS AT 1776 01:05:05,434 --> 01:05:07,770 THIS TIME? AND THEN, IF YOU ARE 1777 01:05:07,770 --> 01:05:09,572 ONLINE, YOU ARE NOT PRESENT, SO 1778 01:05:09,572 --> 01:05:12,675 THAT IS AMITRA FULLER, JOE 1779 01:05:12,675 --> 01:05:13,643 McGRATH, AND THEN, NATHAN WAUGH, 1780 01:05:13,643 --> 01:05:17,546 WE WILL GIVE THEM, LIKE, TWO 1781 01:05:17,546 --> 01:05:18,547 SECONDS. ALL RIGHT, THEY ARE NOT 1782 01:05:18,547 --> 01:05:20,116 PRESENT, SO THE PUBLIC COMMENT 1783 01:05:20,116 --> 01:05:25,388 PERIOD IS NOW CLOSED. I WOULD 1784 01:05:25,388 --> 01:05:26,355 LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR COMING, 1785 01:05:26,355 --> 01:05:27,623 GIVING US YOUR COMMENT, WHETHER 1786 01:05:27,623 --> 01:05:28,524 IT IS ONLINE, EMAILS, IN THE 1787 01:05:28,524 --> 01:05:36,699 BOX, AS WELL, OR IF YOU ARE 1788 01:05:36,699 --> 01:05:38,000 SEEING US PASS THROUGH THE HALL 1789 01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,368 OR ON SOCIAL MEDIA. ANY TYPE OF 1790 01:05:39,368 --> 01:05:40,403 PUBLIC COMMENT. SO, THANK YOU, 1791 01:05:40,403 --> 01:05:41,837 ALL, SO MUCH. WE ARE NOW GOING 1792 01:05:41,837 --> 01:05:43,306 TO JUMP INTO OUR MEETING, SO IF 1793 01:05:43,306 --> 01:05:45,708 THERE IS NO OBJECTION, THE 1794 01:05:45,708 --> 01:05:46,609 REFERRAL CALENDAR WILL BE 1795 01:05:46,609 --> 01:05:47,410 ADOPTED. HEARING NO OBJECTION, 1796 01:05:47,410 --> 01:05:48,044 THE INTRODUCTION REFERRAL 1797 01:05:48,044 --> 01:05:49,011 CALENDAR WILL BE ADOPTED. IF 1798 01:05:49,011 --> 01:05:50,012 THERE IS NO OBJECTION, THE 1799 01:05:50,012 --> 01:05:51,447 AGENDA WILL BE ADOPTED. HEARING 1800 01:05:51,447 --> 01:05:59,121 NO OBJECTION, THE AGENDA IS 1801 01:05:59,121 --> 01:06:00,323 ADOPTED. WE ARE NOT GOING TO 1802 01:06:00,323 --> 01:06:01,190 CONSIDER THE PROPOSED CONSENT 1803 01:06:01,190 --> 01:06:02,224 CALENDAR, ITEMS ON THE CONSENT 1804 01:06:02,224 --> 01:06:03,192 CALENDAR INCLUDE THE MINUTES OF 1805 01:06:03,192 --> 01:06:04,093 MAY 19th, 2026, COUNCIL BUILT 1806 01:06:04,093 --> 01:06:05,494 121216 AND 121 127, PAYMENT OF 1807 01:06:05,494 --> 01:06:06,729 THE BILLS, FIVE BILLS FROM PARKS 1808 01:06:06,729 --> 01:06:16,372 AND REC LIGHT COMMITTEE, FOUR 1809 01:06:16,372 --> 01:06:17,006 APARTMENTS FROM HOUSING, ARTS, 1810 01:06:17,006 --> 01:06:17,773 AND CIVIL RIGHTS COMMITTEE, AND 1811 01:06:17,773 --> 01:06:18,741 SEVEN APPOINTMENTS FROM THE 1812 01:06:18,741 --> 01:06:19,408 LIBRARY, EDUCATION, AND 1813 01:06:19,408 --> 01:06:20,076 NEIGHBORHOODS COMMITTEE. COUNCIL 1814 01:06:20,076 --> 01:06:20,876 MEMBERS, ARE THERE ANYTHING YOU 1815 01:06:20,876 --> 01:06:22,745 WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE FROM THE 1816 01:06:22,745 --> 01:06:26,749 CONSENT CALENDAR? ALL RIGHT, 1817 01:06:26,749 --> 01:06:27,850 AWESOME, HEARING NONE, I AM 1818 01:06:27,850 --> 01:06:28,985 GOING TO MOVE TO ADOPT THE 1819 01:06:28,985 --> 01:06:30,252 CONSENT CALENDAR, DO I HAVE A 1820 01:06:30,252 --> 01:06:30,486 SECOND? 1821 01:06:30,486 --> 01:06:30,920 >> SECOND. 1822 01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:32,321 >> THANK YOU, IT HAS BEEN MOVED, 1823 01:06:32,321 --> 01:06:37,193 SECONDED, AND THIRD. TO MOVE THE 1824 01:06:37,193 --> 01:06:38,127 CONSENT CALENDAR, WILL THE CLERK 1825 01:06:38,127 --> 01:06:39,195 PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON THE 1826 01:06:39,195 --> 01:06:39,829 ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT 1827 01:06:39,829 --> 01:06:40,463 CALENDAR? THANK YOU. 1828 01:06:40,463 --> 01:06:41,063 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 1829 01:06:41,063 --> 01:06:42,031 >> AYE. 1830 01:06:42,031 --> 01:06:45,935 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 1831 01:06:45,935 --> 01:06:46,369 >> AYE. 1832 01:06:46,369 --> 01:06:47,169 >> THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER 1833 01:06:47,169 --> 01:06:47,436 STRAUSS? 1834 01:06:47,436 --> 01:06:48,337 >> AYE. 1835 01:06:48,337 --> 01:06:57,413 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 1836 01:06:57,413 --> 01:06:57,680 >> AYE. 1837 01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:58,214 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 1838 01:06:58,214 --> 01:06:58,681 COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 1839 01:06:58,681 --> 01:06:59,081 >> AYE. 1840 01:06:59,081 --> 01:06:59,682 >> THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER 1841 01:06:59,682 --> 01:06:59,915 KETTLE? 1842 01:06:59,915 --> 01:07:00,316 >> AYE. 1843 01:07:00,316 --> 01:07:00,916 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 1844 01:07:00,916 --> 01:07:01,951 >> YES. 1845 01:07:01,951 --> 01:07:02,785 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 1846 01:07:02,785 --> 01:07:03,185 >> YES. 1847 01:07:03,185 --> 01:07:04,587 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 1848 01:07:04,587 --> 01:07:04,820 >> AYE. 1849 01:07:04,820 --> 01:07:07,890 >> PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH? 1850 01:07:07,890 --> 01:07:08,357 >> YES. 1851 01:07:08,357 --> 01:07:17,900 >> NINE IN FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED. 1852 01:07:17,900 --> 01:07:19,902 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE AFFIX MY 1853 01:07:19,902 --> 01:07:20,870 SIGNATURE TO THE MINUTES ON 1854 01:07:20,870 --> 01:07:21,737 CONSENT CALENDAR ON MY BEHALF? 1855 01:07:21,737 --> 01:07:22,905 WE WILL JUMP INTO CITY REPORTS, 1856 01:07:22,905 --> 01:07:24,073 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE READ ITEM 1857 01:07:24,073 --> 01:07:25,007 NUMBER ONE INTO THE RECORD? 1858 01:07:25,007 --> 01:07:26,075 >> AGENDA ITEM ONE, APPOINTMENT 1859 01:07:26,075 --> 01:07:28,144 3468, APPOINTMENT OF DWIGHT D 1860 01:07:28,144 --> 01:07:29,378 DIVE LEE AS DIRECTOR OF FINANCE 1861 01:07:29,378 --> 01:07:30,613 OF THE OFFICE OF CITY FINANCE 1862 01:07:30,613 --> 01:07:41,157 FOR A TERM TO AND DECEMBER 31st, 1863 01:07:43,793 --> 01:07:44,493 2029, THE CITY RECOMMENDS 1864 01:07:44,493 --> 01:07:45,027 APPOINTMENT BE CONFIRMED. 1865 01:07:45,027 --> 01:07:45,694 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, AS THE 1866 01:07:45,694 --> 01:07:46,362 COMMITTEE CHAIR, YOU ARE 1867 01:07:46,362 --> 01:07:47,196 RECOGNIZED TO GIVE US THE 1868 01:07:47,196 --> 01:07:47,863 REPORT. THANK YOU. 1869 01:07:47,863 --> 01:07:49,098 >> IN THE INTEREST OF TIME 1870 01:07:49,098 --> 01:07:50,332 BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE FOLKS 1871 01:07:50,332 --> 01:07:51,534 WAITING FOR US DOWNSTAIRS, I AM 1872 01:07:51,534 --> 01:07:53,402 GOING TO BE BRIEF, JUST TO SAY I 1873 01:07:53,402 --> 01:07:54,603 WASN'T LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ONE 1874 01:07:54,603 --> 01:07:55,237 OF PROFESSOR DWIVLEY'S 1875 01:07:55,237 --> 01:07:57,006 STUDENTS, WE WILL GO INTO THAT 1876 01:07:57,006 --> 01:07:59,975 ANOTHER TIME, AND IT LOOKS LIKE 1877 01:07:59,975 --> 01:08:01,010 ADMISSIONS, YOU MESSED UP. ALL 1878 01:08:01,010 --> 01:08:02,011 THAT TO SAY THAT PROFESSOR, 1879 01:08:02,011 --> 01:08:03,412 DIRECTOR, WHATEVER YOUR TITLE 1880 01:08:03,412 --> 01:08:13,956 MAY BE, YOU CUT THROUGH POLITICS 1881 01:08:15,791 --> 01:08:16,826 WITH YOUR FOCUS ON THE NUMBERS, 1882 01:08:16,826 --> 01:08:17,960 WITH YOUR FOCUS IS ON BEST 1883 01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:18,794 PRACTICES, WITH YOUR FOCUS ON 1884 01:08:18,794 --> 01:08:19,929 BEING ABLE TO APPROVE THE PEOPLE 1885 01:08:19,929 --> 01:08:21,430 AROUND YOU, IT IS A HUMBLE HONOR 1886 01:08:21,430 --> 01:08:22,565 AND PRIVILEGE FOR ME TODAY TO 1887 01:08:22,565 --> 01:08:23,866 GET TO RECOMMEND PASSAGE OF YOUR 1888 01:08:23,866 --> 01:08:24,700 CONFIRMATION HERE, AT THE 1889 01:08:24,700 --> 01:08:25,634 SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR 1890 01:08:25,634 --> 01:08:26,735 ROLE AS OUR CITY FINANCE 1891 01:08:26,735 --> 01:08:28,304 DIRECTOR, FOR LAYPEOPLE, THAT IS 1892 01:08:28,304 --> 01:08:33,175 OUR COMPTROLLER. IT IS JUST A 1893 01:08:33,175 --> 01:08:34,176 UNIQUE ROLE. I ENJOY WORKING 1894 01:08:34,176 --> 01:08:35,444 WITH YOU SO MUCH ALREADY AND I 1895 01:08:35,444 --> 01:08:36,645 LOOK FORWARD TO THE MANY YEARS 1896 01:08:36,645 --> 01:08:37,947 THAT WE GET TO WORK TOGETHER. 1897 01:08:37,947 --> 01:08:39,148 COLLEAGUES, I URGE A AYE VOTE, 1898 01:08:39,148 --> 01:08:39,648 THANK YOU. 1899 01:08:39,648 --> 01:08:40,549 >> AWESOME, THANK YOU, 1900 01:08:40,549 --> 01:08:41,383 COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE -- 1901 01:08:41,383 --> 01:08:42,318 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS AND YOUR 1902 01:08:42,318 --> 01:08:45,020 LEADERSHIP. IS THERE ANY COMMENT 1903 01:08:45,020 --> 01:08:46,956 ON THE FLOOR REGARDING THIS 1904 01:08:46,956 --> 01:08:55,164 APPOINTMENT? AWESOME, SEEING 1905 01:08:55,164 --> 01:08:55,965 NONE AND HEARING NONE, 1906 01:08:55,965 --> 01:08:56,665 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, DO YOU 1907 01:08:56,665 --> 01:08:57,633 HAVE ANY CLOSING WORDS? 1908 01:08:57,633 --> 01:08:58,634 >> I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD 1909 01:08:58,634 --> 01:09:00,069 TO THIS DAY FOR QUITE SOME TIME. 1910 01:09:00,069 --> 01:09:00,669 THANK YOU. 1911 01:09:00,669 --> 01:09:01,704 >> AWESOME. WILL THE CLERK 1912 01:09:01,704 --> 01:09:03,572 PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON THE 1913 01:09:03,572 --> 01:09:06,175 CONFIRMATION? 1914 01:09:06,175 --> 01:09:06,809 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 1915 01:09:06,809 --> 01:09:07,276 >> AYE. 1916 01:09:07,276 --> 01:09:07,943 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 1917 01:09:07,943 --> 01:09:08,277 >> AYE. 1918 01:09:08,277 --> 01:09:09,044 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 1919 01:09:09,044 --> 01:09:19,188 >> AYE. 1920 01:09:28,330 --> 01:09:29,064 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 1921 01:09:29,064 --> 01:09:29,398 >> AYE. 1922 01:09:29,398 --> 01:09:29,932 >> COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? 1923 01:09:29,932 --> 01:09:30,199 >> AYE. 1924 01:09:30,199 --> 01:09:30,833 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 1925 01:09:30,833 --> 01:09:31,200 >> YES. 1926 01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:31,834 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 1927 01:09:31,834 --> 01:09:32,167 >> YES. 1928 01:09:32,167 --> 01:09:33,235 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 1929 01:09:33,235 --> 01:09:33,469 >> YES. 1930 01:09:33,469 --> 01:09:34,236 >> PRESIDENT HOLLINGSWORTH? 1931 01:09:34,236 --> 01:09:34,470 >> AYE. 1932 01:09:34,470 --> 01:09:35,504 >> NINE IN FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED. 1933 01:09:35,638 --> 01:09:36,505 >> MOTION CARRIES, THANK YOU. 1934 01:09:36,505 --> 01:09:37,673 YOU ARE RECOGNIZED TO PROVIDE 1935 01:09:37,673 --> 01:09:39,308 SOME BRIEF REMARKS, IF YOU WOULD 1936 01:09:39,308 --> 01:09:49,418 LIKE. 1937 01:09:53,822 --> 01:09:54,723 >> THANK YOU, FOR THE RECORD, 1938 01:09:54,723 --> 01:09:56,158 DWIGHT WIFELY. IT IS A PRIVILEGE 1939 01:09:56,158 --> 01:09:57,359 AND AN HONOR TO RETURN TO THIS 1940 01:09:57,359 --> 01:09:58,594 ROLE. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR 1941 01:09:58,594 --> 01:09:59,461 CONFIRMATION AND THE CONFIDENCE 1942 01:09:59,461 --> 01:10:01,030 YOU HAVE SHOWN IN ME AND I LOOK 1943 01:10:01,030 --> 01:10:02,264 FORWARD TO WORKING WITH ALL OF 1944 01:10:02,264 --> 01:10:03,465 YOU IN THE DAYS TO COME. 1945 01:10:03,465 --> 01:10:04,300 >> THANK YOU, DIRECTOR. 1946 01:10:04,300 --> 01:10:04,967 CONGRATULATIONS. AWESOME. WILL 1947 01:10:04,967 --> 01:10:05,935 THE CLERK PLEASE READ ITEM 1948 01:10:05,935 --> 01:10:06,902 NUMBER TWO INTO THE RECORD? 1949 01:10:06,902 --> 01:10:08,504 >> AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO, 1950 01:10:08,504 --> 01:10:13,876 APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR OF THE 1951 01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:14,743 OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 1952 01:10:14,743 --> 01:10:15,578 THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THAT HE 1953 01:10:15,578 --> 01:10:16,011 BE CONFIRMED. 1954 01:10:16,011 --> 01:10:26,555 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, AS CHAIR 1955 01:10:29,425 --> 01:10:30,359 OF THE COMMITTEE YOU ARE 1956 01:10:30,359 --> 01:10:31,226 RECOGNIZED TO PROVIDE THE 1957 01:10:31,226 --> 01:10:31,627 COMMITTEE REPORT. 1958 01:10:31,627 --> 01:10:33,062 >> IT IS A PLEASURE TO BRING 1959 01:10:33,062 --> 01:10:33,762 FORWARD THIS APPOINTMENT FOR 1960 01:10:33,762 --> 01:10:34,763 YOUR CONSIDERATION TODAY. IS A 1961 01:10:34,763 --> 01:10:35,230 BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, 1962 01:10:35,230 --> 01:10:35,798 ENTREPRENEUR, AND NONPROFIT 1963 01:10:35,798 --> 01:10:36,599 LEADER DEDICATED TO ADVANCING 1964 01:10:36,599 --> 01:10:37,233 ECONOMIC EQUITY AND 1965 01:10:37,233 --> 01:10:38,033 ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND HAS OVER 1966 01:10:38,033 --> 01:10:46,108 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, DRIVING 1967 01:10:46,108 --> 01:10:46,976 GROWTH AND IMPACT ACROSS 1968 01:10:46,976 --> 01:10:48,077 BUSINESS, NONPROFIT, AND PUBLIC 1969 01:10:48,077 --> 01:10:49,211 SECTORS. FROM HIS DAYS AS A SOLO 1970 01:10:49,211 --> 01:10:50,112 IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEUR, WORD ON 1971 01:10:50,112 --> 01:10:51,380 THE STREET IS THAT YOU COULD BUY 1972 01:10:51,380 --> 01:10:52,414 THE MOST GORGEOUS JEWELRY FROM 1973 01:10:52,414 --> 01:10:53,816 HIM. ALSO TO HIS TIME AT LEADING 1974 01:10:53,816 --> 01:10:54,917 ADVENTURES, TO HIS TIME LEADING 1975 01:10:54,917 --> 01:10:55,684 AT THE SMALL BUSINESS 1976 01:10:55,684 --> 01:10:56,418 ADMINISTRATION REGIONAL OFFICE. 1977 01:10:56,418 --> 01:10:58,020 HE HAS ALWAYS PUT HIS EXPERIENCE 1978 01:10:58,020 --> 01:11:08,497 AND EXPERTISE IN SERVICE OF 1979 01:11:10,232 --> 01:11:11,000 COMMUNITY. HIS GENEROSITY AND 1980 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:11,700 CIVIC MINDEDNESS HAVE ALREADY 1981 01:11:11,700 --> 01:11:12,835 DELIVERED SO MUCH VALUE TO OUR 1982 01:11:12,835 --> 01:11:14,069 COMMUNITY AND I AM EXCITED TO 1983 01:11:14,069 --> 01:11:15,671 SEE WHERE WE GO AS A CITY, WITH 1984 01:11:15,671 --> 01:11:17,306 HIM AT THE HELM OF THE OFFICE OF 1985 01:11:17,306 --> 01:11:18,307 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SINCE HIS 1986 01:11:18,307 --> 01:11:19,208 APARTMENT HAS COME FORWARD, I 1987 01:11:19,208 --> 01:11:20,576 WILL NOTE FOR THE RECORD WE HAVE 1988 01:11:20,576 --> 01:11:27,816 RECEIVED A NUMBER OF COMMUNITY 1989 01:11:27,816 --> 01:11:28,651 MESSAGES OF SUPPORT FOR HIS 1990 01:11:28,651 --> 01:11:29,685 APPOINTMENT. OUR HUMAN SERVICES 1991 01:11:29,685 --> 01:11:30,352 LABOR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1992 01:11:30,352 --> 01:11:31,287 COMMITTEE VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO 1993 01:11:31,287 --> 01:11:31,987 RECOMMEND THAT CONFIRMATION, I 1994 01:11:31,987 --> 01:11:32,888 ENCOURAGE A YES VOTE TODAY. 1995 01:11:32,888 --> 01:11:33,722 THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. 1996 01:11:33,722 --> 01:11:34,590 >> AWESOME, THANK YOU, 1997 01:11:34,590 --> 01:11:35,257 COUNCILMEMBER RINCK. COLLEAGUES, 1998 01:11:35,257 --> 01:11:36,292 ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS ABOUT THE 1999 01:11:36,292 --> 01:11:37,693 DIRECTOR AND THIS APPOINTMENT? I 2000 01:11:37,693 --> 01:11:38,994 AM EXCITED TO BE VOTING YES ON 2001 01:11:38,994 --> 01:11:48,804 THIS, I HAVE KNOWN DIRECTOR 2002 01:11:48,804 --> 01:11:50,005 YARCE -- ACTING DIRECTOR -- 2003 01:11:50,005 --> 01:11:50,773 WELCOME ACTING DIRECTOR, FOR THE 2004 01:11:50,773 --> 01:11:52,307 LAST 10, 12 -- LONG TIME, OVER A 2005 01:11:52,307 --> 01:11:53,375 DECADE, AND JUST REALLY GRATEFUL 2006 01:11:53,375 --> 01:11:54,610 FOR YOUR SERVICE AND FOR WORKING 2007 01:11:54,610 --> 01:11:56,078 WITH YOU, AS WELL, SO WILL THE 2008 01:11:56,078 --> 01:11:57,680 CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? 2009 01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:05,454 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 2010 01:12:05,454 --> 01:12:06,221 >> AYE. 2011 01:12:06,221 --> 01:12:06,989 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 2012 01:12:06,989 --> 01:12:07,323 >> AYE. 2013 01:12:07,323 --> 01:12:07,890 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 2014 01:12:07,890 --> 01:12:08,190 >> YES. 2015 01:12:08,190 --> 01:12:08,724 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 2016 01:12:08,724 --> 01:12:08,991 >> AYE. 2017 01:12:08,991 --> 01:12:09,658 >> COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? 2018 01:12:09,658 --> 01:12:09,892 >> AYE. 2019 01:12:09,892 --> 01:12:10,492 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 2020 01:12:10,492 --> 01:12:10,926 >> YES. 2021 01:12:10,926 --> 01:12:11,593 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 2022 01:12:11,593 --> 01:12:12,494 >> YES. 2023 01:12:12,494 --> 01:12:14,063 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 2024 01:12:14,063 --> 01:12:14,363 >> AYE. 2025 01:12:14,363 --> 01:12:15,397 >> COUNCILMEMBER HOLLINGSWORTH? 2026 01:12:15,531 --> 01:12:15,731 >> YES. 2027 01:12:15,731 --> 01:12:16,632 >> NINE IN FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED. 2028 01:12:16,765 --> 01:12:27,142 >> CONFIRMED, THANK YOU, 2029 01:12:31,447 --> 01:12:33,115 DIRECTOR YARCE, ON BECOMING OUR 2030 01:12:33,115 --> 01:12:33,982 NEW DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF 2031 01:12:33,982 --> 01:12:34,516 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SO 2032 01:12:34,516 --> 01:12:35,217 CONGRATULATIONS, WOULD YOU LIKE 2033 01:12:35,217 --> 01:12:36,351 TO PROVIDE A FEW WORDS? AT 2034 01:12:36,351 --> 01:12:37,252 COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, I DIDN'T 2035 01:12:37,252 --> 01:12:38,387 ASK IF YOU HAD CLOSING COMMENTS, 2036 01:12:38,387 --> 01:12:39,588 BUT I CONFIRMED IT ALREADY. I'M 2037 01:12:39,588 --> 01:12:47,029 SORRY, MY APOLOGIES. DIRECTOR? 2038 01:12:47,029 --> 01:12:48,063 >> COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND 2039 01:12:48,063 --> 01:12:48,697 HONORABLE COUNCIL, GRATEFUL FOR 2040 01:12:48,697 --> 01:12:49,531 THE OPPORTUNITY, LOOKING FORWARD 2041 01:12:49,531 --> 01:12:50,599 TO COLLABORATE WITH YOU AND 2042 01:12:50,599 --> 01:12:51,734 SUPPORT YOUR GOALS AND ALSO WANT 2043 01:12:51,734 --> 01:12:53,402 TO THANK MY TEAM WHO HAS BEEN A 2044 01:12:53,402 --> 01:12:54,470 TREMENDOUS SUPPORT ON MY JOURNEY 2045 01:12:54,470 --> 01:12:55,804 HERE, AND I AM JUST VERY, VERY, 2046 01:12:55,804 --> 01:12:57,039 KIND AND HUMBLED TEAM THERE, 2047 01:12:57,039 --> 01:12:58,040 SOME OF THEM HERE ARE 2048 01:12:58,040 --> 01:12:59,241 PRESENTING, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH 2049 01:12:59,241 --> 01:13:00,342 AND LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. 2050 01:13:00,342 --> 01:13:10,853 >> THANK YOU, DIRECTOR YARCE. 2051 01:13:11,253 --> 01:13:12,387 NOW, WE READ ITEM NUMBER THREE 2052 01:13:12,387 --> 01:13:13,255 INTO THE RECORD. 2053 01:13:13,255 --> 01:13:14,623 >> AGENDA ITEM THREE, RESOLUTION 2054 01:13:14,623 --> 01:13:15,224 32202, A RESOLUTION REGARDING 2055 01:13:15,224 --> 01:13:15,958 NEXT STEPS AFTER THE FORENSIC 2056 01:13:15,958 --> 01:13:16,825 EVALUATION OF THE KING COUNTY 2057 01:13:16,825 --> 01:13:18,293 REGIONAL HOMELESS AUTHORITY, 2058 01:13:18,293 --> 01:13:19,094 REQUESTING THAT THE SEATTLE 2059 01:13:19,094 --> 01:13:20,195 MAYOR TAKE STEPS TO IMMEDIATELY 2060 01:13:20,195 --> 01:13:20,996 SAFEGUARD PUBLIC FUNDS, PROVIDE 2061 01:13:20,996 --> 01:13:21,964 AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF WHETHER 2062 01:13:21,964 --> 01:13:25,701 IT IS FEASIBLE FOR KCRHA TO 2063 01:13:25,701 --> 01:13:26,802 ADEQUATELY ADDRESS ALL OF THE 2064 01:13:26,802 --> 01:13:27,870 FINDINGS IN THE FORENSIC 2065 01:13:27,870 --> 01:13:34,042 EVALUATION, RECOMMEND IF KCRHA 2066 01:13:34,042 --> 01:13:35,010 SHOULD BE DISSOLVED, 2067 01:13:35,010 --> 01:13:35,677 RESTRUCTURED, OR CONTINUE AS IS, 2068 01:13:35,677 --> 01:13:37,079 SUBMIT A SET OF NEXT STEPS ON 2069 01:13:37,079 --> 01:13:38,147 HOW THE CITY WILL APPROACH THE 2070 01:13:38,147 --> 01:13:39,047 DISSOLUTION OR RESTRUCTURE OF 2071 01:13:39,047 --> 01:13:40,082 KCRHA IF DETERMINED TO BE 2072 01:13:40,082 --> 01:13:44,753 NECESSARY, AND SUBMIT MONTHLY 2073 01:13:44,753 --> 01:13:45,988 REPORTS TO COUNCIL. THE 2074 01:13:45,988 --> 01:13:46,588 COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THAT THE 2075 01:13:46,588 --> 01:13:47,189 RESOLUTION BE ADOPTED. 2076 01:13:47,189 --> 01:13:48,257 >> AWESOME, COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, 2077 01:13:48,257 --> 01:13:58,801 AS MEMBER OF THE -- CHAIR OF THE 2078 01:14:13,081 --> 01:14:13,782 COMMITTEE, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED TO 2079 01:14:13,782 --> 01:14:14,349 PROVIDE THE REPORT. 2080 01:14:14,349 --> 01:14:15,617 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. 2081 01:14:15,617 --> 01:14:16,318 COLLEAGUES, I HAVE NOTED A FEW 2082 01:14:16,318 --> 01:14:17,686 OF THESE POINTS PUBLICLY NOW, 2083 01:14:17,686 --> 01:14:18,720 BUT I WILL REITERATE THEM TODAY, 2084 01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:19,788 AS A NEW MEMBER OF KCRHA'S 2085 01:14:19,788 --> 01:14:21,056 GOVERNING BOARD AND CHAIR OF THE 2086 01:14:21,056 --> 01:14:21,824 COMMITTEE THAT OVERSEES HUMAN 2087 01:14:21,824 --> 01:14:23,025 SERVICES, THE FINDINGS OF THE E 2088 01:14:23,025 --> 01:14:23,826 FORENSIC EVALUATION ARE SERIOUS 2089 01:14:23,826 --> 01:14:24,493 AND REQUIRE IMMEDIATE 2090 01:14:24,493 --> 01:14:25,093 ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THIS 2091 01:14:25,093 --> 01:14:26,128 PROPOSED RESOLUTION IS A SWIFT 2092 01:14:26,128 --> 01:14:26,895 BUT THOUGHTFUL MEASURE THAT 2093 01:14:26,895 --> 01:14:27,830 STARTS CHARGING THAT PATHWAY 2094 01:14:27,830 --> 01:14:28,897 FORWARD FOR THE AGENCY AT 2095 01:14:28,897 --> 01:14:31,633 ADDRESSING THESE FINDINGS. SINCE 2096 01:14:31,633 --> 01:14:33,035 LEARNING THE FULL DETAILS OF THE 2097 01:14:33,035 --> 01:14:33,702 FORENSIC EVALUATION, I HAVE 2098 01:14:33,702 --> 01:14:34,636 WORKED IN COLLABORATION WITH 2099 01:14:34,636 --> 01:14:35,237 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, SERVICE 2100 01:14:35,237 --> 01:14:35,971 PROVIDERS, KCRHA LEADERSHIP, AND 2101 01:14:35,971 --> 01:14:37,005 GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS, AND OUR 2102 01:14:37,005 --> 01:14:38,040 COUNTERPARTS AT KING COUNTY 2103 01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:39,007 COUNCIL, TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE 2104 01:14:39,007 --> 01:14:40,075 GO FROM HERE. THE PROPOSED 2105 01:14:40,075 --> 01:14:40,876 LEGISLATION IS SPONSORED BY 2106 01:14:40,876 --> 01:14:41,710 MYSELF AND COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, 2107 01:14:41,710 --> 01:14:43,111 SUMMARIZES THE FINDINGS OF THE 2108 01:14:43,111 --> 01:14:47,282 FORENSIC EVALUATION, AS WELL AS 2109 01:14:47,282 --> 01:14:48,550 THE TIMELINE FOR DELIVERABLES 2110 01:14:48,550 --> 01:14:49,284 EXPECTED FROM KCRHA OVER THE 2111 01:14:49,284 --> 01:14:50,085 COMING MONTHS, INCLUDING THE 2112 01:14:50,085 --> 01:14:51,153 CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN TO 2113 01:14:51,153 --> 01:14:51,987 ADDRESS ALL FINDINGS. AS A POINT 2114 01:14:51,987 --> 01:14:52,988 OF INFORMATION, KCRHA WILL COME 2115 01:14:52,988 --> 01:14:54,022 TO THE HUMAN SERVICES, LABOR, 2116 01:14:54,022 --> 01:14:55,424 AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 2117 01:14:55,424 --> 01:14:56,258 COMMITTEE MEETING THIS UPCOMING 2118 01:14:56,258 --> 01:14:57,459 FRIDAY, JUNE 6th, TO DISCUSS THE 2119 01:14:57,459 --> 01:14:58,460 CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN THAT WAS 2120 01:14:58,460 --> 01:14:59,494 SUBMITTED ON MAY 22nd. THE 2121 01:14:59,494 --> 01:15:07,469 LEGISLATION BEFORE YOU ALSO 2122 01:15:07,469 --> 01:15:08,770 REQUESTS THE MAYOR'S OFFICE 2123 01:15:08,770 --> 01:15:09,371 MAKE AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF 2124 01:15:09,371 --> 01:15:10,138 THAT CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN, AND 2125 01:15:10,138 --> 01:15:10,772 REQUIRES THE MAYOR'S OFFICE 2126 01:15:10,772 --> 01:15:11,807 MAKE AN OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION 2127 01:15:11,807 --> 01:15:12,608 ON WHETHER THE CITY SHOULD 2128 01:15:12,608 --> 01:15:13,208 DISSOLVE, RESTRUCTURE, OR 2129 01:15:13,208 --> 01:15:18,680 CONTINUE AS IS WITH KCRHA AND IF 2130 01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:19,915 THE MAYOR RECOMMENDS THE 2131 01:15:19,915 --> 01:15:20,515 RESTRUCTURE OR DISSOLUTION, I 2132 01:15:20,515 --> 01:15:21,550 REQUEST THE MAYOR THEN SUBMIT A 2133 01:15:21,550 --> 01:15:22,851 PLAN FOR HOW THAT WILL OCCUR, 2134 01:15:22,851 --> 01:15:24,253 AND OUTLINES A NUMBER OF ITEMS 2135 01:15:24,253 --> 01:15:25,254 FOR US TO START DELIBERATING ON. 2136 01:15:25,254 --> 01:15:26,922 I WILL NOTE THAT THE KING COUNTY 2137 01:15:26,922 --> 01:15:27,956 COUNCIL'S COMMITTEE OF THE 2138 01:15:27,956 --> 01:15:29,358 WHOLE PASSED A SIMILAR MEASURE 2139 01:15:29,358 --> 01:15:34,529 LAST MONTH, AND THE RESOLUTION 2140 01:15:34,529 --> 01:15:35,931 BEFORE US TODAY PUTS THE CITY IN 2141 01:15:35,931 --> 01:15:37,533 ALIGNMENT WITH THE WORK THAT IS 2142 01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:38,567 BEING DONE OVER AT THE COUNTY. I 2143 01:15:38,567 --> 01:15:39,568 WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBERS 2144 01:15:39,568 --> 01:15:41,036 BARON AND FEEHAN FOR MOVING THAT 2145 01:15:41,036 --> 01:15:46,074 FORWARD. TO CLOSE, AS ELECTED 2146 01:15:46,074 --> 01:15:46,808 LEADERS, WE HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL 2147 01:15:46,808 --> 01:15:48,176 DUTY TO GET PEOPLE HOUSED AND DO 2148 01:15:48,176 --> 01:15:49,678 RIGHT BY TAXPAYERS, AND WE DO 2149 01:15:49,678 --> 01:15:51,413 THAT BY WORKING ON A PLAN 2150 01:15:51,413 --> 01:15:57,786 TOGETHER, DELIBERATELY, 2151 01:15:57,786 --> 01:15:58,287 COLLABORATIVELY, AND 2152 01:15:58,287 --> 01:15:59,054 TRANSPARENTLY. AS I HAVE 2153 01:15:59,054 --> 01:16:00,255 REPEATEDLY STATED NOW, IT IS NOT 2154 01:16:00,255 --> 01:16:01,256 A TIME FOR KNEE-JERK REACTIONS, 2155 01:16:01,256 --> 01:16:06,028 OUR HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE SYSTEM 2156 01:16:06,028 --> 01:16:08,830 IS ALREADY IN A DELICATE PLACE 2157 01:16:08,830 --> 01:16:09,431 AND NEEDS TO BE HANDLED WITH 2158 01:16:09,431 --> 01:16:10,065 CAUTION. NOW IS A TIME FOR 2159 01:16:10,065 --> 01:16:11,233 BALANCED AND THOUGHTFUL 2160 01:16:11,233 --> 01:16:14,937 DISCUSSIONS, AND TO NOT ADD 2161 01:16:14,937 --> 01:16:15,871 ADDITIONAL HARM TO AN ALREADY 2162 01:16:15,871 --> 01:16:16,538 VOLATILE SITUATION. SO, FINALLY, 2163 01:16:16,538 --> 01:16:22,644 I WANT TO THANK MY TEAM, 2164 01:16:22,644 --> 01:16:23,378 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER'S TEAM, 2165 01:16:23,378 --> 01:16:24,513 THE ENTIRE CENTRAL STAFF, FOR 2166 01:16:24,513 --> 01:16:25,614 ALL OF THEIR WORK ON KCRHA 2167 01:16:25,614 --> 01:16:27,115 ISSUES OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS. 2168 01:16:27,115 --> 01:16:37,626 I WILL NOTE, THIS BILL PASSED 2169 01:16:39,161 --> 01:16:40,028 OUT OF COMMITTEE WITH A 2170 01:16:40,028 --> 01:16:41,296 UNANIMOUS VOTE, SO THANK YOU FOR 2171 01:16:41,296 --> 01:16:42,531 COMMITTEE MEMBERS, AND I ASK FOR 2172 01:16:42,531 --> 01:16:43,532 YOUR SUPPORT TODAY. THANK YOU. 2173 01:16:43,532 --> 01:16:44,333 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 2174 01:16:44,333 --> 01:16:45,200 RINCK. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, DID 2175 01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:46,401 YOU HAVE ANYTHING? I KNOW YOU 2176 01:16:46,401 --> 01:16:47,369 ARE A COSPONSOR OF THE 2177 01:16:47,369 --> 01:16:47,970 LEGISLATION. OKAY, AWESOME. 2178 01:16:47,970 --> 01:16:49,237 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, BOTH, 2179 01:16:49,237 --> 01:16:49,838 COUNCILMEMBER RINCK AND 2180 01:16:49,838 --> 01:16:50,639 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, FOR YOUR 2181 01:16:50,639 --> 01:16:53,308 WORK ON THIS, AS WELL. AND, YOUR 2182 01:16:53,308 --> 01:16:54,276 CONTINUED WORK, AS WELL, NOT 2183 01:16:54,276 --> 01:16:55,677 JUST ON THIS, BUT YOUR CONTINUED 2184 01:16:55,677 --> 01:16:56,745 WORK. OH, I'M SORRY, 2185 01:16:56,745 --> 01:16:57,212 COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 2186 01:16:57,212 --> 01:16:58,680 >> WELL, I AM GOING TO SAY 2187 01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:00,782 SOMETHING. LOOKING AT 2188 01:17:00,782 --> 01:17:01,817 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER AND 2189 01:17:01,817 --> 01:17:02,451 COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, I THINK I 2190 01:17:02,451 --> 01:17:03,352 SAID THIS IN OUR COUNCIL 2191 01:17:03,352 --> 01:17:04,553 BRIEFING, BUT I THINK THAT WE 2192 01:17:04,553 --> 01:17:08,824 SHOULD REALLY RAISE OUR HANDS TO 2193 01:17:08,824 --> 01:17:09,858 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER AND 2194 01:17:09,858 --> 01:17:10,692 COUNCILMEMBER RINCK FOR TAKING 2195 01:17:10,692 --> 01:17:11,960 ON AND LOOKING AT THE KING 2196 01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:12,694 COUNTY REGIONAL HOMELESS AND 2197 01:17:12,694 --> 01:17:14,429 AUDIT AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT 2198 01:17:14,429 --> 01:17:17,966 HAVE HAPPENED IN BETWEEN, AND 2199 01:17:17,966 --> 01:17:18,800 THE TWO WATERSHED MOMENTS, I 2200 01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:19,901 CAN'T REMEMBER TWO DATES NOW, 2201 01:17:19,901 --> 01:17:20,769 MAY 23rd AND WHENEVER THE 2202 01:17:20,769 --> 01:17:21,536 CORRECTIVE ACTION REPORT CAME 2203 01:17:21,536 --> 01:17:27,175 OUT. LIKE I SAID, I HAD A CHANCE 2204 01:17:27,175 --> 01:17:28,710 TO LOOK AT IT AND IT IS 150 2205 01:17:28,710 --> 01:17:30,345 PAGES AND THERE IS A LOT OF WORK 2206 01:17:30,345 --> 01:17:31,513 TO DO, BUT I THINK, MORE 2207 01:17:31,513 --> 01:17:32,581 IMPORTANTLY, WHAT WE ARE SEEING 2208 01:17:32,581 --> 01:17:38,920 AND WHAT I AM GLAD TO SEE, AS 2209 01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:40,222 COUNCILMEMBER RINCK SAID AND AS 2210 01:17:40,222 --> 01:17:41,023 I HAVE ALSO HEARD FROM 2211 01:17:41,023 --> 01:17:41,623 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, LET'S 2212 01:17:41,623 --> 01:17:42,891 JUST TAKE A MOMENT, MEASURE FOR 2213 01:17:42,891 --> 01:17:44,026 MEASURE, AND LOOK AT THIS, AND 2214 01:17:44,026 --> 01:17:45,327 ADDRESS THIS IN A TIMELY BUT 2215 01:17:45,327 --> 01:17:46,395 DELIBERATE MANNER ABOUT HOW WE 2216 01:17:46,395 --> 01:17:47,996 FIX OR NOT FIX THE KING COUNTY 2217 01:17:47,996 --> 01:17:49,197 REGIONAL HOMELESS -- WHAT IS IT? 2218 01:17:49,197 --> 01:17:49,664 HOMELESS -- 2219 01:17:49,664 --> 01:17:50,032 >> AUTHORITY. 2220 01:17:50,032 --> 01:17:54,269 >> HOMELESS AUTHORITY. BECAUSE 2221 01:17:54,269 --> 01:17:55,671 WHEN WE INSTITUTED THIS IN 2019, 2222 01:17:55,671 --> 01:17:56,738 THERE WAS A DIFFERENT VISION, 2223 01:17:56,738 --> 01:18:01,309 THAT VISION CHANGED, I THINK 2224 01:18:01,309 --> 01:18:02,444 THERE WERE FOUR DIRECTORS, IS 2225 01:18:02,444 --> 01:18:03,278 THERE A FOURTH DIRECTOR? OR, 2226 01:18:03,278 --> 01:18:04,279 THIRD? FOURTH? THIRD? FIFTH? WE 2227 01:18:04,279 --> 01:18:10,052 ARE ON OUR FIFTH. OKAY, I GUESS 2228 01:18:10,052 --> 01:18:11,620 MY POINT IS THIS, AS FAR AS 2229 01:18:11,620 --> 01:18:12,487 LOCAL GOVERNMENT GOES IN THE 2230 01:18:12,487 --> 01:18:13,822 CITY OF SEATTLE, I THINK WE 2231 01:18:13,822 --> 01:18:14,723 CONTRIBUTE TO 60% OF THEIR 2232 01:18:14,723 --> 01:18:25,267 BUDGET. IT'S A LOT OF MONEY. 2233 01:18:26,301 --> 01:18:27,769 SO, BUT, NEEDLESS TO SAY THIS, 2234 01:18:27,769 --> 01:18:28,503 WITHOUT PILING ON, BECAUSE WE 2235 01:18:28,503 --> 01:18:29,638 NEED TO ADDRESS THIS, BUT MORE 2236 01:18:29,638 --> 01:18:30,939 IMPORTANTLY, WE NEED TO LOOK AT 2237 01:18:30,939 --> 01:18:31,673 WHAT OUTSTANDING SERVICES ARE 2238 01:18:31,673 --> 01:18:32,908 OUT THERE, THE CONTRACTS THAT WE 2239 01:18:32,908 --> 01:18:33,909 SIGN, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE 2240 01:18:33,909 --> 01:18:44,386 PEOPLE THAT WE ARE SERVING, 2241 01:18:45,153 --> 01:18:46,254 WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL INTENT IN 2242 01:18:46,254 --> 01:18:47,789 2019 AND IF OUR HEART AND OUR 2243 01:18:47,789 --> 01:18:48,857 NORTH STAR IS STILL TRUE, THAT 2244 01:18:48,857 --> 01:18:50,292 IS WHAT WE WILL DO. WE ARE 2245 01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:51,359 BEYOND POINTING FINGERS, IT IS 2246 01:18:51,359 --> 01:18:52,761 JUST TIME TO, AS THESE TWO, I 2247 01:18:52,761 --> 01:18:54,062 WILL GET IN TROUBLE FOR SAYING 2248 01:18:54,062 --> 01:18:55,030 IT, BUT THESE TWO YOUNG 2249 01:18:55,030 --> 01:18:55,831 LEGISLATORS ARE DOING, IS 2250 01:18:55,831 --> 01:19:05,874 ROLLING UP THEIR SLEEVES, 2251 01:19:05,874 --> 01:19:07,476 READING THE MATERIAL, DOING THE 2252 01:19:07,476 --> 01:19:08,343 WORK, AND SAYING, HOW DO WE FIX 2253 01:19:08,343 --> 01:19:09,878 THIS? HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD AS 2254 01:19:09,878 --> 01:19:11,146 AN ELECTED BODY? AND I KNOW WE 2255 01:19:11,146 --> 01:19:12,080 DON'T ALWAYS GIVE PRAISES, BUT, 2256 01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:13,748 I GET TO WORK WITH ALL OF THESE 2257 01:19:13,748 --> 01:19:14,583 WONDERFUL INDIVIDUALS, AND WATCH 2258 01:19:14,583 --> 01:19:15,851 ALL OF THE BEHIND THE SCENES, 2259 01:19:15,851 --> 01:19:17,319 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU, AND I 2260 01:19:17,319 --> 01:19:18,687 KNOW HOW HARD YOU WORK, AND I 2261 01:19:18,687 --> 01:19:20,388 KNOW WHAT YOU PUT UP WITH, A LOT 2262 01:19:20,388 --> 01:19:22,023 OF THE TIME. AND I WILL BE GONE 2263 01:19:22,023 --> 01:19:23,558 IN SIX MONTHS, SO YOU WON'T HAVE 2264 01:19:23,558 --> 01:19:24,559 AUNTIE RAMBLING ANYMORE, BUT I 2265 01:19:24,559 --> 01:19:25,994 JUST WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW HOW 2266 01:19:25,994 --> 01:19:27,295 HARD IT IS, AND HOW THESE THINGS 2267 01:19:27,295 --> 01:19:28,897 AFFECT US, AND HOW WE ALL TRY TO 2268 01:19:28,897 --> 01:19:29,765 WORK TOGETHER TO INSTILL 2269 01:19:29,765 --> 01:19:35,003 CONFIDENCE IN THE RESIDENTS, AND 2270 01:19:35,003 --> 01:19:36,238 IN THE REGION IN THE ELECTED 2271 01:19:36,238 --> 01:19:37,239 BODY. SO, THANK YOU, MADAM 2272 01:19:37,239 --> 01:19:37,539 CHAIR. 2273 01:19:37,539 --> 01:19:38,507 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 2274 01:19:38,507 --> 01:19:39,107 JUAREZ. COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 2275 01:19:39,107 --> 01:19:40,375 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCIL 2276 01:19:40,375 --> 01:19:41,309 PRESIDENT. I WASN'T GOING TO 2277 01:19:41,309 --> 01:19:42,043 SAY ANYTHING, BUT NOW, 2278 01:19:42,043 --> 01:19:51,787 COUNCILMEMBER AUNTIE JUAREZ HAS 2279 01:19:51,787 --> 01:19:52,787 COMPELLED ME WITH THAT COMMENT, 2280 01:19:52,787 --> 01:19:54,055 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT, AND THANK 2281 01:19:54,055 --> 01:19:54,923 YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER 2282 01:19:54,923 --> 01:19:56,024 RINCK, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, IT 2283 01:19:56,024 --> 01:19:57,993 HAS BEEN SUCH A PLEASURE TO WORK 2284 01:19:57,993 --> 01:19:58,593 COLLABORATIVELY WITH YOU ON 2285 01:19:58,593 --> 01:19:59,394 THIS, AND I WILL SAY THAT, 2286 01:19:59,394 --> 01:20:00,662 COMING INTO THIS ROLE, COMING IN 2287 01:20:00,662 --> 01:20:01,863 AS A NEW COUNCILMEMBER AND BOTH 2288 01:20:01,863 --> 01:20:03,465 OF US COMING IN AS NEW BOARD 2289 01:20:03,465 --> 01:20:04,733 MEMBERS, WE KNEW THAT THE AGENCY 2290 01:20:04,733 --> 01:20:05,967 NEEDED SUPPORT, BUT I THINK WE 2291 01:20:05,967 --> 01:20:07,068 WERE NOT EXPECTING THESE AUDIT 2292 01:20:07,068 --> 01:20:08,236 FINDINGS, AND I THINK THAT THE 2293 01:20:08,236 --> 01:20:09,838 WORK WE WERE ABLE TO DO WITH THE 2294 01:20:09,838 --> 01:20:11,006 AGENCY, QUICKLY, AND WITH THE 2295 01:20:11,006 --> 01:20:11,706 OTHER ELECTEDS, REALLY REFLECTS 2296 01:20:11,706 --> 01:20:12,674 THAT COMMITMENT AND THE 2297 01:20:12,674 --> 01:20:13,575 SERIOUSNESS THAT WE ARE BRINGING 2298 01:20:13,575 --> 01:20:14,776 TO THIS MOMENT. AND IT IS 2299 01:20:14,776 --> 01:20:16,044 ABSOLUTELY RIGHT -- AND WE HAVE 2300 01:20:16,044 --> 01:20:17,245 SAID THIS A LOT IN COMMITTEE, 2301 01:20:17,245 --> 01:20:27,789 AND A LOT IN THE KCRHA BOARD -- 2302 01:20:28,356 --> 01:20:29,257 THIS AGENCY IS INCREDIBLY 2303 01:20:29,257 --> 01:20:30,192 IMPORTANT, NOT JUST BECAUSE IT 2304 01:20:30,192 --> 01:20:31,193 HOLDS OUR PUBLIC DOLLARS HERE, 2305 01:20:31,193 --> 01:20:32,494 LOCALLY, BUT BECAUSE OF THE ROLE 2306 01:20:32,494 --> 01:20:33,795 IT PLAYS WITH OUR POINT IN TIME 2307 01:20:33,795 --> 01:20:34,996 COUNT, WITH MANAGING OUR HMI, 2308 01:20:34,996 --> 01:20:35,630 WHICH IS OUR HOMELESSNESS 2309 01:20:35,630 --> 01:20:36,264 INFORMATION SYSTEM, WITH 2310 01:20:36,264 --> 01:20:38,533 MANAGING FEDERAL DOLLARS. SO, IT 2311 01:20:38,533 --> 01:20:39,534 REALLY CAN'T BE UNDERSTATED HOW 2312 01:20:39,534 --> 01:20:40,735 IMPORTANT IT IS TO ENSURE THAT 2313 01:20:40,735 --> 01:20:42,070 WE HAVE THE RIGHT APPROACH, NOT 2314 01:20:42,070 --> 01:20:43,171 JUST SAYING, THE RIGHT THING, OR 2315 01:20:43,171 --> 01:20:44,306 WHAT SOUNDS LIKE THE RIGHT 2316 01:20:44,306 --> 01:20:45,974 THING, FIRST. SO, I AM REALLY 2317 01:20:45,974 --> 01:20:47,275 PROUD OF THE MEASURED APPROACH 2318 01:20:47,275 --> 01:20:48,276 WE ARE TAKING AND THERE IS STILL 2319 01:20:48,276 --> 01:20:49,878 A LOT OF WORK TO DO. THIS IS 2320 01:20:49,878 --> 01:20:51,479 DEFINITELY NOT A "MISSION 2321 01:20:51,479 --> 01:21:00,689 ACCOMPLISHED" MOMENT. THIS IS A 2322 01:21:00,689 --> 01:21:01,890 MOMENT WHERE WE ARE LAYING OUT 2323 01:21:01,890 --> 01:21:03,124 THE NEXT STEPS, AND CREATING AN 2324 01:21:03,124 --> 01:21:03,825 ORDERLY PROCESS FOR MANAGING 2325 01:21:03,825 --> 01:21:05,093 THOSE NEXT STEPS. SO, THANK YOU 2326 01:21:05,093 --> 01:21:06,361 SO MUCH FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP ON 2327 01:21:06,361 --> 01:21:07,662 THIS, AND COLLEAGUES, I ASK FOR 2328 01:21:07,662 --> 01:21:08,163 YOUR SUPPORT. 2329 01:21:08,163 --> 01:21:08,830 >> AWESOME, THANK YOU, 2330 01:21:08,830 --> 01:21:16,204 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER. 2331 01:21:16,204 --> 01:21:17,005 COUNCILMEMBER RINCK, ANY CLOSING 2332 01:21:17,005 --> 01:21:17,272 REMARKS? 2333 01:21:17,272 --> 01:21:18,673 >> JUST A DEEP APPRECIATION FOR 2334 01:21:18,673 --> 01:21:19,441 MY COLLEAGUES, FOR THEIR 2335 01:21:19,441 --> 01:21:20,542 REMARKS. IT REALLY MEANS A LOT, 2336 01:21:20,542 --> 01:21:21,076 THANK YOU. 2337 01:21:21,076 --> 01:21:21,910 >> OH, I'M SORRY, COUNCILMEMBER 2338 01:21:21,910 --> 01:21:23,511 RIVERA, I DID NOT SEE YOUR HAND. 2339 01:21:23,511 --> 01:21:24,279 MY APOLOGIES. COUNCILMEMBER 2340 01:21:24,279 --> 01:21:24,512 RIVERA? 2341 01:21:24,512 --> 01:21:25,180 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. 2342 01:21:25,180 --> 01:21:26,748 I WANT TO SAY THAT VERY 2343 01:21:26,748 --> 01:21:33,088 TRANSPARENTLY, EVERYBODY KNOWS 2344 01:21:33,088 --> 01:21:34,556 THAT I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT 2345 01:21:34,556 --> 01:21:35,924 WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING AT 2346 01:21:35,924 --> 01:21:36,791 KCRHA. I HAVE ALWAYS SAID, THE 2347 01:21:36,791 --> 01:21:37,926 CITY AND THE COUNTY PARTNER 2348 01:21:37,926 --> 01:21:38,927 TOGETHER AND WENT INTO IT WITH 2349 01:21:38,927 --> 01:21:40,495 THE BEST INTENTIONS. IT DID NOT 2350 01:21:40,495 --> 01:21:41,630 WORK OUT THE WAY WE HAVE 2351 01:21:41,630 --> 01:21:43,164 ANTICIPATED. WE DO NEED TO WORK 2352 01:21:43,164 --> 01:21:44,399 COLLABORATIVELY, WITH THE MAYOR 2353 01:21:44,399 --> 01:21:49,004 AND WITH THE COUNTY TO TAKE A 2354 01:21:49,004 --> 01:21:56,945 REGIONAL APPROACH. BUT, IT IS 2355 01:21:56,945 --> 01:21:58,146 TIME TO DISSOLVE THE AGENCY AND 2356 01:21:58,146 --> 01:21:59,514 THEN PIVOT TO NEXT STEPS ON HOW 2357 01:21:59,514 --> 01:22:01,449 WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO 2358 01:22:01,449 --> 01:22:05,253 THE WORK. AND I WILL SAY THAT 2359 01:22:05,253 --> 01:22:06,087 THE PROVIDERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN 2360 01:22:06,087 --> 01:22:07,822 DOING THE WORK, BUT THE AGENCY, 2361 01:22:07,822 --> 01:22:09,457 ITSELF, STARTING WITH PROBLEMS 2362 01:22:09,457 --> 01:22:10,525 FROM PROVIDERS NOT GETTING PAID, 2363 01:22:10,525 --> 01:22:15,597 ALL THE WAY UP TO WHAT THE 2364 01:22:15,597 --> 01:22:19,200 REPORT UNVEILED, IT IS JUST NOT 2365 01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:20,702 WORKING OUT, AND I THINK THAT, 2366 01:22:20,702 --> 01:22:28,944 FOR US TO CONTINUE DOWN THE PATH 2367 01:22:28,944 --> 01:22:30,312 OF DOING MORE OF THE SAME, IS 2368 01:22:30,312 --> 01:22:31,980 NOT GOING TO WORK, SO I THINK WE 2369 01:22:31,980 --> 01:22:35,750 ARE ALL IN AGREEMENT IN TERMS OF 2370 01:22:35,750 --> 01:22:36,384 COLLABORATION AND TRANSPARENCY, 2371 01:22:36,384 --> 01:22:37,652 BUT I DO THINK IT IS TIME FOR US 2372 01:22:37,652 --> 01:22:39,688 TO PIVOT. NOW, I WANT TO BE VERY 2373 01:22:39,688 --> 01:22:45,460 CLEAR THAT MY CALL FOR 2374 01:22:45,460 --> 01:22:46,328 DISSOLUTION WAS NEVER AN 2375 01:22:46,328 --> 01:22:48,029 OVERNIGHT THING. IT CAN'T BE AN 2376 01:22:48,029 --> 01:22:49,864 OVERNIGHT THING. IT'S GOING TO 2377 01:22:49,864 --> 01:22:51,833 TAKE TIME TO UNDO WHAT WAS DONE, 2378 01:22:51,833 --> 01:22:55,970 BUT I DO THINK WE NEED TO TAKE 2379 01:22:55,970 --> 01:22:58,106 THOSE STEPS AND IT IS VERY 2380 01:22:58,106 --> 01:22:59,641 IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE WORK 2381 01:22:59,641 --> 01:23:02,544 URGENTLY NEEDS TO GET DONE, SO 2382 01:23:02,544 --> 01:23:07,749 WE NEED TO GET TO THE NEXT STEP, 2383 01:23:07,749 --> 01:23:09,718 BUT WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO, TO 2384 01:23:09,718 --> 01:23:11,720 DO THE WORK, WITH THE AGENCY NOT 2385 01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:13,788 IN PLACE? I HAVE TO SAY, THE 2386 01:23:13,788 --> 01:23:15,223 WORK IS BEING DONE, THE CITY 2387 01:23:15,223 --> 01:23:18,126 TOOK BACK THE OUTREACH AND 2388 01:23:18,126 --> 01:23:19,194 PREVENTION DOLLARS AND SOME OF 2389 01:23:19,194 --> 01:23:20,161 THE WORK HAS ALREADY BEEN 2390 01:23:20,161 --> 01:23:21,396 TRANSFERRED BACK TO THE CITY, SO 2391 01:23:21,396 --> 01:23:27,869 I THINK THAT I WILL BE VOTING 2392 01:23:27,869 --> 01:23:28,503 FOR THE RESOLUTION TODAY BECAUSE 2393 01:23:28,503 --> 01:23:29,804 IT IS NOT CONTRARY TO THE PATH 2394 01:23:29,804 --> 01:23:32,073 FORWARD, IN TERMS OF, WHAT ARE 2395 01:23:32,073 --> 01:23:38,546 THE NEXT STEPS FOR KCRHA? BUT, I 2396 01:23:38,546 --> 01:23:39,848 DO THINK I WILL ULTIMATELY END 2397 01:23:39,848 --> 01:23:40,982 UP WITH A DISSOLUTION OF THE 2398 01:23:40,982 --> 01:23:48,123 AGENCY, AND THEN, AN APPROACH 2399 01:23:48,123 --> 01:23:48,990 FOR NEXT STEPS, BECAUSE WE STILL 2400 01:23:48,990 --> 01:23:50,492 NEED TO DO THE WORK, WE ARE 2401 01:23:50,492 --> 01:23:51,559 DOING THE WORK, AND WE WILL 2402 01:23:51,559 --> 01:23:53,328 CONTINUE TO DO THE WORK, AND THE 2403 01:23:53,328 --> 01:23:58,900 PUBLIC NEEDS TO BE CONFIDENT 2404 01:23:58,900 --> 01:24:00,201 THAT THE WORK IS GOING TO 2405 01:24:00,201 --> 01:24:01,369 HAPPEN, THAT IS WHAT WE ALL 2406 01:24:01,369 --> 01:24:02,904 WANT, FOR THE WORK TO HAPPEN. WE 2407 01:24:02,904 --> 01:24:03,972 MIGHT DISAGREE ON HOW WE 2408 01:24:03,972 --> 01:24:05,774 APPROACH KCRHA, BUT WE DO NOT 2409 01:24:05,774 --> 01:24:06,574 DISAGREE ON THE WORK GETTING 2410 01:24:06,574 --> 01:24:07,575 DONE, AND THAT IS REALLY 2411 01:24:07,575 --> 01:24:08,977 IMPORTANT, AND WE DO NEED TO BE 2412 01:24:08,977 --> 01:24:10,345 UNITED IN THAT. SO, I DO HAVE, 2413 01:24:10,345 --> 01:24:16,918 AS YOU ALL KNOW, AN ORDINANCE 2414 01:24:16,918 --> 01:24:22,056 THAT WOULD DISSOLVE THE AGENCY 2415 01:24:22,056 --> 01:24:23,391 ASKING FOR THE MAYOR TO THEN 2416 01:24:23,391 --> 01:24:27,929 START THE PROCESS, AND THEN 2417 01:24:27,929 --> 01:24:29,230 DETAIL NEXT STEPS ON WHAT WILL 2418 01:24:29,230 --> 01:24:30,598 HAPPEN. I DON'T THINK IT IS TO 2419 01:24:30,598 --> 01:24:33,968 SIMILAR TO THE RESOLUTION OTHER 2420 01:24:33,968 --> 01:24:35,003 THAN CALLING FOR THE DISSOLUTION 2421 01:24:35,003 --> 01:24:40,008 SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. LIKE I 2422 01:24:40,008 --> 01:24:41,076 ALWAYS SAY, WE CAN AGREE TO 2423 01:24:41,076 --> 01:24:42,577 DISAGREE, BUT I ALWAYS FEEL 2424 01:24:42,577 --> 01:24:49,384 STRONGLY THAT THE TIME HAS COME 2425 01:24:49,384 --> 01:24:50,418 TO PIVOT TO A DIFFERENT STRATEGY 2426 01:24:50,418 --> 01:24:51,686 AND MOVE AWAY FROM THE KING 2427 01:24:51,686 --> 01:24:52,287 COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSING 2428 01:24:52,287 --> 01:24:53,655 AUTHORITY, BECAUSE WE CAN'T 2429 01:24:53,655 --> 01:24:59,027 KEEP THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER 2430 01:24:59,027 --> 01:24:59,994 BAD. THANK YOU, COUNCIL 2431 01:24:59,994 --> 01:25:00,295 PRESIDENT. 2432 01:25:00,295 --> 01:25:01,463 >> YOU ARE ALL GOOD. THANK YOU, 2433 01:25:01,463 --> 01:25:02,330 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. ARE THERE 2434 01:25:02,330 --> 01:25:03,298 ANY OTHER FINAL COMMENTS BEFORE 2435 01:25:03,298 --> 01:25:04,999 WE CALL THE ROLL FOR THE BILL? 2436 01:25:04,999 --> 01:25:05,967 ALL RIGHT, AWESOME. WILL THE 2437 01:25:05,967 --> 01:25:07,202 CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON 2438 01:25:07,202 --> 01:25:08,870 THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION? 2439 01:25:09,003 --> 01:25:09,737 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 2440 01:25:09,737 --> 01:25:10,071 >> AYE. 2441 01:25:10,071 --> 01:25:10,705 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 2442 01:25:10,705 --> 01:25:20,782 >> AYE. 2443 01:25:20,782 --> 01:25:21,449 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 2444 01:25:21,449 --> 01:25:21,783 >> YES. 2445 01:25:21,783 --> 01:25:22,450 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 2446 01:25:22,450 --> 01:25:22,717 >> AYE. 2447 01:25:22,717 --> 01:25:23,451 >> COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? 2448 01:25:23,451 --> 01:25:23,818 >> AYE. 2449 01:25:23,818 --> 01:25:24,385 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 2450 01:25:24,385 --> 01:25:24,786 >> YES. 2451 01:25:24,786 --> 01:25:25,587 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 2452 01:25:25,587 --> 01:25:28,056 >> YES. 2453 01:25:28,056 --> 01:25:28,590 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 2454 01:25:28,590 --> 01:25:29,090 >> AYE. 2455 01:25:29,090 --> 01:25:29,691 >> COUNCIL PRESIDENT 2456 01:25:29,691 --> 01:25:30,058 HOLLINGSWORTH? 2457 01:25:30,058 --> 01:25:30,325 >> YES. 2458 01:25:30,325 --> 01:25:39,367 >> NINE IN FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED, 2459 01:25:39,367 --> 01:25:41,302 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE AFFIX THE 2460 01:25:41,302 --> 01:25:42,170 SIGNATURE ON MY BEHALF? WILL THE 2461 01:25:42,170 --> 01:25:43,605 CLERK READ ITEM FOUR INTO THE 2462 01:25:43,605 --> 01:25:43,838 RECORD? 2463 01:25:43,838 --> 01:25:45,073 >> ITEM NUMBER FOUR, COUNCIL 2464 01:25:45,073 --> 01:25:46,107 012-1190, AN ORDINANCE RELATING 2465 01:25:46,107 --> 01:25:48,243 TO THE 2026 STORMWATER CODE 2466 01:25:48,243 --> 01:25:49,177 UPDATE -- UPDATING STORMWATER 2467 01:25:49,177 --> 01:25:49,711 CONTROL REQUIREMENTS FOR 2468 01:25:49,711 --> 01:25:50,211 DEVELOPMENT, ROADWAYS, 2469 01:25:50,211 --> 01:25:51,779 UTILITIES, AND MAINTENANCE 2470 01:25:51,779 --> 01:25:52,347 ACTIVITIES -- STRENGTHENING 2471 01:25:52,347 --> 01:25:52,881 STORMWATER TREATMENT AND 2472 01:25:52,881 --> 01:25:56,184 INFILTRATION STANDARDS -- 2473 01:25:56,184 --> 01:25:59,354 CLARIFYING VESTING AND REVIEW 2474 01:25:59,354 --> 01:26:00,021 THRESHOLDS -- ENSURING THE 2475 01:26:00,021 --> 01:26:00,555 CITY'S COMPLIANCE WITH 2476 01:26:00,555 --> 01:26:01,155 REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY'S 2477 01:26:01,155 --> 01:26:01,723 2024-2029 PHASE 1 MUNICIPAL 2478 01:26:01,723 --> 01:26:03,358 STORMWATER PERMIT ISSUED BY THE 2479 01:26:03,358 --> 01:26:03,992 STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY -- 2480 01:26:03,992 --> 01:26:04,592 AND AMENDING CHAPTERS 22.800, 2481 01:26:04,592 --> 01:26:05,226 22.801, 22.802, 22.803, 22.805, 2482 01:26:05,226 --> 01:26:05,760 AND 22.807 OF THE SEATTLE 2483 01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,062 MUNICIPAL CODE. THE CITY 2484 01:26:08,062 --> 01:26:09,464 RECOMMENDS THE BILL PASS AS 2485 01:26:09,464 --> 01:26:09,731 AMENDED. 2486 01:26:09,731 --> 01:26:10,632 >> THANK YOU. AS CHAIR OF THE 2487 01:26:10,632 --> 01:26:11,666 COMMITTEE, I WILL PROVIDE THE 2488 01:26:11,666 --> 01:26:12,967 REPORT, I'M GRATEFUL TO ALL THE 2489 01:26:12,967 --> 01:26:17,338 PEOPLE CAME IN PERSON OR VIRTUAL 2490 01:26:17,338 --> 01:26:19,407 PUBLIC COMMENTERS OR SENT US 2491 01:26:19,407 --> 01:26:19,874 EMAILS REGARDING THIS 2492 01:26:19,874 --> 01:26:22,477 LEGISLATION AND WHY IT IS SO 2493 01:26:22,477 --> 01:26:25,246 IMPORTANT. WE WERE BRIEFED AND 2494 01:26:25,246 --> 01:26:27,515 DISCUSSED THESE UPDATES TO THE 2495 01:26:27,515 --> 01:26:28,917 2026 STORMWATER CODE TWICE IN 2496 01:26:28,917 --> 01:26:29,551 THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE AND I 2497 01:26:29,551 --> 01:26:34,088 KNOW THAT WE ARE ON A TIMELINE 2498 01:26:34,088 --> 01:26:34,889 WHERE WE MUST AMEND THE 2499 01:26:34,889 --> 01:26:41,062 STORMWATER CODE TO MAINTAIN 2500 01:26:41,062 --> 01:26:42,197 COMPLIANCE WITH THE STATE AND 2501 01:26:42,197 --> 01:26:42,964 FEDERAL QUALITY PERMITS AND 2502 01:26:42,964 --> 01:26:43,865 ALIGNED WITH THE RECENT LAND-USE 2503 01:26:43,865 --> 01:26:49,370 CODE UPDATES. WE BROUGHT FORTH 2504 01:26:49,370 --> 01:26:50,605 TWO CHANGES, I WILL REVISE, SO 2505 01:26:50,605 --> 01:26:51,439 THE DEFINITION, "CLOSELY RELATED 2506 01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:52,273 PROJECTS," AND "FLOW CONTROL" 2507 01:26:52,273 --> 01:26:56,144 OR, EXCUSE ME. TWO MAJOR 2508 01:26:56,144 --> 01:26:57,178 CHANGES, DIDN'T PUT THESE 2509 01:26:57,178 --> 01:26:58,379 CHANGES, BUT TWO MAJOR CHANGES 2510 01:26:58,379 --> 01:27:04,485 ARE DEFINITION OF "CLOSELY 2511 01:27:04,485 --> 01:27:05,420 RELATED PROJECTS," AND FLOW 2512 01:27:05,420 --> 01:27:06,354 REQUIREMENTS FOR SMALL SITES 2513 01:27:06,354 --> 01:27:07,722 FROM 2000-5000 SQUARE FEET, A 2514 01:27:07,722 --> 01:27:09,524 NEW PLUS REPLACED HARD SERVICES, 2515 01:27:09,524 --> 01:27:15,196 SO I HAVE OFFERED TWO AMENDMENTS 2516 01:27:15,196 --> 01:27:16,331 IN COORDINATION OF WHAT WE HAVE 2517 01:27:16,331 --> 01:27:17,332 HEARD FROM PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY. 2518 01:27:17,332 --> 01:27:18,199 ONE AMENDMENT PROPOSES TECHNICAL 2519 01:27:18,199 --> 01:27:19,500 CHANGES TO THE LEGISLATION, 2520 01:27:19,500 --> 01:27:22,103 INCLUDING PUNCTUATION AND 2521 01:27:22,103 --> 01:27:31,346 FORMATTING, SO THAT IS A 2522 01:27:31,346 --> 01:27:31,980 PUNCTUAL, AND AMENDMENT TWO ADDS 2523 01:27:31,980 --> 01:27:33,047 THREE RECITALS TO THE BILL 2524 01:27:33,047 --> 01:27:34,048 REGARDING EXPLORING THE ROLE OF 2525 01:27:34,048 --> 01:27:35,149 TREES AND EXPLORING THE BEST 2526 01:27:35,149 --> 01:27:35,984 AVAILABLE SCIENCE AND STORMWATER 2527 01:27:35,984 --> 01:27:40,021 CODE UPDATES BOTH PAST AT A 2528 01:27:40,021 --> 01:27:41,489 COMMITTEE ON MAY 14th TO ADD TO 2529 01:27:41,489 --> 01:27:42,724 THE STORMWATER CODE. AND I DO 2530 01:27:42,724 --> 01:27:43,758 BELIEVE THERE IS AN AMENDMENT 2531 01:27:43,758 --> 01:27:49,097 TODAY, BROUGHT FORTH BY 2532 01:27:49,097 --> 01:27:49,998 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. SO, I 2533 01:27:49,998 --> 01:27:51,399 WILL, AT THIS TIME, TO SEE IF 2534 01:27:51,399 --> 01:27:52,400 YOU WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR 2535 01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:53,668 AMENDMENT, AND THEN WE CAN 2536 01:27:53,668 --> 01:27:54,002 DISCUSS IT. 2537 01:27:54,002 --> 01:27:55,536 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. 2538 01:27:55,536 --> 01:28:01,909 I MOVE TO AMEND COUNCIL BILL 2539 01:28:01,909 --> 01:28:02,110 190. 2540 01:28:02,110 --> 01:28:02,577 >> SECOND. 2541 01:28:02,577 --> 01:28:03,811 >> IT HAS BEEN MOVED AND 2542 01:28:03,811 --> 01:28:14,288 SECONDED TO AMEND THE BILL, 2543 01:28:14,789 --> 01:28:15,657 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, YOU ARE 2544 01:28:15,657 --> 01:28:16,691 RECOGNIZED IN ORDER TO ADDRESS 2545 01:28:16,691 --> 01:28:16,858 IT. 2546 01:28:16,858 --> 01:28:17,825 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. 2547 01:28:17,825 --> 01:28:18,626 COLLEAGUES, THIS IS A FRIENDLY 2548 01:28:18,626 --> 01:28:19,494 AMENDMENT THAT CENTRAL STAFF 2549 01:28:19,494 --> 01:28:20,962 WORKED WITH SPU ON AND IT JUST 2550 01:28:20,962 --> 01:28:21,929 ADDS ONE MORE RECITAL, AND 2551 01:28:21,929 --> 01:28:23,164 ACKNOWLEDGES THE WORK THAT SPU 2552 01:28:23,164 --> 01:28:23,998 DOES IN TRACKING THEIR 2553 01:28:23,998 --> 01:28:24,799 PERFORMANCE RELATED TO ITS 2554 01:28:24,799 --> 01:28:26,601 VARIOUS ACTIVITIES INCLUDING 2555 01:28:26,601 --> 01:28:28,202 STORMWATER EFFORTS, AND THEN IT 2556 01:28:28,202 --> 01:28:28,870 HIGHLIGHTS SPU'S COMMITMENT TO 2557 01:28:28,870 --> 01:28:29,637 EXPLORE FURTHER COMMITMENT 2558 01:28:29,637 --> 01:28:33,474 METRICS RELATED TO STORMWATER 2559 01:28:33,474 --> 01:28:34,642 POLICIES TO ADDRESS WATER 2560 01:28:34,642 --> 01:28:35,743 QUALITY AND ADDRESS THE NEGATIVE 2561 01:28:35,743 --> 01:28:44,719 IMPACTS OF STORMWATER RUNOFF. IN 2562 01:28:44,719 --> 01:28:45,520 THE COURSE OF THE COMMITTEE 2563 01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:46,621 MEETING, WE HAD A CONVERSATION 2564 01:28:46,621 --> 01:28:47,722 WITH MANAGER LEE AND HIS TEAM 2565 01:28:47,722 --> 01:28:51,059 ABOUT THE WORK THAT THEY DO, IN 2566 01:28:51,059 --> 01:28:52,560 TRACKING HOW WELL THEY ARE DOING 2567 01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:53,695 ON THE STORMWATER POLICIES, AND 2568 01:28:53,695 --> 01:28:55,096 AS PART OF THE CONVERSATION, WE 2569 01:28:55,096 --> 01:29:02,370 HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT 2570 01:29:02,370 --> 01:29:03,171 ADDITIONAL MEASURES THEY MIGHT 2571 01:29:03,171 --> 01:29:04,539 PUT INTO PLACE AND I KNOW THEY 2572 01:29:04,539 --> 01:29:06,341 ARE COMMITTED TO FILLING IT, SO 2573 01:29:06,341 --> 01:29:07,575 WE JUST PUT THE RECITAL IN TO 2574 01:29:07,575 --> 01:29:18,119 REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE SO THE PUBLIC 2575 01:29:18,119 --> 01:29:19,854 CAN SEE THAT SPU EXISTS VERY 2576 01:29:19,854 --> 01:29:20,922 SERIOUSLY AND THEY WORK VERY 2577 01:29:20,922 --> 01:29:21,656 HARD TO ESTABLISH PERFORMANCE 2578 01:29:21,656 --> 01:29:22,824 METRICS TO REALLY SHOW HOW THE 2579 01:29:22,824 --> 01:29:24,025 CITY IS DOING, IN TERMS OF 2580 01:29:24,025 --> 01:29:24,826 ADDRESSING THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS 2581 01:29:24,826 --> 01:29:26,294 OF STORMWATER RUNOFF. SO, I AM 2582 01:29:26,294 --> 01:29:27,962 HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, 2583 01:29:27,962 --> 01:29:34,902 BUT I HOPE TO HAVE YOUR SUPPORT 2584 01:29:34,902 --> 01:29:36,371 JUST TO PUT THIS AS A RECITAL. 2585 01:29:36,371 --> 01:29:37,705 SO, LIKE I SAID, SO FOLKS KNOW 2586 01:29:37,705 --> 01:29:38,806 THE DEPARTMENT IS DOING THIS 2587 01:29:38,806 --> 01:29:39,674 WORK, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT, AND 2588 01:29:39,674 --> 01:29:40,808 THAT THEY ARE GOING TO FIND 2589 01:29:40,808 --> 01:29:41,776 ADDITIONAL WAYS TO CONTINUE TO 2590 01:29:41,776 --> 01:29:45,680 IMPROVE UPON THIS. THANK YOU, 2591 01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:46,114 COUNCIL PRESIDENT. 2592 01:29:46,114 --> 01:29:47,115 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 2593 01:29:47,115 --> 01:29:48,116 RIVERA. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK 2594 01:29:48,116 --> 01:29:50,451 ON THIS. COLLEAGUES, I CONSIDER 2595 01:29:50,451 --> 01:29:52,019 THIS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT, SO I 2596 01:29:52,019 --> 01:29:52,687 WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS TODAY, 2597 01:29:52,687 --> 01:29:54,288 AND THANK YOU FOR DOING THE 2598 01:29:54,288 --> 01:29:56,691 RIVERA DILIGENCE. NOT THE DUE 2599 01:29:56,691 --> 01:30:02,897 DILIGENCE, BUT THE RIVERA 2600 01:30:02,897 --> 01:30:04,966 DILIGENCE. SO, THIS IS A FAMILY 2601 01:30:04,966 --> 01:30:05,600 AMENDMENT, FOR SURE. COLLEAGUES, 2602 01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:06,200 ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS 2603 01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:07,001 REGARDING THE BILL, OR, THE 2604 01:30:07,001 --> 01:30:17,545 AMENDMENT? AMENDMENT A? WILL THE 2605 01:30:20,214 --> 01:30:21,215 CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON 2606 01:30:21,215 --> 01:30:22,116 THE ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT A? 2607 01:30:22,116 --> 01:30:22,617 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 2608 01:30:22,617 --> 01:30:23,017 >> AYE. 2609 01:30:23,017 --> 01:30:23,718 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 2610 01:30:23,718 --> 01:30:23,985 >> AYE. 2611 01:30:23,985 --> 01:30:24,519 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 2612 01:30:24,519 --> 01:30:24,952 >> YES. 2613 01:30:24,952 --> 01:30:25,586 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 2614 01:30:25,586 --> 01:30:32,894 >> AYE. 2615 01:30:32,894 --> 01:30:33,528 >> COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? 2616 01:30:33,528 --> 01:30:33,928 >> AYE. 2617 01:30:33,928 --> 01:30:34,529 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 2618 01:30:34,529 --> 01:30:34,996 >> YES. 2619 01:30:34,996 --> 01:30:35,663 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 2620 01:30:35,663 --> 01:30:36,264 >> YES. 2621 01:30:36,264 --> 01:30:36,831 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 2622 01:30:36,831 --> 01:30:37,198 >> AYE. 2623 01:30:37,198 --> 01:30:37,932 >> COUNCIL PRESIDENT 2624 01:30:37,932 --> 01:30:38,299 HOLLINGSWORTH? 2625 01:30:38,299 --> 01:30:38,566 >> YES. 2626 01:30:38,566 --> 01:30:39,700 >> NINE IN FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED. 2627 01:30:39,700 --> 01:30:41,102 >> MOTION IS ADOPTED, ARE THERE 2628 01:30:41,102 --> 01:30:42,036 ANY OTHER FURTHER COMMENTS ON 2629 01:30:42,036 --> 01:30:43,037 THE BILL AS AMENDED, COLLEAGUES? 2630 01:30:43,037 --> 01:30:44,238 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE 2631 01:30:44,238 --> 01:30:45,907 ROLL TO THE BILL AS AMENDED? 2632 01:30:45,907 --> 01:30:53,748 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 2633 01:30:53,748 --> 01:30:54,048 >> AYE. 2634 01:30:54,048 --> 01:30:54,582 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 2635 01:30:54,582 --> 01:30:55,817 >> AYE. 2636 01:30:55,817 --> 01:30:56,350 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 2637 01:30:56,350 --> 01:30:56,584 >> YES. 2638 01:30:56,584 --> 01:30:57,452 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 2639 01:30:57,452 --> 01:31:02,657 >> AYE. 2640 01:31:02,657 --> 01:31:03,691 >> COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? 2641 01:31:03,691 --> 01:31:04,225 >> AYE. 2642 01:31:04,225 --> 01:31:04,692 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 2643 01:31:04,692 --> 01:31:04,959 >> YES. 2644 01:31:04,959 --> 01:31:05,493 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 2645 01:31:05,493 --> 01:31:05,726 >> YES. 2646 01:31:05,726 --> 01:31:06,260 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 2647 01:31:06,260 --> 01:31:08,329 >> AYE. 2648 01:31:08,329 --> 01:31:12,400 >> COUNCIL PRESIDENT 2649 01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:12,800 HOLLINGSWORTH? 2650 01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:13,601 >> YES. 2651 01:31:13,601 --> 01:31:14,368 >> NINE IN FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED. 2652 01:31:14,368 --> 01:31:15,403 CHAIR WILL SIGN IT. WILL THE 2653 01:31:15,403 --> 01:31:16,871 CLERK AFFIX MY SIGNATURE TO THE 2654 01:31:16,871 --> 01:31:17,872 LEGISLATION ON MY BEHALF? WELL 2655 01:31:17,872 --> 01:31:19,407 CLERK PLEASE READ ITEM NUMBER 2656 01:31:19,407 --> 01:31:20,241 FIVE INTO THE RECORD? 2657 01:31:20,241 --> 01:31:21,509 >> AGENDA ITEM FIVE, COUNCIL 2658 01:31:21,509 --> 01:31:22,043 BILL 121196, AN ORDINANCE 2659 01:31:22,043 --> 01:31:22,710 RELATING TO LAND USE AND ZONING 2660 01:31:22,710 --> 01:31:23,978 -- REZONING CERTAIN LAND IN THE 2661 01:31:23,978 --> 01:31:24,979 UNIVERSITY DISTRICT, THE FREMONT 2662 01:31:24,979 --> 01:31:25,613 NEIGHBORHOOD, THE MADISON/MILLER 2663 01:31:25,613 --> 01:31:26,247 NEIGHBORHOOD, THE RAINIER BEACH 2664 01:31:26,247 --> 01:31:26,881 NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THE DOWNTOWN 2665 01:31:26,881 --> 01:31:27,515 NEIGHBORHOOD -- REZONING LAND 2666 01:31:27,515 --> 01:31:28,049 AND AMENDING DEVELOPMENT 2667 01:31:28,049 --> 01:31:28,683 STANDARDS TO INCREASE HOUSING 2668 01:31:28,683 --> 01:31:30,651 SUPPLY, SUPPORT MULTI-PURPOSE 2669 01:31:30,651 --> 01:31:31,886 REDEVELOPMENT ON CERTAIN SITES 2670 01:31:31,886 --> 01:31:33,421 WITH COMMUNITY-BASED USES, 2671 01:31:33,421 --> 01:31:35,690 REMOVE CODE BARRIERS TO PASSIVE 2672 01:31:35,690 --> 01:31:38,159 HOUSE, MODULAR, AND MASS TIMBER 2673 01:31:38,159 --> 01:31:39,293 CONSTRUCTION AND TO CONVERSION 2674 01:31:39,293 --> 01:31:41,262 FROM COMMERCIAL SPACE TO HOUSING 2675 01:31:41,262 --> 01:31:43,497 IN MORE ZONES, AND INCENTIVIZE 2676 01:31:43,497 --> 01:31:44,365 COMMUNITY-SERVING USES ALONG 2677 01:31:44,365 --> 01:31:45,666 WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF MORE 2678 01:31:45,666 --> 01:31:52,506 HOUSING IN CERTAIN AREAS. 2679 01:31:52,506 --> 01:31:53,774 COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THE BILL 2680 01:31:53,774 --> 01:31:57,111 PASS WITH COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, 2681 01:31:57,111 --> 01:31:58,512 RINK, AND CATTLE IN FAVOR. 2682 01:31:58,512 --> 01:32:03,284 >> THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER LIN, 2683 01:32:03,284 --> 01:32:04,085 YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 2684 01:32:04,085 --> 01:32:09,090 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, 2685 01:32:09,090 --> 01:32:10,758 AND I THINK THE CLERK'S READING 2686 01:32:10,758 --> 01:32:12,293 OF THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL FOR THE 2687 01:32:12,293 --> 01:32:13,561 PURPOSE OF THIS BILL. I JUST 2688 01:32:13,561 --> 01:32:14,762 REALLY WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU, 2689 01:32:14,762 --> 01:32:16,230 TO OPCD FOR THEIR HARD WORK ON 2690 01:32:16,230 --> 01:32:20,601 THIS, TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR 2691 01:32:20,601 --> 01:32:21,536 THEIR SUPPORT, TO ALL THE 2692 01:32:21,536 --> 01:32:22,770 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HERE WHO 2693 01:32:22,770 --> 01:32:24,639 HAVE BEEN SHOWING UP, TIME AND 2694 01:32:24,639 --> 01:32:27,074 TIME AGAIN, TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF 2695 01:32:27,074 --> 01:32:28,843 THIS. I THINK WHAT IS EXCITING 2696 01:32:28,843 --> 01:32:33,347 FOR THIS, AS THESE ARE VERY 2697 01:32:33,347 --> 01:32:37,885 SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES, 2698 01:32:37,885 --> 01:32:38,986 HOPEFULLY TO MAKE IT MORE 2699 01:32:38,986 --> 01:32:39,754 FEASIBLE TO DEVELOP HOUSING 2700 01:32:39,754 --> 01:32:41,055 THROUGHOUT THE CITY IN THESE 2701 01:32:41,055 --> 01:32:41,889 DIFFERENT AREAS AND ALSO TO 2702 01:32:41,889 --> 01:32:44,725 ADDRESS THESE BARRIERS, LIKE 2703 01:32:44,725 --> 01:32:47,461 HOUSING AND MODULAR. SO, I THINK 2704 01:32:47,461 --> 01:32:53,000 THIS IS AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY 2705 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:54,802 FOR US, FOR THE COMMITTEE, WE 2706 01:32:54,802 --> 01:32:56,304 HAD FOUR IN FAVOR AND ONE 2707 01:32:56,304 --> 01:33:01,776 ABSTENTION, AND OUR JURISDICTION 2708 01:33:01,776 --> 01:33:02,009 REPORT. 2709 01:33:02,009 --> 01:33:02,877 >> AWESOME, THANK YOU, 2710 01:33:02,877 --> 01:33:03,711 COUNCILMEMBER LIN. ARE THERE ANY 2711 01:33:03,711 --> 01:33:04,512 OTHER COMMENTS REGARDING THE 2712 01:33:04,512 --> 01:33:05,846 BILL IN FRONT OF US? 2713 01:33:05,846 --> 01:33:06,347 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 2714 01:33:06,347 --> 01:33:10,851 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. 2715 01:33:10,851 --> 01:33:12,086 COLLEAGUES, YOU MAY KNOW THAT I 2716 01:33:12,086 --> 01:33:13,087 HAVE A HISTORY WITH REZONING 2717 01:33:13,087 --> 01:33:19,560 INDUSTRIAL LANDS. THERE ARE 2718 01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:20,494 INDUSTRIAL LAND CHANGES IN THIS 2719 01:33:20,494 --> 01:33:23,931 BILL. IT IS OF MY OPINION THAT 2720 01:33:23,931 --> 01:33:27,435 WE CANNOT REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF 2721 01:33:27,435 --> 01:33:28,736 INDUSTRIAL LANDS WE HAVE IN OUR 2722 01:33:28,736 --> 01:33:36,043 CITY WITHOUT A PROCESS THAT 2723 01:33:36,043 --> 01:33:37,478 ALLOWS ALL VOICES TO BE HEARD 2724 01:33:37,478 --> 01:33:38,512 AND FOR CONSENSUS TO BE BUILT. 2725 01:33:38,512 --> 01:33:39,847 IN 2023, I BROUGHT FORWARD THE 2726 01:33:39,847 --> 01:33:40,681 MARITIME AND INDUSTRIAL LANDS 2727 01:33:40,681 --> 01:33:42,950 PACKAGE THAT WAS A NEARLY 10 2728 01:33:42,950 --> 01:33:49,757 YEAR EFFORT. STAKEHOLDERS OF SO 2729 01:33:49,757 --> 01:33:50,758 MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE -- I'M 2730 01:33:50,758 --> 01:33:52,360 NOT GOING TO GO INTO IT BECAUSE 2731 01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:53,694 WE ARE RUNNING SHORT ON TIME -- 2732 01:33:53,694 --> 01:33:55,329 ALL OF THAT TO SAY, WE HAD A 2733 01:33:55,329 --> 01:33:56,364 COMPROMISE THROUGHOUT OUR CITY 2734 01:33:56,364 --> 01:33:57,098 THAT WOULD WORK THROUGH 2735 01:33:57,098 --> 01:33:57,965 EVERYONE, AND THE ITEMS THAT 2736 01:33:57,965 --> 01:34:00,034 WERE NOT YET AGREED UPON BY ALL 2737 01:34:00,034 --> 01:34:03,070 PARTIES WERE SENT TO THE SIDE. 2738 01:34:03,070 --> 01:34:05,106 THERE WERE FOUR LOCATIONS -- 2739 01:34:05,106 --> 01:34:07,308 GEORGETOWN, FREMONT, ALLARD, AND 2740 01:34:07,308 --> 01:34:15,616 SOTO. EACH OF THESE FOUR 2741 01:34:15,616 --> 01:34:16,317 LOCATIONS HAD A CLEAR PROCESS TO 2742 01:34:16,317 --> 01:34:17,785 CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION. EACH 2743 01:34:17,785 --> 01:34:28,295 OF THEM HAVE A CLEAR PROCESS. 2744 01:34:29,730 --> 01:34:31,265 WHAT YOU SEE IN THIS BILL IS THE 2745 01:34:31,265 --> 01:34:32,366 LOCATION IN FREMONT THAT HAS 2746 01:34:32,366 --> 01:34:33,267 CONTINUED ALONG THIS PROCESS, 2747 01:34:33,267 --> 01:34:34,502 AND WHAT YOU SEE TODAY IS NOBODY 2748 01:34:34,502 --> 01:34:35,636 SPEAKING IN FAVOR -- WELL, 2749 01:34:35,636 --> 01:34:36,570 NOBODY SPEAKING IN AGAINST. WE 2750 01:34:36,570 --> 01:34:37,638 HAVE MANY SPEAKING IN FAVOR. 2751 01:34:37,638 --> 01:34:38,606 THIS IS THE PRODUCT OF 2752 01:34:38,606 --> 01:34:39,407 IMPORTANT, HARD WORK OF 2753 01:34:39,407 --> 01:34:40,508 COLLABORATION, TO REACH 2754 01:34:40,508 --> 01:34:41,308 CONSENSUS, THAT DOESN'T MEAN 2755 01:34:41,308 --> 01:34:42,843 THAT THERE IS NOT DISAGREEMENT, 2756 01:34:42,843 --> 01:34:53,320 STILL. I AM ALWAYS CONCERNED 2757 01:34:53,320 --> 01:34:54,121 WHEN WE ARE LOSING INDUSTRIAL 2758 01:34:54,121 --> 01:34:54,955 LANDS OUT OF THE INDUSTRIAL 2759 01:34:54,955 --> 01:34:55,890 LANDS ZONING CATEGORY, BECAUSE 2760 01:34:55,890 --> 01:34:57,158 ONE THIRD OF OUR SALES AND USE 2761 01:34:57,158 --> 01:34:58,559 TAX COMES FROM INDUSTRIAL AND 2762 01:34:58,559 --> 01:35:02,563 MANUFACTURING SECTORS, THAT IT 2763 01:35:02,563 --> 01:35:03,531 ALWAYS STAYS STEADY. WHEN THE 2764 01:35:03,531 --> 01:35:04,532 TECH BOOMS, NOBODY NOTICES. WHEN 2765 01:35:04,532 --> 01:35:05,566 THAT TECH DROPS, EVERYBODY IS 2766 01:35:05,566 --> 01:35:08,736 RELYING ON THAT INDUSTRIAL AND 2767 01:35:08,736 --> 01:35:09,937 MANUFACTURING SECTOR. SO, I 2768 01:35:09,937 --> 01:35:10,671 DON'T KNOW THE LATEST ON 2769 01:35:10,671 --> 01:35:11,939 GEORGETOWN. I KNOW THE LATEST ON 2770 01:35:11,939 --> 01:35:21,015 FREMONT, HERE. AND I SUPPORT 2771 01:35:21,015 --> 01:35:22,249 THIS, WHICH IS, AGAIN, A RARE 2772 01:35:22,249 --> 01:35:23,084 OPPORTUNITY OF ME SUPPORTING 2773 01:35:23,084 --> 01:35:24,151 REMOVAL OF INDUSTRIAL LANDS FOR 2774 01:35:24,151 --> 01:35:30,357 OTHER USES, BECAUSE IT TOOK A 2775 01:35:30,357 --> 01:35:30,891 PROCESS THAT INCREASED 2776 01:35:30,891 --> 01:35:31,659 COLLABORATION AND CONSENSUS. I 2777 01:35:31,659 --> 01:35:33,661 AM ALSO AWARE OF THE LOCATION IN 2778 01:35:33,661 --> 01:35:43,504 BALLARD THAT, I WILL BE CHECKING 2779 01:35:43,504 --> 01:35:45,639 IN TO SEE WHERE IT IS AT AND IF 2780 01:35:45,639 --> 01:35:46,740 WE NEED TO MOVE IT FORWARD, IF 2781 01:35:46,740 --> 01:35:47,942 THERE IS CONSENSUS. I THINK YOU 2782 01:35:47,942 --> 01:35:49,443 ALL KNOW WHERE WE ARE AT WITH 2783 01:35:49,443 --> 01:35:50,611 SODO HOUSING. I WILL TAKE THIS 2784 01:35:50,611 --> 01:35:54,715 OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THAT THERE 2785 01:35:54,715 --> 01:35:55,883 WAS A CLEAR PATH TO CREATE 2786 01:35:55,883 --> 01:35:56,517 COLLABORATION AND CONSENSUS, 2787 01:35:56,517 --> 01:35:57,151 DESPITE IMMENSE DISAGREEMENT, 2788 01:35:57,151 --> 01:35:58,452 AND THAT PATH WAS NOT CHOSEN, 2789 01:35:58,452 --> 01:35:59,820 WHICH IS WHY WE HAVE THE OUTCOME 2790 01:35:59,820 --> 01:36:10,397 IN WHICH WE HAVE. ALL OF THAT TO 2791 01:36:10,397 --> 01:36:11,599 SAY, I SUPPORT THE BILL BEFORE 2792 01:36:11,599 --> 01:36:13,134 US. I AM GOING TO SEE WHAT IS 2793 01:36:13,134 --> 01:36:14,201 GOING ON WITH GEORGETOWN AND 2794 01:36:14,201 --> 01:36:15,236 WITH BALLARD AND IF THOSE 2795 01:36:15,236 --> 01:36:16,370 CHANGES NEED TO BE MOVED 2796 01:36:16,370 --> 01:36:17,271 FORWARD, AS WELL. THANK YOU, 2797 01:36:17,271 --> 01:36:18,539 COLLEAGUES, I URGE A "YES" VOTE. 2798 01:36:18,672 --> 01:36:19,306 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 2799 01:36:19,306 --> 01:36:20,341 STRAUSS. ARE THERE ANY OTHER 2800 01:36:20,341 --> 01:36:21,509 FURTHER COMMENTS? I WILL EXPLAIN 2801 01:36:21,509 --> 01:36:22,843 MY ABSTENTION, I SAID IT IN 2802 01:36:22,843 --> 01:36:23,811 COMMITTEE, I WILL BE SUPPORTING 2803 01:36:23,811 --> 01:36:25,112 THIS TODAY, BUT I ABSTAINED IN 2804 01:36:25,112 --> 01:36:26,447 COMMITTEE ON THE SIMPLE FACT 2805 01:36:26,447 --> 01:36:27,982 THAT THERE NEEDED TO BE DONE, 2806 01:36:27,982 --> 01:36:33,287 BETTER OUTREACH, PARTICULARLY 2807 01:36:33,287 --> 01:36:34,455 SOME PLACES THAT ARE IN THE 2808 01:36:34,455 --> 01:36:35,322 CENTRAL DISTRICT WHICH ARE 2809 01:36:35,322 --> 01:36:36,657 HISTORICALLY REDLINED AREAS, AND 2810 01:36:36,657 --> 01:36:37,892 ALSO HAVING COMMUNITY FEEDBACK 2811 01:36:37,892 --> 01:36:42,563 IN JUST EXPLAINING WHAT THIS IS, 2812 01:36:42,563 --> 01:36:44,131 SO THAT IS WHY I ABSTAINED, SO 2813 01:36:44,131 --> 01:36:54,675 WE CAN CHECK, AND WE WERE ABLE 2814 01:36:57,745 --> 01:36:58,846 TO CONNECT, BUT THIS IS MY 2815 01:36:58,846 --> 01:36:59,680 FRIENDLY REMINDER FOR OUR 2816 01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:00,414 DEPARTMENTS, HOW IMPORTANT 2817 01:37:00,414 --> 01:37:01,115 OUTREACH IS FOR PEOPLE TO 2818 01:37:01,115 --> 01:37:02,216 UNDERSTAND IT IN A VERY 2819 01:37:02,216 --> 01:37:03,250 PALATABLE FORM, SO THEY KNOW 2820 01:37:03,250 --> 01:37:04,218 WHAT TO EXPECT IN THEIR 2821 01:37:04,218 --> 01:37:05,219 COMMUNITIES, AND OUTREACH IS NOT 2822 01:37:05,219 --> 01:37:10,591 PUTTING SOMETHING ON SOCIAL 2823 01:37:10,591 --> 01:37:11,826 MEDIA, IT IS PHYSICALLY GOING TO 2824 01:37:11,826 --> 01:37:13,027 PEOPLE AND TALKING TO THEM, AND 2825 01:37:13,027 --> 01:37:14,061 HAVING CONVERSATIONS. SO, YOU 2826 01:37:14,061 --> 01:37:15,563 HAVE TO FIND FOLKS IN THESE 2827 01:37:15,563 --> 01:37:16,130 COMMUNITIES, BECAUSE OFTEN 2828 01:37:16,130 --> 01:37:16,831 TIMES, THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS 2829 01:37:16,831 --> 01:37:17,965 TO CITY HALL. SOMETIMES, THIS IS 2830 01:37:17,965 --> 01:37:19,166 THE FIRST TIME HERE AT CITY 2831 01:37:19,166 --> 01:37:20,568 HALL, WHEN THEY DO COME, SO THAT 2832 01:37:20,568 --> 01:37:24,305 WAS MY ABSTENTION TO THAT, JUST 2833 01:37:24,305 --> 01:37:25,506 TO CHECK TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE 2834 01:37:25,506 --> 01:37:26,340 KNEW. SO, THANK YOU. 2835 01:37:26,340 --> 01:37:26,807 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 2836 01:37:26,807 --> 01:37:27,708 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, 2837 01:37:27,708 --> 01:37:33,180 AND TO YOUR POINT, I DID 2838 01:37:33,180 --> 01:37:33,881 FOLLOW-UP IN TERMS OF THE 2839 01:37:33,881 --> 01:37:34,782 OUTREACH. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE 2840 01:37:34,782 --> 01:37:36,517 WITH YOUR COMMENTS, THANK YOU. 2841 01:37:36,517 --> 01:37:40,421 AND FOR THE FREMONT AND THE 2842 01:37:40,421 --> 01:37:41,088 UNIVERSITY DISTRICT LOCATIONS, 2843 01:37:41,088 --> 01:37:47,361 THERE WAS OUTREACH DONE, AND FOR 2844 01:37:47,361 --> 01:37:47,995 THE UNIVERSITY DISTRICT, 2845 01:37:47,995 --> 01:37:49,330 DEFINITELY, MAILERS WENT OUT. 2846 01:37:49,330 --> 01:37:52,933 SO, BUT, WE HEARD SUPPORT FROM 2847 01:37:52,933 --> 01:38:00,541 BOTH OF THESE. WE DID NOT HEAR 2848 01:38:00,541 --> 01:38:01,475 ANY CONCERNS, SO REALLY 2849 01:38:01,475 --> 01:38:02,676 APPRECIATE -- I ALSO WANT TO 2850 01:38:02,676 --> 01:38:03,744 UNDERSCORE WITH YOU, ALONG WITH 2851 01:38:03,744 --> 01:38:04,912 THE DEPARTMENT, THE IMPORTANCE 2852 01:38:04,912 --> 01:38:06,513 OF DOING THAT ROBUST OUTREACH, 2853 01:38:06,513 --> 01:38:12,152 THE MAILERS, TO EACH OF THOSE 2854 01:38:12,152 --> 01:38:13,020 RESIDENTS. IT WAS REALLY, REALLY 2855 01:38:13,020 --> 01:38:14,121 CRITICAL, AND WE SHOULD CONTINUE 2856 01:38:14,121 --> 01:38:21,762 TO DO THINGS OF THAT NATURE, AND 2857 01:38:21,762 --> 01:38:23,264 AS ROBUST OUTREACH AS WE CAN DO, 2858 01:38:23,264 --> 01:38:24,531 IS ONE TO NOT JUST A SIMPLE 2859 01:38:24,531 --> 01:38:25,566 POSTING, BECAUSE WE WANT FOLKS 2860 01:38:25,566 --> 01:38:28,469 TO REALLY KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING 2861 01:38:28,469 --> 01:38:29,737 AND GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO 2862 01:38:29,737 --> 01:38:39,880 WEIGH IN ON THE FRONT END. WHEN 2863 01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:41,248 WE DO THAT, WE GET A BETTER 2864 01:38:41,248 --> 01:38:42,049 OUTCOMES. SO, THANK YOU. 2865 01:38:42,049 --> 01:38:42,850 >> AWESOME, THANK YOU, 2866 01:38:42,850 --> 01:38:43,851 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, BUT I DO 2867 01:38:43,851 --> 01:38:45,319 WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME TO THANK 2868 01:38:45,319 --> 01:38:45,953 COUNCILMEMBER LIN BECAUSE 2869 01:38:45,953 --> 01:38:47,521 COUNCILMEMBER LIN DID HIS OWN 2870 01:38:47,521 --> 01:38:53,460 OUTREACH. REALLY APPRECIATED 2871 01:38:53,460 --> 01:38:54,728 THAT WORK THAT YOU DID, TO BRING 2872 01:38:54,728 --> 01:38:55,963 THIS, SO WE COULD ALL BE 2873 01:38:55,963 --> 01:38:56,764 COLLABORATIVE, SO, THANK YOU, 2874 01:38:56,764 --> 01:38:57,665 COUNCILMEMBER LIN, FOR THAT, 2875 01:38:57,665 --> 01:38:58,766 REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. DO YOU 2876 01:38:58,766 --> 01:38:59,700 HAVE ANY OTHER CLOSING REMARKS? 2877 01:38:59,833 --> 01:39:01,669 >> JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO 2878 01:39:01,669 --> 01:39:03,337 THE COLLEAGUES. YES, THIS DID 2879 01:39:03,337 --> 01:39:04,571 TOUCH PROPERTIES IN A NUMBER OF 2880 01:39:04,571 --> 01:39:05,139 DIFFERENT DISTRICTS, AND 2881 01:39:05,139 --> 01:39:06,240 ABSOLUTELY AGREE, WE CAN ALWAYS 2882 01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:07,975 DO BETTER, AND IN THIS CASE, 2883 01:39:07,975 --> 01:39:18,419 REALLY APPRECIATE YOU AND 2884 01:39:20,421 --> 01:39:21,121 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA DOUBLE 2885 01:39:21,121 --> 01:39:21,922 CHECKING THAT WORK AND DOING 2886 01:39:21,922 --> 01:39:22,890 SOME OF THE ENGAGEMENT, SO, 2887 01:39:22,890 --> 01:39:23,290 THANK YOU. 2888 01:39:23,290 --> 01:39:24,091 >> AWESOME, THANK YOU, 2889 01:39:24,091 --> 01:39:24,958 COUNCILMEMBER LIN. ALL RIGHT, 2890 01:39:24,958 --> 01:39:26,160 WELL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE 2891 01:39:26,160 --> 01:39:27,528 ROLL ON THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL? 2892 01:39:27,661 --> 01:39:28,162 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 2893 01:39:28,162 --> 01:39:38,305 >> AYE. 2894 01:39:46,480 --> 01:39:47,381 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 2895 01:39:47,381 --> 01:39:47,748 >> AYE. 2896 01:39:47,748 --> 01:39:48,282 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 2897 01:39:48,282 --> 01:39:48,549 >> YES. 2898 01:39:48,549 --> 01:39:49,083 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 2899 01:39:49,083 --> 01:39:49,783 >> AYE. 2900 01:39:49,783 --> 01:39:50,317 >> COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? 2901 01:39:50,317 --> 01:39:50,584 >> AYE. 2902 01:39:50,584 --> 01:39:51,218 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 2903 01:39:51,218 --> 01:39:51,585 >> YES. 2904 01:39:51,585 --> 01:39:52,152 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 2905 01:39:52,152 --> 01:39:52,586 >> YES. 2906 01:39:52,586 --> 01:39:53,120 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 2907 01:39:53,120 --> 01:39:53,520 >> AYE. 2908 01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:54,154 >> COUNCIL PRESIDENT 2909 01:39:54,154 --> 01:39:54,521 HOLLINGSWORTH? 2910 01:39:54,521 --> 01:39:54,788 >> YES. 2911 01:39:54,788 --> 01:39:55,956 >> NINE IN FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED. 2912 01:39:56,090 --> 01:39:57,224 >> BILL PASSES, CHAIR WILL FIND 2913 01:39:57,224 --> 01:39:58,425 IT, WILL THE CLERK PLEASE AFFIX 2914 01:39:58,425 --> 01:39:59,493 MY SIGNATURE TO THE LEGISLATION 2915 01:39:59,493 --> 01:40:01,028 ON MY BEHALF? WE GOT CLAPS FOR 2916 01:40:01,028 --> 01:40:02,463 HOUSING AND H.O.P. -- THAT IS 2917 01:40:02,463 --> 01:40:03,263 AMAZING, THAT'S PROBABLY THE 2918 01:40:03,263 --> 01:40:04,331 LOUDEST CLAP. WHILE THE CLERK 2919 01:40:04,331 --> 01:40:05,532 PLEASE CALL THE ROLL -- NOT CALL 2920 01:40:05,532 --> 01:40:06,900 THE ROLL, EXCUSE ME. READOUT 2921 01:40:06,900 --> 01:40:07,801 NUMBER SIX INTO THE AGENDA? THIS 2922 01:40:07,801 --> 01:40:08,869 IS OUR LAST ITEM. 2923 01:40:08,869 --> 01:40:10,637 >> ITEM NUMBER SIX, COUNCIL BILL 2924 01:40:10,637 --> 01:40:11,338 121204, AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO 2925 01:40:11,338 --> 01:40:12,106 THE CITY LIGHT DEPARTMENT -- 2926 01:40:12,106 --> 01:40:12,740 AUTHORIZING THE GENERAL MANAGER 2927 01:40:12,740 --> 01:40:13,374 AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER TO 2928 01:40:13,374 --> 01:40:14,041 GRANT AN EASEMENT OVER A PORTION 2929 01:40:14,041 --> 01:40:14,675 OF FEE OWNED PROPERTY TO PUGET 2930 01:40:14,675 --> 01:40:15,275 SOUND ENERGY -- AND ACCEPTING 2931 01:40:15,275 --> 01:40:15,909 PAYMENT OF THE FAIR MARKET VALUE 2932 01:40:15,909 --> 01:40:17,044 FOR THE EASEMENT. THE COMMITTEE 2933 01:40:17,044 --> 01:40:23,951 RECOMMENDS THE BILL PASS. 2934 01:40:23,951 --> 01:40:24,685 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ, AS 2935 01:40:24,685 --> 01:40:25,652 CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE, YOU ARE 2936 01:40:25,652 --> 01:40:26,754 RECOGNIZED TO PROVIDE THE 2937 01:40:26,754 --> 01:40:26,987 REPORT. 2938 01:40:26,987 --> 01:40:28,455 >> THANK YOU, I WILL BE VERY 2939 01:40:28,455 --> 01:40:29,757 BRIEF. I WAS GOING TO DISGRACE 2940 01:40:29,757 --> 01:40:30,591 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS OVER HERE, 2941 01:40:30,591 --> 01:40:32,226 SO NOW THAT HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS 2942 01:40:32,226 --> 01:40:33,694 GOING TO DO -- PARKS AND 2943 01:40:33,694 --> 01:40:34,862 COMMITTEE LIGHT REPORT -- AND I 2944 01:40:34,862 --> 01:40:39,400 WILL BE VERY BRIEF -- THIS IS A 2945 01:40:39,400 --> 01:40:40,968 PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS 2946 01:40:40,968 --> 01:40:42,169 CITY LIGHT TO GRANT AN EASEMENT 2947 01:40:42,169 --> 01:40:43,504 OVER A PORTION OF OWNED PROPERTY 2948 01:40:43,504 --> 01:40:49,743 IN BELLEVUE TO PUGET SOUND 2949 01:40:49,743 --> 01:40:50,644 ENERGY AT FAIR MARKET VALUE 2950 01:40:50,644 --> 01:40:51,912 WHICH IS $6800, IN ORDER TO 2951 01:40:51,912 --> 01:40:52,713 SUPPORT T-MOBILE EQUIPMENT. IT 2952 01:40:52,713 --> 01:40:53,914 WILL HAVE NO IMPACT ON SEATTLE 2953 01:40:53,914 --> 01:40:59,620 CITY LIGHT OPERATIONS. LET ME 2954 01:40:59,620 --> 01:41:00,788 JUST SAY IT IN BASIC ENGLISH, 2955 01:41:00,788 --> 01:41:01,789 IT'S BASICALLY 900 SQUARE FEET 2956 01:41:01,789 --> 01:41:02,790 SO PSE CAN PROVIDE AN 2957 01:41:02,790 --> 01:41:03,824 UNDERGROUND GAS LINE TO THE 2958 01:41:03,824 --> 01:41:09,029 T-MOBILE GENERATOR. THEY ARE 2959 01:41:09,029 --> 01:41:10,230 PAYING FOR THE RIGHTS AND 2960 01:41:10,230 --> 01:41:10,931 PROPERTY ASSOCIATED WITH AN 2961 01:41:10,931 --> 01:41:11,932 EASEMENT AREA, 900 SQUARE FEET 2962 01:41:11,932 --> 01:41:13,267 UNDERGROUND, AS THE RIGHTS WILL 2963 01:41:13,267 --> 01:41:14,668 BE ASSIGNED TO PSE AS A PROVIDER 2964 01:41:14,668 --> 01:41:15,869 OF THE UNDERGROUND GAS LINE. SO, 2965 01:41:15,869 --> 01:41:18,005 THERE, YOU HAVE IT. 2966 01:41:18,005 --> 01:41:18,639 >> O, WOW. 2967 01:41:18,639 --> 01:41:29,116 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 2968 01:41:30,951 --> 01:41:31,885 JUAREZ, ARE THERE ANY -- 2969 01:41:31,885 --> 01:41:32,386 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 2970 01:41:32,386 --> 01:41:33,420 >> COLLEAGUES, THANK YOU, AND I 2971 01:41:33,420 --> 01:41:34,354 APOLOGIZE FOR USING OUR 2972 01:41:34,354 --> 01:41:35,489 COLLECTIVE TIME IN THIS WAY. I 2973 01:41:35,489 --> 01:41:36,190 STILL HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS 2974 01:41:36,190 --> 01:41:37,191 ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT BACKUP 2975 01:41:37,191 --> 01:41:38,392 GENERATION IS REQUIRED FOR THE 2976 01:41:38,392 --> 01:41:39,626 LEGALLY -- WE ARE REQUIRED TO 2977 01:41:39,626 --> 01:41:41,295 ALLOW T-MOBILE TO PUT OUR TRANS 2978 01:41:41,295 --> 01:41:50,771 -- I STILL HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT 2979 01:41:50,771 --> 01:41:52,706 HOW WE ARE REQUIRING THEM TO PUT 2980 01:41:52,706 --> 01:41:53,440 EXPLICIT FUELS NEAR OUR 2981 01:41:53,440 --> 01:41:54,575 TRANSMISSION LINES, I AM JUST 2982 01:41:54,575 --> 01:41:55,676 GOING TO VOTE "NO" TODAY, BUT, 2983 01:41:55,676 --> 01:41:57,177 TRANSMISSION LINES ARE JUST SO 2984 01:41:57,177 --> 01:42:01,381 CRUCIAL, AND IMPORTANT, AS WELL 2985 01:42:01,381 --> 01:42:02,616 AS THE CELL NETWORK, BUT I 2986 01:42:02,616 --> 01:42:03,550 DON'T WANT TO PUT ANY 2987 01:42:03,550 --> 01:42:04,485 UNNECESSARY RISK TO OUR 2988 01:42:04,485 --> 01:42:05,452 TRANSMISSION LINES, BUT I MIGHT 2989 01:42:05,452 --> 01:42:06,653 JUST BE BEING WEIRD. 2990 01:42:06,653 --> 01:42:13,894 >> WOW, OKAY. I SEE HOW IT IS. 2991 01:42:13,894 --> 01:42:14,728 >> THANK YOU, COLLEAGUES. 2992 01:42:14,728 --> 01:42:15,462 APOLOGIES FOR USING YOUR 2993 01:42:15,462 --> 01:42:16,363 COLLECTIVE TIME, AS WELL. 2994 01:42:16,363 --> 01:42:17,164 >> NO WORRIES, COUNCILMEMBER 2995 01:42:17,164 --> 01:42:18,265 STRAUSS. ARE THERE ANY OTHER 2996 01:42:18,265 --> 01:42:19,399 QUESTIONS FOR THE BILL BEFORE US 2997 01:42:19,399 --> 01:42:26,840 BEFORE WE GO TO A VOTE? 2998 01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:27,708 COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ, DO YOU 2999 01:42:27,708 --> 01:42:28,842 HAVE ANY OTHER CLOSING COMMENTS? 3000 01:42:28,976 --> 01:42:30,010 >> YES, WILL EVERYONE JUST VOTE 3001 01:42:30,010 --> 01:42:30,210 YES? 3002 01:42:30,210 --> 01:42:31,445 >> AWESOME. WILL THE CLERK CALL 3003 01:42:31,445 --> 01:42:32,980 THE ROLL ON THE PASSAGE OF THE 3004 01:42:32,980 --> 01:42:33,180 BILL? 3005 01:42:33,180 --> 01:42:33,680 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA? 3006 01:42:33,680 --> 01:42:33,981 >> AYE. 3007 01:42:33,981 --> 01:42:34,648 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS? 3008 01:42:34,648 --> 01:42:35,549 >> NO. 3009 01:42:35,549 --> 01:42:42,222 >> COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER? 3010 01:42:42,222 --> 01:42:42,623 >> YES. 3011 01:42:42,623 --> 01:42:43,357 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 3012 01:42:43,357 --> 01:42:43,624 >> YES. 3013 01:42:43,624 --> 01:42:44,324 >> COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE? 3014 01:42:44,324 --> 01:42:44,791 >> AYE. 3015 01:42:44,791 --> 01:42:45,325 >> COUNCILMEMBER LIN? 3016 01:42:45,325 --> 01:42:45,726 >> YES. 3017 01:42:45,726 --> 01:42:46,426 >> COUNCILMEMBER RINCK? 3018 01:42:46,426 --> 01:42:46,727 >> YES. 3019 01:42:46,727 --> 01:42:47,427 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA? 3020 01:42:47,427 --> 01:42:48,028 >> AYE. 3021 01:42:48,028 --> 01:42:48,495 >> COUNCIL PRESIDENT 3022 01:42:48,495 --> 01:42:48,862 HOLLINGSWORTH? 3023 01:42:48,862 --> 01:42:50,931 >> YES. 3024 01:42:50,931 --> 01:42:51,999 >> EIGHT IN FAVOR, ONE OPPOSED. 3025 01:42:52,132 --> 01:42:53,300 >> THE BILL PASSES, THE CHAIR 3026 01:42:53,300 --> 01:42:54,468 WILL SIGN IT, WELL THE CLERK 3027 01:42:54,468 --> 01:42:55,736 PLEASE AFFIX MY SIGNATURE TO THE 3028 01:42:55,736 --> 01:42:56,937 LEGISLATION ON MY BEHALF? 3029 01:42:56,937 --> 01:42:58,005 COLLEAGUES, THERE ARE NO ITEMS 3030 01:42:58,005 --> 01:42:58,839 REMOVED FROM CONSENT CALENDAR, 3031 01:42:58,839 --> 01:43:00,307 THERE IS NOT A RESOLUTION, WE DO 3032 01:43:00,307 --> 01:43:08,815 HAVE FURTHER BUSINESS. 3033 01:43:08,815 --> 01:43:09,783 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, YOU ARE 3034 01:43:09,783 --> 01:43:10,083 RECOGNIZED. 3035 01:43:10,083 --> 01:43:10,884 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCIL 3036 01:43:10,884 --> 01:43:11,685 PRESIDENT, I REALLY APPRECIATE 3037 01:43:11,685 --> 01:43:13,053 THAT. I JUST WANT TO MAKE A 3038 01:43:13,053 --> 01:43:14,388 COUPLE OF COMMENTS. YOU KNOW, 3039 01:43:14,388 --> 01:43:15,522 TODAY IS THE SECOND DAY OF PRIDE 3040 01:43:15,522 --> 01:43:17,057 MONTH, AND YESTERDAY, WE HAD THE 3041 01:43:17,057 --> 01:43:18,058 OPPORTUNITY TO BE DOWNSTAIRS IN 3042 01:43:18,058 --> 01:43:23,096 BIRTH IN ATLANTIS, CELEBRATING 3043 01:43:23,096 --> 01:43:24,264 PRIDE MONTH AND I HAD THE 3044 01:43:24,264 --> 01:43:25,265 OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE PRIDE 3045 01:43:25,265 --> 01:43:26,099 MONTH PROCLAMATION AND THAT 3046 01:43:26,099 --> 01:43:27,701 BATON, I THINK, WAS PASSED TO ME 3047 01:43:27,701 --> 01:43:28,168 BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT 3048 01:43:28,168 --> 01:43:34,641 HOLLINGSWORTH. AND I REMEMBER 3049 01:43:34,641 --> 01:43:35,275 SITTING HERE, THINKING ABOUT IT, 3050 01:43:35,275 --> 01:43:36,410 I REMEMBER LAST YEAR, SEEING YOU 3051 01:43:36,410 --> 01:43:37,311 BRING FORTH A PROCLAMATION TO 3052 01:43:37,311 --> 01:43:38,212 HONOR BLACK, QUEER LEADERS, 3053 01:43:38,212 --> 01:43:39,112 BLACK, TRANS LEADERS, AND PEOPLE 3054 01:43:39,112 --> 01:43:40,180 WHO OFTEN DON'T GET RECOGNIZED, 3055 01:43:40,180 --> 01:43:41,348 AND DON'T GET RECOGNIZED, IN 3056 01:43:41,348 --> 01:43:42,516 PARTICULAR, BY THIS BODY. AND I 3057 01:43:42,516 --> 01:43:44,718 WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING 3058 01:43:44,718 --> 01:43:46,320 AMARR'S FAMILY TODAY, AND I 3059 01:43:46,320 --> 01:43:50,524 WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE 3060 01:43:50,524 --> 01:43:51,525 RESOLUTION AND THE DEDICATION TO 3061 01:43:51,525 --> 01:43:52,859 HIS LIFE AND HIS MEMORY, AND I 3062 01:43:52,859 --> 01:43:54,328 WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK 3063 01:43:54,328 --> 01:43:56,296 THAT YOU DO TO MAKE THIS BODY 3064 01:43:56,296 --> 01:43:57,464 ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE 3065 01:43:57,464 --> 01:44:02,035 OFTEN NOT SEEN BY THIS BODY. I 3066 01:44:02,035 --> 01:44:03,437 SEE THAT WORK AND I APPRECIATE 3067 01:44:03,437 --> 01:44:10,944 IT. AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY, 3068 01:44:10,944 --> 01:44:12,846 EVERY TIME I SIT HERE AS A 3069 01:44:12,846 --> 01:44:13,680 BLACK, QUEER WOMAN, AND I LISTEN 3070 01:44:13,680 --> 01:44:14,514 TO PUBLIC COMMENTERS ATTACK A 3071 01:44:14,514 --> 01:44:23,757 BLACK, QUEER COUNCILMEMBER FOR 3072 01:44:23,757 --> 01:44:24,691 HER IDENTITY, I AM SO 3073 01:44:24,691 --> 01:44:26,059 DISAPPOINTED IN US. I AM SO 3074 01:44:26,059 --> 01:44:27,194 DISAPPOINTED IN US. WE CAN HAVE 3075 01:44:27,194 --> 01:44:28,261 DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, WE CAN 3076 01:44:28,261 --> 01:44:29,129 HAVE POLICY DISAGREEMENTS, WE 3077 01:44:29,129 --> 01:44:30,597 SHOULD. WE SHOULD NOT ATTACK 3078 01:44:30,597 --> 01:44:40,540 MEMBERS FOR WHO THEY ARE. 3079 01:44:40,540 --> 01:44:41,508 ESPECIALLY -- ESPECIALLY, WHEN 3080 01:44:41,508 --> 01:44:42,376 WE DON'T APPRECIATE THEM FOR 3081 01:44:42,376 --> 01:44:43,310 WHAT THEY DO FOR BLACK MEMBERS 3082 01:44:43,310 --> 01:44:44,978 OF THIS CITY. I DO NOT WANT TO 3083 01:44:44,978 --> 01:44:46,179 SEE IT IN THIS CHAMBER ANYMORE. 3084 01:44:46,179 --> 01:44:47,981 I AM HAPPY TO BE ON RECORD ABOUT 3085 01:44:47,981 --> 01:44:54,755 THAT. IT IS SHAMEFUL. I AM ALSO 3086 01:44:54,755 --> 01:44:56,289 GOING TO SAY THIS -- EVERY TIME 3087 01:44:56,289 --> 01:44:57,924 I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THE WORK I 3088 01:44:57,924 --> 01:44:58,959 NEED TO DO, PARTICULARLY WHEN IT 3089 01:44:58,959 --> 01:45:00,460 COMES TO WHO I SHOULD CALL IN 3090 01:45:00,460 --> 01:45:01,595 THE CENTRAL DISTRICT, WHO I NEED 3091 01:45:01,595 --> 01:45:03,230 TO REACH OUT TO, YOU HAVE BEEN 3092 01:45:03,230 --> 01:45:04,031 THERE, AND I APPRECIATE THAT, 3093 01:45:04,031 --> 01:45:05,232 AND I APPRECIATE YOU. WE HAVE 3094 01:45:05,232 --> 01:45:06,166 DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, AND I 3095 01:45:06,166 --> 01:45:07,701 LOVE IT, BECAUSE YOU ARE -- YOU 3096 01:45:07,701 --> 01:45:09,069 HAVE NEVER SHOWN ME AN OUNCE OF 3097 01:45:09,069 --> 01:45:10,037 DISRESPECT, YOU HAVE ALWAYS 3098 01:45:10,037 --> 01:45:11,204 RESPECTED MY VOICE WHEN IT IS 3099 01:45:11,204 --> 01:45:21,715 DISSENTING. YOU HAVE MADE THE 3100 01:45:25,519 --> 01:45:26,553 MOST GRACIOUS EFFORTS TO REACH 3101 01:45:26,553 --> 01:45:27,421 OUT TO OTHER MEMBERS OF THIS 3102 01:45:27,421 --> 01:45:28,555 BODY IN YOUR ROLE AS COUNCIL 3103 01:45:28,555 --> 01:45:29,556 PRESIDENT. YOU HAVE NOT ACTED 3104 01:45:29,556 --> 01:45:30,390 UNILATERALLY, DESPITE THE FACT 3105 01:45:30,390 --> 01:45:31,591 THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTING THAT YOU 3106 01:45:31,591 --> 01:45:32,993 HAVE DONE, YOU HAVE NOT, AND I 3107 01:45:32,993 --> 01:45:34,428 JUST WANT TO PUT THAT ON THE 3108 01:45:34,428 --> 01:45:35,696 RECORD AND SAY, I APPRECIATE YOU 3109 01:45:35,696 --> 01:45:37,130 AND SAY I AM TIRED OF SEEING 3110 01:45:37,130 --> 01:45:38,131 THAT LEVEL OF DISRESPECT TOWER 3111 01:45:38,131 --> 01:45:38,565 COUNCIL PRESIDENT. 3112 01:45:38,565 --> 01:45:38,999 >> AMEN. 3113 01:45:38,999 --> 01:45:45,205 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 3114 01:45:45,205 --> 01:45:45,806 FOSTER. COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ? 3115 01:45:45,806 --> 01:45:47,174 >> THANK YOU. I'M REALLY GLAD, 3116 01:45:47,174 --> 01:45:47,808 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, THANK YOU 3117 01:45:47,808 --> 01:45:49,009 FOR SHARING THAT. I KNOW THAT 3118 01:45:49,009 --> 01:45:49,843 THAT WAS A DIFFICULT EMOTIONAL 3119 01:45:49,843 --> 01:45:51,244 MOMENT FOR WHAT WE HAVE TO PUT 3120 01:45:51,244 --> 01:45:59,653 UP WITH. I'M GOING TO QUICKLY 3121 01:45:59,653 --> 01:46:01,254 STATUS AND I MEANT TO SAY THIS 3122 01:46:01,254 --> 01:46:02,089 AT THE BEGINNING, I APOLOGIZE, 3123 01:46:02,089 --> 01:46:03,657 COUNCIL PRESIDENT, AND I THINK I 3124 01:46:03,657 --> 01:46:04,858 SHARED IT IN THE CLIPS, BUT 3125 01:46:04,858 --> 01:46:05,826 TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF 122 3126 01:46:05,826 --> 01:46:07,360 YEARS AGO IN 1924 THAT MY 3127 01:46:07,360 --> 01:46:07,961 PEOPLE, NATIVE AMERICANS, GOT 3128 01:46:07,961 --> 01:46:09,196 THE RIGHT TO VOTE. 1924. SO, 3129 01:46:09,196 --> 01:46:10,197 THEREFORE, YOUR LAND 3130 01:46:10,197 --> 01:46:12,099 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ARE STUPID, AND 3131 01:46:12,099 --> 01:46:13,333 THAT'S WHY I SAY, WHEN PEOPLE 3132 01:46:13,333 --> 01:46:14,468 COME HERE, I WILL SAY WHAT 3133 01:46:14,468 --> 01:46:25,011 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER SAID, I AM 3134 01:46:25,412 --> 01:46:27,013 TIRED OF PEOPLE ATTACKING US ON 3135 01:46:27,013 --> 01:46:28,181 OUR RACE, AND OUR GENDER, AND 3136 01:46:28,181 --> 01:46:28,915 WHATEVER ELSE, PERSONAL ATTACKS, 3137 01:46:28,915 --> 01:46:30,317 BUT THE OTHER ISSUE IS, USING MY 3138 01:46:30,317 --> 01:46:31,251 OWN HISTORY, AS A NATIVE 3139 01:46:31,251 --> 01:46:32,352 AMERICAN, AS A LATINA, AGAINST 3140 01:46:32,352 --> 01:46:33,620 ME, BY NON-PEOPLE OF COLOR -- 3141 01:46:33,620 --> 01:46:34,988 AND YOU KNOW I DON'T LIKE THAT 3142 01:46:34,988 --> 01:46:36,556 WORD, "BIPOC." BUT, IT'S JUST, 3143 01:46:36,556 --> 01:46:39,926 IT'S SO DISRESPECTFUL. IT'S 3144 01:46:39,926 --> 01:46:40,994 JUST SO CRUDE, AND QUITE 3145 01:46:40,994 --> 01:46:42,062 FRANKLY, IT'S RACIST, AND 3146 01:46:42,062 --> 01:46:49,169 SEXIST, AND I'M TIRED OF IT. 3147 01:46:49,169 --> 01:46:50,604 AND, YOU KNOW, WE ALL GET TIRED 3148 01:46:50,604 --> 01:46:51,972 OF IT, BUT I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE 3149 01:46:51,972 --> 01:46:52,806 COME HERE, AS COUNCILMEMBER 3150 01:46:52,806 --> 01:46:54,007 FOSTER HAS SAID, AND YOU SAID 3151 01:46:54,007 --> 01:46:55,509 IT, EVERY ONE OF YOU HAVE SAID 3152 01:46:55,509 --> 01:46:58,879 IT, AND TELL US WHAT WE ARE 3153 01:46:58,879 --> 01:46:59,946 DOING WRONG, WHERE YOU ARE NOT 3154 01:46:59,946 --> 01:47:01,181 HAPPY, WHERE WE VOTED. BUT, WHEN 3155 01:47:01,181 --> 01:47:02,182 YOU JUST PERSONALLY ATTACK US, 3156 01:47:02,182 --> 01:47:03,650 JUST FOR SITTING HERE -- I MEAN, 3157 01:47:03,650 --> 01:47:05,385 WE ENTER A LOT, THAT DOESN'T 3158 01:47:05,385 --> 01:47:12,459 BOTHER ME. IT'S THE PERSONAL 3159 01:47:12,459 --> 01:47:13,794 ATTACKS FOR US EITHER BEING A 3160 01:47:13,794 --> 01:47:14,961 BLACK, QUEER WOMAN, OR A NATIVE 3161 01:47:14,961 --> 01:47:16,363 AMERICAN MOM, GRANDMA, BOOMER, 3162 01:47:16,363 --> 01:47:22,002 WHATEVER. IT'S JUST, IT GETS 3163 01:47:22,002 --> 01:47:23,036 RIDICULOUS, TO THE POINT WHERE 3164 01:47:23,036 --> 01:47:24,704 WE ARE NOT EVEN -- I'M NOT EVEN 3165 01:47:24,704 --> 01:47:25,839 -- I AM ALMOST SHUTTING DOWN, 3166 01:47:25,839 --> 01:47:27,641 BECAUSE, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO 3167 01:47:27,641 --> 01:47:32,913 DO? I CAN'T CHANGE IT. I MEAN, 3168 01:47:32,913 --> 01:47:33,814 THIS IS WHO WE ARE. SO, JUST 3169 01:47:33,814 --> 01:47:34,881 WITHOUT MAKING IT ANY MORE 3170 01:47:34,881 --> 01:47:36,082 EMOTIONAL, IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR 3171 01:47:36,082 --> 01:47:44,658 TO SERVE THIS BODY. IT HAS BEEN 3172 01:47:44,658 --> 01:47:46,159 AN HONOR TO SERVE THIS CITY, IT 3173 01:47:46,159 --> 01:47:47,360 HAS BEEN AN HONOR TO REPRESENT 3174 01:47:47,360 --> 01:47:48,628 DISTRICT FIVE AND IT ALSO HAS 3175 01:47:48,628 --> 01:47:49,830 BEEN AN HONOR TO WORK WITH 3176 01:47:49,830 --> 01:47:50,964 EVERYONE OF YOU, AND OF COURSE 3177 01:47:50,964 --> 01:47:51,832 WORKING WITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT 3178 01:47:51,832 --> 01:47:52,999 -- AND WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE 3179 01:47:52,999 --> 01:47:59,573 AND WE HAVE VOTED DIFFERENTLY -- 3180 01:47:59,573 --> 01:48:00,974 BUT, WE ALWAYS MAINTAIN RESPECT, 3181 01:48:00,974 --> 01:48:01,942 AND DIGNITY, AND AN OPEN 3182 01:48:01,942 --> 01:48:02,976 CONVERSATION. EVEN NOW, WITH 3183 01:48:02,976 --> 01:48:03,910 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS AND I, I 3184 01:48:03,910 --> 01:48:05,278 WAS GIVING HIM A HARD TIME FOR 3185 01:48:05,278 --> 01:48:06,780 VOTING -- "NO" BUT WE ARE GOOD, 3186 01:48:06,780 --> 01:48:07,714 YOU KNOW, THERE IS NOTHING 3187 01:48:07,714 --> 01:48:09,149 THERE, I DON'T MEAN YOU, BUT -- 3188 01:48:09,149 --> 01:48:10,851 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. WITH THAT 3189 01:48:10,851 --> 01:48:12,185 BEING SAID, I WANT TO THANK YOU, 3190 01:48:12,185 --> 01:48:12,853 COUNCILMEMBER FOSTER, FOR 3191 01:48:12,853 --> 01:48:13,854 SHARING THOSE WORDS, SO THANK 3192 01:48:13,854 --> 01:48:14,855 YOU, AND HAPPY 122nd ANNIVERSARY 3193 01:48:14,855 --> 01:48:20,160 TO MY PEOPLE TO GETTING TO VOTE! 3194 01:48:20,160 --> 01:48:21,328 [ LAUGHTER ] 3195 01:48:21,328 --> 01:48:22,195 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 3196 01:48:22,195 --> 01:48:22,863 FOSTER, THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 3197 01:48:22,863 --> 01:48:23,630 JUAREZ, THAT'S GREAT, 3198 01:48:23,630 --> 01:48:24,531 MUCH-NEEDED WORDS. COUNCILMEMBER 3199 01:48:24,531 --> 01:48:29,202 RIVERA? 3200 01:48:29,202 --> 01:48:30,003 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 3201 01:48:30,003 --> 01:48:31,171 RIVERA. I WANT TO JOIN THE 3202 01:48:31,171 --> 01:48:34,341 VOICES OF MY COLLEAGUES, IN SO 3203 01:48:34,341 --> 01:48:39,880 APPRECIATING YOU AND CALLING FOR 3204 01:48:39,880 --> 01:48:41,047 FOLKS TO COME TO CHAMBERS AND, 3205 01:48:41,047 --> 01:48:43,416 YES, GIVE PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT 3206 01:48:43,416 --> 01:48:44,818 THE PERSONAL ATTACKS ARE 3207 01:48:44,818 --> 01:48:55,362 UNWARRANTED, AND YOU KNOW, MANY 3208 01:48:57,364 --> 01:48:57,931 ARE RACIST, AND DEMORALIZING, 3209 01:48:57,931 --> 01:48:59,099 AND THERE SHOULDN'T BE A PLACE 3210 01:48:59,099 --> 01:49:00,166 FOR THAT IN OUR CITY, IN 3211 01:49:00,166 --> 01:49:03,036 GENERAL. AND SO, I THINK MY -- 3212 01:49:03,036 --> 01:49:04,804 THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR SPEAKING 3213 01:49:04,804 --> 01:49:06,206 UP AGAINST THAT, AND I ALSO WANT 3214 01:49:06,206 --> 01:49:07,240 TO SAY, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, THAT 3215 01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:09,776 I VERY MUCH -- I AM SO PROUD TO 3216 01:49:09,776 --> 01:49:10,744 HAVE YOU BE OUR COUNCIL 3217 01:49:10,744 --> 01:49:15,782 PRESIDENT, AND I AM SO PROUD TO 3218 01:49:15,782 --> 01:49:16,917 SERVE WITH EVERYONE ON THIS BODY 3219 01:49:16,917 --> 01:49:22,756 AND WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE, BUT 3220 01:49:22,756 --> 01:49:24,491 WE ARE SHOWING THE PUBLIC THAT 3221 01:49:24,491 --> 01:49:25,659 WE RESPECT EACH OTHER WHEN WE 3222 01:49:25,659 --> 01:49:26,660 ARE SPEAKING IN CHAMBERS ABOUT 3223 01:49:26,660 --> 01:49:28,762 EACH OTHER, OR THE WORK THAT WE 3224 01:49:28,762 --> 01:49:32,966 ARE DOING. WE ARE ALWAYS 3225 01:49:32,966 --> 01:49:33,800 RESPECTFUL, EVEN WITH WE 3226 01:49:33,800 --> 01:49:35,669 DISAGREE. SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK 3227 01:49:35,669 --> 01:49:42,509 WHAT WE ARE DOING IS TRYING TO 3228 01:49:42,509 --> 01:49:43,843 LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND IT IS JUST 3229 01:49:43,843 --> 01:49:44,678 VERY DEMORALIZING WHEN FOLKS 3230 01:49:44,678 --> 01:49:45,812 SHOW UP AND DO THE PERSONAL 3231 01:49:45,812 --> 01:49:47,080 ATTACKS AT ANYONE ON THIS BODY. 3232 01:49:47,080 --> 01:49:49,015 SO, AND THEN, I WANTED TO SAY, 3233 01:49:49,015 --> 01:49:54,587 COLLEAGUES, BECAUSE IT IS GUN 3234 01:49:54,587 --> 01:50:00,927 VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH, AS YOU 3235 01:50:00,927 --> 01:50:02,262 ALL KNOW, I HAVE BEEN WORKING 3236 01:50:02,262 --> 01:50:04,064 FOR A VERY LONG TIME ON THIS 3237 01:50:04,064 --> 01:50:07,000 SYMPOSIUM. IT TOOK MANY 3238 01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:13,873 DIFFERENT FORMS THROUGHOUT THE 3239 01:50:13,873 --> 01:50:14,808 CONVERSATIONS. I WANT TO THANK 3240 01:50:14,808 --> 01:50:15,675 COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR YOUR 3241 01:50:15,675 --> 01:50:16,443 PARTNERSHIP AND THE MAYOR'S 3242 01:50:16,443 --> 01:50:24,150 OFFICE, I HAVE SPOKEN WITH 3243 01:50:24,150 --> 01:50:24,718 COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE, U.S. 3244 01:50:24,718 --> 01:50:26,019 CHAIR, AND THE THING IS, YOU ALL 3245 01:50:26,019 --> 01:50:27,988 KNOW THAT I RAN FOR OFFICE 3246 01:50:27,988 --> 01:50:29,689 BECAUSE OF THE GUN VIOLENCE 3247 01:50:29,689 --> 01:50:31,725 ACROSS OUR CITY, PARTICULARLY 3248 01:50:31,725 --> 01:50:35,495 WITH REGARDS TO OUR CHILDREN. 3249 01:50:35,495 --> 01:50:45,005 CHILDREN LIKE AMARR 3250 01:50:45,005 --> 01:50:46,506 MURPHY-PAINE. AND OTHERS WE HAVE 3251 01:50:46,506 --> 01:50:47,674 LOST TO GUN VIOLENCE IN THIS 3252 01:50:47,674 --> 01:50:49,342 CITY. AND, YOU KNOW, AS A MOM, 3253 01:50:49,342 --> 01:50:50,777 OF TWO GIRLS WHO WERE ON 3254 01:50:50,777 --> 01:50:51,711 LOCKDOWN AT INGRAM BECAUSE A 3255 01:50:51,711 --> 01:50:54,914 CHILD GOT SHOT IN THEIR SCHOOL, 3256 01:50:54,914 --> 01:50:57,350 WE JUST HAVE TO DO BETTER, WE 3257 01:50:57,350 --> 01:51:02,455 JUST DO. AND SO, THIS SYMPOSIUM 3258 01:51:02,455 --> 01:51:04,090 IS REALLY JUST AN ATTEMPT TO 3259 01:51:04,090 --> 01:51:06,493 LOOK AT AN ADDITIONAL APPROACH. 3260 01:51:06,493 --> 01:51:11,331 IT'S ABOUT FOCUSED DETERRENCE. 3261 01:51:11,331 --> 01:51:17,270 IT IS NOT -- IT IS ADDITIVE. WE 3262 01:51:17,270 --> 01:51:18,738 DO A LOT OF THINGS IN THE CITY 3263 01:51:18,738 --> 01:51:20,473 IN THE PREVENTION AND 3264 01:51:20,473 --> 01:51:25,211 INTERVENTION REALM. WE DO A LOT 3265 01:51:25,211 --> 01:51:26,613 OF GREAT WORK, AND WE STILL HAVE 3266 01:51:26,613 --> 01:51:27,747 A LOT OF GUN VIOLENCE HAPPENING 3267 01:51:27,747 --> 01:51:29,082 IN OUR CITY, AND PARTICULARLY, 3268 01:51:29,082 --> 01:51:31,017 INVOLVING OUR YOUTH. BUT, IT IS 3269 01:51:31,017 --> 01:51:41,161 NOT EXCLUSIVE TO OUR YOUTH. AND 3270 01:51:41,161 --> 01:51:42,562 I JUST THINK THAT WE REALLY NEED 3271 01:51:42,562 --> 01:51:44,364 TO LOOK AT -- WE OWE IT TO OUR 3272 01:51:44,364 --> 01:51:45,532 KIDS, AND OUR CONSTITUENTS 3273 01:51:45,532 --> 01:51:47,200 ACROSS THE CITY, AND OUR CITY, 3274 01:51:47,200 --> 01:51:48,802 TO LOOK AT ALL THE WAYS THAT WE 3275 01:51:48,802 --> 01:51:59,345 CAN TRY TO ADDRESS GUN VIOLENCE. 3276 01:52:01,648 --> 01:52:02,749 SO, THIS CONVENING, REALLY, 3277 01:52:02,749 --> 01:52:03,550 IT'S LESS OF A SYMPOSIUM, MORE 3278 01:52:03,550 --> 01:52:04,884 OF A CONVENING TO HEAR FROM SOME 3279 01:52:04,884 --> 01:52:06,052 OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE HAD SOME 3280 01:52:06,052 --> 01:52:07,020 SUCCESS WITH THIS FOCUS OF 3281 01:52:07,020 --> 01:52:08,488 DETERRENCE APPROACH, IT IS 3282 01:52:08,488 --> 01:52:09,122 IMPORTANT, AND IT IS MORE FOR 3283 01:52:09,122 --> 01:52:10,056 OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WHO 3284 01:52:10,056 --> 01:52:12,525 ARE DOING THIS WORK, THAN US, 3285 01:52:12,525 --> 01:52:13,526 REALLY, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE 3286 01:52:13,526 --> 01:52:23,670 ONES THAT ARE HAVING TO MANAGE 3287 01:52:23,670 --> 01:52:24,504 FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY PIECES, 3288 01:52:24,504 --> 01:52:26,072 AND IN WHAT YOU SHOULD DO WHEN 3289 01:52:26,072 --> 01:52:27,207 THIS HAPPENS. AND THAT'S WHAT 3290 01:52:27,207 --> 01:52:29,309 THIS IS ABOUT. SO, I WANT TO 3291 01:52:29,309 --> 01:52:30,443 THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR HER -- 3292 01:52:30,443 --> 01:52:37,417 I KNOW WE HAVE -- WE ALL WANT TO 3293 01:52:37,417 --> 01:52:38,251 PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION. 3294 01:52:38,251 --> 01:52:40,620 I -- YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF, I 3295 01:52:40,620 --> 01:52:45,592 THINK, MANY CONVERSATIONS WE 3296 01:52:45,592 --> 01:52:46,493 WILL HAVE, IN GENERAL. BUT, I DO 3297 01:52:46,493 --> 01:52:48,128 WANT TO SAY, TODAY, ESPECIALLY, 3298 01:52:48,128 --> 01:52:54,334 THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I 3299 01:52:54,334 --> 01:52:55,902 KNOW WE ALL VERY MUCH CARE ABOUT 3300 01:52:55,902 --> 01:52:57,036 AND WE ARE ALL GRAPPLING WITH 3301 01:52:57,036 --> 01:53:05,612 HOW TO BEST ADDRESS. AND SO, I 3302 01:53:05,612 --> 01:53:07,180 HOPE WE CAN ALL CONTINUE TO WORK 3303 01:53:07,180 --> 01:53:08,014 TOGETHER WITH THE MAYOR AND THE 3304 01:53:08,014 --> 01:53:09,015 CITY ATTORNEY, AND THE 3305 01:53:09,015 --> 01:53:13,787 PROSECUTOR, AND EXECUTIVE, AND 3306 01:53:13,787 --> 01:53:15,321 ALL OF THE ENTITIES THAT HAVE A 3307 01:53:15,321 --> 01:53:16,422 HAND IN SPD AND EVERYONE THAT 3308 01:53:16,422 --> 01:53:20,293 HAS A HAND IN TRYING TO KEEP OUR 3309 01:53:20,293 --> 01:53:21,694 CITY SAFE, SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO 3310 01:53:21,694 --> 01:53:24,931 LOOK AT WAYS THAT WE CAN ADDRESS 3311 01:53:24,931 --> 01:53:26,332 THIS REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUE, 3312 01:53:26,332 --> 01:53:27,467 BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO LOSE 3313 01:53:27,467 --> 01:53:33,006 ANOTHER IMPORTANT LIFE, LIKE 3314 01:53:33,006 --> 01:53:34,140 AMARR MURPHY-PAINE. AND WHEN WE 3315 01:53:34,140 --> 01:53:36,876 LOSE A KID, IT IS -- OBVIOUSLY, 3316 01:53:36,876 --> 01:53:39,913 MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE 3317 01:53:39,913 --> 01:53:40,880 MURPHY-PAINE FAMILY, WHO WAS IN 3318 01:53:40,880 --> 01:53:48,154 CHAMBERS TODAY, AND WE ALL 3319 01:53:48,154 --> 01:53:48,855 SUFFER THE LOSS OF EVERY SINGLE 3320 01:53:48,855 --> 01:53:50,290 CHILD THAT WE LOSE IN OUR CITY, 3321 01:53:50,290 --> 01:53:51,991 AND AS A MOM, I TAKE THAT REALLY 3322 01:53:51,991 --> 01:53:57,230 PERSONALLY, AND TO HEART. SO, 3323 01:53:57,230 --> 01:54:06,506 ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO 3324 01:54:06,506 --> 01:54:07,774 ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT IS GOING TO BE 3325 01:54:07,774 --> 01:54:08,608 HAPPENING ON MONDAY, AND I JUST 3326 01:54:08,608 --> 01:54:10,443 HOPE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO FIND 3327 01:54:10,443 --> 01:54:14,480 SOME WAYS THAT WE CAN BRING SOME 3328 01:54:14,480 --> 01:54:15,748 RESOLVE TO SOME OF THESE 3329 01:54:15,748 --> 01:54:17,717 FAMILIES, BECAUSE NOT GETTING 3330 01:54:17,717 --> 01:54:19,485 JUSTICE -- AND I WILL SAY, I 3331 01:54:19,485 --> 01:54:24,858 KNOW, COUNCILMEMBER SAKA, THERE 3332 01:54:24,858 --> 01:54:26,292 IS A CHILD IN YOUR DISTRICT THAT 3333 01:54:26,292 --> 01:54:27,660 GOT KILLED AND AGAIN, NOBODY HAS 3334 01:54:27,660 --> 01:54:29,362 BEEN ARRESTED FOR THAT CRIME. I 3335 01:54:29,362 --> 01:54:30,330 CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT THESE 3336 01:54:30,330 --> 01:54:31,731 FAMILIES ARE GOING THROUGH, WHEN 3337 01:54:31,731 --> 01:54:33,600 THEY DON'T KNOW -- THEY DON'T 3338 01:54:33,600 --> 01:54:37,904 HAVE OUTCOMES ON WHO COMMITTED 3339 01:54:37,904 --> 01:54:40,139 THESE CRIMES, AND THERE IS NO -- 3340 01:54:40,139 --> 01:54:45,311 THERE IS NO -- NO CLOSURE. SO, 3341 01:54:45,311 --> 01:54:46,579 ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING, 3342 01:54:46,579 --> 01:54:49,515 COLLEAGUES. AND JUST WANTED TO 3343 01:54:49,515 --> 01:54:53,586 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, AND GIVEN, 3344 01:54:53,586 --> 01:54:55,154 ALSO, THE PROCLAMATION WAS 3345 01:54:55,154 --> 01:54:59,525 REALLY TO BRING AWARENESS THIS 3346 01:54:59,525 --> 01:55:00,827 MONTH TO THIS REALLY IMPORTANT 3347 01:55:00,827 --> 01:55:04,864 ISSUE IN OUR CITY. THANK YOU. 3348 01:55:04,864 --> 01:55:05,932 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 3349 01:55:05,932 --> 01:55:06,599 RIVERA. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO 3350 01:55:06,599 --> 01:55:08,668 JOINING YOU, AND I KNOW 3351 01:55:08,668 --> 01:55:12,672 COLLEAGUES ARE AT THE SYMPOSIUM 3352 01:55:12,672 --> 01:55:13,840 THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT TOGETHER 3353 01:55:13,840 --> 01:55:14,440 WITH IMPORTANT GOVERNMENTAL 3354 01:55:14,440 --> 01:55:15,608 PARTS NEXT WEEK, SO LOOKING 3355 01:55:15,608 --> 01:55:20,246 FORWARD TO THAT. THANK YOU, 3356 01:55:20,246 --> 01:55:21,581 COLLEAGUES, FOR YOUR WORDS. I 3357 01:55:21,581 --> 01:55:22,849 SUPPORT EACH AND EVERYONE OF 3358 01:55:22,849 --> 01:55:24,284 YOU, AND IT IS AN HONOR TO SERVE 3359 01:55:24,284 --> 01:55:24,884 SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH EACH ONE OF 3360 01:55:24,884 --> 01:55:26,352 YOU, I SAY THAT, AND I REALLY 3361 01:55:26,352 --> 01:55:32,992 MEAN THAT. I KNOW WE DON'T 3362 01:55:32,992 --> 01:55:33,960 ALWAYS DISAGREE, BUT WE DON'T 3363 01:55:33,960 --> 01:55:35,261 HAVE TO. I DON'T EXPECT TO 3364 01:55:35,261 --> 01:55:36,296 AGREE WITH YOU, ALL, BECAUSE, 3365 01:55:36,296 --> 01:55:37,230 YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY YOU, 3366 01:55:37,230 --> 01:55:38,398 COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE. I'M JUST 3367 01:55:38,398 --> 01:55:42,001 PLAYING. OKAY, ANYWAY, LAST, BUT 3368 01:55:42,001 --> 01:55:43,202 NOT LEAST, BECAUSE WE HAVE ONE 3369 01:55:43,202 --> 01:55:44,537 MORE MINUTE AND I DON'T WANT US 3370 01:55:44,537 --> 01:55:46,205 TO GO ABOUT TWO HOURS, I WANT TO 3371 01:55:46,205 --> 01:55:53,212 GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT, THE 3372 01:55:53,212 --> 01:55:54,280 FINAL START TOMORROW, THE SPURS 3373 01:55:54,280 --> 01:55:55,682 ARE PLAYING THE KNICKS. WE HAVE 3374 01:55:55,682 --> 01:55:56,316 A SPECIAL CONNECTION, THE HEAD 3375 01:55:56,316 --> 01:55:57,216 COACH OF THE SPURS, MITCH 3376 01:55:57,216 --> 01:55:58,284 JOHNSON, MITCH IS FROM SEATTLE, 3377 01:55:58,284 --> 01:56:00,119 HE WENT TO OH'DAY HIGH SCHOOL. 3378 01:56:00,119 --> 01:56:01,654 HE LOVES SEATTLE, THROUGH AND 3379 01:56:01,654 --> 01:56:03,423 THROUGH, AND HE IS A GREAT DUDE 3380 01:56:03,423 --> 01:56:04,490 AND SO, THAT IS WHY WE SHOULD 3381 01:56:04,490 --> 01:56:05,558 ALL BE SUPPORTING THE SPURS AND 3382 01:56:05,558 --> 01:56:06,659 THEY ALSO KNOCKED OUT OKLAHOMA 3383 01:56:06,659 --> 01:56:08,628 CITY THUNDER, OKAY? THAT IS THE 3384 01:56:08,628 --> 01:56:19,138 TRUE REASON WHY. A DESCENDENT 3385 01:56:19,372 --> 01:56:19,939 FROM -- HIS DAD PLAYED ON THE 3386 01:56:19,939 --> 01:56:20,540 1979 BASKETBALL TEAM FOR THE 3387 01:56:20,540 --> 01:56:21,107 WORLD CHAMPION AND HE IS A 3388 01:56:21,107 --> 01:56:21,574 DESCENDENT OF A WORLD 3389 01:56:21,574 --> 01:56:27,680 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM THAT KNOCKED 3390 01:56:27,680 --> 01:56:29,148 OUT THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER. 3391 01:56:29,148 --> 01:56:29,716 IF THAT IS NOT PURE JOY, I 3392 01:56:29,716 --> 01:56:30,350 DON'T KNOW WHAT IS. SO, THANK 3393 01:56:30,350 --> 01:56:31,351 YOU, ALL, GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS 3394 01:56:31,351 --> 01:56:32,819 MONTH, WE ARE GOING TO DO THE 3395 01:56:32,819 --> 01:56:34,988 BEST WE CAN FOR OUR BABIES.