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[MONICA MARTINEZ SIMMONS] Congratulations.
(applause and cheering)
[ANDREW LEE] My name is Andrew Lee.
I'm the general manager for Seattle Public Utilities.
I grew up loving the 49ers during the days of Joe Montana,
Jerry Rice, Steve Young.
I will say this one thing, though, which is I have grown to be a Mariners fan.
I'm an avid cyclist
and it's one of the things that I took on when I moved to the Northwest.
My son and I have done both
Seattle to Portland, as well as RSVP the ride from Seattle to Vancouver.
And this was my fourth time doing STP, and I was able to do with my 13 year
old and my 16 year old.
I love hiking.
Favorite one is one that I've done
every 2 to 3 years with my kids, which is Mount St Helens.
The challenges that we face as a city
are too
difficult for anyone department to address on their own.
To take an environmental issue like salmon. Sockeye
salmon runs have been, you know, historically low for the past decade.
So how do we solve that environmental problem?
Every single department needs to be in on these solutions,
and uhm, and that's not just true for salmon.
I'm choosing one of those examples, but that's true for our housing crisis.
You know, utilities has a role in that.
It's true of our transportation issues.
It's true of
our homelessness issues. Everything, you know has to be an integrated solution.
I think that the mayor's vision, for One Seattle is so critical,
to bring the departments together to find holistic solutions
where we're working collaboratively to make sure that we're coming
up with the best solutions
ultimately that are
leading to the best outcomes for our city. That is so much of what drives me
every day to work feeling like, is there a way that we can leave this
for our kids and future generations in a much, much better place.
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