>> Good afternoon everybody, the
March 4th, 2026 meeting of the
Parks of Seattle city light of
Seattle will come to order. I am
chair of the committee. Will the
clerk please call the role?
>> Council member Strauss?
Councilmember soccer? Council
member Rivera? Vice chair
kettle? Chair Horace.
>> The agenda will be adopted.
The agenda is adopted. Very
briefly folks, there are two
ordinances on today's agenda
and four appointments to the
joint committee. The ordinances
will be grouped and presented
together and we will vote for
them on them separately. And
then the appointments will be
grouped together and we will
have a speaker. And then we will
vote on all four together. So
the ordinance will will be
presented together but voted
separately and the four
reappointments will be grouped
together and voted together.
Let's move on to public
comment. We have the hybrid
public comment period. Should
relate to the items on the
agenda and within the purview of
the committee. How many folks do
we have in person and how many
folks do we have promote?
>> Currently we have one in
person speaker and two remote.
>> Why don't you read the first
person in the chambers.
>> First person in speaker will
be will summer.
>> Mr. summer. Go ahead. Either
will work. We will get you going
in just a minute. They go.
>> I have two minutes, correct?
Hello Council members, thank you
for giving us this time today.
My name is Will Sumner, M.A. biz
business owner in Seattle and
board member for the Washington
solar industry Association.
Seattle city light is at 93% of
its capital dictated by RCW.
After which net metering 2.0 and
our parlance will be debated. I
am may be telling you stuff you
already know but net metering is
currently granting solar, home
and business owners the retail
rate for power when they export
the grid. Changing this rate
begets a larger conversation
about the value offers to
homeowners, utility and society
as a whole. I have three goals
today, one is to let you know
that we have successfully
secured funds for multiyear
third-party study of the value
of Fuller. Solar. That study is
set to conclude this year. And
this is intended to drive policy
going forward. The second goal
is to introduce myself to you
all and as a whole so that we
may be partners going forward in
this conversation and we see the
utilities as partners. And
finally I wanted to impress the
gravity of this decision on
businesses like mine. Net
metering policy and other
markets in the country have had
huge ramifications for solar
deployment a.k.a. rooftop solar
deployment so it's a big deal
for us especially post. Is that
my time?
>> Keep going.
>> I like to stress the
importance of clear messaging
around city light intentions and
timeline. Mixed messaging wreaks
havoc in our world and bad
players have been known to
capitalize on that with
high-pressure sales tactics. So
clear messaging on when
decisions will be made is really
helpful to us as an industry and
really just wanted to thank you
and let you know if there is a
way we can continue this
conversation. Thank you.
>> Thank you sir. I apologize, I
was supposed to say everybody
got two minutes and forgot to
say it. Two minutes. Thank you.
The chime is that you have 10
seconds left. Thank you. Is
there anyone else in chambers?
Nope let's go to remote. Hey
everybody, you got two minutes.
You hear the ding on the phone.
>> Yeah.
>> Remote speakers, you each
have two minutes to speak. When
you hear the chime you have 10
seconds left. The first remote
speaker is Laura Clouse. Please
press star six. You have been
unmuted.
>> I don't see her on my
screen.
>> This is Laura Clouse.
>> We got you now. We will start
your timer. We will start the
timer when you begin. Go ahead.
>> Thank you. I appreciate the
time. I am here from preserved
farmland and we are deeply
concerned that Seattle city
lights of which you have
governance a utility that owns
more than 10,000 acres in Skagit
County is in the process of
appointing what it proves to be
interim CEO without utility
management with the expectation
announced in the news today that
that will serve for 18 to 24
months. When will this body be
holding a public meeting to
discuss the appointment of
responsible leadership at a time
when so much is at stake
especially safe passage and the
Skagit River when the licensing
process is nearing a conclusion?
>> We are just here for public
comment.
>> That is my comment. Thank you
so much.
>> Thank you.
>> The next remote speaker is
David Haynes. Please press star
six when you hear the prompt.
You have been unmuted. Is he
still here? It appears David
Haynes is no longer signed in.
That will be the last of our
public speakers.
>> Mr. clerk, I want to
apologize to you. I skipped
right over. I skipped over your
section. But I think we've been
doing this long enough to know
how it works. So that's it.
That is our last speaker for
remote and chambers and public
comment is now closed. I can
skip up to items of business.
This is the exciting part. Items
one and two. We will now move on
to our first two items. Will the
clerk please read these items
into the record.
>> Counsel Bill 121169 ordinance
relating to city light
department accepting easements
for electrical rights in King
County placing said easements
under the jurisdiction of the
city light department and
ratifying certain prior acts.
And ordinance relating to the
city light department accepting
150 easements in King County ,
Washington placing said
easements under the jurisdiction
of city light department and
ratifying and confirming certain
prior acts. Presenters are Katy
Tassery , Andy strong and
William Devereaux from Seattle
city light.
>> The presenters are all
healed-- here, we had a chance
to chat so thank you. Is it okay
if I call you by your first
names? We have Katie, Andy and
William and our friend operating
the slides. We have a
presentation for us. You have a
PowerPoint. And like I said, we
are going to discuss council
Bill's ending in 69 and 70
together. With that I'm going
to ask the present is if you can
go ahead and introduce yourself
and begin your presentation.
>> Thank you, chair Juarez. This
is Katy Tassery, I am the real
estate manager for Seattle city
light.
>> I am Bill Devereaux, the
director of environmental
management and real estate for
Seattle city light.
>> Andy strong, the
environmental, engineering and
project delivery officer for
Seattle city light.
>> Did you say William or Bill?
>> William.
>> You can move your mic up.
Just want to make sure you got
it. You guys have a PowerPoint
for us. Obviously you're here
to go ahead and take us through
it. Go ahead and start.
>> Sounds good. In queue. We
have two ordinances here today
and we are both accepting
easements on behalf of Seattle
city light so the reason
there's two separate ordinances
is because they do slightly
different things. The first
ordinance is distribution
easements and we will talk about
that in the next slide. And the
second is 150 platted easements
on behalf of Seattle city light.
The reason we need to legislate
that, city council has the right
to approve the acquisition and
disposition of property rights.
>> I looked at your
presentation. These easements
are from 2024 and 2025 so this
is kind of administrative
housekeeping.
>> We do one of these every
year. It picks right up where
the last ordinance left off. So
we tend to do them annually and
doing them in a package so that
you don't have to review
separate ordinances and 150
separate ordinances. So
attempting to save some time by
grouping them together.
>> Thank you. As much as we love
easements.
>> And this is part of city
light power so it's enabling us
to hook up customers to power.
So the first ordinance, the
easements is the property rights
for infrastructure that goes
across a neighbor's property to
the end customer so you can see
in the graphic the little arrow,
it is just that sliver of line
or whatever the infrastructure
that goes over a neighbor's
property. At the platted
easements, there's 150
easements for that and it's
I've seen it described as a
blanket easement so covering
property rights, the entire
subdivision of property and
those can be short plaques and
subdivisions so taking one
parcel and dividing it into
smaller pieces. There's been
more of that activity lately.
This gives city light the
property rights it needs to
provide power to those
customers. And that concludes
the presentation.
>> Thank you. So with that, do
any of my follow fellow
colleagues have any questions
regarding council Bill 12169 and
121170? No questions. Okay. I
think Katy would like a question
but I think we are good. She's
ready to go. So thank you for
that presentation. There are no
questions from my colleagues and
enqueue for the PowerPoint with
the page numbers and right to
the point. Appreciate that.
Including the ordinance by the
way, thank you very much. So
let's go to I'm going to do
item one first, I move that the
committee recommend passage of
council Bill 121169. Is there a
second? It has been moved and
seconded. Are there any other
further comments? Not seeing
any, Mr. clerk, please call the
roll on the recommendation of
passage of the bill.
>> Councilmember Strauss.
Councilmember Saka.
Councilmember Rivera. Vice chair
kettle. Chair Juarez. There are
five votes in favor and zero
post.
>> Thank you. The motion
carries. Sent to the March 10th,
2026 Seattle Council meeting.
Let's go on to item number two.
I move that the committee
recommend passage of council
Bill 121170. Is there a second?
Got two seconds. It has been
moved and seconded to recommend
passage of the bill. Any further
comments? Not seeing any. Will
the clerk please call the roll
on the recommendation of the
passage of the bill.
>> Chair, there are five votes
in favor and zero post made
>> the motion carries and
council Bill 121170 will be sent
to the March 7th , 2026 city
Council meeting. Thank you very
much. Thank you, guys. Apologize
for the commotion in the
beginning. All right. Mr. clerk,
will you please read our items
three to six in the record and
then I will make a few comments
and we will get started.
>> Agenda items three through
six. Appointments 03444 03447.
Reappointment of summer have and
Todd Toshio Snider as members of
the joint committee for a term
to December 31st, 2026. And
reappointing Jeffrey G Berry and
Michiko Starks for joint
apprenticeship training
committee. The presenter is
DaVonna Johnson from Seattle
city light.
>> Thank you from Seattle city
light to not only tell us about
the joint advisory training
committee but walk us through
with the appointees which I
understand are all mayoral
appointments. Are you ready to
go? We want to go ahead and
introduce yourself, DaVonna.
>> Thank you very much, Council
chair. My name is DaVonna
Johnson and I am the people and
culture officer at Seattle city
light. Thank you so much for
inviting me to talk about our
amazing apprenticeship programs.
>> Thank you. We got the
confirmation packets for all
four individuals and I see you
have two and two Seattle city
light. You just walk us through
your PowerPoint.
>> Thank you.
>> The J ATC joint
apprenticeship training
committee functions under a
resolution passed by the city
Council to ensure that our
apprenticeship programs are
managed in accordance with the
Washington state apprenticeship
training Council guidelines. The
members are appointed by the
mayor for three-year terms will
we have three members that
include organized labor and
three members from city service.
The employer's and unions
agreed to carry out the
instructions of the apprentices
and ensure they are on track and
monitored both their academic
and on-the-job. The J ATC
responsibility include they
recommended structures for our
program which are most of our
instructors are also city
employees that have moved
through those trades and work
with our apprentices in their
night school instruction. And
then also facilitators for their
on-the-job training. They
prepare reports. We have three
apprenticeship subcommittees,
one functions out of Seattle
city light and another out of
Seattle utilities and a third in
the finance services department.
And they then roll up to the
JATC. Their authority is to
ensure that any subcommittee
actions specific to the trade is
also reviewed and ensured that
it's in compliance with both
the city of Seattle and also the
state apprenticeship guidelines.
We have there is a whole set of
procedures that we go through
them obviously hoping to avoid
any of that with our apprentices
but the JATC does have authority
and response ability for
ensuring that apprentices move
through their program
successfully and if they don't
they do have a ministry of
powers-- administrative powers
to hold those or cancel. So we
love our acronyms. The three
apprenticeship subcommittees
that we have. They also have
equal representation of labor
and management. Seattle city
light, park and utilities and
also finance and administrative
services department. They
participate in interviews and
also ensure we are compliant
with collective bargaining
agreements and then they are
recommended by individual
department leaders but
ultimately put to the mayor and
confirmed by the Council.
>> Can I ask you a question?
>> Sure.
>> I printed out your
PowerPoint. On page three, you
said prepare reports of
apprenticeship subcommittees.
Who would that be? The
subcommittees?
>> So the subcommittees of each
department has a subcommittee
that is also made up of labor
and management. And so for city
light they are the electrical
apprenticeship committee for
Seattle Public utilities is the
water and pipe worker program.
And then for FAS the auto
mechanics program. So each
department has their own
subcommittees. And then those
recommendations and reports are
elevated to the JATC which is
the ultimate administrative
body.
>> That's the other question.
And then when you talked about
just not so much the
disciplinary stuff but the
program sponsors, who would that
be?
>> When apprentice progress is
not satisfactory. During this
time the program sponsor.
>> In this case, the city is the
program sponsor.
>> Got it. Take you very much.
And then are you going to tell
us what all of these acronyms
are?
>> I don't know what they are.
>> So the ECAC is the electrical
craft apprenticeship committee,
SPU .
>> It's okay if you can't.
>> The second one is the SPU and
I'm missing it right now, I
spend most of my life. And the
third is the auto workers.
>> Got it. I know that we worked
with some of these groups on
programs but SPU.
>> Perfect. Thank you. I stopped
you in the middle of your flow.
>> Potential issues that
sometimes arise in the
apprenticeship program is that
the JATC also has oversight on
ensuring that apprentices are
obviously attending both of
their on-the-job training but
also supplemental instruction
which is the night school
program. Also there to ensure
that apprentices are treated
with dignity and respect and
free from an environment of
harassment. They work with both
the labor and departments to
ensure that our proficiency
exams along the way are relevant
and appropriate and then they
have oversight for some of the
on-the-job training. Are there
any questions?
>> First of all, I want to
apologize. I didn't ask your
permission. Was it okay for me
to just call you DaVonna? I just
want to be respectful. The only
other thing I would add is that
when I was looking at page two
and I want to thank Seattle city
light, SPU, the auto and
electrical workers. Two
apprenticeship programs for the
ironworkers and building and
trades. And it went really well,
I was really happy that we
replicated that because we took
the model that was in West
Seattle and replicated it at
North Seattle college which they
were doing in their college
campus.
>> West Seattle and Georgetown.
>> We replicated the South
Seattle one and worked with the
tribe and we did all that and it
went so well. We recruited men,
women, women of color, women
coming off public assistance, it
went really well and I got
invited, you know this better
than me. Labor, there is this
big conference they have once a
year at Seattle Center, or not
Seattle center but the
convention center with all the
women workers, the women in
trades. I had never seen that
many women who are in the trades
ironworkers, electricians,
builders. It was amazing. Well,
I was just amazed that it was
packed with all women in the
trades. From Alabama,
Washington, D.C., Texas,
Montana, Utah. And all had their
Teamsters T-shirts on and it was
really cool. I've never been
around that. Maybe I will get
invited back. I would like to
get another shot at that chain
thing.
>> We would love to have you.
>> Go ahead, colleagues. Anyone
would like to ask questions of
JATC DaVonna? Normally we all
have a lot to say. Go ahead.
>> Thank you so much for coming
here today. And presenting some
of the work of the committee.
Appreciate those who are willing
to be appointed to serve in
these roles. These are really
important roles. You know,
volunteer and really important.
You have to know people are
passionate about this enough to
want to give of their free time
to do this. So I always respect
that so very much. Many years
ago I sat on the human rights
commission and it was such a
rewarding experience for me. And
so it really is something that
so meaningful. And in terms of
the labor peace is so important,
as part of the family education
progress we have these that we
do in concert with the colleges.
I know you've been down there.
For those of you that have not I
would encourage you to go. My
dad was a welder in the union in
New York and I just have a
special fondness for welders
because of it. It there is so
many labor programs for young
people at the Seattle colleges.
Particularly South Seattle also
North Seattle. And something we
are doing more of in this next.
And so thank you.
>> I would just like to say that
we have reached out and are
working on a partnership with
the Department of Education and
early learning to figure out how
we can leverage those Seattle
promise dollars to help with
scholarship opportunities and
training opportunities to help
prepare people for in our case
the electrical trades but all of
the trades at the city and while
we don't have apprenticeships
for every trade we do employ
ironworkers and welders and
people like that. We just don't
have those apprenticeships. But
it's a wonderful opportunity
for us to be able to partner
with the educational
institutions out there to give
people a path to employment with
the city.
>> North Seattle has this huge
parking lot. Councilmember Saka
had his hound up.
>> Thank you for being here
today and sharing more about the
broader program. Notwithstanding
the proposed candidates. Great
program, just coincidentally I
met earlier this week with the
South Seattle college president.
Great conversation, very
productive. Among other things,
she mentioned that councilmember
Rivera, your visit and how
tickled you were and it's very
clear from this conversation as
well. Very impactful experience
for you. But more importantly
when we are empowering people
with these opportunities and
skills so that is the Georgetown
location branch of the South
Seattle college in my district,
their main campus is in West
Seattle but in any event, I will
be doing my own tour soon enough
of the site. So she had to she
hyped it up. Shout out to our
ironworkers and sheet metal
workers and plumbers and
pipefitters and all of the
above. It's important work and
literally helping to build and
shape our future of the city of
Seattle. So thank you.
>> I know you went to your
PowerPoint but I know you are
excited to talk about the
reappointments. Sommer, Todd,
Jeff and Michiko Starks. All the
councilmembers here. Did you
have something to say?
>> What the public doesn't see
is that we have our computer
systems and I had my hand
raised.
>> I just wanted to first echo
councilmember Rivera's points
as the son of a welder I do
appreciate everything that she
said and the education pieces.
So I'm happy to hear the
possibilities particularly with
the Seattle promise that we
could leverage this and also
councilmember Saka because he
and I have been to meetings
south of my district and his
district and my focus has
generally been maritime. But
this applies to the city.
There's so many similarities.
One of the similarities, the
theme across the board and I
just heard this in a report
recently. The disconnect because
employers are out there and we
need people. We need people with
these qualifications. And they
are like we don't have anybody.
It's like, where is everybody?
But then on the flip side, there
is all these individuals who are
just looking for what they can
be but they don't see
themselves there because they
don't see themselves making
those steps to the committee.
This is really important. I was
mentoring young sailors all the
time. Invest in yourself can
build these steps and get to
that place. And the point of the
report was the apprenticeship
program is such a key way to
bridge those two pieces. And to
create those steps for
opportunities. The individual
who may not have all the skills,
that they can learn and they can
be trained. And then if the
employer is doing this, if the
city is investing in them you
have greater loyalty, greater
appreciation of these pieces. I
just wanted to echo my
colleague's points but
highlight that report that I
heard this week that spoke to
that. And I appreciate that. As
the son of a welder, but there
are so many folks that look to
do that piece. But they don't
see themselves doing it but they
haven't finished high school or
they didn't believe in
themselves. There's lots of
reasons for that. These
apprenticeship programs across
the board are really that
ability to bridge that gap. And
that gap is hurting us as a
city, as a county and state too
because we need that expertise.
You know, like on the maritime
side. There's so much skill
sets and so much give ability.
We serve the entire country. Not
just Seattle and the West Coast
and internationally too. But
that doesn't continue unless we
invest in those young people or
middle-aged people maybe who are
looking to do that and have an
interest and want to have that
stability that comes from a
career in some of these areas.
So I just wanted to thank you
and chair for bringing this up
as an opportunity to discuss
this. Because I think it's
important and we should be
looking across the board. Not
just within electrical power and
Seattle light but across the
board. Thank you. I will put my
hand down now.
>> More and more as the digital
divide starts to happen and
there's more and more focus on
jobs and technology and things
like that I think often those
tried and true trades that have
been around for more than 100
years sort of get lost. And we
are still despite my 22 years
with Seattle city light we are
still in places where we are
talking to students and young
people and even people who are
career professionals and they
are saying I never knew about
these jobs. I was sharing with
councilmember Juarez that any
opportunity I have to talk about
our programs and the things that
we do I want to do that. In
large part it's because people
really don't know about the
amazing opportunities people
have after going through an
apprenticeship. The best part
about the city apprenticeships
is not only do you get the
on-the-job training but we also
pay for all of the schooling,
all the equipment and gear.
There is not that sort of
financial barrier that there
often is when people go into
other apprenticeship programs.
>> You did say something
important, but when I was going
to the packet and you and I have
spoken before, the promise
program under the mayor and
council permitting citywide has
just been such a wonderful
pipeline flow. If you are not
looking at four-year college,
the trades is where you would
like to be and this we just
watched a bunch of bills die in
Olympia but when Dale-- A.I.
takes over the only are going to
be plumbers, carpenters, I'm
sorry but that is what's going
to happen. Maybe not lawyers.
But my point is it's kind of
full circle. We did a trip to
Germany report, it was just
fascinating watching their high
school structure over the past
two years. They are doing
trades, they are working, they
build planes. They are
competitors of Boeing. Airbus.
They are fixing helicopters. You
know, it dovetails into their
high school education and they
are getting paid. They can make
a decision, do I want to go to
college to be an engineer or
stay here? We don't really have
that in the system and how cool
that was that what a port city
like Hamburg, the conditions are
about the same as far as labor,
capital services, the type of
services that keep the economy
moving. And so just getting back
to, we just watched a bunch of
bills die in Olympia regarding
artificial intelligence to put
some guardrails on data centers
and also just a bunch of stuff.
So that is just a real concern
for me that people just aren't
using their hands and minds
anymore and we need to value
that and supported. With that,
I'm going to let you brag and
get to your amazing
appointments.
>> Thank you so much. I'll
start with summer have. Summer
have Hepburn. A current member
she has a bachelors degree in
anthropology and sociology. And
she is representing the JATC as
a labor representative from
local 32. She is in the Seattle
Public utilities water line of
business and she completed the
SBU water pipe worker
apprenticeship program. And is
currently working at a class as
a crew chief. And is a leader on
the all hydrant crew for Seattle
Public utilities and she has
taught curriculum related to
gender disparity and allyship
within the trades. And has also
worked with the fire department
on how to properly operate and
test fire hydrants. The next
person is Todd Toshio Snider.
Currently apprenticeship program
manager so he is representing
management on the JATC for
Seattle Public utilities. He has
a degree of a double major in
American history and political
science and has worked closely
with students in Seattle Public
schools. And was also a member
of the Peace Corps and provided
teacher training and rural
teachers in the Republic of
South Africa. Prior to him
joining the city he was a
employee of the Washington State
Department of labor in the
industries focused on the
apprenticeship program. He was
our apprenticeship liaison with
the state for 13 years. And is
currently on the JATC
representing the management
side. So Jeffrey G Berry is the
Seattle city light employee. He
initially came to Seattle city
light in the apprentice line
worker program and had an injury
so he moved into our electrical
constructor program which is a
substation operator. He
completed that apprenticeship
but then went and completed
another friendship and became a
line worker. He is currently a
crew chief for our underground
system leading cruise. He's
been part of our electrical
craft apprenticeship committee
for a number of years and he has
also served as a craft
instructor. At Seattle city
light, we have crew leaders that
come out of the field and work
directly with our apprenticeship
programs helping us develop
curriculum but then also
providing mentorship and support
for apprentices.
>> Looks like he's been at
Seattle city light since 2000.
>> Yes.
>> Good for him.
>> He is also part of the
negotiating committee for local
77.
>> And then Michiko Starks , she
is our apprenticeship manager at
Seattle city light. We have five
active apprenticeships at the
utility focused on high-voltage
electrical workers. Michiko
started her career as a
electrician. She graduated from
a commercial electrician program
and then was the assistant
training director and then
interim training director for
the Puget Sound electrical
workers apprenticeship. And then
came to us as the apprenticeship
manager. She also has a degree
from an undergraduate degree in
political science from the
University of Washington. And
then a Masters degree in policy
analysis and management. I just
wanted to point out with all of
those folks background and
things like that. We have a lot
of people that are part of our
apprenticeship program having
gone through an apprenticeship
or leading apprenticeships that
have degrees and also are
journey level trades person so
they are not mutually exclusive.
>> I know. She's got a very
impressive resume. University of
Washington and her degree and
Harvard University and the new
school and all of a sudden she
is doing the trades.
Electricity, engineering.
That's pretty amazing. It just
really is. So thank you.
>> One of the things I would
have you take away from this
group of people again,
councilmember Rivera you
mentioned the sort of dedication
and time and energy spent on
that. I would say that we feel
very lucky to have them as part
of our JATC but also part of our
apprenticeship community because
it really does require people to
donate their gifts and time and
attention to bring along that
next generation. I'm very proud
to work along all of them.
>> It might be a little bit
selfish but I'm sure my
colleagues would appreciate it.
Do you think you could send us,
me or the whole council kind of
a list of the apprenticeship
programs that you rattled off?
All of us have newsletters and I
would love to put this in our
newsletter for our constituents.
Particularly if you have a
district with a college. Light
rail goes north and south from
one end to Northgate. We have
seen a rise in enrollment in
Northgate College since the
light rail. My point is, we
really want to do more extensive
work under the promise program
for the apprenticeship program
and if we can provide for our
constituents, Seattle city light
and SBU, these are the programs
particularly for those already
enrolled in the promise program.
It would be wonderful to have
that in our newsletter so
parents can see it and schools,
whoever reads our newsletters.
Minus the Northstar.
>> Definitely. People often
don't think about the
automotive apprenticeship. And I
think most of us know cars are
much more like computers than
they are. So really we found
that we are attracting more
young folks to the auto
apprenticeship programs because
of the great need. The other
thing is, we have a lot of heavy
duty equipment and South Seattle
College has an amazing
heavy-duty diesel program that
we are able to attract people to
the city and city light SBU and
FAS have a lot of vehicles. And
so we need folks that are able
to help us keep them moving so
that we can serve our customers.
>> I will do one quick brag,
when we did the North Seattle
apprenticeship program for the
iron workers and trades. It
wasn't a condition but more of
a courtesy, like we would like
to see some of these folks hired
and Dr. Brown was still there.
Let me know that three or four
people who went through the
apprenticeship program were
later hired to build the
community ice Plex and all of
the structure at Northgate. So
for me that was just like you
get to see it work on the
ground. And I went to their
graduation where they had to
carry those coils. That is no
joke. No way I could. Have to do
all the exercises. It was
wonderful watching them do that
and get their certificate. Is
there anything else?
>> I just wanted to thank you. I
really wanted to give a shout
out to Chancellor Rosie at the
colleges and Chancellor Rosie
has been involved with and thank
you for giving the shout out to
the mayor because I got to work
on that. And I'm so proud of
that. And so grateful to the
mayor. And to Chancellor Rosie
who they've been working on the
13th year. And working together.
And this is before Chancellor
Rosie was Chancellor, she was
working on this but I want to
give also a shout out to Monica
Brown who is the president of
Seattle College and also just
when you talk about automotive,
South Seattle has this
automotive program. They have a
Tesla that you can see the
insides of it because when the
young people are training
vacancy they can see it as a
whole different ball of wax than
the traditional cars. To see how
the bells and whistles work, it
is really cool. If young
people's all of these
opportunities it is really
interesting and these are really
great union jobs. So yes, I
would definitely include that.
This is specific to city lights
apprenticeships. And this is a
great program at city lights and
the colleges are a partner and
they have great programs. So I
wanted to just give a shout out
to President Brown and
Chancellor Rosie.
>> Anything else for my
colleagues? Do you want to add
any closing comments?
>> Nothing other than thank you
for your time and sort of
engagement around what we really
few as one of our crown jewels
of utilities and also the city.
The opportunity to bring people
in and really provide a
life-changing opportunity and
set their life on a completely
different trajectory.
>> I look forward to getting
your information.
>> Will do. Absolutely.
>> We are always hiring at the
city of Seattle. And people
don't often think about us as
an employer if they don't
necessarily know someone who is
sort of associated paid
>> that's my thing. The on-ramp
into the Seattle city light
apprenticeship we see all this
across our desks. Even I have a
hard time navigating how we get
particular folks involved. If it
weren't for Dr. Brown I would
have I wouldn't have learned so
much when he was there. Anything
else? All right.
>> Good as gold.
>> Okay. Thank you. So with
that, I'm going to go ahead for
the vote. I move that the
committee recommended
confirmation of the four
appointees that is 03444 203447.
Is there a second?
>> Second.
>> Thank you. Moved and seconded
to recommend confirmation of the
four reappointments. Mayoral
appointment. Will the clerk
please call the roll on the
recommendation to confirm the
four appointments before us?
>> Councilmember Strauss.
Councilmember Saka. Council
member Rivera. Vice chair
kettle. Chair Juarez. There are
five in favor, zero post.
>> The motion carries and the
committee recommends that this
will go to full Council. The
four appointments will go to
full Council March 10th, 2026 at
the full Seattle city Council
meeting. Thank you so much. Good
seeing you again. Okay. So
folks, we've gotten through our
agenda. We have reached the end
of today's agenda. Is there
anything else for the good of
the order? Not seeing any. With
no further business before the
committee, we are adjourned.
Thank you