AN ORDINANCE relating to appropriations for the Human Services Department; approving a spending plan; amending Ordinance 126237, which adopted the 2021 Budget; lifting a proviso; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Agenda item eight Counts Bill 120011 relating to appropriations for the Human Services Department approving a spending plan and may be ordinance 126 237, which adopted the 2021 budget legend, proviso and Red Line confirming certain prior acts. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you so much, Councilmember Herbold. You are the chair of this committee, and I'm going to go and hand it back over to you and provide us the report on this. Fantastic. Thank you so much. First, just a little bit of process background. Members of the Public Safety and Human Services Committee probably remember that Human Services Director how and how and her name presented a deep overview on this work at the January 26th Committee meeting. And following that presentation, I'll responded more fully to questions that were developed in a memo from committee members and shared on February 18th, Human Services Department released the four proposals related to this funding on March 1st, and this request for proposals is available on the Human Services Department Funding Opportunity Web page. And on March 4th, my office sent out to committee members the central staff memo describing the legislation and the memo from how with more details about the work leading up to and creating RFP public safety. And the Services Committee members voted the legislation out of committee unanimously last week. And just to talk a little bit about what the legislation is all about. Last year during the budget process, we responded calls from community to invest in alternatives to policing and made an effort to to forward funding that we had dedicated during the summer rebalancing process. So as we now observe one year anniversary since the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of police, it's clear that these calls must be heeded and that this work is as urgent now as it was last year. City Council answered the call by creating 16 million to invest in community led organizations that are creating community safety on the ground every day in Seattle. And last year, the Human Services Department moved quickly to award 4 million of the $16 million to the Seattle Community Safety Initiative and says these are funds that are working to build community safety hubs and wraparound services in three Seattle neighborhoods under the leadership of community passageways. We then collectively urging the executive to expedite its portion of announcement. Our community has been waiting to receive this investment since Council first voted to approve it last summer. Legislation before the Council today lifts a proviso on the funds, which requires the Council an ordinance, a spend plan organized within the intercept model submitted by the Human Services Department of Safety and Human Services Committee members. Her station from the Human Services Department on that plan last week and unanimously voted the legislation out of committee. The new investment will bring together a court four organizations dedicated to reimagining how safety can be achieved in Seattle and the resources they need to lead the way in creating safety in our city. This is exactly the kind of investment recommended in a recent report. The 40 members of the National Commission for the Criminal Justice System that increased violence and offenses as the country. It will move the city's community safety strategy towards a public health centered harm reduction model of restorative justice and crime prevention while ameliorating harm caused by the criminal legal system. The. Thank you so much, Councilmember Herbold, for those comments. Are there any additional comments on the bill? Hearing no additional comments on the bill. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of Council Bill 120011. Lewis. Yes. Morales. As Macheda. I. Peterson? Yes. So what? Council member. So what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Suarez. President Gonzalez I in favor and opposed. The bill passes and the terrible sign it will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read items nine through 12 into the record?