AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 126000, which adopted the 2020 Budget, including the 2020-2025 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; adding new CIP projects and revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2020-2025 CIP; abrogating positions; modifying positions, and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
Every part of this select. Committee agenda item one cancel. 119818 and many. Audience 126000 which adopted a 2020 budget including the 2023 2025 capital improvement program. The committee recommends the bill passes. Meadows, Councilmembers Macheda Gonzalez, Lewis Morales. Peterson Strauss in favor with the councilmembers who want opposed. Thank you, Clark. Okay, folks, I am going to recognize, Councilmember, that as chair of the Select Budget Committee in order to provide the committee report. Please. Thank you, Madam President. And if it pleases the President, me, I make a quick statement to encompass all of the bills that are in front of us regarding the budget. We have only read the first agenda item into the record related to the capital improvement program. So we would need to read. All of the budget. I'll hold it. Okay. Thank you, Madam President. Well, that was not. That was not reflected. Your intent to do that was not reflected in my script. So I think I would prefer if we go through it bill by Bill in the first one is related strictly to capital improvement program budget actions for 2020. Thank you, Madam President. I don't have any additional comments on this just to say this is one of many bills in front of us to rebalance our 2020 budget so that we are recognizing the restricted reserves that are in our hands. And to do so with the values that this councilors put forward over the last few months as we've taken on this budget. Thank you. Comes Marie Musgrave for those comments. Are there any other comments on the first bill which again is Council Bill 119818 related to the 2020 budget, including the 20 2025 capital improvement program. Council members want. Thank you. This is the first of several votes the city council will take today to adopt the city's new budget as a whole. The People's Budget Summer 2020 campaign my office socialist alternative and certainly the hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists who have courageously marched on the streets and braved police violence have fought for and won many of the progressive amendments, including a very small reduction to the Seattle Police Department. And I will speak to that more on agenda item number ten when those issues come up for a vote. Unfortunately, as a whole, this city budget does not meet the needs of working class people or the communities specifically who have experienced disproportionately the violence of the police department. Unbalanced budget cuts, tens of millions of dollars from the essential work of the city across departments like parks, roads and libraries. Rather than increase the Amazon tax on the wealthiest in our city in order to illuminate the need for austerity. On balance, this budget continues to spend more of the city's discretionary funds on the police than on any other department. In fact, this bill includes $3 million in increases to the police budget as a result of grants from the United States Department of Homeland Security. That is more than all the so-called defunding of the police budget a department agreed to by the majority of the council combined. I will reserve most of my comments about the budget for agenda item ten. Before that, I will be voting yes on the budget bills that simply accept grants or do other things unrelated to austerity. But I will be voting no on this bill and several other bills coming up that implement austerity budget. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Sawant, Councilmember Herbold. Thank you very much. I just wanted to make note that this bill includes attachment B. Attachment B is the creation of a new capital improvement page for the Seattle Department of Transportation's West Seattle Bridge. Immediate Response. Just thank you to my colleagues for supporting me and bringing this forward. It will be very useful to us as we discuss the the Interphone loan that's proposed for some of the 2021 and 2020 cost for the West Seattle Bridge that we'll be hearing in Councilmember Peterson's committee very soon, as well as our upcoming September through November budget discussions. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Herbold, and thank you so much for your ongoing advocacy related to that important infrastructure project for District one and the entire region. Really appreciate it. Colleagues. Anyone else have any comments or questions on the bill? Looks like no one else does. So I will let Councilmember Mosqueda, as the prime sponsor have and the chair of the committee have the last word here, and then we'll go ahead and call the roll on this first Bill. Thank you very much, Madam President. And I recognize it's a long day, so I'll save my comments for the last bill as well. Look, I just want to set the record straight about what we're doing today. We have, as a council, come together as a collective to identify ways in which we can put our priorities, our values forward, and do so in a way that lifts up our commitment to being anti-austerity. Anti-austerity, and how we're responding to COVID in terms of caring for our most vulnerable and anti-austerity in terms of our commitment to raise progressive revenue. That's what we've done over the last few months with this entire council coming together. It's been a marathon. It has been an incredibly long few months as we've worked together to identify ways that we could reflect community priorities from spearheading conversations about new taxes and new strategies to right size up our upside down tax system. So thank you council members growth and so on to talking about making sure that there's additional funding for transportation. Thank you much to Councilmember Peterson to making sure that there's economic recovery for businesses. Cosmo Strauss You've been leading on that to ensuring meaningful disinvestment from police. Councilmember Herbold, thank you for helping to lead and get pen to paper on these amendments and that we've effectively transferred those dollars to the right places. Councilmember Lewis, you've been helping to ensure that we've been following through on where those dollars are going to making sure, finally that we are doing the right thing and we are taking our time. Councilmember Suarez has been critical in lifting up that voice and guiding us in each and every step of the way has been Council President Gonzalez. So I am proud of the packages in front of us today. We have not been asked often over the last few decades in this city to come together for a midyear 2020 rebalancing package. And as we've done so, we've tried to pull in your ideas to make sure that we're reflecting community priorities, but recognizing in just seven weeks our fall budget process starts with that. Thank you for all of the work that you've done, colleagues, that there is a series of amendments in front of us. But I just want to set the record straight on balance. We've rolled up our sleeves on balance. We've done some hard work. And on balance, we're not just wringing our hands were we're committing to actions here today. So thank you. Council President. Thank you, Councilmember Mosqueda, for that framing. Really appreciate it. With that being said, colleagues, I'm going to ask the clerk to please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Peterson. I. So what? No. Strauss. Yes. Purple? Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Must get a. Yes. President Gonzalez Yes. Seven in favor. One opposed. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. And I would ask that the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation. Okay. Item number two Will the clerk please read the short title of agenda item to into the record? Agenda Item two Cancer Ball 119819.