AN ORDINANCE authorizing, in 2017, acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the heads of the Executive Department, Department of Parks and Recreation, Seattle Fire Department, Seattle Police Department, the Seattle Department of Transportation, and the Cable Television Franchise Subfund to accept specified grants and private funding and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
We can read the short title. Okay. And we'll take them individually, but we'll read a few in groups. And so we'll try to talk through that as we go through. So let's start with Jeanette in number five. Please read that in the record. The report of the Select Budget Committee Agenda Item five Constable 119 122 authorizing 2017 acceptance of funding from non city sources committee recommends the bill pass. Okay now just to puts Councilmember Herbert I was going to say before you describe what we're doing is I think we sort of have some. Notes on where there may be an adjustment here there. So I wanted to make sure our accounts members are more at ease or we're not going to sneak anything through. And you were you didn't catch it. So we'll make sure we slow it down when we have to. So, Councilman Herbold, you have the floor. Thank you. I was thinking that I would say just a few opening remarks. At the start. And then hold remarks related to the items contained within the budget itself until we get to item 35, which is the adoption of the budget itself. Very good. All right, great. Very good. All right. So with that, I will make my opening remarks. Thank you. So over the course of the last seven weeks, my fellow council members of the Budget Committee and I have scrutinized and debated Seattle's fiscal priorities. Our vote today to approve city spending reflects our collective attempt to balance the budget amidst a multitude of competing priorities. As Chair of the Budget Committee, I was responsible for assembling a final balancing package that was challenging and addressed the values of our constituents, especially those with the most urgent needs. I believe our most vulnerable communities deserve our best efforts and today the budget we pass will reflect that effort together. My council colleagues and I have managed to, through the committee process, pass several important amendments to the budget that we'll discuss a little a little later. And these amendments will meaningfully impact the lives of everyday people in Seattle. All the while maintaining current, current service levels. We often talk about prosperity, not lifting all boats, but the proposition that we are faced with and the reason why the head tax was proposed is because economic prosperity is not only failed to help everybody, but this economic prosperity is resulting in some people being harmed. And I believe that the beneficiaries of that prosperity must do more to address the impacts of the prosperity that has not been shared by all. In seeking a budget that had at its core, principle of fiscal responsibility and sustainability. I proposed a progressive, ongoing revenue source to support a surge in affordable housing production. I proposed it in my in my balancing package. The credit goes to councilmembers O'Brien, Harris, Talley, and so on for for identifying it as a proposed source. And though the council did not pass that that revenue source, the council will be considering a resolution, which we'll talk about a little bit later, to assemble a task force to develop recommendations for that dedicated progressive revenue source to support people experiencing or at high risk for homelessness. This is a huge win for those who have been waiting for something big and bold to address the city's civil emergency on homelessness. And I want to specifically thank the efforts of the Housing for All coalition and everyone who has come out to testify and support their priorities, not only at two public hearings, but folks have been here in each of 11 Budget Committee meetings testifying, holding our feet to the fire. Your engagement has made this a better budget process, a better budget. And I count on your ongoing activism to push the Council to enact ongoing, sustainable, progressive revenue sources in the future. Very good. So we have counts, Bill 119122 in front of us and we're going to proceed with the vote. Unless you're any further comments, please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Johnson, Maurice O'Brien. Sergeant Bagshaw. Hi, Gonzales. I tally I hold High President Harrow High nine in favor and unopposed. Bill pass ensure assignment please read item six, seven and eight is the record short title.