AN ORDINANCE relating to grant funds from non-City sources; authorizing the Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation to accept specified grants and execute related agreements for and on behalf of the City; amending Ordinance 126000, which adopted the 2020 Budget, including the 2020-2025 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations for the Seattle Department of Transportation; revising allocations and spending plans for certain projects in the 2020-2025 CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Agenda Item one Capital 119826 relating to grant funds from non city sources, operations director at the Seattle Department of Transportation to accept specified grants and execute related agreements for and on behalf of the city. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I will move to pass the council. Bill 119826. Is there a second section? It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill. Councilmember Peterson, you are listed as the prime sponsor of the bill, so you are recognized in order to address this item. Thank you. Council President colleagues, this is Council Bill 119826. It's accepting 3.5 million essentially for the West Seattle Bridge. The money is from the Federal Surface Transportation Program and is going to our Seattle Department of Transportation. I'd like to thank Council President Gonzales and Durkan for their votes at the Puget Sound Regional Council a few weeks ago to prioritize these funds for the West Seattle Bridge. Thank you, Councilmember Peterson, for that description. Is there are there any additional comments on the bill? Councilmember Verbal, please. Thank you. I want to echo Councilmember Peterson's appreciation for both Madam President Gonzalez, his vote at APEC, as well as the mayors. Thanks as well to Councilmember Peterson for being the sponsor of this bill. Just want to provide a little bit more detail about the purpose of these funds. 2 million of these funds are identified to conduct what I was calling a type, size and location study for the eventual replacement of the West Seattle Bridge. Does not mean that we've decided that that is the that is the direction that we are pursuing between the options of replace and repair. But it gets these funds in place to do that work so that if that decision is made, we have that information. The remaining 1.5 million of the grant award will be used to support specifically the transportation demand management programs that respond to the West Seattle Bridge closure and focus these programs on providing alternatives to single occupancy vehicle trips between West Seattle and downtown. Want to note for West Seattle residents that the Council Central Staff Memo notes specifically that the funds related to the type, size and location study allows start to explore replacement concepts such as rebuilding the bridge or an immersed tube tunnel. It further notes that it would be the basis for an environmental review of alternatives and developing cost estimates. There's a great deal of interest in West Seattle for what's called an immersed tube tunnel. It's not a it's not a board tunnel or drill tunnel. It's built offsite and basically dropped into the water. And so just want folks to know that Scott was forward thinking enough to include this concept as eligible for funds associated with the type, size and location study. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Herbold, for those comments. Are there any other comments on the bill? Excellent. We will go ahead and move along. It was my pleasure to advocate alongside Mayor Durkan for these additional flexible dollars to look at the scope of work as described by Councilmembers Peterson and Herbold, and really appreciate this bill coming forward so that we can begin this crucial infrastructure work. An analysis of infrastructure work for residents of West Seattle. But also it is. Again, I want to remind folks that West Bridge is critical to mobility for the entire region, including those who come, including for those folks who do not live in West Seattle. It is just so key to the region's strategies around mobility and so important for us to make sure that we address those issues from a broad perspective, not just because of the direct impact to West Seattle residents, but also to the impact in, for example, Councilmember Morales's district two that is adjacent to your district, Councilmember Herbold, but also in addition to the people who just rely on the West Seattle Bridge to get to and from home, but who may not live in in West Seattle. So I'm really proud to be able to support this bill and to continue to support efforts at the regional level, to continue to advocate for additional dollars that might be available to us to to really get this replacement or repair done in the most expeditious way possible. If there are no other comments on the bill, I will go ahead and ask that the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Whereas I. Know this. Hi. Morales. I. Mesquita. I. Petersen. I so want. I. Strauss i. Herbold i. President Gonzalez I. Nine in favor and unopposed. Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. And I ask the clerk. I'd ask the court to please affix my signature to the legislation. Will the clerk please read agenda item two into the record? Agenda Item two Capital 119815 relates to the settlement or authorizing the director of the South County Department to execute a Second Amendment to the easement agreement with Westlake Center LLC, previously authorized by.