AN ORDINANCE relating to public works and improvements; amending Sections 20.04.090 and 20.04.270 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
Bill passes and Charles Simon Clerk Please read items three and four into the. Record each agenda items three and four Council Bill 119 697 relating to public works and improvements in many sections 20.0 4.0 90 and .27 of the set for code resolution 319415. Fixing the date for hearing the final assessment role for Local Improvement District Number 671 to design and construct the Central Waterfront Improvement Program and directing that notice of the hearing be given in the manner required by law. Thank you very much. So before we consider as a council the Central Waterfront Local Improvement District legislation, both pieces of the Council bill and the resolution council members who wish to disclose communications or communication dealing with the central water from a local improvement district on the record may do so now. And so if there's any council members who would like to speak on that matter, please do so at this particular time. Council Member Bagshaw. Thank you very much. In this excellent memo from Eric McConaghy, dated November 15, 2019, there is attached an email exchange between Darby Do come in me and I just wanted to confirm that this is accurate and complete. And there was no conversation between us about final assessments. Thank you. Councilmember Bagshaw Are there any other council members who would like to disclose whether or not they've had any email disclosures at this point that they'd like to disclose? Well, Councilmember Herbold. I received the same email that Councilmember Bagshaw mentioned, but I did not respond to it. Okay, very good. I did read Councilmember Bagshaw response to it, though. And Councilmember O'Brien. Just for the record, I it was screened out before I saw. Either. The response or the email. So I. Okay. And Councilmember whereas. It's the same for me as well. President We are. I read the material that was provided to Seattle City Council with the attached email from Councilmember Boettcher. Very good. And I knew better. No, I didn't read it. I believe my staff did. So I think and Catherine Pacheco. I did read the email and the responses. Were very good. Okay. And so I think we've made in the disclosure. So at this point, like I said, my staff, it's screened it. And so I didn't read it in particular. So is there anyone in the audience who wishes to rebut the disclosures or give public testimony on the disclosures that were made relative to the quasi judicial nature of this proceeding? If so, I would provide you 2 minutes to talk about that. If anyone here would like to talk about that. Okay. So if not, we will proceed to consider items, agenda items, three and four. So I'll talk about these a little bit. So we have two pieces of legislation, as we described last week, council accountability, 119697. The code revisions. It basically provides more flexibility to the city clerk and the hearing examiner to fulfill their responsibilities. I'm dealing with the final assessment role for Local Improvement District. It updates the municipal code to better align with the RC W in the process to confirm with the LAPD assessments. We realize this is a lot more work than generally our older system entails, and so we're trying to revise that and have it better aligned. It will provide the hearings with more time to prepare the findings and recommendations from the hearings and modernizes the city clerk's process of notifying the property owners and and hearing the results following the conclusions of the hearing. And it removes a section of the code that specified outdated costs for property descriptions. So that's what the Council bill does. And again, the resolution, the final assessment roll resolution simply sets the date for the public hearing on the proposed final final assessment role and directs the hearing be held before the public hearing. Hearing Examiner The current public hearing date is Tuesday, February 4th, 2020. And at that assessment role, hearing property, the property owners are given the opportunity to object to their individual assessments, and all objections must be filed in writing before that hearing date. This resolution also authorizes the city clerk to notify property owners of their proposed final assessment amounts and of the public hearing on assessments and just a description of the procedure in December of 2019, January 2020. Around that time period, hearing notice and proposed final assessments will be posted mailed in February of next year. The public hearing will occur before the hearing examiner A month later, in March of 2020, the hearing examiner's report will be filed and property owners who filed an objection are notified of the hearing examiner's recommendations. Spring of 2022 Things will should occur. Property owners can file appeals of the hearing examiner's recommendations, and the city council or a council committee could hear the appeals. I'm going to anticipate that there will be some flexibility, if needed, to address the number of appeals. It's hard to determine at this time. That's why some of these dates will be determined to TBD. And then as things go as planned in the summer of 2020, the City Council will consider final assessment role ordinance to confirm the final assessment amounts. So that's what the resolution sets out. Okay. Any questions or comments that any of my colleagues would like to make on these two piece of legislation will vote on them individually. Okay. Okay. So on the first council bill our move to pass council bill 119697. Any further comments has been moved in second with the clerk. Please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Bless you. O'BRIEN All right. Pachinko Mencia. Purple guy Juarez. President Harrell. I. Six in favor none oppose. The bill passes in the show. Sign it and I'll move to adopt resolution 31915 and moves in second. Any further comments? Those in favor of adopting the resolution please vote i. I. Those oppose vote no. The motion carries on. The chair will sign it. Before I say, is there any further business coming for the council? We will slide right into the parks district meeting will stay in our seats. Seattle Channel needs a 2 to 3 minutes, but councilmember. Whereas now I will switch seats. Move right into that. So we're trying to do it in a seamless way. So nobody leaves your tie, you're tethered to your seat. And having said that, is there any further business to come for the council? If not, we will stand adjourned and just stay in our seats. We'll move into our districts meeting. We stand adjourned. Thank.