AN ORDINANCE vacating the south 168 feet of the alley adjacent to Lots 17 through 24, lying between Block 55 and Block 56, Boston Company's Plat of West Seattle, near the Alaska Junction of the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle, on the petition of Fauntleroy Place LLC (Clerk File 308171), and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Agenda Item 51 Constable 118 592 vacating the South 168 feet of the alley adjacent to Lot 17 through 24, lying between block 55 and BLOCK 56. Boston Company's plat of West Seattle near the Alaskan just excuse me. Junction, excuse me. Standing in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle on the Petitioner Fauntleroy Place, LLC, in ratifying confirming certain prior acts committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember Rasmussen. Thank you. This petition has all the requirements of the City Council and the conditional approval have been met, including all of the public benefits. And the committee has reviewed that and the all of the departments have recommended approval and the committee recommends approval as well. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Sure. Please call the role on the passage of the Bill Garden. I. Gonzalez. Harrell, Licata, I. O'Brien Rasmussen. All right. So on President Burgess eight in favor. Nine opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Is there any other business to come before the council? So I would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for the service of Councilmember Licata. Councilmember Rasmussen and Councilmember Gordon. This is the last formal meeting of the City Council where these three members will be present, and we appreciate your dedicated public service to the people of Seattle. You've all served with distinction and with integrity, and that's important in our democratic society. Do any of my colleagues wish to share any comments? Councilmember Harrell Well, I had a lot of time in a speech lined up for each one of you a piece. Please go ahead. But it's 522 and I think Councilmember Gonzalez and I have a 6:00 appointment. So in all seriousness, I just want to say it's been my my honor serving with the three of you. I think he's just served with distinction and commitment to the people of Seattle. Never expected to agree with all of you when I got elected, because I haven't found that human being yet that I agree with all the time. But certainly my respect for the three of you is at an all time high and I don't think you're going anywhere. Hopefully so. We'll hopefully still be the beneficiary of your sage advice. But it's been my honor serving with the three of you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember O'Brien. Thanks. I. I've been on the council for six years, and I don't know what a council would look like without the three of you. So it's going to be a brave new world we're heading into. Perhaps more importantly, I don't know what it's going to look like with the three of you on the outside as advocates. And I look forward to continuing to hear your positions and opinions as we move forward. So thanks for your public service for so many years. Thank you. Councilmember someone. Thank you. Councilmembers Jean Gardner and Dan Rasmussen. I think we had some really great discussions and lively debates and we also had agreement on various things. I mean, one of the things that was of real consequence and it's evident today, which is through the wage theft enforcement ordinance, that one of the factors in that whole process coming that coming to fruition was the statement of legislative intent that I drafted, that Councilmember O'Brien and Councilmember Rasmussen supported, and the full council voted on that in the Budget Committee, which, you know that I'm grateful for those kinds of opportunities where we were able to do that. And Councilmember Legarda, of course, you know, we've had. I have. I mean, you've been on the council for a long time, but for my two years I've had a really wonderful time getting to know you and working with you on so many important issues. And even though you won't be here, you know, formally on this body, I have no doubt and I have every hope that you will be a part of building this historic movement that we have started to build, not only in Seattle, but nationwide. I think the whole nation should have the benefit of your experience and your true dedication to the interests of workers and those who are marginalized. Seattle has been really, really fortunate to have you, and I hope that we continue to get, you know, even more of a benefit of your of your activism. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Let's remember, Gordon. Well, I just want to say it's been such a pleasure to serve. I can't tell you. I really thought after a long newspaper career, this was the frosting on the cake. And it has been. There have been so many wonderful things that we've been able to do. And I'm so grateful to the voters for electing me. I'm so grateful for my fellow council members for putting up with me. And I would have been rather disappointed if we hadn't had at least one little controversy on this last, final council meeting very much. Council Member Lakota. I will make this mercifully short on time. It's been a pleasure working with all of you. I've really enjoyed your honesty and great open discussions and the last meeting to go to. Well, what a great, joyful struggle. And we accomplished a lot. Thank you. Thank you. And I can't wait until you're on the other side of that podium addressing you as a citizen. And we can stop you after your 2 minutes. Thank you. Councilmember Rasmussen. Thank you. As customer Gordon said, it's been an incredible privilege and a joy to be a member of the city council. The first time I was up here, I was so nervous I could not stand up to speak and I just hope that I wasn't breaking the council rule. So it took a while to become comfortable, to stand to speak here. Now I'm ready to leap to my feet, just as Councilmember Harrell often does. So I feel like I've grown in this job. And also I think Councilmember Swan made a very good point. While we have disagreements at times. I do think that we agree far, far more times and that sometimes our styles are different. But I think that our goals of having a just equitable society in this city and moving what we are able to do here out into the state and nationally and even internationally is is the same . And so sometimes a lot is made out of a few disagreements. And it's interesting in that we've always been accused of being such a polite city council and and such a boring city council that when there is a disagreement, it's almost headlines. So I, I thought that the discussion this afternoon was, was productive and healthy. And I hope that we have more productive, healthy discussions in the future. And again, thank you. I've really welcomed working with all of you, including of all of our wonderful staff, our clerk's office, our central staff, my staff, which is now nearing, I think , a dozen after about 12 years. So it's been great working with with all of you. Thank you so much. And Beverly Barnett, of course, all the staff to their wonderful. Thank you very much. Councilmember Gonzalez. So as the as the freshman the newest member on the city council, I wanted to express my gratitude to councilmembers Licata and Gordon and Rasmussen. In the short two and a half weeks that I've been a city council member, I have already learned so much from from you all and am incredibly appreciative of the hard work and effort that it takes to be to be in this role and to serve the people of Seattle. So thank you to all three of you. I think I think between the three of you, you have decades and decades of service and you've left a long a long you're leaving a long legacy of really great promising work for the city of Seattle. And thank you so much for your service. Thank you, Jean, Nick and Tom, thank you. You you've served well, so thank you very much. And we're adjourned.