AN ORDINANCE relating to the Central Waterfront Improvement Program; authorizing the Director of the Office of the Waterfront and Civic Projects to execute an agreement with the Washington State Ferry system for the construction of facilities to support electrification of ferry vessels at the Colman Ferry Terminal; amending Ordinance 125724, which adopted the 2019 Budget, including the 2019-2024 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to the Seattle Department of Transportation; revising revenue allocations and spending plans for certain projects in the 2019-2024 CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
Unopposed bill passed and chair of the Senate. Please read the next agenda item into the record show title. The Report The Finance Name Prince Committee Agenda Item three Cancel 1194 980 Relating to the Central Waterfront Improvement Program Authorized Director of the Office of Waterfront and Civic Projects to execute an agreement with the Washington State Ferry System for the construction of facilities to support electrification of ferry vessels at the Common Ferry Terminal Committee recommends the bill passed. Let's bring back. Thank you very much. This will affect our 2019 waterfront budget and it authorizes our director of waterfront and civic projects US, Marshall Foster, to accept non city funds for capital costs and expenses relating to our waterfront. There will be an opportunity for the office to enter into a contract with Washington State Ferries, to construct electrical improvements, to support hybrid ferries on the common dock, and also adds external funding and the tune of $2 million from Washington around design funding and $10 million for the public benefit on the pine corridor. And that's part of the money that comes from the convention center. And it also updates are adopted 2019 2024. Copy to be consistent with the revised local improvement district committee recommends do pass. Any comments or questions for us. Thank you. Council President. First of all, I think Councilmember Bagshaw, my vice chair, my committee, I've only been working on some of these issues for the last three years, but she's been working on it for almost a decade. I echo Councilmember Bagshaw comments regarding the well, in fact, the information ordinance and the waterfront agreement were authorized by city council this past January. So that is nothing new. This ordinance confirms those stipulations. Thank you to the Office of Waterfront. Dori, thank you for being here, for working diligently and thoroughly through each phase so we can soon connect our new waterfront to the rest of Seattle for everyone to enjoy. And for hopefully the first time in many, many decades, we will be reconnected to the Salish Sea. So thank you. Thank you. Councilmember words for those comments. Okay. If there are no further comments, please call the rule on the passage of the bill whatsoever. O'BRIEN Sergeant Major Gonzalez I verbal high whereas President Harrell high eight in favor and unopposed. Bill pass and chair of the Senate. We're going to move to other business. And I believe Councilmember Gonzalez has something she'd like to say on the other business part of the agenda. I do. So this morning at council briefing, I mentioned during our briefing from the Office of Governmental Relations that we were working on a letter in support of the Senate Bill 5163, which would modify existing wrongful death statutes to eliminate the ban on nonresident parents so that they can bring a lawsuit on behalf of themselves for the loss of an adult child. So it's both for nonresident parents, but also for just current resident parents to be able to have that equitable access to our court system in the event that they have an adult child who does not have any survivors, beneficiary, legal beneficiaries under the law to be able to file suit and have the loss of their children and the loss of the parent child relationship be acknowledged within our legal system. So this has been a priority of mine for a long time, since I was a trial lawyer and continues to be a really important legislative fix in my mind, to correct a lot of wrongs in our existing system that really do treat nonresident parents, meaning immigrants who live in the country or live outside of this country. If they have a child who is an adult who is killed as a result of a negligent action, they are legally prohibited currently from bringing a lawsuit and holding the entity that is responsible for that death, accountable for their actions in causing causing that death. And likewise, same thing applies for for resident parents who currently live in the country. So super important, really large equity issue. And this letter would signal to our state legislators and the House of Representatives that we support a clean bill on Senate Bill 5163 without two amendments that would, if passed, those amendments would actually water down the bill and and not correct these fundamental issues that I've just described. So I'm going to pass this letter around consistent with council rules, since we have to sign letters by the full council in open session. So I'm circulating it now for signature. Very good. While you pass it, let's filibuster a little bit because that's going to take a while. Thanks for for addressing it in open session customer and back show. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Gonzales, for bringing this forward. Can you talk to me about the retroactive application, if any? I don't believe this is retroactive. It would just be for ongoing, is my understanding. Okay. Thank you. And as Councilman Gonzalez has pointed out, we will sign this in open session. Thank you for your leadership on this and making sure we support SB 5163 and certainly oppose and encourage the rejection of the amendments. 511 683 Councilmember Mosquito. Mr. President, in light of your suggestion to help filibuster, I would like to be excused, if I may, on April 5th. Sorry. May 13th. That may be a motion to be excused. Okay. So let me ask, is there any further business to come for the council? And what we heard is that Kashmir Mosquito Lake, to be excused on May 13th is their second. All those in favor of council very scared of being excused on May 13th. See, I am opposed. The ayes have it. And along those lines. I know it's so annoying. Is there any further business to come before the council? And we'll just take a moment to. We have to wait for the signatures in open session and deal with that awkward moment of silence that we have to deal with on occasion. You tell a joke. I've learned better not to tell jokes. Trust me, I learned the hard way. Okay. We made it down there. And everyone. Have a great rest of the day. And with that will stand adjourned. Thank you. That's his assessment, right?