A RESOLUTION regarding Initiative 134 concerning allowing voters to vote for multiple candidates in primary elections (rejected by the City Council on July 14, 2022); authorizing the City Clerk and the Executive Director of the Ethics and Elections Commission to take those actions necessary to enable proposed Initiative 134 to appear on the November 8, 2022, ballot and the local voters’ pamphlet in conjunction with the Ranked Choice Voting proposal (City Council Bill 120369), which is a proposed alternative measure on the same subject matter in accordance with Charter Article IV; requesting the King County Elections Director to place the proposed Initiative 134 and its alternate on the November 8, 2022, election ballot in accordance with applicable law; and providing for the publication of such proposed Initiative Measure and its alternate.
Great. Moving on to item number four. This is Madam Clerk. Please read item number four to the record. Agenda item for resolution 32057, a resolution regarding a proposed initiative measure concerning allowing voters to vote for multiple candidates in primary elections. Authorizing the city clerk and executive director of the Ethics and Elections Commission to take those actions necessary to enable the proposed initiative measure to appear on the November eight, 2022 ballot and the local voters pamphlet requesting the King County Elections Director to place the proposed initiative measure on the November eight, 2022 election ballot and providing for the publication of such proposed initiative measure. Thank you, Madam Clerk. As sponsor of this resolution, I moved to adopt resolution 32057. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. At the top of this agenda we passed clear file 314495. The Certificate of Sufficiency Initiative 134 gathered enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. This resolution, unamended, will place Initiative 134 on the ballot this November as originally intended as required under the City Charter. This council also passed Clark file 314498, which places the ranked choice alternative on the ballot in addition to the original proposal. Therefore, we will now consider a substitute resolution which places I 134 on the ballot with the Alternatives Council member. Are there any comments before I hand it off to Councilmember Lewis for a moment? Okay. Not seeing any councilmember. Lewis, I believe you have a motion form. Yes. Thank you, Madam President. I move to amend resolution 32057 by substituting version two for version one as presented on the agenda. Thank you. Councilmember Lewis, is there a second? Second. Thank you for the second. It's been moved and seconded to substitute the resolution. Councilor Lewis, would you like to address the substitute? Yes, thank you. Council President and thank you, council president for navigating the Byzantine agenda process this afternoon. You're doing an excellent job. I don't really have extensive remarks on this. This substitute reflects the changes, the substantive changes based on the actions that we have previously taken in this meeting. And I would just urge that we pass the amendment and then pass the underlying resolution reflecting the changes in and how the Council has decided to proceed. Take a chance for a moment and I'll come to the very end. But are there any comments on the substitute? Okay. Not seeing or hearing any comment, any further comments. Well, the clerk please call the role on the adoption of the substitute resolution. Councilmember Herbold? Yes. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Morales. Yes. Councilmember Mosqueda, I. Councilmember Nelson. I Councilmember Peterson. I councilmembers silent. Yes. Councilmember Strouse. Yes. Council President. Was I not in favor and unopposed? Right. The motion carries and the substitute is adopted in version two of the resolution is before the council. Are there any comments on version two of the resolution before us? Okay. Not seeing any. So now we're going to do the amended. So will the clerk please call the role on the adoption of the amended resolution? Councilmember Herbold. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Morales. Councilmember Mosqueda. I. Councilmember Nelson. Hi. Councilmember Peterson. Hi. Councilmember silent. Yes. Councilmember Strouse. Yes. Council President. Was I nine in favor? Nine opposed. Thank you. The amended resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. And Madam Clerk, will you please to fix my signature to the resolution or the legislation on my behalf? Let's see. Are there any other comments? So now are we done? Should be done right. That concludes business. Okay, hold up, everybody. Okay. Got it. Sorry, I switched up papers here. Before we adjourn, I want to thank Councilmember Lewis and his staff and for getting all this material to us and all the information and a huge thank you to Switzerland. Let's thank you for providing not only a PowerPoint and a guide and a memo and a briefing. And we want to thank the city attorney's office for walking us through some of these issues. I want to thank all my colleagues who engaged in the discussion and the debate about whether or not approval voting or ranked choice voting . It looks like at the end of the day, both matters will be on the we'll go forward. So with that, before we adjourn, I see Councilor Lewis is that old hand customer Lewis or knew him. But that's just a new. Good of the order. Madam President, I want to also thank you again just for running a complicated process this afternoon and making it look easy. And and also just really want to thank all in your office who was an incredible asset in winding up this process and just making sure everything was done efficiently and professionally. So thank you. And of course, Jacob Thorp, my chief of staff, for measuring that Durham ushering that forward to as well as. LESCH But, you know, I really wanted to take a moment council president to really you know, you you did an excellent job presiding over a very long meeting today. So thank you. Well, if we were playing C on a city council. Bingo. I did not see Byzantium coming up, so thank you for that kind of colleagues. This does conclude the terms of business on today's agenda. Our next regularly scheduled city council meeting is Tuesday, July 19th, 2:00. I hope you all have a wonderful afternoon and we are adjourned. Thank you, everybody.