A RESOLUTION declaring the City Council’s and the Mayor’s intent to consider strategies to protect trees and increase Seattle’s tree canopy cover.
Agenda item 22 Resolution 31902 Declaring the City Council and the Mayor's intent to consider strategies to protect trees and increase Seattle's tree canopy cover. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted as amended. Thank you very much. And I'm very excited to bring this resolution forward. I want to thank all from the Urban Forestry Commission who have been part of this, and also Councilmember O'Brien and others for keeping this part of our Green New Deal. So the best part about this tree resolution is that we have been working on it for almost ten years, and this resolution will set out a work plan. Some of us who care deeply about it will not be here to vote it through next year. But the ordinance will that will come out of this will be developed by the Mayor's Office in conjunction with our Office of Environmental Sustainability, Office of Sustainability and the Environment. And I am excited about completing these last steps. And we have urged the Urban Forestry Commission to work with the Office of Sustainability and the Environment and do public outreach in a way. And Councilmember Gonzales has been super about focusing on ways that we can have culturally relevant outreach to communities, emphasizing some of the communities of color and lower income that may not have gotten the trees in the past that they deserve and should have. So I'm really encouraging not only the amendment that Councilmember Gonzalez will be bringing forward here in the second, but also that we do more of the cafe style outreach. So it's not just 2 minutes of public testimony, but we're actually going out into the community and asking for people's opinions on this, but for our department and neighborhoods to be involved as well, to help reach people that may not have been reached in the past to include those voices and to move forward. So, again, I want to thank all of the community members and the volunteers who helped us put this together and to acknowledge Ali, Poochie and Yolanda, who have worked with this resolution with me and also have. Indicated that when we say we want to do what the Portland model has done. It took Portland three years to get there. So I hope that we can build on the many years that we've been working on this in the past. Learn from Portland and move forward with this. At the end of this year and getting started in the next. So the resolution is an important and concrete step and I urge its adoption. Thanks very much. Councilmember Brown, I just said thank you to you. And thank you very much for describing the best legislation. I believe Councilmember Gonzalez has an amendment. I do thank you, council president. As Chair Bagshaw mentioned, I do have a small amendment to reflect the need to do community engagement with a prioritization for those communities that are low income and who also live in low canopy neighborhoods. So the resolution is quite that simple. I was concerned that that particular language that I just referenced was included in the recitals, but was not included in the action items. Part of the resolution. So worked with council central staff to make sure that that language was threaded throughout the resolution to ensure that communities, again, that are low income and living low cannot be neighborhoods are prioritized, prioritized as part of the community engagement by the executive, and also to ensure that that the community engagement plan was going to be done in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. So I want to thank L.A. Petrucci and and Yolanda HOA for their work and quick turnaround on drafting this amenity language. And I want to thank Chair Bagshaw for her support both in committee and now at full council of this amendment to Resolution 31902, and so would move for the adoption of Amendment one to Resolution 31902 as described. And then moving second to excuse me, amendment number one has been moved and seconded by proposed by Councilmember Ghazal as any questions on the amendment. All those in favor of the amendment please vote. I. I opposed. The ayes have it. Any other comments on the Bass resolution? The legislation? Are we good to go? Okay. Those in favor of adopting the resolution as amended. Please vote i. I those opposed vote no. The motion carries. The resolution is adopted as amended and the chair will sign it. Please read items 23 through 26. Agenda Items 23 through 26 appointments 1405 three 1408 appointments of Neftali Mari Gonzalez to Nani Hasan for Russa Harvey Kevin Jackson, who as members Seattle Youth Commission for Term two August 31st, 2021. The Committee recommends your plans be confirmed as member.