A RESOLUTION relating to funding for construction and long-term operations and management of public spaces on the Central Waterfront; reaffirming the overall funding plan for the Central Waterfront Improvements and the principles that will guide implementation of these improvements; outlining the process for formation of a Local Improvement District and completion of a fundraising plan for philanthropy; and identifying a framework for an agreement with the non-profit Friends of Waterfront Seattle to operate and manage public spaces on the Central Waterfront.
Bill Pass and Chair of Senate. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda item 32 Resolution 317 68. Related to the funding for construction, long term operations and management of public spaces on the central waterfront. Reaffirming the overall funding plan for the central waterfront improvements and the principles that will guide implementation of these improvements. Outlining the process for formation of a local improvement district and completion of fundraising plan for the lottery, and identifying a framework for an agreement with the nonprofit Friends of Waterfront Seattle to operate and manage public spaces on these Central Waterfront Committee recommends resolution be adopted as amended. Thank you. Councilmember worries. Thank you. This is again is from Office of the Waterfront Resolution. This resolution expresses the city's commitment to evaluate future agreements in legislation that will come before council next year. These agreements and legislation include our partnership agreement with Friends of the Waterfront for Operation and Maintenance of the new Waterfront Parks and the establishment of a local improvement district around the new central waterfront. Subsequent agreements will be transmitted to council during during 2018. I want to stress that this is not creating a lid on a local improvement district. This merely outlines the legislative process to form a lead. As you know, the lid process is very detailed. It would include an assessor, a public comment, a hearing, a hearing examiner, or an appeal process, of course, a vote. And before that, a final assessment and rule. So we have many more council actions, but this mainly just outlines the legislative process to form a lid which will come before us next year. Thank you very much, Councilman Schwartz. Any comments? Councilmember Bagshaw Yes, thank you. And I really appreciate my colleague, Councilmember Suarez, just said and I want to give us all a little history just again for the record to remind us how long and how much work has been going on. On this has been not just ongoing but long going efforts. This all started back prior to the time most of us were on the council when there was a decision to build the tunnel, which gave us the opportunity to create a real central waterfront that we all want to see and be proud of. In January of 2011, we passed a resolution that created that waterfront committee in August. A year later. In 2012, we passed another resolution that adopted the waterfront concept, design and framework. And many of us went to other cities. We I personally went to Boston, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, met with leaders to learn what they have done and how they did it, that it was successful. And in that model, we followed a third party nonprofit model that we saw in Boston with Rose Kennedy Greenway, and that is we entered into a contract with our Friends of the Waterfront, and they have been friends indeed to implement and activate work on the waterfront, even during construction, and to help us create a maintenance plan. And then in 2014, many of you will remember that our voters voted the Seattle Parks District, where we got a $3.5 million ongoing budget to operate and maintain the waterfront. And then the following year, 2015, we passed an ordinance that. Piloted a maintenance project at Westlake and at Occidental Park so we could see how does it go? How does it work when we're entering into partnership, not just with our Parks Department work, but with partners such as DSA. And as we all know, major success. We saw very quickly at Westlake and Occidental having a place where everybody could go, and you felt good about being there. So we now have partners. And I want to say thanks to the Friends of the Waterfront, to our Parks Foundation, to our Alliance for Pioneer Square and the Aquarium. All these entities are helping us raise money and helping us bring to the city of Seattle all the things that we want to see down on our waterfront. And we heard during public testimony that there's been no outreach regarding the slide. And I just want to say, not only is that not true, but it's really not true. We have with our Office of Waterfront have been working closely with Boma, with DSA, with Nai up, also with residents. And also, just for the record, I have been cleared by our Ethics and Elections Office to be able to vote on this. You remember a couple of years ago, I was told as a District seven resident that I was not going to be able to do that. But they've changed the rules. And I just want to make sure all of you know that I'm going to be very much impacted by this slide should it pass. I'm at ground zero, right on air, about a block away from the waterfront. I intend to be supporting this, but the process has been long. We do not know yet how much the assessment is going to be for the properties, but we do know the general direction that the procedures, the outreach will be going in. We all will be hearing. A lot. More of that. Also, during public comment, one of our speakers said that an LED has never been used for a project like this, and that's not true. We've used and lied for our streetcars, for roads and bridges. And even our friends in Magnolia will tell you, for those who remember, Magnolia residents paid one third of the cost of that Magnolia Bridge. Go figure. If we tried to assess one third of the cost of Magnolia Bridge now, people would have a heart attack. Truly, we are we have a partnership with the city, with the state, with all of these partners. Friends have committed to raise a million, $100 million. The aquarium is going to raise a significant amount for their. Own. Their own addition. And the aquarium and I just want to say thank you to my colleagues. This is just one of the first opportunities you're going to begin to hear about the slide. Our office of the waterfront is here now. And I say thanks to the friends of the waterfront, to all of you have done really great work. I am excited about where we're going. I know I'm going to be paying an additional assessment. And frankly, this has been part of the plan since around 2010. So thank you for that. We'll be hearing a lot more. And I just are just to pass this resolution today. Thank you very much, Councilman Baxter. Any further comments, if not those in favor of adopting the resolution? Please vote i i those opposed vote no. The resolution stopped and Shah will sign it. Is there any further business governance for the Council? If not, we stand adjourned and everyone have a great rest of the day. Thank you.