A RESOLUTION revising certain General Rules and Procedures of the Seattle City Council; amending Rules III and V in Attachment 1 of Resolution 32029.
Council Member Petersen I Council President whereas I seven in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the passage of the bill. And moving on to item number three, Madam Clerk, we please item three into the record. Report of the Governance, Native Communities and Tribal Governments Committee Agenda Item three Resolution 32051a resolution revising certain general rules and procedures of the Seattle City Council, amending rules three and five and Attachment one, a resolution 3 to 0 two nine. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted as amended. Thank you, Madam Clerk. As a sponsor of this resolution, I will speak to it. I did speak to it yesterday as well on what some of the reasons of how we got how we got here. And then when I'm done, I'll open it up for comments. On April 28, the Governance, Native Communities and Tribal Governments Committee recommended Resolution 32051 unanimously. I spoke to this briefly in committee and of course yesterday the resolution amends the council rules to do the following. Number one, make some technical clarifications. Number two, adds guidance to the use of the consent calendar. This amendment would allow the consent calendar to include administrative items where there is no debate. It also allows for any item on the consent calendar to be removed by any particular council member that would like it removed for any further discussion. Third, it clarifies the rule regarding abstentions. This change would relieve the Council president from making the determination on which resolutions to allow for abstentions. Indeed, it would fall upon the individual council member to determine if something is directly related or material in either vote or abstain as as deemed fit. So with that, as I did share and I, I believe Ali may be available, but I'm pretty sure you all had your questions answered. Ali did great analysis for us in a memo. And I want to thank Councilmember Peterson working with me on this and some of you other folks that weighed in kind of offline about what some of the issues were. As you know, we've been discussing this since January, actually December, January, and now we finally got it across the finish line. So with that, are there any questions or concerns or anything that I can answer for any of my colleagues? Okay. Not seeing any. That was easy. Will the clerk please call the role on the passage of the resolution? Councilmember Strauss. Yes. Councilmember Herbold. That's Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Morales. Yes. Councilmember Nelson. I. Councilmember Peterson. Yes. Council President. Was I seven in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The resolution is adopted. The chair will sign it. And Madam Clerk, please. And fix my signature to the legislation or the resolution of my behalf. Moving on onto our agenda. Let's say we have adoption of other resolutions. I don't see any. And other business. Is there any other business that we need to be brought before council today? Okay. Not seeing any problem. Oh, sorry. I think you talked President Bush wanting to hit the road in a happy setting, as we were mentioning before we got started today. The ambassador from Norway is joining us here today and read remarks from both the king of Norway and the prime minister of Norway. Norwegian Constitution Day, which is the 7th of May, the 10th of mine. Norway's constitution is the second oldest constitution in the world, only blasted by the United States of America in this time in our world's history about where we're dealing with issues of freedom, democracy and, quite frankly, war. Today is a special day to celebrate democracy both here in United States and in Norway and especially here in Balad. Thank you. Thank you. I did not know you going to put Balad on the world map, but thank you for doing that. Councilmember Strauss. Yes, ma'am. It's the second oldest written constitution. Some societies knew how to behave without a piece of paper. That's what I thought of you in that very spot earlier today. I will say it is the name now for 100 years of. Leave it at that. Thank you, Councilmember Strauss. Give our best to the king. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So is there anything else for my count, for my colleagues before I go ahead and adjourn? Okay. Not seen any. Let's see. That concludes our business for today. And I will see you all next Tuesday, May 24th, for council meeting, not briefing. That will be Monday, as you all know. So with that, we stand adjourned. Thank you.