A RESOLUTION endorsing the goals of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County Strategic Plan; and stating the intent of The City of Seattle to work with other organizations and governmental entities in the implementation of this plan.
Adoption of other resolutions. Agenda Item 11 Resolution 31606 Endorsing the goals of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County Strategic Plan and stating the intent of the City of Seattle to work with other organizations and governmental entities in the implementation of this plan. Introduced July 27, 2015. Thank you, Councilmember Okamoto. Thank, President Burgess. We were briefed this morning in a full council briefing about the strategic plan. For those that are unfamiliar with us, this is a ten year plan. Second of a ten year plan, the city, along with other regional partners, worked very hard to look at new strategies to end homelessness, especially in light of the fact that the last ten years, despite our best efforts, homelessness continues to to haunt us and the numbers continue to grow. So in that, a new strategy was developed by the regional partners adopted in a plan. The plan puts more emphasis on preventative measures and proven research based methods. The strategy is well aligned with our own previous council actions to encourage shelters throughout the region and our own Seattle Human Services Department's Homeless Investment Strategy. While there's much more work to do, including the adoption and movement on the health recommendations, this is a good step in the right direction and encouraged the council to to move on this resolution. Thank you. Questions or comments? Those in favor of adopting resolution 31606 vote i. I. Excuse me. I should have moved it up that first. Little technical glitch here. Well, we'll recover. I move to adopt resolution 31606. It's moved in second. The resolution be adopted. Those in favor. Vote I. I oppose. Vote No. The resolution is unanimously adopted, and the chair will sign it. Well, now move to other business and consider an administrative appeal of an exclusion order. The City Council will now consider an administrative appeal of an exclusion order issued to Alex Zimmerman on July 20, 2015 . The question before the council is whether or not this exclusion should be sustained. On March 17, 2014, Mr. Zimmerman was excluded from the city council and committee meetings for a period of 28 days. That exclusion was based on multiple instances of disruptive behavior, including interrupting citizen testimony during public comment periods and shouting from the audience when not recognized for public comment. On September 22, 2014, Mr. Zimmerman was excluded from city council and committee meetings for a period of 28 days. That exclusion was based on repeated use of vulgar and offensive language, unrelated to topics on the agenda of the particular meeting and outbursts. While sitting in the audience. On June one, 2015, Mr. Zimmerman received a written warning regarding his behavior in violation of council rules, including, among other things, his failure to speak about items on the agenda of a particular meeting and interference with other audience members. Over the course of multiple recent council and committee meetings, Mr. Zimmerman has used his public comment period to shout strings of obscenities completely unrelated to any matter on the agenda for a particular meeting. This behavior occurred on July 13, 2015 for council meeting the July 14, 2015 Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhood Committee meeting. The July 14, 2015 Transportation Committee. And the July 15, 2015 Education and Governance Committee. Mr. Zimmerman's behavior constitutes repeated violations of the council rules and procedures that prohibit disruptive behavior. Specifically, Section 3d1c, which requires that comment be related to topics on the agenda so that a meeting may proceed efficiently. Mr. Zimmerman has filed a written appeal of his latest exclusion. Each council member has been provided a copy of the exclusion of the exclusion letter and his written appeal. Are there any questions or comments from council members? The question before us is should the decision to exclude Mr. Zimmerman from council meetings from a period of 28 days be sustained? Those in favor of sustaining the exclusion vote. I. I. Those opposed to the sustaining the exclusion vote. No. The motion carries and the exclusion remains in effect. Is there any other business to come before us? Immediately following this meeting. Councilmember Gordon, do you want to begin in 5 minutes or 10 minutes? How about we'll make it 10 minutes? Okay. So at three at 3:00, the Select Committee on the Waterfront will convene in chambers. We are adjourned.