AN ORDINANCE relating to appropriations for the Office for Civil Rights; amending Ordinance 126000, which adopted the 2020 Budget; and lifting provisos.
So will the clerk please read item 12 into the record? Agenda Item 12 Council Bill 119839 Relating to Appropriations for the Office for Civil Rights amending Ordinance 126000, which adopted the 2020 budget and lifting provisos. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I will move to pass Council Bill 119839. Is there a second can? It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill. Considering what else, as the prime science sponsor of this bill, you are recognized in order to address the item. Thank you. Council President. This bill is lifting proviso for $170,000 to the Office of Civil Rights for work that's been done around the criminal legal system. The idea here is that we need much better coordination and alignment of efforts across various work groups and initiatives and different structures that have been set up over time by the city . As I mentioned this morning, the goal here is to eliminate some of the duplicative work that is happening as these different initiatives seek to engage community to get input from community. There are certainly a lot of interest from community members in participating in engagement in surveys and sharing their expertize and knowledge about what community wants as it relates to how our criminal legal system works or doesn't work. But because there is there are so many different things happening, it is really burdensome on community to be asked to repeatedly. Participate in these so that so that's part of the goal is is to ensure that these multiple requests for engagement and serving are better aligned and better coordinated and just to move the work forward in a much more coordinated way as we think about how to make investments in our city and in the in the work that the Office of Civil Rights and other parts of the city are doing for community safety. Thank you. Councilmember Morales, are there any other comments on. Item 12 cheeseburger bill, please. Thank you. So this is a body of work that had been hosted in my former committee last year related to the civil rights work in my committee. I really appreciate that comes from Rawls as a lot of my co-sponsorship of the bill as a little bit of background. In the 2020 budget, the Council voted to allocate $170,000 from a proposed probation pilot program for high area individuals and to use those funds differently. The proposal was to use 140,000 for partnership, outreach and engagement related to the criminal legal system and 30,000 for community engagement sessions related to the criminal legal system realignment. And I just I want to lift up the history around this because on a weekly call that I and some other councilmembers have had with decriminalize Seattle and King County Equity. Now, the question came up, what happened to those funds that we worked to get cut from the probation pilot program? And serendipitously, we are talking about releasing them to the community now, given the heightened attention to the criminal justice system in the context of COVID. Office of Civil Rights is proposing this use of the $170,000, which central staff has access to meet the proviso language. The goal is $60 million for community mitigation of COVID 19 impacts on houseless communities that are part of the population identified by the High Barrier Work Group. $80,000 is for expanding economic opportunities for formerly incarcerated communities. Working Group in collaboration with the Office of Economic Development. And $30,000 will be for community engagement with regards to COVID 19 related changes in the criminal legal system done in collaboration with City Council central staff in order to move forward with this plan. CCR is requesting that council lift the proviso that's what this legislation does. And again, this is, I think, really the beginning of bringing community in to to lead us as policymakers around criminal justice reform and the creation of a high barrier working group to make sure that those voices are centered. Thank you. If you can't remember her words. Are there any other comments on this item. Who. Keep hearing? None? I will ask the court to please call the role on the passage of the bill. Peterson. I. So what? Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Guests. Let's get to. Thank you. Sorry for the delay. I am President Gonzalez. Yes. Eight in favor. None opposed. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The time just. Before. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. And the Kirklees effects my signature. It's in the legislation. Item number 13, will the Kirklees read agenda item 13 into the record?