AN ORDINANCE relating to international affairs and the Seattle Sister Cities program, amending Sections 3.14.440, 3.14.450, 3.14.460, and 3.14.470 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
Exigent item, please. Agenda item to cancel 0118 754 Relating to International Affairs and the Seattle Sister Cities Program amending section three point 14.4. 40.4 50.4 69.4 74. Code held August 8th, 2016. So this point on this agenda item I move to amend counts bill 118754 by substitute version four for version three A and just so you know, you may recall that I held this just because there were some typos in the first version so that the new versions are second to remove and second to amend. Council Bill 118754 Any further comments? All those are in favor of the amendment for I. I oppose. No. Okay. So what this legislation does very quickly is it broadens the scope of our Sister Cities program. You may recall the we have 21 sister cities across this world. In 1957, it started in Kobe, Japan, and they formed one of the first such AC relationships. But there's been a moratorium on the sister cities for quite some time. And we have a waiting list, if you will, to add sister cities with emerging cities around the world. So what we're trying to do here is expand its size and its scope to address issues, to strengthen our Sister Cities program. And I sort of had gone over this at the briefing with you, so I won't waste time in diving too deep in. And so basically we're changing its name and changing its scope from its is going from 20 members to 30 members. And we're looking at the scope to make sure we strengthen our cultural ties, particularly with those cities that have been sort of boxed out because of the moratorium and any further questions in this legislation. So this is a bill, so please call the role on the passage of the amended bill. Burgess. Hi. Gonzalez. Herbold. Johnson. Suarez. O'Brien. Shire President Harrow. High. Seven in favor. Hey, O'Brien, give me his proxy. Can you count that in record? No, I can't do that. Okay. Please read the next report. And by the way, we're getting there. We just have an agenda. We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there for you to read the next report. We've already admitted our agenda. So we got the report.