A RESOLUTION providing an honorary designation of S Hill Street between 21st and 22nd Avenues S as “Clarence Acox Jr. Way.”
The report of the Transportation and Utilities Committee agenda and one Resolution 32009 providing an honorary designation of South Hill Street between 21st and 22nd Avenue South as Clarence Cox Jr Way. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted. Thank you so much. Because Pearson, as chair of the committee, you are recognized in order to provide the committee report. Thank you. Council President I would be interested in turning this over to one of the sponsors that they would like. I know Casper Morales spoke to it this morning, if that would be okay with the council president. If that is your preference as chair, I'm happy to call on Councilmember Morales. Yes. And I'm happy to speak to it as well. They're not available. Go ahead, Councilman Morales. Fine. Thank you, Chair Peterson. So as we discussed in the Transportation Committee, this resolution is to honor Clarence Cox Jr. For nearly 50 years, since 1971. He's helped develop the talents of hundreds of young people, young Seattle musicians, as director of the Garfield High School's internationally renowned jazz ensemble. He's been director of all band programs at Garfield and more recently was the founding educator at Seattle's Jay-Z program. Under Mr. Cox's direction, the Garfield Jazz Ensemble took first place in 23, 24, 29, 2010 at New York's essentially Ellington National Jazz Band Competition and Festival at New York City's Lincoln Center, where they swept every major competition on the West Coast, including the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho, and Oregon's Mt. Hood Jazz Festival. And I believe we have the director of jazz at here with us today as well. Yes. Hello, everybody. Hello, President Gonzales and council members, thank you so much to Councilmember Morales and her staff for helping us shepherd this through. My name is Lori to Cook and I am the executive director and co-founder with Clarence Cox of Seattle, Jay-Z. And I just want to thank all of you for giving us the opportunity to do this meaningful honoring of Clarence Cox with a street naming in front of the future location of Seattle, Jay-Z's new home in the Rainier Valley. Councilmember Morales gave such a nice introduction. I don't have much more to add, except that with all the incredible work that Clarence Cox did at Garfield High School, you'd think that would be enough. But instead, in 2010, he went on to launch Jay-Z with me and our co-founder, Sheree, Sheryl Hecker, to ensure that all students had access to the life transforming opportunity of music education at Garfield High School, despite the diversity of the student population. If you're familiar with the program, the bands themselves do not reflect the population of the school. And his goal was to ensure that students across the city had access to music education. And so Jay-Z was launched in 2010. And now we serve over 1000 students with significant financial aid to a very diverse population of kids. And we are so excited by the opportunity to be able to honor Clarence in this very meaningful way. When we open our new building at the corner of Clarence, a Cox Wade. And 22nd Avenue South. So I just want to thank you all for considering this opportunity. We're very excited about it. And again. A special thank you to Councilmember Morales and her staff for shepherding this through. Thank you so much, Morales and Lori, for being with us. My apologies, colleagues. I should have actually moved to suspend the rules to allow Laurie to actually address the council during the full council meeting. And my apologies that I did not do that in advance of hearing from Laurie. But we're all we've got that all done. And I didn't hear any objection to allowing Laurie to speak so retroactively. The rules are suspended. No, that's okay, Laurie. Don't worry about it. I should have I should have managed this process a little bit, a little bit more. And I am sorry that I did not do that. But don't worry about it. So. So, colleagues, we are going to go ahead and hear any additional comments on the resolution from any other council members who may want to speak to it. Looking for raised hands. Any additional comments? Councilmember Peterson, is there anything else you'd want to add as the chair? Thank you. Council president. This what? This resolution was recommended unanimously by our committee. It's great. Okay. So I think we're going to take a vote now. Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of the resolution. So on? Yes. Strauss Yes, they're both. Whereas I. Lewis. Yes. MORALES Yes. What's better. I. Peterson High Council President Gonzales. I didn't nine in favor none of those. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will it please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Congratulations. Thank you so much, Lori, for being with us. And again, thanks so much for your remarks and your support of the resolution as well. Thank you so much. Have a great day. You too. Thanks, Lori. Goodbye. Okay. Item two Will the court please read the short title of item two into the record agenda?